Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-07-23

gage and cooking utensils accompany us COZ
umns even in the advance, bivouacked on the
night of the 23d, and were attacked before
they could get their breakfast. The baggage
and cooking-carts were obliged to return to the
rear out of the fire OF the allies, and the result
was that the army of the Kaiser had to hght
on empty stomachs. Hunger and hard knocks
have tendency to discourage even the DraV-
est soldier. l was astOnished to see men from
the field of Solferino retiring unwounded, ana
lying down exhausted when out OF the reach
of the enemy's fire. am told that many SO
exhausted laid themselves down only to die.
The mystery is explained when one considers
that these cases arose from want OF ordinary
sustenance. The prisoners taken by the Aus
TRANS mostly carried something eataDle or
drinkable."
The Independence Beige says: "The out
rageous conduct of the Swiss Guards at Peru
gia is already producing disastrous consequent
ces for the temporal government OF the HOLY
See. AT Bologna the Provisional Junta has
published a proclamation recalling all the
young men who have enlisted under the nag
of Italian independence because, says the
proclamation, if it is a civic duty to take up
arms to liberate ones country there's great
er and more urgent duty still-that OF defend
ing our hearths and homes. In Piedmont ana
Tuscany public indignation has reached SUCH a
pitch, that even the clergy are constralheu
openly to take part with it. Several pastoral
letters have been written protesting against
the conduct of the Popes mercenaries, and la
boring to separate the Catholic cause from the
doings of its champions The court of Rome
will very probably find reasons to regret the
rewards and eulogiums which it has lavished
| upon the conquerOrs of Perugia.'
The correspondent of the Independence
Beige states that on the Doth of June, M. God
ard made two balloon ascensions, taking up
with him officers of the staff and engineers
They went up from the Sandman outposts,
| about mile from the walls of Peschiera, to
learn the positions of the enemy and the con-
dition of the place.
The London Times fears the English have
nobody fit to command either their army or
navy in case of war. 1t says :-"At present,
the public mind is impressed with fear that
war would but surely call forth some Eng
fish Gyulai or some English Hess, to suffer
defeats upon the soundest naval and military
principles"
A correspondent of the London Morning
Post, writing from Lymington, Hants, says
that during the storm on Saturday. the I'd,
| which commenced there at seven o'clock in
the evening" the heavens were discharging a
perfectdeluge of bolts-wedges of ice in
every shape and size; they exceed three inch
es round, and some picked up were as big as
oranges. In falling they broke all the win
dows to the northwest; ITO panes were bro
ken in one dwelling
Miss Florence Nightingale is so extremely
ill the worst results are apprehended. He1
strength is diminishing sadly
The works on the Russian Railway are
pushed forward with such activity that there
are, at present, employed nearly 10000
workmen.
The independents of Brescia states that sew
eral young girls have made vows not to mar
ry anybody but wounded soldiers of the army
of Italian independence.