Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-04-16

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marriages, and lost all her territory
obtained by war, is this: In the
first case, the people willingly trans
ferred their allegiance with the
union of the crowns, and thereafter
supported the Government with men
and money; whereas, in the other
case, the people who were transferr-
ed to Austria by coercion and con-
quest sought the first opportunity
to break out of the Empire by the
same means by which they were
forced into it, viz: by the sword.
Thus the Poles, after more than a
hundred years, are still unreconeil-
ed, and are as eager watching for
deliverance from Austrian rule, and
reconstruction of their ancient King
dom, as at any time since their sub
jugation and loss of national inde-
pendencc.
Let US now proceed
DOWN THE DANUBE.
Every morning at 6 o'clock a small
steamer leaves its dock on the Dan
ube Canal, which runs through the
City of Vienna, and transfers the
passengers to the large steamer
moored in the great stream, five or
six miles below the starting point.
These Danube steamers somewhat
resemble the Mississippi River
steamboats,. They are called Amer
can steamboats,, though the guards
are not so wide, nor the hurricane
decks so high, as on the American
boats; but they run as fast, and are
managed with less wrecklessness of
life and consequences; an explosion
of a Danube River steamboat is
thing rarely heard of, and not
dreaded by passengers or their alb
sent friends. The large steamer
starts at Z a. m. from the moorings,
which are nearly opposite
THE ISLAND OF LoBAU,
famous for being the place where
Napoleon's army was cooped up by
the Austrians for six weeks preced-
ing the decisive battle of Wagram.
The Danube is here split into nu-
merous branches or arms, creating
many islands, of which Lobau is the
largest. Napoleon has thrown a
bridge from the mainland on the
western bank of Lobau, and manag-
ed to throw another from Lobau to
the east bank, occupied by the Aus
TRANS. After he had transferred
about half of his army over this lat
ter pontoon bridge, the Austrians
continued to destroy it by means of
fire-ships foated down the Danube,
which, lodging against the bride,
set it on fire and consumed it. The
Austrians then attacked the divided
French army IN the villages of As
perm and Essling. The fight lasted
furiously for two days. the French
being badly beaten, and it was all
Napoleon could do to Improvise
bridge of RATS in time to save the
shattered and tattered remains of
his force by transferring them back
to the Island of Lobau. Here he
remained several weeks, apparently
engaged in constructing fortifca-
tions and making ready to force his
way across the river in the face of
Archduke Charles army. His posi-
ton seemed critical, but the Aus
trians were unable to take advant-
age of it. During this time he was
making ready for his grand move
ment, which resulted in the complete
rout of the Austrians. Having re-
built plenty of pontoon-boats, he
quietly withdrew his army from the
wooded Island of Lobau on the Sd of
July, 1909; transferred it-unobserv-
ed by the enemy-lower down the
Danube few miles, where, on the
night of the 4th of July, under the
protection of 12O pieces-of artillery,
he thew three pontoon-bridges across
the Danube; and, on the morning of
the 5th, the Archduke Charles
FOUND HIS FLANK TURNED,
the entrenched works which had
cost his army six weeks, labor to
construct, strengthen, and fill with
guns, taken in reverse, and all his
plans frustrated. There was the
great Napoleon facing him on the
open plain, with an army of 100000
men and 700 pieces of cannon, and
every Frenchman as confident of
victory as he was of his existence.
There was nothing TO be done ex-
cept to face about as far as possible,
and fight. The Austrian army was
equal in strength to the French, and
were flushed with the precious vic
tory won at Aspern. The collision
of two such forces was tremendous,
and the destruction of life enormous;
but the genius of Napoleon tri-
umphed as usual; he broke the cen
tire of the Austrian line by a terri
BILE cannonade which thinned it-fol-
lowed by rush of cavalry, support
ed by dense masses of infantry ad-
vancing on the run. The Austrian
centre gave way under these terrible
assaults. One wing was quickly
doubled up and destroyed, and the
other put to rout. The defeat of
the poor Austrians was
COMPLETE AND IRREvoCABLE.
Vienna was occupied by the French,
and Austria submitted to the terms
dictated by the conqueror, which
were hard and humiliating to the
proud house of Hapsburg. A part
of the territory cut off, a heavy in
demnity was exacted, and, more hu-
initiating still, the Emperor's young
daughter was given in marriage to
the "plebian Corsican upstart," as
he was called, who first put away
his own lawful, loving wife in order
to receive her, and thereby brought
down the maledictions of woman
kind on his head.
The cause of this invasion in Aus
tria in 1909 may be forgotten by
some readers. Napoleon before
lsO7-'s had Conquered a peace"
with all nations except "perfdious
Albion" who persisted in waging
war to the bitter end. Napoleon
determined to wade and crnsh her
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