New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-01-17
Letter from Florence.
Esrrsgpunn.nss Of The ertgtsnt.

arted by the intelligence greVey stated il the columns
q the Motors Toscano the official paper Of the Grand
Duchy that serious difficulty had taken place in the
American Cabinet and that Of its most influential
members, Mr. Bronson, had been su1nHsry e1peea Not
many days thereafter under the head Of important intel
gence from America it stated that General Smith
General Jones General Brown don't recollect which
had arrived safely in Washington Doubtless the Grand
Duke Immediately called Cabinet meeting to discuss this
question in all its bearings and deliberate
whether it would not be best to send OF special courier
to the Emperor of Austria for reinforcement Of troops
italian newspapers nullty and where is the
der? Where there ia political independence there
be no independence Of thought The little Kingdom Of
Sardinia is perhaps well governed and happy any
Of the divisions Of the Peninsula The King Victor Eman
ael has been on the throne but short time but he
already introduced many sautary reforms the admin
istration of the government and inclined to prof.
by the example of his starred miscaleulatng father
Charles Albert One thing certain that he is very much
loved by his subjects and do wonder at it. But in
Tuscany the altogether different Three years age
there was not more popular sovereign in Europe than
the present Grand Duke He equaled Augustus in bis
love Of letters and his patronage of art subjects
adored him and his municence than his afa-
bity and the unosentatous with which he ap
preached won him golden opinions from all men, The |
gloomy stateprison looking palace of the Pti the richest
in the world in the number and excellence Its works
OF art had before thrown open ts doors SO easily
nor to more brilliant assembages of beauty wealth and
talent The old man frequently paraded rather walked
the streets Of Florence, alone attended by single aid
and dressed in the most simple unostentatious manner
Louis Napoleon, it is said has also adopted this CUSTOM
and is not long since he drove tho Champs Ely
sie unattended except by the Empress oered round
an hour So and took occasion just when eyes
turned upon him. and the sky being rent with cries of
riue Eapaea to draw out cigar from his case and
ask ragged douse near him If he would do him the
to give him light. You may imagine what sensation
this created overheard groupe Frenchmelr shortly
after discussing the matter and the spokesman of the
party gave vent to the general feeling of admiration by
sentence short but brimfull Of meaning Oh eeSt u,s
bon bourgeois, 70 But Louis Napoleon knows that every
time he thus walks unattended he puts bis life in i'm
minent peril and he must feel after such an excursion if
he has anything human in his composition much like the
performer on the tight rope after the performance of one
OF his most daring and terrible feats But the Grand
Duke Of Tuscany at the time of which speak had no
such cause of earn fact he had Of fear at ali
and bis flight from his capital is Of the most unac
countable and at the time of the most redic
uous facts in history It has entirely DESTROYED in the
minds of his subjects the prestige Of that majesty which is
said hedge round throne and the who formerly
beloved not less than he respected neither the
one nor the other AT present he appears the
streets except in carriage attended by strong escort
= precauton entirely unnecessary for persuaded
tat not one OF us SUBJECTS would ever think OF h6rn
him The Austrians with their white uniforms dstin
gushabe everywhere in the streets the cafes and the
theatres the only objects of pacabe we'll -dgested
but necessarily disguised hatred. Their uniform R GER
tainy the handsomest in the world but this should
think would hardly reconcile the beautyovng Tuscans
to their hard lot
About the only American papers Europe are the
the Herald Tribune and Times But the Herald seems
to bear away the palm-why it is difficult to imagine
except that it perhaps
other and has adopted more efficient system for its
circulation in the Old World It without any doubt
the drties Il speak new OF extsrnas) worst printed
lestloekng American sheet that ever finds its wav
across he Atlantic 1t is with we'll printed handsome
newspaper something it is with handsome woman
We pardon many things in both solely on account of their
good looks but this idea seems never to have drawed
through the thin gray hairs of its nine times horse
whipped editor Perhaps to take up my original figure
his paper might aptly figure the ragged unwashed
unkempt harridan who stands at the corners OF the
streets and besmears with neyerhagging discharge of
obscene corruption every passerby who refuses to olsce
her with few little shlings Notwithstanding this
the Herald is quoted by the European press than
any other American Journal for the Times is as yet
hardly known this side of the water and the Tribune
With its thousand and crotchets by far too free
spoken and independent Indeed it is amusing-perhaps
disgusting would be the better word-to notice the i'm
pict reliance placed by the European press upon the
statements of what Mr. Greeley pleased to deuomnate
the Satanic" Nor is less high estimate placed upon
its supposed high standing authority at home 1t is
not many weeks since the whole Paris press predict
ing the immediate downfall of President Pierces Cabinet
because the New York Herald had at last like Turkey
decided upon declaration of war and fallen upon
Franklin accordingly newspaper has Just been started
IN Paris under the singular heading of the Msgedtre
II appears daily, and is of edited by Alexandra
Dumas 1t is purely literary paper, and will be filled
for the most part with lifelong but always interest
ing romances Of its editor lie has adopted new plan
with regard to book and theatrical notices. which ought
to be followed by every paper of the kind in Chrsendom
He Informs publishers and theatrical managers that he
shall never sell his oritic8that he shall purchase his
own books and his tickets The paper is furnished
at two sous numberust half the usual price of the
Paris dlilies, Though some of them are much more
expensive Galignans Messenger for instance costs ten
sousor about two cents less than the great London
| dailies
George Sand has just written a new drama entitled
Aauprat nditsnow being performed at the odeon in
Paris, with the greatest Dumas who is per-
sonal friend of the auhores is unbounded in his adj
miraton of this her last production and gives an
ing account in one of the last numbers of his new
OF the manner in which the of her triumph wa;
conveyed to Madame Sand while she sojourning al
her country residence many leagues FROM the capital
find nothing better to write about I will give you
biahaa6ion VI tho pieCb IN question: Whlle
literary TOPICS may well mention the new railroad
library which has just been started in Paris by the en-
terprisipg publishing house of Hachetts L Co Thest
BOOKS are to be had in every station n the capital
for ought know in France. They elegantly printed
and are furnished at the lowest possible price Bhci
they can be afforded. They comprise works in ever,
department of light literature and as far as have seen
the selections for the most part judicously made
noticed and purchased in the collection translation
into French Of two stories from the works of creates
American literary genius (so rank him. Edgar Allel
Poe. The stories were the Gold Bug and ~ The Ad
ventures of Hans pTaD The translation was pre-
ceded by short biography of the author, in which
grayey informed after long description of poes
centres that he sat for the portrait of Francis Vivian
} in Bulwer's novel of The Caxtons,1 This yeracou
piece of information is based entirely upon the fact ta
the translator in looking Griswods biography Of tn
poet, found some such expression this, that Po
fsseiabted in many respects Francis FiViana ETC. g.
italian translation of Poe's prose works is now bein
completed by friend of mine in Ference and is bein
published in the feueton of the Belle ,a,te. Poe ha
been accused lit must be said by men whom he ha
criticised perhaps little too severely of having boz
rowed the idea of his Raven - from Mrs Bresnn,
Nothing be more utterly absurd At all events,
know that beth the Brownings who have been scournp
Florence this winter and who have Just left Tor Rom