Wilmington journal., 1875-08-06
YOUNG GERMANY.
Prince Fritz the Fredericks Charles
and Those Naughty Bismarx
Boys.

Be lin Correspondence of the Chicago Times.
No slam is quite so revolving as this
of the life and deeds of pripcely per-
sons. Nine out of ten of the 1ntelli-
gent Americans a man meets in this
country, as we'll as III America, speaks
OF Prince Fritz and Price Frederick
Charles, his cousin, as ''great Gem T.
ais" They believe because the
names of these persons were signed to
reports and bulletins, that they were
the real dictators of the armies at
whose head they figured. There is no
such deIusion here. If the German
armies had been left to the guidance
of these personages, tue sum total OF
the campaign would have been vastly
different They never directed a
movement; not the deploying of cor
poral's guard; Moltke aud his staff
conceived and executed every detail of
every movement, the princes not being
trusted with the most incOnsequent
point. The chief of the staff of each
army was it's actual commander, the
royal princes merely serving as figure
heads to impress the people with their
dependence upon royalty for success
ill battle. So it goes III nearly
every department, of public admins
tration; some royal imbecile figures
as the responsible head, while the work
is really done by brilliant men who are
comparatively unknown. Bismarck
and Moitk9 are about the only excep
tions, with possibly the King of Saxo-
ny, who is said to have some military
talent, and who handled the Saxon
corps III the late war very effectively
under Moltke's plans. Everything IS
done, however, to impress the reality
Of the services of the princess upon
tt nation. When the late war was
ended, great rewards were given the
Prussian princes and the imperial
cousins down to the lowest grades.
The two princes Frederick William
and Frederick Charles were created
Marshals of the empire, and awarded
large allowances from the French III
demnity, while the staff officers who
had really nanoeuvred the armies were
advanced a grade and received a few
empty decorations, Won Moltke, Won
Manteufel and Won Bismarck being
about the only marked exceptions.
Bismarck receiving the title of prince
and half milllor of dollars, Moltke
the dollars without the title. l know
of no prince Y person in Germany who
is regarded ao d spotless person, not
that they aie rrprobated for eXcesses.
[ tiud generally that the public make
no criticism Of their laxities.
THE TWO BISMARCK BOYS
are perhaps the most vicious of their
kind, and yet in the towns where they
played their most scandalous nraEks,
they are spoken of with a sort of ad-
II xrHN i,,,
been III during his winter mission, has
introduced more than Prussian diplo-
macy into the by no means grateful
Bavarian court. There is no end to
scandals circulating concerning the
young gentleman. the hundredth part
of which would serve to Danish him
from self-respecting communities in
any other country. His younger
brother, Count John, is too young to
conceal his eXcesses, and too blunt,
even if he were not. He is of the
impression that his father holds Ger
many in fee-simple, and if that does Mt
give him the right to do as he pleases,
what can? So he does as he pleases,
and be pleases to do exactly what the
world il general holds to be very low
and very debasing. His haunts are
more notorious for Democratic vicious
ness than aiistocratic seclusIon. His
habitual state is not one to recommend
him to polite attention, and if the fact
is, as MIR. Beecher searcbingly says in
some of bis character analyses, an in
dex of mans ruling passions. Count
John would be about the person TO
bring on a Brooklyn witness stand.
Herbert is rather fine looking as his
race go, but John is blumpy, biear of
eye, scorbutic of visage, and coarse of
manner generally. The pair give the
prince, their father, unceasing anxiety,
not only for their notorious profiga-
cies, but for .he difficulty he finds in
keeping them Oh terms with their ar
my and diplomatic associates. He
has been striving to marry Count Her
bert to pretty countess of the Pro-
testant party, but I am told the father
refuses. The consent of the lady is
never asked in affairs of this kind.