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A Glance at Europe.
The probability of a war in Europe has
directed the attention of this country to
the resources by land and sea, of the
Powers likely to originate the war and the
Powers which will unavoidably become
involved in it.
1. The Empire of Austria.
This Power of central Europe consists
of six kingdoms, three prioeipalitie?, two
archduchies, two duchies, three margra
vates the ban of Austria. The king
doms are Hungary, Bohemia, besides Ve
nice, Dalraatia, Crotia and Sclavonia ; the-
principality of Transylvania; the arch
duchies of Upper Austria and Lower Aus
tria the original foundation of the em
pire ; the duchies of Salzburg, Styria,
Carinthia, liukovina, Upper and Lower
Silesia. The margravates are Moravia,
Istria and Servia; the territory of Trieste
and the ban of Thermes. Besides this,
numerous so-called 'military station's. In
all, thirty-five millions of inhabitants,
speaking a variety of languages, antagon
istic in religion and race, and ever ready
for revolt.
The army on foot consisted of 3GO,000
soldiers until within the last few month?,
when the second category was called into
active service, increasing the army by
200,000 men. A second levy has been
ordered, which has not exceeded 140,000
men. In time of war Austria can raise
an army of seven or eight hundred thou
sand men. Almost all the nobility have
a rank in the army. The Austrian sol
dier is distinguished for bravery and pow
er ot endurance, but is utterly lacking in
brilliancy and daring. The finest corps is
that of the btaff. In 1S59, in the cam
paign in Lombafdy, the artillery posses
sed only a few cannon. Now it has made
great progress, though it is far from
taking rank amongst the' best in Europe.
The Hungarian cavalry is the finest in
Europe; it has preserved all the historical
traditions of its fame. Many a victory
has it helped to win for Austria, but Aus
tria has never testified its appreciation of
its importance. Austria has never pos
sessed any celebrated generals. The Arch
duke Charles, the most famous among
them, was on every occasion conquered by
Napoleon I. To take the field again it
has no other generals than those that were
beaten at Magenta, Solferino, Palestro and
San Martino. Austria cannot senu into
the field more than three hundred thou
sand men, being obliged tc have two hun
dred thousand men in the Quadrilateral,
between Venic2 and the frontier of Lom
bardy, where the army of Italy is en
camped. A hundred thousand men are
in Dalmatia, in the territory of Trieste,
and in the fortresses on the other side of
Venice. Another hundred thousand men
are in Hungary, where the condition of
the country at all times threatens a revo
lution. The Austrian navy consists of one
hundred and twenty vessels of war, of
which seventy only ate steamers. In all,
one thousand one hundred cannon. The
merchant vessels cf Austria consist of
about ten thousand ships. T.he govern
ment revenue is two hundred millions of
thalers, but its national debt is over one
thousand five hundred million.
2. The Kingdom of Prussia.
The population of Prussia is eighteen
millions and a half all united by bonds
of race, religion and language. The rev
enue, one hundred million thalers ; nation
al debt, two hundred and ten millions.
In time of peace the army consists ot two
hundred thousand men. At the present
moment it has four hundred and fifty
thousaud men under arms, besides a re
serve, well drilled and disciplined, called
Landwehr. The Prussians have all milita
ry instincts they are biave, sober and in
defatigable. The artillery is one of the
finest in Europe, with fine cannon and
admirable and intelligent officers. Tho
generals are formed in the school of Fred
erick the Great. One of them was
Blucher, tho conqueror of Napoleon at
Waterloo. Its navy, limited to eighty
vessels of war, is in far better condition
than that of Austria, tho four hundred
and ten cannon they carry being all of the
latest modern models. The merchant
vessels arc about two thousand in number.
Prussia
boasts of its
rights over
tho
and
Duchies of llolstein, Lancnburpr
Schleswig, Austria declining to cede them
without compensation since 1SC3.
3. The Kingdom of Denmark.
This small kingdom possesses a popula
tion of three millions ; twenty millions of
thalers are its revenue; its national debt
sixty millions. In time of peace its army
consists of twcnly-five thousand men ; in
time of war it reaches fifty thousand. The
navy of Denmark, though iimited to one
hundred vessels of war, with only a thou
sand cannon, is admirable. Its merchant
vessels number about six thousa. ? The
three duchies which belonged to Denmark
have remained in the possession of the
two powers which occupy them, Austria
and Prusssia. These duchies form alto
gether a population of one million.
4. The Confederation of Germany.
By the treaty of 1815, made by all the
European Powers, the German Confeder
ation consisted of forty States. It now
contains only thirty-five. Each of these
different States has an independent gov
ernment of its own, but are all united in
repelling invasion on any one of the Con
federation, and bound to assist in all quar
rels with foreign Powers. The legislative
power of this Confederation is cal'ed a
Diet, and is held at Frankfort-on-the-Main,
a so-called free city. The States forming
the Germanic Confederation include thir
teen millions of inhabitants belonging to
Austria, fourteen millions to Prussia, and
eighteen millions included in four king
doms, one electorate, seven grand duchies,
eight duchie3, eight principalities, ono
landgravate, and four cities, professing to
be republics.
The total nonulation of the Confedera
tion of Germany consists of forty-five mil
lions, obliged, by tho treaty which binds
them, to furnish an army of fiveTiundred
and sixty thousand men ; Austria and
Prussia contributing, of course, in over
whelming numbers. The details are as
follows : The portions of Austria belong
ing to the Confederation are Bohemia,
Moravia, the Archduchy of Austria, Si
lesia. Salfzburg, Styria, Carinthia, Carni
ola, the Tyrol, Imili, Trieste (but not the
Venetian States,) about thirteen millions
of people. The Prussian possessions in
cluded in the Confederation are Saxony,
Silesia, Westphalia, Brandenberg, Pom
crania and the Itenish provinces, over
fourteen millions of people. Philad.
Press.
T5ie Locusts.
The name locust is derived from Latin,
locus place, and uslus, burned, from the
resemblance of districts ravaged by them
to a region desolated by fire.
The 4seventecn-year locusts," as they
are generally termed by a large portion ot
the people, are appearing in various parts
of the country. History does not bear
out the popular theory, however, that
there is an exact interim of seventeen
years between their appearance. We have
an account given in the history of South
Africa, when the ravages of these fell
destroyers extended through a period of
seven years, making their appearance at
the Glen Lynden Colony in 1824, disap
pearing at the close of. the year 1830,
afteralmost entirely destroying everything
green on the face of the earth. The
same section was again laid waste in 1S39,
and again in 1850. The celebrated iocust
of the East, (locusta mvjratoria of Linnre
us,) which includes one of the fifteen
American species described by Dr. Harris,
is about two and a half inches long, of a
giecnish color obscurely spotted, with
pale brown wing covers marked with
black. The extremity of the body in the
female is provided with four short wedge
shaped pieces, arranged in pairs, and
moving up and down like doublo nippers;
these are forced into the ground, enlar
ging the hole as they are opened and
withdrawn, until it is deep and large
enough to receive the ejrgs. The males
make a loud noise by rubbing their hind
legs across the projecting veins of the
wing covers, like playing upon a violin,
the sound being intensified by a sonorous
cavity in the first abdominal segment.
The hind legs are very powerful, enabling
then?, to leap with great facilitj', while
the strong and narrow wings give them
the power of rapid and long continued
flight, accompanied with a ioud and whiz
zing noise, comoared to the rushinjr of a
whirlwind, the rattling of chariots, and
the crackling of burning stubble.
It is destructive in all its forms, in the
larval, nymph, and perfect conditions,
feeding voraciously on plants. Their
numbers are sometimes so great that riv
ers have been blocked and many square
miles of laud covered by them, the stench
of their decaying bodies infecting tho air
for hundreds ot miles. Messrs. Kirby
and Smith mention an army of locusts
which ravaged tho Mahratta country, ex
t ending in a column five hundred miles
long, and so compact that it obscured the
sun like an eclipse. Many are the allu
sions in the Old Testament to the Sight
of these insects. The prophet Joel (eh.
i:.) gives a magnificent description of their
appearance : 4Before their faces the peo
ple shall be much pained: all faces shall
gather blackuess. They shall run like
mighty men ; they shall climb the wall
like men of war, and they shall march
every oue on his ways, and they shall not
break their ranks. The earth shall quake
before them, the heavens shall tremble ;
the Eun and the moon shall be dark, and
the stars shall withdraw their shining."
Tho poei Southey has strikingly de
scribed the noise produced by their flight
and approach :
"Onward they came, a dark, continuous cloud
Of congregated myriads numberless,
The rushing ot whose wings was as the sound
Of a broad river headlong in its course
Plunged from a mountain summit, or the roar
Of awild Ocean in the Autumn storm,
Shattering its billows on ashoe of rocks."
As lecusts are the greatest destroyers
of food, so, as some recompense, they
furnish a considerable supply of it to
numerous nations as they cause, they
are frequently the means of preventing,
famines. In the curious account given
"by Alexis of a poor Athenian family's
provisions, mention of iho locust is found :
4'For us the best and daintiest cheer,
Through the bright half of the year,
Is but acorns, onions, peas,
Ochros, lupines, radishes,
Netches, wild pears, nine and ten,
With a locust now and then."
The Arabs, of Morocco, esteem locusts
a great delicacy. During the summer of
1799 and in the spring of 1800, after the
plague had almost depopulated Barbary,
dishes of locusts were served up at the
principal repasts. Their usual way of
dressing them, was to boil the insects in
water half an bour, then sprinkle theru
with salt and pepper and fry them, adding
a little vinegar. For their stimulating
qualities, the Moors prefer theni to pi
geons. A person may eat a plateful of
them, containing two or three hundred,
without any ill effect, whatever.
- Pringle, in his song of the Wild Bush
man, has the following :
"Yea, even the wasting locust swarm,
Which mighty nations dread,
To me, nor terror brings, nor harm;
I make of them my bread."
So far, the history of the locust has
been but a series of the greatest calami
ties which human nature has suffered
famine, pestilence, death. In ullages, by
reason of these associations, almost all
people have looked upon their recurring
visitations with superstitious horror. The
wings of some locusts being spotted, are
thought by many to be leaves from the
book of fate, in which letters announcing
the dostiny of nations were to be read.
Paul Jetzote, Professor of Greek literature
at the Gymnasium of Stettin, wrote a work
on the meaning cf three of these letters,
which, according to him, were to be seen
on the wings cf tho locusts which visited
Silesia, in 1712. These letters were B.
E. S., and formed the initials of the
Latin words, "Bella, Erunt, Saeva," or
"Babel, Est, Solitudo ;" also the German
words, "Bcdeutet Erschrcckliche. Schlac
tcn." A quiet, common belief in our country
is, that every locust's wing is marked with
either the letter W, portending war, or
the letter P, portending peace. Not
content with the dreadful presence of this
plague, the inhabitants of most countries
took that opportunity of adding td their
present misery by prognosticating future
evils. ' The direction of their flight point
ed out the kingdom doomed to bow under
the divine wrath; whiie the color of the
insect designated the national uniform of
such armies a3 were to go forth and con
quer. Congressmen In Straits.
Some of the Confederate Congressmen,
says the Itichrnond Enquirer, from the
Southwest, met with many incidents, some
cf them quite amusing, in their efforts to
reach home after the fall of the Confed
eracy. In Columbus, Texas, Mr. Herbert,
of Texas, anxious to escape a party of
Federals that were said to be approaching,
hurried to a livery stable to procure a
horse, but was refused. In order to
strengthen his application, he then stated
that he was a member of Congress ; where
upon some Yankee soldiers who wero in
hearing, but had not been noticed by him,
told him he was tho kind of man they
wanted, and took him in custody ; and the
officer of the squad went to report his
capture. At this time an acquaintance of
Mr. Herbert's coming up, Mr. II. told
him as a rich joke, laughing heartily the
while, that he had been passing himself
off as a member of Congress from Texa?,
and that these men thought they had
somebody ! The friend catching the hint,
entered into the joke, and repeated it with
much merriment to the next arrival, who
also seemed greatly amused that their old
townsman had suddenly become a member
of Congress from Texas ! Thinking they
had been "sold," the soldiers told Mr.
Herbert to go, which be lost no time in
doing.
Several of the members passed them
selves as paroled soldiers, and were trans
ported as such, without detection, on
covcrnment steamers to points near their
homes. Of these were Mr. Perkins and
Mr. Wigfall. The latter, in a di.uie
that precluded all suspicion, entered free
ly into a conversation with the soldiers of
the guard, and in the course of the con
versation asked what they would do with
old Wigfall if they were to catch him.
"Oh, we would hang him, certain," wa-5
the reply. "And you would serve Lira
right," replied Wigfall. "If I should be
with you, I have no doubt I should be
pulling at the end oj the rope myself " The
double entendre was nut suspected, and its
wit was therefore lost, but is worth pro
ducing now.
The Garden SroT of America. I
heard the love of home oddly illustrated
in Oregon one night in a country bar
room. Pome well dressed men, in a state
of strong drink, were boasting of their re
spective places of nativity.
"I," said one, "was born in Mississippi,
where the sun eyer shines, and the mag
nolias bloom all the happy year round."
"And I," said another, was born in
Kentucky, the honie of impassioned orato
ry ; the home of Clay ; the State of splen
did women, of gallant men.
"And I," said another, "was born in Vir
ginia, the home of Washington ; the birth
place of statesmen; the State of chevalier
deeds and noble hospitality.
"And I," said a yellow haired and sallow-faced
man, who was not of thi3 party
nt oil nil rrrli - Tiwl Vinon rmJpflTT smnl-inir
""v ....v 1 " J ""CP-
a short black pipe by the fire during
their magnificent conversation, " and
I was born in the garden spot of America."
"Where is that ?" they asked.
" Sl-eouhegcm, Maine" he replied.
TIic ArcSi Rebel in Irons.
In the "Prison Life of Jefferson Davis,"
the new book just published by Dr. Cra
ven, ior seven months medical attendant
at Fortress Monroe, the following account
is given ot the celebrated ironing scene in
which the great rebel chieftain played so j
prominent a part: I
and then recovering himself slowly, while
his wasted figure followed up to its full
height now appearing to swell with, in
dignation and then to shrink with terror
as he glanced from the captain's face to
the shackles he said, slowly and with a
laboring chest :
"'My God! You cannot have been sent
to iron me ?'
. " 4Such are my orders, sir,' replied the
officer, beckoning the blacksmith to ap
proach, who stepped forward, unlocking
the padlock, and preparing the fetters to
do their office. These fetters were of
heavy iron, probably five-eights of an inch
in thickness, and connected together by a
chain of like weight. I believe they are
now in the possession of Major General
Miles, and will form au interesting relic
Oh, doctor, what an anti-climax.
" 'This is too monstrous,' groaned the
prisoner, glaring hurriedly around the
room, as if for some weapon or means of
self-destruction. 4I demand, captain, that
you ict me see the commanding officer.--Can
he pretend that such shackles are re
quired to secure the safe custody of a weak
old man, so guarded and in such a frt as
this V
" 'It could serve no purpose,' replied
Captain Titlow ; 'his orders are from
H ashington, a3 luine are from him.'
"'But he can telegraph
interrosed
Mr. Davis, eagerly ; 'there must be some
mistake. No such outrage as ycu threat
en me with i3 on record in the history of
nations. Beg him io telegraph, and delav
until he answers.
" 'My orders are pc-rc-mptory,' saia the
ofCcer, 4nnd admit of no delay. For your
own sake, let me advise you to submit
with patience. As a soldier, Mr. Davis,
you know I must execute orders.'
" 'These are not orders for. asldiqr,'
shouted the prisorn.. ldng fljcoBtrol
himself. 'They are Orders for tJnibr
for a hangman, whicn no soldier wearing
a sword should accept! I tell you the
world will ring with this disgrace. The
war is over; the South is conquered; I
have no longer any country but America,
and it is for the honor of America, as for
my own honor and lite, that I plead
against this degradation. Kill me! kill
me !' he cried, passionately, throwing his
arms wide open and exposing his breast,
'rather than inflict on me, and on my
people, through me, this insult worse than
death.'
" 'Do your duty, blacksmith,' said the
officer, walking towards the embrasure as
if not caring to witness the performance,
'it only gives increased pain on all sides
to protract this interview.'
4iAt these words, the blacksmith ad
vanced with the shackles, and seeing that
the prisoner had one foot upon the chair
near his bedside, his right hand resting
on the back of it, the brawny mechanic
made an attempt to slip one cf the shackles
over the ankle so raised; but, as if with
the vehemence and strength whuth freu?y
can impart, even to the weakest invalid,
Mr. Davis suddenly seized his assailant
and hurled him halt-way across the room.
"On this, Captain Titlow turned, end
seeing that Davis had backed against the
wall for further resistance, began to
remonstrate, pointing out iu brief, clear
language, that this courso was madness,
snd that orders must be enforced at any
cost. 'Why compel me,' he said, 'to add
the further iuuignity of personal violence
to the necessity of your being ironed V
" 'I am a prisoner of war,' fiercely re
torted Davis; I have been a soldier in
the armies ot America, and know how to
die. Only kill me, and my last breath
shall be a blessiiig on your head. Bui
while I have life and strength to resist,
I I. l.' i I.
ior myseii anu ior my peoiue, mis uuug
fcUUll UUl U UUUf,
"Hereupon Captain Titlow called in a
sergeant and file of soldiers fioin the next
room, and the sergeant advanced to seize
the prisoner. Immediately, Mr. Davis
flew on him, seized his musket, and at-
tempted to wrench it from his grasp.
"Of course sucn a scene could have but
one issue. This was a short, passionate
scuflle. In a moment Davis was flung
upon h"i3 bed, and before his four power
ful assailants removed their hands from
him, the blacksmith and his assistant had
done their work one securing the rivet
on one ankle, while the other turned the
key in the padlock on the left."
A
ravins
maniac, was taken to
wr
Utica
V V
, nisi titira, iui utatuiL'Ul ill
tho asylum. He was lormerly a soldier,
a member of the Forty-first regiment, N.
Y. V. His name is George W. Bassett.
He was one ot the Anderconvillo pris
oners, and the terrible privations which
he then suffered, so shattered his consti
tution that he never fully recovered, and
was finally reduced to his present pitiable
condition.
Y , i V V ; as:nngcoa city, an orderly stepped ur
for which he had come attended by a J with, as it appeared afterward, a letter
......... -iw, Bp.uS.uS uu num mi Irom one ot the Bureau of tho War De-
n' Air.l 7 Lath clutching his partment, which he had been directed to
An Anecdote of General Scott.
That General Scott wa3 of hasty and
irascible temper in these latter year?, no ono
knew better than himself. That he was
as ready to recall as to utter an unjust re
buke is Tint. rprh?nj ic i.
public as it should be. Oi ono o-caion
whie COin;Dlr out ftf hu
5 of coiirsft
to bis adjutant general or chief of staff.
he willing but not well learned
voiun-
teer interpreted his order literally, how
ever; and carelessly giving the salute,
began : "Oh, General, here's a paper I
want you to look at before you "
The haughty veteran of fourscoro
seemed dumbfounded for just ono or two
seconds, and then straightening to his
full height, and raising his cane, with a
sudden sweep oi the arm I think he had
a cane he exclaimed, in a weighty voicc
"Clcar out, sir clear out !" The aston
ished orderly sprang away, and the Gen
eral passed to his carriage and wa3 driven
off. The carriage was driven no moro
than twenty or thirty rods before it turn
ed about, and the driver called to tho un
fortuuate orderly. He of courso met it
with hat in hand and fear in every quiv
ering muscle, lie was beckoned to tho
aoor, and the General asked his name and
regiment as he told two or three imme
diately afterward : lie srare both, and tho
General aniwered, "Well, sir, report to
your Colonel that you were guilty ofgros
disrespect to General Scott as an officer,'
and that General Scott wa3 guilty of gross
disrespect to you as a man. General
Scott begs your pardon. Go to your du
ty, sir."
A Reminiscence.
In the month of February, 1SG1, whet
the mutterings of the coming civil slrifo
were borce to the North upon every
Southern breeze, and two months before
the bursting of the war cloud at Sumter,
the writer of this met John W. Geary,
then a farmer of Westmoreland county,
at Ebensburg, and had the pleasure of
spending an evening in his room. In tho
.course- or .lon conversation, th5 an-
proaening war was mentioned. We shall
nevr forget the earnestness with which.
Col. Geary, then a Douglas Democrat,
spoke of that most anxious and exciting
subject. He said that Abraham Lincoln
had been fairly elected to the highest
office in the gift of the people j that the
South had no cause for attempting to
dissolve the Union ; and that, if al! efforts
at conciliation should fail, he would take
his boy and enter the military service of
his country, in defense of the Union, tho
Constitution and the Laws. How well he
kept his word all his countrymen know.
His brave boy fell in the Southwest,
pierced by a rebel bullet, and John W.
Geary himself bears upon his person t
day the scars of a severe wound received
on one of the hardest fought battle-fields
of Virginia. How much his example
aided iu rallying the Democratic party of
18G1 around the eld flag needs not to be
told. The country can never honor too
much thoe prominent leaders of the old
Democratic party the Butlers, the Lo
gans, the Gearys who, in the darkest
hour of our country's history, threw tho
weight of their example and their influ
ence into the scale in behalf of tho noblest
cause that ever enlisted the hearts aud
valor of ixen. Johnstoien Trib.
A IVev Came.
A r.ew game, called "Le tornoise bur-
has just born introduced int5
evening parties in London and Paris, and
is rapidly coming into vogue a3 an infalli
ble mirth-provoker. The jousters in this
novel style of tournament (always gentle
men) seat themselves on the ground, with
their knees drawn up, their shins crossed,
iheir hands damped around the latter. A
stick nearly a vard Ion? is then r.h.-oJ
j under the knees of p-ioh r.lnvnr. nn.l tin,!
j rm)y j., pacc t. handkerchief , in such
i -
a way as tb3 knees, stick, aud Lauds, are
securely fastened together.
The players divide into two squads, drag
themselves about the 3jor, each endoav-.
orini; to upset the other by poking at him
with his stick, and those who aro nnu
j or oniy touched are at once put out of to
, j.aRU The r:irks of combata:it3 ara so,n
t!-.;m!d ?,n,l t,n .h? ;n ,!iff
l rowed
to a duel between the two uiosi
skillful of the rival knights. It is difficult
to imagine anything more ludicrous than
the spectacle presented by twenty or
thirty of thc.--o combatants all equally
united in laying about them with their
sticks, and in avoiding or parrying the
thrusts cf their adversaries ; especially
when perhaps half a dozen, of the heaviest
have the ill iuek to lose their balance and
flounder into the most ridiculous attitude
in their vain attempt to get thcmselve
agaiu into a sitting posture.
C$An English married lndy has con
sulted her lawyer on the question whether
having married her husband for his mon
ey, and tnat money beins?
she not at liberty to mas7
ion reserved.
ent, is
pin. Pecis-"
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