Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-07-04
CARL sCHURz In BERLIN.
The Wonderful Revolution wrought
by n Few Years of Time.
Berlin Correspondence of the New York Tri-

Berlin correspondence OF the New YORK ITl-
bune.
You will have already received full
particulars of the dinner given toSena-
tor Schurz by the American residents
IN Berlin. This gathering, which is all
the talk Of the day, affords a remark
able illustration of the great changes
which may be brought about by the
whirligig of time IN the space Of a hu-
man life. 1t certainly required an eff
fort of the Imagination 10 picture 20
ones self Carl Schurz, the prescribed
conspi, ator and fugitive of lS49, hob.
nobbing in Berlin, with a Prussian ex-
Minister of Justice, IN 1875 It is
about as easy TO conceive the lion lying
down with the lamb, oil and water
mingIing in sweet communion, and
acid and an alkali gamboliDg in the
same bath without the slightest ebulli-
ton Of feeling, or any other queer lux
opposition Of warning elements. One
feels a strong temptation to make an
antIihesis more striking still bY fol Ow-
ing the example Of those journalists who
In their reports of the proceedings
have cOnfounded Augustus Won Ber-
nuth, present at the dinner, with his
cousin, Otto Won BeTnuth, ex-President
Of Police, who was not there. The
former has always professed liberal
principles, whereas the latter is a
staunch supporter Of the Junker or
Feudal party, which could never think
Of Recognizing a Carl SchuTz in any
circumstances whatever. Still, it Is
sufficiently suggestive and final, Carl
ScLurz occupying the first place Of
honor at a public dinner IN Berlin,
while the second place was given to
functioEary with whom he might have
been at one time brought into d very
different sort Of contact. Many OF Tie
q srmaus present We're men who had
had their own political ups and downs,
aud are, perhaps, rs much ast0nished
as any one at the strange freaks of For
tune, who has now set them upon an
altar after having 50 often rolled them
in the dust.
Berlin herself has undergone a thor
oUgh transformation, material no less
than moral, since the days when KIN
kle and SchurZ were studying and Goa
spring by turns at Bonn, and when
Count Won Brandenburg or other men
of his type ruled in Berlin. Your emil
nent Sanskrit scholar, Prof, Whitney,
of Yale College, who made very neat 1
speech at the Schurz dinner, compared
her rapid progress since his former |
visits TO the growth Of JOnah's gourd, |
n bi.L oo-,- ~, 1v-,y. T1bob q, H. -
sat under the shadow and was exceed |
ingly glad. Fortunately, most OF tho
Germans present did not understand /
his. or they might perhaps have re-
mCmbered that Jonah's gourd was !
withered IN the night following its por-
Tedious growth somewhat ominous |
reflection for such of US as are CON- |
PEELED to pitch our tents IN this city of |
eZccTable cOokery-for in this respect
Berlin resists all iuprovement-and Of |
scents. which are not always that Of the /
sweet South stealing over a bed of |
Yiolsts
As I have already stated, the Ger
mans who took part IN Tuesdays fes-
tivity were all men belonging to some
shade Of the Liberal party. The |
KTeuz ZeituHg, however, hid a "chiel
akin notes" On the occasion, and this
WHOSE imagination had
been wrought up to a high
pitch by the combined efforts Of elO-
luence and claret, allowed his pen to
run away with him and to perpetrute
the outrageous statement that linen of
all parties gathered round the festive
board" The sentinel on duty appears
10 have been mapping, and the report
vas allowed to get into the paper Just
As it had been written. The next
morning the Direction" saw what had
been done, and was perfectly Mortified,
md so, to mend matters, a paragraph
appeared in the following numOer to
he effect that by some mishap the
-ePort had been suffered to slip through
that accidents would hap
zen IN the best regulated families, and
10 forth.