New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-11-07

look as il they were made Oh silver her Ae1u- ,
dress, white lace lappels of the most costly and n
fairy like workmanship, hung pendant covering
the ears reaching down to where the dress was
fastened at the throat; and from each ear string
of diamonds four in number, valued at $4,000
very massive in their appearance. She has
parasol of the finest and heaviest white silk, and
Chinese fan ofEintrieate workmanship
General Sherman accepts an invitation to attend
a meeting of the Society of the Army of the Ten
nessee, to be held at Cincinnati on the 14th No
vember, g understanding that General Grant will
be present and that the occasion will be purely
social"
Marshall, the eugraver of ''stuart's Washing |
ton, has engraved portrait of Lincoln, which is
declared to be the best one going.
General Sweeney has made application to be
restored to his old rank in the regular army.
Rear-Admiral Bailey commanding at Kittery
navy yard, has been put upon the retired list.
General Hugh Ewing, minister to the Hague,
sailed on the Arago, November Sd.
Clarendon DAWSON, late United States consul
to Bordeaux, and once connected with the Louis
vile Journal, has returned to Louisville.
Commander John FELTON,, R. N, died at Sher-
/ brooke, C. W., on the 21st. He was sgnal-master
of the Victory at Trafalgar.
| Professor Augstrom, of the Royal Swedish Insti-
tute, and Professor Alderman, of the Royal Swed-
ish School of Mines, are in Troy, N. Y, on COM
mission from their government to inspect the iron
works and iron mines of this country.
Hon. j. NJ. Mason and family will winter in
Toronto.
Gen Prim has been travelling over the battle
fields in Germany.
The diamonds Mollie Trussell wears in Chicago
Jail are valued at $50 600.
Bismarck has declined the Bayarian order OF St.
Hubert.
Edwin James will soon deliver lecture in New
York, on "the British Parliament"
Prince Alberti to inaugurate the prince consort
memorial at Glasgow.
Barnum lectured in Chicago on ''the Art of
Money Getting"
The queen has consented to attend the opening
of the Aberdeen water-works.
The new Japanese, Mr.. Voda and Mr. Yogi
have left Washington for Richmond. They were
! not ''Tommied" atall.
+ The Hawaiian assembly has just voted Queer
Emma $4,000, besides her regular allowance Of
d $4,000.
:. The French emperor has dropped one of tbs
J. handles to his name-"king of Lombardy and We
n Meta" His Lombardy popularity is limited.
IS John G. Wise, brother Of Gov. Wise, died re
a Gently.
it Ex-Postmaster Isaac V. Fowler has arrived ii
e New York.
e Mr.. Gabriel will be lord mayor Of London TO
5. 1867.
( Mr.. Avery, United States assessor at Sacre
< mento, acknowledges the receipt Of orders from
it Washington to deliver up his office to Mr. Biger
IS but he continues to disobey them.
The French newspapers are discussing the ante
cedents of the gentleman likely to represent thi!
country at Paris, whom they called General Dixie
S They also speak sometimes of the Mormon patri
1t arch as Brigham jeune."
"A London correspondent describes Swineburne
n the poet, as physically a Tom Thumb slightly ex
aggerated; but why, fiery, magazine of thunder
i and lightning, with the look and bearing of man
Z, who could make himself extremely disagreeable
# in an encounter.
e Messrs. THEIRS Guizot, Victor Hugo, Lamartine
Cousin, George Sand, and other illusriOus writers
+ are actually engaged in writing book upon Paris
in which each of them are to contribute chapter
:. The book will appear at the French exposition as
r a fresh monument of French genius and talent.
Colonel Samuel Jewett died in Boston on the
n 28th ult. By his death, the number of the sur
e wing alumni Of Harvard College, who graduated
before the beginning of this century, in 1901, il
reduced to nine, as follows 1903, Hon. Samue
1t Thatcher, of Bangor, formerly member of Con
it gress; 1885, DR.. James Jackson, of Boston; 1897
y Hon. Horace Binney, of Philadelphia; Rev. DR.
jerks, of Boston; 1898, Humphrey Devereux
= Esq, of Salem; 1899, Judge Hall, of Delaware
7. Rev. DR.. Humphrey Moore; S. D. Parker, Esq, o
y Boston, 1900, Dr. Lincoln. Of the classes of l794
!, and 1895 there is no surviving graduate, and o
/ those of 1798 and 1900 only one of each is nov
living.
V The officers of the cable expedition upon whom
j, the queen has conferred the honors of the realm
j, are Sir Daniel Goooh, Sir Richard Atwood Glass
e Sir W. Thompson, Sir G. Canning, Sir ]. Ander
: son, and Sir Curtis Mirander Lampson. Gooch i
e chairman Of the Great Western Railway Compan
it in England, and high officer among the Free
it masons; Thompson is professor of natural phios
j. ophy in the University of Glasgow and the leat
l. ing electrician Of the telegraph company; Glas
z began life as an accountant in mercantile hous
IS in London and is now the head of the firm of Gas
d s. Elicit who made the Atlantic cables; Cam
d. ling is the engineer who has superintendent the La
le ing of the cable; Anderson is the captain of til
It. Great Eastern, who was selected by Sir Willial
he Cunard to command that vessel on her diferel
ok expeditions in the service of the telegraph con
If. pany.
of Miss Braddon is in trouble. Her new magazin
he Belgrayia, is already the subject at legal pr
lg ceedings. 1t appears that Hogg Il Son, pul
nd fishing firm in London have issued the first nur
"a Der of periodical with the same name, inssti1
en- that they long ago projected the enterprise al
he registered its title in October, 1863 Miss Bra
m don's publishers have applied for an njunctio
or and the case is pending before -chancell
in Stuart.
ST. Mr.. James Augustus st. John has just returnt