Hungary. February 4, 1849

Hungary.
No. 213, February 4, 1849.
Second Supplement
Neue Rheinische Zeitung.
* From the Banat. Hardly have the Serbs, Austrians, German Banatians, Croats, Gypsies and Turkish Serbians succeeded in driving the Magyars back a little, when the worst quarrels break out among the newly fabricated Banat-Serbian nation. Stratimirovich has come forward on his own account as a candidate for the dignity of Voivode, and has thereby incurred such enmity with the Patriarch Rajachich that the latter has given orders to arrest and deliver up the most popular Serbian leader wherever he is to be found.
The Turkish Serbians have so far supplied the Serbs of the Banat with 20,000 auxiliary troops. How many Russians are among them it is difficult to say. As late as the 19th of January, 700 Serbians and 400 armed Gypsies crossed the Danube at Boljevci and Pančevo to the assistance of the Banatians. Thus the Austrian total monarchy keeps itself alive!
The power of the Hungarian insurrection is by no means crushed, but is still at present very considerable, for a constant stream of numerous volunteers is flowing to the Magyar bands from all parts of the country. The Magyar cause still has four strong army corps on foot, namely in Upper Hungary under Görgey, on the Theiss under Kossuth, in the Banat against the Serbs, and in Transylvania under Bem, who can very well keep up the struggle for some months yet, as they know how to avoid every decisive blow with care. The fight has already lasted six full weeks, and yet the number of Magyar combatants has rather increased than diminished.
If they succeed, as they intend, in prolonging the war until the opening of the war in Upper Italy, the cause is by no means lost. Even in the county of Ödenburg, directly on the border of Austria, the liveliest sympathies for Kossuth are to be found among the rural population. Quite recently in a village, after a black-and-yellow sermon, the peasants cheered the dictator, whereupon a detachment of soldiers appeared, arrested the seven most respected persons of the place and led them away, so that to this hour it is not known what has become of them.