New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-08
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SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER S. 1866


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Foreign Items,
The Dresden picture CELERY is placed under the
protection cf tie British Ambassador. The King
OF saxony Is reported 10 have carried into Bo-
heIliia objects OF value to the amount of 4S o06
GOO sterling.
Victor Hugos new romance .sQuatre- vinet
Iriezes will be in ten Volumes for each Of which
5e n I'D receive ny eQa francs, making half mil
lion for the work entire hut his publishers can
afford isffer they have made, it is said 500 900
francs hy the Il Nserables and the Tray ailleurs
The Memoirs Of Prince Talleyrand- mate.
Tlals Of which, by an extraordinary will of the
late owner, were not to be touched for thirty
yeaFs--will be published during the coming aa-
1u1nns The Duchess de Dino, Talleyrandts niece
however, was enabled to veto this strange clause
IL the document, and the work was to appear sim
utaneousl ia London, Paris and lit was originally
intended Vienna. ssEE
The Breslaa papers report: n Al wealthy Jewish
merchant Of this city offered 100 thalers sl4 odd
to the jewish soldier who should first obtain the
grads Of officer by bravery nsthe battlefield; and
~ thalsgs 70 the leggsh soldier who should cap
tuIc g nag From the enemy. Both prizes were
gained BY Corporal Susskind, lof the firm oil
Wiener SassRitsds 81 this oitgs} who, in. the
combat near Traptenau, on the 9th Of june, cap
&nred nag from the enemy, and for his boidness
was forth with proniotedby the crown prince to
the grade III ofeer This incident attracted the
more attention as the flag was the identical one
which d century before, III the War of Seven
Years, had been captured BY the Austrians
from the Prusslans under Frederick the
Ereaf-T JeYish Chronicle.
The cnrfeW bell, which has been rung at Bangor
without interruption since the days of lillian the
Conguerer, We hear, has Just been discontinued.
The riiiemen Of the N0sgos having offered the
post Of honorary president Of their society to the
prince imperial the emperor has accepted it in
the name of the prince.
with the advance Of the Prussian armies, the
sale Of Bibles has beenfreely allowed in Austria;
and at the Great railway stations German Tesla
pence each.
In the last fifty years the gold and silver coin
age of the mint, as verified at the several trials Of
the Pyx hiss amounted In yalue to E2e5, ,8I9-
namely, gold coinage 9ls7, 1921, and silver
els SEA, 02S.
Ma fnnerafof the Duchess Dowager of North
cumberland took place on Friday, the Sd ult., at
Westminster Abbey. The remains of the late
duchess were placed ia the Percy vault in the
chapel of st. Nicholas.
The DakesoS Buceleugh has accepted the presi-
dsney Of the British Association for 1867. The
meeting is to be held ia Dublin.
The garter vacated by the death Of the late
Margins Of LansdoWne Will Big conferred upon the
Dnke Of Richmond Lord Bogne is also TO be
advanced TO HE peerage Of Great Britain.
Mr. D. Hamilton, of Yentnor, Isle of Wight has
left BY will $40 900 to the corporation Of Liver
p0oIln trust for the local charities, subject only
TO the life interest of his sister, Miss Hamilton,
who Is how sixty years of age.
M.dn ManteSc haHberg &, of Cologne, editor Of the
CeuTs Ptatique de lasIangue Franeaise. BY
Ahn. has just published the hundred and iiftietIi
edition Of that popular work, the sale Of which,
notwithstanding the numerous treatises upon the
same subject has amounted to no less than
750,690 copies. The annals of German booksell-
ing record no such similar success.
A#Wonderful Cashmere shawl. now in Calcutta
will be among the sights of the great exhibition at
Paris naIk year. 1T is worked in arabesqaes OF
Inheard- Of dneness on red ground, and was ten
years ia the worknan's frame. It was ori@nally
ordered for the Queen of Dude, not long before
the Ssp0y revolt.
NFATyas 5x4iti{its sleslc IA sa5 ~ ca.,fai, MSS
enough for a dozen volumes. Some Of them Will
appear in print when the publishers, who are dis
putting about them have said the last word.
Ii, Lahurse the printer Of Victor Hugo popu-
lafWoFly 6 Les Tragailleurs ela Mer,t' vels.
8To. produced TOO perfected copies Of The sixty
two sheets III two days.
M Glstaye Dore who is lfttlefnore than thirty
years Of age, is, it is atatedl0a gopd authority,
making upwards of 470B0 a. year by his pencil. In
spite of his indie fatgable industry, he has hand,
from London publishers alone, more orders than
he can execute during the next two years.
Iamartine, having exhausted his ingenuity in
subscriptions, lotteries etc. by which he tried to
repair his shattered fortune ,'is now engaged in
writing his memoirs, which will be in twelve
columns.
One hundred and ffty women are regularly EN-
pioyed as nasons and bod carriers on the new
opera house In Vienna.
Iha Chinese government has made another con
cession 10 optsiders.n "a new ro8tei s open for
commerce. starting at Rangoon, in British Brma
at the mouth Of fine river, the Ira aady which
0f four days to the Chinese frontier.
Birna is fertile rich in minerals, extensive coal
heids and g good market Yunsnan u province
has b population of TO 900 O10 and 81 cities
satsehwen another province. has 10000. 900
population, and abognds in tea and silk This
route IL creating great enthusiasm in Liverpool.
period 81 fanaficai distraction was reiguing
~ Persia late IN june, IL consequence of O mis-
understanding between the Mahomedans of Bal.
3onTpnsh; and the Jews ar that place. about sup
posed outrage and death Of q siekly Persian girl.
t3ogld fnt{
plnndered their houses and gave them their ention
Of embracing lslamism OF being put To death. "a |
few Jews managed to escape, butt rest became
Mahomedans The British Minister on learning
the facts, addressed remonstrance to the shah
and directly thereafter he issued orders for the
punishment Of the offenders and that any of the
foreiby converted Jews who chose to do SO, were
at liberty to return to their former faith.
The cholera continues to rage yiFulently at
nearly alE the ports on the Lower Danube, the
deaths vt Galatz alone averaging, It i said sixty
daily.
Letters published in some of the Irish papers,
show that the Fenians III Portlandpris0n are snb-
jeeted to very harsh discipline. Ten hours of
labor IN the quaTfies under the summer sun, with
tho alternative of solitary confinement, relieved
occasionally with such pastimes Rs the cleaning
out Of closets aud scrubbing Of floors, smacks
rather strongly of spirit of political vengeance.
The police has been baffled hitherto in their at
telnpts to ind out the modern Guy Fawkes who
placed 2 parcel Of gunpowder under lie Houses
Of Parliament
Tie director general Of customs has published
: comparative statement Of the imports and ext
ports the first six months Of the present year.
The total agnQunt of Imports ID 1888 800 900
francs, being an augmentation Of sl2 ,4s8 900
francs, a. eQEapared with the corresponding six
months 81 ass year. The exports amount for the
same period 10 sE98 644 francs, against $50 5a0,
0gg 5Eanea in 1865 showing m increase of 1885,
s806 francs 10 favor DIT the present year. The
AVenir Commercial Observes Oh these returns,
that NJ Theirs should nov be convinced and
probably Il eonvineed that the experiment Of free