The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-26
OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.
PAn1s, November 1, 1866


the work Of laying out and ornamonting the
grounds around is boing pursued with great vigor.
cannot pretend to give your readers any idoa Of
the extent and msgnifcence of the BUILDINGS and
all The appointments appertaining to it. OF course
the greatest preparations for this grand cosmopol
itan ete arc boing made in every part Of tho city
and among oil classes of its inhabitants. Already
thousands of persons arc hore, from evory civilized
country in Europe,,-somo commissioners Of Gov
ernmonts, othois agents Of manufacturing compa-
MICS, and yet Others and they are in tho majority,
who have como here in the hope of turning OH
honest penny" from this mammoth aggregation of
tho worlds inhabitants. 1t grieves mo to be
compelled to soy that cheualiers Gindustrie Of
both sexos and Of oyery grade, form largo co.,
stituent Of these candidates for turning honest
penny
Tho sections in tho Exhibition building allotted
to differont nations, filing up. Among tho
most curious of these compartments, I think, will
be that sot apart for tho Emperor Of Moroccos do
inions,-whch, learn, is to give a complete
view OF lifo in Barbary. Tho costumes OF every
class Of society to be exhibited Tho unifo: me
Of army, navy and court officials. Moorish kitchens
will cook and dispense food Ia Morocco. The
Sultan's tent is to dazzle lib simple occidentals,
with view of the gorgeousness Of oriental splen
it's onvirons, ovor which ostriches will roam as on
| their native sands BARNUM will have to hide his
hoad aftor this; ho cannot compote with his French
Majesty in tho getting up of 'big shows" Tho pub
fishers Of tho Exhibition catalogue will net nco
little plum out Of the Exposition. Notwithstand-
| ing their e1orbitant rates Of three dollars for
single line, advertisers arc keen to avail them
| selves of medium, certain to be perusod by mill
lions Of readers.
| Is liberty Of the press compatible with stable
government Political philosophers tell us that it
is. But have long since cease to believe all
they say. I know it has proven failure in
America. 7 am by no means sure that This was
| necessity but MIR. SEWARD so considered it, and
| daro say he did not stop to read Millions Areo-
pagiticd beforo no gavo the order for the suspen-
sion Of tho New York Daily Neos and othor nom
conformist journals during the late war. know I
shall be told that in England there is free press.
Granted there is at present; but VIC have no
guarantee that this Acadlan institution will con-
| tnue even there for six months, in the event of
certain contingencies. Political journals Of q
tain stripe are locked up in Ireland every five or
ton years; why not in England1
| The liberty Of the Press was tried here few
years ago, but tho powers that be soon found that
thoy would not 'sbe' very long, 30 they went and
got n muzzle, which is found to subserve an ad-
mirable purpose in procuring unanimous senti-
mont among the press and people. These muz-
Kles in Fronoh called doertissemenks. The Min
ister Of tho Interior has charge Of this pleasant
business. Le Soyeii received a warning few days
ago, for indulging too freely in speculations in
reference to the policy of the government. LEuen-
omen. has boon suppressed because it set out as
puroy literary journal, and Of late has been very
| in in ia nj clu
Our journalistic friends on the other sdo of the
Rhino have Ind ivoly timo this year in tr ing to
tell the truth and yet, at the Same time elude the
censor. Not IN easy thing and many have failed
md suffered tho consequent ponalty. Some Of tho
oldest papors in Germany have been muzzled, tho
ObsrP PostdnAs- -Zeitup3 Of Frankfort for instance.
You know, Of course, that books, Dramas and
oven farces must undergo this ordeal as we'll as
newspapers, and many are the funny emendations
made by tho censor, who, it should bo understood,
is not appointed because Of any literary qualiica-
lions. On tho contrary, he must be staunoh,
loyal and thoroughly reliable man, without any
nonsense about him. You can readily imagine
what curious piece Of patchwork not unfreQuently
comes forth from the hands OF these iIlterate lite
rary 1ccoucheurs. A Vienna censor, examining q
poem, found the following passage: "Her vouptu-
ous bosom Was Of q snowy white" The custodian
Of public morals (who had no nonsense about him)
at once passed his pen over these dangerous Words
and substituted as follows SIN front she was very
well built." A very business-liko way Of drawing
the fangs, thisI
We were all very much surprised tho other day
on hoaring Of the death OF the Emperor NAPOLEON
in the Now York papers. The credit Of American
newspapers has been considerably below p r for
some time, worry much 30 during the war; but the
influence Of tho Atlantic cable seems to be more
tpernicious still than oven the war. I suppose the
thigh tariff Of the Atlantic Telegraph Company is
"a great temptation to certain enterprising New
York journalists to manufacture their own dis
patches just they have long been in the habit OF
writing all their foreign correspondence in their
own Offices; faot woll known. The Emperor has no
Intention Of dying yet while, that is If may
liudge from appearances. Certainly he looks
older; the burrows in his face are getting deeper.
"Uneasy lies the head that wears o CROWN is as
true in his case perhaps as in that Of any great
tsovereign. Yet, strange to say, he has had unin-
lterrupted peaoe In his dominions.
Knowing that tho ladies form fair proportion
OF your readers, I have bean thinking that ought
to post myself on the fashions, and communicate
tho latest intelligence from the shrine Of tho Ackle
goddess; but find this harder work than anti
oipsted. fear shall never do for Inan-milli-
ner Tho whole language Of the Journal dies
Modes is an unintegiblo iargon; in fact, this Was
tho case even in regard to English fashion maga-
zines, and IL, Of course infinitely moro Greek to
me in Frsnoh. have, however, gathered from
conversations with my lady friends, that tho reign
OF the little bonnet Is nearly ovor Some Of tho