New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-07-29
Personal Items.


The Hon. VIM, G. Rives has authorized the
editor of the Charleston Advocate to say that
he has retired from ali party and political CON
tests. 5
General Joseph Hillman, prominent Demo-
cratic politician, died suddenly Of congestion Of
the brain, at Bethlehem, Pa, on the 21st.
Mr.. Robert Tyler, son of the Ex-President,
has published letter in the Philadelphia Ar
gus in opposition to the Knsw-Nothings "
The :. Know Nothings," consequently, had bet
ter disband at once.
Powers, the great American sculptor, has
concluded q contract for a statue Of Geo. Wash
ington, to be placed in the Masonic Lodge room
at Fredericksburg, Va
The famous Ossian q. Dodge was married at
Cleveland, Ohio, on the 4th Of July, to Miss Elite
Lyon, of GAINESVILLE.
Mr.. and Mrs Bloomer have sold out their
newspaper at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, the western
Home Visitor" and have started to the far west
in search of home.
The Governor of Virginias bond for securing
| the costs in the Lemon slave case has been re-
fused by the respondents counsel.
| Bishop Kemper has accepted the Episcopate
| Of the important diocese of Wisconsin, to which
he was recently elected. He will continue, I'M
der Canon x, of 1858, to exercise Episcopal
missionary jurisdiction over the diocese of Iowa
| and the Territories of Minnesota, Nebraska and
| Kansas.
John Pottery:, (Petrovics Janos,) native of
Magyar Veese, Hungary, died recently in the
Bellevue Hospital, New York, in the 18th year
Of his age Thedeceased was lieutenant in the
25th Honved battalion, during the Hungarian
struggle for freedom, ....5-.
Rev. Joseph Stokes, Catholic priest of the
diocese of Hartford, Ct, expired on Monday,
the 18th, at Saratoga Springs,
| Mr. John B. Sheppard, q we'll known citizen
of st. Louis, died in that city recently.
| DR.. Strader, of Louisville, while feeding q
pet bear, few days since, gave some offence to
Bruin, and was badly bitten in the thigh.
Rev. Mr.. Carghill, M. E. preacher, was killed
at Susquehanna, on the 4th inst, by the dis
charge of cannon.
| Mr. Robert Newall, long and widely known
as the inventor of the Parautoptic Lock, which
at the Worlds Fair, London, and in this coun-
| try, created among mechanics and scientific
men generally an intense sensation, died in New
York Of cholera on the 18th.
John Derr, q revolutionary patriot, died re-
Gently in Uniontown, Md, in his 95th year.
William Lorain was drowned while bathing in
the North River, on the 21st inst.
Daniel II. Dustin, Esq, who was appointed
by President Pierce to the Office of q. S. District
Attorney for the Territory Of Minnesota, died
at st. Paul on the 10th instant. He fell vic.
tim to cholera.
Rev. G. W. Adams, who is charged with alb.
sconding from New Hampshire with $4,000
awarded to Mrs. Templeton for the death of hel
husband, caused by the Norwalk tragedy, wal
arrested in Wisconsin last week.
Della Webster was discharged from custody
at Madison, Ia, on the 2lst, the Court holding
that no sufficient crime was specified in the re
QUESTION of the Governor of Kentucky.
Mr. Kyle, the defrauder Of the Harlem Rail
road Company, is still in the Eldridge stree
prison, New York, unable to obtain the 500,
900 security demanded for his appearance.
E Young Cochran, who killed Mr.. Woodruff il
Selma, Ala, and whose bail was fixed at $1,000
by the examining magistrate, has been released
his father having become his surety.