New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-08

MILITARY STRENGTH OF THE CONFEDERATION
HI6ALY INTEREaTINa srATIsT1os.

STRENGTH OF THE CONFEDERATE ON
HIGHLY INTERESTING STATISTICS.
The New York World has compiled fnn Sta
tistical view of the resources of the German Con.
federation, which is interesting In view of the
probabilities of war between the two leading
States, Prussia and Austria, wl,tch would nrobably
involve their smaller neighbors. We quote the
following
BY the treaty Of Vienna, in 1876, Germany was
divided into thirtynine separate soyereirnfies hnt
that number has been reduced to thirty. -four Inv
the incorporation of five of the States With others
These thirty-for States include one empire, five
kingdoms, seven grand duches, one eiectorates
seven duchies, one landgravate, eight princinali
ties and four free towns the population of the
whole being little over forty-ive millions of
inhabitants.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
The thrty,fOur sovereignties constitute what is
known as the Germanic Empire, being united in a
confederation (Deutsche Bund) of independent
States, under an act of constitution signed at
Vienna, June s, 1876. According to the first art-
Gle of that constitution the object of the confede-
ration is the preservation of the internal and ex
ternal security of Germany, and the independence
and inyoilablity of the several German States"
The second article comedies equality of rights and
privileges to the members of the confederation;
but the influence and votes of the States in the
diet or assembly are arranged and established aC
cording to the relative Importance of the States as
| given in the subioined table. The organ and
| representative OF the confederation is a diet of
plenipotentares, which sits in permanence in the
city of Frankfort. on-the- Main.
| This body acts in one of two forms, either as a
general assembly or pleRalla, in which the States
| have votes according to their Importance, but
every State casting at least one vote or as the
| ordinary assembly, or committee of the confeder-
alton, or CURES, in which seventeen votes are di-
vided among the thrty-four States, In all cases
where changes in the original laws of the conted-
GRAFTON are to be considered and made, or when a
new member is to be admitted into the Diet, or
when peace or war is to be declared, the proceed
ings must be in plennlil, or in general assembly.
But in other cases the ordinary assembly, or c15eS
may act either in legislative or executive
capacity.
The leading powers of Germany have each large
military establishments, from which they supply
their respective oontngents of the army Of the con
federation, while the smaller powers have no mill
tary force beyond that which they are required IL
sustain as their quota of the national army.
To give the reader a complete view Of the wa
powers of Germany it is, therefore, neeessar.
that we should describe both the separate military
establishments and the army Of the confederation
THE AUSTRIAN ARMY.
The superior officers in the Austrian service ar
three field marshals, thirteen active and twenty
nine non-actiVe generals seventy eight active AM
one hundred andtwenty- eight non-active lieutenan
field marshals and one hundred and twenty-on
active and one hundred and seventy-four MONACO
tive major generals making a total of five hun
bred and forty-six, The numerical strength of til
| in .Iuly 1GG6 a Q fnllnure