The Ministry of the Counter-Revolution

Cologne, 22 September. In the most ingratiating, silvery voice, Herr Wrangel calls out to the soldiers, warning them above all not to allow themselves to be beguiled by the speeches and teachings of the friends of freedom, the terrible democrats, but to listen only to their beloved officers, who would do everything properly and from whom they could always expect the best help. But as for the popular assemblies and democratic associations, he advises the soldiers “rather not to go at all.” He does not venture, however, to forbid them this going, the participation in popular assemblies, etc. He expresses a piece of advice or a wish, but not a prohibition. He could not have issued the latter either, since the soldier’s right to attend popular assemblies and to listen to lectures on political subjects is just as guaranteed as that of any other citizen. But how does this right stand in practice, in reality? Especially in Cologne? At the local democratic association a large number of artillerymen have always taken part. Confining them to quarters and punishing them with medium arrest has proved fruitless. Now the artillerymen are threatened for the event of their further participation in such a way that the majority finally allow themselves to be intimidated, because the soldier knows only too well what a life of torment awaits him in the opposite case.

When Herr Wrangel, furthermore, speaks of the soldier having only to turn to his officers with his just wishes and of being surely helped then, we single out one single small instance from among a thousand. Sergeant Schmiga, who has diligently attended the meetings of the democratic association, is sentenced by First Lieutenant S. (5th Foot Company) to three days’ medium arrest on account of an insignificant debt. Although the sergeant promises to pay the debt and asks only for one day’s postponement, since he will certainly receive money from home (150 miles away), all this is of no use to him. He demands an investigation instead of arrest; it is not granted. He must submit to being locked up. This is the manner in which the soldiers’ just wishes are fulfilled.

Cologne, 22 Sept. Yesterday evening the outbreak of a conflict between men of the 34th and local citizens was very close. A resident of Cologne (Walburg) visited an acquaintance from the 28th Regiment in the barracks on the Neumarkt. As he was walking back across the yard, he heard a number of men of the 34th say: let’s go out and give the 28th a thrashing; we’ll show them we’re a different set of fellows. W. immediately communicated this to several citizens standing in front of the barracks, but had scarcely finished speaking when he received a stone’s throw from a man of the 34th; the thrower at once knew how to get himself to safety. This first incident was soon followed by a second. A man (Schmitz) shortly afterwards found himself surrounded on the Neumarkt by some 20 men of the 84th Regiment, who, without the slightest provocation, worked him over with their fists. The same thing happened to a third citizen (Rübsaat). There was further fighting between soldiers of the 28th and 34th Regiments. The three maltreated civilians went to the town-hall guardhouse and wished to make a statement for the record. Their complaint was not entertained, as we later heard, because this matter belonged before another banner guard. If the 34th were to go on in this fashion, we should have jumped out of the frying pan into the fire.

Commercial News. _ Proceedings of the Municipal Council of Cologne. Sitting of 18 September 1848, at 6 p.m.

A building application in Weyerstrasse was disposed of. ‒ The proposal of the commission appointed at the sitting of 7 July of this year to examine the suggestion for reviving building activity through the granting of a ten- or six-year tax exemption, to the effect: “that, although under the prevailing circumstances no, or only slight, success is to be expected from the proposed means, it should nevertheless be left to the royal government to bring forward such a law, in order to prove that everything will be attempted in this respect as well to stimulate and facilitate building activity,” was adopted. ‒ A resolution already previously passed by the billeting commission, according to which, in the event of impending billeting, the districts to be affected should be informed of it as far as possible beforehand through the newspaper, was recommended to it for implementation. ‒ A commission consisting of five members was elected to examine the local theatre affairs. ‒ The municipal council concurred with the proposal of its commission appointed at the sitting of 11 July of this year, to the effect “that the Frohnhofs-Busch at Esch, belonging to the industrial school in the orphanage, should be offered again in parcels for public lease, and the provisional purchase of the same should not be approved.”

Finally, it was subsequently recorded in the minutes that the municipal council at its sitting of the 7th inst. had elected a deputation to congratulate its colleague, the cathedral capitular Dr Broix, on his 25-year jubilee as a priest.

Civil Status of the City of Cologne. Births.

The 18th: Math., son of Math. Weingarten, baker, Weberstr. ‒ Maria, daughter of Ludw. Blumenthal, gunsmith, alte Wallg. ‒ Joh., son of Bern. Palm, mason, Apernstr. ‒ Carl Joh. Jos., son of Adam Wahlen, merchant, Apernstr. ‒ Anna Ther., daughter of Ferd. Froitzheim, day-labourer, Thieboldsgasse. ‒ Christ., son of Math. Meurer, innkeeper, Landsbergerstr. ‒ Elis, daughter of Herm. Neuburg, shoemaker, Kämmerg. ‒ Heinr. Carl Otto, son of Heinr. Balth. Doll, of no occupation, Maximinstr. ‒ Herm. Jos., son of Simon Etzbach, clothier, unter Goldschmid. ‒ Franz, son of Heinr. Zinsheim, blacksmith, Löwengasse.

Deaths.

The 18th: Joh. Pet. Fuchs, police commissioner, 55 years old, married, Landsbergerstr. ‒ Pet. Röttgen, 10 months old, Wilhelmstr. ‒ Conr. Joh Hub. Menne, 3 days old, Kammergasse. ‒ Anna Maria Kütgen, 9 years old, Kammachergasse. ‒ Sabina Heymann, née Weill, 70 years old, Hahnenstrasse. ‒ Sib. Linz, widow Feith, 31 years old, Weidengasse. ‒ Christina Edler, 1 day old, Ortmannsgasse. ‒ Pet. Bernickel, baker, 41 years old, widower, Marsilstein.

Births.

The 19th: Wilh., son of Wilh. Blesgen, stonecutter, Mühlenbach. ‒ Friedr., daughter of Salomon Geldern, tailor, Martinstr. ‒ Wilh. Aug., son of Carl Jos. Nolte, private secretary, Streitzeuggasse. ‒ Cath., daughter of Franz Baumann, day-labourer, Löhrgasse. ‒ Anna Christ, daughter of Herm. Jos. Kriell, oboist, in the 28th Regt., Poststrasse. ‒ An illegitimate boy.

Deaths.

The 19th: Eleon. Christ. Hubert. Claasen, 9 months 14 days old, Breitstr. ‒ Heinr. Schiefenbusch, gardener, 57 years old, married, alte Wallg. ‒ Veron. Nagelschmied, 13 years old, Lohrgasse. ‒ Herm. Jos. Dübyen, royal notary, 51 years old, married, Brückenstr. ‒ Eva Joseph Oster, née Bisdorff, 37 years old, gr. Griechenmarkt. ‒ Nicolaus Müller, carpenter, 73 years old, married, Friesenstrasse. ‒ An illegitimate boy.

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