Year: 1859

The Austrians after the Late Battle.


The correspondent of the New York
Evening Post, writing from Alessandria,
saysEa.J s


In striking contrast with the condnct of
the French is the manner with which those
SO unfortunate rs 10, tall into. the power Of
Che Austrians are treated. AtCnsteggio, a
Village near Montebello, through with the
Austrians passed the day they made the at
tack on the division of General Forey, they
found some of the families still in the place
who had not heard OF the approach Of the
Ausirians in time TO escape. In the house
Of one Of these families they found an old
gun, which had been used by the head of
the family in his quality of National Guard.
They executed the whole Of the nine per-
sons that formed the family for this reason.
Among those put to death were two children
under seven years of age, and three women.
The atrocious barbarity OF the act needs no
comment D. q ID t--e


Ihave been assured Of the fact by one OF
the villagers, who was hid iu pit--a sort
of place for keeping farming utensils, dug
in the side OF a Hill. From his hiding place
he saw the execution, and, when telling me
of il, his eyes glared and his whole frame
shook with horror and emotion. This man
was still in the pit when the Austrians were
forced TO retreat, and as they passed through
the village he counted loo wagons filled
with their wounded. He says the Austrians
were incensed to find that the Piedmontsse
had destroyed all the provisions they were
forced to leave behind them in the village,
and that they had knocked in the heads of
all the wine casks. -


One remarkable thing is, that the Aus
trians did not make a single prisoner at
Montebello. When the French officers called
the roll after the battle, all the men that
were not present TO answer were found either
dead or wounded-not one was missing
The Austrians did not succeed in making
single prisoner. The day of the engage
ment visited the battle field. Alas il ia
a sad thing to do; all the glory aud pomp
of war fades into Significance before the
/ utter mirry and desolation of battle field
{ the day after the action, At the time ar
rived the bodies of the dead had been COL
lected and were lying in rows near the ceme-
| terry the faces of the men were covered
I over, and near them stood those of their
comrades whose duty it was to bury them
! In heap, piled apart from the rest, recog-
! nized. from the uniforms, the bodies OF the
| officers who he died bravely facing the
/ enemy.
II you have never witnessed such "a sight,
| advise you never 10 do so as long rs you
can avoid it; ones reflections are not gay |;
death, in all its most revoltiag aspects, faces
| you, forcing upon your mind the suffering
that mhst ensue when the loss OF the man


you see stretched iifeess before you becomes
known To their families. How many poor


mother, thought !, is waiting in an agony Of


hope and fear for the list OF the killed and


wounded, 10 know whether her darling son


is among them How great her despair
/, when she ascertains that the hope OF her old


age, her son, who only a short time since
parted from her in all the buoyancy Of hope
and health, has fallen, and that his body


lies far from her-that a mothers tears
may not fall upon his grave The subject
is one too melancholy to dwell upon-l
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