Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-07-20
TIE BERLIN CONGRESS.
Biographical Sketches or the Eminent
ffap-makers.
from the New York Sun.1

at1veS OF european Q1ptOfnacy mas dctu-
ally begun, it may not be tininteresting
to glance at some. of the distinguished
individuals to whose deliberations the
settlement of tie Eastern question, and
of the fate of the Turkish Empire, is in
trusted.
OF the main figure of the Congress
there is little to say His life and career
are we'll known to every body. Son of
poor and modest Literary ttIan, Benja-
min Disraeli followed in the footsteps OF
his father, so far as regards poverty and
literary ability, but certainly not in the
fiiattet of modesty. The obscure He
brew who caffis forward some fifty odd
years ago as the author OF "Vivian
Grey,'' is now the Earl of Beaconsfeld,
Grand Vizier of Great Britain and. a
probable Duke. His start in political
| life was marked by series of failures,
notably his maiden speech when he
succeeded at last in obtaining seat in
| Pariisnhefit for the borough of Maid
stone. The fiouse of Commons re-
fused to listen to him. He simply said !:
81 am not surprised at the reception
have experienced. have begun several
things, and have often succeeded at last.
/ shall sit down now; but the time will
come whefi YOU will near me They
have heard him. He was then 32 years
of age; he is 72 now.
The Lieutenant of Lord Beaconsfeld
is tie MARQUIS of Salisbury (Robert Ar
thur Talbot Gascoyne Cecil, P. CO,
Earl of Salisbury, County Willis; Vis-
cotint Cranborfie, County Dorset; and
Baron Cecil of Essendine, County Rut-
land. He began his political career as
member for Stamford. He was See
etary of State for India from 1866 TO
1867, and was reappointed to the same
post in 1874. He succeeded his father
in 1868. Being junior member-of the
family, he had to work for his living
when he was yotiiS, and, as In Disraeli's
case, literature supplied him with the
means of gentlemanly existence. The
| Articles he wrote for the monthly and
weekly reviews ere still remembered.
He is 48 years old, Was educated at
Eton, and graduated at Christ Church,
| Oxford, but has as little knowlege OF
foreign languages as his chief. 1t must
be remembered, however, that Disraeli
has described the English race as pecu-
liarly Aryan and noble In their inability
to speak more than one language and
their love of life in open air. Both the
| Grand Vizier and his Lieutenant talk
English at the Congress, the usual
language of which is French. But the
members of the distinguished assembly
listen to them with as much delight as
did the congregation of De Quincy's old
clergyman, who Ensw a little Hebrew,
and used to quote texts "in the very
words used by the Holy Ghost"
The third representative of England
is the British Ambassador to the Ger
man Court, the Right Hon. Sir Odo
William Russell, styled by courtesy
Lord Odo Russell. He can speak almost
any language, having been in the diplo-
matte service all his life, and having
used his best efforts to pick up the
tongues of the various countries he has
lived in. He is the youngest son of
Mai. Gen. Lord George William Russell,
second son of the Duke of Bedford, and
was raised to the rank of Dukes son
by royal warrant in 1879. He entered
the service In 1s49, and has ever since
occupied prominent positions in the
diplomatic and social centers of Austria,
France, Italy, Turkey and Germany.
! Some wears ago he was a member of the
British Embassy in this country. In
1870 he filled, for short time, the post
of Under Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs.
The chief representatives of Russia
are Prince qortschakof and Count
Schouvaloff. The former is 80 and the
latter about 55 years of age. Prince
Gortschakoff is descendant of an an
cient stock of Russian nobility. Hewas
educated, with the great national poet
of his country, Alexander Pouschkin, at
the Lyceum of Czarskoe-Selo, a kind OF
Russian Eton. The two friends were
among the first matriculants of that col
lege After having graduated he enter,
ed the diplomatic service, and began his
career at the Congresses of Lay bach and
Verona as one of the clerks of the
late Count Nesselrode. In 1924
he was Secretary of the Russian
Embassy in London; in 1880 he was
Charge d'Affaires at Florence; in 1S4O
he negotiated the marriage of the Grand
Duchess Olga, sister of the present Car,
with the hereditary Grand Duke oi
Wurtemburg. After the revolution oi
1S48 he was appointed Russian plenipo'
tentiary at the Diet of Frankfort. lr
1854 he was Ambassador at Vienna, and
soon after that Minister of Foreign AT,
fairs He is sick, worn out bodily; but
mentally he is as bright and cunning a:
any Russian diplomatist. He belongs
to the old school of Nesselrode ant
Pozzo di Borgo, speaks half dozen
languages, is an indefatigable worker
and is very fond of the ballet His eld
est son is Russian Minister to Switzer
land.
Count Schouvaloff comes from just as
noble family as Prince Gortschak. fl
His father, Count Andrew Schouvaloff
was Grand Chamberlain to the Czal
Nicholas. The present Count wa:
brought up in military school, became
an officer of the Horse Guards at lS
and an aide-de-camp of the Gar at 20
Before he was 35 he had been appoint
} ed Governor of the Baltic provinces
and few years later he was named
Chief of the Police of the Empire. Hi
only early experience in diplomacy wa
at the Paris Congress, which he attend
ed as an attache of Prince Orloff, tn
Russian plenipotentiary. He was ap
pointed Ambassador at London upol
the death of Baron Brunow. He is al
}, elegant man of society, a handsome fel
;. low of progressive ideas, and SINGER
friend of peace.
The chief representative of Austria
r Count Julius Andrassy, the youngest Q
the plenipotentiaries. He is barely 90
; and looks 10 years younger than he is
He was born at Zemlin, Hungary. III
father, though belonging to a nobl
family, devoted himself to industris
pursuits, and so did the son. When tn
revolutionary movement began in lS4'
the young Count Julius was elected
deputy to the Diet, and in the next yea
put himself at the head of the Lands
turn of his county. The defeat OF tn
revolutionists forced him to seek refue
in Paris and London, and it was onl
after the amnesty of 1857 that he we
enabled to return to his native countr.
In 1860 he joined the party of Deak IAN
x.,oa otaota6 Vioo pra> ihapt Of the Die