Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-07-20
WAR IN EUROPE.

nAJlOQ, Is likely 10 arouse the zeal
ousy Of the others. The instigatinl
cause Of the war now declared by
France against Prussia, is that Prus,
STA, with the consent Of some of the
principal men of Spain, is willing tC
allow a Prussian Prince to occupy the
Spanish throne, thus placing Spain
directly under Prussian influence
Bismarc, the great military head Of
Prussia, and Napoleon, have not been
on amiable terms for some time, and
Napoleon has observed with uneasi.
ness and manifest dissatisfaction the
aggressive and defiant air assumed by
Bismare since he was victorious over
the Austrians, four years ago. o.
course France cannot quietly permit
a rival power to gain so important g
position on the map of Europe as
would be the virtual absorption Of
the kingdom of Spain, which borders
France on the South, and is identical
with it in that both are of the Latin
family and in religion Catholic, while
Prussia is a Protestant nation. A
German Prince on a Spanish throne
would be an humiliation France could
not honorably undergo, and hence she
demanded that Prussia should with
draw all pretence in favor of Prince
Hohenzollern, and peremptorily for
bid him from aspiring to or accepting
the offered crown. Prussia refused to
interfere, saying that it was a matter
she preferred to leave exclusively
with Spain to determine for itself
This equivocatlon was so unsatisfac-
tory and irritating to France, that
on Friday last the Corps Legislatiff
declared war against Prussia. The
French people are said to be an unit
in favor of the war, and the remem-
brance of the fierce conflicts under
the old Napoleon, in 1914, fires their
enthusiasm and renders them fierce
to be revenged against Prussia for
Butcher and Waterloo.
In this struggle the sympathies of
the American people will be divided,
but much the larger proportion will
indicate a preference for the success
of Prussia. There are two causes for
this state of feeling. One is that
during the late rebellion, when this
nation was supposed to have all it
could do to master the rebellion, Ma
poleon undertook to establish Maxa-
MILAN in Mexico, and defy the
American sentiment against foreign
interference in the politics of this
continent. Another consideration is
that Prussia is Protestant, and as in
the case of the recent war between
that country and Catholic Austria,
the feeling largely preponderated in
favor of Prussia. We expect, in this
conflict now going on, that the Prot
estant nation will be the victor, and
believe it will be better for the cause
of true progress that it should
France has for years been the bull
wark of Papacy, of political and spir-
itual despotism. In the providence
of the great Ruler of Nations, this
war may bring about changes greater
and more important than the most
sanguine could hope for.
From cable kilograms published in
the dailies of Saturday, Monday and
Tuesday, We gather the more import
ant features of the news:
PARIS, July 14-Evening.-The move
ment of troops toward the Rhine FROM
tier is incessant. Eastern France is alb
solutely alive with soldiers. Troops
which have hitherto garrisoned Paris
have gone, and raw levies are slowly
replacing them. Ambulances and cais-
sons throng the streets of the city, on
their route to the east. The preparations
at the different naval stations are on a
similar large scale.
Austria processes neutrality, unless a
third power intervenes.
At st. Petersburg there is a strong
feeling in favor of the Prussian govern
ment against France.
PARIS, July I6.-The French army is
concentrating at Metz. Napoleon leaves
to-day for the border and will cross the
Rhine Immediately. Marshals MacMa-
han, Bazaine and Canrobert viii com
mand the divisions of the French army.
A gunboat f1otilla is in the Rhine.
Admiral GenoiIly, who commands the
Baltic feet, will Immediately lombard
the Prussian ports on the Baltic.
The French gunboats are already il
the Prussian rivers.
The army and navy will attack stimuli
taneously, the French feet matching the
Prussian feet in the British Channel,
and awaiting orders to attack.
Sweden will remain neutral. Den
mark, the key of the Baltic, offers to
Join France. Austria will remain neu-
trail if Russia remains neutral. Italy is
friendly to France, and has written a
letter to the Emperor. Spain will be
friendly also. Prim has written Q letter
to Napoleon. England will be neutral.
Rome, the key of the Mediterranean, is
under French control.
France will oppose the Prussian rifed
cannon with q revolving cannon shoot
ing forty balls a minute.
A dispatch from SELF bas Rhine, about
twenty = seven miles from Strasburg,
was received this afternoon, which says
the Prussians haYe entered France by
way of Forbach, in the department OF
Moselle, on the Nancy and Mannheim
railway, but as the Prussian force is
said to be only a detached corps, little
importance is attached to the movement.
The French force near the frontier is
estimated at a hundred and thirty thou
sand men. 1t is believed that the Prus-
SLAMS will attack the fortified city o.
Metz, the capital of the department Of
| Moselle, and an important railroad CEN
ter, moving on it from two directions,
one body via Thionville and another Wis
Kehl.
PARIS, July T-Evening.-There is q
rumor that an engagement has taken
place near FOrbanh, resulting in a loss tt
the Prussians of three thousand killed