The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-26
TIE LATE WAR In EUROPE.

family-The Cause Of the People in Europe
Murmrrs in Vienna--A Sketch Of Garibsldi ia
the Field.
PARIS, September 1.-THE swift steamer quit
ing Brest tomorrow gives me time to write up
my notes of inteslne and exterior things, so
shat they may reach you within a very few days.
You know, then, that have passed over the
whole route of the Prussian invasion, the Aus
trian retreat, the Austrian advance southward,
and by the well-known courtesy Of the Austrian
directory have crossed into the lines of Italy,
and pressed as lar as Florence. The great dis
tance so traversed in the short period Of twenty
two days cave me hardly time Tor observation
and sleep, though have written something to
you by every mail. My notes. however, were
tull and exhaustive, and these are some OF
them:-
At the "Blue Star Iun," of Prague, / saw The
Barons Brenner and Werther at an upper win
dow, arguing over the peace. They were both
keen-eyed old men, adrot of speech and shreWd
OF opportuntles-such folks, tor example, as
Senators Fessenden and Reyerdy Johnson-and
at their councils, with secretary for each near
by, they drank much RhenlJh wine, aad made
it appear an altogether friendly C)atab, as
diplomats have done from time immemorlal.
From Prague TO Brlnn and Olmutz, by Pardu-
bltz by rail, | passed returning trains with
Prusslan soldiers aud war material Ana
though these stopped at all stations, no soldiers
were allowed TO descend, while we civilians
could lie over whore we pleased. This rule was
one OF the amenities Of the peace just concluded,
and had a.more wholesome design in IL besides,
Tor the Prussan troops have been rapacious
beyond all expectation, stealing wherever they
rested, so that 10 their acqulsitrveness the
mutual fOrays of Federals and Conlederates at
home were merely accepted ho5p1tatles. Ii a
detective officer were called upon to classify the
thefts OF Prussia and Austria, he would denoml-
nate the first highwayman, the last conf
denCe man. This part Of the Austrian empire
is wildly civilized, by which | mean that man
is savage, and land is rednedly, splenddly
educated Put the squatters OF Oil creek in
the bright Mohawk valley, or the Digger In
IL lrC nrNra C1l gnfNio md ~,
have the land and people that saw.
They use wretched farming implements, they
are without public intelligence, they are super.
stitous and stolid; but the great chequGred
landscapes climb into high horizons, all grand
and rolling, giving you an air OF boundlessness;
Tor the country has no iarmhouses upon IT, all
the people living in the squatty stone towns,
and going, In many cases. tiVe miles of q morn.
ing TO work. Few fences or hedges divide the
fields; each man knows his own land; therefore
The entire Moravian and German region has the
air OF battlefield under cultivation
Brunn, the capital of Moravia, with 1000 in
habitants, has history OF only subjugation and
trade, ana would have been unnouceable in this
trip OF mlne save for its vast hospitals of
wounded Austrians, and the trowning battle
ments OF the Splelberg prison, which dominate
the mountain at whose foot the city stands.
half forgot the story of Baron French, confined
in this same Spielberg, in the later and more
baneful light OF the unhappy Italians who beat
their brains out in its dungeons. In 1949, when
Ferdinand abdicated, he released these poor
patriots and they came forth, glbberng, and
skeletons, the way of thousands of their tribe.
BY pleasant penalties like these has the Aus
trian kept his State together these several cen
tures
Down in the city, where an evil-looking old
church, dlsused for worship, held the wounded,
passed from bed to bed, not without fears OF
the cholera, raging there as tercely as it ragged
on your hospital hulks by Staten Island, and
among them ] saw many back-eyed, olive
hued, chubby.taced fellow, dying for his con
into h
firing into the ranks of the Kaiser's enemies,
with the prayer that the bullet might soften to
paper on its way. Rapacous as Prussia may
have been, she fought her battles with her own
people, and though there are bitter curses
Iained upon Count Bismark now, they are
curses OF pride, not OF blood, of princes not of
dying peasants, murdered by their own coun-
trymen.
stopped beside one haggard fellows bed. He
had suffered the amputation of a foot, and was,
besides, shot in the feshy side OF the throat.
TO my demand in German, if he were hopeful,
he shook his head.
81 don't understand, signore," in Italian.
Where are you from ~ in his own language.
"From Recoaro. l hoped to be set with the
force Of the Quadrllateral. Though | should
have been killed there, as here, it would have
been dear TO die to the familiar sound of ones
language. They tell me 1t has gone bad with
Italy. Is it soW
mot SO! Well enough. Not so we'll as she
hoped, but Well!p
not by your information. Poor Italy! Welll
Somebody will die against her some day, shot
%Qy ms own people, as | was not and glad to
know that the ball that struck him was fred by
the Yictors."
He drew long sigh, with 'My God" in it,
and turned his back to me.
There are titled women here frequently among
the hospitals, playing the part Of Florence
Nightingale. Most of them are amateurs, with
little persistence, and great consideration for
their own longevity, though now and then l
believe that heart-smitten countess or baron
ess does come to do good. try TO believe it,,
at any rate, for the faith of womankind. So
many of those poorsouls are coldly, sutieringly
marred for convenience few live and die
loving and beloved, that they are glad of the
presence of Wretchedness greater than theirs
into which they may plunge helplngly. or the
forty thousand dying soldiers IN Moravia, not
ten per cent. care q button ior the cause they
were killed in.
visited, on consecutive days, two renowned
battle-felds, SadoWa and Austerlitz. They
were equally commonplace when the struggles
to which they gave name occurred but Auster
HtZ, by reason Of its great commemoration, Ii
now tourists town OF $500 inhabitants, while
Sudowa is a hamlet merely, utterly depopulated
The cholera has killed two hundred OF the little
farmers woodcutters, etc, in it and near by
since the battle day, for among the putretyinl
carcases the old hyena whets his appetite, anC
then picks up the living neighbors. SadowS
was more sanguinary slaughter than Auster
there opposed, and possibly half a million, a
the bulletins say We all know how armie
are magnlfed on both sides, till after defeat
and in this war the military braggar
has been as emmently elastic as III ou
own. The least truthful of all contemporary
historians is the soldier himself. Had he Il
write our descriptions he might make his owl
reputation, but would certainly ruin ours A