New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-18
cliInes.

! sailed for Europe on the 9Th of June.
Judge Story's son, William W. Story, now in
Rome. is one of the most promising of the Amer
ican sculptors. An English nobleman lately
offered him three thousand pounds for one of his
marbles.
Senator Summers physician. after careful ex.
animation, pronounced him better, but counsels
repose. The advice should have been given fifteen
years ago.
Madame Demorest, the fashion lady, is out in
letter against womens rights.
The court martial which has been trying Major
Gee, at Raleigh, N. c.. has adjourned for short
period. Up to this time the expenses of the trial
have been sl5O0O0.
| Queen Victoria is said to be preparing volume
of essays This will be the first of her issues that
did not require heavy pension from Parliament.
Philadelphia paper says that the Honorable
Frederick Seward is to be candidate for governor
of New York, on the conservative republican side,
at the next election.
Texas editor, reviewing the civil rights bill
and the Texas papers that pretend to approve it,
says: We've buried the hatchet-yes, and we've
eaten dirt enough to cover it forever bat as some
emphatic writer says, id if we have much re.
spect for the man who pretends that he likes it. ~
Henry r. Stiles has retired from the editorial
management of the Historical Magazine. His sue
cessor is Henry B. Dawson.
The Washington Star of a recent date says
% Gen. Banks and Senator Sprague appeared in q
new style, Hutchinson family shirt collars, to-day,
eliciting much appreciation from the ladies' gal
leries." We believe that Gen. Banks always
wears pair of spurs likewise. He got used to
them in his affairs with Stonewall jackson and
Dick Taylor, and has never been able to leave
them off since
| Thomas F. Meagher is publishing his personal
Recollections u in the Irish People.
Miss Doctor Mary Walker was arrested in New
York the other day for appearing in the street in
male attire. She has sued the policeman who
did it.
The death is mentioned of Mr.. Philip Stanhope
Worsley, known as the translator of the "Odys-
sey," and as the authoro of many poems contributed
to Blackwood.
Colonel E, K. Harding, of Bath, Maine, has been
elected president and Charles B. Merrill, of Port
| land, treasurer, of the International Telegraph
Company.
Maxtmilian's chief of staff, Count seruissier is
| in Washington.
His Excellency W. Raasloff, the Danish minister
to the United States, has been compIimented by
his sovereign by the appointment to the rank Of
major general in the Danisharmy.
| The Rev. Elijah Slack, D. D., prominent divine
and old resident of Cincinnati, died in that city.
May 20, aged 50 years. He was the Oldest mem.
ber of the presbytery of Cincinnati.
| Mr., w. H Russell is writing "history of the
/ American war"
Baron james de Rothschild has thirty thousand
volumes and great many rare manuscripts in his
library.
The Boston Post says:
Reading the announcement that a popular seuIp-
| tor is making bust for Maggie Mitchell Quiip
| rubbed his hands gleefuIy, and said, Good she
is capital actress, and, as to physique she only
| wants bust 10 be as good figure as any of
| em |"
The death of Sir John Maxwell Tylden in his
eightieth year, is announced from England In
early life he connected himself with the army and
served with distinction in Sonth America at the
capture of Monteyideo and BuenOs Ayres, in the
Peninsula war, in India and at the capture of
Java, and also at New Orleans.
The London Standard says that, when the news
of the suspension of Messrs. Peto & Belts was
was received on the Royal Exchange, the mer-
chants offered to subscribe S2,50O00O to assist
them through the crisis The OFFER however, was
declined, as the suspension, it was stated, would
be but temporary.
SYluh W beuHlS, lOIueIly mayor OF AUBURN, N.
Y, died in that city on the 31st ult. He was a
prominent business man, and at the time of his
death was president of the Southern Central Rail
goad Company.
w. Cornell Jewett has published card denying
that he is Fenfau and the same step has been
taken by Fitzhugh Lee.
1t is now roundy asserted by European literary
critics that the Emperor Napoleoni is the author of
"Ecce Homo y that he Wrote the book in French,
and sanctioned its translates into English
The following, from the Denver (ColOrado)
News, will serve as a specimen of how editors in
that metallic region extend wel,o to their re-
turning citizens:
Our respected tOwnsman, Mr. Geo. Trich, re-
turned from the East in last evenings coach. He
has on fine suit of States clothing, Including a
plug hat, and is the dOg-gOndest looking cuss we
have seen since jim Ford left. We are glad to see
him back again, however, and we hope he will
now settle down and behave himself.
The firm of Leonard Scott Co., well known in
eonusgtion with the American reprints of foreign
re yiews, has been dissolved and the three part.
ners, Messrs Leonard Scott, Edward Walker and
Robert Craighead, have formed a joint stock cor
poration, under the name of The Leonard Scott
Publishing Company"