New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-07-22
THE ALLIED ARMIES IN ITALY.

VALLEJO on the Mir cio July 9.
Nothing, perhaps, proves more the great ana serons
character of thla wal than the almost total absence OF
| ,huse little encounters and engagements winch, in
| fumer vars, have been such fue opportunities Tor
billions young soldiers, and which tell 40 weiio tue
history Of The reason of tns Is simple enough.
Ia oct wars of which history tells US there was oIy
the gen, iea If all warfare clesr 10 the minds ot
| Lose who Undertook them-namely, to do az much
dan age possible Ia the enemy; whereas, TINS var
ss been nnCertakeD with detoite ain strateg,ca as
we, as political Al any ia'e, as far as the Allies
col LED their aim diving the Ausiria0s out Of
| Italy, Wih this aim clearly aud distinctly before
theID the difficulties and chances could be more or lees
| calculated in advance, and oil that vaguenes, aud
Dc.ruiLty avoided which gives RTE To those useless
nover ID TWO armies, neither Of which knows what 1t
| is io DO peAt.
The Aurians we're in this latter cae when they be-
| gan fbe war; Lobody koew why, and while they were
sow. 10 themselves With their harmless oien-
rive movements You saw all those insighhcant skr-
ni-hes the Sesia, To which even Ia tle dearth
VI events few paid any steUtioD, aud which We're pat
speedy end by the advance Of the Allies Since that
time the has been rolling along Ia great waves,
hsvirg tine for those brilliant little encounters
which iouD So to say, he ron Of Ssr'ars. Tue
LEE went straight oward their ain, and forced the
AusaDs to take, nke~lss, sgrander aud earnest
view Cf the war They we're hard pre- sed that they
could hot ,op at there TRIES, AMI ende syorci To OPP
pore to grand plan, execn ed with the most deter
mined vii equally gra operations.
Tins, wheh the Aur'rIans found themselves outgit-
TED by the flank the lcino they brought
up ib' 'T" ps IN all haste 10 opp,-e the advance.
They were b. aeD, and Immediately resolved To with
draw behind the Miocio. Tue fight at Maegnano only
took place ia oder to Dsure tbi retreat but that
time they avoioed opposing the adv aLce of the Ases
by mskiDg star0 AZ the river lines. Go the other
hand the Allies, intel oily carrying out their ewn
great pans, old not think for Of uolesting
tber retreat.
After the Allies had crossed the Cbiese, and msde
preparations for the passage Of the MnciO, the Aus
uisps attempted one great blow, and collecting all
their forces, tIed an Offensive movement, which ~as
Id - S.lc- "a. Lat
tie lost, the Fr-rcb, ~hoss preparations were not COM
pleted, did lot press the retIeating Ansrians very
herd; while these latter instead of uyIpg desuitory
d,feDse Of the MipciO oppored resistance 10 the
passage of IT, but ~itbout wasting any forces retired
b.tee.b Peschers srd VERONA tO await there the at
tack Of the Allies, or perhaps watch their time for
aDott er great .6ebsve movement.
1bjs evojiDg bdb sioes those little encounters
Which often extremely brilaDt, but almost nyari~
ably wib0nt any serioLs result, deprves the con-
sd.'stly OF i'sPctu"tqne elemen'-ot its individual
features, a. II were. You see Tiers IRE, this whole
pagn resolves isef into an alteration bet xeea
preparations aLd gre decisive blows There is moth
ing 10 hDk The tsotog.thtr. TIL ugh close TO the
great decirOn, there 10 ho sgn TO inoicse its ap-
proscb. With the exception Of few shots from
Pesbiers, don't believe there has been a shot ex-
char g'd between the two parties the battle Of
S,lfenDo.
The MiDco passage has been effected without any
difficulty, Offering by its good arrangements mater Of
uous ht 10 the military but otherwise being subject
rather for lardscap- painter than for painter Of
battles. Although The Ausirians had gone back from
u riVer al tbs precautions taken IS if there had
been constant danger from attack. The whole
bad very mach the appearance of field maneu ver ia
peacesb'e times, with the difference however, that
ev.nhe thin lire representing the hostile forces such
OCCASIONS Was entirely wanting. But the movements
bad to he 80 bneG that the army should be resdi
nes- 10 receive the enemy 10 be down from
his position between Verona ard Pe,chiera. You will
scarcely require TO lock at the map TO koow that the
eIenys position on tie lest flank Of the allied
aInie, fscing the MnciO, With Pcschiera ust at tho
aoee formed by the intersection of the MDco with his
extreme right The Allies thus obliged, while
crossing the Mincio to change their front ana taco
TO the left. For this purpose the Sariinaas.
who had Kept the POSITION Of San MartIno took
Up the line from Ry,ltela, on tee lake, in
the neigbborhoOa Of PozzOIeDgo. The LIST French
Cops, which had been next TO them in the ordre de
J0rdtHe OF the 9Th, marched 10 Pozzoengo, aud,
occopyipg PODt, faced against PescheTa. The 81
Corps, next 10 H. kept ts original direction ~ ward the
Bnco joining The 1T Corps at Castellaro where the
nd ads cowD 70 Monzsnbsuo. To the night Of this
corps Was the ib at Vol a. likewise facing tue nco,
The 30 al toIto. The crossing took place at almost
al points simunaueousy, with just sufficient interval
bcteeer the COPE to a)w time for that arhest to tho
~ III 10 tccoBpnsh III change Cf front aud into
the ga dire UD with the ohers Thus the ith Corps,
Which was urttest nth the exception Of the 3D. de-
tacbed towaro Goito was the ist 10 cross AZ Bor-
ehrtto md Naegio 10 gain the high road 10 Verons,
aud take up s petition toward Niafranca. This was
on the morning VI the 29lh. Since that time all the
corps have crossed successisey changing their drec
tlob from wet TO east and making front against the
AustTsn position At this present moment, then, our
line is cLerGi on TIE Mpcio facing from north. west
TO southeast with the Sandman he adquarters at Mon
zambaIo and those Of the Emperor at Vslego, whila
the outpoe;s are beg ond Salionze.
In the eSap DAT the passage 0t the 4ueio, th0Va