New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-06-22


| a, ni,b,fal we wander about in this picturesque
| -. u.,s il IN. Piazza DEF HercaMi. An ob.ong
| -,,on,d,d by sroades but not with the iuplacsoe
res clarity Of Turin
". .er the cathedral with ~ long brick belfrss,
| ,-ov nod with Roman arc7de-. Red Oh a green back
ground Two ranges Of Old tees indicate The palace
cf,he Bjshopic where the Emperor IA. Groups OF en-
vous spectators wat thereofficers 90 AMI corne.
Palaces open their wide doors revealing broad courts
and aerial terraces On coionn des. Roses cib al ing
| the stones.
Tie streets bend and turn cspriciousy and Curious
| balconies cuu n.snd them.
Bui in one Of them two great white oxen DOCK our
path, yoked to a cart which crrass on IT. a1le. Us
| the head of convoy Of wounded Austran'. Let u'
go. -..,..,
Further on in another cart you hear the rattiog
aims and 50. their flashing j. is a heavy load
uuskeis gathered nj Pal-str0 and C1nbenli ul"7''y
b.ut and broken These are Au-tri an ar"Si r-c'S-
ME a caruine of OF our cnasseurs Most Oh tle"
are bloody.
The guard has LEFT Verceli. To-day, they say, the
craro strategic movement 10 be effected Ihere -
to be an attack on three points. We are masters oi
Robbie; look q. the map; that ID not far from Nor
tara.
SIX hundred prisoners were taken this morning 70
lruOa.
that they laid down their arms voluntarily. Many ot
their comrades have been billed by tie Croa's Ine
officer. who took their coffee at the railroad old not
spp.ar TO be very downhearted. Their brigade,
which belonged To the corps darmee Of Prince Li'h-
terstein had not eaten for two days. the soldiers
threw themselves upon the bread which WAS gwen
them. a. the IsIaeliles did upon the mama II the
de,et.
Some Of the offcers-I believe ma n among them
-were received yesterday, and dlned at the Imperial
palace.
Two Captains, ] an told are going 10 Turin, where
they will enlist as volunteer; they are Lombards
II have tine Will give you some additional de-
tails Of the battles Of the Seth ami Dist Of May.
In the attacks on Pales,ro Ciadlnis soldiers were
opposed the regiments Of Wlmpnrn ano Leopold.
II happened that one OF these regiments was just
relieving the other. You know that the villages II
P4lestro, Vinzaglio and CasanO were occupied by
Cialdinrs DIVISION AIDED by detached regiments of
Far ii and Durandps divisions.
The next day lyesterday) the divisions Of Leila
and Jelachlch, brother OF the late ban Of Croatia
belonging TO the I'd AID 18th corps dsfmee, attempted
to retoke these posi'ion'
The Sardnans repuIsed the attack on their right
ard center. The 81 Zouaves on the left taught the
enemy what French bayon.ts could do.
The Auslrians in their flight lost or 600 men
diown,d in crossing rapid brook in their
One incident VIII give you an idea of the impetuos-
ity of our Africans
six out of the eight guns taken were loaded The
sItillerymen hao been killed before they could light
tie fuss.
The King, whom our Z)uave Col. Chsbron had
grea, difficulty IN restraining, wa greeted BY the
accamatons Of soldiers when he passed along the
regiment.
Its one o'clcck-The rumor flies that the enemy
has abandoned Novars and Mortara.
The Emperor leaves this mOroi0g for NOvara, his
next headquarters.
You see that We are getting on toward Milan. We
are more and certain that the Army Of inleper-
dence will make ts ertiy on Sunday.
NoyAR,. June , 1859.
This morning, on the road from Nerceli, We heard
cannon distinctly III the direction OF Caslldo.
The uame of Novara is of those which is mos
closely knit with the history of modem times. Tue
frs, campa.n Of Piedmont the first effort of Italy
toward independence had It's grave 90 the plains near
by. There has been a l,rg silerce-a silence Of ten
,ears-and TIN question is renewedi but this time
an En- pire has raised it, and it is TO be solved by
Grand Army.
can hardly get rid Of a strange, ndeinabe feeling,
at the thought that these streets only yesterday
"a hours ago-I atrollei by Au-trians. How many
orders Of the day how many proclamaticns dated
| Novara, aud ,isned Gyuai!
To-Day the headquarters Of the French army u
| here. Our soldiers march 20 the 1lcino IN Two
bous Ii l. but march 10 Lombardy.
u.tasI was closing my letter yesterday the Marshal
paraguay nulier-' corps q armts eStered Nerceh.
Gen F,Ieys regmsrts-tte 9sth, 9st, sith and 7ith,
| and the Eth bettsiop Of Cnasseurs dc Nincennes-
were camping atthe gates Of the town their MI nOers
recalled the gou,us deeds Of Moriebco. The furcos
were looking about for CAFES. What strange forms,
what frees tor painter The kahyes, with slender,
why limbs; the Arabs, with sharp beard and sSarthy
face; vigorous negroes with prominent muscles Sa-
haIans supple than pauthcrs, looking FOR the
Zousvos they had seen at Cocoa, and laughing, show
ing their white teeth. The guttersl sounds of the
| Arabic stood out from the melodous and cadenced
uttoranccs OF the laian; the women stood at their
doors staring at these strange men; children hid
thems, Ives IL the shadow OF corridors Aud what odd
| costumes 4 Moor had q rcd shawl wound around
his loins and his legs naked from the knee to the
ankle; a superb bat scarrei negro coquettishiy
yellow fculard the ringes Of which hung over his
| ebony forehead
All these troops found this morning in march for
| NovaIs. This infantry which nothing wesres neither
I rain, nor sun, performs It's miracles every day.
II is not often that the tourist has occasion 10 follow
an army in is rapid evolutions. For my part CON
fess that this is the first time with Yesterday
there were no carriages in Nercel; everything that
had the form OF vehicle, everything that hung,
pitched fastened to two wheels, had been taken for
the use of the army. 4 poor horse hitched to
wheciharruw would have been a magnificent carriage.
| II seemed if Whole people were eu-igr.tns.
Tie movement bad commenced in the evening, had