The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1870-09-15

The Territories that - Dee upies ...lts
Northumberland Yaets...Gsd
Has MIS- Cs~Rpasss asaAy fer the
Appointed Hear.
From the New yort Hcrnd.l
The gcr-meN, Or spes rs-msn, (as the old
Teutonic words united in the same may bc
, intcrprctedl, now knswsts the people OF
4crmsny--or, In other terms, the Ger.
mnns--arc q mighty race. We shall no,
attempt any detailed narrative Of tho wan
dcrings by which, In the long succession
ofages, strny tribes migrated from West-
srn Asia into Eastern Europe, and, sweep
ing over the wide steepes of Russia and
the plains Of Finland, at length poured
down through Scandinavia and, crossing
the narrow slrsits and inlets which divide
Sweden and Zealand from what u nov the
German mainland, peopled the central re-
gion Of the old continent With innumer-
able Teutonic tribsA, the ancestors Of mod
ern Germans. The Danish
archipelago, the island Of Rugen,
PomersniA Mecklenburg Hohtein and
Northern Prussia are dotted everywhere
with tumuli in which, beside the bones of
the ancient Teutonic warriors, are found
implements and weapons Of unmistskable
Eastern origin. In fact many Of these
rtHN-s WulNu VIC IurVCCke0
in the Danish and Swedish museums, bear
no Sigh, resemblance TO articles Of similar
use found in the mounds VI North America
and the ruined mausolea Of Iucatsn and
Peru.
When Cesar, pursuing his eoIs.uss,s in
GAul, reached the Rhine, he found the vast
territory beyond il peopled by some three
score tribes of different asmes, LEGAL man
u ~ n pl li.lagf. NglL.sa an.Sul AL, &trs-
DO, the historian gives in the word Ger
mani, the osi.ia 6, which we indicate In
the first lres ot our article. Although
the Germans, even of that remote epoch,
had certain Gxcd civilization, laws and
agricultural life and prsctised in their sa-
cred Druidical groves q religion that EN-
oracea the Immortality Of the soul, their
position as nationality was underlined, and
many centuries elapsed before the ignor-
Ance or Indifference Of the West could
peer far enough through the dazzle OF the
Roman empire TO discover beyond il,
stretching away 10 the eastward n mighty
race, wondrously endowed with both in
tcllectusl and physical power. hut few
hundred years have wrought Q magical
change. The scattered tribes bet wcen the
Rhine and the Danube have Just become
transformed into one vast people, still tom
porarily and slightly divided here and
there by foreign boundary line, but spir-
itualiy welded together by common blood
common language common glory and
common aspirations.
The Germany of today comprises a ter
ritpry Of four thousand six hundred miles
u. circuit INIT entire measurement, and nm
area oil two hundred and forty-four thous-
AND square miles, without including the
eastern provinces of Prussia not en- braced
IN The old Germsnic Confederation. which
would swell the total 10 two hundred and
eighty thousand square miles. The popu-
!alloh OF this vast region I. about thirty
eight million souls which, with the DER
mans IN Austria, yariously COMPUTED AZ
nine and eleven millions, would make ,bc
nerinanle race in Central Europe nulaLer
.oine forty-seven ~ forty-nine millions.
nut TINS Is not the sum total Of the fAx.iy
on the elder Continent, The Baltic PROV
.hces OF Russln--yiz Livonia, Es,honia,
INerbnrg End Courland-contain about
n'lhoh hVe hundred thousand souls of
o MAJ, Alhared, aud Alsace and Lorraine,
,a;I,, .o"PoAhg part Of Francs, have two
ssn,e NOR, ihis would Increase the
ssh'u, :" uhe Geftnsnic European
nearly htiy-ilres million five
hgher numbers, and fully con.ids rin, IN.
.A.annohlai' business and social alliance.
VI soseIve' er.erprising and no,nadic ),
Srsns' me 'esoA, becomes imposing.
nu' ~hsh Va have done with tbe .,,,.
eI. ~ Vo'l'hlsh''es recognized:as German
We nave ny no means finished ~. ,,,,s.a.
ron VI oefhiah settlement In Er.,,,
proper there are fully five hundrsd r.,
sand, In Italy Ave hundred ,hou.s, ."on-
Spain and Portugal two hundred and s "a
~ thousand, ia Turkey, Syria and W.. NJ,
two hundred and MY thousand
Switzerland two Hundred and hf,y ,ho"'
sand, ia the scandinavian States, Belgium
and Holland Ave hundred thousand And
the British Islands five hundred thousan nd
Germans. But it 10 in America that III,
outside German emigration has develope,
into the grsndest proportions. In GU
own city snd in Philadelphia, Milwaukee
Cincinnati and 81, Louis whole wards ar
almost entirely peopled by Germans. IL
Pennsy lvania they sre so numerous il
sI..a q