Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-06-01
THE MAGNITUDE OF THE IMPEN-
DING EUROPEAN WAR.

The ornaments Of Austria and Prussia,
are enormous. The Vienna correspondent
Of the London Times, dated May u, con-
tains the following:
"The ornaments Of Austria are colossal
and in the course Of a fen UeekS she viU hare
100000 men in the feid. Each of the eighty
regiments of the line which are now on
full war footing, is composed of four thous-
and and odd men, and two or three days
ago an order was issued for the levy Of
fifth battalion for. each regiment. Each of
the thirty-two Jaeger battalions, which are
very strong, Is to have two depot companies.
Yesterday morning a regiment OF hussars,
which had been in garrison here for some
time, left for Prague, and great crowd OF
people accompanied it to the Northern Rail-
way Station. As the regiment crossed the
Aspern-brucke Ia new suspension bridge
across the canal of the Danube) its band
PLAYED the famous Rakoczi march, piece
of music which for many years was prohib-
tied both here and in Hungary. As the re-
giment passed passed along the Jaegerzeile,
flowers and wreaths were thrown TO chem
from the windows of the houses, and many
a fair dame loudly babe them good speed "
The Austrian idea is to act on the defen-
sive toward Italy, and take the offensive
against Prussia The Berlin correspondence
of the London Times, May II, has this in
formation:
"The direct appeal in the interests Of peace
which this Court intended to make to the
Emperor Of Austria a few days ago has been
really forwarded. 1t has, however, led TO
no result In consequence of this fresh dis
appointment, the Landwehr, exclusive of the
Landwehr reserve, has been called to arms.
This adds another seventy-five thousand men
to the Prussian army, which, in the course
of fortnight, will thus have been raised to
the enormous total of five hundred thousand
men. Orders have been issued to subject to
medical inspection all young men born since
1888, and passed over for some reason or
other in former conscriptions. 4 hundred
thousand men can be easily levied from
among this numerous class"
The Florence letter of the Times of the
10th says:
"The Italian papers daily cite instances
of patriotic enthusiasm manifested in vari-
Gus ways. Young men of good families, es-
pecially in Lombardy, continually join the
army as volunteers The Duchess Visconti
brought her three sons to ask for service. If
they could not be received in the regular
army they could join the Garibaldians."
The Florence correspondent of the Jour
nal des Debats says:
"Italy no longer considers herself as bound
by the engagement which she took not to
attack Austria, as that undertaking could
not be eternal. At present it is considered
obsolete, and, in fact, the official nomination
of Garibaldi is an act of war. For FORMS
sake, the pretense is still kept up that it is a
defensive measure; but nobody looks on
such an explanation seriously. The King
is to take the command of the army on the
10th, first establishing his headquarters at
Piacenza."
a Genoa letter, Of May 9, says:
"The decisive step has been taken by the
Government, and Garibaldi and his volun-
teers are called to the war. The decree
bears date the 9th, but was not published
until yesterday evening. Add to this that
the OpiRi0ne, of Florence official or
gan-declares that the alliance between
Italy and Prussia is fixed fact, that each
will regard an attack upon the other as an
attack upon herself, and you see how fruit
less must be any efforts for peace. Austria
must yield the Duchies of the Elbe, and
yield Venice, or fight Italy and Prussia"
A Florence letter, dated May 10, says:
"The Italian army, when complete-that
is to say, with all its reserves called out
may be estimated at 100000 men. OF these
about 600 are believed to be now in the
field, not massed close aleng the frontier,
but so distributed az to be Immediately
available should hostilities commence"
A Paris letter May l3) to the London
Times, says:
1t appears that the Emperor speaks
freely with some of his military household
on the present state of affairs lie expressed
his belief that war is all but inevitable.
France is neutral, of course; but it shall 60
hard with her if he does not reap some adj
vantage from it-something to compensate
her for her suffering in other times.
cit is said that French officers, who have
recently examined the military resources of
Prussia and the organization of her army,
report that there is not much chance of her
success in n campaign against Austria and
her German auxiliaries-in fact, that Prus-
STA is no match for her rival"