New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-16
Especial Correspondence Of the Crescent
FROM PARIS.


The lion of the day is decidedly the great Irish
rebel everybody wishes to have look at him.
He has now been in the French capital for more
than month Stephens is man of small stature,
and rather gentleman1y in appearance, with bald
head and large beard. He speaks French fiuently,
but with a rather English accent. Stephenss ad-
ventures are listened to with much interest when
ever he feels inc1aed to entertain his company
with the account Of bis escape from prison and
wanderings in the Emerald isle, where nobody was
found to betray him, notwithstanding the high
sum set upon his head.
| The Marquis de Boissey, the great English hater,
has been one of those who has shown the Fenian
leader most sympathy, Stephens and the Marquis
often sit together over their bottle heaping abuse
onthe head of La pe1Jtde Albion.
1t a well-known fact that the Marquis eats an
Englishman per diem, lin imagination, and that
were this diet to be discontinued, he would not
remain long in this world. We are informed that
Stephens applauds the Anti-English orations
a outraace, and when he has said his say steph-
ems takes his turn, and De Bossey caps his hands,
of course During these tete-a-tee it is not like in
most ofthe shops of the Rue de la Paix-there is no
English spoken.
TUE PARIS HORSE SHOW.
1
the Palais de TTndustrie in the Champs Elyse6s
which has been frequented by the elite Of
Partisan society, which now seems to take great
delight in horse flesh. Races have become more
popular in France than in England. the courses
du Bots de Bouogne and of Vinoennes attract
thousands of Parisans every Sunday. Atthe exhi
bition Of the Champs Elyse6s we had an opportu.
nifty of seeing carriage horses of every sort and
4 ella. o,,I Il 5g Al
! French have made considerable progress of late
in the raising of cattle.
The Emperor, who it is known, is a great ad-
mirer of horses and himself most excellent
horseman, attended daily, and was often heard to
converse in English with the jockeys, who had the
care Of those horses sent to us from our neigh
bors d'outre mancte.
The horse show terminated by kind of tourna-
ment performed by the officers of the military
school, at Saumur Some most wonderful feats OF
horsemanship were gone through, to the delight
Of theayouDg Prince Imperia who is being trained
up in way he should CO. I win not weary you
with an account Of tile different evolutions, mol
with the and colors of the riders, suffice it tc
say, that the officers of the college of saumul
have attained perfection in the act of keeping
good seat. Some of the most FESTIVE steeds were
the efforts of the animals to make them lick the
dust. The fine weather has now returned, and the
public, which is every day getting fonder and fon
der of horsemanship, will soon see the doors of the
hipppodrome re-opened.
THE EXPOSITION DIES BEAUx ARTS,
The annual exhibition OF pictures by living ar
fists will be opened next week, when we shall see
what the painters Of the continent have been do.
ing this winter, The French exhibition is not de-
voted to French artists exclusively. All painters,
without distinction of schools are invited to grace
the walls Of the Palais de L'Industrie with theil
works.
a most melancholy circumstance has thi:
year cast gloom over the monde drtisttque by
the suicide of a young painter of much promise
Mons. Holzapfel, who committed suicide in con
sequence of his picture having heen refused by
the jury d'aduaission. The unfortunate arts
was not devoid of talent, and his pictures have
already found place in the Paris Salon, In &
letter to his parents, few hours before he com
mitted the rash act, he aoquits the jury OF impair
TALLY He terminated his letter by saying, an
without talent; tits better that should die,o j
is asserted that great study had affected his mind
and that for the last two or three months Mons
Holzapfe had given most unequiyOeal signs O.
mental alteration.
INSANITY IN FRANCE.
The Moniteur some days ago gave some most in
teresting statistics on the amount of insanity il
France. 1t appears that there is one mad man Il
every nine hundred and fifteen, and one mad wo
man in every eight hundred and thirty ant
that there is evident increase instead of decrease
Of madness Drunkenness and religious enthusi
asm seem to be the chief causes of mental aber
ration.
Madness is to be found more especially amongs
our musical composers and painters, The cOnstan
and nervous occupation necessary to attain per
lection in their professions has such an effect OF
their nervous system that many have ended the
days in Madison de saate. Sohumann and Don
nizetti, the musical composers the painter
whose celebrated Todentany has gone the rOunt
of the print shops of Burope-and Troyen, the
rival of Rosa Bonheur. whose wonderful pictures
of animals brought such immense sums, died
| insane.
ABOLITION OF IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT IN FRANCE
There is again a talk of aboishing imprisonment
for debt in France, and it is, indeed high time, fol
establishment such as that in the Rue de Cliehy
where fathers of families are cooped up like wilt
beasts, seems to belong to the cruel customs o
the middle ages. The inhabitants of the prison o
ehchy lead arather pleasant life, Notwithstanding