The Charleston Daily News

The War at Home.

A gentleman from Georgia, temporarily residing in Stuttgart, Germany, is a regular correspondent of the Southern Christian Advocate. As he is a good observer, and has excellent opportunities for hearing and seeing what is going on, we copy the following extract from his last letter, written on the 17th of May. He says:

I see very nearly the same scenes transacting around and about me that I saw in Georgia in the spring of 1861—camps being established; drilling of recruits; railroad trains of troops hurried to and fro; horses being pressed into service; young men of twenty to twenty-five being torn from their situations and families to fight for—what? Ah, there is the difference! The Southern soldiers went to fight for a principle, for independence, and became patriots, heroes, whilst the German soldier is forced into service, and most reluctantly seizes his arms against his brethren to fight for a chimera.

The war is most unpalatable among all classes of people: merchants, manufacturers, and bankers, whose business is already bitterly suffering; mechanics, farmers, soldiers and—the women. The most opposite efforts are continually being made at Berlin to preserve peace still at the last moment; but the authorities seem to be doomed to a fatal blindness, for they do not show yet the least disposition to listen to the sober, well-meant advices of reason.

Arrogance, greed for annexation, the fancied certainty of having the prey in their clutches, are too deeply rooted there. The Prussian Cabinet does not even shrink from the fearful responsibility of conjuring up a general European war with all its horrors and ruinous consequences to national prosperity and individual happiness.

The king's own family—with the exception of two or three princes commanding some corps in the army and political fanatics—are for peace. The queen, the queen-mother, the princess royal and Queen Victoria have used their utmost exertions to induce the King to change his course. In vain! Even the Emperor of Russia has vainly urged that, in case of an outbreak, he would side with Austria. With the exception of a few miniature principalities hedged in by the Prussian Monarchy, the whole of Germany stands arrayed in arms against the latter, which has no other open sympathiser and ally than Italy. England and Russia are opposed to war, hence, under certain circumstances, rather against, instead of for Prussia. France will hardly advocate an aggrandizement of Prussia. Napoleon will, therefore, at farthest, content himself with intervening in the course of the war, to secure his own spoils and the lion's share. New elections for the Prussian House of Representatives have been ordered, and it remains to be seen, whether the Chambers will gracefully vote the million of treasure and men that this fratricidal war demands, or protest against such proofs of loyalty.