The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-01
FOREIGN AND PROBABILITIES

FOREIGN AND PERSONAL ITEMS
Mr.. Laysrd tells. In a recent letter, a story OF
the revival Of art and Industry at Venice which il
really wonderful, if true. he shows that the inn.
ports in 1867 amounted to s26, 600, 900, as com
pared to s23, 900 900 in 1868 the exports in ls67
to $40 COO 600 as compared to SIC 900 900 ia 1853
The tunnsge of vessels leaving Venice increased
by oDe.tbird in the same period. Venetian steam.
eIs Deeln 10 run once more, as the galleys did of
oio, TO al The great ports OF Europe; aud though
last not iess-theIe are now 224 district schools,
where in 1866 there were only eight; and mann.
factories of silk, cloth, cotton, paper and fire.
arms are springing up 10 all the cities of the main.
land. The nobility, after eighty years of eclipse
and Two hundred years of sloth and degradation
are throwing themselves into politics. art iadas-
try and commerce, with much of the old energy
which built the city and made /. famous
:, The city Of Liverpool is building three new pub.
nc parks. Il spent sl.6i90Oo upon them last
year. The debt Of that city is $40 900 090 and ia
creasing. II pays over sl,00O,000 interest per
J aDnum.
lie Nozze di Figaro was recently psrforr.;a IN
London. The Dairy telegraph says: MISS
Hauck enacted "CherubinG" for the Ijrst time and
sang throughout with such purity aud refinement
OF style as went far to justify all the good things
Us.Ch had been predicted about her future.
Vol che sdpete, the dulcet melody in which the
young page gives vent to ell the desire with which
his soul Is, for the first time moved, was given
with the most thoroughly unaffected expression,
and the best known air of the opera, was warmly
encored. In the dramatic presentment of the
character. Mics Hauck was sprighty and ami.
mated, without ever oversteppiDg the line that
separates the spirited from the vulgar and we
may unreseivedIy congratulate her on the most
unequivocal success which she has yet obtained
The following anecdote Of the Rossni family
which the /" Easy Chair " contains, may not have
been seen before: - =
=" BE was born to music-the son of strolIipu
horn. player and his singing wife. At IL he
wanted to begin to compose. Parents do not like
children who begin to compose. The parental
mind seems TO be profoundly depressed by the
apprehension that it may have produced
e or Of the sr SDss a sss WsnS s
couraged by the parental influence, especially by
the psiernsl! Ii my boy were a Michael An.
gelo, Beethoven, Shakespeare, very well bat
don't want any dsubers or rhymsters in nv
family Of course, good pat rfamilias, Shaks.
peare wrote Hamlet when he Was in clouts.
Inc eloer hosslnI would hear of no nonsense of
composing. Let my Goacchino blow horn, aud
he shall have my blessing. Per Bdcco he can
become the first horn-biower in Italy! But the
fathers foot came down about the composing,
and the boys about the horn blowing. He dis.
obeyed his father. He might have been the first
horn. blower in Italy, and be persisted in being
Rossini!"
An official report on the railway disasters in
Great Britain last year shows that { 20 huadred
and nineteen persons were killed and seven hun. |
dred and nnety-fve wounded-tota one thousand
and fourteen. OF the persons killed, one hun
dred and hve we're servants Of the companies or |
10.
nifcant note is added that the report of accidents
to servants of the companies and contractors can
not be looked upon as complete as many railway /
companies, not being required to do so by law, do
not report to the Board of Trade every accident |
which may befall this class of persons. The total
number of passengers who travelled was ESQ $685.
9s2 in England alone.
"0n trip to Meaux," says the Paris cores
pondent OF the PRECURSOR d'Anvers, sat- day
before yesterday, opposite a middle-aged gen.
uemap, very lat and very sleepy.looking. [
thought he would be hardly able to ops6his eyes.
mben ne ieft the train, II rained, and he opened
his umbrella. There was a name painted on the
inside OF the umbrella. Tread il Edmund About
The lat gentleman. whom had taken for law.
epicurean old bachelor, was no other than one Of
me brightest, ablest and most indefatigabe au.
thoTs OF France never was more sstonshed 10
my life, and would not believe that it was About
take.p
The proposal of Dr. Newmayer 70 cross the
Ausuanan continent from east to west will pro-
baby ultimately be accepted. There still remains
more then half OF Australia unexplored and al.
though II is possible that il is merely an arid des.
ert yet sun II "a likely that 1t will be found to have
resources OF great value. The cost of the pro.
posed expedition would be f7000 year for three
years, half OF which would be subscribed BY the |
nome government and the remainder divided
among The colonies The expedition yould be |
provided with ten csmels, twenty five horses bag.
gage wagons, camp equipage, field telegraph
boat balloon, and all kinds OF scientific ipsru. |
menis. The progress Of the party would Of course
be very slow, and they do not hope 70 accomplish
the proposed journey In less than three years II
s int nded, however, that the country on either
slde OF the line of march shall be thoroughly ex.
ggoIeo, ana rom time TO time messengers will be
1lspatcned to the coast with news aad letters
Inc scentlnc results OF an elaborate EXPLORATION
,sch as this would no doubt be very valuable.
ne s1eory OF an interior desert is now generally
ooked upon as unsound; il is known ID It natives 7
ange as lar at least as the center of the CONT c
lent, and 1t Is hoped that the unknown portion Of
auslraiia VIII prove as available for grazing pur.
loses as that already occupied. {
The emperor of Russia looks more obese than r
Wo or tnree years ago. His corpulebcy ia at. p
riouted to the coat of mail which he is said 10 '
year constantly. since Berezowsky attempted to "
hoot him. The Russian public authorities have &
zen instructed 10 hush up any further attempts C
1at might be made to assassinate the emperor II
no nov permit the Russian press to say a VOID II
,h mem; Berezowsky L in New Caledonia. 9
mere be Is kept hard at work 10 the potatoes and
oDacco fields. His rigorous treatment is said to d
use from the apprehension on the part OF the II
Iencn government that the car might take "
lense II should be reported to him that Bere- 81
)nvicis. Y
The heirs of the late Baron Rothschild viii have ri
,ose 1OooO,oo0 francs legacy duty to pay on the Y
operty tney inherit. The baron and his bso- "
ers were born in house still shown in the Rue o.
. Jniis Dew street), at Frankfort, and which, Il
spHe OF the immense wealth her sons aecumu. hs
Ied tneir mother persisted in occupying. Baron br
mes &c Rothsehild possessed bis private hotel til
q bank. Rue LATTE : his country house near the IA
,s de boulogne his princey chateau of Ferrieres wi
nte besides palace at Rome, another at ar
spies, houses at Florence and Turin, and fifty e.
e 20 o houses In Paris. amounting in all to over MI
OoOuOOe0- His charities 70 his Je wish brethren
re- IL Is said boundless. Applications for relief cls
!, Christians were not as readily granted. f.,
some one has lately been rurnmaging among &c.
pstels ieit by Rooespierre, aud has found o.
opg them short poem 10 the hand writing OF eif
reVolufionist, and signed By him. The verses IrI