The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-10
FOREIGN TOPICS.

ed at the head OF regiment OF cavalry IN snam
fight at Stargard and the troops have given her
'sword Of honor"
so many liberals in France Germany and
Italy having lately declined accepting the orders
conferred upon them by different sovereigns, the
French Government has issued circular to the
various European cabinets, suggesting that hence.
forth no more orders shall be given to any persons
but such as previously signify their acceptance.
The North German Navy, since the acquire
ment Of ports on the Baltic, has been rapidly in
creasing, and greater interest is felt among the
people in maritime affairs. The German Society
in aid of the shipwrecked is constantly receiving
additions Of members and contributions, and the
operations OF the association are becoming more
extended. The sympathy with the shipwrecked
sailors is not confined 10 the coast districts, and
the society recently received donation Of $4,000
from resident Of Bonn.
"A model OF the proposed bridge across the
British channel is 10 be erected over the lake in
the Bos de Bouogne. In constructing the chan
mel bridge, the piers are to be foated TO the ap-
pointed spot, and then the buoys being with
drawn, they fall into their position. Each pier Is
armed with telescope screws Of enormous
strength, which are worked into the bed. The
piers are 80 constructed that water pours through
them with little resistance; and each pier Is pro-
vded with staircase, up which, should vessels
run foul OF them, the crew could run and go home
by train.
in the City Of Bristol England, the annual
death.rate has lately been reduced from twenty
eight to twenty-five and half per thousand OF
the whole population; in other words, there are
fewer deaths by thousand in year than for
merly. The change is ascribed to the action OF
health officer, Mr.. Davies who, aided by four in
spectors, has visited every tenement court three
times week, examined every house and closet,
disinfected every nuisance, and superintended
the clearing OF drains and the 'whitcwashing OF
walls. Although grea: part OF the population
live in these crowded courts, Mr.. Davies has sue
ceeded in extirpating typhus and other malignant
fevers and has thoroughly interested the laboring
people themselves in his measures.
There was very alarming shock OF an earth
quake in and around Schemacha in the Caucasus,
on the 2lst of August. Nearly the whole town,
with the neighboring town Of Sundi, was de-
stroyed. Hardly house escaped serious DAM
age The earthquake signazed its approach by
several phenomena, among which were an unu-
sual turbdness OF the water and the prevalence
of an o1or Of garlic in the air. During the
trembling the magne. lost its attractive power.
The motion was undulatory, and the earth-wayes,
following different directions, met and crossed
each other. This wave-ke rolling OF the ground
was accompanied by vertical movement which
has been but rarely observed in such phenomena.
The central point OF the earthquake was chain
OF mountains in the neighborhood Of Schemacha.
Asia is suffering from the combined attacks
OF cholera and famine. At Lucknow, the deaths
from the former are averaging eight or ten a day.
During the month Of June alone there were 10000
deaths from cholera in the central provinces, and
for the following two months the rate was not
much less In Eastern Bengal there have certainly
been 20, 900 deaths during the season, and in the
Punjab, Upper Bengal and Rajpootana the deaths
have at the very least been sufficient to swell up
the grand total 900 for the whole OF Eastern
and Central India. Six hundred Europeans have
pcrished out of scanty population Of some l5o,-
600. The famine Is also doing its part towards the
diminution Of the population. In Delhi food has
risen to four times the usual price; rice that used
to be procurable at forty seers eighty pounds)
for the rupee now commands rupee for ten
acter of the population there is widespread dis
tress. People are selling or their idols and jewel
nv to keep themselves alive; the food shops, ap-
prchensive possibly of riots, eXpend large
share of their profits in dispensing provisions
gratuitously to the people. In AJmere and some
OF the native States OF Rajpootana the suffering is
dreadful. In Gwalior alone there have been two
thousand deaths from starvation in the past six
weeks. The Maharajah of Jcypore has expended
s45OOOO in feeding his people; but even this mu-
nilccnt libcraty has only partially alleyiated the
existing distress.
The following account OF the recent torture
of IL Christian woman by the Chinese, in Canton,
comes to us in our latest foreign files: - native
Christian woman, much respected by the Chris
tians, and even by the pagans who were acquaint-
ed with her. has devoted herself for twenty years
to the rescuing and baptizing infants abandoned
by :heir parents At the beginning of July she
was arrested on the charge OF practiclng sorcery
upon young children, and of taking out their
eyes, the marrow Of their bones, and even their
souls, with view TO the preparation OF magical
remedies. She was several times savagely beaten
on the face with leathern straps to induce her to
confess her guilt In the midst OF her tortures, how
ever she maintained the greatest courage and con-
stancy in confessing the faith. She was con-
demned to death, and it was feared the sentence
would be Immediately executed. Upon this NJ
Grardin, the resident missionary, succeeded in
obtaining entrance to the prison, heard her con-
fession, and administered to her the Holy Viat-
cum, while the bishop, Mgr Guillemn left no
means untried to. obtain respite. This was