The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-05-17
COLUMBIA, IS. G.
Saturday Morning, Nay II. 1889

When the French provinces OF Alsace
and Lorraine were annexed to the Ger
man Empire, under the names of Elsass
and Lothringen, IL was predicted by
many that the people Of those provinces
would refuse to be Germanized, and
would be- in the German what Poland is
Z In the Russian Empire--a theatre Of in
subordination and diseontent. ever ripe
FOR revolt. A correspondent en- route to
Vienna. who passed through the trans
ferred districts Recently. states that the
citizens, have seemingly accepted the
situation with remarkable uuanimity.
He saw signs Of the new order Of things
abounding everywhere on tho streets,
in the hotels. railway cars and public
Offices. The whole region has become
Gerpaan. as il by the touch ofsa magi-
eians wand. The police officers and the
boys onf the street speak the German
'lAngnage, and the city laborers and the
peasantfy pursue the quiet tenor OF their
way, as OF old, apparently as we'll con-
tented under the sceptre OF King Will
liam as Of Loais Napoleon. Time only.
in the process Of the great changes
which Europe will probably witness
within brief period. can reveal whether
this acquiesenoe is real one, or whether
it is only the gray ashes which conceal a
smouldering fire. One fact is worth no.
ticing In connection with the acquiss-
cence which is supposed to prevail in
Alsace and Lorraine. The emigration
from all parts Of the German Empire to
the United States is great beyond prece-
dent. The military establishment is ne
cessarily very large. the taxes and the
cost OF living are higher than ever, and
the fields and work. shops OF Germany
miss the strong arhs md skillful hands
which once wrought in them SO profita-
bly,, but which now moalder under the
SOD OF many deadly. bastle-felds.
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:. Mook WAR-The ''war' which the
daily" dispatches have represented as
"raging" in Spain. during the past three
months, between The so called Republi-:
cans and tho Oar,iatBi is one OF the most
singular ooIdiotsI Which ever oonvulsed
q civilized ..cdaMft;; A handful of
ragged soldiers on either side-mutinous
and illy-diadplined- ed-commanded by
"Generals'' with lengthy names and
limited ideas Of. tie Ar9 of war, consti.
tdte the ,.hostilasssnies" and opposing
ohiettains. These sfofcea. parade back
ward and forward over Spain, levying
tribute upon the miserable Inhabitants,
and playing at warfare. Every three or
four days. two Of the opposing bands
come in accidental contact. few vollies
are fred, six or se7en poor devils arc
killed and wounded. and the cable bends
beneath the weighty and conflicting
tidings Of "Oarlist victory" and "Re-
publican triumph" Il is safe to say
that since the abdication of Amadens.
.here have not been as many men killed
In the hundred "batfies.' which have en-.
sued as fell in one bloody skirmish OF
the late, unpleasantness." The whole
thing revolutions, uprisings, battles,
storms, assaults and captures-is bur
lesque equal to anything which has been
put upon the stage by Offenbach.
The MONEY Cn1s1s IN GERMANY. by
kilograms from Berlin and Vienna We
have intelligence OF facts which go to
show that the bourses of the principal
German cities have been acutoly and
severely affected by. the consequences OF
the money catno]ysm on the Vienna
Change. The Prussian Government has
become sensitive; and has already made
an effort to relieve in anticipation. or
1tave off by legislation, the effects oftLe
tremor which ia being radiated towards
Berlin from the capital on the banks OF
the Danube. The Prussian Government
has proposed to the Legislature to apply
the executive share of the war contrihu-
tlons to the purchase of bills and public
securities, to advances for the aocommo-