Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-12-24
4Forrward against the Aastriatnis," they

HForward against the Austrians," they
answered zone to forty ~ 5I9tt i'9fl'A'
ri The first battle broke the sword and the
heart of the Kng;ohe gave his crown to
his, boy on the field of defeat and, went
alone through tile pickets Of the enemy to,
an immortal exile. No stain sbutilhisfor-
tune, lies upon his memory. His lnonu+
ment is on, a mountain top, Every peak Of
by like a perpetual fiherai march. his
land isjfree because he perished forit, aud
there isno lie In his life or In, his epitaph.
d. 300 rsADowA5 AND CUsToZzA. if.5gfe 1s
The great battles of the war were Sadowa
anu CuStozza, Both we're honorable COM
bats, delivered with more, spirit than ski,
and resembling the bulldog campaigns OF
Grant rather than the nice and strategic
methods Of Turenneand B9naparte- They
were delivered upon the solid ground; no
swamp, nor tangle, nor wilderness inter-
posing; every foot Of the soil understood
by either side, and neither battle marked
by any special device orJsag agacity.dl W ss1
b,e ba DUKE DE, ,REICHsTADT. ID, s.oi.f
Hard by the ,Sadowa country, saw the
town Of ReichstaIt, whence the only son
of Napoleon Bonaparte drew his little title,
and some of his captive life. Duke of
Reichstadt, he grew into the secret of his
| imperial parentage, and ,loathed his paltTy
| Inheritance. They watched him ripen, as
| men watch the petted 'whelp Of a lion,
dreading lest it show the spirit Ofiits con-
quering species. His tame and reeTeant
dam, welded again to her chamberlain, left
her son whom she deserted her feeble spirit
only. Yet now and then he saw the appa-
| rition of the mighty sire, whose old gray
riding coatand cooked hat, set upon astick,
could make the world run to arms, and
then the rattle ofhoois and cannon fell into
his dreams he climbed into his saddle and
rode alone into the rain and thunder, seek
ing their inspiration. Nature laughed at
| his degenerate body, saying, while she
drenched and chilled him.: "Fhink you L
permit two masters in one age, and OF one
line?" so lN dropped into a sick girlhood,
the monarch of flower garden, pale and
| fragile as its roses, and manhood, like
niDping winter, buried him with one small
| snowflake! 1}us -a'' si,e l-t.-J III --l3liB1
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE WITH A NEEDLE
| 30 a. ".us GUN.i- .aga9 uiaa 9dl q
/ fired needle-gun. 1t wasawkwardas
the first pair of skates, and SO heavy that l
! thought it an imposition to be obliged 10
hold the whole of 1t myself. 1t seemed
/ enough avordupois for an entire platoon to
carry. There is knob upon it as big and
as hard to turn as your door-knob, when
you 20 home from your lodge at Christmas
midnight. You must hit this Knob with
the palm of your hand, .driveit down, draw
it back, put in your cartridge, hit it up
again, and pull u trigger This drives q
darning needle through the cartridge, and
| sends the ball about half the distance Of a
Springfield rifle ball. You bruise your
hand, swear, and after dozen rounds have
been fired the breech of your gun feels like
a red hot poker. A regiment of men at
work with this weapon look as if they were
cracking walnuts, or opening oysters, or
killing mosquitoes, You can certainly
fire it six times a minute after six years
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