New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-10-15
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MONDAY MORNING. OCTOBER Is. 1866.
From the Gosnopoltan.
Hhe letter yyriters.
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IN Taaical Berlin, wonid give them without hesita.
tonA dictatorship. j am sure thew might lock IN
the whole House Of Deputies. and ifsthe JTpper
House were locked ulss too, the whole proceeding
Would be taken as capital joke. Thefact is that
the Prussians taink budget rights, freedom of
speech, and regular constituted Government are
81 very good things but things for which they
is to make Prussia greater TO secure the Greatness
already obtained and any means by which that
end might be furthered would appear to them per
fectly Justiii able Berlin, Sept 18th.
1ICorreapondeneeof of the Daily Nevs.1
CONTINENTAL OPINION OF ENaLkNp.- 0st
Dentsehe Post sometimes for week together
never mentions England at all, and one might read
1neE lourz8l sQr days without learning that such
country xlsfed. The other journals mention it
sH ptLssnflt, when, for example, Parliament is
0peneds the Atlantic cable laid or when some
0uTageously strange act is pernetrated by a
Asrlton. Since England has withdrawn from all
share in Gontias ntal politics. the answers here to
acateehist about egsss oni5 run nearly AZ fellows
feh me what you know about England. England
as 30 island they travel great deal on the Con
nnent, and always wear check trousers. Their
government is constitutional and is pattern for
the rest of The world. They are necessarily try.
1ng 70 inundste other countries with their manu-
kactares which are endless, and are always preach
Nv iree Taae which must inevitably ruin every
one put themse elves.--L Vienna, Sept, /.
Tccsrespondence Of the Morning Advertiser i
TIE IMPERIAL AND RoYAI FAMILIES or FRANCE
ARD ErATN.-The queen and her children battle
daily n the sea which lashes the very base Of the
BiscRyan chateau at Zaranz The royal party
appear to be extremely merry, despite the absence
of the king consort, who has beensen of to the
interior. much against his will for the poor prince
would fam have remained at the seaside, could he
have gained the requisite permission. The Gaceta
gives ont that the queen will goto San Sebastian
again TO meet the emperor and empress of the
FRENCH. She proposed 70 give their majesties a
banquet on board her show frigate, the Tetuan.
The countess of Montiio has been giving series
of brilliant fetes at her mansion in Madrid. Her
salons are the cynoshre Of the best society in the
capital, aud her solfees are relieved from the
terium which hangs over such eetings generally
~ Madrid, for high rank and vast possessions are
not the only passports to her parties-her guests
must have omething to recommend them; some
gt, eittar Intellectual acquired and thus it
that her gatherings are the gayestin Madrid.
EMadrid August 81.
Ecarssp pondence of tie Daily Tslssraphl
G'KsT DRoLE AMERIcAIN.-T il an Ameri-
can fbut I won't tell his name for he would not
IKE that who Woos noIorefy in various fashions,
but more especially on the tsroad.n Sometimes
he proceeds to the Bois with four horses, and a
position on each: sometimes with three and
again with tandem and positions and his posti-
lions are The most changeable animals! Some
times one sees them coming along liite Basbi
Ba2ooks; and, shades Of ali that's Scotehi the
other day they got d leg up atsired as High
g landera--a couple Of Frenchmen riding tandem
with tartan and kilt tt Paris, September l8
Correspondence of the Standard.
TIE AoNTAGHEs AID CAPGIETs4-At about
eight miles from Yicenza, noticed upon the hills
to the right The two splendid castles Of the Mon
tecchi, who have been rendered celebrated as
long as the English 1angua BE shall remain, AS the
rival family to the Capnlets, by Shakespeare, III
Ronaeo and Juliet. u is not known that he was
ever in Italy. 1t Is, therefore, astonishing how
Shakespeare obtained that wonderful local acr 4
quaintance with Northern Italy which he has dis.
played u asl his plays the scene Of which is laid
1nere. The Bkontecehi or Montague castles have /
already spoken of as having seen on my Journey |
from Vieenza; they also had palaces iii tile town I
Ehe house OF the Gapeiletti still exists but is de-. T
graded into small inn. Jnlietis tomb ID pointed 1
Ont, but is not che same in which that unfortunate
young lady was inferred. Ercaius, Prince of We L
Eonas is sidAntical with Barshelemy del Scala who I
died in 1908 and in whose reign the tragedy of f
Romeo and Juliet, which need not say is a per-
gegsly true story, was enacted. II Verona, Septic
GnED0AAs AND E0Np0IIERs.- Nothing can de-
pEIve the gondolaE OF their picturesque appear- +
ance; but # anything could DO 30, it would GER
fainly be the poor and common dresses of the I
gonaoliers Certainly the white shirt and patched I
eolered tEouserss greatly tend to drive away any
illuslons which we might strive toieoBjure up. In
this respect the gondclieTs of Venice might take |
an excellent lesson from their brother hoatmen,
The caiquemenof the Bosphorus. These last are /
The cleanest and most neatly dressed as well as,
perhaps, tie finest set of men in Europe.
The caique and the gendola, both fast boats of
theT sort, are built upon very similar lines. Both
ran up sharply siie basg, both have their great
est width considerably aft Of the central part and
both haye remarkably flat floors. The g0ndola, /
however, is larger, aheayier boat than thecaqueI Il
and ia much more steady The motion Of Tie Two
boats liz very different. The g0ndola rowed by
two men, glides along with steady regular mo-
ton, while the caique leaps away at every stroke
OF ts two Oarsmen, rather scullers for they al
ways pul double SOULS, and the motion resembles
nothing 80 much as that Of good f0ur-oared out
1igger, and it would 60 nearly two feet to the gon
Gaolais one. The gondoer takes ii very easily
The position in which ene sits in q gondna is sim
liar to that have described in the caiqne, except
that the seat which il always remarkably well /
aI4o
floor Of tho boat and there are stools of similar
height for the feet, ard which, when there are
mere than two sitters, are nsed rs seats. In fine
yYeaaher and when the sun is not too 1oWerfui
the cover of the gonGola ii removed so that one
sits III the open air Instead OF little sort of bin
as at other times. The most surprising thing in
the g0ndolae Is the marvellous ease and accuracy
will whinh they thread thefryYay past each other
and, long as they are, turn the sharp angles Of the
narrow canals, never touching each other or the
WRlla and this without the slightest effort on the
paTfoi the roWers, but almost asif II were an act
Of Folatio1 upon the part Of the boat itself.
IVeniee September q
tCosssspansenss ef tie Morning star
REruHN on THE FRENoH FRoM hIExiGo. II insist
upon what wrote to yoa some days ago-name-
ly shat Gen! CasteinaM went to Mexico to make
She preparatory aTrang gement for the return of the
4roeps-n0t, as had been agreed iii three detacl-
zaenfs but en- sladsse, and % one time Fears have
arisen that the regiments forming the last two de.
1achtnents would not have been d sufficient force
ia resis the Juarist reaction which may be antei-
53atsd after the evacuation ai she French army.
at ias EheFefoges as a precautionary measure and
sFth view to tile preservationof the lives Of the
troops, that Napoleon Hi has altered his original
plan for the evacuation OF Mexico.
LPsriH Sept l6sh
REsFARD or IAHENT AND BEAUrY.-It weuld ar-I
pear that writing, . Ia FahilIe Ben0itons aadl
auch-Iike dramas. IS not the only mode Of acduir
ig fertlines III, Yietufien Sardou bought the otbef
day splendid house, ts true but iI Marquis, tile
celebrated chocolate makerof tie Rue Viyienne /
much finer one, and for which also he has given
greater prioe--namely, 65a ,090 francs, The next
lime you walk along the Rue dc lss Tour dsAu.
yerene look at il and consider il it would not be
wiser Ia tnrn inso compounder Of chpcholate
bonh0ns, 1T isno small ann, and almost rivals +
PATHS rsnt-roll, II. Ponson1 1n Terrail Is writing
on opera expressly for Carlotta Pattio on the story
Of Mdile. de Ia Valh6re, who, with all het peer
less beauty, had the same defect M de FIotoW, I
the brilliant composer Of Martha ii To write I
The music for the hbretto. Garlotta Patti win F
make her debut IN this new opera during the I
course Of the next season.
The Inst gossip from the world OF song reports
lie engagement 6f our fair Swedish nightingale, +
sEdile Nelson, III the son Of an English banker.
Sincerely, indeed, may the fortunate snitor be
on winning the hand Of one whose
character for spotless integrity stands as high as
seF musical reputation js worldwide,