The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-27
EoREIGN 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 bis usual quick
ness, asked leave to send a message himself.
He telegraphcd to Lyons the following inquiry:
sis the weather fine at Lyons ?" signing the
message "Louis Napoleon" The instantaneous
reply from the clerk, whose surprise must have
been great on reading the subscription, was:
.'Tho sun Of Austerltz. Long lifc TO the
Prince Imper:all" Signed, "Morel." 1t would
be safe to bet heavily on the chance of NJ.
valuable under all forms of government.
Extracts from unpublished memoirs Of Ial-
leyrand, written upwards of thirty years ago,
have appeared in the European papers. They
include remarkable passage on the policy OF
European Powers toward the United States.
Europe" says I'alleyrand, ''should never give
America pretext for complaint or retaliation.
The United States are daily growing stronger,
and the time will come 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
lea places her foot on European ground peace
and security will be banished from it for 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, Esthonia, 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 state
as 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 sufferings, and
! hunger becomes intensified accordingly. Fin
land contains about million and three-quar-
ters of souls-while the other three provinces
named contain, perhaps, q hundred thousand
more. Last year, in Esthonia, no rain fell for
three months, or during the entire summer.
Bread ia now out OF the reach Of all. The wan
faces of the beggared inhabitants are the pic
ture of human despair. Skeletons. wasted
by fever, totter from door to door; children
wander about in o 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 it looks as If the
whole population must succumb to starvation.
"A correspondent OF the Norl gives the fol-
lowing details of the Chassepot musket: "Ex-
perimepts with this arm have shown that the
present military maneuVres must necessarily
be changed. The execution made with it is
such that entire battalions would be swept
down as if by cannonade. The men must
nresent the smallest surface possible. They
must be taught to spread themselves out as
sbarpshooters, and to form groups behind
trees and Oh advantageous positions. q pro-
posal was mad, that when the troops are
formed in line of battle, they should
trench and throw up the earth before them 10
form a rampant; but for hat to be done the
soldiers would require to be armed us sapPers'
and some time would be necessary to execute
sucb entertainments, AS substitute, the
mems knapsacks VII be piled before the
first line. In any case the formation OF
squares will be entirely abandoned, as they do
not resist the enemy, and the troops on the
A1uks cannot fire. At presont, to resist the
heaviest sh ,ck of cavalry, all that will be
necessary is two lines, the second OF which
will load the arms of tue first. The part to bo
played by mounted aoldiers in battle appears
to be 90 much reduced that three fourths of
them might be suppressed, the heavy cavalry
especially. The only use of the horse willnow
be to make recounoissances or pursue fuSi-
tiycs. In the next campaign matter OF I'M
p,rtancc will be for the army to understand
the power of the musket, and not to tall into
confusion before the Prussian needlc-gun.
Tie war should necessarily bo work OF attack
and not of defence, as what is wanted is not SO
much troops who stand firm as soldiers who
advance. Tho Zouaves and native regiments
of Algeria would be of great utility