Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-05-28
THE WAR IN EUROPE.

and seemingly without any ostensible object.
They have, we should think, thrown away all
the advantage they might have gained by being
the first upon the ground. The wisest states
men, not in the secret of their sluggish move
ments, are completely baHled. A Paris cores
pondent of the London Times says:-
"The inacton of the Austrians has surprised
every one, after their percmptory summons TO
Piedmont. A French general writes that they
seem to have recklessly thrown away all their
advantages. They were first on the ground,
before the French had yet moved to the sup
port of their allies and to make that support
efficient troops have had to be sent in hot haste
from every available quarter The priority in
time, of which they do not seem to have made
much use, is more than counterbalanced by the
rapidity with which the French are swarming
10 the theatre of war. The artificial inunda-
ions they must, from their knowledge of the
country, have been prepared for, and the floods
caused by the heavy rains, as well as all other
accidents of the seasons, ought to enter into
the calculations of the commander of an army
which is about to maneuvre against an enemy.
SO strange is this inertness, even to novices in
warlike operations, as to give rise to the suspi-
cion that the apparently retrograde movements
cover some deep strategic plans slowly devel-
oped, and which are not obvious TO people at
such distance as we are from the scene of op-
erations."
1t is said that an old Austrian General learn
ing that two immense armies were marching in
different directions to give him battle, sat him
self down very quietly to wait for their con-
centration, that he might at once give them
both a decent licking. This was all very well
; provided he could do it but he couldn't, which
showed him the folly of waiting
The Austrians are a treacherous race. 1t is
very likely that Louis Napoleon remembers the
treatment his Uncle, Napoleon the LIST, received
at the hands of the Austrians in 1915, and
means to be revenged.
The Austrians are truthfuly shown up in the
following from the Boston Trareller -
Austria has commenced her contest for SUI
premacy over Europe, and for the maintenance
of political and spiritual despotism, by series
OF swindling acts, such as no other power would
dare venture upon at the close of disastrous
war. Her national bank is authorized to issue
notes to an enormous amount, Q33,000, 900
tiorins,) and to suspend specie payments; and
these notes government avows its determination
not to receive in the payment of taxes Is not
such conduct unspeakably infamouso The gov
eminent will take only silver in payment, which
must be used at the seat of war, and will make
its payments all over its broad dominions in
paper deprecated, perhaps, as thoroughly as
was the continental money of our Revolution.
The silver form is worth about a cents, but
the paper forin is in the way to be worth moth
ing. Heretofore Austria has repudiated after
fighting, but now she repudiates in advance
In 1911, two years after her fourth war with
revolutionized France, she gave the world a
specimen of compound reputation. In the
first place, she lowered the bank bills from l.
O60,0000OO forms to 2l2,OOO, 900; and then
she reduced the interest of the whole public
debt to half the nominal value in the new pa
per currency. And now size repudiates in ad-
vance! 1t must be confessed that Mississippi
has high company and that she is but petty
larceny rogue alongside the imperial swindlers
at Vienna. How it is that Austria has any
credit under such circumstances, is an inexpli-
cable matter Yet Austria Is so favored by ma
ture that she ought to be the richest empire in
Europe; but her blockheadism in opposing i'm
provement will lessen her ability to prevent the
friends of improvement giving her the scourg-
ing that she much deserves "Knowing too
much only gives people a headache" said the
late Emperor Francis; but it is better to have
the headache with full pocket than the heart
ache with an empty one.
Illustrious Frenchmen in exile are on the
move. The Comte de Chambord, last survivor
OF the old Bourbon line, whom the legitimists
call Henry ", has left his Austrian residence at
Frohsdor, and will, report says, 90 to Scotland
where his grandfather twice lived. He feels
that Frenchman cannot remain in Austria as
things are. His Venetian palace is now an
Austrian barrack. The Due dc Chartres, grand
son of Louis Philippe, and younger brother of
the Comte de Paris, chief of the Orleans fami-
ly, and who is a student in the military school
of Turin, has asked for an appointment in the
Sandman army and it is said he will receive it.
His grandfather. when bearing the same title,
fought at Jemappes, the first great battle of the
"AS Va hNcNoiutioiiy as amy was
nothing more than an artillery duel
Napoleon Ill is about to bind his people to
; himself, and to his dynasty, not with hooks of
Steel but with a few more cords of gold He
condescends to borrow of them one hundred
million of dollars, by way of preliminary whet
and to pay the opening charges of the war,
which will devour the precious metals as readi-
ly as it swallows lead, iron, steel, and bronze.
The manner in which this loan shall be taken
up will afford us the means of judging as to the
French popular view of the contest. Had the
first Napoleon been able to appeal to the pock-
cts of Frenchmen. after the confident fashion
of his nephew, he never could have been upset.
His fall has been attributed to many causes,
but the occasion of it was a complaint of the
chest, which chest was empty, and there were
no means Of filling it. The splendid manner
in which he improvised a new army in 1913, to
take the place of that which had persisted of
cold and hunger, and the ice of the Beresina,
was due to his then having cash at command.
Sixty millions of dollars did he draw from his
boards, and so the new army rose like an axbo