Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-07-13
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and was soon followed by heavy fall of rain,
accompanied by vivid lightning and rapid ex-
blossoms of rafting thunder. The storm last
ed for about an hour, and the cannonading, so
far as we could distinguish, was suspended
Then the rain ceased, the clouds blew away,
the sun shone out again, and the air was cooled
and perfectly delightful. Though the cannon
may have ceased for a time to take part in it,
the fight had meantime gone on,-and when L
again resumed my post of observation, from
which the storm had expelled me, the can
nOnading commenced quite on the extreme
left of the entire field and on the very borders
of the lake, northeast from Castiglione and
west of Peschiera. The Piedmonte
troops, under the King, who commands
them in person, had been posted there
and received the Austrians as they came
around From about 7 o'clock until after
night-fall an incessant and most terrible COM
bat was here kept up. The batteries Of the
two armies we're apparently about half mile
apart-and at the outset they were both
served with nearly equal and effective vigor.-
But the Austrians gradually slackened their
fire and several times took up new positions
while the Sardinlans poured rapid and unin-
terupted shower Of balls upon them, suspend
ing only for a few minutes at a time, and then
renewing it again with redoubled fury. The
wind had now gone down, the air was still,
and the sound of musketry, as well as of the
cannon, was distinctly heard. The former
was continuous, sharp and incesant, sounding
like the constant and irregular pattering of
hail upon roof while the latter was OCCASION
ally suspended, but while it lasted was over
whemingly grand and terrible Over the
Sandman park rose dense white cloud
OF smoke, directly upwards, its sides per-
tecty upright and well defined, and spreading
outward both ways atthe top like an enormous
sheat OF wheat. The sun was making a glo-
rlous setting in the west and as his light grad
ually departed, the vivid flashes at each dis
charge of the cannon cleaned through the
smoke like sharp lightning through the breast
OF an enormous cloud. Sometimes only
single flash would be seen, then two or three
at once, and sometimes half dozen would
break forth In instant succession. 1t was be-
ginning to be dark when / turned to descend
the hill, and all the way down still heard the
roar of the cannon and the Gathering of the
guns of the infantry. But the Austrians were
clearly falling back, and could scarcely have
failed to sustain total route 1t is possible
they may be in condition to make one more
struggle in the morning, but, judging from my
own observation, it certainly is not probable.
They have sustained an overwhelming defeat,
and it seems to me not unlikely that the En-
peror may now be induced, by the representa-
tons OF the neutral powers, to accept the peace
which Napoleon will be very likely to tender
him.
How THE EMPRESS RECEIVED News OF
SoLFERINo-A Paris letter of the 25th ult
says:
AS the sun burst upon Paris this morning,
courtier, mounted on one of the Emperor's
stout cobs with knotted tail, galloped into the
quiet hamlet of st. Cloud-he bore large
letter, which he requested should be handed
to the Empress. The drowsy porters told
him the Empress must not be disturbed from
her slumbers. He insisted that his orders
were emptory-"Immediate delivery"
They repaired to the Imperial chamber and
handed to her Majesty the dispatcll-"G Great
victory great battle!" &c. The Empress rose
Immediately, radiant with emotion and delight,
ordered carriage to be got ready, and drove
out at once to the picturesque cottage of Vii
| leneuve PElang, to communicate the glad It'd
ings to her charming young friend the wife of
General Fleury. Thence to the Princess Clio
thilde; to the Palace at Mendou, to wake up
the old Marshal Jerome Bonaparte, who start
ed like an aged charger at the sound of the
| clarion.
AT every post, every village on the road, the
Empress stopped her carriage to share her joy
with the soldiers and people; and long ere
she retired from her gladstone errand to toss
her boy with wild delight and tell him that his
father was hero, and that he must be one in
after years, the guns from the esplanades OF
the lnvalides Numbered forth the news from
their iron threats, and Paris, already drunk
with glory, woke to the consciousness of an.
other victory.