Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-06-30
incidents Of the War.
ITALIAN PRISONERS.


regiment, Archduke Sigismund. This is
the regiment mentioned by the Times cor
respondent as having requested to form 9
part of the army of invasion. The men l
talked to told me that this petition had
been got up by their officers, who were all
Germans, and that they went into action
with q battalion of Croats in their rear,
who fred upon them when they laid down
their arms. He also said there were two
more battallions who would do the same
at the first opportunity which might offer.
They shouted "Viva Z Italia" as they
came in, and offered to volunteer into the
Sandman army. ad'-C ,asg.ss s71s'
g ass RoMIsH CLERICAL TRAITORS.
When the French arrived at San Marti-
no, they met with priest at the bridge of
Buffalora, and asked him if there were any
Austrians in the town. He said, "No."
They had hardly advanced one hundred
wards before fire was opened upon them,
which killed many, and l. think General
Clerc fell there. The gendarms immedi-
ately rode back, and took the priest before
he had time to escape, and he was killed on
the spot by one of them. He had four
hundred Austrians concealed in his own
house. &
The priest of Magenta gave the same an
swer when asked. There were at that
moment four thousand Austrians in a con
vent. He was taken, and sent into Turin,
tied hand and foot -
'al1sa3 - THE zoUAvEs.. -.r'I
The newspaper correspondents from It
ally, and Paris story tellers give us all sorts
of reports, and anecdotes about the Zou-
aves, the Turcos, and other new species of
Troops now in Italy, Zouaves at Pales-
tro, they tell us, got their bagged trouser
legs so wet, and therefore SC, heavy. in
crossing some low lands, that when order
ed to the charge they east off their 'trou-
sers and ran to the. Austrians, bayonet in
hand, bare-legged! The corps has been
so wild, it is also added, and, so little re-
gardful of meuns and tuum, that the En-
peror summoned a certain number of them,
and told them he would order them back
TO Africa and France, if anything of the
like occurred again, whereupon, it is said,
they cried Ike children, and promised good
behavior.
Let me give you the recital of a wound
ed Zouave whom met yesterday at Tor
rione, two or three hours after the fight
Said he: -. -.
"Wewere very quiet there before brook
when we saw FIVE or six horsemen on q
height not far off; we said they were Aus
trian hussars reconnoitering, and made
ready to have little conversation with
them. But suddenly package of grape
came upon US, accompanied by shower
of balls. The rascals had put guns on the
hill, and hid their rifemen in the wheat
where we could not see sign Of tbem.--
While we were looking about grape min
gled with the conversation. The colonel
sees from where the shot comes by the
smoke. The officers turn to us: 'Zouaves =
they shout, 'to the gunsp We all leap
into the brook. The water was up to our
necks; our. cartridges boxes take bath (;
we can't fire single shot. 1t was good
three hundred yards to the batteries. But
didn't we go over the ground like gym
nasts? How they fell! The grape now
ed the grass around US. In twinkling
we were on the hill, hitting, striking, stab
bing A shell falls and five of my COM
rades are blown into the all. Look my
casqueis full of their blood. 1 had my arm
opened, but the guns were ours I
tr.t.. THE TURCOS.i t5...,
! The Turcos are new race of men on
the European field of battle or at least,
not there seen and known since the days
of Hannibal, who led their ancestors into
Italy. They are Mahommedans under
French officers, and sub officers, natives of
Africa, about Algiers, black or wooly1
headed. We have to-day the first account
of them on the field of battle, in the cor
respondence of the Constitutional, from
Navarro June 4tb. McMahon's division is
made up of these troops, and Others from
Africa. The correspondent had then just
heard of this division at Magenta, where
they attacked the Austrians protected by
their cannon. s'Like tigers" says the wri-
ter, "they preeipitated themselves upon
the Austr:ans, crying victory even before
they had discharged their guns. The at
tack is said to have. exhibited one Of the
strongest and most terrible speetaeles of
war. The Turcos threw themselves upon
the enemy like the sayages of Cooper with
out mercy or quarter. Soon al horrible.
melee occurred The voice of the cannon
even was drowned by the savage cries, of
the Turcos-cries, not the chauat ofvic-
tory, nor the plants of the dying and
wounded. All the languageof Mabomet
can muster of imprecations broke forth
from themlinl isolated groups, where zone
Turco would often be- seen struggling
against three or tour, Austrians.s' When
the Austrians ran and the strife was over,
the spectacle was not less strange. The
fanatic conquerors rolled upon the earth
and under the inspiration. of some African
war song, they danced the most frantic
species of dance, amidst bursts of laughter
and frightful cries that startled even their
prisoners sitting beside them, and upon these,
poor prisoners at first they glared, as the.
lion glares upon its prey; and then, with
a species of fascination, as ifthey pitied the
poor creatures now without the means of
defence In other parts of the field they
lay down upon the ground, exhausted
with fatigue, and recovering their strength
IN sleep: The French writer however, de-
MES that they act like beasts of prey, or
IRE carniyorous, but nevertheless he says
they are savage. Is rs ~ ~ %
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