The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-09-18
FOREIGN ITEMS.

Russia is trying to buy q Norwegian
port.
There are six millions of bodies buried in
the catacombs Of Paris.
There are nearly twenty thousand Ameri.
cans in and about Paris.
-Thiers has been Offered fifty thousand dol.
lars for his Forthcoming "History of the
Restoration" ...........-.--
Marshal Caprobert . writing. a reply to
Kinglake's statements in his Crimean book,
and his wife ID trsnslatlns 1t.
The French Postmaster General has given
| a new pair Of pantaloola to each OF the car
riers who ride velocipedea
1t is proposed to nominate Mr.. Gladstone
for the British Parliament, to represent the
University Of Cambridge.
1t is said that there are about 200, 900 ma
tive Christians in India. there only remain
las. 100000.
The French Governmnt advertises for
proposals to print the Monteur for twelve
Years. Twelve years is long time in
France.
The most sensible thing Napoleon's minis-
ters have lately done is to allow young Cavaig-
nae TO 90 back to school just as il he had not
snubbed the Prince Imperial
The female telegraph operators in England
have been alarmed By q repor. that the govern
ment purposed to dismiss then all when it got
control OF the lines; but the story is contra
dicted.
THE latest London sensatDn is breach of
promise case between cookand q coachman.
The faithless swain had committed himself In
three hundred letters, and ws mulcted in f10
damages.
The tomb Of William Ruins, in Winchester
Cathedral, has been opened, ind the bones OF
the red-halred monarch, with the veritable
arrow Of Tyrell, found restinRquite comforta-
bly,.
An English curate who hlieved that cler-
oymen of that rank are undrpaid, suggests
That they all band together aid adopt tho tac-
tics employed by other worknen, namely, that
Of strike, and thus secure letter wages.
1t is proposedb by an English mathemati-
clan to test the strength Of DDS in construct
ing bridges by sscertaining tleir musical prop.
critics. he believes that the note which such
rods give out when struck will be an indica-
ton Of their tensile strength.
MIR. Jefferson Davis, WHO is staying at
Alton, Staffordshire, England, Was present at
q horticultural show at Alton Towers 1.-THE seat
Of the Earl of Shrewsbury aid Talbot) on
Thursday, September 8. Their was large
concourse Of visitors from different parts Of the
country, and when it became ;now9 that MIR.
Davis was pi esent the people cleared him.
The Paris Figaro asserts that the first con-
sequence of the withdrawal Of the permission
to sell that journal in the streets was an in-
crease in its circulation Of fur thousand. A
similar result has followed the expulsion OF
Rooheforte's Lanterne from Paris. Its circu-
latlon has. gone up to one hundred and twenty
thousand copies since the removal to Belgium.
THE French War Department is busfly oc-
cup ed in organizing the National Guard Mo-
bile. The plan for The formation Of the bat-
talions hasj Just been sent to the generals COM
manding the different divisions, as well as to
the military intendance. There will be for
each reimbursement o corps about two thou
sand strong, taken from the ,antons in proper
ton to the population. Whsn the cadres are
formed and the c1ntineent fixed, the young
men will be informed Of ther inscription. The
formation Of the companies, as well as their
equipment and their armament, will take place
subsequently,. The whole Will not be tormi-
mated before next month.
, "A Russian prisoner OF the late Polish in
surrection has been publishing bis story. He
saws that sometimes the electric battery was
used by the police to eItoE confession. Then
there was the torture Of tbs herring. Pr!son-
ers were fed upon sailed herrings until the
proper agency Of thirst Wis produced. when
they would be brought befGe the commission
ers. The sittings were us1ally at night, In q
eplendidly lighted apartment, with refresh
ments of all kinds temptlnily displayed on the
side tables. The Presiden would usually be
most gracious. "By-and-ly," he would say,
owo will, if you like, ask yu to have something
to drink with u.s." The feser and the vertigo
caused the prisoners TO loB their reason, and
they generally yielded.