New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-10

tbey would finally result in the formation Of tro
autseou,tie Gernapies, the one under Prlsssn,
the other under Austrian rule, hshbng each other,
and reuoyatD "a he disasters oil tue IbutJ Years
War. 10 be finally "uuieted" BIZ the costly inssr-
ven,ion of France from The one eide, aud Prussia
from the other. Well, the assembly OF "Germ.n
men n Frsukf,rt who held their slttings on the
18th aud 18th Of this month, DID oniy parity oeioog
10 the 9th. party, and 10 q very sInai extent u
Mort bern GERMANY, but ell Of them were 'dms-
hu,s" of German uni,y. Their ossensible end was,
in fact IN r,.coneiiiaie the Southern unlolists 10
some sort of compromise with the Ootoa pro-
prsmme men. propose giving Jon short sketch
of their proceedings, but must beforehand state
that the impression Of csjishness, silhDsss, and
verbose impotence, imprinted on nv brains by their
transactions was quite oyerw hemlDg, and that one
fe.ls hardly able 10 realize the idea that those
men should actually represent the athersnd OF the
Reformation, the Peasants war. and modern
science.
However we must console ourselves BY the known
truth that in every movement The ehtest after will
always first appear on the surface. lhe Assembly
mustered $50 strong, one 2Utn part OF which
cor sisted OF Prussiaus, almost exclusively Ber-
liners ne-teLth part of HsGoSerlans, and the grea:
mass of Southern Germans. Among the Delegates
of Old Bayaria, may be named Drater and Barth,
members Of the bayarlan Diet knorr, maDu'ac-
turer, from Munich, Prof. FIegler, and editor
Reuss, from Nuremberg. Rhenish Bavaria was bat
sparely represented. Wiirtenberg had sent Won
Stolder, Reyscher, Ammemuller, Dr. Elben,
Notter, &c. Baden h.d nothing to show but Old
Welcker, Won Rochan, Mitt-rmayer, jun, and
rome commercial men. Darmstadts principal
Spokesman was Metz, an attorney. Hesse C.ssel
specimens were Prof. Koch, attorney Oeher, some
landed proprietoTs, and numerous manufacturers
from HaDau. Nassau lu1uTiated In the names of cit
Zens Iais, member Oftbe Legislature OF that tstc
and Gouroe. great IDdus,rslist. Frankfort ltself
nuudatedtbe Assembly with It's local celebrities sd-
yOcates, medical men, aud merchants sucn as
Binding Br,unfeIs, Foster, FIeidlebeD Kuchlrr,
LIegwsIt Muller, Msppes, Schlemmer, Tsxtor, aud
20 forth. Weimar vas represented by Fries; Co.
tia by Jacobs (the painter), and BlrgermelsIer
HiiDersdorff; Leipslc by Gustav Mayer, the pub
h,her; Hanover by Won BennQsen, Won Der Horst,
Mis uel, Planck aLd others; brunswick, by Adyo-
cat Lucius; NehleJbuig BY Deumler, Pogge sad NJ.
WlggeIs; Holstein BY Lehman and Alderman,
and Prussia by President Lette, publisher Velt
some Berlin Aldermen, etc. The German
pfess was Teprs, nt.d by deputies OF 10
liberal Berlin papers, and of the Dan-igr
Zeitung, the Z.itung FIR Nord Deutschland,
Das fJonlJur,er journal, the hamburger HtoTm,
Die Baierscke U0chensehrt, the Bremen Haafeis-
batt, tbs FTdnkfuter AIbeitsgeber, the Narntdger
Couiier, the Schnabisete M.rkur, etc. should not
forget mentioning two old troopers, L. NeDedey and
OtpTg WuOlu you sulo W mcet vi "'''J
German exhibition Of cheap patriotism. On the
WHOLE the lawyers mad the best OF IT, while the
mercantile and ided interests were bot thiny rep
resented. There were so-called COnstltutloDal-ts,
and sO-csed Democrats, but the shades OF opinion
marking the boundary line between them are so I'M
certain that they would escape the pencll OF
painter, not to speak of the pen of your CORE
spOndent. Altogether, the German men, TO
Judge from their Outw ard appearances, and still
more from their speeches, seemed good Delghbors,
but bad musicians. ! should have suppressed tbe
names OF the fellows if i were not aware that many
German readers of The TRIBUNE will amuse them
selves with this catalogue of
Die V6lter une de Nanen
Die gas,lieh he, .HsanuenkGmen."
As Characteristic of German " GemGthiichk.h,"
cannot but point out the fact that all the interest
of the assembly seemed to center in its preliminary
meeting, where the different views of the different
tribes of the Fatherland were freely exchanged,
with the praise~orthy intention OF exhibiting
not their antsgOnism," but their variety"
When the German men" had given vent to their
pent-up preliminary" feelings and opinions, and
were az last setting to the real business, the vital
powers of the " Assembly" faltered visieiy, to be
to be arrived at. Then the German men" con-
fessed themselves at their wits end. But, after
all, they bad enjoyed the innocent pleasure, so
much coveted by them of having spoken out their
minds, or, as the German phrase runs, sch aus
gesp,Ochen -u haben.' In following letter l shall
try 10 press In short compass the worry ocean let
loose on that memorable occasion of the - Assem-
ably of the German men at Frankfurt am Main"