The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-14

GERMAH PRAsss ~ An A1mDMHcAN WoAx.-A
critic in the Kolnischs Zsitsne eonstrasts Lees
ing = Ms'tydom u H'4ss with Lsatsss Washing
ton crossing tAs Dslswsrs, and says that the latter
produces in the bshoidsr grandes, frees, more
human state Of fssIing than the former. Les
sings picture, he Gays, u German idealistic;
Lsutze's American naturslistc. In respect to
technical perfection, he does not doubt that the
Washington will hardly be inferior To the Huss.
PaoGRxss IN AvRIcA.--Ths Viceroy OF Egypt
has established schools at Chsrtoum in Nu6ia,
and has also appropriated e375, 200 TO improve
the navigation Of the Nile.
The ISLAM PiLGRIMA0E--lmmense numbers of
last years pilgrims to Mecca died OF cholera on
the road.
PASSAGE or THE IsrHMus OF SuEx.-Fifty
coaches are now making at Paris to carry passen-
gers across the Isthmus Of Suez.
DAHGERous HAR.--Ths pupils Of the Poytech-
mic school at Vienna, have hitherto worn their
hair long, but were lately ordered to have it cut
oft, as long hair was suspicious politically. As
they did not obey at once, they were arrested by
the police, marched off in a body, and truly
cropped.
and Dover is IN such state Of advancement
that it will again be ready by the first week in
May.
FERocIoUs TALoR.---A Partisan tailor has late
ly adopted the plan of placarding his delinquent
customers at his shop door, as, for instance "The
Count Of -, Rue de Seine No. -, owes for
brown paetot, and blue satin vest, 800 francs, :"
&c. The police ordered the pacard to be taken
down; it attracted crowd in the street
BALLOON NAvIoATIoN.--lt is said that balloon
has been constructed at Paris which obeys the
helm, and can be driven even against the wind by
its conductor. This machine has made several
voyages around the Hippodrome, and has been
made 70 turn in every direction; but its progress
in the air has not yet been tested, and the utmost
upc in Ohaer ed IN
The lash TENANT LEAGUE has received from
individual contributors fl78 It's; from district So
cieties f767 l3s Cd. This comes good deal
short of the 10000 it proposed to raise at the
outset.
The vladika. or prince-bshop Of Montenegro.
lately visited Pope TX, accompanied by three Of
his Countrymen. As they were armed to the
teeth with sabres, pistols, and yatagans, it was
observed to them that in order to be received by
his Holiness they must deposte their arms first;
when one Of them answered: "a Montenegro
quits his arms only with his life" The Pope, on
being informed Of this, and being DESTROYS Of
ing them in their ordinary costume, allowed them
about them.
The University at Gottingen now has IT'S stu
dents-4O4 Hanoverians and 3l2 foreigners. Most
of the latter are Germans, however.
An English clergyman advertises in The Times,
that being "Obligedto break up his establishment,
he wishes to recommend his groom and wife. To
any person keeping horses and cows they would
he most valuable servants"
The proposed reduction in the window tax in
England will exempt l20, 900 houses that now pay
the tax.
Sicily contains ITO districts, with a population
of 2, O46, 1881 souls.
The Pope has erected three new sees in the
West Indian Colonies of France.
M. Meyerbeer has been named an honorary
member ofthe Philharmonic society of st. Peters
burg; one of the first honorary members of which
was the great Haydn.
M. de Rothschlld is now having built at Bor-
deaux the largest merchant vessel ever seen in
France. She will be ] 500 tuns burden, and be
called the Vile de Frankfort.
The Hindoos in Bombay have each painted
mark on their forehead indicating their caste, &C.
This is sometimes round patch, as large as a
sixpence, of one or more horizontal lines, either
white, red or yellow. These are painted fresh
every day.
Twenty men belonging to the band of Passa-
tore, the famous Roman bandit, have been arrest
ed in Lombardy.