The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-13
PERSONAL.


sand dollars to the Pope.
One of the sons Of the Viceroy Of Egypt is
going to enter at Oxford.
Mr.. Saul s. aenkel, Of Ohio, has bought
the debris OF the late National Intelligencer.
Jefferson Davis is now making tour
through Scotland, accompanied by DR.. Charles
Mackay.
-Abbe Lise.'s new oratorio Of "Ohrist" is
said to be the most extraordinary piece of So
called descriptive music ever composed.
Isaac Y. Fowler, once New York Postmas-
ter, who had ''misunderstanding" ~ the
government about his accounts. ia now in San
Francisco.
Frederick Douglass, the greatest "colered'
orator in the United States, in his late speech
at Medina, N. Y. invariably speaks Of the
bl.cks as negroes
-vieuxtemps recently paid SIS SIS for q
very old violin. He con buy bran new fiddle
almost anywhere for dollar. But these al fists
do not appreciate the value Of money.
Mark Twain says that the distance per rail
from San Francisco to New York is equal to
two hundred and eleven games Of euchre, one
hundred ald seventy-three drinks, and one
hundred and seventeen cigars.
Marshal Serrano is fast acquiring the style
of sovereign. he is to occupy the royal
residence at La Granja, and has been pleased
to commend 'that all official acts shall hence
forth be in the name Of his Highness the
Regent"
"A letter from St. Petersburg states that
Komisarow, the peasant who saved the life OF
the Car, did not commit suicide, but was mur-
dered by being hanged in his own house, and
that several persons have Been arrested as &C.
eomplices in the crime.
The "Avenir National" is bold enough to
mention the death Of Cautillon, the man who
fred at the Duke of Wellington, aud to whom
Napoleon left ten thousand francs year in his
will. In consequence Of question asked in
the House Of Commons. the annual payment
of this sum was discontinued few years ago,
OautiIlon receiving the capital Of this Infamous
legacy.
In convocation Of the University Of Oxford,
the honorary degree Of D. G. L. was conferred
on MIR. b. ". Longfellow, the American poet,
who was unable to visit Oxford at the COM
memoration of 1858. The poet was presented
by DR.. Rowden to the Pro vice-Chancelor, (Dr.
PIumtre) who duly admitted him. There was
large attendance Of ladies, and most Of the
senior and junior members Of the university
who happened to be in attendance were pres
ent. MIR. Longfellow and his daughters are
Gov n ohor
-"Bow.a asks fast young Partisan of his
friend, "do you rid yoursss::es Of an attachment
which you don't cara to continue ?" II have
an excellent way. Iwrite to the postmaster at
st. Petersburg asking him to send me Rus
sian postage stamp to pay for letter from
Moscow to Parie. Then I put this stamp upon
letter which I have written to the fair one,
in which say that urgent business compels
me to pass the next seventeen years out OF
France This I send to the postmaster at
Moscow, with the request that he will drop it
in the mail, and tho thing is done." "There is
much simpler way than that. write to my
lady, 4 know oil. Adier.' In twenty cases out
of twenty-five there is something to know. At
any rate it has always been successful in my
case."
Queen Isabella, her husband, and her SOD,
the Prince of Asturias, dined at st. Cloud on
the 26th ult. This event may reasonably be con-
strued as confirmation of the rumor that the
Emperor conuived at what is called the ''es-
cape" from Paris Of Don Carlos, in the hope
and full expectation that by the aid OF infor-
nation furnished by the French police he will
very soon be extiueuished, and that the COM
motion caused by his attempted civil war will
afford IN opportunity for restoration in the
person Of the Prince OF Asturias. The Duke
Of Montpensier or republic would be equally
distasteful to the Tuileries. The combination
which the Emperor leans to is the abdication
Of absl!a and the enforcement OF her son,
With his dpcle, Don Henry de Bourbon, for
Regent.
"A traveller in Paris, having occasion for q
hair cutter, sent for one. At the appointed
time an elegantly attired person arrived. and
the gentleman sat down before his dressing
case to prepare for the operation. The man
walked round bis "client" once or twice, and
fipaIIy taking his stand at some distance, attea-
lively scrutinized the gentleman's face with
the air of q connoisseur looking at picture.
SWELL" said the traveller, impatiently, "when
are you going to begin ?" "Pardon me, sir,
was the polite reply; II am not the operator,
but the physiogaomist !" "Adolphel" he cried
out, and sleeved and aproned barber entered
from the hall, ga la vlrgill" With this
laconic direction as to the mode after which
the gentleman's hair was to be arranged, the
artist retired.
Madame Dora dIstria writes as follows on
the woman question: SIT will be with The po-
litical status of woman as with that Of the col.
ored race. The grav ;st objections might no
doubt have been urged against the latter.
Physiology, politics and history supplied spe-
cious arguments to their opponents. But
when certain currents are once formed in the
public mind, they end by sweeping away all
obstacles, even those that were regarded as
impregnable. This is sufficiently e1emp6ed
by the progress OF universal suffrage. Thirty
years ago this was regarded all over Europe as
vain illusion, unworthy the consideration of
a thoughtful statesman. Nevertheless, it has
already made sufficient conquests in western
Europe to justify the prediction that eastern
Europe, too, win be obliged to adopt it."
That feudalism is no. yet extinct in Prus-
sa is shown by an extraordinary incident
which has occurred near Hohenstein, In the