New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-06-06
LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF HAMMoNIA AND HUNGARIAN
NEWS FROM THE SEAT OF WAR In ITALY,
wARLIKE MOVEMENTS OF RUSSIA.
Rumored Officially between France and


Rumored DfMculty between France and
England.
The Hamburg screw steamship Hammonia, Capt,
Schwensen, from Hamburg, May Is, and Southsmp-
ton the 18TH at noon, with 400 passengers, arrived
abont 81 o'clock at New York on the morning Of
the 30th.
The steamship Hungarian, from Liverpool Nay ls,
| arrived at Quebec same morning
We receive by this arrival London papers to the
18th inst, one day later than by the New York.
There is some additional news Of interest.
From the Seat OF War.
Napoleon remained at Alessandria busted with his
Generals in laying strategical plans.
The Piedmontese cavalry had fallen In with de.
tachment Of Austrian hussars, and made some pris-
oners
The Austrians had withdrawn from voghera to
Casteggio.
Austria has recognised the neutrality of the States
Of the Church.
The bridge Of Stella had been threatened by the
Austrians, who have workmen assembled there and
| at other points on the Pc.
| Women and children Of the country were COM
| PEELED by the Austrians to labor at the works.
Rains were falling ncessan' which accounts for
works were damaged. The Austrian Loyds had
stopped running all their steamers.
SANDMAN OFFICIAL BULLETINS.
TURIN, Monday, May ia body Of our cavalry
hussars near Voghera, and took prisoners wounded
corporal and pfivates The Austrians have With
| drawn from Voghera to Casteggio.
| Nothing new from Verceli.
The Gdxetta di Bologna announces officially that
Austria has recognized tine neutrality of the States Of
| the Church.
| ALEssAsDR1A, Monday, May l6.-The rain has fal.
len necessarily during the last two days, but the bad
weather has not prevented our troops from taking the
positions assigned to them by the Emperor, whose
headquarters still continue to be at Alessandria.
TURIN, Tuesday, Nay 1.-THE bridge of Stella has
been threatened BY the Austrans The waters of the
| Pc had risen considerably. Women and children OF
the country are compelled by the enemy to labor at
| the works.
The Mayor of Barbianello, village in the dstric.
Of Aessandria. and other Mayors of the province of
Voghera, who refused to comply with the demand for
| contributions, have been arrested.
| Austrian workmen have been assembled on the
right bank of the Pc at the bridge Of Stella and other
| workmen have been collected between Broni and
| Stradella.
| PRINCE NAPOLEON IN ITALY.
A correspondent writes from Paris on the 18th !:
Four regiments of the line and battalion of chas-
seurs will leave Paris this evening to complete the
corps darmee now in course Of formation al Genoa,
to be placed under the orders of the Prince Napoleon
This corps is called the fifth corps da,mee, and may
be destined to perform the important functions
fded to the fifth wheel of coach. The Prince has
addressed to his soldiers an order of the day:
1 SOLDIERS OF THE FIFTH CORPS OF THE ARMY OF
| ITALY: The Emperor has summoned me to the honor
OF commanding you. Amongst you are several OF
old comrades of the Alma and Inkermann. As in the
Crimea, as in Africa, you will retain your glorious
reputation. Discipline and courage are the virtues
which you show to Europe, watching the coming
events The country which was the cradle of ancient
civilization is about to to you its freedom-you
about to deliver it forerer from its rers-those
eternal enemies of France whose name is SO mixed
up with the memories of our struggles and our vic
tories.
The reception of their liberators by the Italian
people, shows the justice of the which the En-
peror has undertaken to Defend
| Long live the Emperor France aud Italian In.
dependence
1.-THE Prince commanding the fifth corps of the
| army OF Italy. NAPOLEON JEROME"
THE ALLIED ENCAMPMENT IN PIEDMONT.
A letter from Alessandria, of the 12th says:
'some Austrian prisoners who had been the day
| before yesterday brought in from San Salvatore,
were sent off last evening by railway to Turin. A
German gendarme was among the prisoners On
being questined by some Frenchmen who spoke Ger
man. he said that the general opinion entertained in
the Austrian army was that the right bank of the Pc
had been for several weeks guarded by an immense
| French army, and that the Austrian soldiers were
not anxious to occupy positions there on that &C.
count
FRENCH DEPENDENCE UPON THE BAYoNET-HIs-
ToRICAL MEMORANDA OF THE WEAPON.
The Monite,lr de r44,1fee has the following: The
Emperor Napoleon Iii said in his proclamation
The rifle arms only dangerous at distance;
they will not prevent the bayonet from being as here
tofore the terrible arm of the French infantry The
bayonet is, in fact arm peculiarly French. TWAS
invented, it is said, at Bayonne, in 1911, and en-
poyed in 1910 in the regiment of the Kings Fusiliers
1t sensbly modified the system of military art in
Europe, as it made cavalry less redoubtable to ill.,
antry and cansed the fire of lines of battle to cease
to be regarded as the principal means of action. The
bayonet has in fact become the decisive arm of COM
bat. According to local tradition, it was in small
hamlet in the environs of Bayonne that this arm was
invented. What led to the invention of it was that
in fierce combat between some Basque peasants and
some Spanishsmugglers, the former having exhausted
their amunition and being thereby at dsadvan.
tage fastened their long knives to their muskets
| and by means of the weapon formed put their
enemies to flight. This arm rapidly came into general
| use in Europe.
After the Kings regiment several others were pro
in 1876. In 1918, at the time of the peace of Mime
gnen all the French grenadiers had the bayonet; but
| the socket which makes the use of it easy, was
not invented until a later period. An unsuccessful
| experiment with the socket made before Louis
| XIV in 1888, but the want of uniformity in the
muskes then an obstacle to the adoption of this
simple and eifcacions piece of mechanism. Bayonets
| at that time were sort Of dagger, of which the
handle was placed in the muzzle OF the musket and
of course, prevented the musket from being fred The
first battle at which the bayonet seriously EN-.
ployed was that OF Turin, in 1892 but it was not
until the battle of Spires in l703 that the first charge
with the bayonet was executed. After that epoch up
to 1892, the bayonet was often employed in combat,
and the Prince de Lgne called tia peculiarly French
i
but the real value of it not revealed until the
wars of national independence Then the bayonet
really became French arm. The bullet is wild, ,
said Suwaroif, but the bayonet is prudent and
| sure"
| Affairs on the Airlatfc.
ROME, Monday, May 16.-On the llth instant the
| Tuscan Consul Mt Ancona haued down his flag. On
the 18th the French and Sandman Consus protested
to the Delegate against the continuation of forti6ca.
tons and threatened to demand their passports On
the 18th the Austrians were at work leveliug
casino, although the state of siege has been raised
TRIESTE, Tuesday, May lZ-Yesterday afternoon
the French squadron before Venice. Since yes
terday the Austrian loyds have ceased running all
their steamers. The National Bank of Vienna has
granted to the deputaton from the Bonrse of this
| place an adv lnce of 100000 forens.
TRIESTE, Sunday, May l5.--The English merchant
| steamer Douro has arrived with the East Indian
mails and passengers. When passing Aylona, in
! Turkey she was boarded by the boats of French
J ship.ofthe,lne. French squadon, consisting of
two ships.ofthe.line and frigate, have captured
| four Austrian merchant vessels.
The Austrian tlotilla has received orders to take
refuge at Trieste, where the French Navy will not
attack it the port belongs to the Federal Territory
but that prudential measure had not been completely
executed it is said, when Admiral Jnrien de la Ora.
Were entered the Adriatc so that his division may
L A-rtbn lttttrt s-1~