The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1859-07-07

Whatever rasy be the issue Of the present
complications, the Emperor, our august
Easter, perfectly free in his action. will only
be inspired by the interests Of his country
end the dignity Of his crown IN the determi.
nations which His Majesty will be called
.pon to take. GoRrscHAKoFF.
ST. PErEnsHcRo. 18th (s7th) Nay, lsS.
rHK WOUNDED AT MILAN.
Mr.. RusseR, the correspondent Of the Lon
don Tines. writing ircm Mi!an, says:
As l told you in my last, the Milanese,
i0mediately after the Austrian evacuation,
sent on train to fetch the wounded. As
they were ioand they were brought in sue
cession to the station by the soldiers, a de-
tschment of two companies OF the First
Fusileers OF the Guard. At the station the
surgeons were in attendance 10 apply the
first dressing. and the trains from Milan
went 70 aud fro to carry them of. Tie
trains consisted Of nothing but third class
carriages and goods wagons, partly covered,
partly open Those who were only slightly
woanded and could walk, were put into the
carriages, while the Others were laid in the
goods wagons, which had been made us soft
as the circumstances admitted, by putting
straw and hay at the bottom. To these
the unfortunate wretches were carried, in
agonies Of pain, caused by the movement
A large barrel OF cooling drink, made Of
water and syrup, was near, AS well as anoth
er filled with wine with which 10 assuage
the fery thirst caused by their wounds
Ron. he vorsc In MALI. nya
the open goods trucks, so as to protect their
miserable inmates from the rays OF rea !!
italian sun.
This station and the railway train itself
were certainly the most shocking scenes OF
misery which one can possibly conceive. 1t
was the darker side Of brilliant victory
looking behind the scenes by daylight /;
wounded 10 oil stages Of agony and pain,
only halt clad, toru, dusty aud muddy, in
their own blood. The priests walking
about with the visticum to administer the
last sacrament to the dying the glazed
eye of death in some, showing that they had
ceased to suffer, the working eyes OF others
and the kneeing priest before them, showing
that they were ON the point Of signing their
last near them were others, whom you
would have thought dead had il not been for
the perceptble movement OF the eye or
cOnvulsive twist of the limb. You became
involuntary sil.nt when you entered and
took of your cap at the sight of so much
misery. Even the lively French soldiers,
who ministered to the wants of these de
faced specimens Of humanity, became grave,
and this dead silence was only broken from
time to time by the solemn words Of the
priest, faint sob, a frantic shrek OF pain,
or weak sigh. You forgot almost that
there was n victory to redeem this dark
scene, and these men, who would otherwise
have peacefully followed their domestic
occupations, were summoned to expose them
selves TO all this for cause which is not
their own, which they know nothing about,
nor care for. II was, indeed, q hard lot.
But it was, above all, when the wounded
bed to be moved to the carriages that the
neighborhood became almost intolerable.
Such shrieks, such pale faces, contracted by
psin, such torn limbs The soldiers ordered
to transport them seemed to forget every
thing in their anxiety TO alleviate the pain
of the sufferers. The phlanthropist would
have been touched by so much care, and
the cynic might have sneered ut the idea
that the very men who had made 'be wounds
should now try to cure the mischief, ready
to begin again Before starting, new dis
tribution OF drink took place, for which
there was o craving. At last the train was
of, and the noise Of the train drowned all
Others, while few turns Of the wheels took
Us out Of sight Of the station. On our ar.
rival at Milan number Of volunteer nurses
were already waiting, With glasses Of lemon
ode to assuage the burning thirst after a
passage Of more than an hour.