Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-07-18

about 40 miles. With eUe,B step In ddyG,lceyI
made by theTOyql cousins, the Austridns opposed
TO The CrotvR Prince run a greater risk Of being
9Cedged IN bet,ceen he tho advancing drnateS.
Telegraphic communication between the
Princes has been already effected along the /,
North Bohemian railway line. ,Ir.g,. yo
To caution your readers against placing
implicit credence in kilograms direct from
the battlefield, will test the accuracy Of
some remarkable dispatches of this class
On the 27tby the day Of hisi first attack, the
Crown Prince, as we have seen, failed to-
take Skalitz. Upon this Austrian official
kilograms appeared in the Vienna and
South German papers stating that the
Prussians had been beaten, were in ftilIreI
treat and reduced tolpetition for an armis4-
tiGe,r Prussian dispatches, on the other
hand, spoke of a brilliant action, in which
the enemy had been repulsed, emitting,
however, to mention whether any definite
result had been attained. AS appears from
the above, neither OF these kilograms was
correct. Tar fr0HiibgiIg In fun retreat, the
Prussians were able to take the contested
position the day after, while the Austrians
had lost so little ground on the first day
that they required to be elected from their
intrenchments ON the second. 3grs a4in
Encouraged by the advantages gained,
and desirous of animating the troops to
fresh exertions by his presence, the King
this morning left for Bohemia. With him
went GEN. MOltke, the COmmander-inr
Chief, who, like a chess-player with his
back to the board, has SO long superintend-
ed the general conduct of the operations
without leaving his study in Berlin Count
Bismarck, the hero of the campaign, and a
large number of Generals, dplomatists,
and Councillors OF State, and among them
the military attaches of the various foreign
embassies. Before leaving, the King had
the satisfaction Of being, after many years
of estrangenient, heartily cheered by his
Berliners. The Bohemian successes had no
sooner been announced in placards, public
ly posted up, than a crowd assembled "Un-
ter den Linden" and with flags, and amid
the singing of ancient battle-songs, began
to parade, the Streets In triumphant ar
| ray they approached the palace. Thunder
ing hurrahs Informed the King that his
people were paying him visit. His Maj
esty opened the window of his room, but
twelve feet above the pavement, and in
few cordial words thanked them. tor their
patriotic sympathy with the achievements
of the army. Count Bismarck, on leaving
the palace, also became the object Of
regular ovation. and Herr Won Room, the
Minister of War, had people shouting
and hurrahing in front of his hotel.
all day long. In the evening many
thousands congregated in front. of
the palace, with banners, bands of music,
aud other den onstrations of joy. A depu-
tation, hastily formed, took the liberty of
demanding on immediate audience, and
were most graciously receive lby the King.
To convey his reply direct to- che people,
the King stepped on to the balcony,
| thanked themagain, and begged them to
stand by him to the end, as they were only
in the beginning of the campaign. To the
most skeptical observer it must have been
| obvious that the military instincts OF old
| Brandehburg had been aroused, and that
the people, glad to forget the Parliamenta-
| ry quarrel on the details of their military
institutions, were happy to be able TO feel
proud of the army, and regard it as the
cornerstone of the State, as In the days of
Frederick Ill, and Blucber. know not
whether this military enthusiasm will be
permanent enough to dispose the, people to
assume more cohciliatory attitude in the
constitutional difference when the war is
over; butithus much is certain, that those
were in the right who predicted victory in
the field, not in the Parliament, would be
the aim and purpose of the Prussian yearn
ings while the war lasted. '. n1i