The New York herald., 1879-10-08
BISMARCK AT HOME.

D4Su1AINSh "A I1OmG
DUTCH PICTURE OF THE TRUE BIsMARcK-
HE coSFEssEs HIS SINS AND WEAKNESSES TO
DIR. BuscH-THE UNHAPPY CHANCELLOR.
Herr Moritz Busch is giving new series OF hre-
side views Of Prince Bismarck in the GrebSnoten.
Herr Busch writes by permission OF the Chancellor
who. says the Echo angry at the absurd fancy
sketches made of him for the London and Paris $50
ciety journals gladly sat to the literary friend that
bore him company at Versailles. He requested the
favored Busch to give Dutch picture of the true
Bismarck and of his real country retreat. AS Crom-
we'll instructed the lmner to paint him with his wen.
30 the statesman upon whom the eyes of Europe
are now fixed ordered Bismarck at Home" which
was to be neither. embelshed nor deformed. but
shown just as he is. The commission one who is
not used to Prussian ways might have thought
delicate Herr Busch is a friend of Princess
Bismarck and her and daughters, and if sim
cerity what the Prince wanted it might have
been displeasing to them. But Germans are blunt,
plain people; and neither the wife nor children of
Bismarck hampered the pencil Of Moritz Busch, who
begins by taking the reader to Varzin and showing
him the house of the terrible Chancellor.
1t is picturesquey situated estate and well
rarined by Bismarck and his steward. There is
Varzin dstillery. in which schnapps of u superior
quality produced. TO get to the house from the
road court surrounded by tidy kept farm build
1DeS must be passed. Tho residence or the Cham
celor is spacious and comfortable. but not grand
pretentious. Utility and convenience most
thought Of in the domestic arrangements. There Is
no sumptuous furniture. unless in the saloon and
bedroom OF the Princess. where there Mosaic
tables, gilt aud marble consoles, rich damask hang
ings. and chairs and couches in silk stuffs No at
tempt has been made to form an art collection. The
walls crave oil paintings. which are not given them.
Statues and busts are rarer than pictures; but the
windows commanding views of wooded hills, fields,
ponds, pleasure grounds and model garden,
delightful inches. In every chamber there are
comfortable, springy arm and rocking chairs
divans and sofas. and large majolica stone fire.
places, fetched from Sweden, in which wood fires
are lighted tho moment the autumn chills are felt.
Like all those beings who draw extravagantly on
their energy, the Prince suffers III uch from
cold. Herr Buschs catalogue of household gods is
q little tedious. Every chamber in the house is
thrown open to the reader. In the hall are massive
seats eight-day clock hat racks, umbrella stands
and piece of furniture made OF deers' antlers and
set apart the caps coats felt bilcock
and coarse straw hats of the Prince whose stick has
a fox head handle and is knotty blackthorn eudgel
1t lies, usually on small dumb waiter, beside
table which Bismarck reads and writes. The
floors dotted over with spittoons. Pipes and
cigar stands have place on buffet and the walls
are decorated with panoplies OF serviceable
and trophies of the chase or which there is a fine
show in the hall and corridors Light literature is
devoured by the Prince, who is fond OF those
"awfuls which originally appeared teatietods in
the Paris journals The other members OF the fam
lily great readers and books are to be found in
profusion. and in many languages. from garret to
ground floor
BIsMAncKs POLITICAL coNFEssoRs
Bismarck is fond of the kind OF talk in which.
formerly, travellers used to indulge pint Of
wine in the parlor of wayside English inn He likes
what the Scotch term"a friendly crack thinks aloud
i'll the midst OF his family circle; philosophises,
probes his conscience. airs his historical recol-
drawn sigh. nsea culpa. against which
his hearers protest. He confesses freely sins
and weaknesses, repenss tor r w while ana is
OF wrong, from which he lberates himself some-
what in the country. The gigantic Pomeranian
cuirassier with the bulldog head has the touchy
nerves OF woman. In q droSide talk ABOUT NlkOlS-
burg he said:-"At the council OF war opposed
those who wanted to invade Hungary. pleaded
the dangers OF cholera, of the Hungarian steppes.
of change Of front, political and other considera
tions. Nobody needed mo. l vainly urged my own
pledges When i found was talking in the desert
went into a room divided by thin partition from
tho council chamber, threw myself on bed and,
baby In short time the military discussion
ceased and things remained where had left them.
Talking Of his coat of arms, the Prince thus spoke
In the hearing OF Busch to Baron Holstoin, now o
secretary of embassy here:-
"whon became prince the Emperor wanted me
to take the arms OF Alsace-Lorraine. I preferred
Schleswig -Holstein, because proud Of my diplo-
matte campaign in the Duches From the begin
ning' asked Hostein did you intend annexation p
i aid from the moment Of King Frederick's death
But the plan was beset with obstacles Every one,
every thing stood in its way. The Austrians. the
little German States. the English. the liberals and
others-you may guess whom-were against me-
was not sure OF Russia. Napoleon ILL., alone de-
lightful: managed him just as l pleased in that
Danish business" ="
Bismarck is not happy man. He is scourged
by his conscience, and some OF his confessions
in the diapason OF the fifth act Of "Macbeth." I"
1t Is pity that he has not other confessors than
o sycophant journalist and his wife aud children.
who soothe the stinss Of the inner monitor. The
Chancellor is devoured with melancholy and
remorse; he is discontented. disgusted with his
work. He laments his destiny which he feels to be
an evil one. Sometimes he broods sulkily over the
OF things. Again, he moralizes in the strain
OF Ecclesiastes. ''What good has he. he asks him
self. accomplished under the sun? And what wide
spread misery has he not causedY
"'1n satisfying my ambition, he said. one evening
at Varzin, Il have made nobody happy. We all
protested No. He continued. And what number
of people have cast into misery. Without me three
great wars would have been avoided; $4,000 men
nay much more-would not have been killed. and
such numbers of families. OF fathers mothers,
brothers, sisters and wives. would not have been
plunged into mourning. However. that account is
to be settled between God and myself so far the
hereafter goes. What happiness have derived from
all my success? Little none and have reaped
endless worry, vexation. hatred pain, grief over
work and care.'"