The New York herald., 1866-08-02

win probably be free city not much longer but will be
absorbed IKE many II no, all the territories o. the ttle
army corps. amounting to about sixty thousand men,
which recently occupied Frankfort has been broken up
sian force, not numbering than forty thousand
men, and through all these little States the enthusiasm
the feeling that useless 70 any longer against
the evident superior enterprise and power Of Prussia
THE ooEyEDxRAcy.
This war has shown the Confederate States OF Germany
what mere rope OF sand their Confederacy was; how
utterly utterly powerless to oppose in combination the
Before the war II supposed that the secondary
states, which voted with Austria in the
Diet would have furnished contingent OF At least two
hundred thousand TO unite with the main Austrian
army, and then posted its territory with volunteers
and extra lov!es OF men. With tho exception Of tho
saxon troops, however, not single soldier from the
Conederacy has reached the Austrian army, and It's own
territory rapidly falling into tho possession Of Prussia
Power TO Immediately and rapidly occupy tho territories
OF the minor states so as 10 keep at home all their troops
any further opposition for they the uselcssness Of IT,
and those who have much feeling about the matter arc
ssss cd 70 81 na n1 y ana so
Of the Eector OF Hsssc. Such examples on
the part Of their rulers are not calculated to put
as to the result utterly dispirited and broken down
Their only hope now Is in the intsrferencs OF the
other European Powers prevent Prussia from pushing
hcr annexation projects too FAR and Il this Is not done
they see but one fate and that To- pure and simple alb
.orpon into Prussia 10 fact the feeling Of opposition
70 this 10 daily and hourly diminishing and here In
Frankfort the capital and centre Of the Confederation
ind not few who week since talked in entirely
different manner, now In sort Of stage 'aside"
acknowledge that after all they would prefer 10 be In
corporated Into powerful government which could pro-
tect then to this isolated existence which places them
at the mercy Of tho first conner.
CITY SCENES LIFE
The quaint old town wears o vory lively appearance
this morning In all the squares aud open spaccs ar
ey and baggage wagons camped and in front OF the
glardhouses and barracks the streets strewn with
straw and covered with doxing soldiers who are lying
beneath the shadow OF the splendid bronze statue OF
Schiller in the Rossmark and around those or Goethe
aud Faust, Gutenberg and SchGfer, In the Goethe
patz BY ordinary convey ances pgress and egress to
and from the town uninterrupted but even the little
railway limo from here 10 HombouTg has been taken pos
session OF and the trains stopped Hombourg the grcn
gaming he'll was occupied this morning BY battalion OF
Prussian troops
ruE rRr&lAS TROOPS
The officers and soldiers Of the Pruasan army which
have seen here do not seem 10 be tine, mechanical
soldiers az the Ausrians, clean and well dressed
but from the General down they . much n.el
gent looking set VI The cuirasscIs spcndidy
built fellows, generally six feet high.
SKws OUTSIDE
Our tclegraphlc aud railway communication being cut
OF entirely, We utterly destitute Of OF ono
thing ! am very we'll convinced. that however
goes the war between the main army Of tie Austrians
and Prussans, practically finished in tho secondary
States, which must accept the best conditions from
those who have fairly conquered them