The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-06-24


'Before leaving this very painful scene is re-
lated to have occurred young girl one day asked
sailor which was the deepest part of the port and
immediately afterwards going towards it threw her
self IN and DISAPPEARED. She was saved, however,
by those standing around. She appears to have
been young American residing in Palermo, and
had fled with some man to Ciyita Eecchia On ar
irving there her seducer, having shut her up in a
hotel abandoned her. + p.
'Every assistance was given her by the authOri-
ties, and the delegate sent her to Rome BY spe
cial train. The arrival of a train with three per
| sons ony-the girl and her two eOnductors-put the
whole diplomatic world in confusion, who were anx-
ious to know who was the mysterious arrival, and
curiosity not satisfied until the despatch ofthe
delegate detailing the incidents ofthe affair was
shown" ..# -......
/ a THE BRAVERY OF THE TURCos.
A letter from Novara of the 5th in the Steele, re-
| ferring to the combat at Turbigo, SAYS a3 t..t..
| Il know not whether the TurcOs had forgotten
their cartridges, Or whether, as on leaving Genoa,
they threw them into the river as useless encum-
brance, but they rushed towards the cannon with
| out firing shot. An officer who was present at
the affair states that he never witnessed such an
extraordinary sight. At the sound of the buple
the Turcos spread about in all directions threw
themselves on the ground, and advanced BY bounds
| more like tigers than men. At every leap they
raised shrill cry which drowned the sound of the
| artillery. They had scarcely advanced half way
| when the artillerymen, seeing what they imagined
| TO De black monsters approaching under fire of
grape, detached their horses and rode off. The
Iurcos, furious at seeing part of their pray
| cape them, redoubled their ardour and fell like
lightning on the guns They killed the gunners
massacred those within reach of their bavonets
and returned at double quick time with the seven
| guns which they had taken. The Emperor was
present at this feat of arms which forms the pen
dant to that of Palestro Strange to say they had
only ten men killed and a few wounded"
Translated by The Tribune from the Journal des Debas
| 49,, . THE BATTLE MAGENTA.
| NovARA, June 4.-The retreat of the Austrian
| IN l.. IL.
subject of all conversation here; it is talked about
as well in the parlors of the Headquarters rs under
the leafy shelters which the soldiers put up at
the expense OF the neighbOring trees What has
| become OF the enemy? where shall we find them?
"The deuce!' said Zouave who was cooking his
soup yesterday in the edge of grove, ''it was a
| SNOWFALL; it melted by firel'
Without fully accepting this rather imaginative
explanation, it is difficult to comprehend how the
army offered so little resistance. ..
Is it the result of plan? is it the effect of demon
alizatlon? We do not know, but we must soon
| know.
Very strange incidents are told which make one
| ask what has become of the Hungarian regiments
and these famous battalons of the military colonies
and these bands of Croats who used to rush shout
| ing to the charge?
| At the time of the forward movement of the 3lst
the divisions Lila and Jeachch did not count less
| than 10000 men. They were covered by a deep
canal, protected by a height and defended by
battery which had been admirably placed. And
| three battaons of Zouaves took everything, over
| whelmed them all.
1--WE can't understand it," said a major, taken
prisoner to-day; eve sure that our position
impregnabe. When we saw these men RIM mn
toward these guns, sweeping them with crane lean
| into the canal, climb the bank, and then charge
upon us without firing shot, battalions trem-
Dled ike flock OF sheep assaulted bv a wolf
| Nothing controlled them-nether orders nor
threats they And still these soldiers are brave
and well disciplined. They would stand all day un-
der fire without iinching but this sort of attack
ban 1-ifh h. e Il
said, don't understand it at ALL"
At this same battle on the 3lst soldiers were seen
| to fall on their knees with the muzzles of their
muskets on the ground, and to remain there as if
| paralyzed.
! In the melee Zouave Ct see him STILL his long
| beard thick with bloody received feeble bavonet
stroke, which tore his cheek. He looked at his ad
| versary and shrugged his shoulders.
"lmbecile" says he, sis that the way to make a
thrust with the bayonet? Hold on; IN show YOU
how its donew
And he buried this terrible weapon to the hilt IN
! the body of the Austrian
What can you do against such men
One thing, which still continues to be SURPRISING
is the extreme youth of the soldiers whom we take
| prisoners Most of them are only l6 IT. Is years
old This youth may partially explain the way in
! which these poor soldiers give themselves up
| corporal who was bringing in five prisoners to
! the bivouac, pushes them toward his captain
Take them, Captain said he, there are five of
them The business is getting irksome; was not
| made to drive lambs
And he goes off furious.
For the whole day after the 3lst, these poor fell
lows shivering, and not daring to move were gath
! cred up in the rice fields. Otherwise they behave
| like angels.
All this perhaps, will change before the famous
| quadrangle.
Yesterday cannon gr0wled occasionally walk
toward the Ticno allowed us to hear it distinctly,
! but the detonations slow. The Austrian army
has this habit of shooting retreat, perhaps to
enliven their march. SO, too, when they perceive
squadron on guard, they send three or four balls
which kill few vines and would two or three null
| berry trees, and that is all.
believe that is what they call securing their re
treat.
Then there are alarms every day. Day before
yesterday the SD of the line, which is encamped
mile from Novara, suddenly, in broad dav,
startled by the cry, $40 arms p The regiment,
| who were taking their soup, ran to their arms and
formed in line. They were very lightly clad An
| Austrian accommodating party, 900 strong, was
taking a promenade near by. A hundred musket
shots, which hurt nobody were exchanged, the
Austrians retired, and soldlery returned to
| their coppers.
If you will allow me, will profit by the little
breathing spaces which gives to visit Noyara
and its envrOns.
Thevsay that the town is stad and quiet in ordi-
nary times; doubt, then, if its inhabitants know it;
there is such racket there that YOU cannot hear
| yourself The pretty women of the place profit by
this occasion to show themselves in little silk cal
leo dresses, well stretched over cages which make
them like bells, and walk everywhere in this pleas
ant fashion. Shop girls and marquises will vow to
you on their souls that they in the last Paris
| mode We must allow them this allusion.
The gacis of some old bastions, which make a
semblance of defending the town from the Vercelli
side, planted with fine chestnut trees, under
which they go out to take the air 1t is an elegant
| promenade.
We have an immense prospect here over the coun-
try which stretches its interminable plains even
the Alps. Nothing can be more fresh and green;
nothing more charming to the eye but nothing,
tnn ha daaa, hon ~ ;e
You cannot take a walk in this country. Abomi-
nable ricefelds not less productive than unhealthy
there show their paralelograms and their trianges
covered with water and if YOU do not borrow pair
of stills from some Of the country people, it would
be dangerous to risk yourself in these bathing geo
metrical figures. A light rain changes the cross
roads into canals and one finds at the end of every
field stream in which hedge is growing.
Steeple-chases could never have been invented in
the Lomena.
Those clever regiments which, on the strength
of the appearance of the country had pitched their
tents in prairie, have discovered at midnight that
| they were bvouacing in marsh. Their beds of
grass were drowned, and the poor fellows were
sleeping in bath.
have rambled from hill to hill and from path to
path over the whole country where the unfortu-
nate Charles Alfred found his fate. Here near this
farm, in the plain where, at the head of 300 caval
ry, he sustained the attack of the Austrian army,
and was cut out of the melee by charge of the
Aessandran light horse.
Here is the road by which he retired after having
done all that the courage of a soldier and the
foresight of a chief could do. But am not well
enough versed in strategy to give you the topo-
graphic history of the sad fields of Novara. Pied
mont has worn mourning ten years for that day
New days, glorious days. shall make her forget it.
The seth and SD were camping in these same
fields with numerous artillery and some cavalry
While the smoke is rising from thousand little
improyised kitchens, dexterous votigeurs are gath
ering dessert for their companies, from the
neighboring cherry trees.
: Oranges are curiosties in Novara, and they will
give YOU ten baskets of Strawberries for one ctrOn
That is explained by the rupture of communication
by railroad with Genoa. And, appropos of this, il
seems though the Austrans had tried to see who
could break the rails into the smallest bits. Many
are not even bits, nor fragments; they are almost
filings. There is work which was done conscien
tiousy and which must have drawn largely no less
upon the time than upon the patience Of Coun
Gyulai's army.
If there are no citrons-and that makes us trem
BILE at the approach of summer-there is Just as lit
tie gas, all because there is coal. Lively anC
severe has been the enthusiasm of the NOvarese
the illumination tthe town was done entirely will
candles These same candles too, light the city
they burn on the tips of the Inundated gas burn
: ers.
The shops of the picture sellers are set out will
thousands of prints which must have been concealed
! many long day from Austrian vision. How man
NapoleOns crossed St. Bernardo how many battle
! ofWagram and Marengo; how many captures of tn
Malakotf; how many cavalry charges led by Murat
But here as well at Vercelli these prints in whic
the BURN illustrates the grand deeds of the Frencl
army, are accompanied by Autographs in whic
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