Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1859 — A Chapter on Pronouncing the Names of Places at the Seat of War. [ARTICLE]

A Chapter on Pronouncing the Names of Places at the Seat of War.

On the 29th of April, the Austrians crossed the river Ticino (Te-chee'no.) Tney crossed at Pavia < Pavee'a) and Berguardo (Ba-ra-gwar’do,) and would have crossed at Buflalora (Boot-fa-lo'ra) had tiny not found the bridge blown, up. Tin v occupied the towns of Novara (No-v h'ru Vl ,;vona tVe-jay v.in<>,) Paifat za (P-iila Flomagnano (Ro-tnan-y .h’no,) and Verceii (Verchel’lee.) establishing their headquarters, first at Rotibio (Rob'be-o) and afterwards at Mortara (Mortah’ra.) They fortified th rnseives on batiks of the river Sesia (Sa’se-a) and as far north as the Lago Maggiore (Lah-go Madjo’ra.) They pushed their reconnoitering parties a« far west as Stroppiana (Strop-pe-ah’no) and Santhia (San’te-a.) and southward as ftr as San Giorgio (San Jor‘jo) and Voghera (Vo-gay’ra) having crossed the Po at Cornale (Cor-nah’la) and menaced Tortona (Tor-to'na.) At I rassinetto (Fra se-net'to) they had a skirmish with the Sardinians, at Pontecurone (Pon’ta Coo-ro’na) they blew tip a railway bridge, and at Valenza (Vahlen’zah)- destroyed another. So much for the foops of Count Gyulai (Joo-li’. Mean while the French, crossing the Alps, came pouring down from Mount Cenis (Mon Cenis (Mon Sch-nee') into Suza (Soo’sa; and pushing forward to join the Sardinians at Turin, which they call Torino (To-ree’no,) whence the Allied troops advanced to fortify the banks of the Dora Baltea (Do’ra Baltay’a.) The other division of the French, and the Emperor Napoleon Lima -If, landed at Genoa (in Italian Ge-no’va.) and proceeded north by railway to Novi (No’vee,) where they joined the Sardinian column, whose head quarters were at the impregnable fortress of Alessandria (Alessan’dre-a,) and who also held the fortified town of Cassale (Ca-sah’la.) The King and Emperor having met, established their temporary headquarters at Occimiano (Ot-che-me-ah’no,) whence they can easily communicate with t heir respective commanders—General La Mormora (Lamar’rnora) and Marshal Canrobert (Cjinn-ro-bair.’)