Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-02-09
A DEMENrEn KING.
strange Conduet of LouI. II. or Bavari.


Munich Correspondence New York World.
We are now spending our Christmas
here, and it is kept up in the good cid
German style. England claims to held
the first rank in the celebration OF
Christmas, but Germany's claims ere
probably superior. IL must not be for
gotten that the Christmas tree and ru-
merous other customs have been i'm
ported from here by the English. Y Yes-
terday the Ing, who had returned the
dav befoF4rom HohenschwaDgan, pro-
ceeded il great state and in full court at
tire to the church of AL Saints, iE this
city. and there attended the mass,
which was celebrated by the Arch
bishop. The ceremonial was very grand,
impressive, and the king returned 70 the
palace as he came, both preceded and
followed by a numerous procession OF
court dignitaries and government tunc-
tionaries. But the youthful king has no
heart fer these state ceremonies any
more than he has for the more serious
dutiesof his position. He has been stay
ing for about six weeks at his villa at
H0henschwangan, snd | can guarantee
the accuracy Of the following details re-
specting the habits and character of the
young sovereign.
Louis II OF Bavaria is a young man of
twenty-one years of age, of most ro-
mantle disposition. In the civil pa
geaptry of the throne the dry figures Of
his minister of finance, snd the long
winded documents of him of foreign
affairs he sees but the sOrdid, sOulless ae-
ton of a mankind grown heartless and
unspiritual. Therefore he shuns the bust
ness of a king, and gives himself up to
the thoughts and aspirations of the man
within aim. He is fond of the moonlight,
and he kills on an average one horse a
week through his wild riding excunnons
at upearthly hours of the night tie is
a man of spontaneous thought and i'm
mediate, unrefeeting action. He Tesem-
bles, indeed, a young girl Of seventeen,
who is all soul and no body, impusve,
dreamy and sensitive, living in world
of her own, which she helieves to De a
heaven, and hardly realizing the world
of facts and stern reality into which she
seldom condesceDds to enter.
Such is Louis II. But If that were all q,
it might still he doubtful whether he be
ia The right Of tnO9e who blame Elm ;
but It appears, so my informant, vino
has been staying at Hohenschwangan,
tells me, that his majesty has shown
signs of a more serious absence Of mind.
he has had built, about an hours walk:
ing distance from mia castle, several
small huts on the tops of the hills that
rise in every direction to the height oi
about thirty feet on the grounds of HO-
henschwangan. lie walks out to these
huts attended by his usual reinuei
and on arriving at the bottom Of The
hills he leayes his attendants, ascends
alone, and sits down sometimes for
hours reading book qF gazing on va.
cancy, utterly fofgetful of Bavaria and
her destinles. When he makes those
excursions at night he remains for an
equally lengthy time solitarily contem-
plating the moopiit skT. = etFong con-
viction exists that Louis would ike to
abdicate in favor of his brother Ohio
whilom king Of the Greeks, and were il
not that this project is opposed Ey th'
| queen mother, ami that there is already
one king pensioned of and still living
When the old king dies it is extremely
/ probable that the boyish dreamer will b'
! allowed to have his own way-atdicat'
and spend mis- liisblme amld qip pQok
and Wagneris new rnusic-the Musi'
/ Of the Future