Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-21
FROM BERLIN.
jsc; Correspond enee Of the Ohio s'atesm.n.l

-9iT .s.1-I BERLIN, Sept 3, 1865.
While la naizzidrde, continues to be
idle in the cellars of the Paris bank, and
the French mercantile community will
not credit the paciGc assurances OF their
own Government, people in Germany
are comparatively at their ease as re-
cards the future. Not as though any one
in this country were in hurry to believe
a man or a journal connected with the
French Government holding forth ON
the slippery subject of foreign affairs
The events of the last few years, and
the studied ambiguity affected till very re-
Gently, indeed, by French official gentle
men and papers when alluding tothis IN
teresting topic, have made people skepti-
cal. But what the labored protestations
of an entire class fail to produce, is easi--f
ly affected by the persuasive 7eloquence
of Ia situation itself. The Germans
have become sufficiently acquainted with
the peculiarities. of the French empire
MOTTO be prematurely disquieted by any
attitude it may choose to assume. They
know BY experience that, to Napoleon
Ill, foreign politics are means OF
strengthening his position at home, and
that words and deeds apparently aimed
at other nations are, in reality, only in
tended to amuse the French. There is,
indeed, a. lamentable uniformity of belief
on this side of the Rhine, that if lNapo-
leon had a chance of exhilarating his
restless countrymen by victory over
Germany, he would not hesitate to treat
them to this brilliant spectacle, and pro-
cure for himself the applause on which
the, hero of a tragedy graced with so
many daaths, may reasonably count
But, admitting this much, people de-
rive comfort from imagining that man nan
in : the = Emperor's place will
hundred: times hint at these dramatic
contingencies before once contemplating
their realization in earnest. According
to German prognostics he will not ven7
ture on an attack without safe allies
But is he likely to have tbema Should
Austria join him, Prussia relies upon
the support of Russia, Austria's rival
in; the East In the still more improba-
BILE event of Russia herself making
common cause with the Napoleonic in
4erest, things, it is true, would look
ominous- for Germany. But this ar
ranegennent presupposes a readiness on
the part of Russia not only TO go shares
with Austria in the East, but also to ac-
quiescelin her aggrandizement in Ger
many. The former, being an idea at
varience with Panslavonic principles,
has, till now, at any rate been held in
abhorrenee atSt. Petersburg; the latter
would not be entertained unless Russia
is prepared to render Austria the cham
pion of culture and emigration in the
East, thereby giving her indisputable
superiority in those parts. This being
the light in which matters are viewed
here, there is disposition to regard the
state of international relations as more
tranquilizing than first appearances,
Notwithstanding the beautiful speeches
delivered by NM. Rouher and Magne.
would seem to warrant. ;,.Ai-E -tal
In the meantime the variable -symp-
toms nns;on on the French political horizon are
being observed with the vigilant atten-
tion of a philopher rather than the ea-
gerness and anxiety Of men about to
suffer invasion. Without displaying
any particular excitemnt at the fact, it is
confessed that in the last few weeks the
: phenomena have not been very satisfac-3
tory The, ,amiable phraseology adopted
by some of the semi-oficial journals Is
counterbalanced by -bellicose language
in others. The conversion of the Corr
stitutionael to tenets of international
love and charity appears but a passing
sentiment when Mr.. de Lassaignar, jun,
is decorated for advocating opposite
doctrines. The cool reserve Of the
Monitexr, does not signify much as long
as:the government, while silencing all
who speak on internal affairs, by tolera-
tion bestows an indirect approval upon
Mr.gGirardin, lashing his countrymen
into the fury of war. Then, passing on to
avuwedly official spheres, we find one
Minister vaunting his readiness to go
to war at. moments notice, though an