The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1875-11-25

as well as various battle 4
fed scuyeiiirs-ball., bits OF SHELF, and |
metallic cartridges. When simple prince |
il was his custom always TO write with his /
helrie, on, and seated Oh small cannon 4
placed in his room Tor that purpose and |
at present his room Is filled with warlike |
articles, giving il the appearance OF
boudoir 10 the arsenal opposite. His vigor-
Gus constitution allows him 10 indulge in
excessive work; travel, fetes, and reviews
seem ONLY 10 increase his toughness. His
thirst for popularity is unbounded, and the
court bistoriographers are continually writ
ing him up.
The Empress Augusta has also been lib
orally disposed, and for long time strus-
gled against the beliigerent tastes OF her
husband and !.ege lord. She tried hard to
prevent all his wars, but III vain, and hence
there arose an antagonism between herself
and Bismarck, which still continues. She
could have got the better Of her husband,
but Bismarck was a horse OF another color,
and managed to successfully play his part
of Mephistophiles TO the new Faust. She,
nevertheless, heads the court party OF oppo-
sition to the Chancellor, as the Crown Prin-
cess, Queen Nictoria's daughter, heads the
English party. French ideas have always
met with the sympathy OF the Empress and
she was very kind TO the prisoners OF Metz
and Sedan. Her library is well stocked
with French books.
The Crown Prince also lives in the sim
plest style. No war tools are 10 be found
in his private apartment. His tastes are
agricultural, and rather averse to arms.
His delight, indeed, lies in blue skies, green
e a, u-hsah ho sup only fla sbsAa the
hum of bees and mills, while his cousin,
Prince Frederick Charles, reviews army
CORPS. he visits schools, and amuses himself
| by putting his plumed helmet On the heads
OF the most playful children.
Bismarck lives in the Foreign Office. No.
| 76 Wilhelm strasse. Before a mahogany
desk with drawers, the great Chancellor is
| accustomed 10 sit in a cushioned arm
chair, with his secretary placed opposite
| him on a leather-bottomed stool. How
many diplomats have stood before that desk
as before a gambling table, and there lost
their stakes. There are no books in the
room; but a complete collection OF pipes,
helmets, boxes OF cigars, sabres and swords
and gloves lie about loose. A big sofa, up
on which the Prince reads the papers after
dinner, is permanent piece OF furniture,
as is also the new map OF Alsace and Lor-
| raine.
| Moltke resides in the offices of the Grand
| Staff Of the army. The room in which he
works is large and well lighted by three
high windows fronting on Kings place.
The table around which the staff assemblies
in council is heaped with maps, books,
pamphlets and journals. A piece Of shell
is the Generals favorite letter weight.
| The frescoes on the walls represent
some of the events of the war, and the hero
himself is depleted under various costumes
His bedroom, adjoining, is Of monastlc Sc
verify. Moltke is tall, thin, slightly STOPPING
he is only Strengthened up on horseback,
and then looks like a man OF thirty.
His close-shaven face is very much wrin-
killed.; his profile recalls vaguely Cesar's
his prominent nose indicates will, persever-
ance, courage; his lips are thin and expires
siye Of melancholy; his chin sharp; eyes
black and brilliant; neck long. Ne de-
tests civilian clothes, and regards the uni.
form as indispensable to his person. He i:
a great worker and an early riser; passe:
sometimes as much as nine hours at hi:
desk without taking anything, save glas;
of Bordeaux and biscuit; dimes at and
sups at s. He is always punctual in Par
Lament, where his colleagues style him the
"Great Silent" Less captain Of geniu;
than an admirable organizer, he is as cold
blooded in battle as the gods that dwell on
tOlympus. His amusement is to walk in
the Thiergarten with his hands behind his
back in the old Napoleonic style. A Dane
by birth, he married young English girl
who tell violently in love with him.
The Prussian Parliament is-Bismarck
In other words, the majority being his pas,
sive agents, sit on their benches year in and
year out and recite this little prayer: ''Ou,
Father, Bismarck, thy will be done" The
press is tree-to applaud the policy and
acts Of the Government. The Chancellor
keeps all newspapers in the hollow OF his
hand by right OF subsidy, fine and impris'
onment.
London alone can eclipse Berlin in vice
misery, poverty and crime.