The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-07-12
BY Yesterdays MAIL.
Foreign.


ing:
The Italians crossed the Mncio, near Goto, on
tho morning Of the 23d, and wore slowly advanc-
ing to Royerbella in the afternoon they met the
Austrian Puz Brigade, which retreated before
them Tho Italians, advancing upon both banks
of the Mincio towards Peschiera, were repulsed
by Short cannonade from tho outcr forts or that
atronobold. On the Oath Of juno Sunday, the
fayorto day for battles) desperate battle ragged
all day between tho two opposing armies The First
Italian Army Corps attacked tho Austrian posi-
ttions noar Peschiera, The CEnALE divisions sur
.sorod heavy loss-General CEBALE himself being
wounded. The Italian dispatch says "Ihe de-
Gntive result is not unfavorsble, tho italian corps
having maintained their positions" Prince ANA
pEYs was slightly wounded. General ViLLAREY
WAS killed. Prince HuMBERT, according TO the
same official Italian dispatch performed prodigies
Of yalor. Six hundred Austrian prisoners, officers
and privates, were taken and sent to Milan.
ITALY STILL HOPEFUL OF SUCCESS.
F1onESoE, Juno 26-The Florence newspapers
are unanimous in pronounoing tho unshakable
resolution of tho country to make every sacrifice
in prosecuting to the utmost tho war against Aus
tria, until the complete liberation OF Yeneta by
the arms of Italy has beon accomplished. They
assert that the want of success which attended
the fret attempt is but new motiye Tor re-
clare that the country has full confidence in the
army, nothing doubling but that it will achieve
brilliant revenge .r.r'., .......
Now let us hear what the Austrian Archduke
ALBRIGHT teegraphed in reference to the same
affair ~ lee u. '.'. -
VIENNA June 25-11:4o A. M.-The Archduko
Albert telegraphs from Zerdare, yesterday eve
ming, as follows - .-.'~'.. .. .'.,..
''The Imperial army debouched at daybreak from
Verona, occupied tho heights Of San Glaetna,
Soma and sommacsmpagna, and attacked With a.
change of front toward the south, the enemy's
columns Columns which we're advancing ON the line Of
salIonaz9 sIoo ;e, to In considerable
repulsed the enemy at all points after very
severe and bloody struggle. Finally, Custozza
was was taken by assault. All the troops fought with
extraordinary bravery. They captured sever al
guns and about 1000 prisoners, and are animated
by the best spirit.
"On the 23d instant the garrison Of Ma2tua
made sortie upon the enemy's corps Of observa-
ton at Curtatone, repulsed it and took several
prisoners" HI.-'.9 ....... i..,...
RETREAT OF THE ITALIANS ACROSS THE M1No1o
VIENNA, June 25.-The following telegram has
been received from tho Archduke Albert, dated
shis morning: "The enemys forces: driven back
morning. The Imperial army is in the best con-
dition and in excellent Spirits" p,
The battle Of yesterday is called by the Arch
duke the battle Of Custozza.
THE DISASTROUS RESULTS OF THE BATTLE FOR THE
ITALIANS-INFLUENCE OF THE KINGS DEFEAT ON
ON CIALDINIs MOVEMENTS.
[From the London Times, June 2s.l
The defeat OF the italian army in front OF Vero-
ma was even more complete than the first Aus
tsn 5s had led ID us to We
agree on all essential points. Meagre and vague
as telegraphic brevity and technical reserve ne
great honor on the truthfulness, moderation and
dignity Of the belligerents on either side. There
is no RsSy % patsmt the part Of the Italians
Ter, no unseemly exultation on the part of the
Austrians, not one word of disparagement of the
zoe. by being just and even generous toward one
another, these combatants seem to act upon that
Wise maxim which teaches us to deal with enc
mics as with men who may at come future period
The Italian army, divided into three corps and
reserve-making up a force of from $4,000 to
Goito and other points on Saturday afternoon,
and sending accommodating parties toward Pes
ohera "a, and Verona, enoamped for the night at
the two fortresses, On the ensuing morning an
Of Soma, somma Campaigns and Santa Gius-
railway line joining the two strongholds,
positions which played conspicuous part in the
campaign of 1s4s The object Of the Italians was val.
to isolate Peschiera and secure a basis OF
operations against Verona. The sustrians
11owever, 1ova, Wh9 $ were masaed in great force at
snd ve5ona ssad forth from the place at daybreak
their position upon those hills, which are now
everywhere bristling with bastions and redoubts,
and may be looked upon as mere outworks Of the
tS Two citadss. extending from the egates Of one to
I.nn.Cse Of the other. After severe and bloody,
or, the Italians describe it, ''desperaten atrug,
gle which lasted nearly the whole day-that long
est Of Summer days--the Imperial e.Tmy was VIZ
torious along the whole line. Tley stormed the
summit OF Montevento, TTnere the Italians held
out the longest, and at the close Of the engage
ment, at O'clock in the afternoon, they also car
lied the position Of Custozza spot fatal to
Italian arms in their encounter with Radetsk In
July, 1848. 1he vctors captured several guns
and about 1000 prisoners and behaved, as the
Archduke Albert's bulletin assures us, and as we
may readily believe, with more that their or
dnary bravery and endurance. On the same
evening the Italian army was obliged to recross
the Mincio. .,'-
The Italians, we are assured, behaved with great
heroism, and no doubt, although they lost the
day, they came of without loss OF honor. An ad-
vance across the Mincio, right into the heart Of
the Quadriateral, is an enterprise which no other
European army would, under such circumstances,
have ventured upon, but frenzy to do some-
thing seems to have possessed the whole Italian
nation, and the men in command could think of
nothing better than dashng their heads against
those formidable stone walls. There NAV be
bravery in 30 desperate an attempt to take the
bull by the horns, but we believe it would be i'm
possible for the King or La Marmora to saw what
results they expected from their illconceiyed and
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