The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-06-27

and after hundred hand 10 hand encounters
succeeded IN driving the opposing column
far as the eanai, where great number met
their death. 1t was then half past nine All
the positions OF the enemy We're taken and
their army in full route towards Payia and
Piacenza could write you whole pages. had
time, concerning this great battle, in which
the Zouayes OF the Guard sustained most ad-
mirably their high reputation. / must, how
ever draw to close. We returned to get our
hayresacks at tho bridge of the Ticino. AID we
then went and biyouaeked on the field of bat.
tie. 1t was only at night that we could reckon
up in q rough way our losses. NV ciigf de
battalion had his leg fractured, and in MY COM
pany twenty four menwere killed or wounded
In tho whole regiment $50 rank and file are
either killed or wounded and nine officers one
being killed. We lit immense fires during the
nj ght. round which we slept IL only men can
sleep after such sxertion. We had coffee and
plenty of provisions. 1t was only about four
in the evening that the rcinforcemants came
up, and they have been arriving ever since.
A HOTEL CAHf.
third letter from Vercelli of the 1st of
June, in the Paris Debats, says The town of
Ncrcelli is quite a camp. Every house has 4
little garrison-eyery chamber in every hotel
two or three beds. We arp four of us In the
same room at the Hotel del Trorp. Two sleep
without undressing on mattresses on the floor
the other two in beds and we sleep on the
floor in turns. The Sybarites who want wafer
must fetch it themselves from the court yard.
An Internal noise constantly prevails. The
everybody is always happy. We have to snatch
BY chance glass of water and piece of bread.
Guides, light dragons. grenadiers, cent gardes,
artillery, cavalry, the staff all arms,a grades,
wade the dining room. Nothing remains but
the cloth. and on the cloth there is almost
nothing Sometimes. however, one gets salad.
The other evening the master OF the hotel and
his walters, overcome by the tempest of cries,
raised their arms TO heaven and fell into chairs
in despair. And for this vague, this chimer-
cal dinner, we have to pay. The Austrian
prisoners, six hundred in number, left this
morning for Genoa. Many among them, who
are LombardS, declare that they voluntarily
threw down their arms Several OF their
comrades were killed by the Croats. The on
GERS, who partook OF some coffee at the rail-
way station, did not appear to he much cast
down at their position. They were all de-
lighted when they heard that they were to he
prisoners in France and not in Piedmont
NIsCRLLANHOEs ITBks.
The Cork (Ireland) Reporter many per-
sons may he anxious to know what become Of
the Italian exiles, publshes = letter from Tu-
rim, which the Duke OF Caballino has written
to a friend Of his in Queenstown. He says -
'Poerio joined me hero on the 18th Of last
month lie is we'll. Our mutual friend Mol
lea is surgeon to a corps OF volunteers, and is
now ut Florence Many of our companions
have entered the Sandman service; Dono rs an
apothrcary, Ricci IS captain, Pace and others
as soldiers"
A correspondent OF the Debats announces
that Colonel Chabron, of the Third Zouaves,
promoted TO the rank of general on the
day Of the combat OF PaIestro. 1t is also said
that Lieutenant Colonel Porion, of the Zou-
ayes of the Guard, has been named colonel of
the Eleventh regiment OF the line, vice Colonel
de Moncla, promoted TO the rank Of general Of
brigade.
Among the wounded in the personal staf
alongside the Emperor Napoleon, is Edgar
Ney, son OF the great Marshall.