Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-03-09
PERSONAL.

j. Randolph Tucker delivered an address TO the
young men of Winchester, on the 22d February.
Major General Getty has assumed command on
the Rio Grande, place of General Brown.
Brgadier-Gene Fullerton, late of the Freed
mems Bureau, has been appointed private Secretary
to the President.
The same paper states that General Kenton Har-
per and Judge Lucas p Thompson are both cOnva-
lescent, and strong hopes are entertained of their
speedy recovery.
Colonel Burton n Harrison left Macon Georgia
few days ago with Mrs. Jefferson Davis, en- route
for Canada where the children OF Mrs. ID. are at
school.
The Halley TirginiaH (staunton) of Wednesday
says: Hon, A. II. II. Stuart returned from W ASH
ington on Friday. He sent for for consultation,
and reports favorably in regard to the situation OF
affairs.
Brigadier. General P. St. George Cooke, United
States army having been assigned to the command
of the Department of the Platte has been relieved
from duty as Superintendent Of the General Recruit
ing Service, ana ordered to turn over the records
thereof to Brevet Brgadier-Genera ID. Butterfield.
The Jackson Miss Meas says: The beautiful
plantation of Mrs. Johnston, in Madison county has
been sold to j. B. Richardson, of Boston, Mass,
who intends to make it his family residence. The
price paid was fifty thousand dollars in greenbacks
Before the war this plantation was considered worth
three hundred thousand dollars"
General Joseph +. Johnston, late of the Conede-
rate army whose presence in Washington, says the
Star of Wednesday evening, to testify before the
Reconstruction Committee we noticed day or two
since, has been stopping at Wizards Robert l..
Owen, President of the Virginia and Tennessee Rail-
road, is also at Wizards.
private despatch, entirely reliable, from Wash.
ingtOn received in this city last evening, states that
Edwin NJ. Stanton will resign the Secretaryship of
War during the present week. President johnson
has offered the portfolio to General Steadman, OF
Ohio. General Steadman has accepted it, and is
preparing to take up his residence at the capital
Chicago Republican, March 4.
Pages picture of Scott represents the General
seated at table, with hand carelessly resting
upon it. The lower part of the figure is in a deep
shade. The General is in civilians dress, with
capacious standing collar still worn by gentlemen
of the old school, and a handkerchief projecting
from the front of his coat. This is the picture late
ly presented to General Grant by the New York
Union League, as our readers will remember.
Among NJ. Alexandra Dumas's many talents, it
appears that cooking may be included in proof of
which he recently gave dinner, cooked wholly by
himself at his new apartment Boulevard Malesh-
erbes, to party OF twelve, among whom Mrs. Mil.
ner Gibson was included. The cuisine is reported
to have been worthy of SOyer oreven Brillat Saya-
rim himself in his very best days.
The Empress Eugene has made another sensation
in the fashionable world Paris correspondent of
the NOrd writes " A terrible rumor was circulated
Yesterday in the saloons. Crnoline is in danger
Neither the Empress nor her ladies of honor wore it
at the uinner on Monday at the Tuileres. You here
SEE the consequence of the reform the court which,
if it he continued will completely destroy unhappy
crnoline"
The Virginiaa also expresses the opinion that J.
H. Gilmer Senator from the city of Richmond, has
conducted himself as Senator representing the in
terest aud welfare OF the whole State aud not as the
agent of the locality bounded by the cOrporated
limits of the metropolis, He deserves the thanks of
the neople and his immediate constituents will see,
upon second sober thought, that he deserves the
award of well done good and faithful servant"
A writer from Lexington says: There is here
quite an array of Confederate talent in the digned
President of Washington College, Robert i. Lee,
and one of the professors Major. General Gusts Lee
In the best student of Judge Brockenbroug's law
class may be seen Lieutenant. General Rosser
famous cavalry leader, and beside him sits General
Coston and other officers of distinction In the pul.
pit of the Episcopal Church may be seen General
pendletOn Chief of Artillery, Army of Northern
Virginia. And there may be seen daily on the
street Ex-Governor Letcher nor must forget to
mention Judge BrOckenbrough, the able Jurist, who
lost his seat on the bench of the United States Dis
trict for following the destiny of the South"
Alexander Campbell, who died at Bethany on the
4th instant was born in Scotland educated Pres
bvteran, became Baptist; left the Baptists in
1927, and argued that the Bible superseded all
creeds He was earnest in behalf of immersiOn,and
gave singular power to that act. His followers
styled themselves Disciples, though the world desig
mated them Campbellites. The sect amounted 10
$50 600 in 1862 chiefly located in kentucky, Ten
nessee and West Virginia. lie founded Bethany
College in 1S4l, and held the Presidency to his
death. 1t sometimes had many as two hundred
undergraduates He tried to avoid the slavery
question, and partly succeeded. lie was a man of
much original power and great energy.
Colonel Bowers who was run over and killed by
a railroad train on the Hudson River Railroad, on
Tuesday, was a native of Illinois printer by trade,
and formerly edited Democratic newspaper in
that State He entered the army at the outbreak of
the rebellion, joining General Grant during the Ope'
rations against Forts Henry aud DunOlsOn. At the
battle Of Shilah no was ordered on duty at Grants
headquarters aud wag appointed ad-de.camp. In
November 1862 ho was appointed Major and
Judge. Advocate of the Army of the Tennessee, and
in September, 1863, was promoted to the rank of
Lieutenant. Colonel and Assistant Adutant General.
From that time until the surrender of General Lee
he was General Grants chief Assistant Adjutant
General in the field, and was retained in the same
po itiOn at Washington, when General Grant estab-
lished his headquarters there. He was a conscien-
tious and capable officer of the highest moral 2kas
acter, and possessed the full confidence &C General
Grant