The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-08-24
GERMANY.

OMcial Observation-Disclosures DEPART
ment-ManifestO Of the Liberals-General
Strike Among the Nasons.
BERLIN, August s. 1859.
Politics and diplomacy have arrived at their sum-
solstice, the vacations at the public schools and
the universities falling together with those OF the
judiciary department. sufficiently explain the dull
OF Berlin. There Is but institution which
does not rest as yet upon Its oar that s the BOurse
where, under the influence Of the hausse at Paris
and Vienna, the public have had an animated time
Of 1t for the last week. running up Austrian, French
and Lombard railway shares to topping height,
often much from four to eight per cent in one
day. For the last day or two reaction COM
menced-Lombards fell suddenly eleven thalers-
but on Saturday quotations again became
firm. Owing to persistent tuffing In financial
journals the Rockford, the Rock Island ana ST. Louis
seven per cent first mortgage has been introduced
here The first transactions took place at the rate Of
7ok per cent, and we find them quoted yesterday at
at 71H. United States bonds, 1882, ct 8Sl6. With o
view Of frightening people here from investing In
said railway shares the bears call them jestingly
Crock fort'' (German-coat gomez conveying the
meaning that those who buy them will ultimately
have to part with their '1ast coat.n
AS to financial affairs, trafflc in general and the
crops, all be said to be in promising condition
Baron Won der Heydt's late wringng Of hands and
gnashing Of teeth In his memoir to the Reichstag
seems 10 have abated and change must have come
over the spirit Of his dreams, for It is officially an
nounced that the deficit OF 1870 If any, Will he quite
magnificent owing to the general increase OF re-
Chamber e1sns The ae% Stamp ssS
petroleum and other duties demanded by govern.
ment, and justife, the suspicion that Prussia has
been made the scapegoat for deficit not her
own, but Of the North German Confederation. The
true state OF AFFAIRS WIN leak out In the next
Reichstag. when the Minister Of War, General Won
Room presents MS little account. 1t may then be-
come clear that ON EARNED peace" Is the cause OF
EFFORTS are made by the irrepressible Ministry. We
may state from good authority that vote OF GEN.
sure was passed upon high government officer for
merely abiding slightly ana In general terms to that
cormOrant institution.
In tue absence Of other political news the minis
terial organ, Provincial Correspondence has lust
supplied material for fresh BIsmarckan gossip, by
the assertion that the only for the Counts
trement, which Will last beyond the next session OF
the Prussian Diet, Is his precarlous aud utterly
shattered health. This Is Intended by way OF reply
to the many versions given to the Counts with
drawal and In order to discredtt the statements
speeding his wish to rid himself Of his colleagues In
office. The Premier's estate In POmerania "Varzin."
has helped the Ge1an language to a new verb, EN-
plOyed in describing domestic quarres other
stead OF making '1ts exit" to ''varzinate."
Some sensation has been caused, even ut this dull
period. by the announcement in the same Official
print OF the completion OF Herr Won Mlher's draught
Of new instruction law to 10 laid before the next
Diet. vi course everybody Is anxious to know what
kind OF school law can be cOnc0cted In the famous
Muller department., the most reacti0nary, beOted
and nt0erant OF all others. But this just curiosity
Will not satisfied, owing to the premature cOnvO
cation OF the Diet In october, which makes 1t neces
sary. says the Provincial Correspondence to discuss
the draught at in State Council before bringing
II into the Diet 1t Is the old system OF springng
trap upon the Legislature, allowing no time for the
consideration OF vital measures. Instead OF giving
every pedagogue In the realm an opportunity OF
reading and judging OF the new draught 1t Is carefully
hidden In the bureaus OF the department, very nat
IA IN
light.
The national liberals now declare in their chief
organ that oil conventi0natie5 heretofore observed
by them out of regard to the prominent national
leader and statesman in Prussia, Count Bismarck,
Will cease. and that the party Is enabled to act In
future free from all restraint. This will allow them
more especially they say, to view, Independent OF
politics, questions OF taxation, and to classify the
budget In necessary and s'uselup' expenditures
The same influential parry, commanding o ma
jority in the chamber, as your readers are aware,
promise further TO use all their endeavors to pre-
vent new burdens beng put upon The people and
to counteract That pressure which government has
frequently exercised by cutting down the etdt OF
"usefulp expenditures This manifesto OF the ma
tional liberals comes like g0dsend, and fervent
hopes are entertained that they may adhere to their
programme and also that the Iron Count, as far as
Prussia proper Is concerned, may long continue 10
"varzInate.n
The labor question has again come before the COM
muniiy, this time In very tangible shape Oh account
OF well-organzed strike on the part OF the masons
inc carpenters, as communicated In former report,
were successful In obtaining an increase OF wages
and this has induced the masons to follow their ex-
ample. In consequence al. building undertaklnRs
are at O sJandstlll; many OF tine men have left the
city, supported by the various trades unions as well
as those that remain here 1t Is feared that the strike
VIII be OF some duration, as the masters show little
disposition TO meet the demands OF the men, La
borers from other parts having arrived, they were
either persuaded or threatened from entering into
engagements by those on the strike.