The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-08-09
your shores. They arc more generally from tho

middle classes.
Immigration companies, with ample capital and
competent agents in tho different parts of Ger.
many, have no doubt would be Of great service
to our Southern country. Before / left South
Carolina, great deal was said about il in tho
papers and III tho LEGISLATURE. Has ANYTHING
come OF 1t! Other States are at work. and hone
South C"roiiua will keep pace with them. Tho
e"eeess Vi s"cli an enterprise, i'll my Judgment,
VIII depend mainly upon the capacity and intcgri
ty of your agents here. This find from, nv con-
versations with tho people here. Notwi,bstand-
ing our late and financial reyulsion boavr
taxes and high price OF living, these poor i..no
rant creatures still insist on considering Amcrir,
as the great Eldorado; and il any prospect is
terms of after repayment Of the amount advanced
Tor tho purpose, the agent is bcsieged with appli-
cations. Inc love OF adventure and desire OF
change all unite to urge him of straitened m ems
to give his bark to the breeze and seek his for
tunes in the unknown seas nf tho West.
But am wandering too far from my subject. I
am at q fashionable watering place and write
about immigration societies. For this digres .ion
however, have but little apology to offer. l do
not profess to be learned jenkins, such as the
ferdtd sends forth in shoals every season to ali
the seaside resorts. Fashionable society i, the
same the world over; in my opinion, utterly nm
WORTHY worthy tI OF stuay. madame Ia Baronesse TAur-
those of any of your American authors-hst
stale and Improbable. '
For pictures Of nature, original studies of char
actor, and fine delineation of passion commend
me to DICKENS, to AUEnBAcH, FRE1TAG and others
who havo at last made the important discovery
that the world Is mot not entirely composed Of "our
classes" on The same day, and out of the same
clay as the aristocracy. German literature, dur
ing the last twenty years, has been especially
rich in books OF this description. AUEnDAcu's
Dort9eSch'chlen was the pioneer in this unwrought
field. His success Was immediate, decided and
lasting; and, as matter of course, provoked q
yhnla nf tntn 'r,1o,,
the fashion all over Germany ever since; and no
end OF twaddic has gone through the press on
this passport.
We'll then, to come back to Gleiswcier. There
are, this year, very few visitors here owing to
the war and threatened invasion; for now that
the Prussians have taken Aschaffenburg, Frank
fort anu Darmstadt, there can be scarcely doubt
that they will move up the Rhine and occupy
Alentz, Worms, Mannheim, Spires, Landau and
Rastadt; and if peace is not msGe between the
belli8erents, or separate terms obtained from
Prussia by Bavaria, Wurtemberg and Baden, all
these countries must inevitably be overrun by
the Prussians; The people are universally sorry
idea at first was that by joining Austria they
would be on the side Of Germany,-Prussis
having "seeedod" from the G, rman Confederacy.
But General MANTEUFrEL's excellent logic has
succeeded in convincing all these princes and
people that they had not looked at the matter in
proper light.
MED that as tho Prussisns are drawing nearer,
tfeTe II are of PsniGi
thcm over the border to France. 1 do not know
whether your readers Of the fact that pa
per money has never been in such universal crcnla-
ton in Germany as is the case in England or Amer
ica Tho daily moneyrd transactions of the ordinary
citizen or rrsder are entirely in coin-silver and
gold. Hundreds, and even thousands OF tlorins
are not untrequently sent by express, although
they cost moro freight than would bank notes or
bill of exchange. Gold and silver, therefore
abound here. The plate, also, in the oldlhouses
is a subject for serious anxiety. All this, not
withstandne the repeated assurances OF the good
behavior OF the Prussian army. The enemies OF
Prussia have put in circulation 40 many stories of
contrary character, that it is quite natural the
simple people here should be alarmed and anx-
ioue "RefugeeB," in great numbers are going
over to the neighboring French cities, Strassbure
Metz, Nancy, Colmar and Weissenburg. are full OF
people from Hesse, Frankfort, the P4latinate,
Baden and Wu1 temberg.
AS far as am concerned, I am not going to run
again. / saw enough OF refugceing on your side
Of the water during the past five years. l left
Frankfort in good time, as it turned out but, as
have not much coin to excite the cupidity OF the
Prussians, aud as am not yet ready to leave the
country, shall take my chances here with the
good Palatines merely allude to the events OF
tho war, taking it for granted that you keep your
readers informed Of the leading topics, as the
steamers bring the news from day to day. I
am not near enough to the battlefield to be q war
corr cspondent, so 1 prefer to indulge my natural
penchdnt Of writing about peaceable people and
peaceful pursuits. MEItOATOR.