New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-11-20


and peounary, they did rash oct of suicide oontem
plated no exile, fell into uDmaniy despair. The his
Tory OF man shows few equal examples OF beautn sadness
and everlasting devotion Dsarmed they wore the bayo
net at their hearts At every chance they rushed 10
They grow brohery love the older they grew under
tyranny. No bravos daggers Tevenged them: open
war and indomabe patriotism were their appeals. And
IL 30 happened that the bengnity and wisdom which
chasten men to justice aud sobnety purified Venice to
nobler charities Her arstocracy, unused to labor grew
poor and helpless. Her commons used 10 hunger, sub
mission and toll felt that freedom, when IT should come
must be Of better sort than they had known Therefore
Venice is to-day city educated In the light Of modern
repubcanism, united in contaminated desire, the
last but Of the great municipal republics of the South
to forego its exclusive AMBITION and assent 10 the least
oneTous Of existing monaTchieal governments.
THE QUADRILATBRAL EVACUATED.
You with me, therefore, the last Austrian train
that takes the rail toward the Adatic W. have been
bowed across the great Lombady plains fertile with oil We
and mulberry, maize and vine great dewy basiD deep in
mountains, far of tipped with snow, but dyed in
the Italian clouds and when have passed the last
rice fields whose morasses are now only green and rank
with surface life we shoot upon prospect reaching down
from the north Of lake like inland sea- parting like
bue-vened hand the flushed and squald Alps This is
the Lake Of Garda the largest Of the soft estuares of
Italy as beautiful as any and than any cOmmemO-
rated by battle. Through its long, tapeTng length ran
the boundary line between Italy and Austria. Valleys
beyond il dared up TO the sides of the Tyroean Alps
Parallel with IL ran the river Adge only narrow ridge
OF mountains between the natural and most direct route
10 Austria. Out of it the Mincio, whose dreaded
elbows have checked aspiration very long, not 10 men
Of the Quadrlaera like stretch Of the brightest sky IN
whose shining edges the ivehcst hghtnings leap
Gunboats Of the opposing nations went cruising
upon it. month ago their tbunders broke noon and
midnight And at the southern tip of the Lake Of Garda
lowset, boggy dirty with sodiery and their 'saria
the little town Of Peschica neses, like Cretan village
under the parapets of the Alps Its streets rude its
people poor il is swallowed up in mOats and bastons
whose grmy brick nights 20, long, walowing about
IT, The Mineio which divides these, is shallow stream
passing paltry slets bigger than the Hedgemain,
Bull Run and it cuts in half the rolling landscape, with
here and there 10 the south conoa hill 10 break it,
Each rse Of ground in the eye as far off as the horizon
IS Iedan unette rife-pit tower low zg-zag OF
teld works. They commence at the eye in stockades
whose cannon frequent the separate palisades
They 20 climbing every rise, descending every swell
gun in the prospect 10 intercept every sunbeam Far
of, you see tall tower cap chf and
stray into TIC IeuQ,e sly, This is SOferino As far
more eastward church tower narrow and lofty, floats
out Of the chaos Of paTapes. This is Cusozza Around
this perch Of yours the rresoutc foot of battle has
treated and returned for one-ha the years Of it's history
Tho confluence Of streams and dostines makes the
natural battle-ground between the Saxon and the Roman
races OF old its separate cities fortified but when
the German got possession Of 1t permanently he went TO
work with cold, calculating assiduity, 70 make II past
lighting for. 1t resembles from Pescheraor Verona,
the great bare plain OF Manassas, little rolling, per-
haps but It's defcnses, though frequent small and
well defended Richmond. The natural obstacles
20 getting possession Of are not equal 20 those OF any
important strategic point celebrated by the late Rebellion
in America The quadrateral can give forage 10 an army
Of 800 600 men, yet extreme confines are two days
march apart The few people who live upon IT. in separate
farms wIetChod and almost savage They haze been
hunted by repeated battle into cellars and bitches in.
shifted by common soldoy trcspafsod upon broken. Tho
villages al bulletpcccd, showing each great slim
SHAFT OF ehuIchtower raised up like testimony against
slaughter
rEscHERA, VERONA, AND MAyTUA GIVEN Up.
To-day, Wednesday, the 18th Of October, IN the
midst OF embrowning folages naked flagstaff nses
the town Of Peschlcra. At noon group Of men IN uni
form gathered within the emptied citadel HIS Majesty
APOSTOLIC OF Austria gives over 10 HIS Majesty earliest
fsNg No. OF
PeschieTa. His Majesty Of tho latter half hands them
over at TO the munic paiy Of Peschera Then on
the naked flagstaff trcolor runs upa flag not 30 beau
tful az home but better and brighter than tho
black and yellow Of the strangers IL il t-eolor green
white and red emblazoned in the white center with
Gothic cross No sooner does il show above the hayads
than from the Lake Of Garda now all Italian every gun
boat purchased sends flame and thunder Prom
every poor bedened window Of the town the same serene
cooTs are hOated. There is cOurtean base, ans
tocrat so proud that she does not fling them FORTH The
Ootpad and the student them IN miniature at Their
buttonhoe They rise from every swell and eminence OF
this deadly quadrateral, If vegetation Of emerald
white and crimson had sprung forth 10 some powerful
electricity. Like human standard bearer, Bnaycan-
armed these cOors eastward and southwark showing
on every village tower every poor blasted farmhouse
Their passage quick sight and light. They hane
above the gorge OF the railway faster than the train that
edes toward Venice laden with the last whte-coaed
sky buecosted Ausans They cover the late disastrous
battlefield where sleep the dead Of the peninsula feyery
grave had vegetated into At last they enter by the
same winku OF light, the twin monsters OF Mantua and
Verona and by their instant illumination make madness
and laughter. Under the great macbioated towers OF
Mantua under its sOlemny grand castle and palace from
every mareO gle and NOISY baston reflected IN lake
and morass the cOlos Of Piedmont shine They spange
at Verona the still remaining tomb Of Romeo and Juliet
make wondrous cornice TO It's marble amphtheaer crest
its Roman play house dTape every tong mill in the
stream Of the wide Adge leap along It's Roman and feu-
dial walls far into the salient towers on the spurs Of the
fruitful mountains and to the music Of rejoicing organs
they unwind from every church tower Down the streets
Of those long suffering cities straghtway the people pass
in wild accains bearing the selfsame symbol Of indie
and fix the trcoor at the muzze Of every gun II 1asnes
20 the flagstaff. 1t is gorgeous curtain ct every port
hole Mothers and their babes forth yet white with
the struggle Of childbirth that some faint trace OF the
happy hour may drop into the blue eyes and dwell there
forever. While thus with garlands songs and all the
warm spontaneity Of the South two older cities than the
fame Of Christ acknowledge the ndebe love of and
country. The trains Of the banished Austrian are sliding
with the speed of shame and eef around the head Of the
Adriac. They the cities they could never win to
love themthe mutteng cities that treaty, bnbe, aud
could not keep cOnsian-unro the ensign woven
in secret wherever they pass or pause Vcenza hngs 1t
from her slender spires Padua Grapes with 1t the tombs
of Antenor and Livy. II reaches TO Maestro the main
land keep Of Venice and flashed like bate-sgDa across
the mighty causeway that touches the Queen City Of the
Adraue.
FIRST vIBw OF VENICE REDEEMED.
You who have been in Venice will be glad II succeed
in recalling it to you again. TO you who have not IT,
let show from this long causeway frequent in bate
res, bridges and declaring gates that reach at intervals
down its two miles Of rails and arches city set low and
level IN the shallow amid host Of slets Beyond
H. nile OF more rcach goueh Dtrs on Wnlch the AurhuC
breaks sending through wide aud liberal
plentiful tide rued by OF the storms beyond the
bar, yet adequate for nsyes, now, when build
deep and mighty leviathans. In the past through that
channel poured galeys Of war bent certain vic
tory the spoil Of the East drawn through it, dropped
yonder softly lighted quays aud when it woke in carnival
its lamps like the rival of the sun, staying in bis
place TO make fame the great Lagune. No city IN oul
west resembles it, none in all the older World. Yet out
its isolation melancholy idosyncrasy out
its damp and disease II beautiful in itself
in its people, in its melting skies. So does it show t.
light travel toward It. among faces long In exile
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