The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-07-23
most most gifted q! ed Of the e.ilss q 1851, to the

most gifted of the exiles Of 1851, to the
rank of Marshal Of Frapoe, with the
command ofthe reserves. No act OF the
Emperor Nappleon's has ever been more
timely than this, and nothing could
speak more elpquently for the really ma
tionsl support now given him in France
than the acceptance OF such command
ut his hands by snoh man as the hero
of Africa and of the Republic.
GERMAN SYMPATHIEs IN AMERICA.
number of the most respectable German
residents of New York have called o
meeting of their countrymen to express
their sympathy with Prussia in the great
war now beginning. Nothing could be
moro natural, or in many respects more
commendable. The maxim that "blood
is thicker than water, though often
honored, we are sorry to say, rather in
the breach than in the observance by
Americans of both sections during our
recent civil war, lies, after all, deep in
the heart Of every vigorous and respect
does not feel it and live by it in all great
emergencies can hardly he vigorous, aud
need not hope to be respectable Com
menting upon which, the World adds:
We have no fear that our German fell
low-citiZens will seek to make their
adopted home Il party to strife as to tie
real scope and bearings of which not
even the Germans themselves can as yet
pretend to have any very clear and posi-
tive convictions. 1t is MI very we'll for
Napoleon, in his address to his people, to
bid the world remember that the "vic-
tors OF Jena still survive" So, too, do
the victors of Waterloo. But this is not
tho ago of jena or of Waterloo. Not
even Ill so great war as we now see
opening before us. can the existence of
II great State like Prussia or like France
be now put Mt stake. What the most
brilliant modern genins Of Germany,
Heine, said of the ''sunny- marble face
of the first Napoleon-'those lips had
but to whistle aud Prussia ceased to be-
can never be said again in our dny. In
the worst event to Prussia of the present
war, NIL that she would have to fear would
be displacement from her present posi-,
ton Mt the. head of imperfectly united
Germany. Granted the failure of the
Prussian experiment, now only four
years old, and who need, therefore, de-
spair either of the future of the German
States, or of real, free, and harmoni-
GUS German unity, planned after another
fashion, crystallzing, perchancc, around
thing ns an invasion and conquest, OF
even an extravagant humiliation of Ger.
many, being quite out Of the question,
our sympathizing Germans of the New
World can afford to abstain from eAag.
gernting the significance Of conflict
the mere proportions of which it is in.
deed not easy at all to exaggerate.
The DUSDERBEnG. nG.-One Of the most
formidable vessels in the navy of Loui.
Napoleon was devised md built in this
country by Americans for the use of oul
Government. We allude to the immense
nliliar to our readers as tho DunderJerg
and seventy-eight feet long, seventy
three feet beam and thirty feet deep
carrying an armament of eight fifteen
inch guns. AS q ''ram" the Rochan,bca,
will prove fearfully destructive, it being
calculated by experts tthatlWhen collid
ing ut Il speed Of ten knots an hour, she
would deliver blow equal to q cannon
ball OF one thousand pounds weight
hurled with propulsivc force of siXteer
hundred feet second. This might,
craft crossed the Atlantic from New Yorl
to CherGourg in fourteen days, frequent
~ stenming ut the rate of fifteen kuots
an hour.
QCEsTIoNs AT STAKE.-The New Yorl
Times gives the following summary:
Those who suppose that the war be
tween Franco and Prussia is solely tht
fruit of the Emperor Napoleon's ambi
ton. can have paid but little attention tt
the recent history of Prussia. The cable
tells us that the London Times said, yes
terday: "France, without shadow oi
excuse OF justification, plunges Europe
into war of which no living person may
see the end" The first pnrt Of this sen
tence may answer the purposes of parti
sanship, but it is not historically true
The latter part of the sentence, although
containing only an opinion, is worth
more consideration. The probability in
creases every hour that this will be wal
of colossal magnitude. It is said thai
the United States cannot possibly be
drawn into it, but how can there be my
certainty of that? A misunderstanding
with regard to any American vessel, in
tercepted on the high seas by bellige-
rent power, might compel us to take an