New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-27

pouBT-TELEGRAPH AGAIN-FETE OF 18TH
AUGUsT-FREECH RAILROAD sTATIsTtos-PRo
PORTION OF KILLED AND WOUNDED IN THE
YEAR.
Correspondence the New York Newsl
PARIS, August 4, 1866.
There is dwelling in Paris gentleman of the
name of Levacher Durcle, whose habit is to give
himself the innocent amusement of constructing
imaginary maps of Europe. Whenever there IS
war on this continent, or the prospect of one, M.
Durcle is sure to publish and to have exposed il.
the booksellers windows complete map, painted
in glaring coors setting forth the extent OF ter
rtory and precise frontier of the several sovereign
states as he sees them in his minds eye, after the
wars, revolutions and new treaties shall have
secured to each that which justly belongs to 1t:
His Europe of 1866" is just published, and
excites, as usual, good deal of attention.
Now, this performance would not be worth
mentioning, but that it is one of the signs and
tokens of the movement in mems minds, which Is
gradually but constantly tending to correct the
| grevious injustice so widely inflicted upon this
quarter of the world by the settlement of 1915.
1t is also of the signs of the precise direction
which that movement is inevitably destined to
| ta5e-namely, the direction of recognizing the
rights of nationalities the true basis OF the fu
| ture public law of Europe. The mapmaker may
| be wrong in some of his details; some of hi!
boundaries may be liable to correction; but
venture to affirm that if the vote of the hundred
or eighty millions or so who now people the con
tnent were taken by universal suffrage, they woulc
| greatly prefer lu6 dWhTu VI NE OuISlo " Lhol VI
| Metternich and Castlereagh.
Let us see how his programme stands at pres
| ent. First, he gives to Italy the complete from
| tier of the high Alps around to the high lsonZ0
which would include the Trentin, or the valley O.
the Adige, He suppresses the little fragmen
which is left of the States of the Church. which il
tinted of the same color as the rest of Italy re
duces Florence to provincial town by printing
its name in small italics, and designates Rome, Il
Roman capitals, as the metropolis of the king
dom.
Germany becomes one and indivisible, witt
Berlin for its capital Prussia and Austria hav
both disappeared at least under those names; an
"Germany' has swallowed up not only the north
ern confederation but the States of the south also
including the archduchies of Austria (whose II
habitants are Germany SO that Vienna, liE
J Florence, becomes secondary town, with i
> name printed in small Italics, like the name
Kessingen and other small villages. Germany
, also presented with the whole of Denmark and {
its isles, with the northern part of Holland and u
" eastern part of Switzerland. Some of these aWart
of our autocratic arbiter may be questionable II
: though the eastern Swiss are certainly Germa
It and the Hollanders may with little violence,
h supposed also to belong to the Teutomc race y
o there seems no Justice or eXPeulency III sepaI, !,
l. ting the SCandinaYIans OF denmark from u
a. other Scandinayians, and Incorporating then
e. whether they like it or no, with the Gefmt
empire. o.,. ........ .,,,4i,
e. say, Hungary, 1lyria, Croatia, Styria, ETC., a
d, Turkey, to form the Slave States" The
ID capital is Pesth
ID Turkey vanishes entirely from the Europe
ut system and the Ottomans carry their cresce
" and horse tails back again beyond the BOsphort
~ into the depths of Asia. We win not drop a te
O. for the Turks they have never really settled
at Europe, but only been encamped there. They v
ad find room enough in the East, and the Gree
nj who have groaned under them for SO many ag
of will find their room better than their compal
of Turkey in Europe, then, Except the portion
Ie- signed to the Slavonic Power,) is incorpora
as with the present little kingdom Of Greece,
his becomes THE Greek State )" capital, COnsta
ng nople.
ler Poland is gloriously reconstructed, and Loo
1m even larger on the map than ever she did, e
on under John Sobieski. She takes back from p
rth sia the country Of Posen, from Austria Cali
nIy and from Russia not only what is now callsd
the land with the vast region of Lithunia, but al
in large cut of the ancient Russia, bounded by
or Dwina and the Dneper, down to the Black
and thus giving to Poland the fine port of Odess
the south, as well as a sea front on the Bait
and the north. ! see nothing unfair in this, for
dis land has so long suffered oppression at the
ties, of the MuseoVite, that she has some right to
nva. pensations. But it is possible that Russia
to not see the matter in that light, especially
eda the new arrangement Russia is expected to
up a great deal and gets nothing at all. Pc
from however, looks splendid on this map STREET
used. from the Dnieper to the Oder, and from
Black Sea to the Baltic, complete bi