The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-07-20

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have been subscribed. The loan was a COM
plete failure, the excitement has died away and
| left scarcely yestige remaining.
Some months since, the Archduke Albert OF
| Austria, arrived at this court, with the object
| of concluding an alliance offensive and deien-
/ siye between Austria and Prussia. He failed
| in his mission, but General WilIisen was sent
| to Vienna with n view of making arrange
| ments between the two Powers Meanwhile
| the smaller courts-Bayaria and Wurtemb berg
| Saxony and Hanover-were incessant in their
| endeayors to prevail on this government to
take an active part In the struggle and to in
| were made to friendship and to nationality to
| passion and TO interest The Prince Regent
however, remained firm until the unexpected
| news OF the battle of Magenta arrived at Ber-
| lin. This event produced an enormous sensa-
| ton. and the court party at once proposed to
| call out the Landwehr, and give an armed
| support to proposals for peace before Austria
was too much weakened in the strc ggie The
mobilization of the Prussian army was how
| ever too grave step to he taken with
out ample consideration, and the ques-
| aon was postponed for few days. Mean
while Austria categorically questioned
General Willsen as to the intentions of
his government The southern courts became
more pressing in their demands. Prince Got
sehakofis note arrived and. lastly the Derby
administration. which throughout Germany
was accepted as the supporter of Austria fell
under the combined attacks of the liberal party
l hen 1t was that Prussia--anxious TO prevent
furnished, wearied of the opportunities of the
minor Powers of the Confederation desirous
of answering the implied menace of Russia
and determined on action beforethe Palmers-
ton government had time for remonstrance-
threw down the glove and issued the order for
moblliZIng SIX corps d'armee. No new dan ger
threatened-no popular excitement prevailed ::
the act was that of the government, and of the
government alone, the people being powerless
in the matter. 1t is this act, this order for
mobilization, which has placed Prussia in q
false position, one from which n peaceable
issue is most difficult and improbable In
order fully to understand this it is necessary
10 consider the military system and organiza-
ton OF this kingdom.
THE HORRORS OF soLFERINo
Dad men IN heaps The quick and the dead all
h"ddled together-ToHchiag story oftpoboys.
The plain of GuidiZzoio is really horrible to
look upon. Even so late as yesterday the dead
were not all buried. They were to be seen in
groups of twenty or thirty, huddled together
in one spot, where Il she'll had exploded or the
Chasscurs d'Afrique had passed. All still
maintained the attitude in which death struck
them down.
Here was one with uplifted arm TO ward off
the blow which had split open his skull, and
splashed his brains far and near. Close by
was another, with his hand upon his breast
shiyered and rent by the grape. Another
seemed to be smiling, as if in mocl1ery of the
grim warriors approach. Some Were lying
upon their backs, with faces turned towards
heaven, and prayers still seeming 10 linger
upon their lips.
Further on, there was Hungarian, who had
thrust his clothes into a ghastly wound near
the heart. At his left was 4 Tyrolese with
the unused cartridge between his teeth. To
the right, a Croat had his head cut Off by Il ball
and the head was by his side, with its horrible
eyes glarlng and leerlng as 1t seemed, at the
dismembered body.
Two young lads, of certainly not more than
sixteen, We're lying in each others arms
Death had surprised them in that attitude; or,
perhaps feeling themselves about to die they
had chung together in a last embrace. and had
fallen thus never to rise again Upon the
body of Bohemian officer we noticed dog
waiting. apparently, for his master to get up !
We had not the heart to call off the faithful
animal by word or Il gesture. for we felt sure
that God would reward the devotion of this
poor dumb creature, so touchingly shown
amidst the carnage which man had waged
against his fellow man.
On every side it was the same. Death. in his
most horrible and CHASTITY form, glarGd at us,
30 matter where we gazed.
SHOCKING SCENES AT MILAN.
A Milan correspondent of the London Times
writes
cathedral to-day, there We're small parties of
numerous regiments. OF Pietlnontese there
were but company or two of infantry re-
cruits. but the French displayed uniforms of
all arms, from grenadiers and cuirassiers OF the
Guard doWnWards. OF some regiments there
We're only three or four men; there a con-
siderable body of artillery men, and hear that
some more siege guns have come up. l have
not yet seen them, but l know that many more
We're expected There We're the remains of
the lst Regiment OF the Foreign Legion, which
has already suffered terribly in this war A
great portion of the French soldiers one sees
about the streets are men Just out of hospital
but not yet fit for duty-some lame, others
with arms in sling. and others whose pallid
countenances tell OF hurts not less severe, al
though less apparent. No man living hates a
hnS lis
active, lively temperament. makes its dullness
and confinement particularly odiouS to him
and there is no danger of his remaining III it
one hour more than he is compelled to do
Indeed l have heard of one or two cases here
OF soldiers having made their escape without
the doctors permission, and having, as might
be expected, to return To their beds all the
worse for their lmprudence. There are now
no less than % military hospitals large and
small. in Milan. All the barracks have been
converted TO this purpose and hence, it was
that when the army passed through 1t had TO
camp around the town, system Stlll adopted
for the detachment or regiments that come up.
These 25 hospitals are said now TO contain
about 10000 patients q very large proportion
of them wounded. have been over three of
them that OF San AmbroZlo where there are
about ,25G; that of San Luca 350 and that of
San Francesca (tfe vast barracks built by Ma
pOleon) where was informed there We're about
$500 San Ambrozio, formerly Il convent, is
admirably adapted for its present occupation
II has lofty airy rooms and corridors, and spa
cious internal courts, rassgrown. shaded by
tine trees and surrounded by cool porticoes.--
The men looked comfortable and well cared
for. and there did not seem to be many bad
eases in that establishment at that time
1t was quite full but on the fine afternoon
on which l visited it, at least five beds out of
six were empty. Their usual occupants We're
TO be seen hobbling about the corridors sitting
IN the embrasures of the windows, and (not a
few dressed in their uniforms and smokir q
under the trees in the courts In this hospital
I nlYp TO ,f
them, and they seemed cheerful and contented.
The kitchens and pharmacy Were extremely
clean and curiosites in their way-such huge
caldronS of food and wholesale preparations
of medicaments, physic by the pailful, and
dozens of buckets of lemonade. A number OF
women and some Milanese ladies, We're busy
in the linen-room, with great stores of lint and
bandages and sheets; and, truly, great stores
are needed; and if there was a deficiency in any
respect, it seemed to be in this article. AT
least, it struck me that some of the beds were
not quite so clean as have been used to see
them in other military hospitals. There was
little 10 be said i'll the way of fault-finding.-
The air of the place was sweet and pure, and
one scarcely encountered an evil odor from
one end of it to the other A few lao1es were
TO be met with here and there in the wards,
but it was not the hour when the largest
number attend, nor, indeed, that at which their
attendance is most required. French and
Italian Sisters of Charity were, as usual, busy
in their holy task, and here and there a priest
sat by the side of some poor wretch, with
whom the human physicians skill hardly
hoped to avail. The hospital of San Luca, on
a much smaller scale, seemed in an equally
satisfactory state. That of San Francesca
made a less favorable impression. Until very
recently a barrack, its conversion into re-
ceptaeie for the sick can hardly be said to be
as yet fully completed. 1t is somewhat In the
rough, and indeed the director showed reluc-
tance to allow of it being visited, on account
of the inevitable confusion and deficiencies
that still existed but to which he was laboring
to put an end. There certainly great
difference between this hospital and San Am
brOzio, the visitors with delicate olfactori