Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-07-27

Duchess Olga, sister of the present Czar
with the hereditary Grand Duke O
Wurtemburg. After the revolution O
1913 he was appointed Russian plenipo
Tertiary at the Diet of Frankfort. Il
1854 he was Ambassador at Vienna, and
soon after that Minister of Foreign Al
fairs. He is sick, worn out bodily; bu
mentally he is as bright and cunning a
any Russian diplomatist. He belong
to the old school of Nesselrode ant
Pozzo di Borgo, speaks half a dozei
languages, is an interchangeable worker
and is very fond of the ballet. His ED
est son is Russian Minister to Switzer
land.
Count Schouvaloff comes from just a
noble a family as Prince Gortschakofl
His father, Count Andrew Schouvaloif
was Grand Chamberlain to the Czal
Nicholas. The present Count was
brought up in military school, became
an officer of the Horse Guards at Is,
and an aide-de-camp of the Car at %.
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. His
only early experience in diplomacy was
at the Paris Congress, which he attend
ed as an attache of Prince Orloff, the
Russian plenipotentiary. He was APP
pointed Ambassador at London upon
the death of Baron Brunow. He is an
elegant man of society, a handsome fel-
low of progressive ideas, and q sincere
friend of peace.
The chief representative of Austria is
Count Julius Andrassy, the youngest of
the plenipotentiaries. He is barely 50,
and looks 10 years younger than he is.
He was born at Zemlin, Hungary. His
father, though belonging to noble
family, devoted himself to industrial
pursuits, and so did the son. When the
revolutionary movement began in 1S47,
the young Count Julius was elected a
deputy to the Diet, and in the next year
put himself at the head of the Lands
turn of his county. The defeat of the
revolutionists forced him to seek refuge
in Paris and London, and it was only
after the amnesty of 1857 that he was
enabled to return to his native country.
In 1860 he Joined the party of Deal, and
was elected Vice-President of the Diet.
subsequently he became more conserv-
alive in his views, sided with Beust. be-
came Minister President and head of
the Department of National Defence.
The browning of Emperor Francis Jo-
seph as King of Hungary was to great
extent the work of Andrassy.
H.. e
are Caratheodory Pasha and Mehemet
Ali Pasha. Theformer is distinguish
ed and learned Greek. who has always
been in the diplomatic service, and oc-
cupies now the post of Minister of Pub
lie Works. He speaks French and En-
glish quite fuently, but seems to be too
modest and timid man to be able sue
cessfully to negotiate with people OF the
stamp of those with whom he sits in the
Congress. At home, it is said, his wife,
nee Aristarchi, is much more of Min
ister than he is.
Mehemet Ali Pasha is already known
in this country. He is German by
birth. and Frenchman by descent. |
His fathers name was Detroit. The |
famous Ali Pasha took a fancy to the |
boy, and brought him up with all the |
care he could have bestowed upon his |
,wn son. His first military success was
n the war with Montenegro. After the
passage of the Danube by the Russian
roops he was appointed to the post of
Jommander-in-Chief of the Army of I
Shumla. After the fall of Shipka he
vas replaced by Suleiman Pasha
France is represented by her Minister
If Foreign Affairs, William Henry Wad-
lington, and by the Count de Saint Val
Ter. The former is Frenchified En-
,lishman, educated at Cambridge, and
thoroughly English in his habits and
news. He is a profound student of
and literary man of dis
inction. He entered political life only
n 1871. Theirs appointed him Minis
er of Public Instruction, a post which
lie has siuce occupied several times.