The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08
CARL SUHURZ.
His Rescue of His COnpatriot from
the Fortress of Spandau.

Croffut's New York Letter.
Last evening called on Carl Schurz, diplo-
mat soldier and journalist, at his handsome
and spacious residence, 45 East Sixty-eighth
street This house is not owned by the oceu-
pant Gen. Schurz came out of the public
service no richer than when he entered it;
and, when it is remembered that he was sec
rotary of the interior and had the Indian
bureau and public land system within easy
reach, this reflection attains high signif-
canoe
The hat rack in the hall consists of the
enormous branching antlers of an elk, pre-
scented TO him by 6 traveller returned from
the British wilds of the north. The parlors
are furnished and equipped with elegant sim
plicity, the chief objects challenging attention
being large copies of some of the finest paint
mgs of Europe
The arcade front room overhead is the
library, and it is walled around with several
thousand books; and large square table is
in the middle where the general writes, turn
ing off more or less editorial matter for The
Evening Post almost every evening.
@The death of Prof. Kinkel in Zurich this
morning is real grief and loss to me" he
said "He was my teacher in the University
of Bonn"
told him had read about Dr. Kinkel, and
how, when taken prisoner during the revOlu-
ton and sentenced to death, his former pupil,
Carl SchurZ, had, with admirable self-devo-
ton, rescued him from the fortress Of Span
dau.
90 yes." the general said "you have been
reading the cyclopedia That is its very Ian
guage, believe. The self devotion' is
trife exaggerated, perhaps; what l did was an
ordinary act of friendship, such as any man
ought to venture on in behalf of comrade
in-arms."
Iasked him to tell me about it, and he said:
@You see, was of rather humble origin, my
grandfather having been farmer and my
father schoolmaster near Cologne, where
was born; and when, at the age of II, en-
tered at Bonn, was already inoculated with
rather advanced notions concerning hum~n
rights There met Dr. Kinkel, and became
| deeply attached to him. When he went into
the revolution of 49, of the people against the
princes, went with him. / started a revolu-
tonary paper in Bonn called The Bonner lei
tung, and Dr. Kinkel did much to make it
| read and feared In the spring of 49 we both
went into the revolutionary army; but it was
beaten in its first campaign by numbers and
discipline | fed to Switzerland, but DR..
Kinkel went to the Palatinate and engaged in
the revolution in Baden He joined the army
| as private, anu was SOOu Jah0n prisoner ny
the Prussian troops and sentenced TO perpet-
ual imprisonment in the fortress of RasJadt
Thence he was transferred to the fortress of
Spandau.
II thought the matter over and determined
to rescue him if possible. [ left Switzerland
and seer Iy returned to Berlin, travelling by
night, and shortly proceeded to Spandau.- l
was three months in making preparations for
the rescue. First, I interested some of the
employees at the fortress, SO that they would
convey messages to the doctor, and told him
of my purpose. We had considerable CORES
pondence in this way. l did not see him, of
course. When a prisoner is locked into a
German fortress for life he is usually very
secure indeed. He has few glimpses of the
outer world. At last the plot was ripe A car
riage was ready in the field, and he succeeded
in getting out of an upper window, and then
eluding the sentries, to the ground and we
got him into the carriage. Of course, I had
some energetic associates in the matter, with
out whom it might have failed. 1t was No
vember, 1850, just about thirty-two years age
now He came to the United States in 1851
while I was in Paris; but he returned to Swift
zerland before I came over in 1862 For many
years now he has been professor of archeol-
ogy and the history of art at the Polytechnic
school in in Zurich"
@You ask me how learned English SO thai
I took the stump in four years" resumed the
general @Of course mingled with the peo-
pie to learn it colloquially-in Philadelphia
where lived for the first two or three years
after arriving in America; and to learn the
literature and capabilities of the language,
translated sshe Letters of Junius' into German
and then back into English. 1t was fine
discipline"