Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-07-27

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at-ib5 They, are no longer what they once,
were. In point Of intelligence far behind,
the Prussian soldiers, but still no longer
stirred by the deep unreasoning devotion
to the Kaiser by which the latter. especial
ly, were once characterized. They, too,
begin to feel desires, for national independT,
ence and freedom, a These remarks refer Of
course, to common, diers, not to italian
and Hungarian. leaders. Let me men .
ton one or two. Other, cases OF BAR
barous cruelty which 0cG|freed In Bohe
In Trautenau a number.of wounded r rus
slams had been placed IN q mannfae ma etpryy, and
tw0ivillains, one an old man Of 81 years,
Of age, the other abppt We, 'set thlei
place on fire. In another place Bohemian f
entlced some soldiers to epter a spirit vault,
then let the spirits ogt yot the casks while
the were drinking, set fire TO the Whole,
and shutting tie doors left them TO burn TO,
death. In several Instances arsenic had
been, mixed with, theWater which was Of
fered to the thirsty men 20 drink. Almost
everywhere the wells were filled up and
pumps destroyed dr9idv sg9i1ga1jlago sLJ =
But now to the army again, After the
battle of Gitschin the Austrlans retired
under, shelter Of the fortress Of Joseph
stadt, aqAs 4 mentioned before, after the
two armies had effected a junction In eon5
sequence of the success at GitschiJ, the
Kingiset ont tofput himself at their head.
He proceeded at once from Reichenbsrg to
Gitsehln, and on the, Sd Of July it was reTi
solved to attack the entire Austrian army,
which occupied very strong position 70
the north of Pardqbitz, and slightly TO the
left of Koniggratz.. The ,Prpssian attack
Herwarth advanced from Nep-BridgezOw,
a small place almost, in straight lipet to
the left of Koniggratz; the center under
the King from, H0rzitz-the King took up
bis position ON afhill between HorzitZ and
KOniggratz, near the village of Sadowa; |;
the Crown Prince from Konigshof almost
due north from the Austrian position. The
battle was commenced by Prince Frederick
| Carl about 5 O'clock A. NJ, but nothing de-
cisive had been effected at II. At that hour
| the Crown Prince and Gen. Herwarth
brought their forces up, and then the whole
Prussian line moved forward. The King
himself was under fire part of the day.
From this moment the Anstrians began 70
give way, though they fought with des7
perate vaior,. and before darkness set in
were in full retreat. The Prussian officers
| do full justice to the valor and, TACTICS OF
their opponents.0n this great day, and ac7
| knowledge that the retreat was managed
in a masterly manner by Benedek; ; but, the
Austrians found themselves iuferior, in
spirit in education, in leading, and above
all in weapons. The needle gun in the
hands of skilled troops, with good leaders,
inspired the Austrian soldiers with terror.
| Scarcely had the news of Prussia's great
victory been carried to all quarters by the
telegraph, than Europe was iastonished by
another piece ofnintelligence, to wits that
Austria had ceded Venice to Napoleon, to
dorwith it what he liked, and had sent Gen,
Won Gablenz to the PTussian headquarters
to beg for an armistiee.' The latter was rer
fused; the former, tits to Ge feared, has been
accepted. Austria is'said to have at first
proposed to- Napoleon, as a condition, that
the Pope should be guaranteed bis posses
ions;l but Napoleon declined entering on
any conditions, Austria has thus hum1led
itself lower than ever ibeforei it has. filed
the minds of its South German allies with
distrust, and it has fully revealed its own
rottenness. The main object of this move
is, of course, to, check the Italians, and ito
free the Venetian army for operatiensN in
Bohemia But Sthe Prpssiansr are moving
rapidly on, and the Italians. are eTossing z, the
Mineio and 20, resolved as they saysto re-
mainGueto Rrlssia--and qaik gltTGIqeyyG. a.