Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-04-16

terms of surrendering the beautiful
and fertile Province of Venice, with
its 100000 inhabitants, to Victor
Emanuel, and of completely with
drawing from the German Bund;
which latter left the German fac
ton unsupported, and in decided
minority, in the Austro-Hungarian
Empire. The Magyars, ever on the
alert, lost no time in taking advant-
age of this situation of affairs, and
exterted from the weakness of the
German party the Constitution of
1867, whereby Hungary was con
stituted an
INDEPENDENT KINGDOM,
with separate Parliament, Minis
tiers, laws, courts, language, and
usuages; the only remaining liga-
ment to unite or hold together the
bivalve Government was the ac-
Acknowledgement on the part of the
Magyar faction of Franz Joseph L.
as King of Hungary, to whom
they promised allegiance. The two
halves of this ill-conditioned Empire
support all immense army and con-
siderable navy, and paw the interest
of the great national debt by con-
tributing each certain per cent. of
the required sum. In accordance
with the existing Constitution of the
Austrian Empire, it recognizes
three distinct Parliaments: The
first, that of the delegations for the
whole Empire; the second that of
the Reichsrath for Austria; and the
third, that of the Diet for Hungary.
The first named is kind of Con-
ference Committee, consisting of
l2O members appointed by the other
two bodies from their own members
sixty from each. By an agree
ment, or so-called compromise, made
in 1868 between the Reichsrath and
and Diet Hungary agrees to contri-
butte 80 per cent. towards the COM
mon expenses-interest on debt, ar
my, navy, etc.; and Austria the re-
20 per cent. The Germans,
Bohemians, and Poles
COMPLAIN BITTERLY
of this apportionment as unfair and
inequitable, as Hungary numbers
more than two-fifths of the popula-
tion, occupies more than half the
territory of the Empire, and has
much the most fertile and arabic
land, and yet contributes only three
te'aths of the common expenses of
maintaining the public credit and
defending the Empire Kingdom.
The Magyars reply, in behalf of
themselves and their Slavonie serfs,
in the language of Bill Tweed and
the Tammany Ring: 'Well, what
are you going to do about it?" If
you are not satisfied with that per-
centage, we will cut loose from you
altogether, and pay none of the in
terest on your national debt created
in your wars with the French and
Prussians. And there controversy
one side scolding, the
other threatening. Meanwhile the
taxes on the Austrian half of the
are oppressive to the last
degree, and necessarily breed discOn-
tent and ill-feeling towards the
lighter-taxed Hungarian portion of
the country.
The Magyars would not remain
long even in nominal union or alli-
ance with the Germans, were it not
DREAD OF RUSSIA.
The Slavonic element, which consti-
tutes two-thirds of the population of
Hungary, and half of them belong
ing to the Greek Church, sympa-
thize with the Russians, who are al
so slaves by race and origin. There
is consequently a natural affinity
existing between the Hungarian
slavs and their Russian kinsmen
across the line. But the ruling
race, the landlords of Hungary, are
Of Turcoman origin, and show it in
their features and naughty demean-
Or. If they cut loose from the sup
port of the German half of the EN-
pire, what is to hinder the Russians,
on the invitation of their oppressed
Slavonic brethren, from annexing
Hungary to the Russian Empire,
suppresSing the Magyar Diet, and
abolishing all their special privileges
and monopolies?
+ On the other hand, it is felt by
the Bohemians, Moravians, Poles,
and other tribes, that the moment
the Empire is dismembered by the
complete separation of Hungary, the
dominating German element of the
Austrian division of the Empire will
propose
TO THE GERMAN EN-
PIRE;
and, choice of evils, they naturally
prefer the present Government, in
which they have a larger voice and
influence than they could exercise
in the German Empire of Prince
Bismarck. Under the influence of
these cross purposes, fears, and jeal-
ousies, the agglommeration of sew
enteen distinct races, nationalities,
and tongues, called the Austro-Hun-
garian Empire, manages to hold to-
gether and exist as a sort of dual
or bipartite nation. But it resem-
bles a menagerie of wild and diverse
animals, ready at any moment to tear
each other to pieces, but for the re-
strsining influence of the Hapsburg
dynasty as keepers, to whom each
and all the tribes appear to yield a
willing allegiance. The Hapsburg
house was founded six hundred
years ago by Rudolph Won Haps-
burg, a German Count, born in
1918, who was elected Kaiser of the
"Holy Roman Empire" in 1875,
while he was only a Duke, or some
thing of that sort, of the little dis
trict of territories around Vienna
called Austria, and which has grown
into its present great awkward di-
mentions by
SUCCESSIVE MARRIAGE-ALLIANCE
made with the little potentates of
surrounding nations, BY this means,