The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-05-31
THE FIRST NEWSPAPER REPORT FROM THE
SEAT OF WAR


AN ENGLISH CORRESPONDENT AT TUE AUSTRIAN
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF THE MUSTER OF TIKI
Amy CROSSING THE TICiNO-rHE ORDER OF AID
vANCE--FIRsT FI6nTING AND LITTLE LOSs--rAC-
TICS OF AN IRISH orFIcER-wuAT THE PEOPLE
REALLY COMPLAIS OF IN sARDINIA-AN ANEcDoTE
OF TIE WAR, ETC.
Cspe cial cor respondence Of the London Times
AUSTRIAN HEADQUARTERS,
MoRTARA, May 10, 1859.
Your correspondent AT veupa has PROBABLY kept you
'ufcrmed those movements OF this army which are Of
sufficient I'M portarce 70 be Communicated by telegraph
Ni however, recapiulaie briefly what has been done
jnoe the beginning elagrapbc dispatches not IA
Tho rst Au.rien troops crossed the Tcno on the Goth
of April 1--WE days after The French had passed
ern frontier of Sardinia This delay, you know, In
deference to the wish Ct the British Cabinet.
brigade Of the Fifth corps nuder General Festetcs,
had the honor Of leading the way. crossed a Paya
pushed the through Garasco to the Ter
doppio river followed by the entire Third co.ps under
Prince Scbwarzenberg 10 Gropelo.
Tire Seventh corps, under Baron 2obel, had come ND
bonn Bergamo and Btesca to Rho intending % cross the
ricno forher north, then madc demonstration
II Bufalora, and then turned southwark through
Abbia,e Grosso towards the bridge at vige-
Eano, which, however, It found blown up 1t was
therefore, obliged TO cross at BereguaIdo pontoon
bridge constructed by the engineers The /. did the
18th, reaching Gambolo the same day.
On the following Gay, the 3o,h, the 9th corps, under
SadCn passed the same bridge and tue SIN corps.
nder tbel renowned General Benedek crossed AZ Pava,
he 7,h pusbing TO Morara, aud the 3D. 10 Garasco
On the LIST OF May the 81 corpe, under Prince Lchtep
en crossed at pavia that II took three lays the
ON the night Of the let OF May the line extended
boug the Agcgna river from yespola on the north
iSa "a a1a to sas ss
nh the 9Th and TIN on its right. and the
b and % its left THIS relative position hav-
been kept until now, need not detail the daily
arches but will briefly say that the line was gca-
a'ly advanced and extended IN this order until the
before yesterday, the sih when the headquarters
command in chief, General Gy uls Verceli,
the whole country north Of the Pc, as far as Bella
Craglia on the north west and the Dora Baea on tho
ok Inv An lunO vii
The Pedmoniese dug trenches and otherwise in
cd the roads, and placed batteries to defend them but
not do At Verceli they mined the magnificent rail
bridge across toe sesa gu. the Austrans discovered
arkabie for the nature Of the country is such that
advance Of an army eau be most easily impedet. Tne
ds in most cases srtiBc'a]ly raised, the fields
eide being dead fat and kept under water for the
lvation Of rice, besides which numerous canals ut
era different levels each other in every
he chief opposition occurred at valenza where there
two fine bridges across the 20. The one the Pied
bteee had themselves destroyed aud tho other the
TRANS mined TO destroy for them; so, the Sd
9TH they made great demonstrations TO the
both there and opposite Fraseinetto and succeeded
lining the bridge. On the Alb also General Be 1edek,
anemy's attention being drawn TO the above named
s, succeeded IN crossing the Pc at Cornale,
ers, corps chich IN Austria has reached oonder.
kgrss Of efficiency. He pushed on to voghera and re-
otred Tortona with powerful detachment. In
be blew up the railway bridge Of Pontecurone,
h must be serious blow TO the allies. In the night
Alb to the 9Th the Pc fteen feet, ADD destroy
Bencdek's bridge over the Pc, thus isoating him
lilly. IN hcenty.four hours, howecer, another bridge
nssuctsd, ,ohich I've retired the 6th, car, yry
II stores q bread, tobacco salt, rice, meal, corn hay,
from VcQhora.
yalenza the unparalleled rise OF the Pc filed tho
mines formed, and IL not till the 9Th OF
that the bridge was destroyed At Frassl-
the intended deception completely sue
i. Quantities o. boards, &c, were ordered
great ostentatiou Ut Candia and some hundreds
frers Ga the Sd Of May some aucers led the way
ford OF the scsia TO an island between that river
Q Pc. Four companies OF grenaders followed, and
rocket battery, the whoAe under Colonel Puchner.
and ID thickIy covered with brentwood, no the
ees Of their number was c, 'nceaed from the enemy
bened heavy FIRE from the southern bank OF the
his was swered by the racket battery and the
icrr, who extended themseve saong tho bank
20 Piedmonteee fancy they did much msonief that
few accurate figures may be useful. The Aus
Oct on the Sd before midnight, o.'e man Killed and
founoed OF the latter has einc,' died.
eht Capt Dryer, m Irishman, let over another
N TO the island, and noiae OF han 1meripg was
till morning, as II bridges for the passage Of
rmy were beng constructed. During the entire
he legs 10 the Ausridns was oniy IN rec
a. Here, too, the rapid rise of tho Scala. which
ace n few hours before that OF the Pc .ary
logs; but happily the whole force was w,.h-
safely owing N the voluntary exerlops OF tb.
,cse laJorera, who saved maay dru wniup men
cun,slsnce clearly proves how untrue are The
~ made about tho su'fnosty OF tho It,iiaus
the Apsuisns have myself been only