New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-13

| ltEEs, lOOh Upon SucIi Il proceeding as bHdt OF
Mr. Banks without that Indignation which it
must now provoke
THE EUROPEAN WAR AN INJURY TO ALL
NATIONS.
No doubt the war in Europe viii damage
the people Of the United States. A few
millions may be saved by those who would
have expended that sum in travelling on the
continent this summer except for the war
but that is no great actual gain, since the in
formation that would have been received by
American travellers and the liberalizing OF
sentiment they would have experienced in even
a hasty trip over the usual paths of tourists
would have been partial compensation fol
the summers investment. Messrs. Petro-
leum, Shoddy, Goldfish, Spermaceti and
Spindles and their respective wives ana daugh-
ters must stay at home and content them
selves with domestic exhibitions Of wealthy
vulgarity, or else subject themselves to the
annoyanees of travel in regions bristling with
bayonets, dinned with the clangor of battles,
and redolent with the sulphurous odors of
war. Moreover, a little profitable privateer-
ing may be done, by some of our maritime
fellow-citizens, for one or the other Of the
parties now engaged in the grand interna-
tional pounding match. Even trifing I'M
petus may be given to the American carrying
trade, since neutral ships will naturally have
preference over belligerent bottoms for con
veying goods and products from port to port
| The suspension of labor by some millions
of Italians, Prussians, and Germans may
cause an increased demand for American -four,
and the Western farmers may thus be in part
reimbursed for the robberies of Tx New Eng
land tariff; the same suspension may work
a corresponding apparent benefit to the
Eastern producers of substitutes for German
fabrics. Yet the general result will be
damage to us of no inconsiderable extent
| The war may not be of long duration As
soon as one party wins very considerable
| advantage over the other, either by strategy
or battle, the other viii not fail to find it out.
In Europe, where every tillable acre is made
to produce something, where the network OF
improved roads is only broken by lakes and
mountains, where every square mile has been
photographed on military maps, where every
obstacle to the movement of troops is known,
where distances are accurately measured.
where generals can sit down by there camp
tables and know by scale, map, and compass
the exact number of hours required to move
corps from one point to another Of the field Of
war, in a country so well and so thoroughly
known, wan is reduced much more nearly to a
science than in wild and unexplored regions.
Though there as everywhere war will show
itself to be drama whose scenes, changes,
accidents, and issues are beyond the reach of
human foresight yet great strategic adyan-
tage won by either party will be readily known
and appreciated by the other party and by all
the rest of Europe After marked, evident,
and indisputable loss Of position the loser will
readily see that his chances of further and
greater loss are far greater than of recovering
the loss already sustained. There is no rally
ing from any really great disaster in arms.
Either belhgerent might endure the mere
slaughter of soldiers to the extent of hundreds |
of thousands if that were the sole result of a
battle lost but neither could afford to
to lose an important point or line of communi-
cation. Defeat too, in great battle will be |
attended by immediate moral results. Latent
discomfort in defeated army becomes patent
subdued provinces become insuTectionary, |
allies grow disheartened and troublesome. The |
morale of an army, according to Napoleonic |
maxim, is three-fourths of its effective strength
The rank and file of the three armies cannot
be supposed to have much heart in this war |
The Prussian priyates and corporals care very
little about rounding out the map of northern
Prussia by adding Holstein the Austrian
rifemen care just as little about winning
Silesia or retaining the Danish provinces and
while the Italians are little more in earnest,
Garibahi's volunteers and Victor EmmanueI's +
regulars are not passionately DESTROYS to round
out northern Italy by the seizure of Venetia.
Patriotism has little to do in this great war.
The two crowned plunderers of Denmark are
now each trying to keep all the products of
their joint operation that's all The hearts
of the people are not in the contest Hence if
will be difficult for either party to rally after
signal disaster, and the people Of the three
powers at war will welcome that diplon,atic
intereession which is to put speedy end 10
the most absurd and unnecessary bloodsbed
that has ever dyed the green earth. "
Sould the exhaustive process of war long 90
on without decisive advantages on either side,
here is little doubt but that the Emperor oil
he French will in his turn round out the cas-
ern borders of France by extending its bound
lries to the Rhine but here again the people
are very little for the success. of this cher
shed scheme of Imperial ambition, which win
iot benefit them while it will sow the seeds ofl'
7ars. 1t is not easy to discover any benefit I
hat the war can possibly be to any nation in t
iurope its injuries will pervads all civilized a
ountIies. No'people can suffer great loss or \
amage by war or pestilence or other calamity s
ithout the loss being ultimately felt in some a
egree by every other people. v
A oasket Of diamonds and. other valuable 81
wells, worth Ss0,0O0 was recently found Of
ear Nashville, having evidently been lying n,