The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-28

4 vice their army into two columns on marching
| sOuthward, following out here the same strategy
as on their march into Bohemia, and lust as they
united their two advancing columns on the
| eve OF the decisive day Of Sudowa, they very
| likely united for battle before the day of
| AschafIenburg. One column advanced through
Electoral Hesse by way OF Huenleld and Fulda,
/ the other through Meiningen, over Muenner-
staedt and Kissingen, having the Rhoen Noun
tains between the two. The same strategical
| be charged to the Prince Alexander of Hesse
| and the Prince Charles OF Bavaria, the Federal
| commanders-they waited till the enemy be-
came too strong for them. The Prussians, after
| the junction of their two columns. had three
corps d'drmee, probably a hundred thousand
men, If not over that.
From the Augsburg Gazette, brought by the
Scotia, we have already learned that the evacua-
tion of Frankfort had been determined upon,
and that the Federal troops would abandon
their capital and concentrate around Schwein-
turt some fifty miles directly east in Inter.
Franken Nower Franconia), near which place
a battle was expected. Perhaps the Federals
were just on their way to SchWeinfurt when
they were attacked and beaten at Aschaffenburg
OF course, the Prussans will now occupy Frank
fort, and we may soon hear OF them at Wurzburg,
in Bavaria, at Darmstadt, Mayence, and Worms,
in Ducal Hesse, and we would not wonder if the
Bavarian Palatlnate of the Rhine should shortly
be invaded and occupied by them. All this
may be the result OF this single defeat, lust as
the present apparent prostration of Austria was
the result OF that unlucky day at Sudowa.
The Prusslans have advanced far into Moravia,
and occupied Brunn, lightly fortified city on
the confluence of Zwittawa and the SchwarZoWa
rivers, and about five miles west OF Austerlitz,
an ominous name for Austria. If the Austrian
commander is still at Olmutz with his army, we
may soon look for another battle. There are
two valleys that cut through the centre of Mo
ravia, in almost parallel lines from north to
south, and about thirty miles apart-the valley
OF the Schwarzowa, in which is situated Brunn,
and more easterly the valley of the March, with
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manding point Both these valleys unite on
the Hungarian frontier, where the Thaya river
joins the March, and here also the two rail
roads from Brunn and Ohnutz to Vienna con-
meet. Since the introduction of railroads as
important factors in strategical calculations,
this point has become of the utmost Importance.
Over it alone can Benedek communicate with
his basis OF supply and reinforcements, and over
it alone can the enemy approach the Austrian
capital Hence we expect to hear of sharp,
bloody Combat for the possession of this point.
Otherwise, however, if Benedek has succeeded
in throwing the bulk of his troops south of the
Vienna, then the level plains of the Marchteld,
where the Austrian arms have been so often
| victorious, and so often defeated, from the time
oil King Ottocar to the disastrous day OF Wagram,
will again be the field where the decisive battle
is to be fought.
The Italians advanced unopposed to Vcenza,
along the line of the railway towards Verona,
and the strategist of the telegraph informs us
that unless Cialdini be dislodged, the Austrians
could not withdraw their forces from the
Quadrilatera to aid against the Prussians as the
Italians have now possession OF the railroad
communication from the fortresses by Venice
and Trieste to the north. But there is
still another road from Verona through
the valley of the AdIge into Tyrol True
this road is completed only as far as
Botzen, but then there is another railway
from Innspruck over into Bavaria and down
the valley of the Danube, by Passau and Linz,
to Vienna. The distance from Botzen to Inn
spruck is only some fifty miles, which, not
wIthstanding the mountainous character of the
country, does not present insuperable obstacles
to the quick passage of an army. But the stu.
alton of the Austrlans in Italy is nevertheless
precarious since nothing decisive is as yet
known of the designs and intentions of the
"SphynX on the Seine" as the Berlin Ktddderd-
ddtSch nickna med the man III the Tulleries,