Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-07-27

| RAYMOND, OF the New York Times, written at Cas-
tigone on the 2Gth ef Juue will be found very in
| e esting.
A STAMPEDE.
Having had very little rest The night before. and
being greatly oppressed by the heat soon fell aseeu
as did my friend Fcrsy th, ef Troy who sat beside
me. We we're speedily reused hy an evident asd
unusual eOmmOlion, and looking up we saw men
rInniug down STREET with uncommon agility, their
! numbers and speed increased--ZOuaves and other
SOLDIERS were running as fast as the rest stepped
into the treet and asked three four soldiers in
secession what was the natter each gave the same
reply, "Js ne sGis pas, but stopped running
| in The least. Presently one shouted as loudly as
bis spent breath would permit, "Thty sre killing
! the wounded, ssked Ebog be replied, ''les Aufri-
ehens This was certainly ratber startling in nforma-
ZION, and as 1t was backed up by general ght of
the whole mobile population, we began to think it
was time for us to be moving also.
| We accordingly started on at a round pace. but
] we're compelled 30 stop now and t5an and draw up
close 70 the wall TO prevent being run over bv the
/ advancing crowd. French mounted officers came
tearing down the street, spurrng their horses into
! dead run over the pavement
Shutters were closed, doors bolied aud Sandman
! flags pulled in with alacrity Every body who had
carl and horse, mounted il aud starte5. / saw
| Zouave, who had been hmping through tue street
noi moment before, seizs horse which stood at
the entrance Of stable yard, without sadd e. bri-
ule eflH laitefg MS DSck, ana holding BY
the name, kick and halloo him into a keen gallop
down the street. Every Osdy running for dssr
life We went with the crowd until we cleared the
town and reached the high road to Tomato.
French eficer whom recognized as one had
seea in eommsnl of the guard Of the wounded
came dashing along in grand gallop. | called to
him as he rushed past, "Are the Austrisns there -
"OR dr. was his ony replJ. Following close to
his heels, came one of the large wagons belonging
to the Imperial suite, and in it 20 ng man to
whom l had seen the surgeons Of the Imperial
household especially deferential the day bef,re
Next came open chaise with two civilians one of
whom lashing the horses, and the other fighting
of The soldiers who were trying their best TO climb
up behind.
BY this time we had stopped running and fallen
into lesurely walk, when those in the chaise who
we're touchingly sympathetic, consolinglv shouted
to US that We were certainly lost as the Austrian
dragons slashing their way right and left di-
rectly in rear This decided us to cult running
altogether, as it was quite hopeless to run away
from pursuing cavalry.
THIS relaxation of our pace, and the recovery Of
wind, induced cooler view Of the whole affair
and we were already beginning to see its farcieal
character, when cowardly eoachman came puff
i1g and blowing behind US, his face swelling with
fear and red with heat. He raised his eyes, and
casped his hands in pity as he passed Us and soon
turned of from the road and buried his stslwart
form In field Of wheat. This quite reeonciled US
TO the desperate state of things, and, laughing at
his Sorrows, we entirely forgot our own.
Reasoning moreover, ss we walked, We thought
it might be possible that corps of Austrian horse
might have dashed in from Pesehiera to rescue the
prisoners, of Whom there we're six thousand in
Castglione, but any thing beyond this seemed quite
impossible. The whole body of fUgiives upon our
road cut of sight, but long e5G1 of dust on
the road to Montecharo, showed that in that direc
ton the panic was unabaed. As We had agreed
to meet Malakoff on his return from Brescia al
int he H. l.od
ing through the farms and country districts lnd
after a couple of hours brisk waking we reached
that place. We found it in the very height of the
fever, aud 1t With good deal Of difficulty that
prevailed on the landlord of the I'm 10 open his
doors and give us possession of the rooms we had
engaged This was certainly the most remarkable
instance Of pure panic L ever SEW, and the most
striking feature Of it was, the rapidity with which
it increased in force and volume it rolled along
We heard afterwards that it produced the most
serious results, when overtgok the trains of wound
ed on the road 10 Brescis. They were tumbled
headlong from the carts into the roadside, and
many Of them were run by the artillery
wagons, as they we're utterly concealed from sight
by the dense cloud Of dust which hung over the
road.
have since tried hard to find out how it origin
a.ed, but with only indifferent success At fret we
we're tod that a squadron Of Piedmoutese eavalfy
who were promenading he country in the direction
Of Castglione, had been mi taken for Austrians.
But sn officer IN the camp of Gen CsnrobeTt,
which We visited the next day, upon the fsrtbest
extreme of the field Of battle, told US that it came
from five Austrian soldiers, who hal concealed
themselves in the bushes after the fight and now
came in to surrender. They were said to Lave
stated that tie Austrian army was rapidly coming
in foil force and would soon be in possession Of
Castiglione.
Il that camp no alarm seems to have been Great
ed, but when the rumor reached the ann milton
train, mile in the rear it set them scamper-
ing of in the manner l nave rehearsed. They
ran their horses all the way to Brescia, some sew
eneen miles, and reached there about 3 o'clock.
Why taey did not communicate the alarm 10 the
corps of ChasssUTs dAfrgue, through which they
passed why their off; GERS did not pause for fur
ther inquiry, are among the mysteries of stam-
pede.
On reaching Brescia as soon as they found out
that their alarm groundless they returned; but
as they were separated from the camp they we're
entirely without provisions of any kind and reach
ed Castglions on Sunday noon, with both horses
and men completely exhorsted Several of the form
er had fallen the traces and been left behind,
tae road.
APPEARANCE OF TIE BiTTLE-FrELD