The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-03-03
"DIE FADERLAND."
GERMANY,S POLITICAL AND INDUS
TRIAL INTERESTS.
Railroad Matters-Changes I'm the Min
istry-Ammunition Wagons, &c.

Railroad Matters-Changes in tho Min
! istry-Ammunition Wagons, &c.
Recent issues ot German papers are quite
gossipy over the political and indusrial inter-
ests of the Empire, and go quite extensively
into the merlts of the new ministry. army,
navy, foreign relations, finance, and last but
not least, the railroads. The last question In
all Its bearings Is occupying the attention of
some of the best talent In the government,
and deals with system not In all respects sat-
lefactory.
The railway schemes have their inception
with Count lizenplitZ minister OF commerce,
who but recently received most merciless
pummelllng from Lasker, the champion Oh
the National Liberal party In the house OF
deputies, who made speech against the rail-
| way regime of Prussia. Que part OF new
railway project consists OF plan to build O
military road from Berlin through The valleys
| OF the Lain and Mozelle 10 Asace and LoT-
| raine. Probably the proposition considered
apart from all questions oil means 10 popular
enough; but the tendency OF these new
schemes, as they have been managed, TO cen
tralize wealth and make corporations arro-
CANT and corrupt, Is what the eloquent deputy
invelghed against. Pupllc opinion IN Prussia
Ia becoming opposed TO private companies IN
which the mismanagement has been very
marked of late.
One OF the most grossly neglected lines Ia
the A0halt Railway running from Berlin TO
Halle-Lepzig and Dresden. Its stock Is
among the best in the market, and It's diVl-
dends are OF the latest. The corporalors are
wealthy and correspondingly ind ferent, for
they monopollze the business of the impor-
tant districts through which they pass, and
pay 30 little attention 10 The comfort or safety
OF patrons, that delays, accidents aud all
kinds of abuses are frequent. Caricatnres
and criticisms are used 10 express popular
dIspleasure, but the company see their broken
down machinery earning great wealth Tor
them, and care nothing lor this paper war
fare. 1t being private company, no one
can be called LU account and this idea Lasker
made the most OF. He charged the minis
ter OF commerce with blame IN the
matter for granting concessions 10 favor
ties and withholding them from new lines.
He wanted The department to tell why an un-
Trustworthy character named Strousberg,
whose notes the Bank oil Prussia positively
drclined to discount, had been favored fOr 80
many years, and others just as bad substituted
when be fell Into discredit. He charged one
of the councillors OF The ministry with oo-
aud then selling out his grant OF one line 10
the company that afterwards built 1t. Two
ether persons, both belonging to the nobility,
had also carried on a regularsbuslness 10 OBJ
taiDiug railway grants and selling them again.
On the other hand, WIen o responsible COM
panv In the ordinary way Of business under
took to obtain grant delays and obstacles
ultimately fatal to their success were raised
by the mInistry.
If Lasker's story be true, the Germans
tolerate as bad railroad rings as We do, aud
Count Ilzenp,iZ said nothing to disprove his
charges, though he made an attempt 10 reply,
denyIng that he showed lavori.ism, and statlng
that those men whom he was accused OF Ia
yoring complained OF him the most bitterly.
The specifc charges affect not alone this min
ister. but lhe whole cabinet of Germany, and
ike some now uDpleasantly Situated Amerl-
can me3 the count Ia called upon TO make an
other reply and q more satisfactory e1plana-
LIon before asking the country TO give him
credit for honest and impartial dealing. In
the German empire there are put upon The
market railway and manufacturing snares
IN The amount OF 9l3, l20, 600 francs, nearly
as much as America with her vast eXpunse
of TERRITORY to cover, with rallroaoo ana ner
iuexhausliole resources 10 develop, can snow.
German enterprise is more nearly at stand
stil, and the 6nauclers oil The nation are
looking upon The state of money matters With
dIslrnst. The prices Of houses and provisions
are constantly and rapidly rising, while the
vast amounts pouring In from France and
placed upon the market as shares only ag-
rrayate the evil. Persons living upon salaries
and stated incomes find themselves compelled
10 pay twice the former rates for the uecessi-
lies of lite, with only the saue old dependsn.
cies. and so Germany Ia finding her recent
increase OF glory attended with the menace OF
o corresponding Increase In want and wretch
edness.
A Cologne paper has on article upon the mys-
terious changes in TIE Ministry which puts
somewhat different constructor from the pop
nlar one on that movement. Prince Bismarck
REGARDED the remodellipg Of the Upper House
and lis conversion into Council OF State as
one OF the most imminent needs OF the Govern
mpnt while the other Liberals thought the
passage of the Reform bill OF primary import.
ance, making the construction OF the House of
Lords only secondary. With his usual firm
ness Bismarck opposed the appointment or
new peers by note from Yarzn. and was
ioined in this opposition oy Count Won Room,
but in the Ministry they were out voted aud
the Emperor adopted the recommendation Tor
the creation OF new peers. The Prlnce was thus
awkardly left at the head OF o Ministry with
ahich he had no sympathy, aud IN seeming
identification with tho new measures. Ihls
anon alous position was not IN accordance Win
his views of what Pre- nIer's influence should
be, and he resigned, as did also Count Won
r on. The Emperor could not afford, nor was
he disposed 10 accept the resignation OF the
latter, and gave him. instead OF Eulenburg,
the succession TO the Premiership. out OF re-.
spect to the Princes feelings. AS Won Roon ls
sole so loyal TO the Icy he found, he is consider
ed only continuation Of the Blsmarckan
Ministry. Though the Liberals were kept in
the dark for days and weeks, and trembled for
the worst even when they knew Won R,on had
been appointed, they confess to being aereea,,
bly disappointed Iu the midst OF railroad
rings and ministerial changes Prussia does not
forget to keep sharp eye on her War Depart
ment. The campaigns in France having
shown defective system of supplying troops
with ammunition in time OF action the govern
ment now provides every ammunition wagon
with two sacks, each holding FIVE hundred car
tridges. With each wagon also there is to bea
mounted orderly, and several men tIom every
comrany are To be detailed as cartridge car
riers. black and white flag by day and a blue
lantern by night will be the signals, and the
men are to be trained at the coming man@u-
vres in cartridge carrying.
DEFaULTIEG POSTMASTER.