The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-08-11
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~ ionB known as the state Agent
VI 'uo'' " ' South, and later United States Urea
'uiy as."' al Savannah, Ga, has recently been ap-
~ tho President United States Direct Tax Agent
ior th State Of Georgia. with headquarters at Savannah
,. an important position to the government requiring
"a the occupant sterling integrity and fine perception
OF what constitutes equity well Justice The Colonel
ID stopping at the Astor House for few days.
correspondent writes:-we rarely meet with the
name OF General Cass in the papers; but he 's ives
at the ripe age of eghtyfour years He resides on JEFF
ferson street. Detroit in handsome modern built dwell
ing WINE his eldest son occupies the old family home
stead TWO squares distant Though afflicted with the
feebeness and forgetfuness naturally incident to his
patrarcha age, he maintains better health and
active spirit than could reasonably BIO supposed to belong
TO his time OF life.
General Ewell and wife reached Alexandria, Va, on
Saturday night and left Sunday morning the Orange
and Alexandria tran for the Generals home, in Prince
William county.
General Joseph E. Johnston is willing to accept the
position OF superintendent of railroad For this
attachments eminenty 1T him and one Of the many re-
constructing roads OF the South would do well to
his services The stockholders Of Richmond and
DanViie Railroad will soon be called upon to elect
president Mt which time they could not better subservc
their interest and the States than by uniting the offices
Johnston thereto His military status cannot be urged
against his holding place so entirely separate from
politics. and his practical good sense, combined with his
OF mechanics Will soon make the road the best IN the
State, as 1t is already the most important
MISS Lee, rom New YORK. VINO has past
lived with her sister, tho wife of Baron wacher the
Wertemberg Minister in Paris Is about marry the Duke
Of Gucksberg one Of the Hosten princes who magnani
mously foreits his rights sovereign prince in order
to become the husband Of sovereign American lady,
He is an elderly man, and as be Is past the age Of
historical use Of her life Of leisure and by throwing
ght opon the Scheswg Holsten question from her per-
sonai relations with one of the parties to It,
well known family in Troy are In distress on account
Of the eopement OF daughter with returned soldier
The young lady skcdaddcd out Of back window Monday
night and with her bould soger boy Bruins
wick dominic" and got married.
B. P. Cheney, Captain 8. G. Roe Of Boston, j. NJ
Thompson of springGed D. w Barney, A. H. Barney
W, !. Dnsmore E Sanford, L. ". Winchester, A.
Hollance, j. A. Pulen, of New York; Henry Wells and
Hon G. B: MORAN, of Aurora, N Y; Major Fargo, OF
Buffalo; Major Butterneld, Of Utica; Johnston Living
Bartlett, Brigadier General NJ 8 Ltch1ed John Minor
Bolts of Virginia. A. Gaithere, Of Cincinnati Samuel
shoemaker Of Baltimore are among the guests at
the Union Hotel, Saratoga
Fox Rudd, of Buztown, Pa is eighty nine years old
He has lost nine sons In the war Eight killed in
battle, the ninth by starvation at Salisbury His torres
there were intense that he ate his right arm in
the hope Of assuaeing his hunger The fourth Of
this old patriot has just come home from the army bear
ing the scars OF eight wounds received n battle.
The Chicago Repu5lican the following Probably
tho richest woman In the United States is Miss
Hester Robinson young and beautiful girl, lately Of
New Bedford, blt a resident of New York city.
Her father died recently leaving her million out
rghf, and the income during her life of about for mil
Bedford who deceased about the LIST of July also left
her million; but, at the same time bequcathed largo
sums to various other persons who not her blood
rea ons among the rest giving to her physician hun
dred or hundred and fifty thousand dollars Miss
Robinson is dissatisfied with the WILL and has employed
hvc or tho most eminent counsel in Massachusetts, to
endeovor to have set aside, though what grounds
the public is not yet informed
Samuel Caswell, of Barnstead, N. H. is one hundred
and six years of age and has never drank Intoxicating
liquors used tobacco in his life. He has never worn
spectacles and his eyesght has ben perfectly good till
within year He has moved grass every summer since
aardo nj fha md hoo
had physician but three times, and those lately His
wife is living in good health, the age ofnlnety-sx
Major General winneld Scott Hancock commanding the
Middle Department, left Baltimore Sunday last on a
visit to st. Louis and will probably be absent for three
weeks For m6rs than fonr years General Hancock has
been actively ENGAGED with the army in various fields and
has scarcely enjoyed days release from the most
arduous duties and no man In the regular army could
have asked for furough with better grace than him.
Ex-Lieutenant General J. c. Pemberton, of vicksburg
notorcty; Major General William Mahone of Norfolk
and Major General Arnold Ezey of Maryland al Nor
folk city.
Hon Thaddeus Stevens has been stopping at Bedford
Springs, Pa for the last week. -.tiis ..i.. r. .
Six brothers, the youngest Of whom fty-seven and
met together for the first in their lives last week in
Providence They were all born in Tiverton, and by
means OF tho colonial records can trace their Rhode
Island lineage back as far as 1643 The brothers
Robert Manchester Surveyor General of Lumber aged
seventy i've; Isaac OF Brdgewater Mass aged seventy
New Bedford aged sixty two Jacob Of the firm Of Man
chester Hopkins Co, Of Providence aged nftyninc,
and Ell, of Utica, Y, aged nifty seven.
Lord Palmcrson at eighty one has apparently no i'm
mediate intention Of yielding up the pleasures of this
lifc whatever may be his purpose with regard to the
cares Of State He has just entered one Of bis horses for
Tho Prince Of Wales in his capacity as "Duke Of
Cornwall" has been visiting his extensive Cornish es
tates accompanied by the Princess Dressed In miners
clothes they went down the Botallach tin mine, which
Is one Of the most remarkable mines In England It's
surface workings carried out the cliffs near the
sea- whose rolling in rough weather, may be heard over
their heads by the miners while they pursuing their
hardy toll.
Lord Milton well known ON this side Of the water for
his Rocky Mountain explorations has been returned to
Parliament for South Yorkshire at the head Of the
poll He is rather an irrepressible young gentleman OF
twentysix, and was sometime since brought before a
London magistrate in connection with prominent mem
Der OF the London deo'i monde ste-dEe ride In ba
rouche, and missing diamond earring
MADAME Rstor has jus, been the victim Of o con-
siderable robbery She possesses handsome apartment
ut Rome in which she intended TO pass the winter She
has now learned that the person in whose charge il was
lett aa abscondcd after having sold all the furniture.
The loss amounts TO above ten thousand francs
As an illustration of English inners In the nine
teenth century deserves to be neraiy noticed that
an express train on the Great Western line lately
kept waiting nearly FIVE and twenty minutes for the
venIence of Colonel Lord Lindsay, the member OF
Parliament for Berkshire and the husband Of Lord Over
stones daughter
II Is said that the King Of tho Helcnes has decided
go and i've at Corfu for time TO escape from the I'm
settl state oil affairs at the capital The foreign minis
tiers have been invited TO follow the court
All lovers of music and song who have lad the pleasure
OF hearing Schnorr Carolseld the German tenor,
sing Hendes and Haydns sacred music will be sorry TO
hear that he died few days ago at Dresden Of typhus
fever NJ Won Carosled was one OF the best oratorio
singers in Europe.
II Is proposed 10 erect monument, In the form of
marble statue TO the memory Of sir Joseph Paxton and
ham GSssa-%4.iS2a1.~S-3tr-s ~,
good story Is told of the Bury (lngand election.
II said that Mrs Peel went TO canvass eocor In be-
half Of her husband Mr. Frederick Peel and found that
the man whom she wanted was not NJ home. His vile,
however volunteered the Information that he could not
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