Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-07-27

every successive ridge came into action
and fred against the pursuers to check
them and gain for its own infantry time
to retreat. The Prussian horse artillery
and cavalry followed it, and till after night
fall the pursuit went numbering toward
the Elbe.
T THE BATTLE.
On one part of the field a Prussian gen.
eral and his staff was burying his son,
who had fallen in the attack on the Aus
TRAN right. Close by, the wife Of a pri-
vate soldier, who had found her husband :
body on the field had it buried by some
soldiers, had hanged some oak branches
on the little wooden cross at the head,
and was sitting on the freshly turned
earth sobbing her heart out with his shat
tered helmet in her lap. She had follow
ed his regiment in order to be near him
from the beginning of the campaign,
through all the long marches the army
had made.
THE AUSTRIAN loss.
Prom the London Timez, July 49,
Our correspondent, writing three days
after the battle, when the confusion was
beginning to subside, when the men were
finding their way back to their regiments,
and regiments, or what was left OF them,
were again being united into brigades and
divisions, gives the loss of the besten army
as probably more than two-fifths of its
whole number. at may be true, he says,
that $4,000 men were killed, wounded,
taken prisoners, or drowned, and that 100
guns were taken, abandoned, or thrown
into the river on the retreat Adding 10
| these losses the number Of men who must
have thrown away their arms in the re-
| treat, are must doubt lDhether one hundred
| thousand efiectire RleH mere TO be found IA
| the Ar5ay Of the North three days after the
battle.
PRESENT AUSTRIAN POSITION.
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OTn,,,- ~ Gov boro do,,b, ,bat
EaIIzonanaoisto ron RonoJoL is in Good
n]elition ,bo,,gb he csnnot soya Robe1,io.
psv more il Is verv doubtful whether he
can save Brunn. in Moravia. tho Austrian
Manchester, and people there are who
think Vienna is already o or that il
will go if the Prussians venture 10 disre-
gard the peremptory order to halt
which has come from Paris Inc rus
slams have shown at lSlan, on the Mora
Wan frontier, but their advance 10 VEN
ma, with an army still powerful and nu-
merous in the flank and rear, II with
three Tertfessas such as Theresienstadt
Konnigratzr and ~Josephstadt on thelr
TANKS, would be hazardous as a military
measure, without reference TO poltical
complications.
The line of road to Brunn passes
through defles worked out by the river,
and present singular advantages to a de-
fsnsive force, but, according to all present
indications, the Prussians may have the
place If they wish. The garrison OIL len
ma is being quietly strengthened, and the
lines 81 the other side OF the Danube are
not Of a character to be desPised BY any
enemy. We have to learn yet what the
Prussians intend doing ut Josephstadt and
koniggratz. Although neither IS aSe6As-
topol, each-is capable of standing a siege,
and is not 10 be walked oyer Gr passed by
with immunity.
THE LATEST FROM THE CoNTEYDING
ARMIES.
A disnateh dated at the Prussian head
o~arters. Zwittau, July II afternoon,
says: To-day the troops at headquarters
are allowed 10 rest. The battalions en-
gagged in active operations have been
pushed forward abont two miles to the
southeast. They are also having q days
repose, as far as possible, this having been
rendered necessary by the rain which has
set in, and the uninterrupted marching
and severe fighting in which the troops
have been engaged.
The First Army is taking the direction
of Brunn, the Second of Olmutz, and the
Army Of the Elbe of Iglau.
The Aust.ians evacuated L~sndskron as
soon as the regiment o. the Guards Of the
Second Army Corps, advancing from h0-
henmauth through Bohemian Trubau, ap-
preached the town.
The Austrian Army of the North is re-
ceiYing achievements, but it is believed
TO be not yet decided whether it will hold
the line from Olmutz to Erunn, and fight
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row the ~beodouorters will he removed 70
Czernabora. three miles from Brunn.
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force under 200, 600 men. In artillery
the Prussians were also superior-at least
in the number Of guns.
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