Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-10-17

terence, of sufficient importance to demand a
bret recapItulatlon OF the cause from which they
have sprung. late number of the Zeitung fur
Norddeutschland furnishes The New York Egeuing
Post with the necessary information.
The princpality of Neufcbate and the county of
Valengin, (or, as Frederick William ~ has rechris
ened Them, ''Neuenburg and Valendia," their org
nal German names,) have and area of fourteen Ger
man square miles, and contain population of sixty
thousand souls. In 1908, after frequent changes in
the dynasty, and upon the death of the last heiress
of the house of Longueville, the Diet of the princ
paly selected, from fifteen claimants 10 The success
lon Frederic |, of Prussia Al the pcace of Utrecht
the European powers recognised the right and title
of the King of Prussia to Neuchael
In 1908, Prussia ceded Neulchatel to Napoleon,
who transferred it to Marshal Berher At the
peace OF Paris Neufchatel etroceded to Prussia,
and by the treaty of Vienna it was allowed TO join
the Swiss Confederation.
Its intimate relations with Switzerland, and the
continued absence off prince. who represented
by Governor, Prussan General, had The effect,
Notwithstanding the mild constitutional government,
of arousng the republican sympahes of large por-
ticn of the population, which suited in an nsurrec-
on on the occasion of the July revolution OF 1880,
which was suppressed at the tine, but burst forth
again, and with complete success, in 1848. On the
3Oth OF April the republican constitution adop-
ted by the meagre majority of 1913 against 1898
votes, and ratified in the Swiss Diet by the votes of
all the Cantons except Schwyz. Tho Prussiar min
lister in Switzerland however, in the name of his
mastef entered formal protest against the entire
proceedings
The republicans having decreed the sale of the
public domains and ecclesiastical property the Prus;
sian Cabinet on the 18th July, $780, declared alt
such sales TO be null and void. In the London Con-
ference of 1852 it procured the recognition by the
great powers Of It's title to I" Neuenburg and Valen.
da and in the Peace Congress at Paris Prussia
again referred 10 the subject, reminding the powers
there represented that Neufchael the only spot in
Europe where title and possession, guaranteed by law
and by treaty, set at defiance Jy revolutionary
proceedings. In the same year. too, the King Of
Prussia conferred title of nobility upon citizen of
Neufchatel thus exercising his right as monarch,
of corerring favors and rewards upon his subjects.
! In the meantime the royalist party had as early
as lS49, when Prussan troops sent to suppress
the insurreclion in Baden, attempted to regain pos
| session of the government. Although the attempt
failed the party still remained sufficiently
to inspire their opponents with fear. The hopes of
the former were again raised by the division Of the
latter into two factions the governmentals and the
independents. The of this split was the rail-
rad question. The government, in order 10 insure
the continued favor of the industrious highanders,
the Montagnards. among whom it found its warmest
adherents gave the preference to the Jura road and
voted three millions of francs towards it's completion.
The royalists, on the contrary, devoted all their eff
forts, as well means, to the construction OF the
Vervieres road, and the latter thus, in an in
credlbly short time, completed, Hereupon the roy
ansts charged the government with corruption and
extravaganza in fostt ring pet railroad projects, and
in this cry they were joined by the Republicans OF
the TraveIsdale, through which the Vervieres road
runs. These republicans, now known as lndepen
dents, at the election for Grand Councillors uHlted
with the 1oyalists AM succeeded in eectlng major
ity opposed to the government and II was supposed
that the Grand Councillors would in April, 1851 de
cree revision the of constitution, which can occu
only once every nine years.
AS the royasls thus had prospect of gaining
their object in legal and constitutional manner no
~, H.
treme measures in fac', it does not appear upon
what they could have grounded their hopes of sue
cess for their revolutionary proceeding Had thel
opponents in the canton not been able 10 soverpowe
them, the feiera council would have ntertered anC
the troops of the confederation would have been call
ed into service. AS it is, Their hopes have been
initiated by their own impru .ence. The lndepen
- dents have already fOrsaken them, their leader Col
DenzIer, having led the republicans in attack tn
CASTLE
f The October Elections.
An election held on Monday last in Connect
cut for town officers, which resulted in such a dec
: ded manifestation of public sentiment 10 warran
the most confident expectations that the six electora
. votes of the State will be given for Buchanan an
n Breckenridge. The result is thus summed up in III
n Hartford Times Of the 7h inst. -Union
n n {" bout 90 towns voted for town officers in Co!
" necticut yesterday, (Monday) About so MOI
A. towns will vote next month. We have returns fro
IS 80 of the 100 towns( these loo towns being arg
rs net gain Of eleUen towns, relative diff
of tareny one towns, eectng about Is representative
a. This result alone would have ven the Stale by
decided majority last spring. These town election
have not con in well for the democracy since II
year 1852; and the result has been accom- plshed
- full votes and generally the severest contests. The
p show that in Connecticut the popular tide is wi
Is the democrats. They certainly of The most chez
1g ing character.
of 'Now, friends, be up and doing; be organic
ooAp arad TOW tho br
n and all will be well -"
III On the same day an election was held in For
rs for Gov ernOr, members of Congress, and members
the Stale legislature. There were two tickets in tt
held-democratic aud know-nothing We are as '
- without any advices from regular news agen
nd snecial despatch, however appears in the Bal
il more Sun, OF yesterday motning, giving partial
he turns from Duval and Cambria courles These
ice indicate close contest thu oughuut the State.
be ,e On Tuesday election held in Delaware
mt inspector, and assessors, which resulted in bra
,n- democratic triumph. In the counties of New Cart
70 Kent, and Sussex, the democratic majority
-. eighteen hundred! Two years ago the know not
re- ings carredphe State by about thousand ma or
md On Wednesday the municipal election in Bal
I'VE moe took place, which resulted in the election
eeS Mr.. Swami, the know nothing candidate for may
by mojority of 1854. In 1854 the know -nothi
of candidate for mayor (Mr. Hink~) was elected by
hat ajorty of 2,744.
!: On Tuesday, the l4th inst, elections will be h
= in the States of Pennsylvania, Onio and Indiana
ln each of these States members # Congress
ing to be elected in Pennsy vania twenty-five, in O
ny tw enty one, and in Indiana eleven, making hf
NO seven in all.
nth In Pennsylvania, a canal commissioner auditor {
For surveyor are TO be chosen by general vote. L
tickets in the field, the democratic and 1.-THE BIZ
;. republican and know nothing fusion ticket ST
Siafn ole ho Oh, oh