The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-06-23

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| near where was. Having seen my Belgian
friend speak to the general, 1 was quite tree
might have otherwise justly occasloned. Walk
ing down slowly, and cycling the ranks asif at
an Inspection, the general stopped mere and
there, tapping a manon the shoulder, or beck
oning him out OF the rear ranks. In most
cases, without further parley, the Individual
thus selected was marched out lnto tne centfe
of the road, where q small supplementary col
umn was thus soon formed. Could there have
been any doubt In the mind of a locker on OF
the object of this selection, 1t must have
been soou dispelled by the conduct and
countenances Of the selected. They EVIL
WAS come, and it was tearfully in
terestins to see their different demeanors.
One, already wounded, his shirt soaked with
blood, sat down in the road and hOwled with
snguish, calling on God and his mother alter
nately in the most pitlable terms; others wept
in silence. Two soldiers, presumed deserters,
pale but collected, appealed TO all the other
prisoners as to whether they had ever seen
them tamong their ranks; some smiled de-
fant..y, and others staggered, bR with q fllmy
glaze on their eyes and a aforementioned coun-
tenance, as IT death had already seized them.
1t was an awful thing to see one man thus
picking out a batch of his fellow-creatures to
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without further trial. No doubt most OF tsem
had richly deserved their fate, but it was
equally evident that there was considerable
room ior error. Over 100 being thus chosen,
a firing party told of, and the column re-
sumed Its march, leaving them behind. In a
few minutes afterward q dropping fire in our
rear commenced, and continued for over q
quarter of an hour. 1t was the execution OF
these summarliy convicted wretches, and be-
| fore we reached La Muette the firing party
had rejoined US.
Loose Marriage Knots.
A Versailles letter says:
A curious and very serious question, Which
cannot fail to come before the courts OF law,
Is, whetherthe marriages (some 1900 In num-
ber) solemnized by the Mayors OF Paris during
the reign OF the Commune are valid. In the
present temper of Versailles the difficulty Is
dismissed with a sheer. The right faith Is that
a half months held undisputed way in the
vast City. Of Paris, over q population of two
| millions Of souls, is null and void. But the
consequences of so ignoring a de Jdcto govern.
ment would be frlghtful. Deaths and births
necessarily went on every day, and II the
registers at the Mairies are not to be received
as evidence, other proof will be often difficult,
| and In some cases impossible to be had. Then
what terrible Injustice it will be if people who
went to be married at the Marie OF their ar
| rondissement; where they found all the out
ward semblance of authority, OF the validity
Of which common people cannot be expected
to be judges, are to be deemed to have lived
all this time in concubinage. Moreover, many
OF these unions have been blessed by the
Church, and If Versailles law Is to prevail,
| every priest who gave the sanction OF the
Church to q Communal marriage Is liable to
| prosecution. Bastardy will be Inflicted upon
many children, and the cases are not a few In
Ill. 49, - Nk1 ~4S,1n affair a fodfn nf a
rled life, will avail himself or herself Of the
Versailles dispensation not to renew 1t.
The Imperial Exile.
The London News of the 7th says:
The health of the eX-Emperor Napoleon is
said to have considerably improved OF late.
He has been laboring under an attack OF
rheumatic govt, which confined him for q
time to his bed, and has rendered him invisi-
BILE to the outside public ever since the Thurs
day before Easter. Last Sunday, as the En-
press Eugene and the Prince Imperial were
returning from church across Chiseshurst-con-
mon, the Emperor stood a. one Of the WIN.
dows of Camden -house. and this is the first
time he has appeared since his illness. He Is
said, however. to be sufficiently recovered to
walk about the grounds without difficulty.
The public curiosity from which the Imperial
family at first suffered 80 acutely has quite
subsidized, and on Sunday last the Empress and
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were seen By barely half-a-dozen persons.
The T%ichborne .TrIal-a Queer and
Scandalous Development.
By the last mail FROM London, to the 9Th
instant, we learn that the claimant in the
Tlchborne case, now being tried in London, |
has made some OF the most astounding dis
closures.
It will be remembered that. Mrs. Radcliffe,
nee Miss Kate Doughty, q cousin Of Slr, Charles
Roger Tchbofne, is one of the strongest op.
ponents of the claimant and has maintained
throughout the trial, with uRrelenting firm
ness, that the claimant Ia an imposter. It will
also be remembered that previous to Biz Roger |
going on his cruise be was engaged In mar
rage to his cousin, Miss Doughty. Again 1t
will be brought to mind that the engagement
was broken off on account OF the opposl-
ton of her father, and that before he lett he
made a will with sealed instructions, and LETT
the whole In o sealed packet with q lawyer
named Gotsford, now the principal counsel Tor
the opposition. Upon the opening Of this suit,
the claimant demanded the packet, but Cots
ford refused to deliver It, and It has been the
main point of the opposition to get him to dis
close the contents OF that packet, which, up to
that time, had remained sealed. The claimant,
on all occasions, however, has evaded the ans
wer, and has requested not to be forced to dis
close its contents. This reluctance On his
part has led the opposition to believe that'he
was unable to do so, he being an impostor,
and they have been more persistent In their
demands that he should tell them what was
written by Sir Roger, then in the hands OF
Gotsiord. On Monday, therefore, this demand
was again made. Still he declined, and said he
would not do 30 until 80 ordered by the Lord
Chic Justice. he was so ordered, and then he
made the astounding disclosure that in 1852 he
Miss Doughty; that the instructions
in that packet were that IN case she
proved to be e~neisaS, as she had led him 10
believe she was, Gotsford was to take. her to
until after her confinement, and then
was to give her the use Of q certain cottage
and show her every attention until his return
or until her marriage, when, by the provision
OF his will In case OF bis death, or in case of
her marriage before his return, she was 10
have the cottage and ome other property,
which ne described; and II he returned before
her marriage he agreed to. marry. her. 1fa
bombshell had fallen in the court after he had
finished the revelation, q gree .er sensation
could not have been produced. There sat the
arlstocratic Mrs. Radcliffe with her husband,
and to cliE:..:: -he matter, and still more en-
barrass her, The solicltor-general said to the
claimant:
Do you mean to swear before the Judge and
jury that you hid seduced your cousin Kate?
A. ] most solemnly to nay God swear that l
had.
This lady, pointing to Mrs: Radcliffe? A.
That lady.
The courtroom was crowded to sufrocation, i