The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-19
The south German States In the War OF 1866

The South German states In the War of 1866
The four South German States took sides with
Austria in the war of 1866, to whose army they
furnished 100000 men and 234 pieces of ord
nance. They shared the fate of Austria on the
field of battle, and two of them, Bavaria and
Hesse-Darmstadt, were made to suffer terrific
rally for their alliance. Several small districts
north of the river Main, with an area of 291
square miles and population of 32470 were
annexed to Prussia. Several districts of Hesse-
Darmstadt north of the Main, with an area of
977l square miles and a population of 1906,
were also annexed to Prussia in 1866, while the
province of Upper Hesse was taken into the
North German Confederation. 1t has an area
of 1850 square milesi and population of 225 696,
making the total area of Hesse-Darmstadt
2970 square miles, and its total population
790,16
At the conclusion of the war; treaty of
peace was signed with Bavaria on August 22d,
four days before the truce of Nikolsburg be-
tween Prussia and Austria. Bavaria in addition
to giving up the territory mentioned above, en-
gagged to pay to Prussia 10000, 600 forins, in
three instalments, the last instalment six months
after the exchange of ratifcations to abandon
the navigation dues on the Rhine and Main
after 1867; to transfer TO Prussia the Bavarian
telegraph stations In the territory OF the North
ern Confederation, and in the Grand Duchy of
Hesse; to surrender such documents in the
archives of Bamburg as refer exclusively to the
former burgraves of Nuremburg and the mar
graves OF Brandenburg of the Franconian line;
and to submit TO the arbitration of one of these
German courts of appeal upon Prussia's claims
to the pictures which had been removed from
the Dusseldorf gallery to Munich.
Treaties of peace were signed by Wurtemburg
on Julv 10Th hV BADEN OB Aupust 2lst and nv
Hesse- Darmstadt on September Sd. Each of
these three States were compelled, like Bavaria,
to indemnify Prussia for part of her expenses,
Wurtemburg paying 100000 forms; Baden,
5000, 600 lorins; and Hesse-Darmstadt 5,000 900
florins, in addition TO the cessions of territory
above mentioned, receiving however, by way of
compensation, the privilege of entering the
North German Confederation for the province
| of Upper Hesse.
The South German states aud the North Ger
| man COnfederntion.
After the war of 1866, there was a marked
| division in the sentiment of the South German
States on the question of seeking admission into
| the Northern Confederacy or the establishment
| of Southern one. A majority Of the Liberal
party were in favor the former course, while
the bulk of the Catholic and Democratic parties
| inclined to the latter. In August, 1866, the
Bayarian Chamber of Deputies adopted by a
large vote a resolution expressing wish that
the government by a close alliance with Prus-
sia, would enter upon the only road leading to
the hnal union of all Germany under a German
Parliament. The first Chamber declined
TO concur in this but, by a
, vote OF q 10 I3, expressed
wish that any attack which might be made
pPon German teTTi'oT! ~ foreign powers might