New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-07-18
the Great St Bernard, and descended upoa a

tween Louis Napoleon aud Francis Joseph wsr
suspended, and that the Austrians had crossed u,
Ticuc, when Napoleon. BY long professions OF nd
way trains, poured masses Of men and maseri,s
into the port, on the Mediterranean, whence fesa
Of steamers bore them swiftly 10 the Italian coat
Here RAILWAYS distributed them 10 the point, threat
ened by the Austrlaus. Ii was steam that pv
vented Francis Joseph gaining any advantage over
the Allies by his precipitate advance into SARDINIA
Montebello snd Magenta witnessed an unprsce-
dented application Of steam power to the exisea.
cies of battle. Ia tho heat Of the fight, raj va
trsns broulh t 10 the ground succession OF TO-
endorsements from distant posts. The shun
whistle Of the locomotive, demanding clear track
as it arrived and departed, mingled with the
cangor of the trumpets the shouts of the c,m
batants, and the booming of the cannon. And
when the bloody strife had ebbed away, railway
coaches bore the wounded and the dying of tia
field, TO find hospital or grave.
The same treless agent has carried to the Miac,s
the heavy siege train to be used IN battering The
walls Of Mantua 1t has also deposited on the
banks Of that river guu-bosts, in fragments, to be
there put together and manned by amphibiou,
troops from the harbors of France, to aid in ~
duciug the fortress that SO long de6ed the fnt
Bonsparte.
TWAS the steamer and the railway that enabled
and emboldened the Emperor of the French 70 ID
vance so rapidly and fearlessly upon the impres
" nable quadrangle" where the whole Austrian
forces were posted; for these young servitor u
old Mars could bring up fresh men, munitions sal
supplies even faster than the Austriaus could re-
treat or the Allies pursue How different the result
of the Russian invasion if the great Emperor hsl
been followed from Paris TO Moscow BY friendly
line of railway
Hardly less useful to both armies is that other
modern invention, the telegraph. Manipulated By
the respective chiefs of the forces, distant troops
in the twinkling of an eye, receive orders to con-
centrate here, or strike blow yOnder, or move
thi.her which, in any previous European contest
il would bave required days or weeks to communi
cate Through the same medium, the two Enper
ers are now, doubtless, summonipg reenforcements
from their dominiOns for another, and perhaps an
other, great struggle, during the present Summer
which, but for the cooperating agencies of steam
and electricity, would be necessarily postponed 10
another campaign.
But il is in the instantaneous communication to
the capitals of the begerents, and thence to the
world, of intelligence of important strategic move
ments and the result of great battles, that tho
changes wrought by science since France aud her
foes met in arms before, most strikingly Illus.
trated After Napoleon l. and his grand army die.
appeared in the forests OF Russia, long weeks
elapsed ere France had tidiDgs Of the good or i'll
{ rtune which attended them. Ii was full two
weeks after Wellington and Bicher shook hands
at La Belle Alliance over the victory Of Waterloo.
before some Of the European capitals received au
tbentic intelligence fcom that decisive field Al
the end of sixty three days, meager accounts OF
the battle found their way into the metropolitan
Journals Of America. So influential newspaper
as The albany Gazette dismissed the subject ia
sour or five confused and unsatisfactory lines
During the first Napoeonic campaign in It,y.
nearly month interviewed before France knew
that it's stripping general, in three bloody conflicts
fought in just twice as many days, on and near the
nights Of Castiglione had cut in pieces three Aus
trian armies, led by three veteran commanders.
killing, wounding aud capturing 10000 Of the
enemy.
How marked the change now A great battle
GIBBS and flows over the hills and plains around
Castiglione, from early dawn till the going down Of
the sun. AS night slowly spreads its pail over the
field Paris luminates its streets for the victory Of
Solierino. While the SardiDisn batteries, in the
long evening Of this bloody day are still engaged
in forcing back the stubborn Austrian right wing.
half the capitals of Europe are bounding with joy
over a field WOO, or dropping with regret for q
battle lost Ard in one week thereafter, this
stIugge on the slopes of the Minco is eagerly can
vsssed all along the western coast OF the AtlAatlc
and on the shores of the Mexican Gulf, at tho head
waters of the st. Lawrence and at tho mouth Of
the Mississippi, on board steamers floating on the
great lakes ard in log cabins the banks Of ths
Missouri.
The homage paid to the press is one Of the most
gratifying peculiarities Of this war. Even tho
monarch who gives warnings, imprisons editors,
and sieuces journals in Paris, carries among tho
equipage of the Imperial camp printing establish
ment, the synbol OF liberty aud progress. Leading
European journals have correspondents with both
armies, who give glowing pictures of the weary
march, the gay byouac, and the terrible battle
shock. Quite as Trustworthy, and infinitely moro
erspbic, than the official Dispatches these pictures
are reproduced on both sides of the Atlantic, and
read the world over. This new feature on tho
wrinkled front of Mars, essentially democratic in
its nature is Of American origin. The idea Is
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