The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1859-07-05
FOREIGN Intelligence.


The Austrians have evacuated PiacenZa, Pavia,
Lodi. Bologna and Ancona. The Citadel fortifca-
tions at Pincenza were first blown up.
The Austrians have evacuated all the States OF
the Church. including Ferrara.
The Austrians left provisions, cannon and am
munition at Piacenza. Garibaldi occupied Bergamo,
where he repulsed l 500 Austrians
The French passed the river AIDA without strik-
ing blow.
The Austrian correspondence" says, the Aus
TRANS at Melagnano yielded only to decidedly su-
perior force, and retired in perfect order.
The Emperor of Austria, it is said will take COM
mand of his army in person, and act on the de-
fensive
Austria's loss at Palestro is officially stated as
follows: Is officers and 5l3 men killed, one gen.
eral, % officers and 878 wounded; 6 officers and
ia men missing.
The British Ministers have resigned. Lord
Palmerston has been appointed Premier and Lord
John Russell Secretary of the Foreign Office.
The London Times says that Lord John Russell
is an ardent friend of Italy, and that both he and
Lord Palmerston want Austria to admit her defeat,
her ascertained inferiority and the incurabe dis
advantage of her position South Of the Alps. Both
ministers are of opinion that Austria will consult
her own greatness by relinquishing territory
which costs great army and still greater odlum
LATER.
The Austrians were retreatng from Oglio, and
the Allies advancing. The French troops were
concentrating for a decisive attack. Agrand battle
expected within one week. naval demon
stration in the Adriatic was expected.
1t was reported that General Urban had defeated
Garibaldi. Additional Austrian forces were moving
towards Italy
Napoleon demands 100, 900 men to besiege the
Austrian fortresses. The Austrians at Mantua, it
reported, were preparing to attack the Allies.
The more hostile attitude of Germany, had created
great uneasiness. Kossuth had passed through
France enroute for Italy.
Numerous municipalities of Romagna had
pronounced for the national cause.
The fight between Gen. Urban and Garibaldi
was at Castnodola Garibaldi had four thousand
troops and four cannon, but repused
The Nord of Brussels, says that a second series
Of warlike operations against the Austrans will be
commenced simultaneously by sea and by land. The
Allied forces will be put in motion to invest
Austrian fortresses. Prince Napoleon proceeds to
support the RICH wing of the French Army.
A THOUSAND DAY-slnce the actual COM
mencement of hostilities in Italy the number of
killed both sides has been fully thousand day.
Already an army of thirty thousand men
has -aken up it's last bivouac the plains of Italy,
never more to leave it until the last trump shall
sound. That silent and CHASTITY army of mangled
C, rpses is each day recruited by thousand brave
men, picked men, the leaders in every charge, the
foremost in every battle. Thoirs indeed arc
funeral marches to the grave" whether they come
from gay and thoughtless Paris, from the wild and
primitive regions CT Brittany, from the soft shores
of the Mediterranean, from the wide plains of
Hungary, the passes of the Tyrol and Savoy, the
sunny slopes of the Apprentices. And still they
march, and the hopes of the husbandman are
ruined, and the fruits of industry and the monu-
ments of art crumbled to dust by the rushing
cannon ball, and the humble peasant is driven from
his home, and his family scattered; perhaps
dishonored.
THE HoRRORs OF WAR.-A letter dated at
Paris, the 9th inst, says: 81 see women to-day
half mad, running about Paris, to know what has
become o. their husbands and brothers-They
who have relatives in McMahon's division are
distracted with anxiety, and hang about the
Ministry of War with horrible apprehension. he
Emperor lets the telegraph tell tales but what
he likes No private communications from the
seat of war allowed. The first a wife knows of
the loss of husband, is from official sources. |
see, another specimen of the horrors of war,
that the PiedmOntese division, engaged at Palostro
when repassing through Novara, marched with
five companies out of ten under sub-ofhcers; the
others remained on the field of battle. Now, this
is only French suffering What must be the
Austrans tae?