Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-08-20
Tbr gournal,
Weayeryille, Saturday Morning, August 20, 1859.

SIcKLEs' VNDIcAT1oN-A telegraphc dispatch
to the Missouri Republican, dated New York, July
goth, furnishes the following letter from Daniel
E. Sickles, which appeared in the Herald Of that
morning:
"The reconciliation was my own act, without
consultation with any relative, connection, friend
or adviser. Whatever blame if any, belongs to
the step, should fall upon me. l am prepared to
defend what have done before the only tribunal
recognize as having the slightest claim to juris-
dtction over the subiect-my own conscience and
the bar Of heaven. / am not aware of any statute
or code Of morals which makes it infamous to
forgive a woman, nor is it usual to make our do
mestc life subject OF cOnsultation with friends,
DO matter how near and dear to us, and ! cannot
allow even all the world combined to dictate to
me the reputation of my wife when | think 1t
right to forgive her, and restore her to my conf
dence and protection. If | ever failed to cOmpre-
hend the utterly desolate position Of an offending,
though penitent woman, the hopeless future, with
all its dark possibilities of danger to which she is
doomed when prescribed as an outcast, / can now
rrv plainly enough in the almost universal hoWl
Of denunciation with which she is followed to my
threshold, the misery and perils from which l
have rescued the mother Of my child and, al
though it is very sad for me TO incur the blame
of friends and the rtproaches OF many wise and
good people, shall try to prove to all who feel
any interest in me, if am the first man who has
vcutured to say to the world an errng vile and
mother may be forgiven and redeemed that in
spite of all the obstacles in my path, the good re-
suits of this example shall entite it TO the imita-
tion Of the generous, and the commentator Of
the Just. There are many who think that an act
of duty proceeding solely from affections which
can only be compreheDded in the heart of a hus-
band aud father, is TO be fatal to my profession
al, political and social standing. II this be so,
then so be it. Political station, professional sue
cess and social recognition, are not the only prizes
Of ambition, and so long as do nothing worse
than to place my family under the roof where
they may iud shelter from contumely and perse-
cuton, do not fear the noisy but feeting voice
Of popular clamor'
TIE DAY AFTER THE BATTLE.--The following
description Of the field of battle at Montebello by
an eye witness, is painfully interesting:
Within fifteen bours after the battle was over,
we entered Montebelo, where were only an ad
vanced guard Of 40 light Sandman horses The
city was still almost desert. The inhabitants
who had fed the day before at the approach of
the enemys columns, were returning tmidly
one by one, watching and listening sharply, to
find cut the condition of their houses. COrpses
coTered the approaches to the town and filled the
streets, thyse Of the Austrian in the proportion
Of 4 to l of the Allies. While NJ. Gaildrau, my
fellow traveller, sketching for LUiUStratiOn
the scenes of the BATTLE according to the descrip
ton of the Picdmontese officer, went into some
OF the houses.
Everywhere I saw soldiers dead and stiff in the |
attitudes in which they had been struck. Bodies
strown in pools Of blood furniture broken, walls /
grooycd by balls, doors and windows smashed |
Myonets bent and twisted, muskets which had |
been used as clubs all this made up one Of those |
scenes which are never forgotten
went TO the cemetery. 1t was literally filed |
with Austriana, lying among the graves. 1t is on
ground elevated considerably above the road
and has wall which is pierced with grated open
ings. 1t might almost be called iortfcation |
All the utrepidity and incredible dash of our
soldiers was required to dislodse desperate en-
emy with so little loss.
have seen the Austrian prisoners. Many Of
them are Nungariaus, and openly express their
JOY at being in our hands. They tell, in bad Ital
iau incredible stories of their suitorings since the
Campaign commenced, and Of the sorry state OF
Gyulai army"