Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-07-13
The War in Europe.

The War in Europe.
We give from the New York Herald condensed
view of the respective positions of the belligeran.
powers; from which it will be seen that another
great battle has most probably been fought ere
this:
"THE News FROM THE WAR-BRrLL1ANr AcTloNs
OF GARIBALDl.-The news from the seat of war in
Italy, received by the Vanderbilt which arrived at
this port yesterday brings us intelligence from that
quarter up to the 21st of June. No important ac-
tion had taken place between the main armies of the
begerents, but they were taking up such positions
as would render terrible combat inevitable in
short time. Francis Joseph had placed himself at
the head of his army and established his headquar
tiers at Villa Franca point the railroad line be-
tween Verona and Mantua, almost in the centre of
the great strategic quadrangle. The French, under
Louis Napoleon, occupied Bresca, almost in di-
rect line west of Peschiera the northwestern defence
of the quadrangle, and connected with it by the rail-
road from Vienna to Milan while Victor Emanuel,
with the main body Of the Sardinian army, near
the little village of Castegnato, few miles from
Brescia. The Allied forces, then were concentrated
in full strepgth at one point while the main body
of the enemy, with the Austrian Emperor command
ing in person, were awaiting their attack in the very
heart of their strongest defenccs. Ere this, per-
chance, the shock of has been felt between the
hardy may have received fatal and final blow
1t was believed in Europe that although the
French army, in accordance with the pledges of Ma
poleon, would not follow up the campaign beyond
the borders of Italy, should the Austfans be driven
out that the revolutionary armies raised i'll all quar-
tiers of the peninsula and now being further aug
mented by the efforts of klapka and kossuth would
in conjunction with the Sardnsns, carry the war
into Austria ITSELF and there strike at the root of the
Hapsburg tyranny. Should such an event trans
pire-and it seems not improbable-the mobzed
army of Prussia, the army Of the Gerlnanc Confede
ration and the soldiers of every State in Germany,
would be instantly in the field and we should soon
behold the terrific spectacle, Of all Europe battling
upon every frontier on the Continent.
Turning our eyes from the position of the main
armies in the centre of Lombardy, if look towards
the north we will see the indcfatigabc Garibaldi
who seems to be the omnipreScnt hero of the CAM
paign, gaantly striving hand to hand with the Aus
rians and at all points, wheresoever he meets them
achieving something for the cause of Italy. In the
first days of the struggle we find him pouncng down
with his small band of guerrillas upon Varese and
Como, capturing those cities from the enemy, and
pushing on in the direction of the Tyrol as far as
Sondrio raising the whole country into nsurrecton,
and Strengthening his forces as he goes. Now, over
whelmed by superior numbers which come fresh
upon him by railroad from Brescia, then held by
the Ausrians he is forced to retire step by step to
the shores of Maggiore, leaving behind him the NOR
ale of his victories Rallying at Laveno, he dashcs
back upon his foes and compes them evacuatc all
the positions they had retaken, and again obtains
possession of the line of country commanding por-
ton of the mountain passes from the north. Again
We find him greeting the Emperor and the King
within the walls of Bresca after their capture of the
Lombard capital, and after brief consultation, be-
taking himself back to the scene of action in the
north, where he again encounters the Austrian on
the Chiese and again obtains victory. The last
accounts represent him as throwing bridge over
the Chiese near Castenedomo with view to keep
open communication with Brescia. Here the Aus
trians-under General Urban we presume-attack-
ed him in force, but were driven back, having first
succeeded in blowing up Garibaldis bridge. Mean
time, Victor Emanuel despatched Cialdini the Sar-
dinian General, to support Garibaldi, whereupon
the Austrians withdrew from Castenedomo.
The Austrians seem resolved to hold the passes
leading through the Tyrol at all hazards, which, in
strategic point of view, essential to them. We
learn that they have occupied the Stelvo pass, where
they have strong force of artillery, and con-
structing entertainments But we may expect a
smart brush in that quarter before long, for some
three thousand French troops are the march 20
dislodgc the enemy from the Stelvio.
Thus stood the war up to the 2lst of June. The
next steamer will probably bring intelligence of the
most terrible battle of modern times in which the
three sovereigns of France, Sardinia and Austria
will doubtless meet face to face upon the bloody
field.
There is one important point in the news by the
| Vanderbilt and that is the course Victor Emanuel
has declared he would pursue towards the States OF
the Church He has refused to accept of the dicta-
torship of the citizens of Bologna and sent spc,
cal aide-de-camp to the Pope assuring him that he
will respect the neutrality of the Papal States and
guarantee the independence of the peninsula Of 1ta
ly. This is perhaps the wisest course he could
adopt under the circumstances. 1t is beyond his
power to suppress the revolutionary spirit which
the cities of the Papal States seem so rapidly catch
ing it by infection, from those of Lombardy
and the neighboring duches; but by not encoura,
gng it he will alay much of the fears for the tempo
raj sovereignty of the Pope which now rife, and
which seem to have caused no little alarm in eecle
siastical circles and to have engendered hostils
feeling towards the just cause in which the allied
armies engaged"