The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-23

Prussi ans appeared IN that direction, out they
were certainly forcing the Austrians back on the
night. 1t might have been expected that the
reserves 10 the right would have been sent up
to hold the top oil the slope, but could not see
it was so.
Many stragglers now appeared on the railway,
the helds we're spotted with them, and now and
then a shell bursting in or over tue infantry
marching along the slope, or the reserves,
struck them or lett little pile Of dead or strug
Cling men in the voids which the opening
column displayed. i confess the advance OF the
Prussiars in this direction appeared to one mex
plicable and very serious; for, although the left
and centre of the Austrians might be victorious,
this movement threatened, by forcing back their
right, to cut them off from KoniogratZ-so, at
least, was the situation as viewed from the
tower; but 1t is strange how different teld Of
action appears from different points OF view, as
one may find out by riding from place to place
on field day. However, general VINO saw
what was visible to those III the tower would
have ielt uneasiness and have turned his atten
ton to I'LL the gapIn his line at the centre, and
to drive back the Prussans who were doubling
up his right.
THE TERRIBLE CARNAGE.
While the centre advanced slo WY, but surely,
space seemed TO be le bet geen the ground
they had occupied and the lett Of the Austrians,
wLo were continually retiring there. The houses
butnine fercely in Klum emitted volumes of
81 oke, which we're swept away towards the
right. Another village lying apparently to the
lett of Prague road, named GrOs BiaritZ, or
Hiaritz, as well as | could catch the name, was
now in flames. More tumbris blew up in that
direction so that there were now six or seven
villages and hamlets on fire from LETT to right.
The battle was assuming more awful aud tre
menOous aspect, and the faint rays of sunshine
which shot al intervals through the lifting
clouds only gave the scene greater terror.
Horses without riders caIeered among the
wounded, who were craving all over The plaln,
dismounted dragons dragged thems elves to the
rear, and men came crawling along in such
numbers that tney appeared like broad fringe
TO the edges OF the battle. But where they most
swarmed was over the PLAIN, near the big tree.
The rolling of musketry in the hollows beyond
smothered the voice of the cannon. Al last the
reserves behind were pressed forward with
energy.
GRAND ARTILLERY COMBAT.
Their artillery, Immediately unlim bering,
opened some sixteen guns into the dense,
blue columns which were driving the Aus
TRANS before them, and checked their
advance, till the Prussian artillery, getting upon
the small ridge and firing down so as to get a
slight enilade, began to knock over horses and
men, The Austrians, however, mere, as else
where, stuck to their pieces admirably and it
was not TIL the Prussian infantry, getting into
ciump OF timber, opened sharp fire on their
flank that they limbered up, leaving more than
one black reap to mark the position they had
occupied. Meanwhile the Austrians on the lett
pursued their onward career. The Saxon re
serves pushed up the hills in the direction Of
Nechanltz, and great body of cavalry sweeping
round between the lett and centre, dashed III
wave.like columns through the smoke towards
the Prussians, and menaced their artillery,
against which some thirty or Iorty Austrian
plt ces in line were directing steady and rapid
fire.
Prussian prisoners began to arrive at intervals
between the convoys OF wounded winding their
way along the Prague road. Most OF these be-
longed 10 1.-THE 9th ana 3lst Regiments, to Judge
from the numbers on their shoulder-stTaps, and
among them was an officer of Great stature, with
red moustaches and whiskers, who bore his
captivity with great sang fiOjd, and walked
along Ike conqueror. As the Austrian left
and centre gained ground the right yielded and
column after column OF the Prusslans came upon
the ndge firing as they advanced, while their
guns on the tanks swept the slowly Teueattng,
but not dlsorderly, AustIiaus with shrapnel and
she'll. AT times the Austrians, hating, opened a
brisk fire; once or twice several regiments
formed a square to receive cavalry, but could
not see any Prussian horse on the slope near
them.
There was hesitation, both IN the Austrans
and the enemy, which was not intelligible, and
several times the officers at the head of the
Prussian columns riding forward, fired over
their horses heads, and stood up in their stir
rups as II to see into the holoWs. shell burst
close over one OF them, and when the smoke
cleared away man and horse were down, and
never stirred again. The folds OF the ground
must have hid most OF the Prussians from the
Austrian artillery as they got near the big tree,
tor the gunners principally directed their pieces
against the Prusslan guns, which received ac-
cessions rapidly, and occupied their full atten-
ton. AT last the Prussians were perceived, and
five battalions OF AustrlanS IRON the reserve
comine from the extreme right, tried to check
their advance ny a fankng fire. The Pruss ans
hated, and in an instant a fire OF surprising
volume and sharpness flew along their front
The Austrians for a few minutes replied
steadily, but they fell fast, and at last two bat
talions, with great vigor, charged up the hill,
but were broken in the run, were shaken by a
rolling volley and by several rounds from the
artillery in flank, and retreated in some disorder
towards the lett behind a spur of the ridge. The
enemy pressed on anew, and soon gained the
plateau close by the big tree. where they dipped
into an undulation only 10 reappear on the other
SIDE, and then formed up in compact square-like
formations, pushing out lines of skirmishers
towards Klum, from which they were about a
mile distant. The Austrians below them and
nearer TO KOniggratZ, halted and faced round to
meet a new enemy, for the Prussians now showed
near the railway, and a sauguinary encounter
took place around some houses in q wood, iu
which artillery and musketry ragged Tor quarter
of an hour in a perfect tornado.
range of buildings near a large factory
chimney on the very banks Of the Elbe, as il
seemed to me, was the scene of another very
severe struggle. Another village, Trothina
burst into fames and from under the very
smoke appeared the Prusslan sklrmishers, on
the very extreme right followed by more
infantry The enemy were, indeed, quite mex
baustible in number, though still he could mo-
hold his own on the left. Suddenly an Austrian
battery, galloping from the lett centre, began tC
NOW down the Prussians on the right They
were retiring behind the burning Trothina, But
their artillery was at hand agaln From lane
above the village battery opened on the Aus
TRANS, and, at the same time, another battery
wheeling over the slope below the big tree crossed
its fire on the devoted Austrlans. "Eta hTell
teuer? Elm Rrelz teuerS" exclaimed the Off
cer-"Good God, where do they come from p
Where, indeed This combat now assumed
larger proportions. The Prussian right showed