New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-29
CARL SCHURZ IN GERMANY.

THE BANQUET GIVEN TO HIM AT BERLIN.
REMARKABLE CHARACTER OF TIE DEMONSTRATION
IMPRESSION PRODUCED by THE sPEECHhs OF
Mr. SEIZURE AND THR PRESIDENT 0f1HE PRUs-
SIAN HOUSE or DEPUTIES.
lFRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF Tile TRIBUsE-l
BERLIN. June 1i.-You Will have already received
full particulars of the dinner given to Senator
Schurz by the American residents in Berlin. This
gathering which is all the talk of the day, affords
striking illustration Of the great changes which
may be brought about by the wbirligg OF time IN
the space Of human life. It certainly required
an effort Of tho imagination to picture to
ones self Carl SEIZURE, the prescribed con-
spirator and fugitive Of 1919, bobnobbing
in Berlin with Prussian ex-Minister OF Justice, in
1851 1t is about as easy to conceive the lion lying
down with the lamb, oil and water minglns in
sweet communion. an acid and an alkali gamboling
in the same bath without the slightest ebultiOn OF
feeling or any other queer juxapOsiton of warning
elements. One feels strong temptation to make
the antithesis more striking still By following the
example of those journalists who in their reports of
the proceedings, have COMPOUNDED Augustus Won
Bernuth. present at the dinner, with his cousin,
Otto Won Bcrnuth, ex-President of Police, who
was not there. The former has always pro-
fessed liberal principles, whereas the Latter
is stanch supporter of the Junker or
Feudal party, which could never think of rccognz-
ing q Carl Schurz in any circumstances whatever.
STILL it is sufficiently suggestive and final, Carl
Schurz occupying the first place Of honor at public
dinner in Berlin while the second place was given
TO functionary with whom he might have been
at ono time brought into very different sort OF con-
tact. Many Of the Germans present were men who
had had their own political ups and DOWNS and are,
perhaps IA much astonished any one else at the
strange freaks of Fortune, who has now set them
upou an altar after having often rolled them III
the dust.
Berlin herself has undergone a thorough trans
formation material no esssthan moral since the
days when Kinkel and Scbuz were studying and
conspirng by turns at Bonn, and when Count Won
Brandenburg or other men Of his type ruled in Berlin
Your eminent SanskTit scholar, Prof Whitney OF
Yale College, who made n very neat speech at the
Schurz dinner pared her rapid progress since his
former visits to the growth of JOnah's gourd, which
came I'D over Jonah SO that he sat under the shadow
and was exceeding glad. Fortunately, most OF tho
Germans present did not understand this, or they
might perhaps have remembered that JOnalIs gcurd
was withcred in tho night following its portentous
growth-a somewhat ominous reflection for such Of
us as are compelled to pitch our eAs in this city OF
execrable cookeryfor in this respect Berlin resiss
all imurovemen-and Of scents which are not always
that of the sweet South stealing DER bed of yio-
let's
AS have already stated, the Germans who took
part in Tuesdays festivity were ali men belonging
to some shade OF the Liberal party. The hreIs Ze'-
tunG however had "chiel takin' notes" on the
occasion. ard this gentleman, whose Imagination
had probably been wrought up TO high pitch by
the combined effects of eloquence aud claret,
allowed his pen to away with him ami to perpe-
tratc tine outrageous statement that "men OF all
parties were gathered round the festive board
The sentinel on duty appears to have been mapping,
and the report was allowed 10 get into the paper
inst as it had been written. The next morning the
Direction" saw what had been done, and was per-
fectly Mortified and so. to mend matters, para
graph appeared in the following number to TIE
effect that by some mslap the report had been srf
fered to slip through uncorrected, that accidents
would happen in the bc.tregulated families, and
forth.
OF Senator SchuIzs simple, Straightforward, and
manly utteranees whether in English or in German,
YOU can judge for yourselves. Mr SchuIz lett Der
lin on Saturday morning for London.
A great impression was produced by the speech de-
yered toward the close Of the proceedings, by Herr
Won Bennngsen, member of the Reehstag and
President Of the prussian House OF Deputies. What
particnIarly struck all present tho earnest tone
in which LIE expressed the hope that occasions like
the one which had called them together On that
evening mi ght more frequently arise, ~ means of
bringing the two nations into closer contact, and OF
cementing the good understanding which exists be-
tween them. This sentiment loudly cbecred;
and there is no doubt that an opportunity viii be
taken of giving to it an official expression dnFiGg
the visit Of the officers OF tho American squadron,
who are now in Berlin. and viii lac entertained at
the Legation tomorrow.