The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-06-07

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by their presence The mechanical skill Of the
age places each within hourly communication by
telegraph with bis own capital, and enables bin
10 bring by rail and steam, within few days, all
the resources Of bis empire INTO the fight Each
can probably marshal his half a million Of
men, without leaving the other sxigencies Of bis
realm unattended to. With such resources at
command, and such spirit animating the com.
batants, Europe-the world-will witness con-
test such as it has never before seen. Taking an
active part in it, there are twenty-seven millions
OF Italians, lighting for freedom, and who will
readily bring quarter of million more of
soldiers into the field.
A contemplation of the probabilities as
they now present themselves, seems to in
dictate that France will be the most
successful of the two in the fight Her
aDimus is more in consonance with the spirit
of the age in which we live, and her resources
seem to be greater and more at command than
those of Austria She has, too, with her the
sympathies Of the down-trodden nationalities of
Europe, and an enlightened liberalism all the
world over But whatever may be the issue of
the strife of blood, We entertain no misgivings
for that Of the conflict of ideas. The old spirit
of feudalism must 90 down before the new spirit
of the present age. Even il Austria comes vic
torious out Of the contest she cannot but recog-
mise the impossiblity Of imposing upon the living
and coming generations the despotic forms of
worn out church and crumbling State. She
will have to abandon, as gracefully as she may,
the principles she now proclaims, and seize upon
those Of her antagonist, If she would secure
new lease Of existence. Such has ever been the
result where systems of ideas have struggled
against each other. The men who support them
may fall, but those ideas which address them
selves to the hearts of the great mass of man
kind-which have the most liberalizing and ele-
waiting tendency-have always triumphed. They
seize even upon their apparent conqueror, and
bend him to their influences and to their ends.
WHEN SHALL WE HAVE THE New PosT Or
rrcE 1T is now nearly two years since Con-
grees made the appropriation for a new Post
Office in this city, and as yet nothing definite has
been done towards securing site for the build
ing. Meantime. almost every available lot up
town is being bought, and magnificent stores are
going up every day, 80 that in short time the
government will have to pay an enormous price
for the ground for Post Office. Congress will
have to make fresh appropriation to meet the
increased value Of property every year that the
affair is allowed to lie over. The present Post
Office building, regardless altogether of its unfit
locality is miserably deficient in all the facilities
which the postal service Of this city requires.
1t is entirely too small, besides being limited and
inappropriate for the purpose If anything is to
be done towards giving us new Post Office, we
trust the government authorities will do it at
once. Delay is only adding to the cost and pro-
tracing the inconvenience to which our citizens
are subjected from the condition of the present
Post Office building.