Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-09-02
SCENES AFTER THE WAR.

The Newark Advertiser Of August ls
gives the following interesting details
from a private letter, dated, Brescia, July
25=
a am most happy in being able to re-
assure Madame B., her noble son Is con-
vaIescing; cheerful, and as well cared
for in the family of the Marquis, as he
could be in her own palace. 1t is GER
tainly proper that she should know the
whole truth; though not dangerously
hurt be was bit seven times, but yielded
only towards the close of the day, when
he fell with tearing shot in the thigh
Two of his men dropped with fatal
wounds while attempting TO take him
off, whereupon he crawled to the rear,
and was taken care of by the surgeons
His horse was killed early in the action.
He loses the left hand thumb, and the
lobe of one ear. The ball in the thigh
did serious mischief, but it will be repair
ed. The other four wounds were super
fetal. His actual suffering is compare
lively light.
Thousands of these mutilated wretches
are deformed for life Fancy the hide
Gus spectacle. More than 2O00 limbs
have been amputated. Many have lost
both legs; and there is one poor trunk,
a fine-spirited young Frenchman, who
has been deprived of all four limbs, that
is. both feet, one arm entire, and the
hand of the other. And yet, alas he
lives; not certainly, as one of your En-
glish wits once said to the mourners over
fatal case of like mutiIation, to be an
ornament to society
The hospital reports yesterday reduce
the sick and wounded remaining TO about
5000, chiefly French and Piedmontese.
The mortality among the Austrians i:
surprising; only about Ave hundred re-
! main; they are well provided for in the
? Cathedral, one Of the forty improyised
: hospitals, attended by their own surgeons
: who were among the prisoners. The ex
i, IRENE heat under which all nature is Ian
: gushing, aggravates the suffering; bu
: this humane people bring all their re
/ sources to mitigate it. All the ladie
n appear to have become Sisters of Char
Il ity; with the heavenly spirit of Florenc
n Nightingale, though without her reward
The grateful miserables call the dea
creatures angels; who have, indeed, don
: better for them than all the priests an
doctors in the service, though numbere
by the hundred. One told me the othe
:, day that she had written 123 letters fo
the dying. with tender messages to dea
a ones at home
n There are about fifty deaths daily
as Gen. Armada and the Dukes d'Abrante
Of have both succumbed at last. There mu
IL be something near hundred thousan
e, Of these infrm and manned relics of Il
war still lingering in the country, f
e nearly every town from Milan to Il
e, Mincio is hospital. What a history
an that of Lombardy. And this is one
en- the blOOdiest chapters of it. A rich
it, province never invited the cultivation
,at man, and yet it has been the battle-fe
caI Of ambition for countless ages. Tn
i've kill the elephant for his tooth; so the
sr- rich plains seemed doomed to suffer thl
sse their very charms.
ed, Garibaldi was here on brief ezra
on, the other day. He feels deeply t
nit chagrin which the terms of peace Pl
the duced in every breast. Troops and p
aus pie seemed struck with moral paraly.
The and they ale not likely to recover throu
to the doctrine Of diplomacy. The ar
tho could much better have borne a def
ins in the field. Those that remain b.
er- lounge round the streets, ike tired lab
&C ers after fruitless harvest, spiritless q
ex- spiteful."
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