The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-18

utmost veneration for his sovereign and highly
yaluing the estimation in which he is held by him.
is said to DO not little alarmed at the continued in
Situations directed ut him by Prince Gortschakoff
Apur;sed that the latter charged him with the want
OF support granted to the Russian penipoten tares
in the Berlin Congress; Prince Bismarck has by
corically contradicted these insinuatiops and
publicly laid bare the defects OF Prince
well AZ Germany the firm friendship OF their En-
psrors excludes possibility % the personal CON-
bat Of the two Chancelors perhaps extending to a
general conflict. So long Kaiser Wilhelm and the
Czar Alexander retain their sceptres need fear
the outbreak OF Russo-German war-a contingency
that only arise after their DEATH In order DO
forearmed against the eventuality of Franco
Russian alliance, on whose conclusion Prince
Gortschakon seems to no bent. the German Chance-
lor ut loss for means to gain his end has de-
cided on chosen entente with Austria Hungary by
which he may dictate the peace of Europe. ~.
THE PRUssIAN INJECTIONS AND THE uLTnAMoNrANEs
Prince Bismarck's stay at Berlin Is only to last
until the end of the present week. when he will
leave for Varzin. his favorite estate in Pomeralia
During his recent sojourn here lie has been busily
occupied with state affairs. foremost among which
was the elaboration OF the government bills to be
submitted to the ensuing session of tho Prussian
Diet. The general elections held for this august
assembly. the Importance OF which has been con-
sderably diminished since the of the Em-
pire, have not been favorable to the present
Cabinet was confidently anticipated. Neither the
liberals nor the conservatives will command an
absolute majority, but will again have TO witness
the comparative preponderance OF the ultra
obvious to me that they imagined had drunk too
the Councils proceedings, and when subsequently
looked over them found that those parts of my
discourse ut which had spoken most clearly and
forcibly had simply been omitted by him. called
his attention to this. eyes,, he replied that is the
case. certainly; but thought it would be agreeable
to YOU il left all that out rejoned mot at ali:
by no means. suppose you thought was blow
ing but l maintain m that everything will happen
THE IRON cHANCELLoR's THOUGHTS
1.-THE Prince passes for person of iron character
for spirit confident in and certain of itself. / do
not deny that he is so but he, too has his moments
of weaknessperiods OF apparent real dissatisfac
tion with his performances and his destiny-lacka-
dasical, lot us rather say gloomy tempers which
express themselves in sort of universal wailing.
Sometimes these moods of his remind one of certain
traits OF Achilles when sulking in his tent before
Representatives. of Solomon's outcry But when
regarded all my works which my hand had made and
the pains which had taken, 10! all was vanity and
vexation. and there was nothing new under the SUM-
Perhaps this due to mystical process
going on in his soul; or perhaps it the conse-
quence Of physical phenomena. resulting from over
fatigue-a dissonance in his nervous system One
evening sitting in the place have already described
after having brooded to himself for some time
in silence. he began to complain to us that he had
derived little joy satisfaction his political
activity He asseverated that he had made nobody
happy thereby-not himself nor his family nor in
deed anybody else whatsoever We protested
against this assumption. He went on, however, to
say, But have made many people unhappy. But
for me three great wars would nothave been fought
parents, brothers, sisters. widows would not have
been plunged into grief and mourning. However.
But have had little pleasure out of all that
have done--o6 tho contrary, much annoyance, care
and trouble.'r And in this strain he continued for
some mefongcr. We held our tongues in astonish-
enr but afterward heard that during the last few
years he had frequently expressed himself in SIM
liar manner.
BIsMARcK's EscUTcHEoN.
Dr. Busch gives detailed description of the two
small coats Of arms set up on either side of the
chimneypiece In the large drawing room at varzin.
The one to the left is shield or. bearing ragged
staff gles and eagle argent that to the right is
shield gsties, bearing a bar or, above and below
which six crowns or, three and three. In the
middle Of the chimneypiece is painted the motto,
''In Trinitate Robur,' under escutcheon bearing
the German imperial eagle sable on field or. above
apex of the chimneypiece itself, stands
paster bust of the Emperor. ''The arrange
ment of these symbols. observes DR.. Busch.
..may be interpreted by the reader according to his
own judgment; but the coats and motto have each q
story OF its own. The former the arms OF
Elsass and Lothringen; When the title OF prince
posed to grant him these emblems as augmentations
of his family coat. But, said the Prince, Duke
His Majesty wanted to put the eagle into my shield.
did not fancy that either. feared that the eagle
would cat up my clover (the Bismarck-Schon-
hansen arms are three clover leaves on q
mise, by which / got supporters bearing tho
banners of Esass and Lothringen. The motto
dated from an earlier period of Bismarck's career
When he envoy to the Federal Diet at Frankfort
the King of Denmark conferred upon him the Grand
Cross of the Dannebrog. Now. 1t is the custom that
decoration shall be set up the Chapel OF the Order
ut Copenhagen with q motto to be chosen by the
person in question. so thought out this motto
tor myself said the Chancellor. In Irsnttate Robur
My strength in the trefoi the old device OF our
family. And my strength IN the three-in-one God,
suggested l. Quite so; that was what meant re-
Piled the Prince in friendly but grave tone"