The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-03-11
Germany and Her Conquests.

The Franco German war has wrought
wondrous change in the relative strength
and Importance OF the Great Powers OF
Europe. The new Empire OF Germany takes
the foremost place in the family OF nations.
Russia, it is true, still ranks first in popula-
ton, counting her 69,OOo,oOO Of people, q
great portion of whom may be called semi
barbarous; but, including Alsace and Lor-
raine, Germany follows with 49,12O,O0O OF
the most economical and industrious inhab-
itants, perhaps, to be found in any commu-
nity of the world. France, shorn of q large
part of her two provinces; comes next, with
sc, 43O, 900; and then the Austrian mon
archy, 35, ,g43, 900, and Great Britain, with
30, S3s, 900; last of oil being Italy, with
Rome, counting $40, 600 inhabitants.
The newly-published Post1and6ucA (mail
directory of the German government for
Alsatia and the German part of Lorraine,
gives US an idea of the extent OF the ter
ritorial cession which France is making to
her conouerors. The Germans have divi-
ded this part of France from the rest of the
French territory occupied, and introduced
the North German mail system in the same,
while the French postal administration was
maintained in the rest. This indicated IN
advance that the Germans regarded their
occupation Of the tirst-named provinces as
permanent, and so the map of the Post
handbuch furnishes US the border-line OF the
territory torn from France.
Commencing in the north, the first place
inside of the German line on the Luxembourg
side is oetlingen, then the line extends to-
wards the southwest, including Hayiugen,
Manouvre lie Grand, Mars Ia Tour, Gore
and Corny, but Pont-a- -Mousson and Nancy
remain to France. On this side apart of the
French portion Of Lorraine has been includ-
ed, as the Germans insisted on getting Metz,
which is in French-speaking country. The
border then runs in. O southern direction
RIGHT west Of Aulnos and Moncel on the
Seille, Lagarde, Rckingen and Grey. The
line is then continued by the Vosges noun
taius, and runs almost directly south. Lut-
zelhausen, Urback, Mariakirch, Schnier-
bach, Wasserling and Giromaguy are the
most prominent German towns along this
part OF the line, which leaves Belfort to the
west. Turning then towards Switzerland,
it runs along Boell, Beaucourt, Dele, Me
dereopt. Pfert and Saint Louis.
A recent leading article in q semi-oftlcial
organ of the Berlin government foreshadows
the policy Of the victors in regard to their
territorial conquests. According to this
j,urnal, Alsatia and the German part OF Lor
rane will become an immediate territory and
province of the German Empire, without be-
ing attached to any one OF the States that
compose the same, remaining the possession
of all in common. 1t will be governed by an
Imperial yiceroy or Governor, the seat OF
whose government will be Strasbourg. He
will be invested with full sovereign rights and
privileges, appoint his own cabinet, and
have supreme control Of oil civil and military
authorities. The King of Prussia would, in
his capacity as Emperor of Germany, ap-
point this viceroy. But the administration
of the territory will be entirely independent,
and it will be represented in the German
Reichstag after lapse OF two or three years.
Its finances and judicial administration will
be in the hands of the provincial govern
ment, and it will enter the Customs Union
Immediately as separate State, governed
by the general laws Of the German Empire.
And as the country will probably not be an
neHed to Prussia, it is improbable that small
parts of the same will be annexed to Bava-
ria, Wurtemburg or Baden, SO that it will
remain an indivisible territory. But in Or
der not to make the Prussan influence too
predominant, immense as the right vested
in Prussia's sovereign to appoint Viceroy
makes il, the general supervision OF the pro-
vincial government will be in the hands OF
the German Parliament aid Bundcsrath, as
the only bodies that represent the whole
German people and all the different govern
ments of the German Empire.
It remains to be seen whether the new
German provinces, which, under the French
regime, were some OF the richest districts Of
Frauce, will retain their wealth and prosper
as we'll under the new government.
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