New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-20
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Peesonal.
to write an authentic biography Of the late VIM.
l. Yancey. and for this purpose has been intrnsted
by the family with his private papers. 1t is to be
published by subscription.
Robert johnson. formerly United States Senator
from Arkansas, has just returned to his residence,
six miles below Pine Bluff.
The Rev. Z. w. Sehon, a prominent minister Of
the Methodist Church in Kentucky before the war,
is lying dangerously i'll at the Burnett House in
Cincinnati.
George Curley, rowdy from New Orleans,
fatally shot policeman Tyler, who was taking him
to prison in Richmond
A. Bradley, who was recently convicted of Sc
ditious language in Savannah, Ga, and sentenced
to one years. hard labor at Fort Pulaski, has been
released on parole.
A paragraph going the rounds that but two Rev
dictionary soldiers are living is incorrect. The
Louisville Journal reports another-John Spears,
of Danyille, in that State. He some hundred years
old, and apparently hale and hearty.
Mr.. Af1eck, Of Texas is in New York giving in
formation about the southwest.
Major Wintersmith, formerly Of Gen. Kirby
Smiths staff, is at present in this city.
Mrs. Catherine P. Hayden, perhaps one of the
oldest inhabitants of Savannah, Ca, died recently
at the advanced age of IS years. Mrs. Hayden
was the only daughter Of Col. White, dstin-
gushed officer of the Revolution, whose gallant ex
plot, capturing near Savannah, by a successful
stratageni, considerable British force, illustrates
one of the brightest in the history of Georgia.
The Mr.. Pendleton Gelsten, of Baltimore, who is
associated with Judge Hughes for the defense of
Admiral Raphael Semmes, is son.in-law to. the
latter
Mr.. Lanfrey having written series OF essays for
the Paris Revue Notionaie, which he proposed to
publish under the title of g History Of Napoleon"
the French Emperor notified Mr.. Charpentier, the
editor of that review that he would have to specify
whether the first, second or third Napoleon was
meant, as without such preeaution the work might
be thought to point at his Majesty. The title of
the book must consequently be altered into that of
T" History Of Napoleon the First the Emperor be-
ing rather jealous of the popular idea which only
thinks Of the first Napoleon when the word Napo.
leon is used indefinitely.
4 General Trapier, late of the Confederate army,
died lately in South Carolina.
~ William Hickey, chief clerk of the United States
Senate, died on the 9TH inst He had written d
work On the constitution, and was one Of the old
est officials in the country.
Robert s. Cox, convicted as a guerrilla in Ken
lucky, has been released by order Of the Secre.
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