Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1859-05-28

"A pIll IL DeCdue puDllc IN FarlS That Aus
tria refused to enter the Congress unless
Sardinia would disarm. Austria had ex-
pressed this determination about three weeks
previous III 8 note to Russia, proncuncing
| it indispensable. e." But she afterwards
consented to modification that there should
be general disarmament. Sardinia re-
fused to disarm on any terms before the
Congress should actually meet Upon this
Austria, in spite Of the efforts Of England
to the contrary, fell back upon hor original
demand that Sardinia should disarm with
out reference to any disarmament by her.
self, yet promising not to commit any ag-
gressions upon Sardinia Sure of being
backed by France, Sardinia refused to Law
down musker. Thereupon, on the 23d of
April, Austria addressed an ultimatum to
Sardinia, requiring her to disarm within
three days. The official paper Of Vienna
announced this in the following terms:
by order Of His Majesty, Count Won
Buol Schauenstein has addressed to Count
Cavour. the chief Of the Turin Cabinet,
note (eia screiben, in which the Royal Sar-
dinian Government is summoned to disarm
The summons; which is conciliatorv in spir-
it, though urgent, is made with all the ear
nestness of last admonition, an admoni-
ton that may be followed by the most seri-
GUS consequences.
elf Sardinia, as a consequence Of this
step, which is accompanied by the repre-
sensations Of other European Powers, pla-
ces its army on a peace footing, (herM zuna
freldersfass zuruch,) it knows that it is,
by the given word of Austria, secure from
any attack
1T is not the intention of the Imperial
Government to retract the proposition it
before made-which can once, and even
before the opening Of the proposed Congress,
lead to an arrangement between those great
Powers that have made extraordinary arma-
ments for general return to peace foot
ing Austria still holds to that proposition
without making any alteration in it, al
though she cannot allow the steps which she
has now resolved on taking against Sardin-
la to be made subject to the future negotia-
tons on the question of general disarma-
ment.'
England and Russia forthwith entered au
earnest protest against this summary pro-
ceedure, but in vain. War was now GER
tain. The French Three Per Cents went
down from 81 day by day, until they reach
ed 81, and they stood at about this figure
at the last advices. On the 2Sth of April,
the Austrian Emperor issued manifesto to
his people, announcing state of war with
Sardinia On the Goth, the Sandman King
issued an address to the ''people of Italy, .
summoning them to the strife On May
I'd, the French Emperor issued an address
to the French, declaring his intention to side
with Sardinia in the fight for Italian indie
pendence, and on the Sd he announced to
the Corps Legisiatf his determination to
place himself at the head Of the army. It
was on the Goth of April that the first hos
tile foot was placed by the Austrians on Sar-
dinian soil by the passage Of the Ticino land
on the Sd Of May the first blood was shed
at an attempted passage Of tie river Pc
near Gamble
We have thus brought together, in chro-
biological order, the niain incidents Of the
prelude to the mighty drama that is now te
be opened. Bloody and fearful as it is sure
to be. God grant that 1t may prepare the
way for brighter future
LArRER INTELLIGENCE. The followin Q
is an extract Of a late letter from Paris.
In noble and spirit-stirring language
Napoleon the Third, by the grace Of God
and the national will, Emperor of the French
issues bis proclamations of war. Every
public edifce, public thoroughfate, every
post and gateway, and all corners of the
streets, are alive with the living words Of
the press. Very different is the sensation
produced now from that Of similar public
edict when Russia was the object Of attack
Then, all was mystery and bewifdermea
to the vulgar mind To fight against & us
STA, SO far off and away was puzzllng, bu
to DO this in company with the English o
all people in the world, was profoundly in
explicabfe Now, however, there is nc
mistake; the thing is at once Ineligible ; il
is the cry Of their fathers summoning thei,
sons to share their own sorrows it is France
invoked BY destiny ssto put the sword Of
Brennus through the treaties Of Vienna
il is a more, it is the old, legitimate and e.
ternal hostility to England assuming shape
and form. England may preach forth its
: disinterestedness- the journals run over
With the orations of her foremost men last
now--but to Johrny Crapeau's mind one
thing is as clear as daylight, that treacher-
Gus England finds all the money for France s
enemy. 1t is natural syllogism. Aus
tria is bankrupt for money !; if size incur she
expense Of q war she must have more mon
ey, and who is there in the wide world to
give it to her but England? It is against
Austrian bayonets, but really against Eng
lish gold the sons of France 90 to fight, as
their fathers did before them; and when
they have conquered and won, as conquer
they will, then shall come the real tug OF
war with the per6dous Albion herself
Such being the sentiments of the masses.
yon will not be surprised to hear of the en-
thusiastic reception given to each connecting
link Of the great war scheme, as day after
day and hour after hour it unfolds itself
One would think the trammels of the press
had been once more thrown down, and that
we lived in the days anteeedent to the coup
ae'etat
@- Yankee Robinson, with his splendid
Circus, has just left town, and all the world
is stagnant. Tie exploits of the ring sur
passed in beauty and grace anything of She
kind we remember to have witnessed. Tie
graceful contortions of young Mr.. Fitzgib-
l.