New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-07-04
Personal.

Forney calls on the military heroes of the war
to vote the way you shot This will disfranchise
Butler, Banks, Schurz, Schenck and pretty much
every other prominent radical general" If their
voting is like their shooting nobody will be hurt.
Forney is going to run for the Senate before the
Pennsylvania legislature.
Mr., Horace Greeley is understood to be at work
upon the second volume of his american Con.
tiict," which will be published in August.
Miss Isa Craig, who took the prize for a poem on
the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of
Burns, and whom report has made the editor of
The Argosy," has lately been presented with a
testimonial on resgning her post of assistant Sec
retary Of the Social Science Association, on ac-
count of her marriage The testimonial consisted
of silver tea service and salyer, the last bear.
ing an inscription which will hardly reach pos
terity.
Mr. Edmund Yates is the next novelist whom
Mr.. Dickens has selected to fill the pages of All the
Year Round.
Dr. Henry Darwin Rogers native of the United
States, late professor of natural history in the
University of Glasgow, died recently at his resi-.
dence, Elgin Villas, Shawlands, in the sixty-ninth
year of his age.
Count de Montalembert is said to he very i'll
him for years.
The King of Saxony has recently printed the
third volume of his translations of Dante, " Das
Paradies," The annotations of his majesty are
said to place him in the first rank of Dante
scholars.
Professor Newman has lately been revising mis-
translation of the Had " for new edition.
Professor Goodwin Smith is to resign his chair of
modern history at Oxford, at the close of the
present academical year. Good riddance to bad
rubbish.
Mr.. Matthew Arnods term of office as professor
of poetry at Oxford will shortly expire.
Archdeacon Wordsworth is understood to be the
author of the unfavorable article on 'Ecce Homo,
in the Quarterly Review.
Professor Agassiz has got as far as Rio Janeiro
on his way home, and intends halt of some weeks
in the Brazilian capital. By way of relaxation he
has prepared series of lectures, in the French
language, describing the progress and results of
his labors on the Amazon. The first of the course
was read at the imperial college on the Sth of Nav
He said that the prevalent opinions of the sterity
and insalubrity of the Valley of the Amazon were
and that he looked forward to see if
the home of twenty millions of civilized people.
He spoke well of the emperor who was there to
hear him, and left everybody who could understand
the lecture highly pleased with it,
A Brattleboro, Vermont, paper SAYS: "a We no
tice with much pleasure the arrival in our midst Of
several New Orleans families. Itis quite refresh
ing to see their old ante -bellum homegteads once
more occupied. They are all members of one
family in their distant sunny home, and have ever
been welcome here"
). Mckinney, baggage master on the New York |
Central Railroad, reckons he has ridden over six
millions of miles within the past thirty years.
A man named Roberts, from Tennessee. has inst
obtained verdict in the United States Circuit
Court at indianapolis for s7277 so against ore
Falsom, a jeweler, doing business recently in
ireeneastle. Roberts had lost that sum, and Il
rad been found by a negro and given to Fasom |
or safe keeping.
At the recent dinner of the Royal Geographical
Society in London, Sir Henry Rawlinson expressed
lis belief that there are not dozen members of |
he House of Commons who know where the bay
If Fundy isl
Reverend Josiah Grinnell the sitting member of
Congress from Che fourth district of Iowa failed In
5et the radical nomination. He was beaten by
udge Longbridge, who received IS. votes to 90 for
irinnell. He was also beaten a short time ago BY
ieneral Rousseau.
Bona M Adams, young lady Of Palmer, Mass,
as obtained verdict with $l2GO damages against
it's B. Smith for breach of promise
Harry sanderBon, the pianist, is registered at
eabodys, in London.