Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-06-24
w. ID. WALLACE.
INCIDENTS OF THE WAR.


INCIDENTS OF THE WAR. 60
The railways appear to have effected Won
ders in facilitating the marching Of the troops.
Thus the bulk of the French Army appcsr
upon the field in first rate marching order and
look, oven when recruits, like picked men.
This is popularity Of warfare unknown 10
the first Napoleon, and for which we have b.
thank modern science and discovery. What 1t
% required i've or six days to accomplish ffty
years ago, in the transportation of men and
troops, u now accomplished in rs many hours
In sitting the intelligence, we find so many
evidences of good humor, mingled with couf-
age that fighting and dying seems to be looked
on half the time as pleasure and q pastime.
rather than reality. Thus we read in a let
ter from Novara, dated june 4th, that
The ZOuaves have rccompensed the bravery
of hing Victor Emanuel by electing him cor
pOral- He fights 30 well" +" said one of them,
. that he deserves the honor" The King al
ready possesses the French military medal; he
Is the only Sovereign who does 50, the Emperor
visit to Paris" - ..'-s.-.
The same letter says Of the brilliant engage
ment at Palestro:
While speaking of Pslestro, may remark
that the idea of the Austrians evidently was
that the French would arrive by the road and
that they would thus be able to make fright
ful carnage, but the ZOuayes, in place of that
course, crossed the water and scaling the
banks, took the Austrians on the flank and
forced them into the river. In bearing to the
night, they also took in flank the men serving
the two pieces of cannon close to the bridge,
and pierced them with their bayonets"
The Gen. Espinasse killed at Magenta WAS n
gentleman slss of some political note in Paris.
and not very popular there, because he was
supposed to give the Emperor bad advice a. to
severe police and newspaper regulations His
wife heard Of his death when at a grand dinner
given by the Project Of the Seine Madame Es-
pInasSe was there in a robe of blue when n de-
spatch announcing his death came from the
Minister Of War to the Prsfect. He broke the
news to her as tenderly as possible, when she
tainted away, and was carried to her hotel
The French and Austrian journals are much
occupied IN recounting the atrocities, one of the
other, In Italy. There is one droll story thus
The Austrlans are accused by the French Of
demanding pretty women" to be delivered up
by the PiedmOntese to the rapacity of their
soldiers. The Austrian reply is, that they
WaEted at Nercelli, ''BelladOna'' for the sick
saldiers, and they demanded it Of the Syndc
lie said he had not any, and could not find
any, but they insisted that he must The
French, 30 say the Austrians, translated this
B,iadoHa (ltalian for pretty women,'O into
y0fte femme, pretty wOmen.) and so made
them, ithe Austrians,) be asking for women,
when they only wanted medicine!
The Paris Constitutional saws:
men must be in bad way. The victory Of
Magenta l., then as the Emperor says, a great
one NJ comes like clap of thunder; and is a
great historical engagement, such as cur faith
ers used to fight. All France will thrill with
Joy, at having proved to the world that she
has not degenerated, she has the right to be
proud OF her new glory, and TO respond. as in
former days, to the cannon Of the Inyalides by
the national cry Of 'EiVe l'Empereur'p
The same journal though an official organ.
does no more than justice to the Emperor when
1t says:
All TIE material and the larger part of all
the provisions has to come from France-alI
the hundred thousand tons of stores. baggage
artillery. munitions, and pOntoOns. The aues-
uon was how TO do this undisturbed for the
least confusion would have retarded all these
Preparations IN frightful proportion. As
therefore, the French troops arrived. they were
sent TO the front, In order to check any at
tempt on the part of the Austrians Thus by
degrees, the French corps 81 'aTaee were eche-
longet along the line of the Po from Casteg-
glo, Noghers, Castlenuevo, and Sale to Bas-
sIsnanO. with AllessandTia and TortOns as
POINTS dGPp"t, while the Piedmontese army
occupied the line from Valenza to CasaIe and
since the retreat Of the Austrians To VerceIJi
1 ne hrst point was TO gain a passage across the
sesia, one Of those broad swampy rivers which
lntersect the upper Italian plains There was
only one bridge from Vercelli over It, built on
arches OF fine masonry. IL served for the rail
way rs well as for the great chaRsyee 10 No.
ysra- The AustIians, you will remember
blew up two arches "f this bridge
From facts like these the magnitude of the
victory at Lombardy may be measured