New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-17
Nev Orleans paiy gresten Uatsday arng, sprt n, 1866.
PERSONAL.

A. J. Rambo, prominent citizen OF the Eage-
field district South Carolina, died at his residence
in that place on the thirty first utimo.
The Virginia papers announce the death OF MAJ
Alfred NJ. Barbour, formerly of Culpepper, IN that
State, but for several years before the war resi-
dent.of Jefferson county, Virginia, and superm
tendent of the Armory at Harpers Ferry Major
Barbour served several terms in the Virginia legs
lature and during the war was chief quartermas-
ter of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's army.
Major General NJ. W. Gary, who was recently
brought to Charleston under arrest and committed
to jail there, has been released on parole.
The Dayton Journal announces the death of Jno
Goodwin, proprietor of the Goodwin House, in
that city, from the effects of wounds received by
the kick of horse he was training.
The Hon. Mathew Harvey, Judge of the United
States District Court for New Hampshire, which
office he had held for thirty-fve years, died at
Concord, on the 18th inst, aged IS years.
Col. John Henry, of the Eighteenth Ohio cav.
airy, has been appointed United States Consul at
Quebec.
Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher, Acting Governor
of Montana, has recanted his radical opinions, and
come out for President Johnson
The oldest man in Nashville county, Illinois, is
Mr. Jordan Rhodes, of Huntsville He is over one
hundred and four years of age, splits rails, carries
| easily two bushe sack of meal on his shoulder,
and can walk as briskly as any of his neighbors.
In relation to the Tortugas prisoners, the follow
| ing information is given:
Dr. Mudd, who at one time attempted to escape,
is still kept under close guard, and compelled to
clean out the bastons in the classmates OF the fort,
and do some of the most mental and degrading
| work required to be DONE Never very robust, he
| is now but little more than skeleton, and his
growing emaciation shows how bitterly his spirit
/ chafes under his imprisonment. His constant
| prayer is for death.
Arnold is employed as clerk of Captain Van
Reade, post adjutant. He is an uneommonly fine
penman and accurate accountant, and well-be-
| haved and modest and yielding in his demeanor.
He grows in usefulness and popularity each day.
A guard attends him to his meals, which are the
same as the other prisoners, and at night he is
kept in close custody.
| Spanger is at work in the quartermaster's car
pentershop. Already he begins to count the years
months and days remaining to complete his term
of Imprisonment. He is robust and jolly-a physl-
cal condition he attributes, however, solely to his
/ being innocent of any partcipancy in the dreadful
| crime charged against him.
| Colonel Marmaduke, found guilty of the noted
conspiracy to free the prisoners at Camp Douglas
and burn Chicago, has charge of the post grader
In respect to manual labour, he has an easy
| time.
| Queen Victoria held her first court on the 9th
Mr.. and Mrs Adams were present. and the latter
presented to the queen, Mrs. Award, wife of the
assistant secretary of legation, and Mrs Mont.
gomery Richie, of New York.
| Dr.. Colenso has been formally excommunicated
by the bishop of Cape Town, and, " being thus
excluded from all communion with the church, be
is, according to our Lords command, and in CON
formity with the provisions of the SD of the ar
tade of the faithful as a heather man and publ
!