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SHERMAN.
General Grants Right-BOwer Tries tC
Snubthe Emperor OF Germany
and Prince Charles.
He Says He Don't Care a Pinch Of Snuff
for the German FOte-Nor
Does Grant.

Correspondence of the New York Herald.l
y BERLIN, June 10, IS72.-General Sher-
: man has lust left here, in company with
S Lieutenant Grant and Colonel Auden-
: ried, for Vienna, after q stay Of four
e days. The General, it would appear,
l was not very favorably impressed by the
: Germans, whose arrogance and assump-
ton of superiority did not go down with
him in the least, and he has, l under
stand, expressed himself disguised, not
c only with his reception here, but with
= German manners generally. Their man.
ner toward him was of a GOODNESS bor-
: dering upon insolence, and while ac-
knowledging their great military Prov
S ess, and admiring with a soldiers eye
p their splendid military organization,
! and fully cOmprehending its strength,
l he says that of all the people he has
: yet seen-Spaniards, Italians, Greeks,
= Egyptians, Turks and Russians-the
Germans have the fewest social qualities
to recommend them.
BANCROFT's DINNER TO SHERMAN.
Mr.. Bancroft gave him a dinner, at
which Won Moltke and two OF three
staff-Officers were present, but owing to
the apparent assumption of superiority
on one side and the consequent disgust
resulting from such %pretensiOns on the
other, the two great Generals, who, one
would have thought, would have been
delighted at an opportunity of eXchang-
ing ideas and cOnversing with each
other, did scarcely anything more than
exchange salutations.
TECUMsEH'S MEETING WITH THE RED
PRINCE.
His meeting with Prince Frederick
Charles passed Offin about the same Way.
1t was at a dinner given by the German
Ambassadors Rome some time ago, and
although General Sherman tried hard to
engage Frederick Charles in cOnversa-
ton, he found it impossible, as the latter
satisfied himself by replying with a cool
yes or no to any remark the general adj
dressed to him; so that, finding himself
reduced to the necessity of carrying on
the conversation himself, or not covers
ing at all, he chose the latter alternative,
considerably disgusted with the whole
affair. He further remarked after din
ner, when they had retired to the draw
ingroom, that although Frederick
Charles had two pipes in his hand, one
of which he was smoking, while the
| General was making these abOrtive at
tempts at conversation, a pipe was
never offered, because, as he sup
posed, it was contrary 10 German
etiquette for a plebian to smOkea pipe IN
the presence of a German Prince, and
he was therefore left without anything
to smoke until Lieutenant Grant offered
him a cigar. He declares, however, that
although he rarely nokes a pipe, if he
could by any possibility nave laid hands
on one without asking for it, he GER
tainly would have smoked it, in spite of
German prOprieties. He acknowledges
Frederick Charles's military talent, and
says his reputation as a great General is
undoubtedly well founded; but, from a
social point of view, he considers him an
unmitigated snOb.
GERMAN TREATMENT OF III OLD
SOLDIER.
Here the GOODNESS of German officials
confirmed the unfavora6le impression
made by Frederick Charles, and he at
present detests the Germans socially, as
much as he admires theI1 from a mill
tary point of view. At every other cap
ital of Europe in which he has been, the
Minister of Wa always detached an
aid-de-camp to accompany him, show
him everything, and see that nothing
should be wanted TO make his stay
profitable and pleasant. Here they did
nothing of the kind. They went to
POtsdam and were refused a~dmittanee
to the park because the Emperor was {
entertaining some royal guests. Bis !
marcR was in the country, so that they |
didnOt meet him-a circumstance which l
is to be regretted, as he is much more S
affable and less arrogant than the mill I
tary autOcrats, and General Sherman Z
would probably have found him much I
more socially disposed. .
PAYING BACK IN THEIR OWN COIN.
All of these little things combined
have led General Sherman to the opin- ,
ion that any attempts at getting upon l
easy and friendly terms with them
would only be labor lost, and, not feel '
ing inclined to support their airs any p
longer, he determined to pay them in T,
their own coin, and snub the first man L
of them that would give him the oppor- 7
uhity. The occasion was not long pre-
senting itself, and rs it happened, 1t was C
the Emperor himself who became the
unconscious victim. The day before .
they were to leave for Vienna Mr.. Ban
croft, who, with his admiration for the
German Kaiser, might, one wouldthink, =
have insured the party of distinguished A
Americans a more cordial reception,
received a note from the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, saying that the Emperor 4
" III IL IL " - NV " AAONLo D
the next day, and that if General Sher-
wished to be presented he should
be on the ground at an hour indicated.
As they sent no aid-de-camp to accom-
him, but left him to find the way
himself, and run the risk of finding the
person at the right moment, and
as the invitation did not extend to
Lieutenat Grant, who had rejOined him =
after his visit to Copenhagen, he de-
in polite but peremptOry Ian
guage. l am very much afraid that the -
Germans will be thrown into a state of
horror and indignation at such audaeity,
and there will probably be a howl in the
German papers when it becomes known.
TO DECLINE THE HONOR n
Of a presentation to the mighty Kaiser IL
Wilhelm, and i'm a way that almost -
amounts to disrespect, is no small sin in v
German theology, and they will, no
lOubt, denOunce it in the way it de- T.
serves. / further understand that Cen Il
sral Sherman, comparing the cordial
reception extended him and the kind II
shown him all over Russia, with
he stiff and formal, severely polite g
manner in which he was received by the "
Germans, and with no fear Of the con-
equences before his eyes, and not car ~
ng a pinch of snuff, as he tersely ex-
,resses it.. for the German vote i'm the
Inited States, having no covetous -
thoughts upon the White House, went u
o far as to say that in case of a war be- =
Germany and Russia, which he
links inevitable, his sympathies would
e entirely on the side of Russia, and
hat he might Eel be disposed to do
lore than ~sympathiZe in case the occa-
ION offered. u
GERMAN PRIDE AND ARROGANCE. L
1t is most curious to notice the revul-
on of feeling that has been going on
4 Europe since the Franco-Prussian No
with regard to Germany, and how -
arrogance and pride have
lienated the sympathies they had ac-
uired in the beginning by acting upon
ne defensive. After all they have only
lOwn themselves servile imitatOrs of
ne French instead of rising superior to
lem, as We had hoped, ever copying
nd eXaggerating the weakness and VV
lults we had thought peculiar to the Il
rench characterized presumption MI
nd insolence which rendered the latter
hateful to the whole of Europe before vii
le war.
CURIOUS STORY OF THE AUSTRIAN
PRUssIAN WAR. ra.- Ia,
1 heard a curious story the other day wa
hich, while showing how great Were y
he fears in Berlin for the results of the =
ar Of 1866, serves at the same time e
measure the extraordinary growth of
erman pride and arrogance since then.
be story, which i have from undues-
enable authority, is to the effect that y
ter war was declared between Austria NE
I'd Germany i'm 1g6G fba Crowp