Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-18


manufacture of arms is still carried
on extensively in this city, but silk
spinning and weaving is the chief
industry. The city suffered fearful
lv from the French invasion in 1912.
when it was pillaged and burnt, and
most of the inhabitants slaughtered.
The French boasted that they had
murdered 5000 people. They were
led by the "gentle Due de Nemours''
and the celebrated Bayard, the Chev-
alier sans peur ct sans reproche. 1t
was 200 years before Brescia recov-
cred from this visit of the courtly
Knight and the gentle Duke. In
deed, it has hardly convalesced vet.
A short distance beyond Breseia,
the charming
LAKE GARDA
comes suddenly into view, which is
the largest lake in Italy, being 8
miles wide at the south end, which is
skirted by the railroad, and 40 mile .
long, extending up among the Tvrol
Alps. It has been sounded to the
depth of 1000 feet and "no bottom. y
Its upper portions is surrounded by
high, preeipitous mountains; while
around the lower end is an undulat-
ing plain, on which the olive and
emon are much cultivated. 1t
abounds in fish of the trout, pike,
and eel species, or rather did until
the introduction of trolling, which
is rapidly exterminating them. The
outlet of the lake is the river Min
clio, at the Fortress of Peschiera,
which, previous to 1866, was the
boundary between Venitia and the
Lombardy territory. Peschiera is
one of the four famous fortresses
called the "Quadrilateral"- 9th
ers being Verona, Mantua and Le-
guano. Before the train reaches
Peschiera it passes through the north
end of the scene of the great
BATTLE OF SOLDERING,
which extends from the railroad sta
tion at Devenzano, on the Lake Gar
da, y miles southwark, through the
villages of Solferino, Cavuana and
CastigIione. Solferino, perched on a
high hill, overlooking the plain, was
the centre of the Austrian position.
1t can be seen from the railroad sta
tion. Victor Emanuel occupied with
10000 italian troops, the first three
miles of the line south of the lake;
and Louis Napoleon, with 10000
French, extended the line nine or
ten miles farther south. The Aus
trians, commanded by their young
Emperor, faced them with $50, 900
troops and 400 pieces of artillery.
The murderous combat began at five
a. m. of June "a, 1859. At last,
about four p. m, by a supreme eff
fort, the French carried the heights
of Solferino, cut the Austrian army
in two, and captured 81, 900 prison
ers and 40 guns: The Austians then
,retreated behind the Adige River,
under shelter of the guns of the
great fortress of Verona, where the
French were afraid to attack them;
and Louis Napoleon hurredly and un-
expectedly made peace at Villa-fran-
ca, Aug. II, by the terms of which
Austria. surrendered Lombardy and
retained the Province of Venice.
When Louis began the campaign he
declared the object to be the liberia
ton Of Italy from the yoke of Aus
tria, from the Alps to the Adriatic !;
but he stopped short at the "elbows
of the Mincio," as the New York
Times called it, to the intense dis
gnstiof Count Cavour, who had IN
duced him to undertake the cam
paign. Loues "weakened' before
the 'tQuadrilateral," " though his un-
Gle took all the fortresses sixty years
before. aAa 49,
The most noted object to be seen
in
.YERoNk.
which contains 10000 inhabitants,
is the great Roman Amphitheatre,
or Coliseum, built about A. D. 81.
The interior is nearly perfect; the
outer circuit was considerably dam
aged by an earthquake in 1884. The
greatest diameter of this Amphithe-
atre is 81 and the lesser 404 feet.
The height of what remains of the
wall exceeds 100 feet. 1t is calcu-
lated that it could seat 10000 spec
tators of gladiators fighting lions
and each other. It built Of Vero-
ma marble, and is one of the best
preserved Roman ruins to be seen in
Italy. Besides the Amphitheatre,
Verona contains several other re-
markable monuments of the period
of the C@sars-such as gates, arches,
and columns which I have not time
to describe. The, picture gallery
contains many works of considera-
BILE merit, but it does not rank in the
first class.
After leaving Verona few miles,
the train passes close by the scene of
Napoleon's hard won victory at
THE BRIDGE OF ARcoLE.
It=was here he ran so narrow an es-
cape from losing his life. Deeming
the possessien,o of the bridge indispen-
sable, he put himself at the head of
his thrice-repulsed troops, and seiz-
ing a standard advanced through a
tempest of shot, and planted it on
the middle of the bridge; but the
fire there became so violent that the
grenadiers faltered in the charge,
and seizing the General in their
arms carried him back, amidst
cloud of smoke, the dead and the
dying. The Austrians instantly
rushed over the bridge and pushed
the fugitives into the marsh, Napo-
leon among others, who was sub
merged to his chin in the mud and
water. The grenadiers pereeiying
that they had lost their leader, the
cry ran through the ranks, ''forward,
and save the General!'' Returning
to the charge, they drove back the
Austrians, and finding 'le Petit Cor
poral' nearly drowned, extricated
him from his perilous situation, with
explosions of laughter, among the
orroans of fhn dvinor A suhqanuant