Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-06-17
WAR MATTERS.

inc the attention Of the world. 1t IS out
of our power to copy the whole or the
greater part but yet we intend that noth-
ing material shall escape our readers
/ Besides the actual news, which cannot be
abridged or postponed, we shall contrive
TO present such descriptive and miscella-
neous selections from the foreign press,
as will supply a complete commentary
upon the leading transactions Of the war
Boston Journal.
THE CHANGES WRoUeHT BY WAR.
A letter from Casale, dated 10Th of May.
says:
al will not speak to you of the move
ments of troops on the railway; they are
incessant. The locomotives go as slowly
as street cabs hired by the hour. | pass
ed one train of forty-two carriages cram
med full of soldiers. As we approach
Casale the spectacle becomes heartrend-
ing. The country is everywhere beauti-
full, but there is no one to get in the crops;
there are neither farmers, nor peasants,
nor shepherds-not a living soul in the
plain in which the vine is spreading its
green branches, and in which the wheat
is waving. Farms are abandoned, villas
deserted goats no longer Craze in lanes
or cows in meadows. From the empty
houses the furniture, and even the doors
and windows had been carried away
rows of large mulberry trees have been
cut down at two or three feet from the
soil, and are lying on the ground, and the
trunks and branches serve as chevGur
de- frise. The scene is one of desolatior
in the midst of all the fertility and al
smiles of spring.
Three divisions of the Sandman army
with cavalry and artillery, occupy Casale
in the streets there are more soldiers thai
civilians. At three steps from the rail
way station is bastion on which ar
cannon pointed towards the country, an
the easements are near the garden of
cafe. On leaving the station there is a
immense square surrounded with tree
which reaches to the entrance of tn
the town. This square was entirely o.
cupied with artillery caissons and Wagon
ranged in admirable order before bate
les ofcampaigniug pieces. Under shet
near at hand were horses feeding, ar
hundreds of two-wheeled carts were b
ing filed with loaves of bread taken fro
the waiting rooms at the station, wifi
., have been transformed into store-house
How many loaves there were in tho
rooms! They were piled up as high
the ceiling. In a corner of the squa
were pontoon men in linen jackets ext
cising themselves constructing Temporal
bridges; light dragons were to be sc
bringing in forage, and entire compan
were sleeping on straw.
visited the cathedral, which is We
old and decrepit, but of which one c
ner has been repaired; it was occup
by battalion of Bersaglieri. Straw ,
spread on the floor, haversacks and {
fridge boxes were suspended from
pillars, and fires were lighted ontside
Three other churches were transforr
into barracks, and in one of them W
200 horses. Another church, quite n
and not of a good style of architect
was free. l visited the library of
4 town. 1t was long room paved in
saic,and the ceiling ornamented with
Goes. 1t contains high book shelves
with folios. The contrast between th
lence it presented and the hubbub W
has prevailed for the last week was
striking. In corner, at table GOV
with large volumes, an old man was
ed he was bald. of placid features,
appeared absorbed in taking notes fir
book before him. glanced at the
and read at the top of the page, d
tissr. toia Adriaaa Episcopi.' Happy
who could occupy himself with tn
im,os- tiers of Adrian at three leagues fror
spersed Croats ("
III the ITALIAN YoUTH AND AUST
SPIES. A Turin letter of May
! says:
mi noze The whole Italian youth is ru
to arms, and if Sardinia do not '
Rye% three months number 100000 of he
iuT' combatants, it will rather be frol
want of means or capacity for orgi
ider.t ton than from any lack of mater
work upon. The volunteers are
among the people above rather tn;
h. low the middle rank, as the abstrac
of nationality has of course struck
er roots among the thinking and {
"hisAi Is part ofthe community. The amy
its recruits among the scions OF the
n N .bo bard and other Italian nobility. N