The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-11-19
From the London Times Of 2d
THE ITALIAN WAR

P
rHOACHING EAUn UIuEn-A AND DEurstyE
BATTLE IN PREPARATION.
We are now, without doubt, at the last scene of
the Neapolitan campaign. Unless some unforeseen
event change the fortunes of war, few days must
suffice to drive the Bourbon Sovereign from that
little corner ot his kingdom which still belongs to
| him.
Asserting his newly acquired rights and follow
ing up the late victory of Sessa, Victor Emmanuel
| has now closed with his opponent We learn from
the latest kilograms that he has crossed the Carl.
gliano and must therefore be within few miles of
Gaeta. We know not what the intentions of the
| Bourbon Generals may be, but it seems to us that
| their strategy is not of the most skillful Ever
since their defeat on the Voturno, on the lst of
october, they have given up all notions of an Of
| fensive movement. The repulse inflicted on them
by the desperate courage of some of the Garibald-
| an troops on that eventful morning seems to have
been death-blow to all their hopes of retaking
Naples; and yet they keep Capua, which can only
nave value as an advanced post or the road to
! Naples.
From one place to the other is but DAYS march
and a month ago the troops of King Francis in
spred such terror in the citizens of the capital that
they were ready at any moment to substitute the
white flag for the tri-cOlor But things are now
quite changed. The Garibaldians are not alone in
the field Were they even so, they are now strong
er and more disciplined than month since as well
as encouraged by their victory, and ready to face
regular soldiers with calmer hearts than before
| But the Pledmontese have now entered the country
! in such strength that a forward movement of the
| Neapolitans is quite an impossbiity.
Alter his successive defeats it is doubtful whether
Francis III. has more than $4,000 men left, and at
least that number are under the command of Victor
Emmanuel in person, operating the long strag.
Cling line which stretches between Gaeta and
| Capua. By the present movement of the Pied
montese the communication between the two places
must be completely broken. The main body of
the Neapolitans shut in between the Garigliano,
the sea- and the Papal frontier, must retire on
Gaeta, unless it is prepared to attack and drive
/ mo- hn r,n1
that this course is impracicable and that as regards
the force opposed to the Pedmontese, the campaign
will resolve itself into siege of Gaeta Capua in
| the meantime, has been left to Garibadi who vii
doubtless succeed in forcing it to surrender.
The last news is to the effect that the fire against
the place had already begun. The actual opera
tons IN this quarter are perhaps of minor import
ance. 1t must fall with the fall of Gaeta il not
before. When the Piedmontese close in round
the latter place, when the Neapolitan army begins
to think that resistance has been sufficiently pro-
| longed, and when he whom we must call the late
King takes his last farewell of italy, nothing will
remain for Capua but to haul down the Bourbon
flag. In the meantime the Royal troops employed
there are cut off from the main army, and can rem
der it no assistance.
Austria can scarcely even now make up her mind
that the game is lost in Italy, and, no doubt had
| the Northern POtentates shown her more active
sympathy, and had her Diploma been more of q
success, she would have done some desperate deed.
AS 1t is, she seems inclined for the moment to re-
main quiet. We sincerely hope that this disposition
may not be merely temporary. That the question
OF peace and war has been all along trembling in
the balance is we'll known. 1t was evidently to
learn the determination of the Russian and Prussan
rulers that Francis Joseph went to Warsaw, and
now Count Rechberg avows that questions OF
| the very last Importance were put to those
Powers. Will Russia and Prussia recognize
| the facts that have been or NAV be accom-.
pllshed in Itay2" 'Should Austria be attacked
by Sardinia, and the latter be supported by another
great Power, what would be their attitude?" ''In
the event OF another war, and of its being trans
ierred to any part of the German Confederation,
what would Prussia do?'' These questions can
nave but one meaning, and though the answers are
not forthcoming, we may still hope that they were
such as to convince Austria that her best policy il
non-interference. As to France, she has indicated
her sense of the spirit in which the questions were
asked by holding a council of and adding an
other battalion to her regiments
The MARYLAND BAPTIsTs AND THE UNToN.-At the
Maryland Baptist Association in session in Wash
lngton on Thursday, committee, of which the Rev
DR.. Richard Fuller, of Baltimore, was the chair.
man, having been appointed to draught fraterna
address and invocation to the Baptists of the land
IN view OF our sectional discontents and theil
threatened disasters made a report which wa
adopted by the Association and ordered to be pub
lshed for general circu aton. The paper breathe
the true spirit of Christian sympathy and patriotic
ardor IN behalf of the preservation of our National
Union, with its countless blessings, religious as
we'll as civil.
The body of Miss Garth, one of the victims of thu
Lady Elgin disaster, passed through Louisville, ell
route for Paris, KY, the residence of her parents
The reward of 81 900 offered for the recovery o
her body, has been paid, after careful examna
tion under oath before magistrate, to four young
men named Rourke, Kessler, Curtis and Crocker
The body of Mrs. Garth has not yet been found.
Mrs. President.elect Lincoln has many callers a
springfield, and conducts her receptions in a man
ner that shows she possesses the necessary gualif
cations to assume the higher duties of the Presi
dents wife at w Washington. Her sister, Mrs. Miriam
Edwards, OF Springfield, an accomplished lady, AM
niece, young lady of eighteen, will accompany
Mrs. Lincoln to the White House.
A telegraphic despatch from Evansville, Indiana
announces the recent death of David Dale Owen
He was a man of considerable scientific attainments
and particularly noted as geologist He was son @
| Robert Owen, the well known socialist, and broth
er OF Robert Dale Owen, late United States Ministe
to Naples.
The safety of the steam gun.boat Seminole is no,
put beyond cavil. Advices from her to the middl
OF October are to hand, which renders the rumor @
her loss in August complete illusion. She wa
about to commence active squadron duty on tn
coast of Brazil at the date mentioned. Her officer
and crew are well,