The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-11


racter; and, inasmuch as the story is quite
out of print, and is sometimes in brisk de-
mand, and is funny in ITSELF and worth pre-
servation as literary curiosity, am tempted
here to reproduce it bodily as follows
From The TIMES, July 49, 1859.
Austria has neglected nothing
which might insure her dominion over the
waters of the Danube She has done all in
her power to favor the development of Eu-
rope, which is the pacific development of Eng
land. She has dealt with edged tools-boldly,
but not, we feel sure, in utter vanity.
'In 1S4S Peschiera was captured by the
Sardinans, under King Charles Albert; but
there can be no doubt that the French bore
away from the first fight of Magenta very
questionable compliments. At this time the
Sardinians, under the Duke of Genoa. we're
ready TO defend the famous Quadrilateral
To-day the Quadrilateral has ceased to exist
1.-The fortress of Peschiera lies on an isle
near the scene of the conflict
"a broad road has been made by Austria.
in the direction of the Alps, TO unite the
reg ons of the Vorarlberg and the Tyrol with
Lombardy, by the pass of the Stelvio This
road passes through the vatelline, runs
around the Lake of Como, and ends at Berpa-
mo. 1t may serve as well for the retreat of
the beaten Austrians into the Tyrol as for the
advance of the victorious Austrians upon
Italy. Two railways pass also by this central
point of the Austrian position. One of these
railways unites Lombardy with Vienna. by
circling around the crescent of the North
Adriatic; the other, leaving Botzen, in the
Tyrol, skirts the Lago of Garda, touches
Trent, Roveredo, and Verona, and by
branch road reaches Mantua, and thus unites
the two main angles of the famous square
The New York HerdId, in giving yesterday
pretended map of this square, carefully
omitted the bridge-head of Legnago, and thus
converted the square into a triangle. The
strength of Peschiera and Legnago is out of
all proportion to the besieging force The
main merit of Peschiera is that this fortress
lies on an island, and was captured by the
Duke of Genoa in 1s4S At this time the
Sardinians crossed the Mincio after several
hours hard fighting; and if we follow the
windings of the Mincio, we shall find count
less elbows formed in the Nelbow of the regu-
lar army at places like Salianza, Molini. and
Borghetto. These places make up the base
of the allied army. The line of the Mincio is
the base of the new campaign we are about
to open.
'Almost at the southern end of the river
Mincio lies the strong fortress of Mantua, the
only Gibraltar of Austria in Italy, guaranteed
by the treaties of 1915. Mantua, as we have
said, lies on lake of the river Mincio. In
spite of the labors spent upon it, Mantua still
holds the next rank to Verona. 1t is post of
danger for the army shut between its walls
rather than for the enemy without. After
battle of several hours duration, the Sar-
dinians, at Goito, give way, and if we follow
up the course of the Mincio we shall find
innumerable elbows formed by the sympathy
of youth. Defended by Wurmser, in 1897,
| Austria surrendered to Napoleon III in 1859.
| Notwithstanding the toll spent by Austria on
| the spot, we should have learned that we are
| protected by a foreign fleet suddenly coming
| up on our question of citizenship. canal cuts
| Mantua in two; but we may rely on the most
cordial Cabinet Minister of the new power in
England.
''Mantua is protected in the centre by five
detached forts Pradella, Castle of Faith, St
George, and Migliaretto, which commands
| Cremona, Borgo Forte, and GovernolO.
"a canal divides Mantua and makes small
| port in the lake, communicating by i've forti-
fled roadways with the land.
SAT Roverbello are machines for flooding
the whole region, and in the upper lake floats
| an Austrian squadron. The region between
Mantua and the Po is impracticable for an
army. Tis marsh full of fevers. On this
side the square seems impregnable But how
| with the line from Mantua to Legnago? Leg
nago is no stronger than Peschiera, but it has
the double advantage of a bridge over the
Adige, and of dikes ready to inundate the
whole Adriatic region. The fourth face of
the square links Verona to Legnago. This is
the best defensive line of Austria in Italy
| At Verona the last features of the opposition
fingered. The Adige is swift and deep lat
Verona; it can only be passed at Cerpi and
Bussolengo in the face of thousand perils
Paris is strong in her circle of Notifications ~
| Undeniably this was q successful perform
ance. That older jingle of rubbish which
tells us about the old woman who went to
the garden to get some cabbage to make an
bear comes up and pops his head into the
shop-what no soap so he died, and she
married the barber''-and how at the wedding
the Great Panjandum and all the rest Of
them 'fell to playing the game of catch as
catch can, till the gunpowder ran out of the
heels of their boats'-all this was Foote's
fun, performed while he was sober, in order
to see how ridiculous he could be; but, sue
cessful as it was, it paled before the magnif-
cence of the "Elbows, " for the latter showed
how ludicrously tipsy fancy could upset a
compact and well-stored BRAIN There is but
one other specimen in the literature of the
comic-concocted over wine and cigars by a
party of mad wags-which is of piece with
this, and here it is:
| 1T is not, believe me, an agreeable or
easy business to perceive the unparalleled
embarrassment and partial paralysis of a
harassed and vacillating pedlar admiring the
symmetry of peeled onion and gauging the
contents of barrel of cider with pewter
syphon. How dissimilar from this premise
is the mien of a deceived and grieving Sybil,
dispensing inadmissible and indispensable
inuendoes with malicious tongue, as she sits
upon the Pillars of Hercules, or reposes upon