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PERSONAL.
A monument to the great novelist, James
Fennimore Cooper, is about to be erected in
Lakewood Cemetery, near Cooperstown. New
York, his former place of residence. This ceme
tery is described as a charming spot between the
high hills in which the famous Leather-stocking
made his dwelling, and the unruffled waters of
Otsego Lake. It is intended to perpetuate
Leather-stocking’s memory, by a statuette sur
mounting the monument.
Mr. Cooper’s literary fame will increase with
the lapse of time. As a novelist, he was the first
our country has produced, and as a delineator of
ocean and forest scenes, he ntVer had an equal
anywhere.
A Tomb fob ex-President Monroe. —Wood
and Perot, the celebrated manufacturers of orna
mental iron works in this city have just complet
ed at their works, on Ridge avenue, below'
Spring Garden street, one of the most beautiful
and graceful structures of iron that has ever
been constructed. It is a “temple,” which was
made to order for the State of Virginia, and
which is to be placed over the remains of ex-
President Monroe, at Hollywood Cemetery, at
Richmond, Virginia, where they were recently
interred. The temple is a gothic structure, eight
feet wide, eleven feet long, and having a height
of twenty-one feet. The material is iron through
out and the metal has been wrought into the
most beautiful and graceful form. The slender
tracery and the elegant architectural embellish
ments of the design could not have had full jus
tice done to them in any material possessing
less strength than iron. The workmanship is
of the most exquisite character, the joints, Ac.,
being made with the neatness and finish of fine
cabinet work. — Philadelphia Bulletin.
The wifo of the Hon. Edward Everett,
whose death we announced a few days ago, as
having occurred in Boston on the 2d of July,
was the daughter of the late Teter C. Brooks,
of Boston, the richest man in New England.—
Two sisters survive her —the wives of Rev. Dr.
Frothingham, of Boston, now in Europe, and of
Charles Francis Adams, the son of John Quincy
Adams, and Representative to Congress from
Massachusetts.
Martin Van Buren. —The sage of Linden
wald is said to be still in excellent health, and
is blessed with his usual cheerful spirits. lie
is one of the few Presidents whose constitution
and temper are unaffected by the cares of State.
Secretary Floyd. —A Washington corres
pondent of the St. Louis Republican says: “I
regret to report the continued ill health of Sec
retary Floyd, who is now sojourning at the Mili
tary Asylum, near this city. His late trip to
Virginia seems to have had but little effect upon
his disease, and his friends are seriously appre
hensive he will not soon recover. A member of
the Cabinet, who visited Gov. Floyd yesterday,
in the country, expressed the opinion that his
disease will probably terminate fatally. His
family are anxious for him to retire from the
Cabinet,_and he may do so at an early day, should
his residence in the country not produce a
change for the better.”
Cap Van. Vliet, Assistant Quartermaster,
has submitted to the War Department a reply
to the charges recently preferred against him
for alleged misconduct in connection with the
purchase of mules for the army; and the Secre
tary of War, after mature consideration of the
same, has decided that the explanations and tes
timony furnished render auy further notice of
the charges uncalled for and unnecessary.
President Buchanan, with his niece, Miss
Lane, and one or two friends, left the executive
mansion last evening for a summer residence at
the “ Old Soldiers’ Home.” On Monday, the
18th instant, the chief magistrate will leave to
spend a fortnight at Bedford Springs. He will
be accompanied by his niece, Secretary and Mrs.
Floyd, and probably Mrs. Secretary Thompson.
Metternich. —The London Times says : Tlio
death of Prince Mottemich at the very time
when the sword of a Bonaparte hangs over Italy,
and the Treaties of Vienna are being weighed in
the balance, might in an age of superstition be
regarded as a solemn portent. In the age of
railroads and electric telegraphs it must be re
corded simply as a coincidence which acute histo
rians may centuries hereafter regard as too
symmetrical to be true. Clement Wencoslas
Metternicb was born at Coblentz on the 15th of
May, 1713, so tha when he died he had com
pleted hi) 86th year. He first came into notice
at the Congress of Rastadt, where he represented
the Westphalian nobility, after which he ac
companied Count Stadiou to St. Petersburg, was
(1801) appointed Minister at the Court of Dres
den, then (1803-4) proceeded as Ambassador to
Berlin, where ho took a leading part in the ar
rangement of that well known coalition which
was dissolved by the buttle of Austerlitz ; and at
length, after the peace of Prosburg, was selected
for the most important diplomatic appointment
in the gift of the Emperor—that of Austrian
Minister at the Court of Napoleon. In 1809 he
became Minister of Foreign Affairs. When the
Congress of Vienna was opened, Prince Metter
nicli, then in his forty-second year, was unani
mously chosen to preside over its deliberations,
and tliis presidency in the Congress may be re
garded as typical of an ascendancy which, from
this time, he exerted for many years in the affairs
of Europe.
Professor Huntington, in liis after dinner
speech at Hadley, on the Bth ult., told the follow
ing anecdote of one of the early ministers of
Hadley, celebrated for the dullness of his ser
mons as well as for his piety, who was dining
with a friend on Sunday noon, after preaching
in the morning. The lady offered him pudding
—he declined, saying he could not eat pudding
before preaching, as it always made him dull. I
think then (said the lady) you Had puddiug for
breakfast, #
Oliver Wendell Holmes sent two poetical
letters to the “post office” of an Episcopal Fair
at Pittsfield, Mass. In one of them the first
stanza was:
“Fair lady, wbosoe'r thou art,
Turn this poor leaf with tenderest care,
And—hush, O hush thy.breathing heart—
The one thou lovest will be there.”
On turning the “poor loaf’ there was found a
one dollar bill witli some verses, beginning:
« Fair lady, lift thine eyes and tell
If this is not a truthful letter.
This is the one (1) thou loveSt well
And nought (0) can make thee lOVe it better.
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No Sects in HeaVbNv— Tlie celebrated Writ
field, when preaching on one occasion from the
balcony of the Court House, in Philadelphia,
cried Out, lifting His eyes to Heaven ; “ Father
Abraham, who have you got in your bosom?
Any Episcopalians?” “No!” “Any Presbyte
rians?” “No!” “Any Baptists?” “No!”
“Have you any Methodists there?” “No!”
“Have you any Independents or Seceders!”
“No! no!” “Why, who have you, then?”
“We don’t have these names hero; all here are
Christians; believers in Christ.” Oh! is that
the ease ? Then, God help us all to forget party
names, and to become Christians in deed and in
truth.
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DOMESTIC SUMMARY.
Contempt of Court.—By referring to the pro
ceedings of the court room on Saturday morn
ing, it will be seen that the case of the State
vs. Francis Mitchell, charged and convicted of
negro stealing, will be carried to the Court of
Appeals. C. B. Northup, Esq., one of the coun
sel for the prisoner, in urging the appeal before
Judge Withers, stated that he had heard from a
reliable source that the J ury had been subjected
to outside influence. Upon bus Honor demand
ing an atiidavit of the fact alledged, the sworn
statement of the SherifFs deputy and of the
constable in charge of the Jury were laid before
the Court. These affidavits distinctly deelare
that unlawful means were used to induce the
Jury to arrive at the verdict they found.
The parties implicated in this grave charge
have been summoned to appear before Judge
Withers this morning. We purposely refrain
from broader statement and comment at present.
Charleston, June 11.—In the case of Francis
Mitchell, a porter on lioard the steamship Ma
rion, charged with aiding a slave to runaway,
Judge Withers, to-day fined Thomas M. Hume
five hundred dollars, andC. E. Kanapaux, Depu
ty Sheriff, one hundred dollars, for contempt of
Court—tlie former for consulting with a juror
who was connected with tlie verdict in this case;
and tlie latter for permitting it
Mitchell was granted a new trial.
Steamers to Savannah.—“ As it has been
determined by the stockholders of the new South
ern Steamship Company' to make the Southern
terminus at Charleston, S. C., we hope that im
mediate steps will be taken to place Savannah
on an ecpial footing with Charleston. Why the
managers should have altered their first arrange
ment, which contemplated Savannah, we have
not not been informed. Our opinion has not
changed as to the relative importance of the two
places.
“ Charleston has been, and is now a very' im
portant southern seaport; but Savannah lias of
late years greatly increased her trade, and bids
fair to be soon, if it is not already, an equal of
Charleston. The railroads extending out from
Savannah are the best and most extensive of any
southern State, and Boston will find it greatly to
her advantage to foster this rapidly increasing
trade. Tlie immediate demand for steamers was
from Savannah; and if the line to Charleston can
make money, as it doubtless will, another to
Savannah certainly will, for which, we believe,
there is a more urgent need.”— Exchange.
Sale of the Collins Steamers. —The Pacific
Mail Steamship Company on Friday completed
the purchase of the Collins steamers, viz. the
Adriatic, Baltic, and Atlantic. It is the inten
tion of the Company to run these boats, on the
completion of their contract with M. O. Roberts,
September 30, 1859, to Aspinwall. via Panama
Railroad, in connection with their lim on the
Pacific. It is understood that uniform passages
of eighteen days will be made from New York
to San Francisco. The Collins steamers have
large freight capacity—say from eight hundred
to one thousand tons, and facilities long needed
by shippers to California, will be supplied by the
purchase of these boats for the Atlantic service,
and must add largely to the business of the
Panama Railroad.
The University of the South. —We are very
happy', as will doubtless be a great number of
our readers, says the N. O. Picayune , to learn
that, under tlie active and energetic management
ofßt. Rev. the Bishops (Polk and Elliott,) of
Louisiana and Georgia, tlie Genera! Commission
ers of the Trustees to canvass for subscriptions,
some three hundred and forty thousand dollars
of the required five hundred thousand has been
obtained for the commencement of that enter
prise. This amount is almost daily increasing,
and there is every reason to warrant the as
surance that within a very few mouths, if not
weeks, the entire sum will be made up. This
three hundred and forty thousand dollars has
been subscribed by some fifty or sixty individ
uals, in sums of from one thousand dollars to forty
thousand, among them the last named amount has
been subscribed by Ex-Governor Henry John
son, of this State. Several gentlemen in Louis
iana, and in other States, have signified their in
tention, we understand, over and above their
liberal subscriptions, to provide the necessary
funds for the endowment of professorships, when
the proper time for arranging the working of the
institution shall have arrived.
Savannah Republican , July 9th.
Sons of Malta. —The Detroit Press prints
a report that the Sons of Malta are to hold a
grand secret conclave on one of the islands of
Lake Erie, during the coming summer, at which
the lodges in North America, some five thou
sand in number, will be represented. Its objects
are supposed to be a combined movement on the
part of Americans to overthrow the foreign
domination, and transfer the ruling power from
the Island of Malta to one of the time-honored
cluster which witnessed the great Perry’s vic
tory.
Georgia Military Institute. —The Board of
Visitors of the Georgia Military Institute, (of
which tlie Governor is President, ex-officio,) as
sembled in our city on the 7th inst. There were
present, His Excellency Gov. Brown, Gen. Geo.
P. Harris, and Col. W. S. Rockwell, of Savannah,
Col. Thomas Hardeman, of Macon, Col. Hardy
Strickland, of Forsyth, and Col. Mott and Gen.
Hansell, of Marietta. The resignations of Col.
Brumby, as Superinteudent, and Capt. McCon
nell, as Commandant, were tendered and receiv
ed, and Maj. F. W. Capers, of Charleston, was
elected to fill the former, and Capt. Magill, for
merly of Savannah, to fill the latter vacancy.
Maj. Capers has long been at the head of the
Citadel Academy of Charleston, where lie has
won an enviable reputation.
Mobile and Ohio Railroad. —The contract
ors upon this road liavo resumed their work,
and it is probable that the track will be laid at
an early day. An agreement has been made
between one of the contractors and the Company
to have tlie rails laid to Okolona, Mississippi,
by the first ofNovember, and in case he has the
work done prior to that day, liq jg (q receive
one hundred and fifty dollars per diem, for
every day that iDtervcue? between the day that
“it is finished” and the first of November.
Bolton Trade with New Orleans. —The
Boston Bee and Atlas mentions a fact to show
the large domestic trade of that city. Since
September first, in nine months, the quantity of
Hour and cotton received at Boston-, from New
Orleans alone, would load one hundred ships of
six hundred tons burthen each.
The U. S. Government on Articles Contra
band of War.—An important State paper as to
the position of the United States upon the ques
tion of neutral rights has been completed, and
was dispatched to all our Ministers in Europe
by the Persia, on Wednesday. The principal
points are with reference to a limitation of arti
cles which shall be deemed contraband of war.
The United States holds that nothing should be
embraced in this list but the direct and immediate
munitions of warfare, such as powder, muskets,
cannon, lead and saltpetre, Ac. Coal, w'hich is
the very foundation of manufacturing and com
mercial transactions, is declared by the United
States not to be contraband of war, and any at-
tempt to constnie it otherwise will be viewed as
an encroachment upon our commerce. So, also,
are breadstuff's not contraband of war. The
broad doctrine is also re-iterated that a free flag
covers the cargo. Whilst the dispatch makes no
allusion to privateering, it is well understood, as
a settled principle of the American doctrine, that
under no circumstances will we abandon that
right.
Reform Dress Association. —We published
a brief dispatch some days since announcing the
assembling of a dress Reform Association in
Auburn, New York. The New York, Evening
Post says:
The Bloomer Declaration of huieptndence. —
The Bloomers, who met in Aulnjni recently and
resolved to “wear short dresses or nothing at
all,” laid down the following platform just be
fore starting for home:
Ist. Our purpose is to perform a duty to our
selves and society, and not to attract public at
tention by eccentric display.
2d. We believe that all the ills that female
flesh is heir to arise from the prevalent modes
and habits of female dress, and we therefore go
in for short and loose dresses in order to obtain
bodily freedom and physical development.
3d. The recent awakening of public interest
in our movement increases our faith in its im
portance.
4th. We believe that woman's rights women
proper “are only tantalizing us with visions of
tlie impossible” so long as the present fashions
hold the sceptre of supremacy.
sth. Woman's subjection 'to fashion is the
evidence of her dependence and inferior posi
tion.
6th. Bondage to fashion is incompatible with
religion.
Female Physicians. —The Philadelphia jour
nals announce the continued success of the Medi
cal Colleges in that city and elsewhere for fe
male students. The young doctresses are regu
larly educated, take the degree of M. D., and are
said to succeed well in their professions. Their
practice is principally confined to their own sex
and to children, and being good nurses as well
as physicians, they are said to be quite popular.
Louisville and Nashville Railroad. —The
Gallatin (Tenn.) Examiner, of the 9th, says:
“ The track layers will have reached the Tunnel
by this day. On the North, the iron has been
laid down in this county, and the junction of the
two ends will soon be a fixed fact. A few more
weeks, and then, ho! for Louisville. The travel
through this place is increasing very rapidly.
Our depot presents, morning and evening, quite
an animated look.”
Washington, Friday, July 8,1859. —An effort
is making by interested parties here and in New
York to press a treaty with Mexico on the Ad
ministration, by which to obtain a perpetual
right of way for tho Tehuantepec and other
routes to the Pacific, and a right of way on a
line from the Rio Grande to the Gulf of Califor
nia, for the consideration of twenty-five million
dollars—the awards of a mixed Commission to sit
on claims and awards to American claimants to
be deducted from this sum.
It is contended that this plan relieves Juarez
from embarrassment in regard to the cession of
territory, and yet virtually secures to the United
States such acquisitions as would be maintained
against reclamation.
The President is inclined, but hardly prepared,
to assume this responsibility. The Senate would
reject this scheme, or any other looking to a
similar object.
The suggestion that volunteers are going to
Mexico is preposterous. — Cor. X. Y. Tribune.
Washington, July 8, LBs9j— lt is understood
that the Cabinet had under advisement to-day
the treaty with Mexico which Mr. McLane re
turned to the State Department with amend
ments submitted by Juarez. Ih making this
treaty with the United States, Juarez's main ob
ject is to raise money, and he took an early oc
casion to inform our Minister to that effect. The
Administration have the whole subject before
them, and between this and the meeting of Con
gress will decide definitively in regard to it.
Washington', July 10,1859. —Gen. Lamar, our
Minister to Nicaragua, iufonned our government
by the last steamer that he intended to return
home in the next steamer. The return of Jerez
to Nicaragua may delay his return, in the hope
of accomplishing something. Jerez left here
fully impressed with the belieftliat he could un
ravel the Central American imbroglio. Despatch
es from Nicaragua are looked for Jiy the admin
istration with much interest.
The Board of Naval Officers appointed by the
Secretary of the Navy to examine the various
breech-lc ding rifles best adapted for naval pur
poses, hr e completed their labors and made their
report. The Secretary will dispose of the mat
ter during the coming week. Tlie appropriation
is one hundred thousand dollars, and tlie contest
is very animated.
FOREIGN SUMMARY.
The steamer A. ia, from Liverpool, Saturday,
June 25th, arrived at New York on Thursday
last.
The Austrian Government has given a formal
denial to Count Cavour’s circular, attributing in
humanities to General D’Urban and his men.
The Nord publishes the following, dated Ber
lin, June 21 : “At a military conference held
yesterday it was resolved that the guards should
remain at Berlin and Potsdam, and six regi
ments of cavalry and infantry should be cantoned
in the province of Brandenburg.
Three corps d'armee will take up positions be
tween the low'er and the central Rhine. Two
Other corps d'annee will be stationed upon tlie
upper Rhine and the river Maine. One of these |
corps will proceed to its destination through Si- |
lesia, Saxony, and Bavaria. The departure of j
troops will take place about the Ist ot July.
Turin, June 23. —The main body of tlie Aus* j
trian army is on the left bank of the Mmcio. LnC ,
Piedmontese have advanced towards Pescliiera,
and after a vigorous encounter, repulsed the out
posts of the enemy, who lost several killed. The \
entire French force has passed tho Cliieso at !
Montechiaro, planned a reconnoissance as far as ,
Goito, and surprised the Main Austrian guard, j
which lost nine prisoners and some killed.
Verona, June 23.—The headquarters of the
Emperor of Austria has been removed to Yal
legio. The feelings of the troops are excellent.
At Antivarri, English as well as French war
steamers are expected. .
A naval expedition, possessing immense means
of destructon, is On the way to Venice; two
hundred and twenty flat-bottomed boats sheeted
with iron, and armed with rifle cannon, arc, it is
said, to ascend the Adige and the Po. If Venice
fails, the fleet may land a corps d'armee on the
Adige, and take the Austrians in the rear,
while the land army attacks them in front.
There are also in Tuscany French troops which
will at an appointed day appear on a given
point.
Father Point, July B.—The steamship Hun
garian left Liverpool at 9 A. M., of the 29th.
The following dispatches Contain all that is
known in regard to the great v, attle of the 24th
of June.
Napoleon to the June
25th.—It is impossible as yet to obtain tlie de
tails of the battle of yesterday. The enemy
withdrew last night. I have passed the night
in the room occupied in the morning by the Em
peror of Austria. General Neil lias been ap
pointed marshal of France.
Cavriana, June 26th, 11.30 A. M.—The Aus
trians who had crossed the Mincio for the pur
pose of attacking us with their whole body, have
been obliged to abandon their positions and
withdraw to the left bank of the river. They
have blowui up the bridge of Goita. The loss of
the enemy is very considerable, but ours is much
less. We have taken thirty cannon, more than
seven thousand prisoners, and three flags. Gen
eral Neil and his corps d'armee have covered
themselves with glory, as well as the whole ar
my. The Sardinian army inflicted great loss on
the enemy, after having contended with great
fury against superior forces.
The following is the order of the day pub
lished by the Emperor Napoleon after tlie battle
of Solferino:
Cavriana, June 25th.—“ Soldiers: The enemy
wlio believed themselves able to repulse us
from the Cliiese, have re-erossed the Mincio.—
You have worthily defended the honor of France.
Solferino surpassed the recollection of Lonato
and Castiglione. In tw’elve hours you have re
pulsed the efforts of one hundred and fifty
thousand men. Your enthusiasm did not rest
there; the numerous artillery of the enemy oc
cupied a formidable position for over three
leagues, which you carried. Your country thanks
you for your courage and perseverance, and k
ments the fallen. We have taken three flags,
thirty cannons, and six thousand prisoners.—
The Sardinian army fought with the same valor
against superior forces, and worthy is that army
to inarch beside you. Blood has uot been shed
in vain for the glory of France and the happi
ness of the people.”
No circumstantial account of the battle had
reached Paris. It was inferred from the tele
graphic dispatches that the French army suffer
ed so severely that two days after the battle it
w r as still unable to resume the offensive.
The following is the Austrian official account
of the battle.
Verona, June 25.—Tlie day before yesterday
our right wing occupied Pozzodenza, Solferino
and Cavriana. and the left wing passed forward
as far as Guidizzalo and Cas-Cioffiedo, but were
driven back by the enemy. A collision took
place between tlie two entire armies at ten A.
M., yesterday. Our left under Ge’n. Wimpfen
advanced as far as Chiesc. In the afternoon,
there was a concentrated assault on the heroical
ly defended town of Solferino. Our right wing
repulsed the Piedmontese; but on the other
hand the order of our centre could not be re
stored, and our losses are extraordinarily heavy.
The deielopment of powerful masses of the
enemy against our left wing, and the advance
of his main body against Volta, caused our re
treat, which began late in tho evening.
Vienna, June 25.—Austrian correspondence
contains the following :
Tho day before yesterday, the Austrian army
crossed the Mincio at four points, and yesterday
came upon tlie superior force of the enemy, in
the Chiese. After an obstinate combat of twelve
hours, our army withdrew across Hie Mincio.
Our headquarters are now«et Villa Franca.
Tlie London Times says the Austrians have
most candidly admitted their defeat, and that
history scarcely records a bulletin in )vhich such
a disaster is more explicity avowed.
A message from Cavriana announces that the
Emperor Napoleon, on the day of the battle,
was constantly in the hottest of the fire. Gen
eral Larrey, who accompanied him, had his horse
killed under him.
The Moniteur says that the battle will take
the name of the Battle of Salferino.
Official Austrian correspondence, of tlie 27tli
of June, contains the following: Tlie Emperor
of Austria will soon return to Vienna, on account
of important business. Tlie command in chief
of the army, which is preparing for battle, is
given to Gen. Hess.
Forty thousand men were embarking at Alge
ria for the Adriatic, and at Paris news was ex
pected of tlie occupation of Venice by the
French.
Large reinforcements for the French army were
constantly quitting for Italy.
A dispatch from Vienna says that tlie attack
of the French on Venice and Taglianiento, about
forty-five miles North-east of Venice, was ex
pected to take place on the 28th of June.
Tlie Austrian reserve, numbering one hundred
and seventy-five thousand men, were on tlicir
w r ay to Italy. They are considered the flower
of the Austrian army. Not a man of them has
served less than eight years.
The Austrians have sunk five small vessels,
a large frigate and three steamers in the port of
Malamocco, to prevent the passage of the French
squadron.
Cavriana, June 28.—Our troops have passed
the Mincio without hesitation, the enemy having
withdraw therefrom.
Additional by the Hungarian.— The Aus
trians were making preparations for another
battle, under Gen. Hess.
The Austrians acknowledge that they were
obliged to retreat after suffering such extraordi
nary and heavy losses.
The Emperor Napoleon is reported to have
been constanlty in the hottest part of tho battle.
New' York, July lltli.—The steamship City
of Baltimore has arrived, bringing dates from
Liverpool to Wednesday, June 30.
Count Pourtails, the Prussian Ambassador,
had arrived at the headquarters of the Austrian
army, which had been fixed at Verona.
Tlie French were preparing to move tlie army
on the Rhine.
Layback lifts been designated as the seat of
CoVeriiffient of Lombardy.
[Layback, or Laibach, is a town of Austria, in
Illyria. Duchy of Camiola, and is situated on a
river of tlie same name. Tlie population in
1816, was seventeen thousand three hundred
and fifty-scven.J
Slight but disconnected details of the battle of
Solferino are published in the Paris Moniteur.
The losses are not stated.
It would appear from these details that Gen.
Neil’s division of fifty thousand French, and
twenty-five thousand Sardinians, bore the brunt
of the battle.
Fifteen thousand beds for the wounded had
been Ordered from Milan.
New York, July 12.—The steamship Bremen
W’as boarded off Cape Race on Sunday, and the
steamship Canada reached Halifax this forenoon,
with European dates as late as July 2nd.
No other battles are reported to have been
fought by the Austrians and the allies.
The allied army bad continued to move unmo
lested across tho Mincio.
Louis Napoleon had moved his boadq'iarters
from Volta to Valleggio, and had rtivested Pes
chiera from Lago, and the Sardinians from Garda
to the Mincio.
Tlie new' English Ministry had pronounced m
favor of a strict neutrality. ,
New York, July 14.- —The steamship Etna,
which left Liverpool on the 2d of July, haß ar
rived, but her news has mostly been anticipated
by the Canada.
It was believed in some quarters of Paris that
the French loss at Solferino was very heavy, and
about as follows: Gen. Neil’s corps lost between
six and seven thousand: Gen. d’Hillier’s corps
nearly live thousand; Gen. McMahon’s about
twenty-live hundred; and Gen. Canrobert’s about
one thousand—besides many casualties to the
artillery and other corps.
It was reported that at the battle of Solferino,
nearly every officer and man of the Artillery Im
perial Guard was put hors de combat.
The Austrian accounts admit that twenty thous
and men were killed, wounded, and missing.
For several hours, the chances of the battle
seemed to be in favor of the Austrians, who re
took Solferino, but the French rallied and broke
through the Austrian centre, and won the vic
tory.
Gen. d'Hillier's corps sustained the attack for
three hours, before succor arrived.
Gen. Garibaldi has been ordered to occupy
the tipper Yollellina.
The Tyrolleze are fortifying the passes.
The military commission of the Frankfort Diet
have approved the demand to move the army of
observation on the Rhine.
Twenty thousand corpses were buried alter
the battle of Solferino, and many more were left
lying in the ditches and corn fields.
The French had made extensive warlike pre
parations in the Adriatic, and the Admiral of
the fleet was about to open his sealed orders.
The French people are evidently dissatisfied
at the meagre details they have received of the
b-ittle of Solferino
The Paris Patrie says that Louis Napoleon
had an epaulette shot from his shoulder during
the battle.
Some of the French regiments were nearly cut
to pieces.
The Piedmontese suffered so much as to ren
der them unable to form a line of battle.
A telegraph from Vienna, on the 28th of June
says : “Some days must elapse before complete
returns of the Austrian losses can be procured.”
The Italian regiments had become very dif
ficult to manage, and were deserting by scores of
fifties.
At Trieste, a whole battalion had pronounced
in favor of Victor Emmanuel.
A vessel under the American flag had been
detected in taking deserters on board.
The Paris J foniteur contains the following dis
patch from Louis Napoleon to the Empress :
“VALLKGGIO, Friday.—The whole army has
passed the Mincio. The Sardinians have invest
ed Peschiera. lam pleased to announce the ar
rival of Prince Napoleon with his corps of thirty
live thousand. lam now enabled to approach
Verona, without compromising other positions.”
The Jloniteur contains the official bulletin of
the battle. The Austrian force was from two
hundred and filly thousand to two hundred and
seventy thousand. The loss of the French seven
hundred and twenty officers, and twelve thou
sand men killed and wounded, including seven
colonels, six lieutenant colonels killed, and five
generals wounded.
Vienna, July 1. —A correspondent says that
the Austrian loss, so far as ascertained, is nine
teen hundred killed, and eighty-one hundred
wounded.
A dispatch from Rome announces that Fer
rara, Ravetia, Farli, Ancona, and other towns
have been replaced under the authority of the
Pope, by intervention of the Pontifical troops.
The officer who commanded the Swiss troops
in the affair at Perugia is said to have been pro
moted.
The Propositions of Prussia. —The Inde
pendence gives another version of the proposi
tions which Prussia is said to have made for the
reestablishment of peace, but does not guaran
tee their authenticity. According to the latter
information, Prussia proposes that Lombardy bo
annexed to Piedmont; Parma, Modena, and
Tuscany, be restored to their legitimate sover
eigns, the authority of the Pope reestablished in
the legations, Venice to become independent,
and the four famous fortresses of the Mincio an
nexed to the German Confederation, thus pre
venting an aggressive return to Lombardy on
the part of Austria, and aggrandising pros
pects of Piedmont.
The Steamship City of Baltimore with Liver
pool advices to the 30tli ult., arrived at New
York on Tuesday last:
War Movements— The Battle of Solferi
no.—The London Times, of June 28th contains
the following: The Emperor of the French lias
named his new victory. The village ofSolferino
is to be identified with the tremendous battle of
the 24th of June. The action is not one of un
mitigated triumphs to the conquerovs, nor of ut
ter defeat to the vanquished. It resembles
rather Vagram than AusUTlitz, It is as usual
where Austrian trhflpS fight and Austrian fun
erals command, just an inclination of the balance
in favor of the enemy. It is an example ol
stubborn discipline contending at once against
an enterprising and intelligent enemy, and
against the evils of a divided command.—
While the Zouaves were being borne back by
the Austrians in position at Buffalora, and Napo
leon himselfwas engaged in an unequal contest,
four Austrian Generals were quarreling as to
the manner in which supports should be sent
up, and quarreled till the victory was torn from
them. Let us apply the lesson as the facts
march forward before our eyes, changing as they
go the rank and precedence of nations.
The recent battle Las been properly named.—
The Austrians write of it as the battle of Mincio,
but this is incorrect. The conflict took place on
the narrow district which is bounded by the
course of the Chiese on the West and by that of
the Mincio on the East. All the places men
ti >ued in the dispat< hes will be found about mid
way between these two rivers. Great as was
the force assembled, and, enormous as was the
amount of ground covered, the battle did not
reach down to the neighborhood of Mantua, nor
extend southward beyond half the distance be
tween that fortress and Peschiera. Ihe tide of
the battle did not roll parallel with the course
of either river. In this campaign, which is
fought in a network of waters, great rivers do
not appear to play their usual important part.
they are passed and repassed, they are bridged
and forded, they are fortified arj abandoned, but
they are never seriously defended.
It is singular that w g are indebted to the van
quished for all ottr reliable information as to
the circumstances of this great battle. Not only
is the Austrian bulletin the most candid ac
knowledgement of n defeat ever given to the
world, but it is also the most satisfactory history
of a battle ever put into the same number of
words. By live light of these seventeen lines of
print, and a tolerable map. one can almost see
the sitnsftidn of the combatants and the great
features <rf the engagement. The ground upon
which 'this battle was fought differs much from
the dpongy plain through which the Austrians
htfk been so long retreating, and the French
Tfitd been so long advancing. The southern end
<of the Lagodi Garda consists of hills and broken
uplands, which have always been considered as
favorable to defensive operations.
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