New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-10-08
9Gu Orleans 4atlp Gqestent,
MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER s, 1866.
Personal.

The Pittsburg Commercial says there is author |
ity for stating that Mr. Seward will soon retire
from public life, from desire to obtain that re-
pose and recreation which his medical advisers
inform him is SO absolutely indispensable to the
prolongation of his life. The secretary thus adj
Vises some of his more intimate personal and po-
ltical friends
The King of Hanover, having given up his king
dom, has taken house at Vienna
An English duke recently lost $4,000 francs at
Baden.
Gen. Sickles has intimated his acceptance of
the appointment of colonel in the regular army.
The author of "Ecce Homo has been paid
100000 by his publishers. Now give us his name.
Gen. Early is now at the Queens hotel Toronto.
One of the last mnistrations of the late DR..
Hawkes. was in Orange, N. j. He preached twice
Y Grace Church, in that place, two months ago,
a. was then apparently in the best of health
W. Gilmore Simms is writing school history OF
South Carolina.
f. G. De Fontaine, of Columbia, s. G., has in
press book entitled " The Boys in Grey, or Lie
under the Stars and Bars Mr.. De Fontaine,
during the early part of the war, was known as
"Personne,i the lively and brilliant army cor
respondent of the Charleston Courier. Suisse
quently he published the South Caronian, at Co.
lumba, which paper he resuscitated and is now
conducting.
The trustees of the New Hampshire Agricultural
College held their first meeting at the State cap
ital on the 9th ult President Asa D. Smith, of
Dartmouth college, was chosen president of the
board, Joseph B. Walker of Concord, secretary,
and Governor Smyth, treasurer. 1t was the unan-
imous vote Of the trustees that the college should
be started in about one year under the auspices
Of Dartmouth college.
Rev. j. F. Hurst D. D., pastor Of Trinity Meth
odist Episcopal church, Staten Island, has accepted
the appointment of theological tutor in the Mis-
sion Institute, Bremen, Germany.
Mr.. W. H. Hcrndon, formerly law partner Of
President Lincoln, is advertising in the Western
papers for copies Of all letters written by Mr. Lin
coin, excepting those which have appeared in the
lives already published. ,......-...-
A German paper gives list of dethroned
princes who now live in different parts Of Europe.
First there il Don Miguel, dethroned in 1880, who
resides in Germany, having married German
princess: next the Count de Chambord, exile
since 1880, residing generally in Austria. With
him may be Joined the Orleanst princes, who re-
side mostly i'll England, Leopold and Ferdinand of
Tuscany, Francis V. of &odena, and Robert of
Parma, Who were driven from their States in 1850
zerland. Tie following year Francis II was sent
to increase the list Of retired kings. In 1862 King
Ohio, of Greece, was driven from his throne.
King George Of Haaover, the Elector Frederick
William Of Hesse, the Duke Adolph Of Nassau,
have been Just added TO the list. which may
further be augmented by the addition of Prince
Couza, who now resides in Paris, and the Prince
of Augustenburg, who lives in Bavaria.
CO. bar
way to the Sandwich Island.
Professor Newton, of Yal& College, says that
on the 18Th and l4th of November next, pro-
digious fight Of meteors will appear.
DR.. Livingstone writes, July 18th, from some
where in the middle of Africa, that he is well and
gushing along"
Bsmarckg says an exchange, has done more in
the work of reconstructionn in three months
than the American Congress has done in eighteen.
One Of Florence Marryatt's latest novels is,
''Too Good for Him." It is in press, and when
published we shall see if it is good enough for
her.
Mr.. Salon butcher has withdrawn from the Au-
gusta, Ca, Constitutionaist, and Mr.. John L.
Stockton, assisted by Mr.. James R. Randall, will
have entire editorial control. Mr. Randall is the
well known and popular young Southern poet
auther of i" My Maryland" :" There's Life in the
Old Land YETI and other fine lyrics
The widow of the late Professor Henry D
Rogers has presented to the Boston Institute Of
Technology the scientific library and collection Of
fossils and geological illustrations belonging to the
deceased.
James Brown a colored man in San Francisco
has recovered verdict of five hundred dollars
against the Morning Call for the publication of 8
local item headed % Darky in Luck.h
close examination made into the affairs Of
Mr. c. c. Flint, proprietor of the Old Dominion
newspaper, shows that he has Yictimized the fol
lowing: National Bank of Norfolk S6000 FRS
National Bank of Norfolk $4,000, Insurance Trus
Company of New York $4,000. Total Sl5, 500
The forgeries were mostly upon government bills
and vouchers. No clue has yet been obtained a.
to the whereabouts of the defaulter.
The Boston Post says that " Bennett is becom
ing loyal Sontherner.n
The duke Of Cambridge is travelling in German.
under the title of Lord Culloden.
Annie Thomas has published q novel, Marrie(
at Last We congratulate Annie.
Edward Cruft, the Oldest merchant in Boston
died lately, at the age of 80 years.
Prince Napoleon is expected in his yacht a
Hayre, and the Journal says that he will yisi
England.
Mr.. Daniel Drew contributes ground and build
ings for Methodist college in New York; dona
ton amounting to $25OOOO.
Major W. T. Thompson author of major Jones
Courtship,' has become associate editor OF tn
Savannah News and Herald.
Mr. Mobiles statue of Sir John Franklin, th
Arctic explorer, has been erected in Waterlo
place, London, at the side of the Athenmum Clul
Already the beggars are boring Rstori, soici
ing contributions to send flannel shirts and NOR
pocket handkerchiefs to the Fejee Islanders.
Judge Hunter, formerly of Alabama, o note
patron of the turf and breeder of fine race stoc
died near Bardstown, Kentucky, recently.
The Prince Imperial will make his first cor
union in Notre Dame, in October and Paris
reparing for grand festival on the occasion.
Colonel Ely S. Parker, General Grants seer
tary, and Chief of the Six Nations, delivered tt
agricultural address iii the fair at Albion, in Ne
York.
One of the Iondonpapers believes that the we
known Father Egnatius'' Rey. Leicester Lyn
will shortly be admitted to priests orders in t
Church of England, upon certain conditions"