The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-01
PERSONAL.

| Al "IAS auu d AOrSuu0 Oh Blk m1lllOn dollars.
General Robert e. Lee has lately visited
New England, and has return =, . the South.
-Anneke JAMS heirs have ~ paid ,hei,
lawyers $25. 600 to keep peggin;s ayay at Trini-
| ty Church. %
! The belle OF Staten Island Whoever she
may be) is to be married April 14th to an ex-
Confederate General.
Henry Ward BeechS returns an income,
for 1868. of SALTS. H.sB. Clafln, the great
dry goods man. returns 1850. 600.
"a Brave Lady" Is the name of Miss
Mulock's new novel, soon to appear in the
magazine of her husband, Macmillan.
The beauty OF Queen Victoria's family is
developing in her Majesty's grandchildren.
The eldest son OF the Prince Of Wales bids fair
to be perfect Adonis.
|. -Isabella is reported to have invested eight
hundred thousand dollars in arms for that
imaginary force Of loyal spaniards who are to
relnstate her upon her throne.
-Forney writes to q Southern man that his
s'whole object is to see the South not only re-
turn TO it's past prosperity, but to see it en-
barked upon career Of renown that will place
it in successful competition with the North. {"
Forney has land to sell.
-Sprague is said to have been correct when
he styled himself ''no orator" He is repre-
sented as speaking with his hands in his pan
falcons pockets, with his arms akimbo or his
hands olasped under his coat-tails. Also that
he turns his back upon the Vice-President and
talks to the galleries, while twisting, and jerk
ing, and pounding his empty chair.
Mr.. James F.. Casey, who has just been
confirmed as Collector OF New Orleans, is mar.
ried to a sister of Mrs. Grant He was former
ly q merchant at st. Louis, but removed to
New Orleans about three years since to estab-
lish hmsef as cotton factor. Last winter,
there not being much to do, Mr.. Casey ac-
cepted place as weigher at the New Orleans
Customhouse.
Mr.. Burlingame and the Emperor OF France
are said to be great cronies At q recent ball
at the Tuileries the Empress begged Mrs. B.
to aooept o splendid brooch set with pearls and
diamonds, and the Emperor went with Mr.. B.
for half an hour into the smoking room, where
he handed him one OF his own cigarettes, and
laughed and jested with him. When the two
left the smoking room, Napoleon III patted
the American Ambassador of the Chinese EN-
peror very cordially o,ethe back.
The religion of the members Of the new
Cabinet is stated to e as follows: Attorney
General Hoar is Unitarian; Secretary OF the
Interior Cox is Swedenborgian; Secretary of
the Navy Borie is catholic; ex-secretary of
State Washburne is Universalist; Secretary
of State Fish is DUtch Reformer, and Post
master General Creswall eschews churches al
together. The religious faith Of Boutwell, and
Rawlins is not yet known to fame. Grants
family are Methodists, end that is the church
which he USUALLY atteifd Nsss.S.
Mile de Murska. t.. Ching Hungari.n
prima donna, who rsss sv weeks since,
q decided hit ut tie ItsTfSn Upesa in Paris, was
cruel enough to refuse poor old NJ. Auoert the
customary kiss which he exacts from all
young and pretty debutantes uoon congratu.
lating them upon, their success. Mile. de
Murska laughingly assured the old maestro
that she did not allow herself to be hueged
and kissed by any man, but il he wanted to
kiss something very bad, there was her Rloved
hand. Auber adroitly concealed his confusion
by saying it was the smallest and shapelest
hand he had ever seen. -.r
Mr.. Seward wrot, the following letter in
reply to an invitation to attend the Baltimore
banquet in honor Of Andrew Johnson: ssYour
kind note, which invites me to banquet to be
given oy the authorities OF Baltimore TO the
late President, Andrew Johnson, has reached
me at an hour too late to allow of my accept
ance Of the courtesy II it were otherwise in my
power. I cordially thank the authorities for
so kindly remembering my association with
the great statesman OF Tennessee during the
period in which emancipation was gained,
while the integrity Of the Union was saved,
and the constitution was not lost"
General Froissard, the governor of the
Prince Imperial Of France. is an excellent
chess-player, and takes pains to imbue his
little pupil likewise with taste for the noble
game. The princes father ID also good ehea-
player, but he avoids the game for very sin
gular reason. Though the command which
Napoleon the Third has, as general thing, Of
his temper, is almost wonderful, he gets vexed
and angry whenever he loses a game OF chess.
AS soon as he sees that he is likely to lose it,
he begins to twirl his moustache, his face be-
comes flushed, and he commences speaking to
himself in low tone, which is always sure
sign that he is prey to unusual agitation.
The Now York Commercial Advertiser
says: "The visitor who saunters along the
much frequented causeway by the river side,
between Hoboken and the Eysian Fields. will
occasionally meet modest looking little gen.
tleman walking leisurely alone, or sometimes
attended by bright-eyed boy Of i've or six
summers. to whom the cares and responsible
ties Of this life seem no more than the sunshine
that dances on the water. Beneath the meek
garb and unostentatious manner OF tho stran-
ger, he win hardly recognize the soldier OF the
Peninsular. or the man upon whose shoulders
great political party would have cast the
mantle Of the Republics Chief Magistrate"
Baron Erggeteth, who has enjoyed q high
reputation at Vienna as portrait painter, late
" made an extraordinary blunder, which
would be rather amusing IL II had not led to
the unhappy mans disgrace. He had the
honor OF painting portrait " the Emperor,
and the likeness was considered to be particu-
larly successful. As soon, however, MS the
Emperor saw it, he turned away with the grea.