The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-04-11

Ota1e would 90 we'll to notice, If not
publish, the card of Senator Perry.
The Threatened War Between Aus-
trfa and Prussia-Nhat About.
The City of Paris, it will be seen.
brings intelligence of the highest inn
portance as to the relations of Austria
and Prussia-the sum and substance
of which is, that as Prussia seems to
have made up her mind to annex the
Duchies, Austria has determined to
resist, and to that end is making ac-
tive preparations to send n powerful
army to the frontier Some reports
say that army is 100000 strong, and
that, before many days, it will be on
the borders of Bohemia. There are
rumors contradicting, or rather modi-
flying this little, but the latest tele-
grams say that these are not to be re-
lied upon, and that their crisis is
sufficiently alarming to create the
conviction that conflict is inevita-
bic. Though the history of this new
complication in European politics
must be familiar to the reader who
takes an interest in European politics,
brief resume of its origin and pro-
gress may not be uninteresting Prus-
sia now openly decla"~S that the
Duchles We're taken from Denmark,
not to be made an independent State,
nor to maintain the rights of Angus
tenberg, but to strengthen the Prus-
sian Monarchy.
For year past, Count Bismarck
has scarcely thought it necessary to
make any concealment of this pur-
pose, and now he boldly avows it.
Annexation is proposed by the Minis
ter and the press which supports him;
and 1t is also apparently approved by
the Prussian people. On the other
side, Austria, with the more or less
timid support Of the minor States,
demands that the will of the con
federation and the rights Of legitima-
cy shall be respected. Passing over
conferences, convictions, missions
and dispatches, this represents the
real question now ut issue 1t is one
upon which negotiation has been ex-
hausted, for where one party is deter
mined to yield nothing, the other
must take the alternative of submis-
sion or of war. That is the position
of Austria. Count Bismarck has
carried matters with so high hand,
that Austria is, rs it were, driven to
the wall. He has, apparently, made
no more account of her than if she
were one of the minor powers whose
enthusiasm led to the spoliation from
which they were to gain so little.
Austria, however, embarrassed as she
is in her finances and in her relations
with her great dependency, does not
shrink from the contemplation of war
Hence, preparations for war are made
on both sides
In both capitals military councils
are held, generals nominated, plans
of campaigns discussed, and the ques-
ton whether the territory of the neu-
trail States Of Germany shall be turned
into n battlefield for these great ter
ritorial rivals to fight out their battle
upon, is discussed as if the rights of
those States and the interests of in
dustry and civilization were of no ac-
count. On the 18th, the King of
Prussia held council of war, and in
Vienna, we learn that the Govern
ment has consulted the military com
manders as to the readiness of the
army to take the field, the state of
the Bohemian fortresses, and the
points iii the Kingdom of Saxony
which could be occupied by the I'M
perial forces According to custom,
Il member of the reigning House is
appointed to high command. Arch
duke Albrecht has been named as one
Of the leaders, if not the General-in-
Chief of the Austrian army. Field
Marshal Bcnedek and Baron Hess,
known for their services in foreign
campaigns, have also been consulted.
Continental Europe is thus again
on the threshold of great events. the
issue of which, or the new complica-
tions to which it may give rise, it is
impossible, just now, to foresce. 1t