The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-09-07

water counties are doubtful. The
are confident there will
be majority Of friends in tho Ma
tional and Territorial administration
in the legislature. The last legissa-
ture was unanimously Democratic. -
TEE MEANING or THE ISGpnRrAI.
MEETING AT dASTHyM. Z = ~
London correspondWsH es,s Of the New York
The air continues to be iull Of re-
ports concerning the meeting Of tic
Emperors of Germany and Austria
at Gastein, and the alliance between
Russia and France, and it daily be
COMES more and more probable that
the despatch sent you on tho 10th
inst, in regard TO this only anticipa-
ted what will soon be an accomplish.
ed fact. The Gar told General Id
Flo the other day that tho treaty
existed between him and the En-
peror of Germany !" and Reuter-, who
lie always slow, sends from Paris to-
day the news that it ID believed there
that an Austro. German alliance will
be followed st once, by an alliance
between France ard Russia. Well,
the Austro German alllance lie already
as we'll as accomplished. Little by
little the truth comes out. First il
was announced by the semi-of6cial
journals Of Vienna and Berlin that
neither Won Beust nor Bismark
would be present at the meeting Of
the Emperors, but now it is confess
ed that both the Ministers will be-
there. Bismark starts for Gastein
on the 10th, and Won Beust, already
there, will remain until the ed -
And The frst part, Of the neat little
game, by which Europe is once more
10 be plunged into war, bss already
come tolight. TO understand il, one
must read the following britt history
OF Romanian railway rs ! find it in
the London Times p
"ln 1863 Prussian gentleman
undertook to build and then to work
a railway in that Roumania over
| which a Prince of the House of
Hohenzollern was elected, some five
years ago, to reign under the title OF
Charles /. Roumanian Government
guaranteed interest at the rate OF u
per cent per annum on the capital
sum required for the railway. A
little over one half of the railway has
been constructed, yet bonds to tho
amount of about f9,0O0,000 have
been issued, bearing the guarantee
of the Roumanian Government, and
countersigned by it's delegate. Out,
of the $4,000 900, 9s,OOO,000 are
held by Prussian SUBJECTS, e600, geo
are scattered about IN England, and
the remaining 940o, 600 are lodged
in tho hands Of persons claiming diff
ferent nationalities on the Con tinent.
| In the natural course of events the
bondholders claim the payment Of
the ~ per cent guaranteed to them
by the Roumanian Government; but.
the Romanian Government resist the
claim on tour grounds-that the
bonds were only to be put in circula.
ton by degrees; that the guarantee
begins only from the completion of
the three sections into which the
railway is divided !; that during the
construction Of each section the
Prussian gentleman, NJ. Strousberg,
is bound by his contract to pay all
interest accruing on the bonds and
that the half of the railway already
built Is 80 imperfect that tho Rou-
manian Government has declined to
accept it. Such misunderstanding
is not novel, and is certainly not =
sort of dispute which should seriously
engage the attention of two Emper-
ors and one chancellor of an empire;
but it is q question which may DO
safely dismissed 70 the consideration
off court of law, So rational and
obvious line of conduct is not suffi-
cient for the active and meddlesome
temperament of Prince Bismark, and,
therefore, tho Intervention of the
Porte, as the suzerain power, has
been invoked to bring the principal
ity to it's senses. The act repudiat-
ing these bonds, perpetrated by the
Chamber at Bucharest, and endorsed
by Charles l.. may be gross wrong
on the Prussian bondholdeIs ); but
The attempt of Prince dBis.nark TO
convert into q national quarrel
financial scheme between private
individuals and foreign State, can
not be otherwise than a repetition
OF the kind of policy which plunged
his own country and Frame into the
most hateful, because The most mer-
cenary, of modern wars" ~ bn. ,.
Now Roumanla is weak State,
and can. scarcely be called an indie
pendent State. 1t acknowledges the
nominal supremacy of the Sultan OF
Turkey, bnt its iEdepend, nee 10,
guaranteed in some degree by the
treaty of 1856, to which Turkey,
Russia, England, France, Austria,
and Italy are parties. Bismark has
asked the Sultan to compel the
Chamber to recall it's
reputation ofthe railway bonds, and
70 provide for their payment, but
he Sultan has replied that neither
Turkey nor any other State has
light to interfere in tho domestic
lffairs of Roumania. Bismark, prob
bly, anticipated THE reply. and was
lot displeased in receiving 1t. IL
ave him cause for quar.el, and
his is what be wanted. He now
ut the meeting between
William, Francis Joseph, Boust, and
imself, that Austria shall do what
'urkey has refused to do, and shall
ompel the Roumanians 70 pay MP.
Tut in. such an event. "a he foresces,
'ussia would support Turkey in her
on-interforence doctrines, and
1arrel would occur between Russia
i'd Austria. TO Offset this ho pro-
,ses an alliance between Austria
I'd Germany, who will thus DO, az
, will declare, irresistible, and quite
'le to divide all Europe between
EN-.
Mr.. Lorne's path is not strewn
th thornless flowers. At y recent
II, Mr. Wales was immensely dis
sted that his brother in law should
ve been admitted ut the royal
trance, and gave orders ut the
xt ball he should be told that his
% want good there. Accordingly,
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