Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-08-17

LErrER FROM SARDrN1A.-The following let
ter is from an American citizen travelling in
Europe:
TURIN, July 10, 1859.
Soiferlno, and the neighboring spots whore the
grand fight occurred on the 18th of June. One
can hardly form an idea of that days slaughter.
Whatever figures the papers may have given, it
is certain, and have it from impartial persons,
that Austria last $4,000 in killed and badly
wounded, who die daily, and the allies 10000.
From the best accounts the campaign of 1859
cost Austria 100000 men, besides So, 900 pris-
oners captured by France and Piedmont, "a, 900
of whom fell into the hands of the French, and
II 900 into those Of the Pedmontese. The al.
lies lost less, viz: France 5000 killed and mis-
sing, and $4,000 wounded; and the Piedmontese
$500 killed and 1000 wounded.
The superior loss on the part of Austria IS
accounted for, first, from the terrible havoc in
her ranks by the new cannon invented by Napo.
leon, called te canon rage, whose bouLet not only
reaches with effect distances of four miles and
upwards, but when there it explodes, and plays
the mischief all around the place of explosions;
and secondly from the slaughter by the allied
troops during their chase of the enemy, after
the victories Of Magenta and Soferino. 1t must
also be noticed that the condition of the French
and PiedmonteSe troops was, in every respect,
superior to that of their antagonists; and that
the provision, furniture and medical depart
tnents of the allies were so well administered
that nothing failed for the comfort and prompt
attendance of the troops; whilst the Austrians
were exposed to all kinds of privations, aggra.
waited by the uncomfortable heat, and those
among them who did not remain dead on the
field died soon after, from want of proper at
tendance.
have it from one of the officers of Napole-
on's staff, that when General Fleury was sent,
on the 9th ofJuly, TO Verona, with message
from N0POInOO Francis tba 1nf
allowed the French General to have a sight of
the hospitals, where he found, heaped up in a
most wretched state, about ninety thousand sick
from wounds and other causes. On the other
hand, saw the allied troops as high spirited as
men could be, singing, laughing, joking, and
showing the greatest anxiety to have another
tight with the AuStrianS. They were all pre-.
pared for the assault on Verona, and they spoke
OF it in camp as if they had the keys of the
great fortress in their pockets. Unconscious of
Napoleon's views tc prepare for peace, and
awaiting every moment the order for the assault
upon hearing, on the night of the 9th, that
Gen. Fleury was moving about, they thought it
was the signal fer the assault and, on the TIN,
in the morning, they were all up by 4, a. NJ,
ready to march, and full Of Joy; and when they
were told to halt, they exhibited great disap-
| pointment, and only consoled themselves by
saving that they qOiu n0rch tomorrow.
Think, then, of their discomfort when, on the
lOAlOMluS tlay1 Stu Oul luey were IOiQ LnaL
hostllitles were suspended to the 18th of Au-
gust There was general grumbling all over
the camp, and all were surprised at the idea Of
such proceeding. In fact, France alone had
three hundred thousand men at and about VAL
eggo and the quadrilatere, besides the Pied
montese troops and also besides the sick and
wounded, and nobody ever doubted, not even
Napoleon himself, that If, instead of an armis-
tlce, Verona PreSchiera and Mantua had been
assaulted on that day, they would oil be cap
tured, and the Austrians driven out of Italy.
But reasons of some character, as yet unknown.
to tho public, induced Napoleon to sign the ar
mlstIce and subsequently to conclude peace in
opposition to the wishes of Piedmont and the
rest of free Italy, and also of his own troops.
The intelligence generally accredited, that he
feared an invasion from Prussia by the Rhine,
is in the opinion Of men well informed, absurd,
and but pretext to mask his real plans. 1t
was also asserted that the clergy had commenced
being troublesome at home, and that he feared
an explosion on that side; but that, if true,
would not have suffered from a few days delay,
which was all that was wanted to clear Italy
from the legions of Francis Joseph. The game,
whatever the same may be, will transpire in the
future. In the meantime while, on the one
hand, England and her CO. partners in the trea-
lies OF 1915 protest against an individual peace
1 by which tits contemplated to undo one portion
OF the arrangements made by those treaties,
France, Piedmont and Austria have, on the
other hand, appointed PIcnipotentiaries to meet
at Zurich, in Switzerland, to discuss and arrange
the basis and conditions of the peace of Villa.
iranca. F. D.
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