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


The Austrian Emperor spe lks 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. .OCO ,Ooo
in commemorating the Prince Consort.
The Princess Metternich, at recent re-
ception, offered her guests cigars, aud led OF
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 Mira. 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, few mornings
since, hired locomotive to take her one hun
dred and sixty-6ve miles, and rode upon it
with the engineer and fireman.
-Dore't 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 q 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
pose ?" asked his friend, interrupting him.
In March, 1865, Representative Schenck
engineered through Congress reso.uti IN Civ
ing his relative, Powell, the artist, s25 600 to
paint another big picture for the adornment
of the Capitol. Powell is said to have received
$1,000 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 Er. Carl Voght
from Germany TO lecture on natural science.
He will cost 500, 900 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.
Tho fftieth anniversary Of the Pope's 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 suitable presents on the occasion.
Without speaking of others, his Holiness Is to
receive from the Commission OF Hospitals at
Rome a missal-stand, surmounted with
ststuette OF the Immaculate Conception, crown
ed with diamonds and pearls, the value OF the
whole being $4,000.
"A futal duel has just taken place at Caselvat-
ica, in the neighbornood OF Bologna, between
q MARQUIS Plzzardi and Marquis Mazz lceratl.
Accoldin to the conditions OF the affair, the
parties we're allowed t1 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! NJ. Pizzardi, having the
first fire, approached his enemy and offered to
waive ,is right, if the other would take his
hand and be reconciled. Fire, or will Kill
you," answered Mazzacorati. The other, as
NAV be imagined, did not wait for second
summons. but levelled his pistol and at once
laid his adversary dead at his feet. Another
duel, also attended with fatal result, ID an
nounced from Turin.
The Chicago Advance, recognized as the
leading Congreg ational newspaper OF the
Northwest, has had from the day it's first num-
ber was issued an unknown Washington cor
respondent, who was wont to indulge IN the
most fulsome fatte.y of General o. 0. Howard
and the Bureau, and not unfrequently to com
pllment him at the expense of the Rev. Dr
Boynton, of the Congregational Church II
Washington City. 1t was certain the cores
popdent of the Advance was at all times Will
ling to swear by General Howard, and OF thls
perhaps no one had right to complain. Since
General Howard has changed quart ters he hat
visited Chicago, and the Advance has giveI
him an editorial notice, In which it stated thai
aGeneral Howard has been the able Washing
toa correspondent of this paper since the da.
twas first started" Howard can exclaim, "E
tn Brute"
M. B. Jouvn writes in tho Paris Gaulois
"Mlle. Christina Nilsson is twenty -foar years
old; her deep blue eyes are rendered still NOR
sombre by the arches Of her long eyelashes
In return, however, her nasoe and dream!
smile sheds flood of light over her face
which bears q strange but yet charming ex
preston. Her light blonde hair harmoniousl!
crowns square and expansive forehead, and
her complexion is of that whiteness peculiar t
the daughters of the North. There is in he
person something OF q child ofa fairy, and
al appartion. The specta,tr, who listens t
her with pleasure mingled with kind o
vague uneasiness, not knowing whether he ap
plauds woman Vt vision, thinks some magi
clans wand may suddenly cause Violette
Martha or Opholia to disappear. AS regard;
her voice, it could not be compared with tina
of any of the other great artists Of the lyrica
stage of France"
A GREAT BRIDGE. on the bridge owe
| 4bo Eost River betyoen New York and Brook