Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1859-05-12
Correspondence OF the London Times.
Preparations for WAR iaa
Austria.


ments have not yet come 10 an understand
Ing and the.diplomatis re nearly at their
Wis end Count BuoI still insists on a
general and Simultaneous disarmament as
preliminary to the congress, and the
Emperor of The French declares that he
will not dismiss single man unit! after
the congress has met The French gov
ernment would not object 10 accept the
Austrian proposition lin principle if this
cabinet would leave the question of dis.
armament to be settled by the congress,
but Count Buol has received positive or
ders from his sovereign not to make any
further concessions. One Of he mediating
powers is said 70 have complained of the
"chicanery" of the Austrian minister fox
!oreign ailaiis, but tie report cannot be
true, as il IS a notorious fact that he has
from The very commencement of the ne
gotations displayed the utmost candor and
good faith, The only well grounded
charge which can be made against Count
Baol," says German diploma.is!, 'is,
that he, in lis extreme desire to maintain
peace has displayed less iirmness than he
ought 10 have done The opinion above
expressed is alrao5t universal here. and Tie
minister of foreign affairs is generally ac-
cused OF being too submissive 10 the me-
dating powers. who has displayed a fear
of the Emperor Napoleon which must ne
cessagiiy encourage him to pcrsevere..a bis
aggressive policy In day or two the
grea, question OF The day is likely to enter
into new phase. for Prussia begins 10 ex
hibit symptoms Of u wish not to allow her
interests to- be separated for those Of Ger
many aad Austria. | cannot say thit an
alliance has been already concluded be-
tween the two great German powers, but
negotiations to thar end arc certainly going
on 1t Is asserted that 2U0 600 PruSsiln
soldiers viii soon be collected in the Rhe
nish provinces, and tina. Austria has offer
ed to the Prince Regent of Prussia the SUI
premc commani Of the federal army. a
distinguished officer day or two since told
ne that | had in one of my recent letters
greatly underra,cd the force which Aus;ris,
Prussia and Germany could on an emer-
gency bring into the field. "Austria" said
he. "can keep G5J.0 men on foot, Prus-
sia i00. 900, and the German states 200.-
garrison, hospital, and depot. Louis Napo-
leon will still have to cope with a million
wellarmcd men, whose fathers proved TO
the first Emperor of the French that they
could igut we'll in good cause" The
following article which appeared IN :. Re
cent number Of the E.cnlng edition of the
IVeiner Zefang, shows what kind of n spir-
1t prevails in the highest military circles
In few days it will be half century
since Austria wa,ed the fourth war which
she had with France after the outbreak o.
the great French Revolution. In the three
previous wars Austria had allies; but in
1909 she stood alone, and saw opposed to
her the tremendous coalation which wa:
formed by the French autocrat, the great
est warrior of the day. Austria did moi
banch. The freedom Of Europe,' sail
she in her proclamation, has sought shell
ter under the banner Of Austria, a banner
which was raised in the midst Of 400, ,OO(
men. At the same time the Landwehl
(militia) was called out, and every maj
who was between Q and 4G years of age
was liable to be summoned TO take up arms
The Archduke Charles, at the head o
2OO, 600 men, advanced into Bavaria; the
Archduke John led $4,000 against Italy
and the Archduke ferdinand 36,OOt
against Warsaw. Opposed TO the Auslri
an armies were 900, 900 men, half # whom
were Germans, under Napoleon himself
~, 900 under Prince Eugene, the Viceroy
of Italy, and 10000 SaXons and Poles
who were in and around Warsaw. Th'
: powerful reserves were composed of Frencl
. Westphalia and Dutch troops Russii
contributed but @. 900 men to them. Tn,
war did not end fortunately for Austria
but it led TO series of great events which
were closed by the treaties Of 1881. The,
it was that the world with joyful surprs'
learned that Napoleon could be wors,ed.- -
e A German commander, the Archduk'
Charles. was the 6rst person to defeat th'
man who had so long been considered in
4 vincible We recall TO memory such a re
markable episode in our history, because
+ we have acquired positive Information tha
the Emperor Louis Napoleon will, by th'
first of June. have 100000 men unde
arms, $50. 900 Of whom are to be sent il
Italy. The remaining 450, 900 men arc t
n be ready for any and all contingencies
a The armaments Of Bavaria. for whicl
/ the Chamber has granted 1000, ,000n. arr
:, progressing rapidly. but the papers are NJ
y longes allowed to give details on the sub
iect. The warlike spirit Of the Uessian