Winchester Republican

IN THE EUROPEAN WAR.

The Paris correspondent of the New York Times says:

"While speaking of Americans, I must not omit mentioning the gallant conduct of Major Philip Kearney, U. S. A., who went through the campaign as an amateur. He accompanied his friend, Gen. MacMahon, and during the battle of Solferino, remained the whole day exposed to the deadly firing of the Austrian musketry and artillery. The Major had the good luck to escape with nothing more serious than a sun stroke. He speaks in the most enthusiastic terms of the extraordinary bravery of the French troops, and while recounting their taking of the tower of Solferino, he says that it was an almost inconceivable feat of arms, as owing to the nature of the ground and the natural defences of the place, ten thousand troops ought to have repulsed the attack of ten times their number; but the French clan and enthusiasm were not to be resisted, and the Major speaks of the great deeds of Solferino with undisguised admiration.

The Major came near falling into the hands of the Austrians the night previous to the battle. He was in advance of the main body of the army, and observing an unusual movement among some cattle in the distance, he stopped and returned just as the Austrians in great force came over the hill near him. The Major's experience in Indian signs, gained on our Western frontiers, was thus of great service to him."