The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-17
PERSONAL.

The Tee OF Caleb Gushing as counsel fol
Mexico before the AeHsaa Claims Commission
ls $50 600 gold.
Mile. ChamerousaRskou is singing in Lon.
don. The lady is from Moscow, and certainly
has great name.
Madam Anna Bishop Schultz has arrived
IN England from Alexandria. after profcs.
sional t,ur of many years in California. the
East and West Indies, china, and the Indian
Archipelago.
| Count MiGptine, the Oldest member Of be
Russian Cabinet, attempted, a few weeks ago,
to take his own life on account of the miscon.
duct Of his only daughter, who eloped from
| st. Petersburg With French actor.
The Rev. DR.. unshou, the noted English
preacher. has visited both Chicago and Gin
clnnati; and says that sgt Chicago. everybody
seems to be going to some place; at Cincinnati,
they look as though they had been there and
| returned"
One of the professors of the French Acad-
emy OF Music recently received the following
! letter: "sir-My oldest daughter will die to-
day because she did not obtain the first medal.
My youngest daughter undergoes examination
tomorrow II q similar thing occurs you will
be the cause ofthe death OF my two daughters.
Mrs. K. The frightened examiner did his
best.
"A London Catholic paper, which is sup
posed to be INSPIRED" by Official information.
states that seven or eight Anglican clergymen
propose to attend the Ecumencal Council for
the purpose Of obtaining definite opinion in
reference to the validity Of their orders, and,
further. to endeavor to foIm union between
the Catholic Church and portion Of the An.
glican community. They have asked, it sp-
pears, an English Roman Catholic bishop to
be their spokesman. "a.
Tho Emperor Napoleon must be singu-,
lar being if we are.to credit al that We hear OF
him. Anew sketch describes him as not lk-
ing discussion. "He listens without answer
ing. He interrogates in order to prepare his
reply, but not to receive advice. 1t is often
at night that he makes up his mind. and as
soon as he wakes he writes to dismiss min
lister or issue manifesto. He believes N
himself-whicE is strength; but in himself
slone-wbich is Weakness. Nevertheless. he
is accessible to allmodern ideas against which
be never ralses an objection"
An explorer named Cameron is confident
that there e1ists, in remote part Of Borneo,
race Of men with tails, and he is going on an
expedition to Investigate the matter. He also
states, confidently, that far away In the inte-
rior Of Afri.a e similar race Of men is known
to exist. More than twenty years ago, Du Cou.
ret, . well-known French traveller in africa,
discovered. in central psrt OF that continent,
the existence Of q race called the NAM Mans,
or men with tails; and the evidences laid by
him before certain scientific bodies in Paris
were deemed to be conclusive on the subject.
twill be interesting To. trace the further de-
velopments Of this matter, since the discovery
Of the link between man and brute will tend to
reinforce the Dsrwinian theory OF species, be.
sides throwing light on the natural history Of
the negro.
"A rsceut ulaExzme, reaung OF Wairer say.
age Landor, quotes, as from letter OF MIR.
Charles Dickens, description Of Landor,
which is, word for word. Esther Summerson's
account of Mr.. RoythorD, in "Bleak Ho-se." !"
The reviewer could hardly make slip 60 bad
as this appears. There remains, therefore,
the curious question, whether Mr.. Dickens re.
hashes his private correspondence into novels,
or puts off bis correspondents with quotations
OF things which they may tread comfortably
in book" Whichever way is true, it seems
impossible that 80 prolific and ready writer
should resort to such small mental economies.
So the reviewer may be wrong after all. OF
course everybody knows that BoythorD, in the
book, is q ''study" OF Lsndor in real life, but
that has nothing to do with this, that We can
perceive. .,-.--......--
In the recently published diary Of Henry
Orabb Robinson there is an interesting account
Of his first interview with Madame de Stael.
he was ushered into her bedroom. "She was
sitting most decorousIy in bed and writing.
She had her night cap on, and her face was not
made up for the day. It was by no means a
captivating spectacle, but I had very cordial
reception, and two bright black eyes smiled
benignantly on me-" Mr. Robinson records
his utter failure in making her feel the trans
cendent excellence of Goethe. In reply to his
remark that she never understood aud never
could understa d the great poet, she made
use of fine specimen Of French audlcity tenn
perel with French wit: "Her eyes flashed
she stretched out her fine arm, OF which che
was Justly vain. and said in an emphatic tone :
'lfons,enr, je comprends tout ce qui m1erfte
etre con,pris; ce que je ne comprends nest
,ien.'"
The Hungarian journals relate the follow
ing extraordinary case Of suicide: Last week
John StebaleskI, shopkeeper in the Rue Sc
bastiani, at Pesth, came down from his bed
room at o'clock in the morning, leaving his
wife in bed. He then shaved himself, put on
his best clothes, stretched himself on the
counter, and, having loaded pistol, discharg-
cd the contents into his heart. Death was in.
stantaneous. The horror and astonishment
o. his wife and the neighboIs were indescrba-
BILE, and the more 80 that no one knew Of any
motive for the commission Of the desperate
act. Whilst all were lost in conjecture. an old
friend OF the deceased came rushing up out Of
breath. He had just received by post letter
from Stabaleski, dated tho previous evening,
and thus worded: "DIy Dear Friend-I have
decided to kill myself tomorrow. Life is un-
supportab.c. Iadorc my wife, but she has
grown 80 stout-she that WAS OF 30 ravishing 8