Richland beacon., 1873-04-05
The Austrian Prize Article.

NorE;-The Emperor q 1,,sper editorial. less
than a column in Les TO ''go for il . "''e
the Democretsr way to spell Austria is
The m" and from the best of our re-
"CastiOn it was settled by the Ostreiches
Sout the year 500, and has been pretty
well populated with that family down to
the present day. 1t was originally Mar
graviate, so called from the fact that
strong-minded female of the name of Mar
garet, usurped the breeches Of her lord
and master and struck out on her own
hook and made more gravy and ate. They
called the little farm upon which they
lived after that More gravy ate until the
Ostreiches came and the old couple broke.
up housekeeping.
After this the Ostreiches became Hun
gary, or, in other words, Hungary be-
came the Ostreiches and they gObbled up
the rock salt in Galicia, the copper and
tin in Bohemia, SalZburg, Carinthia and
Tyrol, and everything else they could lay
heir eyes Oh except Frederick the Great,
Napoleon, General Moltke and King Will.
liam.
However. it will be our lot, as well as
pleasure to record many OF the splendid
achievements of this w;.rlike race OF birds.
1t was their General Mack who so herOi-
cally chased with Napoleon all over Os-
trtich and finally compelled the great En-
perOr to accept an army of $4,000 men on
his pension list at Ulm. This wonderful
piece of strategy, which threw upon Bona
parte the care of so many prisoners of
war. added to his embarrassment, and
finally led to his downfall at Waterloo and
Punishment to st. Helena.
And again, h0wevf r, look at the peer
less Haynau, who, after the surrender OF
that patriotic Magyar, General Gorgei
found himself fully competent to crush
the Hungarian rebellion by executing
prisoners of war and sending their wives
and little ones into Punishment.
And again, however, let Us look, if we
please, at the bold manner in which the Os.
treiches crossed the Ticino on the 29th o.
April, 1850, and also the bold manner in
which they crossed back again, bringing
the Italians with them.
The peculiar strategy employed by
these people is subject to criticism on the
part of some military men, but the Os
trclches can afford to bear SANDER aft Il
getting rid of Lombardy in such an easy
h manner as they did about the time hereir
mentioned.
But We must again look, and not very
far back either, to 1866. to the brilliant
war in which the Ostreiches engaged witt
J Prussia. Other nations of ancient anC
modern times have had their wars-theil
twenty years wars, their seven years
wars and their three years wars-but i
was left to the Ostreiches to finish VI
clean their war with Prussia i'm six weeks
A great many have not been able even Il
this day to understand how the Os
treiches accomplished so much in so shor
space of time, and it falls to us to ex
plain it. In the first place, Field Mar
shall Benedek was opposed to fighting of
his own soil, aud by dextrous manage
ment of his forces succeeded in inveiglins
the enemy over the border. This wa
done so that the gallant Ostreiches coult
return to their homes very soon after
treaty of peace was concluded. I'm thi
movement Field Marshal Benedek wa
entirely successful, so much SO in fac
that many Ostrtiches got home befOr,
peace was made, and even before the En-
perOr of all the Ostreches returned Il
Vienna.
We have scarcely time to barely men
ton that the Ostreiches are great lover.
OF liberty, and ''go for" liberty first, las
and all the time. Several years ago ar
Ostreich Governor, whose name we be
lieNe was Gesler, was such lover O
these things that he placed his own car
on liberty pole, and told base, ignobl,
tyrant, whose name was Tell, to fall dOwr
and worship it; and when the tyrant re
fused what did that liberty-lOving Os
treich Governor do: But Tell, the ty
rant, went into the. apple business.
These are about all the affairs that W,
know of bearing on Austria and the Os
treiches, eXc.p that they are known t.
stick their heads in the sand and whistl
in unc1ncern, thinking that when tn
head is safe there is no danger in the rear
: This is often eXemplified in the deser
where Ostreicnes n.Ost do dwell, and a
. Vienna, when the wicked disturb tn
peace of Europe and the peace Of the Os
! treiches.
This is all of this interesting article tina
will be written. 1t is less than column
in length, and will be sent to the Vienn
Exposition, where it will be read by tn
En-. eror Joseph. We have ardent hope
5 that it will win the $1,000; but the old h
7 Ostreich may say, mot for Joe."-O,
/ tuna,cu Ioapa) Democrat.