The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-11
Personal GOSSIP.

1T is said by California paper that Gen.
eral Rosecrans will make five millions out Of
his mining specul ations.
Karl Vogt, the German savant, is highly
indignant at the In amer in which the Ameri-
can turner's have received hs offer TO lecture
in tho United States. He had asked twenty
thousand dollars in gold, and three thousand
dollars for his travelling expenses.
-Ulimapn has asked tho veteran Lianist and
composer, Franz Liszt, TO make concert tour
through tho Unitod States. Tho offer was
promptly declined, NJ. Liszt repeating what ho
had 30 often said before, that he would never
appear again q concert player.
The Swedish papers express no less sur
prise thnn satisfaction of Dane who had set
tied somo time ago in Stockholm and recently
gave ten thousand dollars to the poor of that
city, stipulating Mt tho same time that his
name should not be mentioned under any cir
cumstapces. D. '.'.,Y
The King of Prussia hiss twenty splendid
thoroughbred horses each of whom s worth
over twenty-five hundred dollars. The Empe-
ror Of tho French has about four times as
many, son1e of the animals being exceedingly
valuable. The stables Oft tho Sultan are said to
contain no fewer than three hundred splendid
horses. the finest collection of those animals in
tho whole world. ;''-i +'a sH ."T
--Mademoiselle Georges, tue celebrated
French actress, was on one occasion starring
in the Provinces. One evening. after the fall
of tho curtaip, the beau1 of the village assem-
bled round her to congratulate her. '"Ah, gen.
tlernen," sho said, ITO play that part well,
ono ought 10 be young and beautiful" sob,
madam" answered one Of the beaux, 'you'
have proved the contrary lo.sipI 5t-:rNr
Sir Henry Holland, who has just como 10
this country from Englnnd for the ninth timo,
was consulted in Napoleon's last illness, at
tendel Mra. Thralc, the friend of johnson, was
hephyecian and friend of Campbell, Moore,
Rogers, iMadame D'Arb,ay, Joanna Balllie,
Lord Brougham, Sidney Smith. Macaulay,
Hallani and othors; was at tho death. bed OF
Canning, knew Madame de Stael and Talley-
rand, used frequently to- meet Lord Byron ii
society, Of whom he relates many reminiscent.
ces; knew Sir Philip Francls,the reputed author.
of Junius, and has had an experience Of tie past
OF which the present generation with nothing
but it's hopes may naturally envy him. He is
j. certainly ono OF the most romarkabl cmcn OF
this and the past geueratiou. b(b\
"A New, York letter eays. Madame Anna
Bishop, ,the number Of whose vocal years some
unkiua newspaper paragraphiss has been
cynical enough to remelnber; arrived id to4hS
yesteyday. i l hopo she will .ioilgivea CONCERT.
'Wha. becomes 6faif the worn.out prima don J
pas,s would make, asSapital maSasine srtiole,i
which Ihopeto see some day tIeafed Of bytonsI
wsHt6pIfh tHe Hnbject.ss We have enough here
in New York 10 constitute q rood aised 1direc-
torypft hem mselyes Did pity or Compassion
ate thBnT7 NOT lin the least. They hAve:ha
abuffISnts sbppoftunities of layipp up a snun for
tune, They have no kind ofmoral right to equan-
dsrtheiS fnoans, :and then expect, in their
old sge;s to be we'll received by q public
upon whom they be6tow only the shreds OF q
voice. These remarks may not apply to Mad
anne Bishop. I hope they do not; but have
learned too sad and cynical a lesson from eau;
tatrices' agents, who prowl around improvis..
ing brilliant romances about the voices OF their
played-out principals, to entertain any eIpec-
tations but doleful ones Of any prima. donna
past her moridiAn.n