The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-06-21

Park 1t will be worth ten times the money thai
| it will cost. II inaugurates for us the new era
the Saturnian age, Of which the classic poet 80
| sweetly sung.
| The European Imbroglio-The Present As
| poets OF the War.
From the positions occupied by the Allies and
! the Austrians after the battle Of Magenta there
is no doubt that terrific conflict is before them
which will most probably take place between the
| Mincio ard the Adige. With the capture o.
| Milan by the French, strenuous effort may be
| made by England and Prussia to effect peace;
| hut Austria cannot accept any overtures for
peace at this junctuIe, and the cessation of the
war now is not the object nor the policy of Louis
| Napoleon. The Austrians are clearly about to
retreat to their fortified cities commanding the
historic quadrangle defended by Verona, Pes
chiera Mantua and Legnago, and when the thea
ire of war reaches that point it is impossible to
! predict the period of its termination.
Austria will strain every nerve to bring Ger
many into the contest; but though the tone Of
the press in the small southern States of the Con-
federation is clamorous for war, its opinions are
are not, indeed, the sentiments of the practical
portion of the people, but of the enthusiastic
youth of the country, whose voices created and
swelled the revolutionary cry in 1S48, which
deluged Germany in blood and clasped the fet-
,ers of the despots faster on the limbs of her
people. We do not anticipate that Prussia will
be either cajoled or coerced to take up arms for
c&,sc 10 Iaoo in cbnrf Ofo in
vasion of German territory by the armies
of France aud Sardinia. 1t may be
even that the sentiments recently entertain
ed at the courts of Berlin and Lon
don, with reference to the neutrality of
Germany, have experienced a change. 1t may
be that they are now of opinion that the course
which Austria has been pursuing since 1915 was
nuisance to the past policy of Europe and they
may possibly design for her the fate of Poland.
The contest for supremacy in Germany, which
has all along existed between Prussia and Aus
tria, is notorious. Since the time of Frederick
the Great, Prussia has been striving to obtain a
dominant power over the other States, and Aus
tria has been as persistenty resisting her by foul
as well as by fair means. Should Austria be
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curious question-what is to be done with the
pieces? Russia assuredly will claim her share;
Prussia will want large slice adjoining her
own dominions; and France, doubtless, will de-
mand portion Of Austrian Italy
In all homogeneous nations the North always
predominates. In this country we behold the
North dominating and threatening to overshadow
fha CO,,fh Erop {ha of
Europe, and France controls Spain and Italy.
Thus it was too in the Schleswig- Holstein war:
| Denmark wanted to retain the duchies, and Ger
| many wanted to get possession of them; but the
Danes eventually beat the Germans and gained
| their point. 1t was supposed that Germany
could send hundred thousand men into the
field, but it turned out that she could not raise
which furnished the soldiers for the war; and it
happened that twenty-eight thousand Danish
| troops defeated thrty-two thousand Prussians.
1t is not at variance, then, with probability
or historical antecedents that Prussia should ult
uately gain the ascendant and become the great
Power in Germany.
In any course which affairs may take in Italy,
with regard to the strategy or tactics Of the bei
gerent armies, We look upon the prospects of
peace for long time to come with disrust On
the contrary, we are disposed to presage that one
of the most desperate and destructive campaigns
of modern times is only just opening in Lom-
bardo Venitia. At no former period did hostile
nations possess the same facilities for conducting
deadly warfare as now. By means Of railroads
nocAr l.,
given spot in space of time almost incredibly
short The movements of the armies are tele-
| grapbed along the electric wire from one point
| of Europe to the other, and orders from toe
| headquarters to the battle field traverse amos,
as rapidly as they are conceived in the brain of
the directing chief With these agents, and the
wonderful improvements in artillery and rifles
now in use, war is no longer matter to be de-
cided alone by the mere physique OF the contest
ants, or the strategical and tactical skill of the
leaders. Science and mechanical power are at
work with deadly certainty in all quarters of the
scene-from the farthest outpost to the heart of
the battle field.
We have already seen their effects in the three
important battles at Montebello, Palestro and
magenta, and we are destined 10 behold still fur
Their manifestations Of them under the walls of
Verona.
Doc STEALING IN THE METRoPoLIs.-Not the
least Of the many annoyances to which residents
of the metropolis are exposed, is the continual
vexation arising from having valuable dogs
stolen by the organized gangs Of dog thieves
which infest the city, and who pursue the bust
ness Of dog stealing for a Livelihood. There is no
security against these vagabonds, who beset
your premises and waylay your path as soon as