The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1860-10-19
Who Is Carl SChurzl

A writer in the Easton penn Times
Of the sth instp gives an interesting
sketch Of the life of Carl Shurz. He was
born ~ years ago, In Bonn, on the Rhine
In the Prussian Dominions. In lS49, he
Joined the Constitutional army, and shnr-
ing In its reverses, was sentenced TO
death for high treason. For three days
and nights, after the Prussians had en-
tered RastHdt, he lay concealed In a shed
on a beam, or raiter, Just wide enough To
conceal bis person from the eyes ofthose
who stood below. A guard ofsome kind
was stationed In the very house 10 which
this shed belonged, and every night the
soldiers assembled on the floor beneath
his hiding place, and danced to the mu-
sic Of the trumpet. On the fourth night
a heavy shower ofrain gave him the first
opportunity ofattempting an escape, and
he jumped from the roof upon chicken
coop. which broke down under him with
loud crash, though without attracting
the notice Of the sentry, who was or
ought to have been, but few yards off.
BY the assistance of his friends he reach-
cd a sew or, aud thus attained the outside
of the Notifications. Even here there
was a sentry, but, by following closely
behind him Hs he walked by, he manag-
ed to gain a cover before the sentinel
turned on his beat. lie made his way 10
Paris, and remained there a considerable
time, in a vain hope of favorable turn
in the affairs Of his native country. lna
little book, published by the chief spy Of
Bonaparte's police, he received honOra-
BILE mention as "tho most audacious and
the most adroit" of the exilcs, who while
constantly active could never be ensnared
into any act furnishing pretext even TO
the liberal conscience Of Bonaparte for
his extradtion.
AZ this time the public opinion Of Ger
many was much aroused by the cowardly
vengeance wreakcd by the PrusiOn G ov-
ernment on Godfrey Kinkel, townsmHn
of Sohurz's, professor, who had joined
the constitutional movement Il the same
tlmo with himself. This man, poet, OF
delicate frame, highly educated, and ac-
customed to all the reiinemcnts Of life,
was imprisoned at Sp1ndOu, twenty miles
frcm Berlin, dressed as convict, his
hair cut short, and forced to labor at wool
oarding, aud 10 room and mess with fell
oIs. Schurz having determined to res
cue him, repaired TO London, collected
the means, and made tho arrangements.
With a forged passport he travelled direct
to Berlin, left his papers with the police
over night, obtained wise for some other
town the next morning, and, instead Of
proceeding, took lodgings Ot a boarding
house. There he remained for six weeks
going TO Spandsu every day, and return
ing late at night, when the policeman
was always so obliging as to unlock the
door Of his boarding house for him. All
the arrangements having been complet-
ed, he carried off K,nkel in a coach one
rOiny night, together with his keeper
Relays Of horses were in readiness from
station TO station until they reached the
sea shore, where a pilot-bost received
them. They landed at Hull or Yarmouth
long before the Government had the most
remote idea Of the prisoners whereabouts.
Coming TO this county in 1891, he reg
istered himself as a law student at Phila-
delphia, and sojourned there 4 number Of
years, occupying his time, almost exclu-
sively, with the study ofhis country, It's
material and social condition, lie history
It's Institutions and its future, In 1854
ho removed TO Watortown, Wisconsin,
and entered on the practice Of the law In