The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-08-24
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edoiue Europe" and as our fashionable people AFRO
migrating in swaIms while they remigrate but
SLOWLY. it is not improbable that the number will
be swelled to one hundred thousand before mid
winter sDear, delightful Paris" is, of course, the
principal pleasure-ground of this debonair crowd.
The Centre OF Fashion, the Paradise of Intrigue
the Crcoan City where the fower-wreathed chal-
ice OF Temptation is profered to Wealth and Folly
at every turn, draws our fast young men into lts
whrl of disreputable dissipation as surely rs
beacon light on the seaboard attracts the guus
| and fish-hawk, The German Spas, next to Paris,
are the places where Americans most DO congre-
gate. Bsdea-Baden is very dear to them in every
senpe OF tho word. There enthusiastic young
"Milor Americaines," who travel On their dollars,
can eight the tiger" to their hearts con-
tent. and lose their money in grandiose style to
needy Teutonic barons and "hard up" duo
decmo princes, who pocket it with infinite sang
froid. There, too those Of our lady tourists, who
are nothing if not sumptuous, have fine oppor-
tunty to try conclusions with hereditary rank in
the matter of fol-de-rols and furbelows. For, o.
Baden-Baden, be it known, the fair ladies Of fash
ion wear skirts and bodices of Valenciennes lace
worth $4,000 apiece, and pin tho feathers Of their
"splendiferous" mats with aigrettes Of diamonds.
Of course, the ladies OF our Lords Of the Flowing
Well, and the fair danes OF the lucremongers who
have picked ND wealth on the war-path, are per-
fectly at home at Baden-Baden. But, after oil,
there is nothing like winter in Paris to freshly
gilded Americans of both sexes. EUGENE Is there,
and NAPOLEON. There is chance OF getting, by
hook or by crook, into tho Tuileries, and being
eazetted among the presented" This is by no
means great country in the eyes Of many OF
its mushroom grandees Fortunately, however,
the American millions rate their country and its
institutions at their true value, and now that both
have been saved from ruin at such tremendous
cost, are prouder Of them than ever. Lot the bo-
gus ssoyereigns" circulate among congenal
| trumpery abroad. We have plenty OF the true mo
at home that rings n and clear under every test
SPEAKING OF CAPTAIN MARRYATT, the Corzutm
\ Magazine says: 'I often wondered where ana
when Captain MARRYArr had found the tlme 10
cultivate his own mind, for he had had but few ad-
| yantages Of actual education. l suppose IL
WAS from the great power and habit OF obserVa-
ton which he possessed that he learnt intui-
| tiyely. There was hardly a scientific subject
nnon which he was not well informed, besides
| being. as oil the world knows, practically
scientific man. have heard him regret that
he was not born a century later than his time,
ss he considered the world in q scientific point
of view, as comparatively in it's infancy. He
used to prophesy of the great discoveries yet to
be made in steam and electricity. He took
great interest in magnetism and in phrenology, in
both of which he was, am sure, firm believer.
He has been told by TowNsHEND that he was him
self powerful mesmerist, but do not think he
ever tested his power. There was hardly
modern language Of which he had not some
knowledge knowledge, mean. So
far as speaking them went, although he would rat
tie of unhesitatingly French, or German, or
Italian, or Whatever was called for at the moment,
his thoroughly British tongue imbued them oil
with 80 much Of the same accent, that it was dh-
hcult to know what the language was meant for;
indeed he used to tell story Of how an Italian,
after listening to one Of his long speeches in his
purest Tuscan, apoogized to him. and said he did
not understand English. MARRYArr an away to sea
at twelve years Of age 80 that at best his educa-
ton must have been very limited
TIE NEW YORK LEDGER has the following stric-
lures on the nuisances OF the day: "The personal
system OF reporting balls and parties which was
introduced into thus country some thrty-fye years
ago, but which we hoped had died out in obedl-
ence to the edict Of an improved public taste, has
recently been revived in all its glory. Whole col
umns are devoted to the most fulsome pufs OF
ladies' and gentlemen with skeletons OF names
filed in with dashes and stars The Indies dresses
are particularized from waterfall to satin slipper
with freedom that deserves horsewhip; and
marriage engagements, real or fictitious arc
blurted out in type with boldness that seems as
il it must be the result Of express permission il
not Of pecuniary persuasion.
"'TIs pleasant sure, TO see ones name in print;
names Q name although there's nothing In it.
except the beginning and the end, with few
cas- =" between. Can it be that our clash
ionable people" like this sort Of thing. Let us
hope not; though certainly their asquiescence, if
nothing more is to be inferred.
The custom is so utterly snobbish and un-
American that it ought to be lsmpooned out OF e1-
istence. Among flying folies there is no fairer
game. Repertorial funkies who make it their
To hss the shadow Of your shoe te.''
should be ruled out Of good society.
A CORRESPONDENT writes that religious exclu-
sveness is still maintained in full forco in Sweden
he says he was himself lately fined heavy sum,
"for allowing people to come together for wor-
ship in his private house, during the hours that
the Swedish church held service or mass, as it is
yet called, and this fine was exacted by the sane
ton of the King, before whose court the case was
tried" He afirms that "priests assisted by She
riffs and policemen do yet enter by force into peo-
ples houses, and by force take the infants from
anguished mothers arms, to have them legally
baptized; and case is known in which poor
farmers only COW has been taken in payment.
ga doctor Of medicine the chief city physician,
Of large city in Sweden, and highly esteemed,
has lately felt compelled to leave the country with
his wife and children owing to the narrow-minded
priest policy Of the government, debarring his
growing-up children from the prospect of ever
making respectable livelihood in their native
land" The government does all it can to prevent
the outflow Of emigration, and 80 far succeeded as
to make it commercially impossible to ship them
direct from Sweden. Consequently they must first
20 to England, either to. Hull or London, from
thence they are transferred to Liverpool, where
they take steamships for New York.
CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE writes to friend in Phil
adephis as follows in correction of recent reports
concerning his private fortune: II don't want to be
represented as particularly poor or particularly
disinterested. think I am worth now about one
hundred thousand dollars. I should at any rate
be quite willing to take that sum in fvc-twenties,
and make clear conveyance OF all have in the
world to anybody who will pay my debts. I would
willingly be worth great deal more if knew Of
an honest way to get worth more. All that tho
people are interested in knowing is, that haven't
a cent which Of right belongs to them. didn't
serve them to make money out Of them, but to
save money tor them; and I really feel that the
rascals who are slandering me ought to be de-
nounced, and the mean attempt to injure me in
the public esteem exposed. 1t is much more i'm
portsnt to the people than it is to mo that those