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

naval ,icer at New York,
MIR. Gorge H. Bissell of New York has given
Dartmuth College $4,000 towards gymnasium
| Cale'Cushing returns an income of $4,000 for
last yer; Congressman Alley SIS 900.
Ben Eerley Poore is to write a book called
g Twelt Years in and around Congress.
D'Arc MCGEE says to his Irish brethren of the
Fenan ersuasion: Go on and be hanged to
you"
Lieut'as ]. Waddell, the commander of the
Shenan'ah is reported to be in q decline. He is
residineear Liverpool.
| The lie Madame Julie de Marguerites was dra.
matte 'tic of the Evening Telegraph and the
sundayranscript, in Philadelphia
Theirs talk of Presidential organ in Washing
ton, wiMr. John L. Swift of the Washington
Republin, as editor
Rev. iward Fitzgerald, pastor of St. Patrick S
Churoh'olumbus, Ohio, has been appointed by
the Po[bishop of Little Rock, Ark,
| Geor Baber, late associate editor of the Louis
vile Jonal, has been appointed postmaster at
Louisvil Ky.
| NJ. deothschd has, we hear from Paris, re-
fused tdve Austria credit of Eve millions of
francs ich was asked for by Prince Metternich
| on DeDhOt his government.
| The msoleum in Hyde Park, London, erected
in meme of Prince Albert is partly finished. 1t
is onelhdred and sixty feet in height and is to be
surmoum by a statue of the prince, upon
which 1bchetti is now engaged The work has
f! been goi on for two years, and will occupy two
more.
Reporsays that August Belmont made
over twclons in gold operations during three
days, rettly.
1t is suosed that Menotti, the eldest son of
GaribaldEill be appointed to the command of a
corps ofaIian volunteers. He has more than
once giyproof of his valor.
| Provisal Governor johnson, of Georgia, has
been nonated as Minister of Venezuela,
| 1t is hid in New York that Miles O'ReiIy -
I preparedr Craven's account of Jefferson Da-
vis's prislife for the press,
The wG on which various American writer's
are now gagged is thus noted Bancroft is at
work on 18th volume Prof. Geo. W. Greene, of
Rhode ISL, is writing the biography of his
grandfattGep. Nat. Greene, OF the revolutionary
army; E. Squier is preparing a work on the
antiquitief Central and South America Pierre
| Irving is,llecting the scraps and shreds of his
never put book form, and will probably make
two or TIL volumes of them; Richard Frothing-
ham, of Cleston, is writing his elaborate history
of that to; William Swinton, first historian of
the army the Potomac, is next to prepare a
volume one q Twelve Principal Battles of the
War"
AlexandSmith, whose g Life Drama excited
a sort of fire on its publication in 1858, and who
| now is onlNirty-fiye years old, is writing prose
tales and aches for two English periodicals,
Good Wor'and The Culver Since 1854, Mr..
Smith has h the secretaryship of the University
of EdinburGan Office for life, with $500 per an
mum salary.
Gen. spest the captured Fenian officer, now
paroled at albans has been presented with an
| elegant suit clothes and SIS in money by his
friends in th;own
few yeaiince Magoon published his Liv-
ing Orators America" in which he assigns q
distinctive allation to each of the then most
celebrated orrs, the last of whom, Gen. Cass,
died short b since. He called Mr.. Webster the
logtcian tdieB52), Mr., Everett the rhetorician
(died 1869, lClay the politician (died 1852
MIR. Calhoun metaphysician (died 1851, MIR. |
MeDufie the ietuous, tdied 1851 Mr. Cass the
courteous (die866J Col. Benton the magisterial
(died 1859, hPrestOn the inspired declaimer
(died 1861, AMIR, Corwtn the natural orator
(died 1862.
Gen Sir Win Gator, K, c. B., died on the |
18th June, at residence in London, at the age |
Of 81 years. venerable general entered the
army with the omission of I'd lieutenant in the
Royal Artillery May, 1903. He served in the
campaign Of Wherein and at the siege Of Flush
ing also in tpeninsula and south Of France
from the end oD9 to the termination Of the war
in 1874, includirhe defense of Cadiz, the lines of
Torres VedTas 5antarem, the battle of Barossa
where he was unded, the affair at Osma. the
battle of Yittorthe affair at Toloso. and the at
tack of Bidassby the French. He also took
part in the battbf Nivelle and Ntye, likewise in
the engagementfront of Bayonne.
a Paris writeys the Emperor has had private
wires attached the different telegraphs, and
sends private tsrams with his own hands to
Count Bismark Serlin, and Gen La Marmora at
Florence.
A new magazi called the Belgravia, is about
to be started inndon under the editorsbip of
Miss Braddon.
The London frf Moxon Co. announce for
publication on list of December Tennyson's
: Elaine, iilustri w Gustave Dor6. The illus.
tratlons are nine lumber, and will be engraved
on steel by ]. Fl. ;er. All of Dore's works have
been reproduced wood. The artist declares
that he desires toxic this work a monument to
Mr. Tennyson andh his own powers
Mr.. Katkof thaitor of the Moscow Gazette
has suddenly coAed. He was the first man
through whom tpress became a power in
Russia Not saed with discriminating the
Poles, Katkoff wed to extermnate the Ger
mans too, who areong in court and family in =
terest and whose ifications extend through all
the machinery of eminent, and through every '
department of sociife, trade, industry, science
and literature. minister of the interior inter.
fered, and Mr.. katl decamped through fear of a
being exiled to Sibt c
The Hon. B. F. ter died at Canton, Ohio. /
June 24th' He wa prominent lawyer, and e
member of the SAITH 35th Congress, represent, $
ing the American p;. Latterly he has lived in 7
retirement. 4
Honolulu dates Of 3lst, announce the death v
of the Princess Wet sister of King Kameha. y
meha. The body Vlying in state, in which it It
was to remain two mis- previous to burial
An exchange statelat Mrs. Lincoln has pre. V
sented Fred DouglRith cane of her hus ,
bands carrying out'ish which the latter ex. II
pressed shortly befors assassination. i
Inc New I DIRK supple court sustains the will ri
of the late Mrs, CARD who gave the bulk of "
large estate to he lghter Mrs. Tyler, the y
widow of President,r II
The Duke of Hamtts the talk of London for al