New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-25
Foreign Gossip.


Express, Surrey Standard, Weald of Kent Mail,
County Chronicle and various other newspapers
belonging to W. E. Baxter, have feast given TO
them at his residence near oaklands, knglanu.
This year eightY-seven persons sat down TO the
dinner, which was presided over by Mr.. baxteI.
The usual loyal ana personal toasts We're gysssh
with great zest By the time dinner had been M
ished the wives and daughters OF the men hatt q
rived Various alrusements including uanelnS'
fire balloons racing and other outdoor spo,'s N,
terrupted by teal were kept up viii 10y ti
until nine o'clock, when heafly cn ~
been given for the host and hostess tae o9paiy
proceeded to the Isfeld sstlon. AZ nar P n,S
nine special train conveyed men, women rs. AN, anu
children, numbering between aoui @Nu NV
dred, to their vari0us aestihatlons'
a letter from India "a y. ,;1 1oss.. !
been executed nj Baroda by means OF an elephant
1ragginrr fiji through the streets and then tram
l;gss rim The incident gave rise to great
Pt.hs sgainst the Guicowar's rule, more espe
;a1Jt-ss The crime was said to have arisen ont of
mere personal oiense, namely, the taiang as con
aabiue 4 discarded favorite dancing girl from the
t5uicGwaris zenana. ] am glad to say that this
eephant trampling is likely to be the last case Of
the kind. The Gnieowar, yielding to the earnest
circumstances of Colonel Barr, cur new resident,
has sienifed his intention to abolish thai mode OF
punishment.
Ill Grad, in a letter read before the French
Academy on the Polar ice and the Cult stream,
expressed the opinion that the stream keeps up
its identity as far as the north of Siberia, and only
loses itself in the Polar basin. He contended that
the Pole is by no means always occupied with ice,
and that as the waters OF the Gulf stream Keep
themselves open in the spaces OF the glacial seas
which they traverse, it is in the prolongaton Of
that current between the Spitzhergen group and
Nova Zembla that we ought 10 LOOK cut 1or the
easiest route by which TO arrive at the Areuc geo.
graphical pole
New regulations have been adopted at the I'm
perial Library in Paris to check the extensive
system Of thieVing and laceraton Of volumes car
red on there. man died recently in one of the
outskirts OF Paris, and nineteen books belonging
to the library were found in his possession. Dur
ing last December fifty volumes are known to
have been stolen from the library, and how many
more cannot be discovered yet. Volumes four
times stolen have been four times purchased and
placed in the library, and after all have been
stolen again.
reported from England. In the Murthley Lunatc
Asylum, the other day, the inmates, who are per
mitted to work in the garden, sent deputation to
the doctor to demand shorter hours and more
nav. The doctor put his hand in his pocket and
handed the deputation half a crown. This gave
complete satisfaction; the deputation returned,
informed their associates of their success, and
the whole resumed work Immediately.
An Australian paper, the Launceston Examiner,
states that there came in the ice house with the
last Shipment of salmon 0va from England. arriv-
ing at Hobart Town IL May, two bundles OF
heather and fer shrubs as an experiment. Six
ample trees and two species of heath arrived in
the most perfect condition. There was not even
a decayed leafet the heaths and the whole of.
only been lifted out Of the nursery.
a fraudulent failure has just taken place at
Iisle, France, where banker called Joire has
managed to issue forged bills to the amount of
over Eve hundred thousand dollars Joire has
been arrested at Yichy, where ne was taking the.
waters with his daughters; but his son, who was
managing business during his absence. has eluded
the search made for him. The Lisle branch of
the Bank 81 France has lost two hundred thousand
dollars.
The Pope recently visited the Convent Of the
Passionists at St. Giovannie Paolo, on Mount
Coelius. On theway he was saluted with the cry
of g holy father, money! money! The finances
are in a sad state, and the bank will only cash
notes at a discount Of ten per cent. Prince Doria
has lust instituted a suit against the Roman bank
for paying him in notes twenty thousand crowns,
which they received from him in gold.
The loss Of the ship Monarch Of the Seas has
been ammo Deed. a fortnight ago q bottle con-
tanning the following message was picked up on
the beach, at Davenport, England Monarch OF
the Seas-Left Liverpool 18th March. May ?,
no wind short of provisions and no water. In
gale, Sd April; lat. rs deg. 20 min. M, lon. At
deg. min. WIN. johnson, passenger
The italian journals report frightful catas-
trophe at Piacenza A small powder mill blew
up and communicated the fire to factory Of car
tridges, which likewise exploded. About sixty
young women, some soldiers, and several civil la
borefs who were employed on the premises, were
all buried in the burning ruins. The exact num-
Der Of the dead and wounded are not known
The Catholic poor in England are to be allowed
to have access to schools of their own faith. The
House of Commons has empowered the board of
guardians, if they think fit, to send any Catholic or
Dissenting child. whose parent or guardian wishes
it. to school Of its faith, and there to defray
the cost of its maintenance.
The enormous verdict Of S67 600 has been given
in England to one Forbes, in compensation for
damages caused on his property in kiibnrn by
cuttings for the Midland railway. The company
refused to accept his estimate of loss or to make
any compensation, and the case vas then brought
to rial.
At the Stockholm exhibition the first prize for
breeeh leaders has been awarded to the Hagstrom
needle-gun. The government has purchased the
invention for ten thousand thalers, and the troops
are to be armed with this gun in the Autumn.
1t is remarked in England that although Earl
Derby's government has been in power only a
month, it has already increased the expenditure
by close upon half million pounds. OF this
goodly proportion is for breechloaders and tur-
ret ship.
The proprietor of Lloyd's Newspaper in London
has just imported two hundred and seventy tons of
Esparto grass from Algeria for the manufacture of
paper for that journal. The cost of this kind of
paper is one half that of the linen fabric.
The people Of New South Wales arc about to
erect memorial to commemorate the discovery
of that country in April, ITO. by Captain Cook.
The Partisan comic sheet the Figaro, informs
its readers Of the true names of certain popular
writer's. Ii Fernand Cabaero,ii it says, conceals
the name Of queens sister-n no less parsonage
than the Duchess de Montpensier. The emperof's
cousin, Madame Rstazzi, has signed as aCamille
Bernard, = z Baron Stack.,' and ssViscount DIAL
bens.n The father of this author was the late MFR.
Wyse, an Irish gentleman of good family and for
many years English minister at Athens. He mar
ried daughter Of Lucien Bonaparte, brother Of
the first emperor and separated from his wife
soon after his marriage. His eldest daughter mar
red Prince de Solms, and fortnight after his
death, Victor Emmanuelis then minister, Rafazzi
AS the Princess de Solms her salon in Paris was
celebrated as the place of rendezvous for the
seuii-liseraTy aud artistic world OF Paris Henri
Desr0ches and Jacques Reynandn are the pseu-
donyms of Madame Dash.
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4 IoyEE's RkuE FOR LIBERTY AND LIoESsE-
Last week, in a town not thousand miles from
Columbus, young man who loved wisely and
well, proposed, was accepted and proceeded Ia
Procure the marriage license from the proper OH
cial IN the country town. He was little sentative
on the point Of publicity, and left home for
horseback ride to said county seat dressed appa
Tently in his old.everyday clothes. Under these
however. ne wore his 6 Sunday to -meetins, Z
and on nearing tie point Of destination, hitche,
his horses laid Of his clothes, and tripped light,
over the bridge into town, very dandy in unrui
fled smoethness.
II so happened that he shed his clothes and tie,
his horse near stream Of considerable depth
Men discovered both, and soon concluded tina
some reckless young man had been drowned Til
subject was thoroughly canyasaed and prepafs
tons were made to drag the stream for the BODY
a large crowd had collected by this tine and til
excitement was intense The proceedings wer
lS,n,