The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-03-31
European War in Prospect:
Despatch Of PIussiaa- Ultinatun, to Aus
tyia- Austria Mast Either Yiezd on
Fi0bt
From the London Owl, March s.

A German crises is emmfnent. The Prus-
sian Government has despatched to Vienna
q summons in respect to HOlst2in which is
as preemptory in its tone as its demands.
Bismark is ready to face a war and its con
sequences. Austria must at once take up
the gauntlet or yield to the pretensiens Of
Prussia in a somewhat ignOminiOus manner.
IFrom the London Standard. March 81 afe-
A crisis Is approaching in the relations
between the two great German Powers, from
which there are but two issues4-Ear between
the condOpsini Of the EIDE dltehies, or an
other surrender on the part OF. Austria. The
Prussian government has used the power
given It by the Gastein Convention to make
Sehleswig practically its own. 1t now wants
to finish with the matter, and formally an
mex Holstein and Sehleswig, But this pro-
/ ject meets with stubborn resistance from
Austria The Austrian government has no.
particular views Of It's own with regard to
I the duehies. It would like to dispose Of
them in some way by which it could at the
same time turn an honest penny, increase its
popularity In Germany and balk Prussia.
But it does not see how to attain this grand
result, and all it can do is to offer as much
opposition as possible 10 the Prussian pro-
iects, partly in the hope Of defeating them,
partly with the idea of compelling Prussia
TO nav n higher price for its ultimate COM.
|
cessary. The Prassian government evident
" means to risk war, if only war will bring
Austria to reason. Count Won Bismark has
cleared his decks for action. He has got
rid of his Parliament He has assured HIM
self. or at least fancies he has assured him
self, of the neutrality of France and Russia.
He has money enough in the treasury. He
has good provision of all necessary stores,
and, thanks to the reorganization, he has
a large army Immediately available to whom
he could offer no more welcome opponents
than the Aastrians he is in better con-
dition to deal with Austria than he was last
summer, when he exhOrted Lauenburg from
/ her by an ultimatuIn The Questions is, what
will Austria do? Willshe yield, as she did
last summer, or will she fight 2 There can
! be no doubt what the Emperor and his Court
would like to do The Gastein Convention
/ was bitter humiliation to them, and the
effort begun soon after to regain Hungary
was dictated IN no small part by the desire
! to restore the strength of the empire so as
! to enable it to. resent the arrogance of Prus-
1 STA. Bot good as the win of the Emperor to
| fight may be, great as are the resources of
/ Austria, can any one believe that the EN-
| peror is at this moment IN a position to risk
/ war with Prussia, and above ali to risk 1t
| for SO small a matter The battle would
lthave to be fought now against much heavier
/ odds than it would have been last summer.
| We do not .apprehend any disturbance of
| EurOpe. because we cannot believe that Aus
trfa will risk war, and the next phase of the
Schleswig- II olstein question viii, therefore,
/ we are. convinced, be the practical cons
meRcement of Prassian rule over both
/ duehies. 80