Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-11-03
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The Late Battle Ground in Italy.

The Late Battle Ground in Italy
The Times correspondent writing from the
banks Of the Mincio on the 5th instant, SAYS:
Amy one taking the railway ut Turin, and
passing over the line by which the food of war
has rolled its waves from tho Sesia to the Mincio
will have some difficulty in convincing himself
that heis going over the country which three
months ago was the theatre OF IA mighty war bc-
tween three oi the most powerful military nations
OF the continent. In vain will he look for all
those formidable traces of devastation with which
he has been accustomed to couple the idea otwar.
Ruined towns and villages, depopulatcd districts
fields devastated, and trees cut down, the absence
or misery OF the inhabitants, and flights of crows
and vutures-nothing of the kind will he sec, but
n country smiling, rich, full of small towns and
green fields, the inhabitants following their ordi.
nary nyocatlons, cattle grazing in the well irriga-
ted meadows; or drawing the peaceful plough, as
il war had never approached this fertile region,
or as If every one bad forgotten the mighty chan
gcs which have occurred since tho spring. 1t vii
require some ono who has been here during the
late war to point oat 10 the vsiter bridge or
other which has been blown up and which has
been only temporarily repaired with wood. To
draw his attention to some half-ebaced mounds
indicating the line Of carihworks constructed by
the Austrinns during thcr advance. lie will pass
over the Punto Nnnvo di Magenta without ever
the scene. Even the railway station at Magenta
would MT at rac his niirr were it not for sue
cesslun of mounds suiin,,Iutcl 10y wuodei. crosses
which fill the hollow nn the other side of it. or II
number Of boys hawking about SHAPED, ~ leaden
bullets and small Austrian double headed eagles
in brass, or elsea windowlesS house Lcyond the
station. with some curious round holes through
its walls. From Magenta to pcsenzano he will
fnd no traces except, pcrhap- solitary French
HrpSrta
buses will be waiting Tor fhc, train OF yore. and
and those Itilc uondescript cnrrleles, with their
laled see'ls, the remains, probably, of some Of
the migrating trhrs which invaded The fertile
plain Il LpmAardy in the he.inning of our era.
AT Solferiuo the h"uses If the village are MS
they have been for years. The travellers will
climb up To the tower, aud have magnificent
y;ew nothing to remind him of war except few
holes in the enreihte If the church the top. and
if he goes on, some lnophnlcS in tho walls OF the
church yard. This, with few mounds which
the othcious guide points cut ms tho burial place
Of the heroes Of Sotrrino. will he all that will
mind him of the day on which the second great
battle of modern times has been fought. lie will
90 on tn Carriann, tr the Mincin. AM come back
again, aui i. he sums up all lac has seen, he will
ask himself whether there ever such thing
an Italian at all. or whether NIL about II
can be already oblileraiel ana forgotten; whether
it can he true that tie country has chanscl mas
teis not thee months ago and that those few y r.
saglieri who idle about the Minco or ln X down
on Pcschera are SGT their a guard the frontier
against the rmer masters OF this country. Stunt-
lv suspected To have still II considerable longing
Tor il. In vain you look far any traae Of til" Ma
tional Guard which would br more necessary in
the exposed Mlncio country tAan anywhere else,
il for nothing else, mt least to make all other
troops available for fighting. You some cana
blue and red, but nothing morr. So close To the
n Stri tirr nna1 nat oil HAT t1,,
people are IN ,rc anxious than anywhere else to
see this insti'utun established: they don't feel
comfortable ut all IN the vicinity of the frontier;
but there are no muskets, consequently no drill
and no organization; and YET the Mncio country,
beginning mt Tomato and Cnstiglionc, might east
ly have I, 600 or 1000 men Of this local furcc.
"Deprvcj, then, OF the means Of providing for
their own internal security, and for emerge arics,
it would lie but reasonable tn expect that there
was ut least an eff lent police force to watch On
these exposed points. No such thing; there is
scarcely n carbinter in the neghborood: in one
of the most irequented points. like Descnzana not
one man. The result is that the latter llacc,
above all, sitnatcd ut convenient distance from
Peschiera, has become the general rendezvous Of
Austrian spies, where they can hold free co:nnlu-
nication with the other agents dispersed nil over
Lombardy. And there arc not few Of these
going about, especially among the rural ponuh-
ton. Such, mt any rate, is the statement people
make. But more astonishing than all this seems
the fact that the whole internal government is
still carried on hy the functionaries named by
Austria. The magistrates in the towns. as well
as the deputa*ioni, nre all those who have filed
those places for the last seven or eight years, aud
from whom naturally it cannot be expected that
they should lie Violently in favor VI the new regime
II the people Of Miar are bearing with this pre-
rarious and provisional state in which things still
are in Lomhardy this is not quite the case IN the
place nearer To the frontier, where they are most
exposed. They can less understand the reasons
which induce the government to proceed slowly
and surely for they feel that ;hey might b. the
first to suffer from it. No wonder"