The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-04-18
GOSSIP.

FOHEIGN PERSONAL AND OTHER
GOSSIP.
An EnRlishmsn Is going to start @ weekly news
paper at Jerusalem.
ihe German Kirchenzeitung charges Henry
ward Beecher with in6delity.
The King of Bavaria is the best looking and
most eccentric monarch in Europe.
Frankfort-on.t the Main boasts of paper bear.
ing the suggestive title, "The Demagogue."
Thackersy's daughter 10 travelling in Germany,
and meets everywhere with the most cordial re-
ception.
Gently confiscated for speaking of "our venerable
empress"
The Orleans family has spent already over three
million francs to secure the Spanish throne for the
Duke de Montpensier.
The American colony at Bordeaux numbers one
hundred and fifty persons. There are nearly one
thousand Americans at Havre.
The pedestal OF the statue TO be erected to
Pierre Antoine Berger. at Msrseilles, will contain
medallion head OF Abraham Lincoln.
Ssinte. Beuve compares Victor Hugo's humor
TO that of IN executioner testing with the
criminal round whose neck he is adjusting the
moose.
Paul de Casssgnsc has challenged all the
sixteen French editors who refused TO mess
with him at the same table in the prison of Saint
Pelage. -
Rochefort's Lanterne is now published BY
Brussels printer, who pays Roch1f3rt two thous.
and fra,cs q week. The circulation of the Ian.
terne ia between 50 900 and 80 900 copies.
When Blllanlt, the eloquent French minister
died. ia.r people said, "Tne emperor has lost bis
tongue" Now that Troplong, who drew up the
constitution of 1852 and most of the laws Of the
second empire. is dead, they say, 1.-THE emperor
Hortenss Schneider ia thirty five, and looks IL
che were over forty. Persons who know her well
are ungallant enough to say that she is a sort of
eutton, and that her frequent indispostions arise
from her eating too much.
The French critics, to whom advance copies OF
Victor Hugo's 81 Homme Qui Ritz have been SUBJ
mitted, pronounce il by far inferior 10 Lies Mise
rabies" although they admit that 1t contains some
episodes of great beauty and power.
II was the Duke de Montpensier who, In the
year $685. informed the American ambassador at
Madrid of the secret efforts which Napoleon iii
was making to induce the Spanish government to
recognize the Southern Confederacy. Serano,
Prim, Rivero, 0lozaga, CASTELAR, and 0rense, the
leading men Of the Spanish revolution, were all
warm friends of the North during the war of the
rebellion.
There is no doubt whatever that Gounod has sud.
denly become very pous and.that he has promised
the pope not to write any more music for the
stage.
The king Of Sweden has new volume of poems
In press. They will appear under tho nom de
plume "Chsrlemagne." and be dedicated to uni
versity professor at Upsala.
Fetis, the well known author OF cyclopedla of
composers, had some time since quarrel with
Auber. he revenged himself on the old maestro
by emitting bis name from the new edition of his
cyclopedia.
The heirs Of Baron James Rothschild refuse to
pay the legscies which their deceased father and
husband has bequeathed to parties not belonging
to the Rothschd family. A number OF lawsuits
will no doubt arise from this refusal.
King Victor Emmanuel recently visited Hercu-
laneum and Pompeii, and surprised the learned
gentlemen who accompanied him on that coca.
sion by his utter ignorance Of ancient history.
He really thought the eruption of Vesuvus, In
consequence of which the two ancient cities were
overwhelmed by volcsnic ashes, had disappeared
from the face Of the earth only about four or i've
hundred years ago. Ii is also stated that when,
in the course Of conversation, the name OF Pliny
was mentioned, the king of Italy did not know
The king of Prussia recently said that the
monarch whose intellectual capacities filled him
with the highest respect was King John Of Saxo.
ny; and the king of Saxony some time ago was
polite enough to call his royal brother Of Prussia
"a Knight BsyaId on the throne"
Madame ROssni says that she receives on an
average thirty calls day from strangers visiting
Paris, and DESTROYS Of seeing the cottage where
the composer of the Barber Of Ssville resided.
These visitors, she says, are great annoyance to
her, and she would prefer to be disturbed little
as possible.
The grandson Of Field.marshal Radetzky, who
turned Jew TO spite his relatives on account OF g
transaction by which be asserts they swindled him
out of ten thousand forms, has aggravated his
ofense by appearing in public in the old Jewish
costume, which is nowadays worn only By very
lew lsraeltes.
Nine. George Sand, in going few days since
from Thomery, where she had been TO see Rosa
Bonheur, TO Fontsinebleau, became irritsted by
the slow pace Of the driver whose carriage she
had hired she at last said to him: :" When a man
Is not more intelligent than you are, he does
not become q hackman.n he replied: Ii is
true, madam; If nature had given me more
sense, should not be on the box-I should be
O novel writer" The paper which relates this
anecdote adds that Mime. Sand made no further
remark.
The Emperor Napoleon has postponed the exc.
cuion OF his plan TO erect q splendid statue to his
mother, Queen Hortense. The unpleasant sllu.
sion 10 her, with which the opposition papers in
France have recently sbounded, had, no doubt,
much to do with this decision. The monumsnt
was TO have been erected In front Of the Tuile-
ries.
In 1859 the then prince regent, now king Of
Prussia, said to one OF his conhdants that there
was one member OF the Prussian diplomatic corps
who was, owing 10 his restless and domneering
spirit, dstasteful TO him that he hated the very
sight of him. The unfortunate diplomatist of
whom William entertained such an unfayorable
opinion at that time, was no other than Otto Won
Bismarck.
Queen Isabella has given orders 70 the eject that
no more newspaper reporters and editors shall be
admitted TO her new palace. She Il greatly dis
pleased with some Of the stories which several of
these enterprsing Bohemisns have published
about her. Father Caret is likewise dissatisfied
with the attention which the newspapers OF Paris
have been bestowing upon him. In January last
the ex.queen limited that she would not be dis.
pleased If the French government would prose