Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-06-07
From tle Cincinnati commercla
Wnr Matters.


one day later than that printed yesterday.
Our telegraphic dispatches, both regular
and exclusive, are very interesting. We
have advices from Liverpool, and all
places with which that city communicates
directly by telegraph. to the 9th inst
No battle yet in Sardinia; only slight
skirmish and the continued brutality of
the AustIians on Sandman territory, de-
vouring the substance of the inhabitants,
and forcing them, even the women and
children, 10 labor on the iortificatIons.-
! We hear too OF the gathering masses Of
the French, and the consultations between
| Napoleon and his Marshals at Alessandria,
and tile anxious anticipation by Europe of
the great and bloody struggle which, for
many causes, could not long be delayed.
The Prince Regent Of Prussia has been
talking in warlike manner, ana the atti-
tude of Germany does not appear so
peaceful as it seemed to us few weeks
since. The German blood warns at the
intelligence of the mastering of armies,
and Austria has n powerful share of its
sympaIhies. The Germans Indicate an
unwilingness to trust or tolerate Napoleon
in the mastery Of Italy The English
proclamations Of neutrality, official and
unofficial, are in strange contrast with the
hurried preparation of vast armaments,
which can only oe useful to her in case Of
a war with France. If she had declared
war instead of procaming her neutrality,
her warlike activity would not be greater.
| There is no change III the position of Rus
sia, but we may imagine that her govern
ment takes deep interest in the disturb
ances of which we hear in Turkey; and
considers the proprety of opening the old
road to Constantinople. The Russian
Emperor desires, no doubt, to preserve the
neutrality Of his Empire His great works
of internal improvement, projected to ena-
BILE him TO use his military material to ad-
vantage, are unfinished, aud as he is dis
posed to be peaceful. we may not appre-
hend his immediate interference. If, how
ever, the war should become European
instead OF Italian, Russia may be counted
upon as the ally Of France. For the pres
eut the war is concentrated in Sardinia.
more closely even than the last European
war was confined, as by hydrostatc pres
sure, to the Ctimea. AT latest advices
nearly half a million armed men were
crowded into the little kingdom of the
House Of Savoy, the continental portion Of
which is not halt as large as the State Of
! Ohio. The belligerent forces Of Louis
| Napoleon, Victor Emanuel, and Francis
Joseph, Go not manoeuver in space lrrger
than half dozen of the south western
counties of this Stale. The Austrians oc-
cupy the portion of Sandman territory be-
tween the rivers Ticino aud Sesia. which
run from the Alps to the Pc. This coun
| try is malshy along the Po, and otherwise
exceedingly fertile and recently highly
cultivated. 1t corresponds in extent to
the country between The two Mialnis, but
is much more densely settled. The peo-
| pie OF this region are suffering every in
| dignity and impoyeri5hnent that a brutal
and rapacions soldiery can inhict. The
towns are stripped oi every hing which
soldiers can use and destroy. and the
county made desert by innumerable
! foragiug parties, while the inhabitants in
cludiny women and children, are driven
! by blows to labor on the Austrian lines OF
defense. The able. bodied men are said.
| in some cases, TO have been forced into
the Army. aud transported to the borders
of Russia and Turkey, where escape from
their wretched selvtude is almost hope
less. That no delay will be made by the
French and Sardnians in driving the in
vaders beyond the Ticino. other than that
which is unavoidable, may be calculated
upon. Besides, the presence OF enormous
masses OF French troops must be felt by
the SardnianS as exceedingly unpleasant
in itself. An army, of fricn Is even. is
terror to country. Poor liule Sardinia
will be iearfuIly used in the bat lie of giants
on her plains. Were peace now restored,
years Of peaceful industry would be re-
! qured to :estore her peasanlry TO the
prosperity they enjoyed few week ago,
The French are sad 10 be- about one hun
dred and six y tho sand, anl the S;Grdiui
aus seveniv-hve thousand strong. The
| Austrians claim 10 have near two hundred
Thousand men at the seat of war. When
these masses, armed, as they are, with
terrible weapons, and excited by terrible
passions, come into collision, there will,
in all probability, be a greater destruction
of life than in any Of the combats Of the
| first Ma aooleon The battle fields Of Aus
terliIz and Waterloo were not tramped by
such hosts as are manoeeuvering IN Pied
mont, and destined to crush each other.