The New York herald., 1870-01-10

The Austrian Empire or tho Present Day
Count Beust's Report to tho HcrniA- Osr
Special Correspondence from Vienna.
Tho most marked and remarkable attesta-
ton Of the power OF the independent newspa-
per press, as well as the most graceful tribute
which has ever como from abroad as the reward
of free American journalistic enterprise, ap-
pears in our columns to-day. 1t Is embraced In
our special letters from Vienna, dated the goth
and 2lst of December, in which the writer
reports MS recepnon ~
man, Count Beust, details the conversation
which ensued, and proceeds to illustrate the
actual present condition OF the empire In the
words Of his Excellency the Chancellor as they
| fell from his lips. We class this event as the
s'most remarkable attestation of the power OF
the Independent press" We use the words
intelligentIy and knowingly. In their express
have already in special correspondence from
Berlin formally introduced consolidated Ger
many to the people Of the United States, Count
Bismarck appearing in our pages as the spokes-
man of the redeemed and reconstructed
nationality. Free Italy has been placed before
our readers, in special Communication from
Florence as she was described by her Premier,
General Count Menebrea, who spoke without
reserve to our representative Of her hopes and
her distractions, her past and present, herindus..
trial resources and debts, her politics, dplo-
macy and religion, her movement forward and
the agencies which impede 1t, her democracy
and royal dynasty, her friends and her ene-
mics, both imperialistic and clerical. ta n
Such communications, coming from such
Sources were pleasing as honorable rewards OF
our enterprise, but did not at all surprise us.
| Germany stands before the world living,
breathing monument Of the indestructibility
Of free thought and free speech. She is Co.'S
mopolitan in her associations and universal In
her ideas. She renews and perpetuates her.
self in her public schools and uiilizes her
mind by steam and electricity. She is at
home everywhere, and peculiarly so as o
colonist and citizen on the American Con-
tinent. Speaking to the HERALD Count Bis
marck was speaking to Young Germany
abroad, and to great extent perfecting the
Panslavism of a race by the universalism of
our communion taken from the fountain head.
Italy has not forgotten the glories Of ancient
| Venice. Premier Menebrea looked back to the
era Of the Doges, its independence, simplicity
and love Of justice. Passing the gloom of
! the Middle Ages, he came at once to the time Of
| Cavour, standing forth himself as the repre-
| sentative Of the national Sequences which
have ensued from Solfsrino and Villafranca, as
well as from temporary neglect of tho
cardinal national maxim that 'who would be
free themselves must strike the blow" His
report was, consequently, tinctured slightly
with patriotic melancholy, but still spoken in
| hopeful words, and in the full conviction that
| good must ensue from Its publication in
America. Germany and Italy, consequently,
| approved at once of our newspaper plan for
| the obliteration of the executive .ssred tape"
system Of government routine dispatches, and
hus endorsed the attempts which we had
made for placing the natoas in an every day
correspondence, and thus annihilating bound
| ary lines and oceans, besides obliterating
executive platforms and party political COM
I binations.
| To-day we restore Austria to herself, and
| enable Count Beust to set her right before
the world. Her imperialism, which has
hitherto frowned on many peoples and strobe
over many battle field in naughty triumph,
lowers it's ensign in acknowledgement Of the
spirit of material progress. The Power which
would scarcely retire from the Quadrilateral
sheathes as it were, its sword and comes down
to the practical work Of making itself better
understood by the peoples through our columns.
Count Beust himself q stranger amid her
| variegated nationalities, appreciates the force
and effect of candid statement to the Amerl-
can people, and, as will be seen in the CORES
pondence, casts away his official cares COM
pletely and enters on the convers satioa with
peculiar 6Onhomie. He acknowledges a
| national reason for his explanation, and
| scarcely conceals his conviction that Count
Bismarck, Of Prussia, had got a little ahead Of
him in the recuperative work--the publication
of first international plea In our pages.
Chancellor Beust takes occasion also to
declare his personal feeling towards Bismarck
| a most interesting episode, the first attempt
| perhaps which has been made from either side
towards the complete reconciliation of two of
| the greatest minds of the Old World. 1t
would be useless to attempt to recaptulate the
| points of Count Beusts conversation. The
dialogue in its comp leteness makes the present
history Of mighty empire, and will therefore
| command the attention of our readers in jts
entirety. The populations of the Aust rian
empire, their divergent interests and mani fold
demands, the mode Of government, the condi-
ton of the press, the army, the Church, the
Concordat, the relations with Rome, the atti-
tude observed towards the Ecumenical Council
and the insurrecton in Bulgaria were all dis
| cussed with equal freedom. Count Beust
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