The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-25
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

The Austrian Emperor spe AXIS eleven Ian
guages fuently.
Baron Beust has worked himself until he is
very gray and very lean.
The Earl of Zetland has been reelected
Grand Master OF Masons in England.
| Queen Victoria has spent nearly 81, O0O, 900
| in commemorating the Prince Consort.
The Princess Metternich, at recent re-
| ception, offered her guests cigars. apd led cF
| in the smoking herself.
Napoleon recently ordered the Duke Of
Hamilton to leave Paris, for having raised
| disturbance at theatre.
An English mob, who is also an actor in
comedy, Lord Arthur Pelham Clinton, contem-
plates starring tour in the United States.
The postmaster at Hampton, Va, has
been displaced, and Mrs. cambridge, mother
in-law to Major General Reynolds, United
States army, has been appointed to fill the
place.
Anna Dickinson, being too late for the
train at Des Moines, Iowa, q few mornings
since, hired locomotive to take her one hun
dred and sixty-fve miles, and rode upon it
with the engineer and fireman.
-Dore's Sc Gambling S.ene at Baden Ba-
den," "spanish Beggars," and other noted
paintings, are locked up in the New York Gus
tomhouse, and will probably be sent back un-
opened. The exporter supposed they could
be introduced for exhibition free Of duty.
Kalkbrenner, the pianist, was exceedingly
proud Of his nobility. ''My pedigree" he
said, on one occasion to friend Of his, "can
be traced up to the Crusades. One of ny an
cestors accompanied the Emperor Frederick
Rarbarossa-'' "On the grand piano, sup
poseP" asked his friend, interrupting him.
In March, 1865. Representative Schenck
engineered through Congress o resoluti IN Civ
ing his relative, Powell, the artist $25 600 to
paint another big picture for the adornment
of the Capitol. Powell is said to have received
$4,000 of the amount already. but has given
no evidence that he has even commenced to
put paint to the canvas.
The Turner societies Of New York and
other cities propose to bring DR.. Carl voght
from Germany to lecture on natural science.
he will cost $40, 600 for six lectures in each OF
seven cities. His famous saying, "The brain
secretes thought as the liver does bile," has
done more to make him notorious than even
his fine work on mineralogy.
The fftieth anniversary of the Popes or
dination is to be celebrated on the 14th OF
April with much solemnity. In every direction
subscriptions have been organized to offer to
his Holiness suitableepresents on the occasion
Without speaking Of others. his Holiness is to
receive from the Commission OF Hospitals at
Rome missal-stand, surmounted with
statuette OF the Immaculate Conception, crown
ed with diamonds and pearls, the value OF the
whole being $4,000.
"A fatal duel has just taken place at Caselvat-
ica, in the neighborhood OF Bologna, between
Marquis Plzzardi and o Marquis Mazzacorati.
According to- the conditions of the affair, the
parties were allowed t. take their stand within
five PAGES, and as set-of ag ainst the advan-
tage of the first fire. the second shot might be
discharged with the pistol brought up close to
the antagonists face! M. Pizzardi, having the
first fire, approached his enemy and offered to
waive lis right, if the other would take his
hand and be reconciled. "Fire, or will kill
you," answered Mazzacorati. The other, as
may be imagined, did not wait for second
summons. but levelled his pisto and at once
laid his adversary dead at his feet. Another
duel, also attended with fatal result, is an
nounced from Turin.
The Chicago Advance, recognized as the
leading Congregational newspaper Of the
Northwest. has had from the day its first num-
Der was issued an unknown Washington cor
respondent, who was wont to indulge in the
most fulsome fiattery Of General o. o. Howard
and the Bureau, and not unfrequently to COM
pliment him at the expense Of the Rev. DIR.
Boynton, of thes Congregational Church in
Washington City. It was certain the corres-
pondent Of the Advance was at all times will
ling to- swear by General Howard, and Of this
pt1oYo I,ol -
General Howard has changed quarters he has
visited Chicago, and the Advance has given
him an editorial notice, in which it stated that
General Howard has been the able Washing
ton correspondent Of this paper since th 9 day
it was first started Howard can excla,m, s.Et
tn Brute"
M. B. Jouvin writes in the Paris Gaulois
'sMlle. Christina Nilsson is twenty -four years
old; her deep blue eyes are rendered still more
sombre by the arches Of her long eyelashes.
In return, however, her nasUe and dreamy
smile sheds food Of light over her face,
which bears strange bdS yet charming ex-
preston. Her Light blonde hair harmoniously
crowns square and expansive forehead, and
her complexion is Of that whiteness peculiar to
the daughters Of the North. There is in her
person something Of enid Of . fairy, and Of
an apparition. The spectator, who listens to
her with pleasure mingled with kind OF
vague uneasiness, not knowing whether he ap-
plauds woman or vision. thinks some magi-
clans wand may suddenly cause violette.
Martha or Ophelia TO disappear. As regards
her voice, it could mot be compa1ed with that
ofany of the other great artists Of the lyrical
stage Of France s II.
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A GREAT BRYpaE. Work on the bridge over
the East River, between New York and Brook
lyn, will soon begin. The New York Sun Of
the 12th inst. says concerning this gnagnif- !
cent enterprise
The board Of consulting engineers adjourned
yesterday. after . careful examination OF the
plans aud theories Of the constructing engln-