The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-07-26
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THURSDAY MORNING, JULY &c. 1866.
THE WAR NOT YET OVER.

THE WAR NOT YET OYER.
The eyes of the whole universe have been
strained to catch the first CLEAN of peace that
promised to dawn over the extended Euro
pean battle-felds. Hopes ran high land gold
came DOWN in expectation of the Emperor's
armistice. At first we were told that Prus.
sia and Italy had accepted it conditionaiIy,
marching onward and fighting meanwhile.
Later advices have pretty much dispelled all
these illusions, and the telegraph yesterday
morning announced that hostilities are pro-
crossing; that negotiations for the present
have ceased, and that Austria henceforth
must depend upon her own resources. This
is the Language of the official organ at Vienna,
and gloomy must be the forebodings of those
of her chief men who could understand the
oA'. "--fy r-a"orinna situation of tho old mon.
arehy. 1t is indeed difficult to see upon what
their hopes of success can be based, after the
unparalleled defeat they have suffered in tho
short space of three weeks. Crippled in her
resources, hopelessly bankrupt, beaten army,
thousands of her brayest and choicest vete-
rams filling q soldiers grave, or languishing
in the military hospitals; the flower of the
nobility and very many of her most distin-
guished officers wounded or slain; the pres
t'gc of her world renowned cavalry gone
her splendid infantry batallions charging the
solid phalanxes Of the Prussian host in vain.
All these and many more considerations of O
similar character cannot but exercise the most
depressing influence upon the morule Of her
army and the spirit of her people.
Her German allies, as we predicted from
the commencement, were of little or no SER
vice to Austria, owing to the imprauticable
system of the old confederation. Twenty.six
States Tor whatever the number isl had to
furnish their "contingents." These contin-
gents, slowly forthcoming, of course had
twenty-six separate commanders. That such
polycephalous machine would stand yery
little chance against a vigorous one.man
power, like the Prussian army, was too pal.
pable to need argument, and events have 30
proven it. Poor Hanover was caught in a
euf-de-sdc at the very opening Of the cam.
paign; Hesse Cassel was flushed in a skirm.
ish. Dresden and Leipsio were garrisoned
by Prussian detachments before Saxony had
commenced to "mobilize" her army, and the
last steamers have brought us intelligence of
series of engagements between the Prus-
slams and Bavariaus in the valley of the
Mayne, in what is known as Lower Franco
MIA.
The fortune of war has beon in favor of the
Prussinns from the commencement to the
present time. Their success is perhaps too
complete for their own good. 1t must sooner
or later excite the jealousy if not tho alarm
OF the other great powers of Europe. While
tho surrounding monarohies of France, Eng
land and Russia may be very willing to SEQ
Austria huniliated and enfeebled, they deem
it very undesirable to see the whole of Ger
many raised under Prussia into one of the
most formidable powers Of Europe. Russia
has already lifted her voice against it, and is
massing troops on the frontier. Whether OF
not there is q secret understanding between
NAPOLEON and BIsMARK, as has been alleged,
we shall soon know.
The German Empire, the legitimate success.
sor OF the Western Roman Empire, all
through the Middle Ages, was the first power
In Europe. internal oommotions, and long
series of inefficient rulers, contri buted much
to lessen its Influence on the outside world.
until Mt last in 1906 the empire fell an easy
prey to NAPOLEON, who pronounced it's dis.
solution. In Its stead arose in 1916 o new