The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-11-28

ucott, 80 uo udu 10 dD5Gttlu. Wu6n,
however, at the next sitting we
witnessed the Hanover man, Both.
mer, indulging in tobacco, we knew
that special understanding had
been entered into between Guelph
and Hapsburg. Bothmer was very
Austrian in his sentiments, and had
a couple of sons in the Austrian
army. Upon this Saxony would
not be left behind, and boldly
kindled the audacious spark. Now
there we're only two members left
who did not make chimneys of their
mouths-W Wurtembelg and Darm>
stadt. These unfortunates, not be
ing addicted to the vice, could not
join in but the honor and inde~
pendence of their States Imperative
ly required sacrifice. Accor dinghy
the next time we met the Wurtem-
berg gentleman took out q cigar-I
see it before me now, long, thin,
straw-like c0,stref ref0coae-ands smoked
it half as O holocaust made to
Fatherland."
Prince Bismarck's innovation was
the commencement of the struggle
for supremacy between Austria and
Prussia. When he lighted his first
''sacrilegious Havana in the federal
committee room he gave the first
blow to Austrian dignity and SUI
premacy in Germany. The last
blow was given OF Sadowa." In this
delightful anecdote, as Mr.. Kingston
remarks, bismarck hits off with
masterly touch the ridiculous jeal-
ousies that animated the petty
German kinglets and prlncekins of
twenty years ago. Who can refuse
his sympathy to the worthy Suabian,
heroically making himself sick pro
patria, and penetrated by tho con-
viction that he was deserving we'll of
his country by Drawing all the hor-
rors Of nausea, lest proud Prussia
or arrogant Austria should boast
that Wurtemberg had not dared to
put itself upon q smoking equality
with the great German Powers !"
GERMAN AS THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE,
In conversation with Baron
Kendell about the introduction of
German as diplomatic language
the Chancellor said -
"Official communication must be
carried on in the language of the
country, not in foreign tongue.
Bernstorff was the first who tried
to carry this principle out with us,
but he went too far. He wrote to
all the foreign diplomatists in Ger
man and they all answered-it was,
of course, q conspiracy among them
in their respective mother ton
gues, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
and I don't know what all, 30 that
he had quite swarm of translators
sitting in the ministry, and so
found matters when I entered the
Office. Budberg sent me note in
Russian. That was not fair. If
they wanted to take their revenge,
Gortschakoff ought to have written
in Russian to our Ambassador in
ST. Petersburg. That would Lave
been the right way to do it. It
may perhaps be required of
foreign representative that he
should understand and use the Ian
guage of the country to which he is
accredited. But here, in Berlin, to
write to me in Russian in answer
to German despatch, was clearly
unfair. So I gave the order that
whatever should be sent in, not in
German, French, English or italian,
should be let alone, and simply de-
posted with the archives. Budberg
soon wrote reminder upon reminder
always in Russian. They got no
answer, and were put away in the
archive cupboard. At last he came
in person to me and asked, tWhy,
then, did we not reply to him 2
'Reply! I inquired, with the great
est ustonishnent 'reply and to
what T have seen nothing Of
yours why he had written four
weeks ago, and reminded us scverai
times since. On. ny quite 80
now I remember I said, There is
great bundle of documents down
stairs in Russian writing-perhaps
your communications are among
them. But none of the people
down stairs understand Russian,
and papers that reach us in any in
comprehensive language are slowed
away among the archives! Upon
this Budberg promptly agreed to
write for the future in French"
MoLTKE AND THE WAR. 1