The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-07-25
July 8.-The battleOf sadowa.


r The news of the Scotia published yes
terday morning, leaves us to suppose
that the siege of Vienna will really. be
attempted by Prussia. The military
maps show that it is quite possible with
the advantages thus far gained that she
may be able, by vigorously pushing
her triumph, to shut up the Austrians
in their capital as Napoleon once did.
The London Times has the following
comments on Austria's great defeat
and humiliation: EG1EE7
Z. We have never read sadder words
than those which the Emperor OF Aus
trta addressed to his people. The re-
verses OF his army, the occupation OF
one This kingdoms, the danger of his
capital, have almost bowed down that
proud and confident spirit. Knowing
what manner'of man Francis JOSEPH is
by nature, we may judge of the humiIi-
alton he must have felt in doing what
he has done, and saying what he has
said. A month ago he commanded
splendid army, the largest ever
the Empire. He was the undisputed
leader of the German governments,
while his adversary stood reprobated
and threatened by all the most i'm
portant of them. He had given orders
To his representative in the Diet to move
a resolution which it was supposed
would force Prussia to succumb. II
was known that the governments of
four-hEths of the German people would
support him and range themselves
against the PrusSian aggreSSor. The
most experienced and celebrated gene
raj of the empire was in command of
the Austrian army, and his confidence
bod eHsNsl -. III
classes OF the Austrian peopleY Bene-
dek believed in himself, and the Em-
peror and all his subjects believed in
Benedek. The world in general could
not escape something OF this false con-
hdence. People knew that one of the
largest and best organized armies in
Europe occupied Bohemia, and it was
certain that in few hours it could
take possession of Saxony and be ready
to execute it's threat of settling
the question of the Elbe Duchies
by q march on Berlin. In
short, the reputation of the Austrian
empire stood higher Ione short month
ago than at any time since the present
Emperor had assembled the throne. How
changed is all nowI Moralizing is un-
profitable work, but there are times
when the faithlessness of fortune and
the instability of human greatness dis
play themselves SO clearly in events
L9HG tue GllueSG ana GE1gea ESe0l1IueulH De-
come fresh and vivid. ReUeT. has a
Stats been 6truek 6y a greater and more
sudden calamity; the supremacy of Aus
ES1 0UeF Germany . gone; the projected
eonqueStQ of Berlin Is turned into fear for
TIE 8gketY of. Piell5tn. All is lost, unless
the tntercession of foreign pOtentate
stays the progress oEthe invaders. Yet
in this misfortune the Emperor does
not lose his dignity, and the address he
has just issued viii move the hearts of
all Who read It. t
The chances of war and the position
he has accepted with regard TO France,
forbid the Emperor TO use defiant
tone, but he tells his subjects, and, no
doubt, with all sincerity, that he will
not sanction a treaty oKPeace by which
the essential conditions of Austria's po-
sition as a greatpoWeH would be shaken.
't'Sooner than this should be the case" :"
declares the Emperor, 81 am resolved to
carry on the war to the last extremity,
and in this I am sure OF my peoples
approva1." There Is nothing In the
history of Austria which should give
Us reason to believe that this is a vain
boast. War has ever been for Austria
u series of trials and reverses, relieved
by few CLEANS of victory. Yet. she
has always been q formidable enemy.
She was the chief power in coalition
affer coalition against the first Napo-
leon, and at last, her weight thrown
into the scale was the cause of his
DOWNFALL Prussia, crushed in a
twenty days. campaign, never rose
again until 1913; but Austria
| fought during twenty years whenever
/ she hGdan opportunity; and the army
With which she took tho fieIdin the last
years of thu war was better than any
| that preceded it. We must, therefore,
/. .tialfa1e that Ansfrin will not snfkehdsr
entirely at discretion, Undoubtedly
/ she must yield much. What she has
bseh in Germany She can never be
/ again. Her influence over the minor
States, if5th hbae are to Fetain b separate
extslence . almost rs much q thing 0l
the pasl q her power in italy. Not an