The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-09
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a.. Napoleon the Third has ordered M. Grivot
young portrait painter, to paint full size por.
: traits Of President Johnson and General Grant
for the galleries Of Versailles.
An old Brahmn widow burned herself
with her husbands corpse some months since,
and the English Governor has sent all the men
engaged in the 'suttee' to prison for seven
years.
The German School Review says there are
$50 American students at tie various German
universities, and over 1000 male and female
American pupils at f1rst-class German board
ing schools.
DIR. Oanneau has ordered the Prince mpe-
rial to quit velncipede riding. He says the
Prince is too delicate for that kind Of exercise.
The Prince, who is a passionate velocipedist,
feels very unhappy about it.
-Of the five cables which connected France
and Belgium with England, two had beenrrup-
tured by the tempest. The land communca-
tions which join the three others on each side
of the channel have also been broken, so that
all telegraphic correspondence between France
and England is completely suspended.
1t is rather curious popularity Of En-
glish law that although Jewish patron can
appoint person to a church living Catholic
cannot. Baron Rothschild has just filed q
vacant vicarage, but there are fifty six livings
within the patronage of Catholic peers, none of
which can be given away by the present peers.
German papers state that the whole tract
on which the City of St. Petersburg is built is
sinking slowly but with fearful regularity, and
that at the present rate it will be wholly sub
merged in fifty years. It is added that the
Russian Government is taking steps to remove
the court to some other CITY, The story
,smacks strongly OF sensationalism.
: "A grand exhibition Of implements OF war,
tits announced, will be opened about the be-
ginning of April, at Amsterdam. under the
patronage Of the King OF Holland. The dis
play will comprise ancient and modern armor,
flags and instruments Of warlike music. mill
tary orders and insignia, medals commemora-
tive Of great exploits, besides models and Curl
ous books relating to the art OF war.
M. Touneys invention, it is predicted by
the members of the French Academy of Sci
epces, will bring about q perfect revolution in
the manufacture Of printing paper. BY his
process, old papers can be converted, in course
OF few minutes, into very white and nice pa
per. He first communicated his invention to
M Delahaye, leading paper manufacturer of
Iroyes, who Was 30 greatly surprised at what
he saw that he exclaimed, Tourney, are you a
wizard ?" And whom the inventor fully ex-
planned to him the particulars of his process,
Delahaye added, Goodbye, paper millsI"
Here is the latest from Paris. At a recent
opera bal, yellow domino was observed bow
ing to every lady in Black or rose domino,
whose hand he kissed respectfully and retired
without saying word, but makinga note in
his tablet. Yellow domino was ono Of the
distinguished editors in Paris, who was en-
gaged in the solution ofa great social problem.
How many pairs Of new gloves are worn to-
night at this opera mask2 And he found that
Of three hundred and ffty-six which he had
smelt at under pretence Of kissing there were
only eighteen which had no aroma ofbenxine,
or which had not been cleaned. "
Frederick the Great, in his contempt for
German education and literature, used to APP
point privates or sergeants from his army TO
be schoolmasters, whether they could read or
net. Russia seems to have adopted his plan,
but IN o somewhat improved fashion. There
have been certain military schools at work
ever since 1861, and so successfully has the ex-
pertinent turned out that the whole army is
new intended to form preparatory kind Of
school for the whole nation. The most ad-
vanced soldiers are ct once to be made school
masters or magistrates clerks, and it is calcu-
lated that out of the SOC, 900 men who form the
standing Russian Army, at least 1900 may be
drafted off annually for the "Education Civil
Service"
.s--Maarid correspondents give description
Of the opening Of the Cortes. They say that
when the Marshal proclaimed that the ''Ses-
sion Of the Constituent ,Cortes was legally
opened in the name Of the sovereign nation, "
shout for the sovereign nation arose. followed
by sSuGs to the Provisional Government, to
Serrano. to Prim. One voice was then heard,
crying "Vsoa Ia Repu0Itcn I" which was met
by aicounter cry, Viva la Monayquia Demo-
crattcG" There ensued uproar and confusion
for full five minutes, the President vainly ring
ing his bell till it cracked. Marshal serrauo
stood up, ordered silence and obtained It. and
reminded the audience that in that place any
vivG would be unbecoming, except that which
proclaimed the esovereignty Of the Constituent
C0rtes. This cry was then taken up enthusi.
sSiicsIy; the tumuIt was allayed, and upon the
Withdrawal Of tho ministers the House broke
mp.
China at last comes forward to recognize
religious freedom, by the proclamation OF tht
Imperial Commissioners 10 the effect that thu
preaching Of religion ispermitted by treaty
and that anybody and everybody may freely
submit himself TO be proselyHxed. Hence
uAdSr the terms Or fathe treaty no religious es
tSbllshments within The Empire ore 10 be- dis:
tufbSa,S ana oil offenders against t6e naSw order
are to Do severely punished without hope o
pardon. The effect OF this latest prcolama