Foreign Language Press Service

German publishing in the eastern part of the United States is still in the stage of reprinting and translating in so far as books are concerned. A biography of Barnum, written in German, has been offered by the New York publisher Schmidt, who has no scruples about such matters. It i

In the country we have a multitude of small publications, but most of them have no political or literary value. Although Chicago has a German population of nearly 30,000, only one paper exists, the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, and regardless of its capable staff, it becomes apparent that the pape

In America we are indifferent about the future, although it is the "Land of the Future." Likewise, Chicago does not consider the possibility of commercial catastrophes, which have afflicted and affected all of our commercial cities. The speculators,-and who is not a schemer in Chicago? -fear

We hear from a friend in Chicago regarding our assertion in the last issue of Atlantis about the many interests which confront the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, which aroused some very definite suspicions. We do not believe that we can be misunderstood, that our statements may be construed as an a

Mr. Binder, formerly associated with the liberal papers of Albany, is now on the staff of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, a very desirable acquisition for the German publication. The slave traders are definitely opposed to the trend of that paper and their protracted plan to found a regular Nebr

The following article is quoted from the Chicago Tribune, September 5: "George Schneider, Esquire, editor-in-chief and owner of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, has been appointed United States Consul at Helsingoer (Elsinore), Denmark, and we hear that he will leave for that post very s

Mr. R. B. Hoeffgen, founder and part owner of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, will retire from this newspaper today. He is in need of rest and relaxation, for he has worked diligently for many years. Mr. Hoeffgen, a pioneer among Chicago's Germans, may also be called a pioneer of Germa

By a single vote the proposal to publish the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention in the German language was rejected. Mr. Muehlke, a Chicago delegate, proposed that the minutes of the Convention be published also in the German language, and recommended that the Illinois Sta

Since the Tuesday afternoon dispatches did not confirm the news that Franz Sigel had been appointed Major General, we sent the following telegram to our Congressman, Isaac N. Arnold: "We published your dispatch about the appointment of Franz Sigel as Major General in an extra editio

Some people may doubt that General Burnside's order, demanding that the Chicago Times cease publication, is expedient, but no one can deny that it is justified, at least no one who really wants the Rebels suppressed, the Union saved, and its liberty preserved. Had there been a General Burnsid

In yesterday's Evening Journal, the following notice appeared under the above heading: "The undersigned merchants and businessmen of Chicago do hereby unite in condemning the course pursued by the Illinois Staats-Zeitung in creating a panic and causing a 'run' on the above-named ins

Chicago, Illinois, May 7, 1866. After having served faithfully, and, I believe successfully, on the editorial staff of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, for five years, the undersigned hereby gives notice that he has severed his connection with that publication. Wilhe

The Chicago Arbeiterverein which was controlled for some time by several political intriguers who proved their claim to the title "worker" by nor working, and which was used to carry on a purposeless war against the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, seems to have freed itself from the pernicious influ

Yesterday we were visited by Mr. A. Gentzel, who formerly operated a cigar business at 57 West Lake Street; Mr. Gentzel's property at that address was insured for $1000 by the Western Phoenix Insurance Company. The building in which Mr. Gentzel carried on his business was burned to the ground

Herr R. Michaelis, editor of "Union" demands a motion in Congress against the arms trade, and a vote by name on it, so that in all future no German would vote for a legislator who agrees with the breach of law committed by Grant's cabinet. Dr. Von Holst who"receives the most stormy

Article on the effect the mass meetings in the Turnhalle has had against the arms trade. Other mass meetings in Davenport, Kansas City, Cincinnati. While the Republican papers simply report the meeting, the Times" spews forth fire and vengeance." Long reprint of a letter by a Mr. F.

Letter of the Staats Zeitung ad: Turnhalle-meeting demands measures against the lying and slandering Times. The Staats Zeitung, using rarely printed expletives, refers to an unnamed German "Sanblatt"(Pig papers) that is said to have insulted in the most infamous way a German speaker,"who was

Editorial on a bill introduced by Senator Cates to charge the Constitution so that foreigners will be able to be candidates for the presidency. The Illinois Staats Zeitung supports this motion in the name of political equality "among other things the adoption of the Cates amendment would reme

The City Council which was elected in November, 1869 (with a majority of "reformers") tried to take away the job of printing the official city news in German from the Illinois Staats Zeitung and to turn it over to the "Volks Zeitung" a paper founded in opposition to the Staats Zeitung. The Il

The Illinois Staats Zeitung, claims to have been first to urge minority representatives and attacks against Medill of the Tribune, who is said to have given up his own plan, (and to have been successful in putting it into the new State Constitution)but whose paper now calls it a "Free Electio