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2 continued on al! sides, the hope seems to be entertained | doubt. To maintain does not mean to destroy. The that the necessary negotiations will be speedily con- cluded, It is not unlikely, however, that these last negotiations will result in nothing more than did the negotiations for the conference. Replies to Emperor Napoleon’s amica- ble note have been received from Italy, Prussia and Aus- tia, each of which has expressed its willingness to en- deavor to conclude a peace, and stay the further effusion ‘of Blood. DIFFICULTY OF AGREEMENT. But atready there has arisen the same difficulty that appeared before hostilities commenced when the question of ajconference was proposed. That is, the conditions upon which an armistice may be brought about ands satisfactory peyee established. Tt is said that Ytaly has laid down as the condition of her acceptance of qn armistice the immediate occupa- tion by her of two fortresses of the Quadrilateral, The King of Prussia in his reply to the Emperor Napoleon’s offer of modimjon thanks his Majesty for his friendly offices, states that the sentiments of mutual confidence existing between the governments of France and Prussia caused him to readily accept the mediation of the Emperor, and concludes his reply by saying, “I bave sent a despatch to Count Goltz empowerin him to settle the conditions of an armistice, whic! ean only be concluded in concert with the King of Italy.” 1. is said that those conditions will embrace an under- standing that the Prussian armies shall retain possession of their present positions, the troops to be supported at the expense of the country occupied, and that Austria ™must not increase her forces in Bohemia or in the other countries of the Germanic Confederation. ‘The Emperor of Austria, a3 you will have seen in your files, in his imperial manifesto, states that he is prepared to make peace upon honorab‘e terms, but at the same time he declares that sooner than sanction a treaty of peace by which tho fundamental conditions of Austria’s posi- tion asa great Power would be shaken, he would carry on the war to the utmost extremity, THE PROGRESS, It is understood that an understanding has “alroady beon arrived at with Prussia, subject to the action of her ally, Italy, and that the negotiations with the Italian government are still in progress. The negotiations, how- ever, cannot be long, and a determination of some sort will be arrived at very soon. | NEWS PROM THE GERMAN RATTLE FIELDS. Meanwhile the movements of troops continue. Nearly & week ago the headquarters of the Prussian army wero transferred to Pardubitz, and some of her troops had pos- session of all the fords on the Elbe between Pardubitz and Elbe-Teintz, Tue Prussian troops recently at Ratibor had occupied Troppau. The infantry of the Guard which was quartered at Chum had advanced in the direction of Pardubitz, and cannonading being heard at five o'clock i the afternoon of the 7th it was supposed that an attack had beon mado upon the fortress of Koniggritz, Previous to this, propositions had been made for sur- rendering the fortress to the Prussians, but the com- mandant requested, among other conditions of evacua- tion, that foriy-five Austrian officers should be exchanged for an equal number of Prussian officers. ‘That part of the proposal was accepted by the Prussians, but the other conditions, which are not named, are said to have been rejected. It is not !mprobable, therefore, that the Prussians may have assaulied the fortress. THE PRUSSIAN HEADQUARTERS. On the dth inst., the headquarters of Prince Frederick Charles were at PozSlautch, and those of the Crown Prince at Ischlparck, both "places being about equi-dis- tant from Pardubitz, ADVANCING IN BOMEMTA, The Prussian armies had been pushed forward at all points after the retiring Austrians, and another encoun- ter might at any time take place. PRAGUE SAID TO BR RVACUATED. The Austrians are reported to have abandoned Prague, and to be withdrawing toward Brinn, followed by the ‘two powerful Prussian armies. The Austrian headquar- ters were reported to be last at Leitomischel. OPINION FROM ViKNNA, No conflict had occurred up to the 7th instant, and a ‘telegram of that date from Vienna, Published as official, states that there is good prospect of an armistice being concluded for the space of six weeks. DIXCIPLINE IN. SILESIA. The Prussian General, Knobelsdorfs, had issued a pro- clamation to Austrian Silesians, informing them that strict discipline would be maintained in the Prussian army, that the troops had strict orders to respect private property, and that the inhabitants would be treated with the greatest humanity. PRUBBIAN GUERRILLAS. It is stated that Count Peeke Volmorstein has been au- thorized to form a “free” corps, to serve only during ‘the war. That is the first instance since 1813 of such an irregular body of troops boi or ized in Prussia, where regular troops, carofully disciplined, have met her enemies on the field of battle, Should hostilities continue it is proposed to organize a number of similar corps without too scrupulous to the nationality of recruits, ‘‘provided only they are Germans,” THR MINOR GERMAN STATES, In last Saturday's sitting of the Nassaa Chamber of Deputies the government proposal for the mobilization of the Nassau contingent was bi t to another vote, and rejected almost unanimously. There were only two ‘votes in favor of the motion. The immediate dissolution of tho Chamber is expected. The Assembly of Burghers which has been discussing the propriety of fortifyng the city of Frankfort-on-the- Main, bave postponed their vote upon the question. THK REE CITIRA AND TOWNS, The mobilization of the Hamburg contingent will take = on the 16th inat., in consequence of which all the lamburg soldiers on furlough have been called in for duty. ‘The authorities of thotown of Schleswig have pre- pared a congratulatory address to the King of Prasala, Sagi reclonstceeetereee sent prow selves tho Prussian state, regret that reed goon wi not been summoned as Prussian soldiers to the field of battle.’ NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS. THE ARMISTICE. Policy of Russia and England. (From Galiguani’s Messenger, July 10.) The Court of the Tuileries, which had tmmediately mage the propositions of Austria known to the govern. ments of England and Russia, has received from those Powors, together with the expression of their satisfac- tiou, the renewed assurance of their disposition to con- tribute towards the re-establishment of peace. The Cabinet of St. Petersburg has also, it is said, mad: known at Berlin its desire to see the armistice proposed by the Em peror of the French concluded, Austrian Gains by the Evacuation of the Quadrilateral. ‘The Paris Sitcle of July 10 makes the eubjoined esti- mate of what Austria will gain in men and stores by evacuating tho Quadrilateral:—‘Mantua will render 20,000 men disposable and 150 guns; Verona, 40,000 and 300; Peschiera, 10,000 and 60; and Leynago, 25,000 ai “The orflrenched camps, forts, and block-houses, the arrisons of Malghera, Alberoui, St. André, Bt. Pierre, hano, and Montecine, with the towns of Vicenza, Tre- ‘viso, and Rovigo, wili also furnish enormous quantities of men and guns. Tho arsenals will give up theirmus- kets and her military storoa. Lastly,the Quadrilateral will furnish its army in the flold—infantry, iry, wagon train, military stores, guns, &c. ; in all one huddrod and fifty thousand men. Ali hose livibg and material forces will proceed towards Olmutz. The Emperor Francis Joseph gives them to Moravia; ho sends also the Archduke Albert, who used them on the Minciv, to show at Olmiitz how they should be em- ployed. Extent of Venetia. The boundaries of the province of Venetia are well Known, but not very generally the extent which it eccu- pies on the raap of Furope, It contains a square kilometres (3,870,500 acres), and has 2,493,963 inhabitants, Opinion ef he Frepch hres, Should Italy (From the Paris Presse, July 10.) Ad bd * Did not Italy, in 1869, accept the Mincio fora limit? Did she think herself bound by a point of honor to carry ber frontier behind the Ticino, under the Pretext that Lombardy had been delivered by @ victory our arms? The scruples which she did not feel on the Subject of the territories we gained by our blood, why should she have them on the occa- gion of a province which she will owe to our uence? The day of Custozza must have dir. pated in Italy many tusions, not as to the bravery, bat as to the force of the Italian army. Surely that is not a roason why we should see revived in that country certain susceptibilities which a true sentiment of the common interest and the satisfaction given to the futare prospects of Vonice would condemn in the strongest manner, In ‘any case, it docs not seein proper for a Freneh journal to awakon of flatter such susceptibilities Italy owes enough to France to obviate our having to excuse our- selves timidly to her, as apparentiy recommended by the Diva's, from making ber a new present, WII Italian Unity Be Perfected [From the Paris Devate, July 10.) Many porsons have asked if the Italians will accept Venetia, Without doubt they would have preferred to seize it from the Austrians by force of arms; but at tege itis from the Emperor of the French and not rom the Emperor of Austria that thoy will have to take it. “Allis lost, save honor,”’ said, if tradition is to be believed, Francis I. when conquered at Pavia, All is gaved, including honor,’’ might say the Italiane, despite the check at Custezza, and the legitimate vexation they may feel at not being able to take their revengs, When two adversaries have es bravely, hhonor is satisfed on both sides, e though nee; maintenance of the work which France con tributed to build yp in Italy,” is the language of she Jettor. That work had its starting point in the cxmpaigu of 1859, France there contributed ,to by impoeing on Austria the obligation of ‘no doring it by force that work in order to try something mew? No, w! Austrian General mora:— Emperor of Austria accedes to the ideas emitted by the Emperor Napoleon in his letter of the 1ith June; and it Ss under the benefit of that reserve that he gives bim Venetia and accepts hie mediation. Wo bave always that the imperial letter formed, in the crisis Europe is passing through, a point to whieh It was tm. portant to fx the attention in order to appreciate the Fituation. “Necessity for Italy to aseume her independ- it e. _—, by recognizing the kingdom of Italy ; by inviting other Powers to do the same, and by contracting with the new government the treaty of the 15th Soptember, 1844. Aro we to-day going to overthrow imperial letter recognizes that there is a necessity for the Italians to assure their independence by the taking of the Quadrilateral and the possession of Venetia, Conse- uently, Venetia ought to belong to the Italians, The Troost ts mediator. The regulation of Breonnn it. culties by means of a con; is an idea w! is dear to him, and doubtless he has much at heart to realize it, If his mediation is the success of his efforts in furnishing other Powers with a plausible motive to show themsolves more exacting, Ought not the mediator to himself set the example of disinteresteduess? Would he do so by causing to be paid for a which cost him nothing? Prussia, after her mane and rag el tain, we sure, merease of homogene! foree Yn the North which wa desired for her in the {m- perial letter; and then it will be necessary to reinforce the South of Europe, No sensible man can any longer doubt that Italian ‘unity 4 neommsary (0 the equilibrium of What Napoleon Can Accomplish. (From La France, of Paris, July 10.) © © ® Either the mediation of the Emperor will be accepted by Prussia and Italy, and then his Majesty will have confided to him a mission of exceptional dignity and importance, It will, however, carry with it botl embarrassments and difficulties, ut the equity and firmness of the Emperor, joined to the authority which his counsels have en par in Europe, warrant the hi that he will once again entitle himself by the able fulfil ment of the task to the gratitude both of nations and of their governments. Or, on the other hand, the media- tion will be refused; and we may, without opine | the direction which this refusal will give to our nation: policy, assert that a striking testimony will have been rendered to the honor of tho Emperor, and of France, by this example of the confiderice of & great sovereign making in misfortune a sup- port from which his dignity would not suffer in that quarter where he felt assured of finding strength, moderation and honor. As to Prussia and Italy, we do not see any real reason which should induce them to re- fuse the mediation, but we perceive many decisive ones calling strongly for its acceptance. These two States have concluded an alliance for objects which each had determined to attain by war. Prussia wished to cnlarge and strengthen her. position in Germany, and in that respect the military successes which she has just ob- tained are of a nature to exercise considerable weizht in the negotiations. Italy wanted Venetia, and the cession of that province by Austria is now an accomplished fact. Therefore the double which the allies sought by the war ts thus attained. The me- diation will only have to give to the result a definitive sanction; nor can this necessity be misunder- stood when Austria herself proclaims it by her commu- nication to the Emperor Napoleon, in which she begins by announcing the abandonment of Venetia, What in- terest and what motive therefore could induce Prussia and Italy to refuse the mediation? Can they bave formed an alliance for the gratification of insatiable pas- sions, and for an unlimited war for which the European Powerscannot have any sympathy? Might they not, by exorbitant pretensions, imperil the advantages now as: sured by their sucess: ? Nothing, howover, warrants the anticipation of such dangerous excesses in the policy of tho two allied Powers. We have, on the contrary, overy reason to anticipate from them that wisdom and moder- ation which accords so well with their interest. We ‘ait, therefore, their determination with confidence, The Cession of Venetia In An Italinn Point of View. [From the Diritto of Turin, July 6.) The fears which, out of regard for the national honor, we ontertained yesterday with the greatest caution, have unfortunately to-day become a reality. Now, let us say it at once; far better to have left the sword in the scabbard; better to be discomfited in a new and hard fight; better to forget Venice and her woes than possess it at the cost, of insults and—of France. Against the inclemency of fortune and the delays of time, Italy, long tried in sulfer- ing and in the painful habit of expectancy, would have opposed her faith, the tenacity of her resolves, so much lad her misfortunes strengthened her temper and con- solidated the relations of fraternity and _recip- rocal good feeling of her people. The misfortune which has come upon us has moreover an aspcot of such perfidy that one more severe could not happen toa n-tion which respects itself. Austria, who before boasted of having “atruck us on the hips with the fist of tho left hand,” now cedes Venetia to France, thereby deprives us Of the opportunity of rescuing it, homihates our national right and touches to the very quick this young Italy, who ardently desired to re-establish in face of the world the reputation of her doubted valor. The blow isan atrocious one, for it deprives us at once of friends and éne- mie. Forlorn Austria escapes, and poor Venetia is pre- sented tous covered with our shame. And, to crown our anguish, Austria's charity is conveyed through Franco, from which we always ge the most costly ideas and the most imperative counsels, Are we fallen 80 low that we must seriously ask if it be true that Italy has overturned five thrones and placod 500,000 men in arms? Was it all but a solomn mockery? In Italy wo believed we wero fishting, and there was an idea that a brave army, inferior tonone'in the ardor of battle—that 40,000 volunteers, who had left their hearths and homes to fight, possessed valor and arms equal to any other troops in Europe. It was alt a mistake. We essayed vain miracles. Tho enemy sometimes deigned indeed to make a slaughter of us, and then he treats with others about the fate of this despised Italy! We ar- dently desire to believe that but one cry will be raised throughout the entire Peninsula—iet us tear ths offering; let us teach this insolen! foreigner that a people docs not barter its future in a chapman's fashion, and tbat italy, however poor in intelligence, has memory and expori- pons ei to recoliect that gifts basely acquired aro S008 heediessly lost. But it is said we shail have Venctia at all events; we shall acquire the dreaded Quadrilateral, and iteis not ble to join in battle with a re- tiring ememy; let us even make a Lig bridge for him to cross ovor; besides if the es is elaborated in France it is uselers to resist. It is best to submit and sacrifice our pride to the exigencies of a Enropean peace. It is false. Let.the government tako notice that at this solemn moment it 13 not given to compromise with impunity the destinies of the nation, and that over all there watches aa the Onal and severe custodian of the country—the people. The ge and Parliament, we hope, will render impoasible this infamous compact. What will our brave army br are eae to bear the mark of the of the without the hope of avenging that day? What wilt the King say, he who came upon tne field with the sword of jeatro and St, Martino to full the vow made at the tomb of King Carlo? Austria insulted the exile of Oporto, and now she insults the son, Alleged Barbarity of the Italian Army. The following correspondence has passed between the rin General Baron John nad’General La Mar- ‘THR AUSTRIAN Town 24, 1866. ‘bly to a report made by a general in command Agreea' of the imperial troops which took possession of Santa Lucia, it would soom that a deed of unheard of bar- barity’ has been committed against three soldiers of the Twenty-first battalion of Chasseurs, These, after being wounded, were, it ia said, found banging. H tunately at hand in time to restore two of them to life, but the third had been driven mad. lelp was for- Should there be, contrary to all expectation, any re- currence of similar outrages, unworthy of a civilized army, his imperial Highness, the commander-in-chief of the army, would be, in spite of himself, under tho no- coasity to have recourse to reprisals, although we have given, even at the present day, fresh evidence that wo Se ee ee ee owe Accept, &e., JOHN, ‘THE ITALIAN REPLY, Town 25, 1866. The communication I received this morning filled me ‘with the greatcst surprise. Were not the event related by a general of the imperial army I could not credit it, because our army with respect to its treatment of pris- oners of war, according to the strictest rules of honor and humanity, has always enjoyed as good a reputation a pay ener army. I shall immediately institute the most diligent inquiry on this subject, in order to learn whether anything has happened at all like the alleged outrage, and, had the case really occurred, I shall not hesitate in giving an example, But I also trust that the commander-in-chief of the imperial army will endeavor to ascertain whether the report which gave rise to his remonstrances may not spring from rapunend ae Tumors, as it too often happens in accounts given during the first moments of great excitement, the authenticity of which ts too readily admitted, Accept, General, &c., LA MARMORA hject the Opinime of Turin adits the fol Upon this sw the Opi 5 | ang t—To say nothing of the fact that bar- barous deeds of this nature are entirely unknown in our army, we think that if our soldiers, if they wished to ill treat their prisoners, as somo of the Italians did to fome of our own men, they had better moans at hand to make an end of them—their own weapons. To dis- pose of their prisoners by hanging would have —— ler's. special means (| ), Which are no part of a so! kit, It requires, besides, somo time and leisure, which are not granted in'the midst of a mélée, expecially if the At were #0 near as to come in time to cut down the Sanging. men. If, moreover, near at band as to liberate they onght to have boon tn time to see and to punish the evil-doors with their own hands, as the life of a man hanging on a tree cannot be prolonged many minites, , they were so ‘the wretches from death, All thy circumstances far to prove that the deed, which was morally sufficiently improbable, must have been materially next to impossible, Garibaldls Weund. A correspondent of the Pall'Mali Gazette, writing from Salo on the Ist inst., says:—Garibaidi is wounded; that is the fatal nows which seems to have set the world at a stand-still for us, He left ua at throe A. M. for the Roceo d'Anfo, where the First, and Fourth regiments, a battalion of sharpahooters and a battalion of Menott’s regiment had been marched up. Weary of in- to reckleasnem, he led on bis mon himself, six P.M. yesterday a shot entered his thigh, traversed his flesh for about three inches, and isqued on the other side. The wound is slight, but it will keep him inactive for days, if not weeks. ‘or, the dis Couragement produced on our side ——4 to by an equal rise in the epirite of our reached us at two o'clock this morsing, | Bertomt des. patched Dr. Albanese, the surgeon to staff, imme. diately; m the strlet orders are that Cy ee Te. main at his post, ave just seen in Moyon, a Genoese, who was with the denernt ited, he aseures me that the hut is not serious, and that the General treats it with the utmost indifference. ‘Wo have besides about one hundred Aors de combat, At three P. M. the Genoral ordered a few companies of the First and Third regiments to retake the town of Bagolino. Then, Sading that to achieve this with the Austrians occupying the mountain passes, losses must be incurred than the position was worth be ‘was just giving orders to effect a flank movement when the Jager's sighted all too weil, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 23, 1866. RE I OO te Re ee TO ne 2 2 which contains much entertaining circumstantial benn about the great German Toader af the day. We make some extracts from the paper:— In his f danpetehen ‘and ciroulars, ‘Hor Von Bis- in his recent rou! lor Von marck has saver, Socqoten, to aa prominence “the general ii of Germany, whenever he pg ee BP Is ho really 80 thorough, @ German? romeat goin Be means, | There es ton Seas er Prussians What cannot now make known Setter. cninor end dipiemaiee, Ep and unre. not but on every possible part of his uniform; and how pay woutd he allow German flags to wave over all the sian government buildings, although he once in Erfurt looked upon the presence of these flags as a “mournful sign of the times;”’ if he only could thereby lure the arms and the heart of Germany into his camp! He will, perhaps, even yet have to do bitter penance for the contempt for German aspiration after unity, which he, in former times, 80 often cynically paraded. One of the wishes he then ex, 1d has been fulfilled. Blood and iron are now to undo the knot in whose peaceful unra- velling he had never believed—whether in favor of Prus- sia, is a question which time alone can solve. Of the other predictions, however, which he made in the years 1849 and 1850, few have been realized; nay, what he has done and does still 1s in crving contradiction with what he then thought and said. The struggle for Sobleswig- Holstein, which he had censured as a “' petty act of revo- lution, and an attack on Denmark’s written rights,"’ he fterwards carried on on his own account, notwithstand- ing these same rights, and the remonatrances of Europe. Austria, whom he venerated as the *‘ best federal ally of Prussia,” and the representative of the ‘ancient power of Germany,” he now attacks with al! the military force at his command in order to drive her out of Germany. ‘With Italy, tho offspring of revolution, who has turnod half a dozen of divine-righted sovereigns out of doors, he is now tn close alliance; and, after having for fourteen @irs declared himseW the arch enemy of all revolutionists, 6 now regards Garibaldi, the one of all men that most de- serves to be called the representative of the revolution- ary principle, as the most worthy of his allies. Finally, the Frankfort Farliamont, which he has ridiculed, and universal suffrage, which he has stigmatized as destruc- tive of all order and law, are now both appealed to by Count Bismarck under the trresistible pressure of tho moment, Notwithstanding this, he is anything but vacil- lating and changeable. Uaprincipled in the choice of his means, he is unshaken in his conviction that the power of Prussia must deciine if she does not increase her ter- ritory in Germany by main force. This conviction is the sum total of his political religion. On this point he is, with all his frivolity, a true fanatic; and for this object ie is ready to make apy sacrifice and braye every anger. BISMARCK 48 A DEPUTY. Tn the year 1851 alone he was called to order more fre- quently than the Speaker of the House of Commons has found it necessary to do in ten sessions together. This, however, grieved him but little; he defied tho President, his boll, the protests of the House and the opposition of public opinion alike. In the same year, 1851, he came forward as the advocate of the old system of close trading, Again, going back to the middie ages, he loudly expressed a wish, scarcely conovivable if we consider the progress which has been made in political economy during the present century, that every trade should limit the number of its apprentices and be em- powered by law to fix a price for each quality of the goods {i sells. This he held to be the only mode of pro- tecting the working classes against the oppression of capitalists, One of the chief subjects of discussion in that year was the establishment of the right of the Chamber to vote the supplies; and during the debates on this point it was Bismarck, who, by his contemptuous aggressive condnet, gave Tise to some eccnes of ex- traordinary agitation. He denied, as he afterwards did when he became Minister, that the House could claim this right, which is the surest guarantee of its oxistonce, and its most powerful defence against any unconstitutional attack from the other estates of tho realm. When he was ro‘erred to the constitution which the king had sworn to preserve, he replied in his usual frivolous and off-hand way that he did not sec why all that relates to the constitution shovld be sur- rounded by a sort of halo, and every joke upon it be re- garded as a desecration. He himself had sworn, said he, to the constitution—not to the oxisting one only, but also any future constitution, with all its amendments, He would, therefore, treat with utter contempt the righteous anger of the liberals at his turning the constitution into ridicule. When Count Schwerin, who occupied the > sidential chair, upon this remarked that he would bo obliged to call the honorable member to order if he made tho constitution of the country an object of derision, he tnsolently replied ‘that he would not accept any warn- ings; and that hitherto he had given the President no occasion to call him to order; and when the President carried out his threat he shook himself like a dog who has just come out of the water, and made some more re- marks, which we will not repeat here. BISMAROK 48 & DIPLOMATIST. ~ His a life dates from the surimer of the year 1851, He had long given up that veneration, or, as ho once himeelf expressed it, “adoration of Austria, which he had imbibed with his mother's milk.” This feei- ing had been replaced by tho conviction that Prussia contd not fuldl its mission in Germany until Austria was driven out of the Bund. He had already had long con- yereations on this subject with several leaders of the opposition, ayn Horr Von Unruh. and his diplo- matic action at did indeed chiefly con- sist in offering hostile opposition to Austria on every erible occasion. Ho was the last man to be awed y the stiff bearing of Count Rechberg, and the scenes he had with him were not less viquant in their ‘way than his former encounters with herr Von Vincke and Count Schwerin, and his more recent ones with Grabow, Virchow and Herr Von Bokum-Dolffs. With Herr Von Vincke he had already had a duel, which, how- ever, was followed by no serious results, although Bis- marck 1s an. excellent shot, while Von Vincke, being short-sighted, is but moderately versed inthe art of doling. But even Count Rechberg was once so deeply insulted by bim that a challenge seemed to be inevitable. Fortunatety, the frieuds of both interfered and prevented the scandal. On another occasion the Imperial President of the Diet—whether accidentally or purposely is not known—appeared at one of ita sittings, contrary to custom, in morning dress, It might have been one of those numberless sittings in the Eschenheimer Gasso, at which nothing was done but to cotlect so-called valuable material for the future; still it wi'l be remembered in history on account of the President’s morning coat, The ambassadors who were present are taid to have been not a Little shocked on seeing this coat, which onght to have deen Ping the in spirits, together with Prince Men- chikoff’s famous paletot; but Herr Von Bismarck did not lose countenance in tho least, and coolly drawing out his cigar case, lighted a cigar, and offered another litely to his neighbor. Every one understood the int, and a morning coat has never been seen at a sitting of tho Bund since, He thus, as we have observed, con- tinually opposed the Austrian government, until at length its complaints, and a too marked leaning towards France, which was ill regarded at Berlin, led the King to recall him from Frankfort, and send him as ambassador to St. Petorsburg. At St. Petersburg he uninterruptedly busied himeelf with his plans the aggrandizement of Prussia, and strove to obtain ptance for them in the most ioflvential cirelos. He had brought with him to the Neva not only his cynical views of life, but also his serious designs, for both of which he hoped to find a congenial soil, Strange to say, the Emperor Napoleon himself expressed the , thtough bis ambassador at Berlin, that Herr Von Bismarck might be appointed to the em! at the Tuileries, Such a request could not be , and the long-expected appointment was made, But the King certainly had no suspicion that he Sw. hp eee seal wish and woring the very plans whien he merly rejected with virtuous horror, Miscellaneous War Items. The superior customs officers in the German States which remain within the Confederation aro deliberatin; ‘at Munich on the form and conditions in which the Zoll- verein might continue its existence even during the war, and have sent M. Mots on a mission to Borlin on the sub- ject. Prussia is believed to have no intention for the moment of changing the existence of the Zollverein or of io any way ite oy or the mode of keeping the accounts, either with respect to the public or the customs direction in the different countries, No English or French man-of-war has arrived at Venice, and as orders have been given ry, the Austrians that the ports of Malamocco and Chioggia are to be closed as soon as the Italian fleet is in sight, any vessel sent for the protection of Lye or French subjects would be obliged to anchor at Polorosso, the old anchor- ‘age, some few miles from Malamocco, A letter from Dresden of July 5 says:—We expect serious events here. Tho Prussians are raising intrench- ments all round the city and mining the two Looe which connect the old town with the new. Bautzon been some days under martial law, and Dresden will be soon in the same plight. Woe are led to think so from an allusion made to oo pro. clamation of the Governor of the city. was also some question of cutting down all the of the Grone Garten, a park much juented, and which might be caltod the Bois de Boulogne of Dresden ; but, owing 19 tho intercession of Queen Amélie with the King of sa, that act of barbarism will not be comm! The King of Sax bas arrived at a, @ smal] town on the frontier of Bovemia and Moravia, “The last great movement,"’ says the Paris Liberté, © the Itahan army, which bri back all the forces of King Victor Emanuel behind t! line of the jo, has produced a painfal Italy, In tack that course Cora. an ine whos rom fine Teported at o Castiglione—that is, about sixteba 1 miles trom Brescia and some sixty-five from Milan. The international committee of succor for the wounded bas notified to the Florence body of the same kind that ‘a branch has been established, with the authorization of the Austrian government, at Padua, and that auxiliary once have beon arranged at Rovigo, Vicenza, Bassano and Mestra. ‘The Itatian ecrew frigate Princ! Clotilde, with the ron-clad ram Affondatore, from London and Cherbourg, arrived at Gibraltar on the 26te of June, and left for the eastward on the 28th ult, a rolemn service was performed in In Berlin, Jul; the Protestant chu of Kéo! Dom General Corale, of the Italian army, bas his right knee and leg fractured. He is eixty-three years of age, and there are areas fears that bis may prove mortal, iit SY ging sie nso tr yn THE EAST. QUE CONSTANTINOPLE CORRESPONDENCE, Turkey Preparing for War Eventualitice— Moving to the Danube—Affairs in the Rouma- nla, Syria and Egypt, &c. ‘THE SULTAN PREPARING FOR WAR, The “East,” for the present, is quiet, while the dis- tant horizon is becoming daily more and. more cloudy. Preparations are, novertheleas, being made for eventuali- ties, The Sultan’s army has been considerably in- creased; recruits are coming im from the provinces to the capital, and after being equipped with uniforms and arms and put through « few days of drill are sent to- wards the Danube, where, it is supposed, the storm will first break. The Danubian provinces of Moldavia and Wallachia, those of Servia and Montenegro in Europe and the Island of Candia in Asia are fruitful of anxiety to the Ottoman government, The naval and military forces sent to Candia will probably allay the troubled and excited state of the people, who, it is supposed, are dis- affected by Greek and even Russian intrigues, NGLAND LOOKING TO CANDIA, It has been supposed for some years past that England has her eyes on this island, as an offset for the French occupation of Egypt, but the realization of this ‘‘idea,”” any good grounds for existence, probably will depend upon “future eventualities;” and thon the einking condition of the Ottoman empire, morally and financially, are now casting their shadow before thom. Greece asks for extension, but Candia is too far distant for her to expect to find itin such an addition to her torritory. The English or French canard, which attri- butes to the United States the desire of possessing an island in the Archipelago, after being revived for a few months, has again subsided. As its ephemeral exist- ence somewhat resembles the castings up of the volcano of Santinino, it would be well to add that Providence favors its accomplishment by producing an island expressly for the uso of the Great Republic, and the name given to it of George only needs the addition of Washington to per- OMAR PACHA—HTS DUTY AND CAREER, Omar Pacha, the Serdari Ekrem, or generalissimo of the Sultan's army, has just left Constantinople for the Danubian frontier, with orders not vo cross that river for the present, but to wait for events and instructions. ‘This officer, who is now some seventy years of age, com- menced his carcer in Turkey in 1830 as a Croatian Christ- ian and an instructor of the troops of Sultan Mahmoud, father of his present Majesty, trian army, but left it in consequence of a disagreement with his commanding officer. couple of years he became enamored of a handsome Turk- ish maiden of one of the villages where he resided, and offered to become a Moslem in case he could become her husband. An arrangement was soon made, and the commission having been forfeited without an; ‘he espoused the object of came a very unhappy husband. By this union he became also tho possessor of some property, owned by the family of the “maiden” in quostion, and rapidly roze in his new career from a lieu- There is good reason to believe that he possesses high military abilities, for he has been successfit] in all the commands confided to him, when allowed toact unthwarted by othors, as was the caso dur- uring his absence Madame Fatimah took a fancy to another individual, and having expressed a strong desire not to return to her husband, time afterwards married at Bucharest a handsome Gorman or Transylvanian lady, to whom he became much attached. With neithér of these wives had he children, and having decided to espouse a third, in the hope of be- coming a father, the second demurring to such an ar- rangement, ho divorced her, and took in marriage another vory beautiful “Turkish maiden," Hafiz Pacha, a Circas*ian, recently doceased, by whom he has ie ct ee a re served that Islam law permits Mussulmans to marry Mussulman wives, but the offspring must be brought up in the faith of the father; and that as to the matter of He had been in the Aus. After serving hero a scribing ceremon’ tions, and soon tenant to a full goneral. ing the lato Crimean war. hor talents ag @ musician enabled her Omar Pacha, though - well foring from sickness, is very and, if public report be correct, advanced in and fond of ‘indie’ eook not very faithful to elt wives. Indecd an act of violonce to a colored female slave belonging to his first wifo is said to have occasioned her absence from home when he returned from @ campaign in Syria He is a tall, spare man, pale pacatnhe gam After oore Proline le and 5383 cinity of the capital, one of which was the gift Inte Sultan, and he speuds much of his time in di its cultivation, He hase Polish nd and when there leads much il her face quite ex} frout seats He ter of War, but his origin as a Ch: connections of his Moslem rivals have thus far , and their child: |ways aspired to the if other commander, for reputation and abilities, in the Ottoman empire. PROBABLE INVASION OF ROUMANTA, The Turkish government has not in any mann nized the new province of Roum it ere long, its troops will croea the Danube capy Jassy and Bucharest, the L capitals of the two It is well known that the vast ma- ince to that of Wallachia, he same reason that tho inhabitants of Turin disap- of the removal of the Italian Court to Florence. All property at Jassy lost greatly in value from the non- existence of an independent and s~parate government in It, This objection would doubtless arise the ple of Washington were the seat of moved to Chicago or St. Louis, thou; governments somowhat relioves the disadvantages of th existence of the federal court where it now js, As to the objection exists; but it prefers to oppose which increases the strength of Provinces, and offers a serious opposition to its interfer- ence with their internal administration. Then the fr or ey d the union of ernment to be re- the system of Stato and bribery to ti nople. As to any other omolument to be derived in the shape of tribute, this was too insignificant to be much taken into PRINCE CHARLES’ Prince Charles, theref that of the Emperor Maximilian its, eeated on their thrones ce against the actual wishes of their peoplo, and there is no doubt that if these wore honestly consulted and freely allowed to ¢: to decamp. Time will show of free election, inaugurated by the Emperor of beginnings offer a parallel to the Posrrioy. fills a position much like both are only foreign sustained by forexn would both have of such a system ‘THR CHOLERA. a public was lately somewhat alarmed by the news demic character, and is more sporadic steadily diminishii mMeantine the Board of Hi here has established a antine to prevent the introduction of TO THR VICEROYALTY OF ROYPT. emai! Pacha has just Jef thie city and to loparture ; has left much dissatisied terms, especially with ry, in ine event of by = Of iia tn and successor. To effect this the Viceroy ¢: of money. He Sultan, and £200, tors; he doubled his tribute, of his own revenues, any troops may from time to time of bim. He has sent eight thousand soldiers already, and the muster i# to be, in all, eighteen It is weil known that Ismail Pacha rules in ible over the poor aheen, are reduced jon, just such as g to the functions ofa domiso, of the minority to su) out which the’ Sultan manner possi Egyptians, and the Fellaha, or Fe! to @ state of the utmost degradati ptians were under the Moses would arise and carry those miserable people out that of the United States, what a deliverance it would be! But modern times do not produce any such philanthropists and lawgivers, and ponte te deliverance now od va bang = upon education and intel ma conquer freedom or to secure its continuance. ccossors to the Viceroyalty of Egypt Fazil Pacha and Halim Pacha, two very enlightened gentiemen beloved, while Ismail Pasha is cursed Ine province. Neither have or ever will accept of the Sultan, and the Bileace of the Euroveea Powers which euaranieed 1s by the narrative our readers must that before the action the Russians were at Tchinaz, on the left bank of the Syr- while wore ‘The frequent appearance of the ances partisans in greater or less number in our rear, as well as on our lines of communication, and the presence of the principal army of the Emir at the place named Irdjar, jutely necessitated an offensive movement on our part, so much She more thas on the Tie sad 1Eh OF ar pave i formation was receiv! e Emir, Ing return: Samarcand, troops ht bank of the Syr-Daria, upon Slee Granted | nd the ‘Tehirtohic (an aitluent of the wee which flows past Taschkent and joins THE NUMBER, ARTILLERY AND ARMS OF THE NATIVES, Tho army of the Emir was said to be very numerous, consisting of sarbases, mounted loapgni artillery, con- tingents of various local governors, and of Kit roam- ing over Bokharian territory. The number of the sarbazes and of the artillery, all regularly armed, was five thou- sand. The artillery numbered twenty-one yas} omen which were some superior to ours. As for tho shiz, the! number was not less than thirty-five thousand. ‘THE RUSSIANS TAKING POSITION. On the 19th of May, at daybreak, the force at Tchinaz, consisting of fourteen companies of infantry, five sonias of Cossacks, with twenty pieces of artillery and rockets, quitted its position to move on Irdjar. This detachment consisted of Lieutenant Colonel Pistohlkors, with five sotnias of Cossacks, a rocket detachment and six pieces of artillery; Cay Abramof, with six companies and eight pieces, and Lieutenant Colonel Fovitsky, with eight companies and six pleces. The detachment carried provisions for twelve days, and had, besides, ten days’ provisions on board the Pérovsky. Simultaneously with this detachment, another from Kirioutchi, on the right bank opposite Tchinaz, under the command of Colonel Kraiovaky, set out on its march for Irdjar, by the right bank of the Syr. MARCHING AND SKIRMISHING UNDER INTRNSE HEAT. ‘The first day the troops accomplished a stage of more than twenty miles with the thermometer at forty degrees Reaumur, the enemy’s cavalry contenting themselves with skirmishing. There remained only fourteen miles from Mourza t, where the troops bivouacked for the first time, to the ition of the Emir at Irdjar. On the 20th of May at daybreak stray parties of tho Bokharians began to show themselves in view of our camp. FIRST ABBAULT OF THR CORSACKS. At nine o'clock our Cossacks had their first encounter with the Bokharian cavalry, which had some men killed; on our side one Cossack ‘was wounded. At midday it became indispensable to advance the artillery, and com- menco firing, whicn lasted without interruption till tho ond of the battle, Aftera short halt the troops advanced in the follow- ing order:—The column of Captain Abramot in advance, by the direct road leading to Irdjar; on the right and on the same level the column of Lieutenant Colonel Pis- tohlkors; behind these two columns came, as a gen reserve, three companies of a battalion of riflemen and @ section of artillery, under the command of Major Pistchémouka; the baggage was covered by four compa- nies and two pieces, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Fovitsky. ‘THR ASLATIO CAVALRY AND REPORT OF A COMMANDER, Hardly bad our trogps resumed their march when masses of the enomy’s cavalry appeared and surrounded the detachment. e march of the became especially very arduous, and could only be facilitated, thanks to the extraordinary merit of Lieutenant Colonel Fovitsky, who was obliged at the same time to watch the movements of the train and repulse the incessant at- tacks to which it was ex, The follo fact may give an idea of the difficulties our pore) to surmount before reaching the enemy. When, the battle, the tent of the Emir was seized, there was found among other things a report of the Governor of Samarcand, who commanded the advanced position of the Bokharians, im which he announced that the Russians had been i surrounded is that ‘THE ENGAGEMENT. ‘Towards five o'clock, about a mile from the enemy's position, our were received by a strong cannonade from his i SS ee ee en ‘wing. The reserve nab an tbe sms BN and all our artillery was put in position. ‘The enemy having allowed us to advance a good way, redoubled his cannonade, under which our troops re- —— hour. Our artillery, commanded by rendered services. It impossible to witness, Necatens was ing filled with artillerymen working With ex- address and sang/rotd in that =. we with its, the new manses who attem| stop the aseail Simultancoudly with the columa wort! whom he took in flank, and on the other hand new masses of cavalry and infantry assembling in front of FLIGHT C¥ THE BOKHARIANS AND THE PURSUIT. Moving rapidly from one tion to another he bemmed in the enemy more more closely, and after —— overthrown them put thom to flight in the great- All the ground between the first intrenchments and the Bokharian camp was covered with dead left by the enemy. His fight was so that he did not dare to halt in his camp, which our troops found filled with all his effects, and si ing all the marks of recent occupation—pots in which food was being cooked, iighted fires, tea prepared, ke. ? ‘TAR RMIR'S CAMP, At nine o'clock the darkness compelled the digcon- tinuance of the pursuit, Only in the morni: it day- break a foeble column was sent out to occupy the second Bokharian camp, whieh the Emir had evacuated in the evening, leaving also almost ali the His own tent had remained in the condition in wi it had been occupied by the Sovereign of the Chief of pe a juaut ot en utensil amul- q eA wiped ‘ana, Asiatic luxury Colonel Ki ment from Kiri 1 arrived on the 20th at five o'clock P. M. on the right bank of the Syr-' le ly Sat. to exercise a certain influence on the progress the battle, and hinder the flying enemy from resorting to the beyond the Tchirtehik, where their presence would have been troublesome THE GAIN® AND Lotsa, In this brilliant affair our loss was tweive soldiers ee LS Sere ee we than one thousand dead on the field. Our trophies consisted of six pieces of artillery taken in the assault on the position, and four pieces abandoned by the enomy in his flight. In con- tinuing to advance our columns would probably find other guns, for the prisoners report that in his flight tho Emir only took away two pieces, joy even say that he was not slow to abandon them on the road to Oratepe, tnd tes he caly Brougns bask two thousand horsemen Besides the baggage there wero found in the camps im. mense stores of i and all the artillery train. With- out counting the cartridges with which the roads were strewn, which the enemy followed in his eee found Spout six hundred and seventy pounds (24, ibs.) OF powder, 190 hundred and twenty cartridges, a3 ee nm ot belies, elle aa other artillery am- ua jon. After this victory Major General Romanovsky advanced and occupied the fortress of Nau, and by the of Kbodjent has separated Bokhara from a NAVY BULLETIN. DRTACTERD. Jew 14 lain John Biake, from the receiving ship at Norfolk, Va., ordered to the bane | ship and ‘ermont ; Acti ae Center, from tl ‘and granted tears chef Py | Third ‘aestatant abarees; doen cent halens tect Dew. 4 from tho Chocura and discharged. Minot ORDERED. Jory 14.—Sailmaker T. C. Herbert, to the Navy Yard “ule vice James Ferguson, detached pot wait- APPOINTED. Jory 14—Charies Hunter, Commander in the Navy, on the retired list, Jovy 14.—Midehipman 8. H. Feltz and Acting Ensi; | in n Charles Ainsworth of the Guard. - id DIS¥ISAED, Jou 14,—Mate Honry G. Clarke, of the Fredonia, HONORABLY DISCHARGED, Acting First Assistant Engineer Robert Whitehill, Jr., to date August 18, 1866; Acting Third Assistant Bug. neer Aaron W. Smith, to date July 26, 1865; Acting Master J. Buhnor, to dato July 13, 1806; Acting Master L, E. Degn, to date July 14, 1866; ‘Acting Gunner Robert Knox, to date July 11, 1866, MISCELLANBOT S. General Francis Fessenden hae assumed Assistant Commissioner of the Freedmen’s — B 2 — of aera Lisatenant Oslonel jandler, as been acting since the resignation of General Stannard, will remain a8 Assistant Adjutant by pb , Commanding the Department ni moa 0 of the Ohio, has ordered ‘that the milftary districts of [linois = Ap gs will be discontinued from and after the of July. The Fourth in ‘Z 4 Veteran stationed at Spri ‘Deon ordered to Wo Fort Mackinaw. Mich ‘THE GREAT ORGAN OF PLYMOUTH CHURCH. Its History, Cost, Size, Capacity, Peculiart} ties and Completion—The Largest Orgum Built in America. In January, 1865, Plymouth Church Society, of Brooklyn, made a contract with Boston firm for an organ, which was to be the second largest in America, and to be finished in January, 1866. The original sum voted by the society was ten thousand dollars, but since it bas been increased to about twenty-five thousand dol- lars, The organ now stands in Mr. Beecher’s church, ‘and is truly # huge concern, SB AND CAE, ‘Tho instrument measures from the basement to ite highest point forty-eight feet four inches; its depth ia * twenty-three feet, and the width, from side to side, twenty-nine feet, The style of adornment adopted by the builders is that of the renatssance—that is, classical, with variation where good taste demands i& The front is composed of three large arches, separated by four pilasters, in front of which are round fluted columns, surmounted by composite capitals, above which are the frieze, cornice and entablature, In each of the three arches are nine pipes, composing the bases of the sixteen feet and eight feet diapason of the Great Organ. The centre pipe alone, which is the largest metal: pipe in the instrument, cost $200. All these pipes are made of pure English block tin, highly burnished to give ‘an appearance of silver. The centre arch is surmounted by what, in architecture, is called a broken pediment, im which the carved image of a cherub stands out in rei® against the white background. Projecting over cach side arch is a horizontal row of pipes, trumpet shaped, being the pipes of the Tuba Mirabilis, vesiaa which on the extreme end of either side is an urn carved in wood. The case is made of solid black walnut throughout. The contrast between this and the silver pipes is striking. It ig one of the fow in- in an American an in which the exterior pipes have been given a silver color; it is a marked improvement on the usual gilt, and makes a very chaste appearance, COMPASS OF THE INSTRUMENT. The organ has four manuals, in each of which are fifty-eight keys, The compass is trom © to A; in the dal there are thirty keys, from Cto F. This em- races the entire range of the musical —ten oc- taves—which is as great a difference in sound as the human ear can easily appreciate. The tone of the lower notes, which are very often so muffled as to give but little variety, are expected to be very clear an@ distinct, ‘THB PNEUMATIC POWER is an interesting feature, The wind is supplied by four bellows and two reservoirs putting in motion a pneumatic lever, which is applied to the organ. ‘The couples throughout are attached to it, so that ali four manuals can be played at once almost as easily as the keyboard of a grand piano, Every register in the organ is ope- rated by the pneumatic power, and secures a uniform and very easy motion in all weathers. The cost of this arrangement has been great, as it involved the making of a large number of small bellows placed in different parts of the organ. Its advantage is obvious, and is an im- provement on the many organs tn which is required » weight of some five or six pounds to bring down a key. THE HYDRAULIC POWER N ig a novel feature in this country. Four engines, with) upright cylinders six inches in diameter, with a twelve inch stroke, move levers attached tv the four bellows. The engines are perfectly automatic in their motion, the water being supplied from the main pipe of the Ridgewood aqueduct. When the full power of the organ is being employed, demanding a large quantity of wind, the engines move with el and power, and when softer portions are in use they move gently and silently. The whole is under control of the organut, who can let on the water or turn it off at pleasure by means of a crank placed at his side, THR TUBA MIRABILIS isa.stop which has never before been introduced im America, not even in the organ at the Boston Music Hall, which is the Inrgest in this country, though it has been used for several years in England. All the pipes of this stop are made of pure tin; the bass pipes, which are shaped as trumpets, project over the eet the horizontally, and form a pleasing effect by the ity of their position, and by the fine contrast with the black walnut, They are reed stops of eight feet and four feet pitch, of enormous power, at the same time re- commended as smooth and musical in their q' g They have somewhat of tho effect of a trumpet in thelr but aref greater power. Some idea may be formed of these two isters by the fact that the two combined are almost equal to the strength of the remainder of the organ. TUE VOX ANGELICA AND EUPSONE ase bee See seed Sige 8 ee Sane juality. The Vox ica is intended to be similar to Sie Cor Angiais, and butlders have been inasmuch as the pipes of this reproduce ly the sound of the above mentioned i1 ment, The Eaphone ts also something new on this continent. i 8 F gz g i il peer ar 8 Har al geeeees + Hutte hivielé Tus There are sixty-five thirteen of which ere mechanical, rie anteeee rail sounding ox- tending throughout the entire compass, there n — one incomplete stop in the .instrument. Of these one thirty-two feet in th; five of sixteen feet, besides three additional ones, giving sixteen feet tone, mak! a There are twenty-two of Pitch, ve low figure considering the immense on Kis construction. The Srganist oe, Fe F man of large expenence, There has been some talk of giving weekly with the organ on Saturday afternoons. They undoubtedly v. successful, for there are many very desirous of hearing the instrument, whose are ed in their own houses of worship end elsewhere. ¢ new organ will be opened publicly in = short time. i NEWS ITEMS. Virginia SR Setsa ee een recon very At Grand Junction, Miss,, a woman who interfered ia @ barroom quarre! was shot through the heart. ee ioe The fund for the su ; Saat * 000, yielding an ),000. Toanagers have appropriaied $45,000 to Mr..D. H. Burger, a brother of the Into candidate for Governor of Al ry of ‘Alabina was killed a few days ago during Three persons lately died in Philadelphia after eating ‘egetables cooked i & copper tous Grote wth vase ve digria. Hartford papers of Saturday announced the death of Larrey Rooney by aunstroke after the man ap was Weaues ror applied to the tongue, and is again at work. A negro was bung at Richmond on the 16th for’ we which ie ons convicted by a military com- A little girl made her lanta some tlmye since with which she was glad to sell Tied the apples ten enough to buy a peck of meal to take At Getaville, near ng power common iteolf nt the Fate of forty thousand Lf a now in contemplation to light the city of Buffalo with i, ized in New Haven, with the Cog oreo So a Pundertord; Setreiary, EP’ dud; Treasurer, Joseph A. Smith. Near Blisworth, Me., there are five houses standing side by side, occupied by five thrifty mea, brothers, who married five sisters, a ee An unfortunate woman, married toa brut ry band, ‘committed suicide in Chicago on the 15th Inst, Smith, of Salem, Mass, committed suicide Norwich, Conn, on the Tith insk through which only two letters each quarter for he quarters. They of between the postmaster ond toe tt i‘. The th ‘ani ask teat Ne Se prommana 6 :