Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-28

Process 81 the War In aIy-ParticuIars
Of the Surrender OF oTCnpau4NearIy Eleven
Thousand HIen Taken Prisoners-An Im-
mense Quantity Of Arms and Ammunition
Fails inte the Hands of the BesieEers.
The correspondent Of the London Times
writes from Caserto on the End inst.
Yesterday afternoon at four P. M. our
batteries opened on Capua this morning at
dawn the commander of the fortress sent out
TO say that he was ready to treat. The
negotiations began at ten A. NJ. at Santa
Maria, andin the evening the espitulstion
was signed. Thus, the bugbear which has
SO long excited Neapolitan imaginations, has
When rs approach Of the Piedmontese
from the North and Garibaldis expedition
across the Yolturno made the main body of
the Neapdiitafls withdraw behind the
GariglianO, the preparations to reduce Capua
began. Capua lies in one Of the numerous
sudden bends which the River Volturno
makes in lis course toward the sea. The
whole town is built on the left or south bank
Of the river,s and resembles in shape an ivy
leaf, two sides of which are defended blythe
VolturDo, while only the third, between the
two river bends, opens out toward st.
Tsmaro Sapta Maria, and st. Angelo. 1t
was against this side of the river q single
battalion, with,two field guns, was detached
from the Piedmontese force at Sessa to pre-
vent any issue on the high road from Capua
to Gaeta. lf1i f.r
The lineof attack was divided between
our forces and the Piedmontese who came
under Soma and landed at Naples. These
latter consistoftwo brigades, both of them
weak, and one of them, the Brigata Re, with
two battahons at Naples. These two bri-
gades, in all about 1000, took the left at
tack, from St. Tamaro and La Foresta to
Santa Maria. The CosenZ Division remained
in its position at Santa Maria and was en-
ployed in the attacks on the center; while
Medicfs Division. which had relieved the
Piedmontese at st. Angelo had the right
attack. Gen. Della Rocca was sent from the
Piedmontesa headquarters to direct the
whole attack, and took up his quarters in
the center at Santa Maria. Each side con-
structed itaown batteries, and manned them,
too, hut, as we were rather short of artillery
officers, some were lent to us for the bonn
bardRhent BY the Piedmontese. The points
against which the batteries were erected
, were, on the Piemontese side; the sUuth-
westerly angle, which lies close TO the river,
in the direction of La Forests from Santa
Maria the bastion of st. Salvatore, which
protects the entrance of the railway and Of
all the southern roads from Aversa and
Santa Maria into Capua; and on the right
the bastion e Santa Maddalena, which looks
in the direction of st. Angelo. -
|. y To- reduce the first, the Piedmontese
erected two batteries, one of three rihed
Z tWelve-pounders and two ten-inch mortars,
3 at q distaneeo of about 900 meters from the
st. Tamaro side, and another of seven rifled
+ gums to the left, in the direction of La For
esta. Against st. Salvatore, battery Of
three rifled guns and three mortars were
erected to the right of the Santa Maria road,
and battery of two mortars to the right
rear of this battery. Against Santa Mad
,dalene, finally, there was a battery of six
rified guns, to take it in its left flank, and
another of thirty7two-pounders to take it in
front. rTg
All these batteries had been prepared
without q shot being fred from any; of
them, until all were ready, yesterday after
noon. Thus the position of them remained
unknown to the fortress up to the last mo-
ment. Partly to conceal the position of
these batteries, in case of reconnaissance in
force on the part Of the enemy, and partly to
protect them against coup de main, the out
posts were gradually pushed forward until
. those on the right were at the edge of the
glacis, at not more than 400 or 500 yards
from the ramparts. Little parapets were
thrown up to protect them. One must allow
that the Neapolitans tried their best to break
through this circle, which shut them in more
anu bChIgClJ u uttl DdSSBu MlluOuL
some demonstration or attack being under
taken against our outposts above all, against
those of'Medici, toward st. Angelo. Inspite
of the assistance which these attacks derived
from the vicinity of the fortress, they were
invariably repulsed, but only with serious
loss.
Yesterday afternoon, at four o'clock,
the signal for opening of FIRE was given at
last, and our batteries went merrily at it.
But neither did the fortress remain idle, and
for the. first hour perfect shower of missiles
was sent in the direction of the batteries,
which, however, caused but very small dam
age. The aim could be but imperfect, for the
trees prevented good view, and all was but
guesswork. II was the same on our side,
only the bastfons were larger objects, and
therefore more easily hit. During the bonn
bardment, Victor Emmanuel arrived at st.
Angelo, and went up to the nights to have a
view OF the proceedings. But he very soon
returned toward Sessa. Toward nightfall
the fire became slack on both sides, aud,
with the exception of now and then ashell
which you could see traversing the air, all
was still. The out-posts reported, however,
to have heard great noise and confusion in
the town, which increased every time shell
fell. Tfta
The plan was not 10 bombard indefinitely,
but to recommehce few hours next morn
ing, and then assault the place. And the
dispositions were taken to effect this, all the
troops receiving orders to be ready to march.
But all these preparations became useless,
for at dawn the message came from General
du COrnet, the Swiss commander of the
fortress, that he was ready to capitulate g
The negotiations, which were carried on
with Della Rocca at Santa Maria, lasted
several hours / have not yet heard the
exact tenor of the capitulation, but the gar
rison will BE prisoners of war, and already
the order has been sent to Naples to prepare
the barracks Of the Granite for them. The
Cosenz Division is to occupy Capua. It was
TO have taken possession of the place this
evening, but it was deferred till Tomorrow
morning. a UT
November alt seems that the garrison
of Capua is much larger than we anticf-
pated. They turn out TO be between 1000
and 10000 men, among them a number Of
the gendarmerie, who had taken refuge
there as in a safe place.
The NdziORe of Florence states that at
Capua 10000 men and six generals have
been taken prisoners, and that beside, the
Piedmoutese got possession Of 200 brass
guns, l6O gun carriages, 10000 muskets,
10000 sabeEs 80 military wagons, pontoons
for a bridge 240 meters in length, 500 horses
and mules, large quantity of stores and
ammunition and several Thousand articles
of'clothipg. Er IL an
y A Very NATURAL CHRISTIAN DISPOSITION.
A clerical writer says: u know not how il
may be with others, but with myself find
that where there is readiness in Others 10
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