The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-08
VOL. XVI.---NO. III,
Nifhmmn QispakN
TUESDAY MORNING. NOV ,sss
The late Ba,,,e Gro.,,, 4, TO-


Inc iinaes' correspondent, writing from the
banks of the Mincio, on the s,h ult. saws.
Any one taking the railway at Turin. and
passing over the iiae by which the food OF
war has rolled it's waves from the Sesia to the
Mlneto, WITH have some df,ieulty in conyfnc
ing himself thar he Is going over the conntrv
Whseh, three months ago, was the theatre OF a
mighty war between three of the most power
fni military nations of the continent. in vain
viii ne look for all those formidable traces of
devastation With which he has been oceus
Toned 10 couple the idea of war. Ruined
towns anu villages, depopulated districts fields
devastated, and trees cut down, the absen se or
misery OF the inhabitants, and flights OF crows
and Notwithstanding of the kind will he see:
oht country smiling, rich. full of small
towns and green helds theinhabitants follow
Ing their ordinary aeocations cattle grazing
IN the well irrigated meadows, or drawing the
peaceful plough, as II war had never
approached this fertile region or as if
every one had forgotten the mighty changes
which have occurred since the sprinp-
it Will require some one who has been here
during the late war 10 point out 10 the visitor
some bridge or other which has been blown
up and which has been only TEN porarily re-
paired with wood, or TO draw his attention to
some half-euaced mounds. indicating the line
OF earthworks constructed by the Austriaus
during their advance He will pass over ,hs
Ponio Nuovodi Magenta withouteyer imaein-
ing the hard struggle OF which il has been the
scene. Even the railway station at Maren ia
would not attract his notice were it not for n
success ion of mounds Surmouuted hy pnodan
crosses which fill the hollow on the other side
of IL, or number of boys hawking Haout
shapeess leaden bullets and small ENStrisn
double headed eagles in brass or else TSn-
dowless house beyond the station with sonSr
curious round holes through its walls. Frnm
Magenta TO DesenZano he will find no traces
except perhaps, a solitary French geudarme
al the station at Brescia. The omnibuses will
be waiting for the train as of yore and those
npntlpScrtDt yrith hair dad
steedS, the remains. probably, of some of the
migrating tribes which invaded the fertile
PLAIN OF Lombardy in the beginning of our era
AT Softerlno the houses of the village are
as they have been for years The travellers
will climb up 10 the tower, and have a magni-
hcent view, nothing to remind him of war ex-
cept lew holes IN the eaeeinte of the church
on the top, and, If he goes on. some loon holes
in the walls of the church-yard This with a
few mounds which the officious guide points
out as the burial place of the heroes of Solfe-
rino, will be all that will remind him OF the
day on which the second great battle of mod
ern times has been fought. He will go on to
Carriana, TO the Mincio and come back again.
and, If he sums up all he has seen, he viii ask
himself whether there ever such IA thing
as an Italian war ut all, whether all about
il can be already obi terated and forgotten :;
whether it can be true that the country has
changed masters not three months ago and
frat those few Bersaglieri who idle about the
Mincio or look down on Peschiera are sat
there to guard the frontier against the former
masters OF his country, strongly suspected TO
have still a considerable longing for it.
''In vain Won look for any trace of the Ma
tiCnal Guard which would be more necessary
in the exposed MIncio country than anywhere
else. If fer nothing else, at least TO make all
other troops available for fighting You see
some caps, blue and red, but nothing more
So close 20 the Austrian frontier, / need not
tell you that the people are more anxious than
anywhere else TO see this institution estab-
lished they don't feel comfortable al all in the
vicinity OF the from tier but there are no mus
kets. conseQ uentlv no drill and no organiza-
tion: and yet the Mincio country, beginning at
Tomato and Castiglione, might easily have
i.ttn or ;, 900 men Of this local force.
"Deprived. then, OF the means of providing
for their own internal security, and for eme--
gencies, it would be but reasonable 10 expect
that there was at least an efficient police force
TO watch on those exposed points No such
thing there is scarcely 4 carbineer in the neigh
borhood; in one of the most frequented points,
like DesenZano. not one man. The Results,
that the latter place, above all, situated at
a convenient distance from PeschiPra. has be-
come the general rendezvous of Austrian spies
where they can hold free communication with
the other agents dispersed all over LON hardy.
And there are NOT a few of these going about,
especially among the rural population. Such
at any rate, is the statement people make. But
more astonishing than all this seems the fact
that the whole Internal government is still
carried on by the functiOnaries named by Aus
tTia The magistrates in the towns. well as
the dspnfGz ioa are all those who have filled
those places for the last seven eight years
and from whom naturally il cannot be expect
ed that they should be violently in favor of
the new regime If the people of Milan are
bearing with this precarious and provisional
state ini which things still are in LON bardy
this Is not quite the case in the place nearer 10
the frontier, where they are most eX posed. They
can less understand the reasons which induce
the government TO proceed slowly and surely,
for they feel that they mi ght be the first to suf
fer from it. No wonder;