New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-06-22
FROM THE ALLIED CAMP.
CONDUCT OF THE AusrRIANS IN PIEDMONT

CONDUCT OF Thu At it' ''i'"+'N''N'
<orrespo1 deuce Of The London Times
Yesterday morning the Ausriaus quilted NoNara' III
fine forenoon the Allies entered It and to'thy write 10
YOU thence without having the least idea whether %
when YOU will get the letter The AuSra1s never han
"a strong force at Noyara and the country 10 the noIt
and wet of i'-ony dctachment~ OF a lew natah@ns
gong and C, ming from town to town aud ctNaIy
patos 10 scour the cuutry the chiei 0Dec, oil Ooih
being apparently To- make acquisitions Inc lasI oooy
of Austrian troops al NoVaIa Mas, according 10 the nc
count of rome, 2OUO, aud according 10 others ohy
few HUNDREDS. n,
lection ot the Austrian occupation Is sill fresh IN tue
,nemo,y of the people ami before there - any time Tor
sNertit lively 1iaguatiOIs, there Is very gou OPP
potuniy for testing the truth OF the widely dluereht
sccoun,s which YOU have read in the newspapers. Be-
fore even say word you viii guess that, as ueuhl,
the truth lies between the two extremes neither are
fhe Austrans quite black ike 10 paint them,
nor ore they quite such angels as they wish to make
themselves out. ..
An occupation il an occupation after ALL take it as
YOU ike. Even that Of friendly army brings com
Siderable inconvenience, aud not seldom burdens
and sacrifices. with it. how much more that
cf a iolile army But II is only fair to say that Tor
an army which i'll its proclamation signed Hseh the
friend of the L g moutesc people aud whom It came
10 deliver from the thradOm of Coaut CavOur, they
ate aud thitGeutd rather too much, and they wero
Likewise in particular instances rather too apt 10 carry
their threats iuio effect. With every new detachment
came new demands. not at all III proportion 10 the
number Of the detachment. In alone Ter instance,
ate district Of Novara about 800 English square meSl
had 10 give 1850 III one shOit month"; # they had re-
manned few moths longer, aud Ted at that rate, the
Novarese would have had to put themselves before n-
he ad Of behind the plough Yet sIanbe 10 say IN
spite # this vOraclOus appetite whch the Austrian
army az bow displayed the Individual soldier, al
least as far Uige from the prisoners Brought
in hitherto, looks 10y 10 Weaus overed suppose the
reason j. their youth, and the shoftleSS o time they
have been living at :" unusually high arate' As WIN
ihe oxen 80 It "as with everything Se-oreal "lHv'
forage sc. Every article was denanied as II each
detachment had hetD charged with The Gentrd CoHl-
Ini,saiiat Department OI the army.
As the detschmentS were frequently changed, the
reQusitions were likewise rather too often repeated
lot To rouse the people, who, after al, were stnPh
enough not 10 understand the value u ilehu7l'P
which told 30 strongly on their pockets. I3'S 'eennS
az in,patieucc not little aggravated by the
threats in case of tartjueSs IN complying with these
eNor biiaut contributions. have not heard u'tnet'o
of any authenticated case oi their having tAt'eo h>e
tunes the original 0uOutt, but as me people were "i
.jer the III preston that the Austrian protectors were
quite capable of t,kug even more thau hNe VIZ es Tue
s,moutt originally demanded, they were ANuS al ne
time with this DamocirSr sword Suspen1eI over .eH
head Now II YOU consider how difficult 1t must often
have been To coIec, I'm the whole district WITHIN the
given tiue whatevtrthe AustuanS demanded you may
,asiy imagine that on the whole the people 'eN No'l
gore at the Austrian occupation.
The people 10 whom spoke said that theY ""uV'
certainly rot have borne had they Not been t'id Oy
then Magistrates 20 DO So and hal they mol o-eh as
tured that the Aus'r&uS would soon nave u GO :" 'na
would have been folly to rSk their persons ahd
property; and they knew from some ca-es-i" ln
Stance, the shootng of one family AZ Nogrera AM
aho'htr at numelo, near M0TtNs-that the AHSiIlau'
Wool1 nave retahafed mrrcle,-ly had they cut on
o.'aohnent or patrol, which they might nave easily
Ctherwlse done.
- lar as one make ont the Austrsrs individually
GA h't behave eruially; on the contrary 1t Is SAID
thS' curing thtU aayalce they displayed certain
@mGii!' ~ was only when they tcok the wrong road
70 Iuriu, where some, as YOU know h.d already bad
their letters addressed 70 them, that they became
cross, ana were rather ready with their fists and
The Hats OF their swords. OF cases of violation, al
least IA this part Of the country have hesrd moth
ing; nor does the popular voice accuse them OF vols
ing The seventh, or, 1t is il this Catholic country
the sixth commandment | have not heard we'll
dhhehhcated case Of an officer forgetting 10 pay for
What he took The soldiers did now and then take
,aucy 10 one thing another, but they always
.sePt together, enoamped, and not quarered on the
WIS, 80 mat only very few opportunities occurred