Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1859-05-07

From the New York Courier and Enquirer
The Prospects Of the War in Europe.
The latest news regarding the Peace
Congress, would lead to the conclusion that
war is inevitable. The proposition to SUBJ
init the question at issue to a Congress was
rot received very warmly by Austria. 1t
came from source, Russia, which natu-
rally led Austria to regard it with suspi-
cion especially as it was SO promptly &C
ceded to by France. There has been at no
time any good reason for believing the Con-
gress, should it assemble, would produce
any satisfactory results, since the basis in
sisted upon by Austria was at variance with
all that France had contended for. This
basis, it will be remembered, was that none
of the treaties Of 1916 should be discussed.
Now, as Louis Napoleon has asserted that
he has espoused the cause of Italy, and as
all the earnest advocates of this cause de-
clare that nothing satisfactory can be OBJ
tanned SO long as Austria continues her
domination in Italy, it is manifest that no
arrangement can be entered into for main
tanning peace,s long as the treaties Of 1918
are to remain unimpaired. - .t3 a.4'4s
The safety Of the Italian cause requires
that Austrian domination in Italy should
cease, and Austria, as yet, is by no means
prepared to yield what was conceded to her
by the above mentioned treaties. 1t is
known that she has not respected these trea-
ties, and all that. the Peace Congress could
decide, would be that she should hereafter
fulfil them to the letter. Granting that
she should agree to do this-that she should
no longer occupy territories in which she
has no rights that she should eyacuate all
the fortresses which she had no right to
build-that she shoule concede to some of
the States what she has unjustly denied
them-a and that she should at once desist
from inficting the punishments which have
branded her name with shame, she would
yet be entitled to certain control over the
Italian Provinces inconsistent with the de-
mands now made by them. When Louis
Napoleon promised his assistance to Victor
Emanuel, he lighted torch which will not
be extinguished until the Austrian rule In
Italy shall either be exterminatgd or rem
dered more firm than it now is. This is
the question now to be settled. Austria
says she will not recede from the treaties OF
1915, and France, in tie name of Italy,
asks her to withdraw entirely from the L
Italian Provinces.
No one doubts the willingness Of the
French Emperor to engage in a war with
Austria. We know the vast warlike prep
arations he has been making for months
past, and it now appears that he has only
been prevented sending troops into Pied
mont by the fact that ere they could reach
there Austria would crush that State will
an overwhelming force. It is now also APP
parent that he will have more to contenC
with than he at first supposed. The great
er part Of Germany is rapidly, coming tc
the assistance of Austria: This country
has succeeded in making the Germans be-
( lieve that it's safety and their own are, in
the present state of European affairs, insep-
arabic. She has told them that the blow
aimed at her will reach them that should
she be subdued the war would not then
cease, but would be carried into other parts
of Germany; A feeling bitterly hostile to
the French Emperor is already rapidly
spreading through the smaller German
States, and evidences Of this are given at
the theatres and other public places when
ever an opportunity is offered. sa!.4o} III
Prussia has throughout the present diff
fculty maintained her heutrality and has
endeavored to prove to Germany that 1t. is
not at all indispensable to its safety that
Austria should be sustained in her conduct
towards Italy and yet the stand she has
taken on the side Of Austtia lii relation to
the admission Of Piedmont into the pro-
posed Congress, proves that her feelings are,
after all, with the Austrian cause: As it
has been the aim Of Louis Napoleon to in
duce Prussia to remain neutral, and as he
has undoubtedly believed she. would do 50,
since it was natural she would be somewhat
goveriisd by the influence Of England, the
step she has just taken mtst convince him
Of what her future course must be- ,.a.sA,
Viewing Tie present state Of Europe,
therefore, from whatever point We may, it
would appear that war is but question Of
time. Louis Napoleon cann5t, aid certain
ly will not; abate anyof his demands. He
is anxious for fight, and is we'll prepared
for it, On the other hand, the Emperor Of
| Austria Is determined TO maintain the posi-
ton he has taken, is equally we'll prepared
for war, and, if accounts be true, is only
restrained ffoin making all aggressive move
ment by the persuasions Of the Ministers.
Under these circumstances, there can be
no hopes of Peace Congress accomplish
ing anything buta delay in the time of COM
mencing hostilies. The contending parties
will have 50 much at stake, that the war
will be one Of the most bloody yet fought
on the plains of Europe.
IMMENSE SIZE OF THE PYRAM1Ds.-A u
nited States naval chaplain who has recent
ly visited the great pyramid of Cheops in
Egypt, wading in the deep sand fourteen
hundred feet before he had passed one Of
it's sides; and between FIVE and six thousand
feet before. he had made the circuit, says,
taking a hundred New York churches of
the ordinary width, and arranging them
in hollow square twenty-five on side,
ycr would have scarcely Che basement of
this pyramid; take another hundred and
throw their material into the hollow square
and it would not be full. Pile on all che
store and brick of Philadelphia and Boston;
and the structure would not be sss high and
solid as this greatest work Of man. One
layer of block was long since removed to
roiro for h,.;ld;no n,try,nsnA And efIoIfrfI