Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-19
EUROPEAN GOSSIP

4 The King OF Prussia Is going 10 visit
England in the course of a few weeks.
Gottschalk has been appointed Imperial
Director of all the military and naval
bands in Brazil.
Queen Victoria has allowed four British
officers to aid in the organization and drill
of the Persian army.
Frederick Gerstaecl1er, The great Ger
nan traveller, viii return next spring to
the United States.
The Duke de Montpensier publicly de-
nounces both Serrano and Topete as false
and treacherous men.
Prim, it is said, has spent more than
three hundred thousand dollars for the
purpose of buying votes for the Duke of
Genoa.
Eugene is going to write book on her
! trip to the Orient MIR. Belmontet, the
Bonapartistic poet, will lend her his
assistance for that purpose.
The ex-King of Naples, who has just
returned from a visit TO Germany says:
Il have brought back one conviction, and
that is-there are no more Kings"
Madame Rattazzi says, in the Partisan
salons, that Italy viii be arepublic in less
than five years, and that her husband
Ulbano will be its first President.
Veuillot, of the Paris UniUers, says
that Pere Hyacinthe was once in danger
of being expelled from his seminary for
an attempt to seduce young girl.
Mile. Artot, prima donna, on the oc-
poui1Y, nf lor o1
married sister with one hundred thousand
francs, thus reversing the usual order of
wedding gifts.
Mr.. Bandmann, the tragedian, was
recently fined a shilling for destroying a
photographers case of photographs. The
pictures represented him dressed as Mar
cisse, in the character of Hamlet.
Patti Caux, at her recent appearance in
ST. Petersburg in La Traviata, was re-
called twenty-three times and pelted, after
the Russian fashion, with bouquets of
rosebuds and baskets of camelias.
The morganatic wife of King Victor
Emmanuel is not, asis generally supposed,
an ,illiteTate woman of coarse personal
charms, but quite accomplished, refined,
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| character.
Berlin correspondents friendly TO Bis
marck admit that the reports about the re-
cent severe illness of the Chancellor Of
the North-German Confederation were
solely got up in order to throw the French
diplomats off their guard.
Gen. Fleury writes to Paris that he is
delighted with the reception he has met
with in Russia, and he predicts very con
fidently that the Courts of St Petersburg
and the Tullcries viii soon be on terms Of
| closer friendship than ever before
The story that the Emperor Napoleon
tried recently to initiate his young son
into the delightful pleasure of smoking
cigarettes, is pronounced by the semi
cial French papers, weak invention of
Mr.. Pierre NerOn, a feuilletOnist noted
for his ingenious canards.
Rochefort has fallen ''iiat'' in the
| Chamber. He went there the other day.
1t was filed with Deputies, but not one
of them spoke to him. He went from the
Chamber to the library, sat down, looked
over a newspaper for a few minutes,
aud then went away without saying a
word to anybody. He was extremely en-
baTassed.
Prince GOrtschakoff, the Russian Min
lister of Foreign Affairs, is openly living
with the young wife of his nephew, whom
he keeps as his mistress. The scandal
which their relations excited, two years
ago, has not deferred him at all from as
sOCiating with her. On fine afternoons
he may be seen driving out with the lady,
who is of not a remarkably prepossessing
appearance, in an open barouche.
A Paris letter Of the 29th of Novem-
Der reports: ''ThG Tuileries are Just as
gay as if the Empress were at home.
Not an evening passes without a dinner
party, which, it Oftens happens, is fol
lowed by q dance, given for the pleasure
of the Prince Imperial His Imperial
Highness, with his frst cigar, has assum-
ed the togd Uirilis-i. G., an evening
court suit of black velvet, with diamond
buttons, and the grand Gordon of the
Legion of Honor to relieve the sombeT
hue of the coat and other garments"
'The physicians" says the Paris
GauIois, ''and Dr. Ricord at their head,
are unanimous in declaring that the late
illness of the Emperor, far from impair
ing his health, has, on the contrary, con-
solidated it. His Majesty says that
eminent practitioner, has found, in the
struggle with his malady, fresh and IN
expected force. Pay no attention to fan
tastical and malevOlent diagnOstiCs; it is
not the Emperor who is most surprised al
this issue of the crisis; it is |. ~
The Berlin papers tell a good anccdote
of Bismarck Not long ago the Count
appeared at one of those balls where
every one must pay very high price.
He there met his tailor, KOhlmCicr, spoke
to him freely, and asked him how the
affair pleased him; whereupOn the man Of
cloth, with a very serious face, replied ::
ut is very pretty, EXceIlency, but-some-
what miXedl" Bismarck tapped the
tailor on the shoulder, and pleasantly re
piled: 'But, my dear Mr.. Kohlmeier,
they can't be all tailors, you know"
The Sultan is not very well pleased with
the manner in which the distinguished
guests, whom he entertained lately at Con-
stantinOplc, behaved in that city. He
had been led to believe that they would
treat him with a certain Difference, but,
instead of that, both the Emperor OF
Austria and the CrOwn-PrinCe of Prussia
acted rather condcsccndingly towards him.
Besides, the expense of receiving these
Princes with true oriental magniticencC
was so enormous, thatthe GrandSeignOT 5
+ cXchequer is more embarrassed than ever
before. Several Paris bankers, to whom
! Geographic messages for loans were made,
. decidedly refused to relieve the neCessitiC'
, Of Abdul Aziz.
UndeGined Ailments.