The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-08-02

II rom the boston traveller
Historical Anecdotes Translated from the German.
During the staV OF the French at Moscow, Ma
pOeOn caused some medals TO be struck off, repre-
sentIDg his head, on side, and on the reverse,
AMID dVerglng rays, were these words: The
heaven is thine-the earth is mine.' One of these
medals he sent to the Governor Of Orenburg. The
fearless old Haudegen wrote with the point of his
sabre, under the head Of the COnqueror; The
back IS thine-the knOut Is mine,' and sent the
medal back TO Napoleon.
At a court levee in the reign of the Empress
Elizabeth of Russia, the cOurtiers We're uncommon
~ gay in the presence of royalty, and the Empress
herself threw off her state and joined in the merri
ment Of those around her. In the midst of this
good humOred mirth, a marine officer who was
present suddenly fell on his knees before the En-
press and prayed for pardon for an offence which
he had unwlllmgty committed in his station. The
Empress Immediately resumed her dignity, and
commanded him to rise, saying in mild tone, " an
accident is crime After the audience was
ended, the Empress sent for the officer and ques-
toned him respecting his family, his income and
the rank lie bore in the navy. When he had salts
fed her on these points, she said: man who
knows how 10 make good Use of favorable
wind ought to be an Admiral, and appoint you to
tlat Office
Fifty years have passed., said Abderamen III,
" since became Calf Riches, pleasures, honors,
all, have | enjoyed and exhausted. The Kings, my
rivals, have enved and hated me, but they bowed
before me and submitted to nv power Whatever
q mortal could wish for has been mine in full meas
ure. have looked back over this long period of
prosperity, and numbered the days in which was
truly happy-they are fourteen' Mortals learn
from this poor man that happiness comes not from
without.
The Duke Hans of Sagen, the last of the Pin
stichers race, in the year 1900, made Journey TO
Rome When the Pope heard of the arrival of
German Prince in his capital he sent gracious
messenger summOnng him TO an audience, and
offered him the privilege of kissing the toe of His
Reverence. The German Duke sent for answer
that he not greedy for hOnors that did not be-
long to him, and had never INDUCED his appetite
with dainties.
WHERE DOES IT ALL COME FRoM.-The Times,
lately, in Of its leading articles, shows in a
clear and happy style how d" the variety of distant
regions by which our everyday comforts and lux
Ures are supplied, is a geographical lesson familiar
to our earliest infancy Our contemporary pro-
ceeds tell how the child knows that the tea it
is drinking comes from China and that the coffee
is grown by Arabs. the sugar extracted from the
cane in Jamaica, or by the banks of the Ganges.
And thus going ceverly over the breakfast table,
the writer ntimaes the distant and different sources
of the materials and the accessories OF ordinary
mornings meal
This is all quite true of children belonging to per-
sons in easy and respectable circumstances but
supposing the case to be that of some poor infant
who has been all its life witness and participa
tor in the parental makeshi(ts, lodges" and de-
gradatiOns that poverty and bad management will
render necessary the article we aude to would
have run somewhat as follows: "The child knows
that the tea it is drinking came from Fulham, and
has probably had half the twigs of birch broom
amagamated with the pound of damaged PekOe
that formed the foundation of the contents of the
Chnese-OOking chest in the window of the Lam
beth grocer Its coffee was made pOnderous by
heavy chicOry, and its sugar was partly extracted
from the sugar Cask and partly from the box con-
tanning sand, of whose cOarseness the Libyan des-
ert might fairly feel ashamed. The morning milk
has acquired its present snowy whteness and cream
like consistency from the combined contributions
of tue distant chak-pit, the neighboring pump, and
the local cow. The material of the tea-kette came
from the tin mines of Cornwall, it was manufac-
tured in Birmingham, and had dangled at the door
of the Little Dustpan, in HolbOrn, with ticket in
scrbed, Look here You can't believe it, / dare
say but it's a fact--Only ninepenCe, appended to
the handle. The spoon was part of that metal to
which Britannia has lent her ennobling name the
blade of the knife came from tire New Cut-a guar
antee for the sharpness of the instrument-and the
haft was bOned from some animal who never saw
the owner of the weapon. The table-clOth has
been constant traveller up and down the connect
ing spout between freedom and captivity in the es-
tablishment of the pawnbrOker, and the carpet Is
redOlent of Venitan romance. The chlld's tr0ck
has passed through the cotton mills OF Lancashire,
the maneles of Middlesex, and the washing tubs of
London until its cOOrs have flown; and indeed,
there is no limit to the number of ingenious specu-
iations that the contents of any apartment however
humble, might not suggest "-PulCh.