The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-05
Personal.

4 mOuTutliR.
The French Prince Imperial was fourteen
years old March 16.
William Lloyd Garrison has come out in
favor of free trade.
General Robert Anderson goes to Europe
to educate his children.
-Troplong. the late President of the French
Senate died s15o, 900 in debt.
Miss Fanny B. Price, a talented actress,
has ioined the Catholic Church at Memphis,
Tenn.
james Fisk, Jr., haa sent for cargo of
cheap British velocipedes, with which he in
tends to monopolize the market.
Thirty years ago, A. T. Stewart was rated
on the mercantile reports: "Said to be worth
$4,000; credit A /; cautious and safe.'
Alexander T. Stewart, Of New York, has
given Sc 100000 to build two Homes, one for
Young working women, aud the other for young
working men.
Dana Of the New York Sun, isn't 80 Grant
isb az he was; and his New York contempora-
ries maIcieusly intimate that he didn't get the
Office he wanted.
The daughter Of Nine. Jenny Lind Gold
schmidt girl of twelve years, is said to pos
sess much of the great talent of her mother,
and to have an excellent voice.
"A Confederate soldier living at Holly
Springs, Miss, named Wiktor Stajowski, has
recently received information that he has fallen
heir to 5000 guilders in Poland. equal to about
$500 in gold.
The Washington Star of Thursday says:
Lieutenant Governor Dunn, (colored,) of
Louisiana, was upon the floor OF the Senate
to-day. and received courteous greeting from
many senator's"
Mrs. Johu Jacob Astor, of New York, cele-
brated the coming Of age of her son on We'd
nesday, by furnishing the Children's Aid So
ciety with the amount required to provide one
hundred orphan boys with homes at the West.
Stewart is becoming emphatically the
Haussman of New York. so far as the construc-
ton of fine buildings is concerned. he has
commenced the erection Of new store at the
corner of Fourth avenue and Thirty. Third
street.
The Hancock Club Of New Orleans enter
tanned General Frank P. Blair one evening last
week. He expressed his intention to cast his
lot with tba South, preferripg to share her fate
and participate in the DISTINGUISHING acts ala
other disabilities to which Congress had seen
fit to subject her.
Carlos Manuel Cespedes, the comm amber
of the Cuban rebels, is native of Cuba, and
about forty-fve years old. BE studied law in
Europe graduated with high hon ors, returned
| to his native island and settled at Manzanillo,
where he has long been regarded as the lead
ing lawyer of that section. He Inherited
large fortune which he has greatly increased
by his own labors. A few months ago he libe-
rated his slaves, and, at the head of hundred
patriots like himself, inaugurated the rebellion
in Cuba.
Patti, the Marquise de Caux, is still the
rage at st. Petersburg. Her concert for tho
poor brought f1600. She walks about en-
veIooed in sables OF the densest black, and
| consequently Of the most rare quality-on her
ncau ooJltlK, ner face .protected py pIucn
velvet mask, escorted by the Emperor and
Grand Duko Vladimir. She sings three nights
| of the week at the opera, aud it is as difficult
! to secure places as on The first day o. her ar
rival. The Paris Gaulois gives letter from 81.
Petersburg, which says that the clubs OF that
capital had presented La Diva with necklace
OF cold, the central ornament being diamond
valued at FL, 500, set round with rubies; ear
rings accompanied this gift which cost six
thousand guineas. 1t was handed to her in
the name of these clubs by the CHEF d'orchestre
at the conclusion Of tho third act of "Don
Pasquale." On the following morning Patti
received a letter from Count heidelberg, Minis
ter of the Emperors Household, in which,
in his Majesty's name, he begged her
acceptance OF the souvenir offered to her by
Alexander RI. This consisted OF superb
brooch and ear ings of diamonds OF such mag
nitude and purity that ir would be almost. I'M
possible to oalcul tie their value. On the pre-
ceding evening Patti had considerable difficult
ty in reaching the footllghts in order to ac-
knowledge the enthusiasm she had excited,
the heaps of boquets which lay piled on the
stage literally impeding her movements.
DIR. Mudd is described as little above the
middle height, with reddish mustache and
chin whisker, high forehead and attenuated
nose. He is thirty-fve years Of age aud pen
niess. On recent Interview with Now York
Herald reporter no narrated the story OF
Booths com ;ng to his house on that fatal april
night, saying that he represented himself as
on Journey from Richmond to Washington.
The Doctor was first introduced to Booth IN
November, 1854, and did not sec him AGAIN
until the following Christmas, when the latter
called upon him aud desired an introduction
to John H. Surratt. He says: Booth and L
walked alone the avenue three or four blocks,
when wo suddenly came ACROSS Surratt and
Weichman. and oil four having become ac-
quaip.cd we adjourned to tho National Hotel
and had round OF drinks. The witnesses in
NV case swore that Booth and moved to q
corner OF the room md were engaged for an
bour or 90 in secret consultation. That was o
barofIced lie. The whole four of us were IN
loud and open conversation all the time We
were together, and when we separated we four
never mot again." During his call at the Doc
;jr's house. Booth mentioned the route he in
tended 10 lake. but afterwards altered his
mind. The Doctor told the soldiers what Booth
had said. and Was accused OF seeking to lead
them astray. Ho is very bitter in his denun-
citation of tho military commission before
which he was tried. "rhe witnesses pcrjurcd
themselves. and while was sitting there in
that dock, listening to their monstroas false
hoods, 7 felt ashamed of my species and lost
faith forever in ull mankind. That men could
.1 .... =, Al 4 oo,rt o,d fake an oath before