The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-05
Correspondence of the Philadelphia Ledg
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MILAN, Oct. Is, lS59.-To enter Sardinia to-
wards Chamounix is often permitted without the
signature of an officer higher than gen d'arme;
but at the Simplon the signature of the Sandman
Minister or Consul is required Baggage is searched
before arriving at Domo d'Osselo; but no fault car
be found with the manner in which one is treated
by the officers of the Dagana, beyond what an
American generally finds with persons who demand
his name age business and destination.
The name of Victor Emanuel first meets the
eve of the traveller at the frontier Custom House.
where the Sardinian coors, red. white and green
float above proclamation, in which the value OF
the coins of all nations is fixed with reference to
a Sandman standard. Theuceforward, at every
place of Importance, his laws and prOclamation'
are seen 50 frequently that one has no time to for
get through the domnons of what sovereign he
is passing. But little occurs until the country il
more deeply penetrated, to suggest the polltlca
and martial strife of which she has been recent
ly the theatre, and from which, in the opinion O
those of her people best capable of Judging, she
enjoys but temporary cessation.
Soldiers become more numerous as we approach
Lake Maggiore, and when cross the narrow
sheet of water and enter the land which Austria
so recently numbered among her provinces, the
evidences of the recent change crowd everywhere
on the sight. Soldiers, both Piedmontese anc
French grow more numerous-the latter dressed
in the common French uniform of the infantry. rec
pantaloons and red cap, the former in their darl
blue costume and round hats, frequently with q
bunch of dark purple feathers at the side. There
is now no trouble TeparulnS lHe huStIldu fist
which used to be so vigorously required here, anC
although there is officer at the anding-place tt
examine passports, the process is gone through
with so specifically that it seems like the fading
remnant of an old custom rather than the require
ment of law.
The impression that one is in a most loyal and un
questioned province of Sardinia becomes stronger
the longer he remains in Lombardy. Nearly all ev
licences of Austrian supremacy and occupation have
disappeared in the few months which have succeed
ed the defeats of Magenta and Solferino. Like
bow long bent and suddenly unstrung, the race
seems to have gained its normal condition witt
surprising suddenness. As in ancient Rome, the
people, rejoicing to be rid of monster filled up the
chambers of the golden house of Nero and covered
its walls with clay that the memory of their sorrow
might be lost, so the inhabitants of Lombardy now
carefully eface all trace of their despotic rulers
and raise instead the standards of those lands which
they deem their deliverers. White paint now GOV
ers the walls which were once blazoned with thu
efigy of the doubleheaded eagle of the North, anC
Austrian colors are as much under ban as was tht
red, black and gold of the German Republicans il
1S4S. The peasants wear hats of peculiar color
with the inscriptions indicative of their loyalty t
the new order of things; and one imagines he cal
see on their bright counenances and hear in thei
merry voices an evidence of the of that liber
ty, which, except in their hopes, they have beer
strangers to so long.
Upon Lake Como we met several of Garibaldi'
soldiers the original chassems des Alps who Great
ed his reputation, and that among the very noun
tains by which surrounded. They wer,
Piedmontese, not more than five feet seven inche
high, but all vim and muscle, in fact with just th
nature to Chamber along rough Alpine paths, ant