Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-08-25

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Bee, Aug. 20.
Al, itis bsastbseaking 70 sss'Jbs seuag vsne-
tish volnneesfs, brave, staiwsrs dsuutless DDS.
who. escaping The vigilance The Aastrans.
Joined 0aribaldi, and nave fought Nike lions by
his side. ] have seen them here In this very room
find themselves PROSTATE on the pavement, aud
sob ike children, sst " one came the pews ql his
usoshers esrest on account ~ anne lsttefs receis-
cd from him, and 10 another the tidings THAT his
second bfother,who Ind tiled 70 follow him 10 the
war. had been seized and sent into Bohemia
Poor feliowsf 10 hear them cxefAim: and We have
IL, 900 afus we who nj fht have rendered an in
surrectiop successful; We are useless ~ our Ne-
aice. aud worse, for We haye compromised our
families. Alb il was the saddcst sight that have
seen f.T many day. Just 70 give you m idea oi
what they have undergone to join the ranks !
will cite but one instance.
A certain Pegolini. WIN fought under Garibal-
di in 1913, retn. ned to Venice to his wife and
little children. 10 whom he VAS devotedy attach.
cd /; compromised in tho affairs ii 1852, he was
compelled to fly and went to Genoa. The Aus
TRANS refused permission to bis wife tn join him;
for six months he went mad, and confined IN
the Mani,onio. During the amnesty he returned
home once more; he could not live apart from his
eldest son, n child Of eleven but when the war
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own means and bis own schemes sent two hundred
and fifty volunteers safely the camp. Suspect
id by the government,t the Anstrians sent eighteen
gems a. arB,es to arrest him, he ~ noted for his
hercuIean strength he disposed of six, eudcd the
rest. and crossed the Po--here he remained fifty
six hours-then through Bologna, Ponara. Flo
renee. wound his way up TO Turin, aud joined the
ranks.
could relate hundreds Of such instances. No
province eqnallei Venice in the constancy of her
heroism it, III aud 40; Eonc had surpassed her in
energy and cheerful sacrifice. But IL the irst Ma
roeon sacrificed her mt Campo Fnrmio, 81 his
nephew has dune at VIafranca. Will the day of
retribdtion never, never come? have paid my
last visit to the hospitals; alas each day go
fresh beds vacant, and though the principal
danger is over, many poor fellows daily dying
from the effect OF amputaion delayed too long
After Solferin0, many with broken limbs, bodies
transfxed with balls, lay, one, two and three
days INTENDED. save when some compassionate
hand bahed their wounds with fresh water; this
the fault Of no one the French loudest in
their prase of The care and tenderness that has
been shown To Them bnt the fearful numbers rem
dered it impossible that all could meet with i'm
mediate attention.
1 rgct whether told you that tho Zouavo who
planted first the French banner ut MalnkoH was
among the wounded Mt Magenta; ut fist great
fcar was entertained for his life but when saw
him yesterday he was insisting being dismiss
ed trom the hospital. They very troublesome
customers, these Zouaycs -f the greatest vigilance
il not exercised the moment they can crawl cut Of
bed, thcy are up and away and sad to say. return
much the worse for drink. At the Osptae Litta.
which is chiefly reserved for the piedmontesc,
asked why the sentines were stationed round the
garden 'Ah, wo have very few Inuaves," was
the reply, but they had sentinel apiece to pre-
vent them escaping over the garden wall.
am told that the mir Of Milan proves very bad
for those who have undergone operations here. as
many as possible are sent to Genoa, Como, etc
Certainly the most to be pitied the Austrian
wounded | saw many Of them ut first, but since
they have been removed to the Hospital Of St.
francesca it is difficult to gnin admission. Aban-
doned by the Austrians without care or thought,
and this even ut Pava, where there was no
necessity, they cannot get over the fean of their
best friends, the surgeons Now they are getting
re.assured but am told that four Austrians to
one French or Pedmontcse die from sheer moral
reasons; besides that their wounds are infinitely
more dangerous and painful. An Austrian bull
let g,es right through fellow said one of the doc
tors to me, and either kills him or does little dam
age; but the French ball is like u thimbe, hollow
and in the interior is three cornercd piece of
lead which rebounds and causes hdeous oontu
siuns. The wounds, too, inflicted by the rifled
cannon arc hdcous to behold Poor wrctchcs
Italians, llungarians, men of every nation, torn
from their homes to ii sht for IL cause that is not
theirs. One cannot but look upon them as Aus.
trians, and hate them with the deadly hate which
that mere word inspires The poor ilnngarians
induced by kossuth to desert, IRE in sad pligh
to return to Hungary is to return to certain death
Here they penness, in foreign country
isnorant OF the language. A friend of mine who
saw about six hundred of them at Alcssandria
SPEAKS of them us in the most miserable cond-
ton.