The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-29
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

There are now upward of sixty thousand
Germans in Paris.
-Justus Won Lebig, the great chemist OF
Munich, is getting blind in one eye.
= Prince Richard de Metternich ana MS
clever and eccentric wife are said to De ING
best punsters m Paris.
t.(E1he prusaian Court spends daily hVe no9,
dred dollars for charities; the Russian court
twelve hundred roubles.
Some fashionable Partisan demi-monoainee
bavs lotelv anpeared at the "Bos" with cha
peaux no larger than medium-sizeo Iose''es'
The King of Greece is very fond OF negro
unsic. The royal band at Athens, In conse-
ouepce, plays mostly Stephen Fosters meio-
dies.
The French Governments requested e1'
oreen isabella to stay away from Vichy dur
NC General Prims sojourn at that fashionable
watering place.
sent from Paris to any part Of the world dur
Ipe the panic which the dangerous illness Of
the Emperor created.
After the expiration Of his gambling term
at Ronburg, II. Blanc win open the. largest
sheil that ever existed in the old world, in the
African city Of A ATlnis. ,4;1,c. ver1.
20. The iii most popular caricature in Paris at
the present time Is as follows: Death is holding
Nspoleon III by the THROAT, and Prince Hapole.
ON stands close by, clapp;ng his hands ana
shoutine: "Bravo! Bravo 1ske him. lwsnt
his throner IL
-AFrench paper says, in nregsrdt to the assef-
ton which Bismarck is reported to have made
recently. that he did not even read the news
papers at varzin: sWe are accustomed to
many bold assertions on the part Of the great
Prussian statesman, but this one is decidedly
too extraordinary for us to believe. We polite
IT, beg to be. excused"
~ The Paris Figaro sold, in consequence Of
its sensation articles and reports during the
Arst few days when the Emperor's illness took
an alarming turn, ever thres hundred thousand
extra copies. NJ. ViHemessant, ,.he editor OF
the Figaro, has been prosecuted for the dis
semination Of false news, and will surely be
sentenced to several months Imprisonment.
1t is said that AdeIina Patti has entered
into q written agreement with Strakosch to
come to the United States next September, and
sing one hundred nights within the ensuing
eight months, for which she is to receive TO-
600 francs in gold for each night. Strakosch is
to pay all the expenses. 1t is said, further,
thst at the end OF this engagement Patti will
retire from the stage and "reside in Paris as
the Marquise, and not as the Diua,"
Since the amnesty proclamation has re.
stored to liberty the Democratic politicians and
writer's in France, many of the n,ouchards that
were most offcious in prosecuting the Liberals
have been needIessly beaten, their windows
have been smashed, and other injury OF va.
rious kinds has been inflicted on them. Dees-
var, the notorious police judge, never dares to
leave his house after nightfall. he is constantly
in receipt Of very threatening letters. The at
titude OF the Paris police toward the Liberals
is singularly concilatory. Anewregime really
seems to have set in.
% AWhen the Empress and Prince Imperial,
in consequence Of the dangerous illness Of Ma
poleon the Third, returned from Ajaccio to
Toulon, they were mot at the landing by an
excited crowd of men and women, who shouted
to them: "Madame, is the Emperor dead, or
10 be still alive 2" The Empress was 80 pro-
feundly moved that she was unable to reply;
and, as none Of the memhers her suite SEEM
ed to be willing to do 30 in her place, the
scene was about to become exceedingly en-
barrassing, had not General Froussard, the
Princes . tutor, who was standing behind him,
whispered . few words into his pupils ear,
whereupon the Prince shouted in loud voice.
"No, TouloDnais. my father is not dead; heis
alive and much better T." These words we're
received in silence by thu large cfowdttSo