The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-05-10

heard OF prohibition, "Euoughi no morep'
The exalted President ofthe Province, the vgilant
esrates your reverend parish priests, are, as were
20 many trnmpets for the call II we in point Of riches
position or other merits cannot be compared with other
bearer or more remote cities OF the Sacred Empire w
may well emulate surpass them in greatness OF soul
ndehty, and reverence towards 80 great sovereign
GIVE your names, which will be perhaps engraved upor
oronzenot merely induced by the manifold advantage
which that great sovereign offers YOU nor by the glory
when is prepared for you-but only because no calls
you-because he desires see his uniform upon you-
because up to this present time he has honored you with
the tender name OF children Henceforward he will
ca you ms soldiers Finally hasten TO this invitation
more than father, and that you win be ready 70 Lavish
Ike water your blood ao and your lives for him.
From our Palace, 29th March, 1862
BONIFAZIO, Bishop Of Cagi and Pergola
THE MILITARY ROADS OF ITALY.
IMPORTANT POSITIONS FOR THE ARMIEs--N ATIONAI|
VOLUNTEERS FROM ITALY TO PIEDMONT
lPontremoli Lunigiana (Aprll l6) correspondence o.
London News
write from place the name of which may never have
SSe 70 the ears Of your readers, as II lies altogether
.ne beaten track Of English tourists II is however,
preeto seat natural importance, and likely TO be OF st
hanS weight IN the course Of events now apparently
,ha you ,S throw glance your Italian map you will sex
very nearly at an equal distance from ienoa Turin
same town Of p apm florence and Leghorn. Nov tha
English miles from the Gulf Of speza NV far M.
ana nnes, haroor ON the coast Of itaiv n nos in
deed In the whoe Mediterranean NancIson NOV ~ !,
baa achieved the unity OF Itaiy or Iaihs- ~, VI"
pexed the whole Of Italy TO France anxious - c "u
Italy, had connected Spezia WITH Parma by means -,
military road, somewhat in the style Of those of No.
Cents and the Smplon, which went from Spe za 70 Sa
Zana, and thence to Aula, Tervarossa and Puntremo,
end 30 across the AgenniDes at the pass OF La Csa del
scesdDg 10 Berceto and the plain at Tornova distant
10 miles from Parma.
This military road nothing ne 10 history M man,
ernes had odden II in their way from Tuscany 70 M
North. Frederic Barbarossa all but cut 70 piece
with his whole host in the narrow gorges OF this YER
valley above Pontremoli; and Charles VIII of Franco
bad also narrow escape through on his retreat from
Naples. 1t was howev Or, carriageabe road be
fore the time of Napoleon; and there WIN
the ba.bor and the highway which that con
queror had planned and constructed 10 warke times fol
military purposes, should not after the peace have bee
made available to commercial enterprise.
The port OF Speza, however, together with Genoa and
whore navy that harbor lying IL did In corner OF hi
dominons, and with only the thnnest slip Of territory
back il, could be OF no practicable Above Sarzan
this province OF Lunigana or Val Msgra, was parce
leu out amongst many OF the soveregns Of the ado
ing Statep, their different patches divided an
subdvided, and 80 curiousy dovea!ed into each other
that traveller from SpeZA to Parma had to cross six
seven different frontiers, and 10 be plagued TO death
police and customs officers at every stage The road wa
reiens and in such state Of diapidation - 70 81
utterly mpTacticabe for carriages quite ten year
after the fall of Napoleon.
The upper district OF Lungiana province OF Pontrd
mo from the heights Of La Csa which the fronte
Of Parma, down 10 vlafranca, was in 1916 given tn
Grand Duke OF Tuscany. It cut off from the rest
his territory by the and the duchies OF MAJ
and Carrara, which belonged the Duke Of Modena an
who besides shut in the lower valley by his fortress
Aulla, and other small estates lying between and Sar
zaDa. In the 1874 bargain struck by the Duk
OF Luccs Charles H. TO whom Parma was 10 belong ate
me death OF me then regnng Maria Louisa Of Aussra
cede the duchy of Guastalla, the Pc, 70 Modens
and receive in return the province Of Pontremo fro
the Grand Duke OF Tuscany, who in his turn was
add Lucca TO his domlnions This bargan-whic1
was wholly TO the advantage Of Modena, and TO ID
detriment Of Parma, as it gave up the latest
hal ckq Ont ha ANN
made at the suggestion of AUSTRIA who looked upon M
depa as her own inheritance, and agreed 70 by PA
ma, owing to the light mindedness and baseness
Charles H., who was brbed by gift of few hundre
thousands OF francs, wherewh to pursue his career
folly and extravaganza at Lucca, until such time a.
might please Providence 10 open his way to the thror
OF Parma The bargain, made In 1874, came into ODER
ton at the death Of Maria Louisa, in lS47. After ID
events Of 1880, Charles Ill. of PARMA now mast}
Of the road spezia as far as valIafrancs rcoar1
the Napoleonan highway throughout his domiuon
and prevailed upon the Duke of Modena 70 do as mu
for his own part so that 1t became again possible
drive coach and four from Parma to Spezia II
Duke Of Modena, however, more partial 70 fortress
than TO roads, whilst he built pifu bastOns rou
Aua, that the whole valley there is brstns with FOR
fcotons which might be Knocked down with rotten en-
mas neglected to construct bridges over the torrent
the lower part Of the road s yet far indeed from
lection.
hope you will not find that have given you all Il
in the expectation Of war; is making her main erorts
Pavia ard Pacenza, and there scarcely doubt that
brunt Of the war will fall upon the district which lies
lands Of PiacenZa and Parma The Piedmontese WIN
strong position lies between Casale on the Po, al
Apennines go as to invest Piac snza and at the IN
nme French army, say Of $4,000 men, embark
a. TouIon, win land at spczia, and forcing
gingerbread stronghOds Of the Duke OF Modena n An
they will march on Pontremol, whence they NAV c.
the mountains at La elsa, and descend upon Parma
Fomuovo, thus investing Pacenza on the other side
will that the work Of the first Napoleon will ba iur
to good purposes by the third speak so freely of mn
msuers not by any means because am in the secrets
hel vNop4,o.
inclined to betrny their il they were conAded
me- but because the natural position of both parties
,ner Tor the last two or three months
POINT to the course have thus sketched out
~ FOR r.r the rest war seems altogether inevita
lion OF these countries. From Florence 70 II
and hence 70 Petra Santa and sarsana, / n
heard Of nothing but volunteers Fastening 70 RI
mont. Eght hundred are gone from the little ducby
nara Sarrara Alone The very dragons and gendaf
Of that absurd Duke Of Modena, who patrol The Va
not proof against the temptation of running awsv
them, and desert by twos and threes tin II the
breaks out hardly one of them will remain staunch
their colors. AT Berceto, the other side Of La Csa.
lomDards arrived yesterday; 400 Romagnol are exp
today. They have come to Parma from Lombardy
Romagna, and as the Austrians have drawn q mil
GORDON near Pacenza so that il is no longer M
Die to cross that frontier, they travel across
, mountains ms to Berceto and Borgetaro, and
varese and Chavar, In the Sandman territ
amongst the Lombards were two or three Huncs
ueeoiNio, WIN btdteu tnAt q rumOr was spread amO
their brethren in Lombardy that Koesuth n mo-
troops.
From Pontremo, as am assured no less than !
nave joined the Piedmontese ranks more than one }
rand from the various parts of the duchy Of Parma
Dewildered government Of the Duchess has been obi
to look over the departure Of these volunteers wt
nharsnce. II Is now compelled equally 10 suffer
vonn.eeis OF otner states TO 80 through It's territ
Without moestaton on it's part II is very evident
government has lost all Its force here as in Tuscany
tnat inc prevailing order is only owing TO the wsdom
moderation Of the leaders of the movement and IN th
mirable temper Of the people, ~
TRANSLATED for the New YORK HERALD, from the
CAPRI lol correspondence of the Independauce Tel
IN Italy the excitement ID greater than ever The
trlans 90 not think Of abandoning the Legations:
nave just landed large number Of troops al Xncons
as there were no lodgings for them in tho city, the
e,paisy mas received notice that they would take
10. g,ngs IN the churches. This has produced gres
saton on the minds Of those eminently rclieoue n,
tons. e~"' ~
From lie Nord Of Brussels, April le1
Al the roads leading to Italy from Austria are ca,
WIN military transports, and are monopoized for 4