The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-30
FOREIGN And PERSONAL ITEMS.

letter from Rome says Louis Napoleon and bis |
foreign ministers have renewed their pledge that |
France will uphold and defend the pope in every |
emergency.
The ex king Of Naples and the dukes Of Parms.
Modena and Tuscany have proclaimed that they do
not recognize tue present Italian debt and Will re-
pudiate il on their restoration.
Cardinal Antopelli snubbed Baron Won Beust by
simply returning an acknowledgment OF the
receipt of his dispatch in reference to the Austrian
confessional laws.
Girardn. the fighting editor IN Paris, says France
should have but one song-the Rhine. france,
however, lacks the inspiration TO such song, VIZ
TIE rbine-o.
The heart of the late king Louis the First has
been inclosed in q silver urn, which wiiAsoon
be deposited amidst imposing ceremonies at the
pilgrims chapel at Alt Getting.
IL il proposed in England ~ consecrate bishop
OF the army instead Of a chaplin general. He
would have episcopal powers wherever the army
might be stationed where there is no bishop.
Grardin's latest journalL tic hobby Is desper-
ate attack on the criminal laws OF modern times
He says that no man has right TO punish ano-
Their. Hence, the criminal laws OF all civilized
states were mere assumptions.
Richard Wagner is re ported toshave quilted Nh
mich in Disgust al the failure of bis last opera the
" MesteraiDger Won Nuremberg" and to be seri-
oBsly i'll az Zurich.
Last year o. 600 900 cigars were sold in France.
Tie consumption of tobacco since 1852 has IN
creased from 500 coo kilogrammes NEARLY 500
tons) TO 100000 kiogrammes, (aboat SO46
tons.
Anton Rubnstein the greatest living pianist,
who is about 10 make trip 10 the United States,
was born the 18th Of November. 1879. in a
small village near Jassy, on the Rnsalan frontier
He married, two years ago, Russian lady OF
noble birth.
The celebrated Prince Cronv. who pretends to
be a near relative OF Queen Victoria and the le-
climate heir of immense estates In Northern
italy, is now a convict in the French peBitsntary
at Hheim. BE was convicted OF swindling at
Dieppe, TWO years ago, and has been set to work
| Oh a cork machine.
There is a young man in Paris, twenty-five
years old, who claims to be son Of King Louis,
| of Bavaria and Lola Montez. He says he is able
to prove by documents the truth OF his assertion,
any says ALSO that his royal father had, last year,
| an interview with him and gave him large sum
| If money.
M. Boucher de Perthes, the founder of the Sci
ence of archaeology, died on the Sd inst at Able
| vile, France, at the age OF eighty de was the
first TO make scientific use OF the discoveries OF
| the flint implements used by men before the age
of metals, and proved that there was in Europe
an age Of stone.
grand festival was held at Csrsruhe, Prussia,
on the 18th, to celebrate The anniffeHfiRister Of
| war made a speech. At the closing OF the ban
| quet be expressed the hope that the Southern
States Of Germany would soon unite with those of
the North, and thus complete the series of great
events which commenced in 1866.
| The king of Prussia now appears seldom in
public without being accompanied by very
handsome colOred boy, whom Gerhard Rohlfs, the
| celebrated traveller, brought with him from Abys-
sinis. and placed under the protection of his ma.
jesty. The king says be thinks the boy is exceed
| ingly talented, and he will give him an excellent
| education.
The Revue Populaire, of Paris, gives an account
| of some very curious experiments made by Dr..
| Claude Bernard. If oxygenized blood De injected
into the arteries Of the neck mmediatey after de-
| cspiaton, warmth and seDsibility will return;
the eyes get animated, and display such percep
| ton that object shaken before them will cause
| winkiDg of the eyelds and movements of eyebals
| as though to avoid injury.
| Ii has created some surprise in Prussia that
Queen Victoria declined the invitation of her eld
EFT daughter to visit her at Reinhardsbrunn, where
| she and her husband live in retirement with their
| children and are attended by only two servants.
During her brief sojourn in Paris the queen looked
gloomy and was exceedingly tacturn. 10 driving
through the BOulevsrds 1t noticed that she did
| not even glance at the magnificent buildings on
| those superb avenues
The garden inspector at Biebrich who boxed
the ears of Aristarchi Bey, the Turkish ambassa-
| dor at Berlin, has been sentenced to four weeks
imprisonment. The public consider this sentence
unjust, and expect that the higher court, TO which
the inspector has appealed, will acquit him. The
ambassador behaved like fool and BLACKBOARD,
and the castigation which he received was richly
| deserved.
One writing from the watering place of Luchon
tells this story: very pretty traveller was sitting
with very slokly looking coc0des at q smallrOund
| table, and she YVES biting In some glowing red
| ladshes. Her hair, which was really all her own,
| hung round her shoulders and curled and waved
luxUrantly. What splendid locks" exclaimed
the young man, touching the glossy ringlets under
the Spanish msntilla; they look positively nice.
II the longest hair in your head were to fall in my
soup, Theodore. / really would not take it out"
In Stettin adopted citizen of the United States
| has been arrested for using ncendiary language
and committing the crime LGS9 DlgjestdhS. lie
! said in lager beer saloon that all princes we're
scOuDdrels, and that the king OF Prussia, too,
would before long reach the end of his rope.
IL L. - kwna w~1s H.
fcers with the wrath of the American govern.
nent, which, he said. would not fail to protect
him, and make an example Of the city Of Stettn,
where be had been deprived OF his liberty.
wealthy American lady who has rented fine
villa at Ems. was recently, in her ignorance Of
| court etiquette, maize enough to send invitations
to a SOiree which she intended to give, TO all the
crowned heads at the fashionable watering place,
including the King Of Prussia. These Invitations
were not accepted, but next day The king caused
himself TO be introduced to the lady in question on
the promenade, and cbatted long time with her.
George Sand writes a large, heavy and angular
hand, looking like that Of an old lawyer rather than
an auiboress. Victor Hugo can write very beau
tiully, but be generally scrawls shockingiy. He
frequently illustrates his letters with rough bat
spirited pencil sketches. Alexander Dumas is a
splendid peDman, and, no matter how rapidly he
may write, his copy" is always as beautiful as
il is legible. Theirs writes coarsely and angu-
| larry. LsmartiDe writes a fine, flowing hand.
Jules JsDins handwriting is execrsble. Few per.
sOns besides himself are aDe 10 declpher his HER
oRlyphics.
Old Auber recently gave party. During the
| evening the guests never tired of gazing on a
| group of three persons, who were generally seen
ehsiting together In very animated manner and
laughing uproariously at the jokes of which one
OF them seemed 10 possess an inexhausrible sup
ply. Two OF these persons were venerable men;
| the third, who treated his companions with great
detercDce, vas q man IN the prime of life. The
two old men were Auber and Rossni, and their
| companion was Gounod. The story-teller among
| them was Rossni, who is not only famous as a COM
poser: but, also, as most entertaining converse
| tiona ist.
Strange to say, the Emperor Napoleon has
caused the study of the German language to be
resumed 10 all Alsstian primary and grammar
schools, where that branch Of instruction had
lately been much neglected. Upon his return
/ from salZburs TO Suau-burg. the inspectors aud
| DANES pdtTOnesses of the Alsatian schools we're
] presented to him, and he urged them strongly to