The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-05
EoREIGN AND PERSONAL ITEMS.

bufor of the Times and the Pail Mall Gazette, %
well as to the Edinburgh Review and Cornhili
Magazine. he was best known by his favorite
signatures OF Jacob 0mnium" and "Paterfs-
miiias.
qbe Princess Louise, Queen victoris's fifth
daughter, is beautiful girl, fair, TALL and grace
ful Ike lilly, with wel-cut features. pensiVe
cast Of countenance. and blue. Herman eyes Her
walk u singularly distngue. Her youngest sister,
Beatrice, Is ugly, pert, aud self conscious.
One of Louis Napoeon's former mistresses
keeps q concert cafe, of doubtful reputation, 10
Brussels. Her house is visited by many Freach-
men, and the stories which Madame tells about
her lidisOn with the emperor, are eagerly listened
to. Her name is Felicite Gsvrsrd. She Is a native
of Amiens, and has four children; the eldest two,
she asserts, have as much Napoleonic blood as the
Prince Imperial
A writer 10 the Gazette de France mentions, 10
q very pathetic appeal to the ancient families OF
France, whom he implores to keep their blood
pure, among the numerous symptoms Ut the decay
OF the flooded legitimist) sristocracy of France.
that some families, instead Of bearing their pow
erty with dignity, have stopped TO matches be-
tween their daughters and "vulgar American
shop-keepers and oil-dealers."
When Admiral Farrsgut was at Genoa, little
girl eight years old arrived at the door Of the
American consulate, where the hero of Mobile
spent few hours. The little girl said she wanted
to see the admiral and when she was taken to
him she handed HIM bouquet. and said in Italian
her father bad served IN the American war, and
had been killed in Louisiana. Her mother had
died after her return 10 Italy, and she nov
alone with her grandmother. The admiral kissed
the little girl, and made her handsome present.
Jerome and the Pattersons will be the title
of work which will shortly appear in Paris
The author says he has obtained a number Of the
most interesting documents, unpublished letters
etc., in regard to the marriage of Jerome Bona
perte and Miss Patterson, and will expose also the
means by which Prince Napoleon prevailed upon
the French Supreme Court to decide the whole
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II s 81 Rs judges S
by promises of speedy promotion that two of
those who declared in favor of the prince were
appointed senator's and the third director OF the
bank of France at a salary of fifty thousand francs.
But for these msneuvers, the author says. the
decision would have undoubtedly been In favor OF
the PatteTsoDs.
The pope has a summary way of disposing OF
" the social evil" Because of IFS shocking effect
upon the health of his troops, the Roman police
made general raid upon the frail ssterhood, aud
swept the whole body into prison OF out of the
Roman states. and boosted that they had not left
one fTsil woman 10 Rome. The condition of the
poor creatures thus driven from the city is said to
he deploraoe.
Young Eugene Csvaignac, whose refusal to ac-
cept college prize at the hands Of the prince i'm
Derial has created such a great sensation in
France, was educated in stern hatred imperial
ism by his energetic young mother, who was out
nineteen years old when her Industrious husband
died. Csvaienac died very suddenly 10 the coun-
try and his wife, though she was over vhelmed
with grief. had the corpse placed In her carriage
ana drove with II to Paris, which che re iched IN
nine hours sfterwsrd. Her son was only year
| old at that time. When Theirs called on her, a
short time after her husbands death, she showed
him the child, and, pointing to the little boy, ex-
claimed: - he shall never take the oath The
French government has long since placed her IN
| der the special Surveillance of the police.
daughter of Mrs. Gaskell the author of the
:" Life of Charlotte Bropte," is experimenting a
| public kitchen at Manchester for the sick. This
kitchen was started some three years ago In one
of the poorest and most populous districts 10 Msa.
chester with the object of supplying dinners gra-
| tuitOusy to the patients Of the Ardwick and An.
coats Dispenssry, and of st. Mary's Hospital
during their illness or convalescence. Victor HUI
go has written letter to Miss Gaskeil, compli-
| menting her on her good work.
The Ischl correspondent of the Men Gazette
writes that Francis Joseph shed tears of rage on
| reading the document which General Lamarmora
communicated to the Italian parliament. He says,
slso, that all the Austrian Archdukes are furiou-y
| denouncing Prussia. and that thew would hail q
| declaration of war against that power with the
| most rapturous enthusiasm. The empress, how.
ever, is decidedly opposed to any more ,rs. she
| says she has had more than enough of them, and
would die rather than suffer again the anxiety aud
| grief which the campaigns OF 1859 aud 1856
| caused TO her. The emperor feels such a sincere
respect for Beust's sagacity and prudence that he
will do nothing but what the great statesman will
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| court is said to be more intense than ever.
| Longfellow recently visited the Temple Lon
| don. The Times says be was especially delighted
with the fine Old hall Of the Middle Temple. BE
inscribed his name the VISITORS book. where II
| will be one of the NEST valued autographs. Bat
| more even than by the buildings was the poet'i
| fancy touched by the sight of the old mulberry
tree. still in full leaf, though propped by crutches
as he called them. under whose shade; in the gar
| den of the Middle Temple, Henry VIII and Anr
| Boleyn so often sat together. Still more was the
poet moved by the dead old sycamore stun il
| the Inner Temple, now protected by ratings, az
| sacred relic, where in its mature verdure, DR.
JOIN son and Oliver Goldsmith were wont to NEE
| and hold converse in the manner immortalizel OF
| Boswell. Thence did Longfellow pass to thu
grave of Goldsmith outside the church, and int
the church itself with its tombs and statues Of thu
Knights Templar. Although his intended visit wa
not previously announced. it soon became nois SEE
| about the Temple that the American poet wa
| performing pilgrimage to its many mem )rals o
| long ago, and some Of the benchers came anC
we're introduced to him, and civites we ex
changed, and let US hope that the inspiration o
what had so much delighted and so profoundly
touched him will find fit expression in some i'm
| mortal verse.
The Paris correspondent of the Star says: g.
ga her the following anecdoie from good source
| The scene related occurred at a private party a
the Tueries. After dinner the court was plsyin.
at jeiI de Societe. The question proposed wa
How to distinguish truth from lie y Ii was tn
emperor's turn to reply: Nothing more simple
Open the door to both and the lie will be sure {,
enter first Al this moment the folding doou
were thrown open and Groom Of the chamber
announced two of. the ministers, who were seen Il
bow to each o:her, and each to decline accepting
the precedence. At last the younger of the twJ
exceeDcies remarked that he had but recend
Joined the cabinet, and that it was evident hi
colleague had the pas. The company, mean
while, attracted by the singular coincidence
we're not little amused to see NJ. Rouher, tn
minister of state, enter the salon, followed by N
Ppard. aud their excellencies were much puzzle
BY the hilarity their arrival occasioned."