The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-08-03
GERMANY.
Prussia's Supremacy Within the German Con-
federatiOn--NO Prospect of u United Father.
lund-lSismarck's Observation-Disclosures
Of EmiSrants.

federation-No Prospect of u United Father.
lnnd-Bismarck's Observation-Disclosures
Of EmiSrants.
BERLIN, July 49, 1868.
In the present lull OF political subjects Cor letter
II might not be out OF place to cast an eye on the
position OF the North German Confederation, COM
posed Of Prussia with twenty-four million nhabi-
tants, and about twenty petty States with only six
milf ons. In doing 30 We are everywhere struck
with the undeniabe fact OF an unlimited supremacy
OF the Hohenzollern dynasty. exercising over this
confederation greater power than 1t ever pos
sessed within its own Prussian realm. With
o Bund constitution sworn to by nobody,
Q Rechs.ag deprived OF nine-tenths Of its
budget right Bund Council or Senate in which she
II paramount, what more can Prussia desref Why
should she urge the entrance Of the Southern States
which could produce no other than an unfavorable
alteration In the status Qio2 without a vital change
an the organization OF the Bund Council their admis
mon would re-estabsh something like the former
cid Bundestag, all the dynastic jealousy would be
aroused and the petty States OF the North, quietly
submissive at present for the lake Of sefpreserva
ton and counting equal to Zero would suddenly rise
Again into Importance. Prussia, reigning supreme
within the present Bund, can have reason for de-
string change or running the risk Of saddling her
self with dangerous opposition.
II ever the terms OF an admission OF the South are
win be voluntary remuneration OF many hereditary
rights and prerogatives OF Its soveregns and II must
be conceded that neither the wlttesbach nor the
Swabian dynasty have as yet shown any inclination
70 throw up the game
30 much for the sanguine German Americans who
imagine that they may wake up some 1ne morning
TO read In your columns all the news about united
FAtherland. II is both painful and ludicrous TO see
the vain efforts OF the national liberals In The South
TO ford the Main BY swimming across, for whenever
they approach the northern bank they are met by
Prussan rebuff Even II the Southern national lib
erals who boast Of their strength, could dictate to
their sovereigns a union with the North, they would
not do It at the sacrifice OF dynastic glory. Wen
knowing that the time for fusion has not come yet,
that not pressure only but force will be requisite to
bring about the Prussian government keeps silent,
and bismarck the steersman, is lying upon his oars.
Al all events a merging OF the South in the North
crp Confederation or rather with Prussia, must be
considered at present and for some time TO come
% a mere phantom.
The offcia organ the Kreuz-Zeituno, OF Berlin.
this nsrning speaks Of the vouminous correspond
ence directed from all parts OF the country 10 ar
Elm the Pommeranian estate OF Count Bismarck
who, not even being allowed by his physicians the
least exeron, and for that reason without secre-
tary has ordered all letters TO be sent unopened to
the Berlin department This may serve q notice,
says The Krez Zett,tnc TO those who regardless OF
the Premier's condition OF health, trouble MIN with
directing them 10 hs oiIice. In review OF the Sit
nation the Augsburg Gazette considers It peculiar
crisis OF the North German Bund that Its leader
IL and Will DO prevented for months FROM taxing the
reIns.
man 1t must be admitted that nobody is abe to
follow up his grand strokes OF policy. IL may he
said OF Bismarck that like other men who carry with
them dicttOnnd,re de pocte, he has provided him
self with a sefmade constitution de Docl,e for gov
ernng the Bund, with and without the aid OF which
he rules as Dictator. such dictatorship cannot he
regularly organized. IL Is exercised according 10
the demand Of each day, and dictator Is not ex.
pected 10 tolerate anybody near him with indepon-
this Il follows that while the political captain
OF the Bund not on board the course Of the ship
OF State Is devious and the engines IN bad trim.
Though 1t cannot be said that the President pro en.
Herr Debruck the Saxon Minister, Herr Won Trcsen,
and the Privy Councillors, Herren 1hebe and
Philippsborn have not finished up the regular busi.
ness in satisfactory way, II must be recoleced
that IL was 10 q time OF profound peace and OF no
complication whatsoever with foreign Powers.
As the first teething OF the North German Confed.
eration results IN deficit OF nearly thf-e millions
tbalers, which the Rund Chancellor rescript tcrs
TO be levied directly from the confederate govern.
ments, attention has been called to the date OF sad
rcscript, being June 8, though the RechstaZ Was "a
session mp 10 the Goth OF the same month THIS
beng the treatment experienced 10y the heichstag,
ern germany. has the Zol Parliament that nagpant
nous gift 10 the rest OF the German states Jared any
better Is IL at all surprising That n. Ihiers de.
preheDd the German Confederation and iis future
You can hear similar declarations from ParaInen-
tary members vi tne Duuu HuO, LOpkHg NJ Us III.
perfect and provisional features from rst 70 last,
know not what 70 think nor how 10 begin.
Notwithstanding that the Bund army IL amply
~uppiied with needle guns we are informed or an m.
,ueased activity In Che gun factories at suhl and
SVmmerda where the work OF changing old pcrCus-
an Nn muskets into breech leaders Is carried on day
amt night All the private gun factories west OF the
buvfnaian range have more orders than they can
nl sabrss. bayonets, rspiers and cutlasses have
been contracted for BY several continental govern.
ments. The trade In arms IA az lively as In 1880.
Prom eVlngen Prussan town In the Dusseldorf
district, renowned for It's industry IN the hardware