The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-05
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Gen. Klspka thinks Prince Napoleon is 10 Hun
gary to organize an alliance oil france, RUSSIA,
Austria and Hungary, against MuscoVite ten
denotes.
gentleman in company with John Bright took |
up q newspaper the other day, saying, he wanted |
to see what the ministry was ABOUT. Bright, win |
a smile replied, ''loOk among the robberies."
The Rothschilds have just concluded financial |
arrangement with the Italian government, by |
which, on payment of twelve millions of francs, |
they receive the tobacco monopoly Of the |
kingdom. |
PIince Pierre Bonaparte, third son of Lucien, |
priuce of Canine, who is living in retirement near
Paris. has Just published in Belgium volume of
six hundred pages. eBtted "Hypothese dune
Compagne sur le Rhin." The prince censures
sharply his cousins government, and predicts
victory to France as matter Of course.
Queen Victoriss daughter, the Princess Louise,
sent to the exhibition of the Royal Academy, this
year, bust of her brother, Prince Arthur, Of
which Sir Francis Grant is reported to have said
" he had no hesitation in saying the bust was
work of infinite talent, an admirable likeness, and
a production full of refinement and taste. The
opiuion of lis merits he knew to be shared by all
the members of the Royal Academy"
A new poem in the epic form has, it is said by
the Leader, been submitted TO one of the great
London publishing firms by an, as yet, unknown
author, which in high merit and genius, is pro-
nOunced by competent critics to surpass any SINH
lar production of the last quarter OF century.
This is q rather lofty prophecy, considering that
we have had within very brief period SWIM
burne's =" Atlanta in Calydon," Morriss Jason"
and George Eliot's spanish Gypsy
1t appears that the Italian home minister has SO
wounded the vanity of Verdi by an indscreet re-
mark that the composer of "Trovatore" has re-
turned his decorations to the fountain OF honor
from which they originally flowed. Writing 10
Rossni in Paris the minister said, "Excepungln
the cases OF ROssini aad Auber, modern music dled
with Meyerbeer." There is 30 large measure OF
truth in this observation, that one can well under
stand that the amour pr0pre OF the maestro was
horribly outraged.
At the last meeting OF the Paris Academy OF
Science one of the correspondents gave slngu'
lar mode of curing somnambulism. He advised q
patient suffering from this disorder to fasten cop
per wire around his feet, and then pass the oppo-
site end of the wire around his neck. AS long as
| the mnambulist wore this sort OF copper mar
ness he experienced no return OF the affection,
and the cure lasted for year, the attacks re-
| turning on his leaving of his copper wire.
A London correspondent writing OF tashion-
able wedding, says he failed to discover sin
Gle dress coat in the company, the groom, the
| best man. and all the gentlemen friends APP
| bearing in dark, double.breasted frock coats,
| light pants, black or colored neck ues ana, WIN
| the exception of the groom, retaining their mats
| in their hands during the ceremony. The brides
| maids dressed in white trimmed with blue, while
| the lady friends wore all kinds of elegant morning
| dresses. Gloves of every shade and color aD-
| peared on the hands of both ladies and gentle
| men, while the latter 6ll carried the buttonhole
| bououet without which q London man of fashion
| would not be considered dressed.
/ A late letter from Rome announces the OpSu-
ing of the canal which leads from the Ostion
Marshes to the sea, and which will carry of seve-
| raj large stagnant lakes near Tore Paderas, and
give to cultivation large tract OF hitherto waste
| land. All the low and pestential marsh land
between the sea and 0sita, hitherto unreclamable,
| and appropriately termed the Campo Morto, will
| be by the new canal completely drained and
| brought into a state OF comparative salubrty and
| utilitV Extensive salt works will be established
| along the shore, which will give employment to
the hitherto miserable and fever-stricken popu-
latiOn.
The committee appointed in England to select
the best gun for German navy, has begun lis
operations with some experiments, in which the
powers of the Armstrong gun were compared
with those Of the guns Of various other manufac-
tuners. A great many shots were fired at ranges
of 1900 and l400 PAGES, which are the same as $50
and lI2O yards respectively; and in all cases the
| Armstrong has completely beaten its competitors.
! The Armstrong prOjecte passed through all the
| targets at which il was fired; whereas the large
cast. steel guns of Mr.. Krupp did not attain this
result in any one instance. Some further expert
| ments are 10 be made in a few weeks with dit
ferent kind Of powder, from which better results
are expected.
Royalty, so far as the young generation is con-
serned seems to be everywhere on the decline.
Wales is no worse than the other crown princes.
I[ovsS in French court, where Jules Favre said
| be sbould he called not "his highness" but ms
basenessn is q downright scamp the crown
prince of Russia is an ll'natured, scIolulou ~
/ -
| his own family Prince HumbeIt, OF Italy, IS the
Italian Wales, perhaps little worse the crown
prince of Saxony is bigoted tool OF the priests
| the crown prince of Denmark was last year
Wslesis boon companion in Paris and at the Ger
. | man watering places; the crown prince OF frls-
: | STA is good Ban, but rather dull, and men
pecked husband. ,,,-,..- ~.
Of odd Fellows has Just been published, and pre-
sents some remarkable facts concerning I'M
u growth and extent of Odd Fellowship in England
The Unity numbered on the LIST OF January last
. an 400 members an increase Of 2,29O during Tn
I. wear. of whom IS per cent were young men IN
Il der 81 wears of age. The revenues OF the soclet
q exceeded half million sterling, and II ,OOV w
= | had been added to the accumulated capltal, Wnlc
. | amounted to the enormous sum OF lZ,OOO,0OI
VI en- GOO goo had been distributed for sick relic
>. ! and $340, 900 for funeral expenses. Inc amour
e of GOOD accomplished by such an organization
!, incalculsble, and the skill and ability shown
" administering its affairs are remarkable.
=. The furious onset by Gladstone and Bright,
~ the head of the opposition, to unhorse Dlsrae
- before he was warm in his seat, oy sprlnglng
III him the Irish church question, has failed. Inc
- supposed the new minister would be appalled, I
g one or two heavy maiorities; so, throwing asiC
- | all conventional courtesy which sho1ld nave
a. lowed a few months of office to the man who d
81 SO fairly won it, they dragged the Irish cnurc
,e an admitted nuisance Prematurey nI1 tne o or
10 10 of Commons, and applied the party whip. Lar
a. adverse maiorities we're the result but the WI
VI | ing Disraeh, whose self-possession is never
III tuTbed calmly declared that, according TO 1sag
he had either to resign or dissolve the Hous
as and that he was decided to DO the latter.
AS called on them therefore, to "put their house
~ order" by passing at once some necessary Oh
0h and he would send them from whence U
l. camel London Letter.
ne An oriental spectacle, reminding one OF soI
'I of the scenes described in sacred history ana
Gu marriage of Ahasuerus, was witnessed at PeR
TnsS on the 9th Of March. The young emperor
no China. having reached the age Of fourteen,
time had come when a wife had to be chosen
him. One hundred and twenty young girls, RAJ
tic ing from eleven TO nineteen years old, were
.te mitted to the palace on the previous even
no a. Candidates. Seven were chosen from I
ofv number, who had to submit to an examination
me fore the empress-mother, whose business II y
lot, make choice. Letters Irom SA "a Vi tn ~
ats, April inform us that the young lauy upon e.,
of ne choice of the prince aud his mother fell =
re- born at Nonkden, in the province OF Ching, X