The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-07-28

Duchies; but to these protests Bismarck paid
no attention, and the battles of Sadowa and
Konigsgratz affirmed Prussian rights and si-
fenced Austrian remonstrance. After the Aus
trian defeats Prussia consolidated the North
German States, and brought them all under
her control, subsidizing their princes and
granting them pensions and allowances in
place of their independent revenues, Ar
rangements were also made with Southern Ger
man States by which they retained their nomi-
nal independence, but Prussia was made COM
mander-in-chief Of the joint army and head of
the Customs Union and the line of the terri
torial demarcation completely excluded Aus
tria from all participation in the new Bund.
The Luxembourg affair, it will be remembered,
originated from an attempt by Prussia to get
possession from Holland of that fortress by
purchase. This was Objectionable to France,
and the fortress was eventually dismantled and
the territory neutralized At this moment,
owing to the consolidation of Germanic pow
ers to the supremacy of Prussia and to the
powers granted Won Bismarck as Chancellor
of the Federated States, he is the most power
full minister in Europe, having personal influ-
ence and weight more analogous to that of
Richelieu or Dannitz than to that of any mod
ern minister.
In person, Won Bismarck is tall, we'll FORM
ed, fair haired, blue eyed, and of great vigor.
He is as hearty and joyous as he is energetic
and determined. His tastes are simple and
popular, as proof of which the national beer,
both white, book, and lager in great silver tan
kards and foaming goblets, is feature of his
entertainments. He has been once shot at,
but though slightly wounded, arrested the as
sassin with his own strong hand, and the often
der subsequently killed himself in prison.
Of his personal views NJ. de Vilbort, Par
isian journalist, reports an interview in which
these words were uttered by Bismarck:
"Sixteen years ago was living as country
gentleman, when the King appointed me En-
voy of Prussia at the Frankfort Diet. had
been brought up in the admiration, l might
almost say the worship, of the Austrian policy;
Much time, however, was not needed to dispel
my youthful illusions. The humiliation of my.
country, Germany, sacrificed to the interests of
a foreign nation, crafty and perfdous line of
policy, these were not things calculated to give
me satisfaction. :; conceived the idea
of snatching Germany from Austrian oppres-
sion-at least that part of Germany whose tone
of thought, religion, manners, and Interests,
identify her dcstinics with Prussia--Northern
Germany"
Of French pretensions to territorial aggran-
dizement, the same gentleman reports Bis
marck as saying:
"Erc fortnight is past We shall have war on
the Rhine if France insists on her territorial
demands She asks of us what we neither can
nor will give Prussia will not cede an inch
of German SOLVE cannot do so without rails
ing the whole of Germany against us, and if it
be necessary let it rise against France rather
than ourselves"
Herr Won Bismarck is married and has three
children. His private life is of the happiest,
and his wife is said to be most efficient help
meet, and his very best secretary and amanu..
mensis. To his sister he is most tcnderly and
devotedly attached, and their mutual affection
is a bright spot on the history of great life.
He is 56 years of age.