The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-05

The European mails by the CUBA reached this
city from Boston this morning Our files are
dated 10 the 23d of June.
1t is officially announced that the conlem-
plated visit ot the Emperor Napoleon to the
towns OF the eastern department alter the Ies'
tiVities of the Nancy, rs countermanded. The
Project OF the Bas-Rhin has informed the Mayor
of Strasbourg OF the fact and the Mayor has
given notice to the Municipal Council
In the Projects letter he says that 'the En-
peror will not be able to visit as he had in
tended, the city of Strasbourg in the course of
next month" )" that the Journey is postponed to
another period; and that his Majesty regrets the
disappointment, aud expresses the hope OF car
ryug out his project as soon as possible. No
particular reason is given tor the countermand,
but there is no doubt (says a Paris letter. his
Majesty is unwilling TO be so near the Rhine
during the war in Germany.
Colonel Scobell the last surviving commits
stoned officer of England who took part in
the battle of the Nile, has died at his seat
Nancealyerne, near Penzance at the age OF
eighty-eig years.
Immediately on the announcement of the
death OF Prince Sigismund the Queen of Prussia
lett Berlin for Potsd9m,
Field Movements OF the Three Great
Armies Capture of Dresden.
Headquarters of The first PruSSiGn Arny, Gorlitz,
(June 19). Correspondence of LOndon Times.
The Prussian advanced guard captured Dresden
last evening, and Prince Frederic Charles has
thus gained possession of the line of railway
which forms the lateral communication through
SaXony. The advance has as yet been unopposed.
The Austrian general still tarres behind the
mountains: Great movements have been going
an among his troops, but no indications of an
advance has as yet been given.
THE ORDER OF EVENTS.
The general course of events in the occupa-
ton of SaXony has been as follows:-
On the evening OF the 10th, when the Saxon
Government had rejected the Prussian ultima
tum, and knew that the army of Prince Frede-
rick Charles was concentrated on the frontier,
means were adopted TO impede as much as pos
sible the advance of the Prussian troops. Saxon
pioneers were set to work upon the railways
which lead from the frontier upon DRESDEN. Of
such railways there are two, that which follows
the valley OF the Elbe and joins the Leipsic line
at Riesa, ard that which from GOrlitz leads by
Bautzen upon the capital of SaXony
At nightiaIl the Saxon pioneers commenced
their work, but in the dark and under constant
apprehension of being broken III upon by the
Prusslan advance guards they made but little
progress. The rails were taken up, but were
neither carried away nor twisted nor broken so
as not TO be again Immediately available. At
ii O'Clock at night the wooden bridge which
carries the railway branches to Leipsic and
ChemnitZ across the Elbe, near Riesa. was set
on fire by means of petroleum. Its destruction
was not accomplished, for only two piers were
burned, and the whole bridge was again made
passable by the evening of the next day.
While the work of demolition went slowly on
in SaXony heavy masses Of Prussian troops were
drawing together and closing down to the very
frontier line of that kingdom. Between Gorltz
and the border on the west Prince Frederic
Charles marshalled three strong corps d dTnlee,
while near Strehla, on the north, General Won
Bittenleld divided his force into three columns,
SO as to advance with broad front and as
quietly as possible on the railway junction at
Riesa.
Dmlng the few hours of the short summer
night the last preparations for the invasion were
made; the main bodies Of the troops were all
collected together about midnight, and the SOL
diers piled arms TO rest and wait for dawn. Few
slept; dull and heavy murmur continually
rose IRON the crowded columns, and told the
subdued but deep excitement which perVaded
the hearts of the men; and this excitement was
,IIf
was in Dresden, and that there would be battle
on the morrow.
The time passed slowly, and it seem as If day
would never break. At last the first faint
streaks OF dawn appeared, the troops eagerly
fell into their ranks, and, before the sun had
risen, the advanced guards were pushing briskiy
over Saxon ground.
The pioneers who were engaged on the rail-
way fled before the foremost troops got near
them, fortunate TO avoid being taken. What
Saxon troops there were on the lines of the
advance also retreated quickly towards Dresden.
THE THEATRE OF ACTION
It must be borne in mind that in the theatre
OF var there are three rivers of the name OF
Neisse. They are all, either directly or indi-
re tly, affluents of the Oder, and are therefore
not unlikely to be contOunded with one another.
The most westerly of these three is that which
flows past this town (Goritz). 1t rises in Bo-
hemia. passes by Zittau, forming near that to wn
the de6le by which Napoleon in 1918 penetrated
into Bohemia, flows by Ostritz, GOrlitz, Priebus
ard Muskau, communicates with the Spree by
the Oottbus Canal, and finally falls into the Oder.
The next river of this name towards the east
is an affluent of the Katzbach, itself an affluent
of the Oder. The Nejsse Is distinguished as the
Wuthende, or raging NeIsse. 1t rises near
HohenfrIedberg, celebrated for the victory
gained in l7I5 by Frederick the Great over the
Austrans, passes by Jauer, and Joins the
Katzbach about seven miles above LeignitZ. II
was between Jauer and the confluence of those
two streams that the battle Of Katzbach was lost
by Macdonald in 1873
The Eeisse river, which runs past the fortress
OF Neisse, the present headquarters OF the Grown
Prince rises in the mountains south of Glatz,
passes by that fortress and by Neisse, and Joins
the Oder about twelve miles below Brieg. 1t is
to this river that the principal defiles leading
through the Riesen GebIrge into Central Silesa
are due.
BRIDGING THE ELBE.
Bittenfeld, from the north had reached
Riosa about nine o'clock, and occupied that
town in force Below the town two pontoon
bridges were quickly thrown across the Elbe
part of the troops crossed to the right bank
portion were directed up the left bank of the
river towards Nielsen.
REPAIRING RAILWAYS AND BRIDGES.
Hardly had Bttenfeld's troops established
themselves In Resa when detachment of tht
Field Railway Corps arrived rom Berlin, WHIT
Immediately commenced the restoration of tn
lines which had been torn no ON the railway
while the pioneers were set to repair the burnec
portion of the bridge.
MARCH OF THE MAIN ARMY.
In the meantime the columns of the mai
army were advancing IN Lusatia.
Lobau was occupied before midday, an
Bautzen in the afternoon.
But Prince Frederick Charles proceeded eau