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

asleep for upward of six months, and all attempts
10 wake him up have been invariably uns1ccess
ful. He has been successfully pinched, shaken.
whipped plunged into cold water, and undergone
other unpleasant things calculated to arouse
sleepers, but he shores on. Food is introduced
into his body through his nostrs he Is growing
quite fat. The doctors are In tempest OF per
plexity about II.
The ex-elector OF Hesse Cassel, it has now been
sscertained beyond doubt. was most corrupt
scoundrel while he was on the throne. He never
permitted railroad to be built In his States with
out compelling the contractors to pay him large
brides. Sir Morton Peto paid him thus upward OF
two hundred thousand dollars. The money was
given to bis sons and the elector was go shame
less that he laughed at his ministers when they re
specially demonstrated against such dlscreditabe
transactions. The elector is the direct descendant
of the vilIsnous prince who sold to Great Britain
the Hessians that fought against the American pa
triois 10 the war of independence.
The most popular and fashionable tune in Con-
stantinople is the Marseillaise. All the strolling
bands and organ-grinders play 1t, and the Turks
are so delighted with 1t that they always encore
it, A few weeks ago the Prince and Princess M.
rat arrived at Consantnople, and lest their sensi
tive ears should be shocked by hearing the revo-
luionary tune all the street corners OF the city,
the French ambassador at Constantinopie re-
quested the Turkish minister OF foreign affairs to
forbid the playing of the tune In the streets. An
order was issued to this effect by the police, and
the disconsolate bands and organ. grinders were
advised to plsy " Partant pour la Syrie" IN place
of the Msrseillaise.
King William, of Prussia has an illegitimate son,
who Is now Judge of one of the superior courts of
the province of Braudenburg. He bears strong
resemblance to his father, and surpasses both the
old king and the crown prince in understanding
and ssgacity. He is said to be liberal In politics.
His regal father has had him well educated, and
goes occasionally 10 see him.. Queen Augusta
knows all about the descent Of this illegltimste
child of her husband. When Frederick William
III the father of William J, who was then a very
young man, heard Of his lidtson with an actress
which led 10 the birth of this son. he threatened to
Danish the prince forever from the royal courts,
and for year afterwards he hardly exchanged
word with him.
The crown-prncess Victoria, OF Prussia, had
recently long conversation with some American
ladies in Berlin on her favorite subject-the em.
ployment Of women in fields which are now closed
| to them. In the course Of the conversation the
about the progress of the female suffrage move.
| ment in the United States. Her royal highness
| said she was in favor of the movement, and had
| as yet seen nothing to convince her that ii was
| wrong. This will be good news 10 Clara Mundt
| Nine. Amely Bolte, and the other leading adVo-
| Gates of female suffrage in Germany.
Madame Bombina-that is to say, the ex-
| Queen Mary of Naples, wife Of Bombils, ex.King
Francis the Second"-writes the Rome cores
pendent Of the Journal de Geneva, ais still very
| pretty woman. She looks little pale, and it
seems to me that her hair is not quite as full as
/ il was when / saw her several years ago; but
tnere is enough l0VeuneeS anu grace tDOut ner 10
turn the head Of any susceptible young man.
| cav her, the other day galloping past the Monte
| Princio, with some children-those OF Count Fras
| cone, was told. Her appearance was "a dashing
| and as prepossessing as il could be. What pity
| that this charming creature should be linked to
| such q husband. Him, the ex-kiDg. saw too the
| other day. He looks ssow and hollow checked
not as IL he were thirty.three, but forty-fve.
Liquor and smoking have made him prematurely
old His gait is slow and awkward. His eyes are
dull and his features heavy and dissgreeable. he
seems TO be man without understanding, split
or energy. His fsvorite companions are low fel.
lows, who help him to squander his limited re-
sources, and do their best to make him believe
that nothing 10 more certain than that he will, ct
no distant day, resscend the royal throne Of Ma
pies"
Two Of the most prominent ambassadors In
Paris, the Pspal nuncio and Lord Lyons, the Brit
isb minister. are consumptives.
The famous sleigh in which Napoleon rode, 10
1872. from Russia to Dresden, is now in the pos
session of the Countess Theresa Nimpfhsch, q dis.
tineuished member of the Bohemian nobility.
The French minister Of justice says in his re.
port on the penal colony of Cayenne, that the In.
fsnticides married to the male convicts make by
far better wives than the female thieves and pick
pockets.
The swedish university Of Upsalo is one of the
largest in the world. II has at the present time
ZIG Students thirty ordinary and two sst.ao5d
vste tutors, and four drill masters.
Let me tell you how success is organized at the
opera. The chief Of the cldQue vulgarly called
King Dayid by his soldier cldquers, half sits, half
lies, in q box in the center of the parterre, his
feet on the bench before him, the velvet of which
has to be renewed every year, on account Of this
wbim Of his majesty. II he turns his cane around,
and makes 1t sound on the floor, there is fire every
where. and his entire force thunders. If. on the
other hand, he pulls out q handkerchief and at
the end of the piece pretends to blow his nose
there Is silence il the ranks and nothing Is
heard.
When Ferdinand the Second Of Naples, better
known as King Bombo, first heard CT railroads he
gave 1t as his opinion that they were invention
Of the devil and that none Of them should ever be
constructed in his States His confessor had final
| ~ to demonstrate In the most urgent manner with
him in order to obtain his consent to the building
of the first railroad IN Naples, aud even then he
raised all kinds Of objections while the work was
In progress.
Ullmsn recently addressed the following curious
circular to his friends After reading Rossini's
posthunous mass, bought the right Of perform
ing II In Italy Believe me, it is the greatest and
most perfect work Rossipi has ever written. Itis
certainly by far more beautiful and grand than
his Stabat Mater do not write you this for
the purpose Of putting the work. have engaged
star cantstrices and singers. and shall give the
macs in the large cities of Italy with orchestra
Of one hundred performers, aud choir of two
hundred; in the second-rate cities with sixty
musicians and sixty chorsters; and In the small
towns with thirty musicians and thiIty choristers.
The latter will always accompany me as the
me four reserve s..gers, In case one or the other
Of the stsrs should be taken sick. shall give
every month twenty six performances, six in the
large cities, four IN the second-class cities, and
sixteen in the smaller towns. My monthly ex.
penses will be about 1000 francs; but the enter
prise is safer and better than the Patti concerts,
the frequent indisposition OF the Patti involving
me in heavy losses. In one week lost in France
$4,000 francs, In consequence Of her sickness.
With the mass and my four reserve singers shall
not be likely to sustain any losses. / count on
making clear profit of $50 600 francs in Italy,
and my calculations seldom fail TO prove true
There are in Italy fftytwo cities with large thea.
tiers, and believe shall be able TO give one hun
bred and twenty performances, at 5000 francs
each.
Menott Gsribaldi is not living very happily with
his young wife. She resides at Leghorn, and he
has gone back TO Caprera.
The pope spends most OF his leisure hours in
inspecting the arrangements made for the recep-
ton of the members OF the Ecumenical Council.
Lamartine's favorite phrase in regard to Nspo-
leon was: "Great in action, small in ideas,
nothing SO far as virtue Is concerned; such man
he was"
Mazzin ssysin his forthcoming volume that Ma.
poeon iii invited him in 1859 to visit him secretly
either in Paris or Genoa but that the invitation