The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-27
FOREIGN NOTES.

The French PRINCE Imperial accompanied
by General Frossard, went recently to see the
telegraph central. NJ. de vougry, director OF
the telegraph lines of France, was in attend
ance. The young Prince, with his usual quick,
ness, asked leave to send message himself
He telegraphed to Lyons the following inquiry:
lis the weather fine at Lyons r. signing the
message Louis Napoleon." The instantaneous
reply from the clerk, whose surprise must have
been great 10 ling was b. j.
s.sgshe sniis o
Prince ImperiaTS SssSsss
be sare 10 bet hLc-.ly on the chance of M.
Morel's success in life. Presence of mind is
valuable under all forms of governments.
Extracts from unpublished memoirs OF Tai
leyrand, written upwards of thirty years ago,
have appeared in the European papers. They
include q remarkable passage on the policy of
European Powers toward the United States.
Europe" says Talleyrand, ''should never give
America pretext for complaint or retaliation.
The United States are daily growing stronger,
and the time will coma when,
being brought nearer to Europe by newly dis
covered means Of communication, they will
desire to take an active part in our affairs.
No opportunity should be given by Europe
for such an intervention. The moment Amer
ica places her foot on European ground peace
and security will be banished from it for q long
time" ~
"A famine is raging at the present tims in
certain Provinces Of Russia, lying around the
Gulf Of Bothnia and the shores of the Baltic
Livonia, Rsthonia, Caurland and Finland
that strikes terror into the hearts Of people in
the great capitals Of st. Petersburg and Mos
COW. These provinces are Of rocky and arid
surface, not penetrated by railroads, the VIC
Tins Of three bad years Of production. and at
present without either bread or the seed for
another season. The roads are in such q state
es to render it next to impossible to reach the
inhabitants with aid. They are crowding into
the villages and settlements, where disease
adds to the fatality Of their suAerings, and
hunger becomes intensified accordingly. Fin
land contains about q million and three-quar-
ters Of souls-while the other three provinces
named contain, perhaps, hundred thousand
more. Last year, in Esthonia, no rain fell for
three months, or during the entire summer.
Bread is now out OF the reach Of all The wan
faces Of the beggared inhabitants are the pic.
ture Of human despair. Skeletons, wasted
by fevers totter from door to door; children
wander about in a state Of nakedness and
starvation, and men in general are grown des-
perate. Relief can reach them only from st.
Petersburg and Moscow, but the roads are few
and next to inaccessible, and II looks as IL the
whole population must succunob 70 starvaticn.
"A correspondent OF the Nora gives the fol-
lowing details Of the Chassepot muskat: SEX
periments with this arm have shown that the
present military naanceuvres must necessarily
be. changed. The execution made with it is
such that entire battslions would be swept
down as IL by cannonade. The men Muet
present the smallest surface possible. They
must be taught TO- spread themselves out as
sharpshooters, and to form groups behind
trees and on advantageous positions, A pro-
posal was made that, when the troops are
formed in line Of battle, they should dig
srench aud throw up the earth before them to
form o rampant; but for shat to bs done the
soldiers would require to be armed aa ssppers,
and some time would be necessary to execute
such entrenchments, AS q substitute, the
mems knapsacks win be piled before the
first line. In any case the formation Of
squares win be entirely abandoned, % they do
not resist the enemy, and the troops on tho
tanks cannot Are. " present, to resist the
heaviest sh ,ck of cavalry, ell that viii be
necessary 10 two. lines. the second pf which
win load the arms Of the drst. The part to be-
played by mounted soldiers in battle appears
TO be 30 much reduced that three burths Of
them might be suppressed, the heavy cavalry
especially. The only use Of the horss willnow
pc TO make recopn noissances or pursle fugi-.
tiyes. In the next campaign q mater Of inn:
portance win bs For the army to understand
the power. of the rGusk0t, and not TO fAll into