The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-07-19
The Daily N ewS.
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 10, 1866.
Summary Of Foreign NcNs.

Summary Of Foreign News.
BY tho America's mails, received yesterday, we
are In possession of dyces, in detail, up to the
5th, and London kilograms to tho 9th. The teie-
graph has brought us still later neWs. But 1t
may not bo uninteresting to our readers to have
q resume of tho fighting of tho last days Of juno
and first days OF July.
The Prussians and Austrians were engaged for
three days continuously on tho 27th, 28th and
29th. Tho forces OF Gen. BENEpEK were tho
roughly exhausted. The Austrian corps under
Gen. GABLENz was completely broken up The
number of prisoners, guns, 30, captured by the
Ras on Was ha st o The King Of
realistically cheered by the crowds in tho
streets, from the Palace to tho railway station.
The % Mus}an ad loss % on July was as
losses, also were Yer yheavy, tho onemy's position
being very strong. p.
I'D. A dispatch says: "The streets everywhere
showed the traces of tho obstinate engagement
which had beon continued within the town."
The junction Of tho First and Second Army
Corps has been completely effected.
Vienna dispatch states that the best possibl 10
spirit and the most undaunted courage prevail in
any army but that of Austria after the series Of
defeats and retreats they have lately encounterod
The Austrians, for the last two hundred years,
have beeh 30 accustomed to be beaten, that they
take it as matter of course.
The people of Bohemia very hostile to the
Prussians. Austria is very peculiarly constituted
nationalities arc quarrelling with tho Imperial
Government, constantly on the eve of general
revolt, at least 30 to all appearance But the mo-
all the several nationaiities become intensely
patriotic, every man ready to die Tor his Emperor
and his country's honor Hence their rapid re-
1t is curious to read the dispatches from the
headquarters OF the two armies, giving an account
OF the same transactions; or rather we should say
1t would be very curious, if we had not seen the
same thing displayed for four long years, on a
much more extensive scale.
THE BATTLE OF NAoHoD.
The Fifth or Posen corps, commanded by Gen.
Won Steinmetz, Jane27 fell in with the Austrians
at Nachod, on the Siesian frontier, twenty-five
miles west of Slatz. The losses in this first en-
counter we're considerable on both sides. On the
forced in the night, ordered second attack
The Austrians had GO, 900 mon in his front. The
pstsle lasted several hours, terminating with the
retreat Of the Austrans-3O0O of whom were
taken prisoners, and an equal number left dead
or wounded on the field.
On each side some ninety guns had been at
work. The Austrian cavalry was repeatedly rout-
ed by the Prussian 1ancers losing all their stand
ards, and eventually abandoning the field to the
VICTOR AS to the Prussan infantry, it relied as
usual upon the rapidiy of it's fire. the three ranks
discharging at once, the first kneeling down: the
Austrians, on the other hand, with the impatient
Temper M @ OF Sclayonian races and wishing to make
r6COQrae
bayonet charges. But long before they could at
tam the Prussian ranks, their number, under the
Volleys from the needle gun, was so thinned ss to
cause the remnant to turn about and fall to the
rear With true Austrian perseverance they came
on again and again. The result was terribly iden-
tcat III each case. In one instance only did they
enemy.
FIGHT AT TRAuDENAU.
Ibis place is ten miles north of Nachod The
Prussian Guards, a splendid body of 45 600 men.
passed from into A.
handshut Paes, advanced on the 28th withif a
short distance of Traudenau. Here their ad-
vance was checked by stronger force under Gen.
aaolenz. The tight was sanguinary. The Aus
trians retreated, and tho Prussians advanced a
teW miles fur ther. The Austrian loss was 1000:
the Prusslan loss 1000.
BATTLE OF MUNcHENaRATz
There was third battle on the 2Sth, near Num-
chengratz, fifty miles west OF the battle fields
aIto above named. The Prussian troops employed on
command OF Prince Frederick Charles. and had
penetrated into Bohemia from saxony by way of
nnoon he,cGenoetg o The day previous Turnau at
been occupied by them. Moving tho:c in q
southwestern direction, they found themselves
confronted III 1t is is reported, by $4,000 10000 Aus
up strong position on the top Of a hill, contest.
ing the possession OF it with great obstinacy.
VI particulars few have come to hand, but the
as Furstcnbruck, five miles south of Munchen-
gratz Above 1000 prisoners were sent to the
rear. the dead and wounded on both sides being
calculated at 3000 AS tho consequence of ali
tn tsese operations and the slow but steady advance
OF the two Prussian armies, approaching a COM
men centre from different points of the circun,-
ference OF tho country, wo see the Crown Prince
and Prince Frederick Charles to have reduced the
distance between them to about forty miles. With
every step in advance made by the royal cousins,
the Austrians opposed to the Crown Prince run a
greater risk Of being wedscd in between the two
advancing armies. Telegraphic communicatiol ls
between tho Princes has been already effected
along the North Bohemian railway line.
CAPTURE OF GIrscHES
On the 10Th OF June tho Ses,n army captur cd
Gltscnen, a1tcr sangumary struggle. The posi-
tfoh OF tho Auotriaps upon the surrounding hills
was such as to seem a. most impregnable but was
carried by tho indomnitabe courage of tho Prus.
slams slams This victory was of great Importance, as
ehectlng junction between the Siesian army and
that OF the Crown Prince.
imPorthnt Dect' tOn-rhc Liability of Con-.
seaerats s ohcers for Private Property
seized by them during the War.
lFrom The NashpiHe Banner.l
Judge Campbell recently rendered decision.
ttntYolylng points IN which all who fought for the
SO called" are directly interested.
M II apP,eiars that in September, 1851, Captain j.