The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-25
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| The London Standard S|;s Sc an editoriel on,
what it calls the "Musioal sSs9ado at Bos-
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| An American wedding iss % come off
| in Paris, a cIerg, man having Deen imported
from this side expressly to tie the knot.
| The experiment of providing specially for
| infants brought in arms to the Royal Alfred
Theatre in London proved very great sue
cess in one respect. The children left were so
numerous that it became necessary to post up
notices that no more could be admitted. It
was discovered, however, that the mothers
who brought their babes looked upon tho insti-
tuition as q founding hos pital, and did not call
promptly for their offspring. There is an acs
cumulation Of babies and the management
does not know what TO do with them; but the
''children's cloak" room has heen closed.
Sir Rutherford Alcock, the BIRTHS Minis
ter in China, gives IN un1attering but appar.
emily truthful account OF the pro ,ress which
China is willing to make. The representations
Of Mr. Buriingame would s6om, according to
Minister Alcock, to bs entirely unfounded.
The mandarins show no Willingness to favor
commerce, and their sole object in tolerating
foreigners is to secure that their coal fields be
properly worked The Ens&ah Ambas sad or.
further warns all capitalists against believing
representations which might irduce them, in
the hope Of increasing civilization in China, to
invest in companies organized with the object
of Making railroads anil cons 'ructing telegraph
lines. c'". .&G
| During the recent disturbance in, Paris
there was but single attempt to raise g barri-
| cade. This absence Of barricades is quite O
new feature in Parisian en.eutes, and there is
| q very good reason for it. Barricades are DOS
sible only in . very short or crooked street,
where the nature OF the ground renders them
secure from an attack by artillery For this
reason. our July rioters did not attempt barri-
cade fghtipg. for the dullest Of their leaders
could not avoid perceiving that barricades are
impossible in q city where the streets are laid
cut on uniform rectangular plan. Napoleon,
during the last twenty years, has been steadily
converting . the tortuous, narrow streets OF
Paris into broad, straight avenues. There is
now hardly quarter ID Paris where any ex-
tensive system Of barricades could he built,
All the new baulevarsls can be swept from end
to end by cannon. n at~
0-The 'fwoman question $50 far as educa-
tion and diversified meansiof employment are
concerned. is. il possible, more persistently
and succe ssfully agitated abroad than here
Women are being more and more employed in
postofices and other government departments
In France and Russia they are now in the tele-
graph Offices, and the government proposes to
make them eligible to the postal service.
Courses OF lectures on history, philology, ma
thematics. and the natural sciences are to be
opened next fall at the ST.. Petersburg Univer-
sity, for the benefit Of women, and an inter
nation periodicals. aboutto be established in
London, under the patronage Of the crown
rr'soess OF Prussia, Q1een Victorias eldest
daughter, for the promotion of feminine edu-
cation in the higher branches, and for an ex-
tension Of the list of occupations available to
women. The workers for the elevation Of wo-
men have certainly cause for thanhulness
and eourage ct the progress everywhere beng
Prussia and France are already pursuing a
Hypothetical war in the newspapers. writer
in the Spectateur Mllitaire says that When the
orash comes 'sthe northern frontier Of France
will be ably defended; part Of the active (sec)
army VIII embark at Brest and Cherbourg, os-
tensibly for an expedition against Kiel or Dant-
zic. but in reality it win 20 southward, passing
the STRAITS OF Gibraltar, take up with part Of
smother active army, and them land at Genoa.
or Trieste. II the South German States are
allied with France, the Danube will be gained
at Ratisbon, Passau or Linz. from viii ii point
the united army will march through Tyrol and
Bavaria to the Main" Geography is no OBJ
stacle to this writer, only it ought to be sug-
gested: How will the ''united army get Inn.
spruck OF some point between Ratisbon and
Frankfort-on-the-Main? Then, in the opinion
Of tue writer. Austria is to side with France.
the army is to march from Trieste to Vienna
or Presburg. then along the March through
Morayia 20 Silesia, avoiding the Rhine, the
Weser and the Elbe. "a great battle will be
fought somewhere between Dresden. Bantzen
and Breslau, the road to Berlin will be cleared,
and the peace Of the world assured" Bus what
viii Prussia be doing al the time France is to
be accomplishing these Ane things ?, S5j
--Bismarcks German Confed dsrstion is net
composed entirely Of harmonious elements.
The citizens of Frankfor, eannot forget the
fame of the old 6 free city" and even now
chafa bitterly under the humiliation Of Psuz-
sian rule. A correspondent who attended the
osterfest, held in the forest near that city,
last May, gives, in the following anecdote. q
good Illustration Of the feeling OF the pAople,
as ,Rell as OF their peculiar ways ofexpressing
it. He SAYS -" But one incident occurred to
mar tho festivities Of the dsy, and even threat
ened'a greater disturbances between the people,
and the soldiers. / hsYe said that polllscs
were apparently forgotten; the old hate against
the Prassiang only slumbered. The Prussians
could mot get our forest, anyhow, hard as they
tried, said one. The old Wald IL consecra-
ted BY, toe many. tests for the city to part
fnthSat, IA, ,sssid another. Abont seven o'cock ips
the evening, some Frankfort ionrnsymen beer
brewers began to tease two Pfnssfan soldiers,
who were seated very peaoeablys drinking their
beer, on the grass. "a few other rough fellows