Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-07-26
,noo w,rd,schgra,z were taken pris.

Prince windischgratz were taken prls-
oners We have no accounts on the
Austrian side-a melancholy proof that |
thew have no good tidings with which
10 mitigate the cruel intelligence, or that |
the disorder In their camp Is too great
for them 10 think of telegraphic or writ
ten Disqualification the Prussian oule-
tins assure us that their enemies Were
falling back upon Konlggra'z In com
plete rout, strewlng their arms ana bag
cage far and wide along the road. The
first instinct of self preservation drove
the fugitive multitude To their fortress,
hut either they did not feel safe even at
Konigpratz. or Marshal Benedek was
sctuated by strategic reasons to move
ment still further To the rear, for we are
told that the Austrians were aoanoon-
ing their all-important position at the
great railway junction at Parduoitz.
Where this great Gebaelc Is to terminate,
what points Marshal Benedek may still
consider defensble, where he can hope
to find breathing room for the re-organ-
iZatiou of his scattered and dlsplrlted
forces, we hardly venture 10 inquire.
The suddenuess and the magnitude OF
this sad Austrian calamity are too over
towering for any man to speculate on
| its possible consequences on the deStl-
MES of the empire.
| With the exception OF few fortresses OF
| no more avail in modern warfare 10 stay
the triumphant progress OF victorious
| army than Josephstadt and konigSratz
have proved TO be, Beuedek has nothing
in his rear but an open country, nothing
between him and the capital bat a vast
smooth battle.f field, where the cannon,
the cavalry and the dread needle gun OF
the Prussians will have free play. Inc
Austrians have done enough FOR the
honor of their arms; they must now
provide for the safety of the state, anC
this can hardly be done by prolonged
resistance 1t is not the first lnstanc
in which Austria has lain PROSTATE De
fore an advancing enemy; not the mrs
time in which an emperor OF the nous
of Hapsburg, stepping forward on tn
morrow of lost battle, has stood SUD
denly before the conqueror, and, by IN
natural prestige of his station, and tn
4 additional dignity which consciousness
t of unmer!ted misfortune imparts to a
I | elevated CndTdCJcEf has oo'So , SN - ~
a fragments of his tattered imperial mar
r tie. King william of Prussia is in tn
s camp, and the Emperor Francis JOSEF
h is no: very far from Benedek's headqua
s tors. Let there be at Pardubitz, or
$ Olmutz, such an interview as there WI
n after Austerlitz and after Solferino. BE
e ter terms than Austria may obtain no
IF will certainly not be granted to her
t, ter two or three months protract
" struggle has added to the exasperati(
Is of hostile passions, nor after many mo
Is thousands of Austria's noblest sons
" deep in their blood on the BATTLEFIELD
On what conditions the two great III
man powers could come to agreeme
. at the present moment it would be dl
~ cult to say, and it would be unnec'
IN sary. All that is required of Austria
that she should sue for suspension
k, hostilities, which, there is little dou
ce would be readily granted. From an
he mistice to peace, the Emperor Fran
.e. Joseph knows by experience, there
N but one step in tets-a-tete between t
les monarchs.