Southerners in Paris.
--The
Paris (October 9) letter of the New York
World has the following:
‘
Mr. Mason is about leaving
Paris for
London to settle up some little affairs, when he will return to the continent, and probably go south as far as
Rome or
Naples.
The "Old Roman, " as he is called here, is glad to get away from Russellton.
Under the auspices of a new ministry,
Mr. Mason may yet return to be officially presented to her most gracious Majesty the
Queen.
’
Sir Yardley Eardley, who married the belie of
Alabama, having lately succeeded to his father's title and estates, is devoting himself with great enthusiasm to the rebel cause.
He has got up a subscription in
England for the purpose of raising funds to supply the Confederate army with medicines,
surgical instruments, &c., and to day he gives a dinner at the
Grand Hotel in
Paris to several leading Southerners and sympathizers, including
Capt. Maffit, of the
Florida.
And, by the way, this terrible little destructive, in a condition better than new, will leave
Brest in about ten days, to resume her mission on the mighty deep.--
Maffit will have to remain some two months longer in the hands of the
Paris doctors.
Capt. Hartstein, of the Confederate Navy, is very ill at
Munich.
Lieuts,
Morris,
Campbell.
Lee, and
Barron, of the same service, are now in
Paris waiting for a ship.
Capt. Blakeley, who has just arrived from
St. Petersburg, is much chagrined at the reported bursting of his "big gun," at
Charleston.
He ordered at once, by telegram, a brother to the monster to be made at once.
No gun of that calibre, he says, can stand a high elevation; and for point blank work he thinks nothing can stand against them.
