The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-11-09
A HISTORICAL SCENE.
Moltke, Bismarck and King William at
the Grand Waters I'm Versailles.

DR.. Russell, in one OF his recent letters to
the London Times, writes:
While his armies are thus facing toward Paris
and lookIRg out toward all France, the King OF
Prussia commander OF Ine armies o. sns
must do-he goes "to see the fountains pi8y." bis
Majesty had seen them before more than once,
think, and each time under very different clrcum'
stances.
For some time there was nothing to DO but TO
walk about and enjoy the sun, which brose out OF
the clouds all hot and fervent, as II 10 mldsum.
mer The foliage Is now In Its greenest beauty put
the slightest touch Of the Invisible fingers OF the
wind scatters the leaves In saoSers and thins the
screen Of rich russet, orange, RED anu oroWn,
which yet hides the trunks ana oraEc1es ne Of @ tae
parterres, clear OF people. to whom the 1sh were
an attraction and the Alice de pOrangerie and the
Alice des Trois Fontalnes were filled with saun-
up along the front Of the terrace enjoying the
spectacle OF their fe lows below, and looking out
on the Tapis Vert OF the Grand Csnal IN placia
enjoyment Of a scene not often to De met Win
amid the realities OF war. These became AMI.
mated and excited, particularly the French,
when some great people arrived, Just drop
ping in without formality or attendance
no aides or officers OF ordohnance or @
friends. "ls that really Won Moltkey' "WnereT"
''You see that tall, thin man, without any mus.
tache or whiskers, his hands behind bis oack-the
offcer with the graylsh hair, very short, aad
face cut with many fine lines, his head slightly
stooued. the eyebrows pronounced and the eyes
deep set? There is the man whom the JunEers OF
Berlin called the OLD sGhoolmaster. mnat "a q
lesson he has taught Austrians and French!" "ls
that the strateglst who caught Beneaek 10 vice
at KoniggratZ, mousetrapped Bazalne at Metz,
and netted en- Emperor, Marshal OF France, anu
for such an enormous prize as the capital OF
France 81 "He looks very grave.h He ls always
so. But there, you zee. striding snroogn lhe
crowd, Is o very different looking person."
io fhoA
of dragons? He comes this way-the OFF,
Ger in the white cap and yellow band, dark
blue or nearly black double-breasted 1rock coat
with yellow collar, taller than the tall officers
around him." "That Is Count Bismarck" There
is stir wherever he goes-caps touched and hats
raised. He makes straight for liEtle Knot OF
Americans-Gen. Burnside, In plain clothes, Gen.
Sheridan, Gen. Husen and Gen. Forsyth, In uul.
FORM but without swords. You hear his laugh
above the murmurs Of the crowd and the wave OF
sound in which his name, Bismarck" IL borne.
How heartily he shakes hands with them, ou0y-
ant and free, elatsd as some officer might be who
had lust won promotion on battlefield. All the
world knows the soulless likeness out or which
even photography has failed, however, to take all
expression; but one must have actual experience
Of the peculiar vivaclty, or rather penetration OF
his ance as 1t Is emitted from under those tire.
mendous shaggy eyebrows, TO measure the power
Of his face-the one grand oyerwhelming
force OF which Is. to my mind, lntrepldity
an immense, audacious courage, physical
and mental, and q will before which every obsta-
Gle must yield or be turned. The people were
never tired OF looking ut him, and grand dukes
and princes were OF small account as long as lie
was 10 be seen; the Prince Of Hohenzollern being,
however, an exception to the remark-"the fair
preteXt OF the wars as lady called him, allud-
Ing 10 his blonde complexion and hair and, in
deed to use Scotts words OF Claverhouse, his
face is such an one las limners love to pant aud
ladies love TO look upon.' There were men OF
note there, too-generals of renown and the own.
ers OF names which history will make famous;
and there were princes grand dukes. and dukes
waiting for the King and his staf-the relgning
Duke OF Coburg, the Prince (Heritierl Of Wurtem-
berg the young ErbprlnZ OF Mecklenburg-Stre.
litz, two Royal Dukes OF Interchangeable Duke
Of Augustenburg and something or other-I be-
lieye the Erbprinz Of Weimar Prince Adabert
and Prince Albrecht, General Voyts .Rhetz, Gene
raj yon Klrchbach, Colonel Won Gottberg and
hosts Of others coming "to see the waters play
before the kiDg.n