The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-07-13
The prosreSs Of the German War.

| lHhHkS I'd tie cHllHcHtiy ChhotiC CHd-
racter Of the kilograms which are sent to
MS from England and the Continent con-
corning the positions and the movements of
the two great German armies, two differ
ent engagements which occurred between
the advanced posts Of the Prussians and
the Austrians ut points far apart, the one
from the other, have been rolled into one !:
and we arc informed that the rcpulsc of
the Italians from the Quadrilatcral has
been followed by an important Austrian
victory in Bohemia.
The news by the City Of London indi.
Gates neither victory nor Il battle of i'm
portancc. 1t does not cvcnp prove that the
Prussians were really moving forward upon
an invasion of Bohemia.
From Pardubitz, a small and pretty city,
which is situated i'm the eastern part ni
| Bohemia, and from which the lines of rail
way run northward TO Reichenbacb, west
ward to Prague, and southwark to Vienna,
We hear of an artillery duel between the
! PruSsians and Austrians. TlhSsGrtillcry
duel is reported to have occurred between
! the towns Of Ncustadt and Nachod, and to
have ended with the retreat of the Prlls-
slams, the Austrian cavalry coming into the
! e't''h 81 to"t VI ohailt.s vi ii'SN'
towns, Ncustadt and Nachod lie almost
directly upon the frontier of Silcsia, and
SkalitZ is not above twelve miles distant
| from the same frontier. 1t is clear, there
fore, that the reported engagement must
| have resulted rather from PrusSian re-
connoisSance in force than from any seri-
GUS advance of the army of Prussia into
| Bohemia upon the western frontier of Silc-
sia. On the same day with this action,
the 2Gth of June, another and, to all ap-
pcarances, q similar action is reported to
have occurred at Paka, near Turnau, a
point more than fifty miles to the north
west of the scene of the engagement at
Skalitz. The telegraph confounds these
two affairs, and Of them both make up a
single "battle in Bohemia" At Turnau,
We are told that one division and one
brigade, being about nine thousand men,
probably, Of the PrusSian army, were en-
gagged, and that three Prussian officers fell
on the field. From the smultaneousneSs
of the two affairs, and from the positions
Of Skalitz and Turnau relatively to each
other, and to the Saxon and Silcsan from
tiers now occupied by the Prussian troops,
! it is possible that the conflicts may have
ltSulltu llolii ullNIipl VII Iai VI WV
| PrusSans to break up the Bohemian rail-
way line between Reichenhach and Par
dubitE.
| Another and still more confused and
absurdly stated telegram gives us a hint
of what may prove perhaps to be the most
, important light We have as yet had on the
purposes and movements of the Austrian
army in Bohemia. The PruSsians are
stated in this telegram to have destroyed
"the railway bridge between Wcrdau and
Gossnitz, at Altcnburg." This is about as
rational as telegram would be announ-
cling that the railway bridge had been de-
stroycd between New York and Stamford
at Bridgeport Altcnburg is prosperous
| little Saxon city in the extreme west OF
Saxony, and Werdau and Gossnitz are
small manufacturing towns, lying both of
| them several miles TO the south of Alien
| burg, The significance Of the information
thus inaccuratcly conveyed to usconsists
! in the fact that Altcnburg, Gossnitz, and
Wcrdau all lie on the railway line from
| Lcipsic in Saxony to Nurcmburg in Ba-
varia. If the PrusSians are destroying
bridges on this line, it would appear that
they must anticipate an advance into San
ony of the Austro- Bavarian army from
Bavaria into Saxony upon the extreme
west and through the detilcs of the Boh-
mer-Wald. The headquarters of the Aus
TRAN commandcr-in-chief being at the Ia
test adviccS established at OlmutZ, in Mora
via, far to the eastward of the Bavaran
frontier and Of the BONNER VALID, it is
tolerably plain, we think, that the Prus-
slams have been feeling the whole line OF
| the Austrian front, and that they are get
| ting themselves into readiness to effect Il
| junction between their two armies, the
army Of Prince Frederic Charles and the
army of the Crown Prince, in order TO
meet an expected advance OF Bcncdek in
| force either into Silesia on the extreme
east, or into Saxony on the extreme west.
The withdrawal Of the Prussian troops
| from the smaller States into which they
had been pushed beyond and south of the
! corner at which Saxony abuts both upon
Bavaria and Bohemia would seem, when
taken in connection with this burning OF
bridges on the Leipsic and Nuremberg
road, to show that the Austrians are
looked for rather more positively on the
west than on the east. An important Aus
TRAN victory in this western region OF SaXo-
ny would have the great moral effect OF
prccipitating the whole OF south Germany
decisively and at once into the arms of the
Kaiser. On the other hand, Il Prussian
victory here would roll Austria dccisivcly
back to the eastward, and lay Bavaria
open to the northern arms.
The nett result of the news we now have,
therefore, is simply to show us that the
antagonistic powers are mannuvrlng for
battle field, while Prussia still retains, and
is evidently making the most of the great
advantages which she won by her prompt
and energetic action following immcdi-
atclv upon the declaration Of the war.
From the Pail Mall Gazette, June 81
4 rery remarkable increase Of dctirdy has
taken 1lace ariMin tie last .fe,o days IN The
maitrv establishments Of France. Uni
forms, arms, and ammunition are being got
ready in the greatest haste, and to suili-
cient amount for the equipment OF the
army at its full strength. The reserves
only have as yet not been called in, but
these are always to be got at eight or ten
days notice.
AN UNLIKELY ErMoR-A fRANC0-AusTRIAN
| ALLIANCE.
From ne same journal
A correspondent writing yesterday from
Paris saws: 81 am able to state on very
good authority that negotiations are no"
going on with great secrecy between France
and Austria with the object of producing
0 ropprochement between the government:
that NAV lead to definite understanding
and eventually to an alliance between
them. The channel by which the negotia
tions are conducted is kent strictly secret