Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-06-20
PERSONAL.

Queen Victoria has given a sitting fol
the portrait which she intends TO present
to Mr.. Peabody. Sho is alsv said to be
preparing a volume of essays, which, q
wicked exchange says, will be the first OF
her issues that did not require a heavy
pension from Parliament.
In the following name does a Colorado
editor welcome the return ola respectable
citizen:
"Our respected townsman, Mr.. George
Tritch, returned from the East in last
evenings coach. He has on a fine suit of
States clothes, including a plug hat, and
is the d~og-gondest looking cuss we have
seen since Jim Ford left. We are glad to
see him back again, however, and hope he
will now settle down and behave himself
Garibaldi is represented TO be in excel
lent health. He is calm and cheerful. He
walks several miles every day, in order, as
he says, to accustom his legs to long
marches. He always speaks of the neces-
sity of concord and of forgetting all per-
sOnal Discussions, there being no longer
any grounds for mistrust or suspicion. He
delights in extolling the organization and
bravery of the Italian army.
Mr.. Dickens has a special saloon car
all SO himself, as he travels about Eng
land to give his charming readings.
General Lee intends to spend the sum
mer vacation in the vicinity of Crab
Orchard, Kentucky.
Wales and his brother Al. dined with
the rOllicking "Four-in-Hand Club" in
London, and none of them went home
until morning.
General Grant journeyed all the way to
st. Louis to attend a law suit he has the
luck 10 have on his hands. The case was
called, when, although the Judge had
assured the General the case would come
to trial, the lawyers having agreed not 10
try a case during the warm weather, it
WAS postponed. General Grant gave
them to understand how deeply disguised
he felt with the arrangement.
1t is rumored hat Max and the amia-
bic Carlotta had a f.little quarrel" 1t
seems that Max, after dinner one day,
took Carlotta aside, and, after telling
her she was just the kindest %"little" wo-
man in the world, asked her to lend him a
drifting amount OF two or three hundred
thousand dollars out of her own purse"
This delicate ~insinuation 1.-The dear little
Carlottap listened to with great good
humor, and then patting Max on the
cheek, said, HNo you DON'T" and she did
not lend ito him. Then Max, taking UNI
bragg, and a friend or two, went up to
C~uernavaca. This little piece of scandal
is going the rounds, and for "%effect," as we
can plainly see,
Mr.. William Swinton, author of the
campaigns of the Army of the Potomac.
is now engaged on-a new volume, "The
Eleven Principal Battles of the War"
He Is also engaged 10 write a history of
the campaigns in the West and South
west. Speaking of Mr.. Swinton, recalls
q good story told of Horace Greeley.
one was asking him, last week,
when General Lees volume was to ap-
pear. That work has been dropped"
said Horace. "Why son because
Swinton't history is sufficiently rebel in
its tone to answer all purposes" was the
reply. On the appearance of this volume
t received q favorable notice from the
Tribune's book reviewer. Thereupon
Swinton called upon Mr.. Greeley, and
banked him for the favorable comments.
No thanks to me- responded the Trib-
Inc philosopher "for had L seen the no. :
ice it would never have gone into the
in the world. Your book is not an !
honest one, Nj. Swinton.n To give point
o his words, Mr.. Greeley subsequently ,
denounced it editorially as dishonest !
york. 4
Greeley is put down as m of the New
FORK half millionaires.
Ex-Governor Aiken, of South Caroline,
as had his property turned over to him, A
James c. Gallagher, United States Con-
4! at Ponce, Porto-Ric9 died on the 2sth
f May. q
Judge Hanns, of Fort Wayne, died on
he 10th inst He was, at one time, Presi-
ent of the Ohio and Indiana Railroad, q
nd sfterwsrd of the Pittsburgh Fort .
Wayne and Chicago Railroad. =
General Fftzhugh Lee, who was report q
! in command Of some Fenian cavalry. .
, says a Richmond journal, quietly at 7
.Ork at his home, near Alexandra, and :
as pc more idea of joining the Fenians n
he has of ~cultivating the Pentine =
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