New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-28
INTERESTING GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
SHIPPING AND RIVER NEWS.


New YORK, June 27-The steamship Java from
Liverpool on Saturday the 10th, and Queenstown
| on Sunday evening the 18th inst, arrived th
evening.
The Federal Diet having, on the 18th, by vote
of nine to SIX agreed to the Austrian proposal fol
the mobilization of the Federal army, Prussia
agreeably to her previous notice. carried out hel
threat to consider it an act of hostility on the
part of those States which supported it, and, OF
the following day, commenced war by sending
troops into Saxony and Hanover. 1t was also ru.
mored that Austrian troops had entered Saxony.
This statement was not, however, confirmed, but
it was believed Gen. Benedek would Immediately
move to attack the Prussans.
After the action by the Federal Diet, the Rus.
sian representative protested against it as uncon.
stitutional, said Prussia considered the confeder.
alton dissolved and Immediately withdrew from
the Diet.
Great commotion and financial depression pre-
vailed throughout Germany.
Baron Gcasola was forming a new station in the
ministry.i La Marmora goes to camp with the king
as minister without portfolio
The news from other places is unimportant.
The Atlantic cable is finished. The Great East
ern leaves Sheerness on the 18th of July.
The eE-Confederate cruisers Tallahassee and
Sumter have been sold at auction at Liverpool.
tThe Latest per Java via Liverpool, June lG y
The action of the American government towards
the Fenians in the United States gives general
satisfaction.
The London Times to-day euogizes the Wash.
ington government, and says it would be inpossi-
bic to exaggerate the good faith, the friendness,
the sincerity and the regard for mutual obliga.
tons which have prompted these energetic and
decisive measures.
The American government has acted in a man
ner which even exceeds anything that could hon
orably have been expected from the most friendly
nation.
The article expresses the qualification that such
distinguished officers as Generals Grant and Meade
should have been sent to the scene and says these
energetic acts of genuine friendship will be long
and cordially remembered. The Fenfans are
almost entitled to thanks for having given the
Americans an occasion for displaying their friend.
Iiness and good feeling.
New YORK, June 27.--At the closing of this dis
patch there is no news of any collisions having yet
occurred in Germany.
Prague telegram of the 10th says the Prus.
slams occupy Lobenstein and Merssen, Chemnitz
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den has been destroyed, and passenger and postal
communication between Prussia and saxony is
stopped
The crown princes of Saxony have proceeded to
Vienna. The Saxony treasury valuables and pro-
visions for the army have been transported for
security to Bohemia.
Frankfort dispatch says Prince Charles of
Bavaria will be appointed commander.in chief of
the federal army. 1t was expected that Nickelburg
would afford active defense to Schleswig Holstein,
It has been ascertained that [inl the proceedings
of the Federal Diet It'll had determined that the
several powers who signed the treaty of Vienna of
1915, declare that in their opinion articles fifty.
four and sixty-three of that treaty which form a
part of the European international laws had been
violated.
The Austrans had interrupted all lines of com
munication on the side of the Pc and Mincio.
LIVERPOOL, June I7.-(vfa Queenstown by tele-
graph. 1.-The federal war vessels Augusta Mian-
tohamah and A. S. Holt arrived at Queenstown on
the evening of the l6lh.
LONDON, June 1.-THE entry of the Prussiaus
into Saxony is fully confirmed, Prussia having
previously declared war The entry of the
Austrians is hourly expected
The Paris Press publishes report that the frat