New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-01-02
. Orders of Chiyalry.

TRANSLATED the French for the Philadelphia BulIctin
The rage for decorations is like all other RACES,
it increases with age. When by dnt of labor, jour
neyings prayers, and sometimes sacrifices, man
possessed by mania for decorations, has obtained
his bit of ribbon, he wants another, then another,
then another still, until he has exhausted all the
patterns Of st. Etienne. Just as nlerited decora
ton Is honorable 50 d decoration obtained by So
5licitations and importantly il ridiculous.
How much these bits of ribbon of foreign orders
are WORTH is known only to those who give and
those who receive them. For many of the donors
it makes an item in the receipts Of their budget.
For many others it is real economy. How many
petty princes have created orders of ehiyalry
simply for the sake OF the fees to be paid by the
decorated These fees vary from 500 to 1900 francs.
But this Is trite. In England, the fees paid by
each Knight Of the Order OF the Thistle amount to
f34S sterling. on sl7A0 each knight Of the Order
Of st. Patrick pays clio sterling, or $50; each
Knight of the Order Of the Bath ss3 sterling, Or
sl4l5.
Alexander Dumas IS covered with the crosses Of
all countries. Some years ago he was ut Lucca.
He went to pay his respects to Prince Charles
Louis, who received him most graciously. The y
Prince wanted to have his arms Autographed, and
as ne had not found in his domnions an artist ca
pable of doing the precious work, lie begged Al
exantrr Dumas to have it done for him in Paris.
Dumas promised, and kept his word. A fortnight
afterwards Charles Louis received his arms skifuy
engraved, together with a bill of two hundred
francs, which he forgot to pay. Dumas thought
no more of this debt, but one morning he received
the announcement of a visit from His ExceIlency
the Marquis of Brignole Sale, Ambassador of the
King OF Piedmont, and also Charge d. Affairs of the
Duke OF Lueca. 1t was in the latter capacity that
he had business with Dumas.
& Sir, sud the Marquis, 6 am charged by the
Duke Of Lucca to present to yon the grand Gordon
e his order and ! am happy to have to announce
the news to you.n
g am filled with gratitude answered Dumas;
= but will it cost much ~
Scarcely anything, for the principal fees are
RENTED in your case. Y
& Iaecept, Them said Dumas 9 provided the
fees do not exceed two hundred francs. His High
ness has been good enough to owe ME that sum,
and shall give him a receipt in full, in exchange
for his grand Gordon u
So much for the economy of the business
For the accommodation of lovers OF decorations,
we shall point out those that they may ask for.
The list is a long one.
There are in Europe one hundred and twenty
four orders of kaighthood, properly SO called. Be
sides these there are three ia Brazil two id Turkey
and one i'll Persia. Beside the grand ORDERS there
are III many countries inferior crosses and special
insignia TO the number of about one hundred aud
sixty. Lastly, there ia d large number of medals,
worn with q ribbon of the order, attached to the
button hole Among these medals there are some
highly priced. Such are those that the Emperor
#of Russia gives especially 70 merchants. When q
merchant after having obtained q first medal, OBJ
tains also second the latter Is adorned with the
Empefors cipher in diamonds.
frussia has six orders Of knighthood and twelve
secondary crosses The Grand Ducy OF Baden has
three orders of knighthoed afid two secondary
crosses Saxony three orders Of hnighthood Rus
STA ten; Denmarktwo; Sweden five; Wurtemburg
three; Bavaria five; Austria five for the empire
and four for the kingdom Of Italy Spain eleven,
besides sixty secondary crosses the Two Settles
five; the Grand Dnchy Of Hesse four; the Roman
States five and one military cross; Hanover two
Belgium two, counting the iron cross; saxe-Goburg
ana Gotha, Saxe-MeiniIgen and SaNe-Altenberg,
one between them; Brunswick one Sake ~ eiInar
one; Holland five; Portugal six; France one, and
one military medal 1.-THE Revolution OF July extin-
guisled FIVE ordersl the lonian Islands one
Greece two; England four; Parma one Lueca
one Nassau three; 0ldenburg, notwithstanding
Anhalt-Goethen, and Anhalt4Desau one among
them; Brazil three, Turkey two and Persia; one.
The first OF the Prussian orders is that of the
Black Eagle. When Frederick /, then only prince,
established it, he named it the order of generositY
Those who receive it have the rank of Lieutenant
General. The ribbon is orange and the cross has
four branches enamelled ii blue.
The order Of military merit Of Baden is hard to
obtain. There Il one excellent conditiofi-the de-
eoration is refused To any one that asks for it.
The two grand Russian orders are the order of
st. Andrew, founded by Peter I, and distributed
tor the first time on occasion of the massacre of
strelItz; and the order of St. George. The order
Of 1t. Andrew gives the rank ofI4eutenantG General
The order Of st, George Is given only to one who
has captured vessel, battery OF a difficult posi-
ton. 70 obtain the first class must have gain
ed d BATTLE Only tive foreigner have received the
5order--We liington and Butcher. The Emnerors
Alexander il and Nicholas only had the cross of the
third class. The Russian order Of st. vladimir il
given to saFaHs and artists.
Russia has an order for women: lie order of ST
Catherine, OF which The Empress is the Grand Mis-
tress, and Which Peter the Great founded in honor
OF hls wife's conduct at the battle Of the Pruth.
me decoration II in diamonds, supported by aped
ribbon and the motto g For love and for the ce,n-
try ltis an exquisite ornament of the dress.
The King of Sweden has The order of Gustayus
=Vasa for farmers.
Among the not easily obtanahle are the four
English orders of the Garter, the Bath tie Thistle
and st. Patrick; the Austrian order Of Maria Te-
resa, the knights Of which are named barons with.
out fees and may obtain an audience Of the soyer
eign without the Intervention of the chamberlain
the Lion of Dannebrog in Denmark, and the Ten
tonic order in Prussia.
France used to have an order OF the same ma
tare, comprising all the otIers and given, among
foreigners, only TO soyereigns; this was tic order
OF the Holy Ghost TO obtain it, it was necessary
to be noble. Nevertheless, there were certain eX-
emptions Thus. when the King asked the cantii-
date. Are you noble u if he answered Il am and
will proveit, the king said 81 give you a hundred
years to prove it. Vauban would not lend him
self to this rather harmless falsehood and did not
get the blue ribbon.
In Spain there il an order Of women; tile royal
order Of Queen Maria Lonisa, created BY Charles
Va blue and white ribbon worn AZ scarf with
an eghtpointed cross Austria also has an order
Of women: the order of the Starry Cross attached
to the lsft side by black ribbon. Spain has also
an order OF women. 1t is worn as bracelet, but
il is reserved for ladies who belonged to the Junta
of Women in Gadiz, In the insurrection there.
The Emperor Don Pedro |. created in Brazil the
order Of the Rose. It was established on occasion
Of the Emperor's marriage to the Princess Amelia
Of Leuchtenhnrg. Everything is rose-eolored in
this order; the ribbon, the six-puinted star sur
rounded with roses, the decoration of the grand
dgntalies represents banquet OF roses: the grand
cross Is supported By "a of enamelled roses
II is, moreover, net an order Of galantry but Of
civil aud military merit.