Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1866-08-23
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continental Europe. The war OF
1858, in which Sardinia and France
took sides against Austria, resulted
in divesting Austria of Lombardy
and annexing that province to Italy ;
the reconstruction Of Sardinia and
the Italian States under one govern
ment, with Victor Emmanuel as
King, and the cession by Sardinia
to France Of Savoy. Modern map
making, which had had but little
chance for the exercise of novelty in
its delineations of boundaries, here
came in and broke somewhat the
spell Of its monotony. The late
Germanic convulsion, by which Prus
STA has gained SO large an ascend
ancy over her once formidable rival,
Austria, subtracts from the latter
power the Venetian States, consign-
ing them to their legitimate place
under Italian rule, and gives to Prus-
STA an extension of her domains
and a consolidated strength, which
must render her a power to be feared
and respected by her neighbors, more
then ever. Thus, again, is necessi-
tated a variation in the existing
maps of Germany and Italy which
will embrace numerous important
changes, and the geographical lore
of the schools will have considerable
to unlearn and to learn over again,
but in a different shape.
A contemporary furnishes US with
brief statement, which we annex,
of the important changes in the
"civil geography of central Eu-
rope which have been brought forth
in fewer days than ever before, per-
haps, in the worlds history, and
have sufficed to produce revolution
equally important in extent and con-
consequences:
The map Of Germany north of the
river Main, and the mountains of
Bohemia, has been changed. It puts
Prussia in possession of part Of
Schleswig, of Holstein, Lunenburg,
the free cities of Lubbock, Hamburg,
Frankfort, Bremen, Hanover, Old.
enburg, Mechlenburg, Brunswick,
Hesse Cassel, most of Darmstadt,
the Thuringian States, Saxony, part
Of Bavaria, and numerous minor
States besides. A portion of the
extensive territory covered by these
States will be directly annexed to
Prussia. All the rest she will con-
troll as efectually as if it were an
nexed, although it will nominally
form a North German Union. That
part of Germany south Of the above
named, includes Bavaria, Wurtem-
burg, Baden, and part Of Darmstadt,
and is to be formed into a South
German Union.
Prussia will thus become a com
pact empire and standing by itself,
will rank among the foremost pow
ers of Europe, in respect to both
territory and population. With the
other States of the Northern Union,
as they will become dependencies of
hers, she must for the future virtu-
ally control the fortunes of Germany.
The result may be in time that the
name Of Germany will be lost and
forgotten in that of Prussia.
Before taking leave of this subject
it may be refreshing to the student
of history and interesting to our
readers at large to trace succinctly
few of the leading events in the link
of connection between ancient and
modern Prussia.
The earliest accounts we have of |
Prussia carry us back to more than
three years before the Christian
era. A people called the Venedi
then possessed the country. They