New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-30

James Watson Webb is spoken of for nava
officer of the port of New York. ,Heis now in Bra
: zil He has brother in Texas who was o Confed
crate colonel during the war.
Napoleon is said to be very anxious to reliev,
, Lamartine from his peCuniary difficulties. He ha
] offered to assume Lamartne's liabilities amount
ing to 100000 francs, and to pension him will
} 10000 francs annually for life. But Lamartint
must abandon to the State his copyrights, estate
and personal property and it is doubtful if he &C
} cepts the imperial offer.
Senator Eye, in his fair address in Washington
last Saturday. attributed to Watts the well known
lines:
4 This world 4 ~ aeeting show,
which shows that Nye doesn't know "what'
what"
Bx-Captain haury was presented with 5000
guineas in London on the Ath inst. The ceremony
took place at WiIlis's rooms and was participated
in by large number. OF this amount Holland
subscribed El000 and Russia $1,000. Capt Mauy
made modest speech.
radical sheet says that Mr.. Grinnell Of Iowa,
is the largest grower sheep in the United States
having six thousand now on his farm in Iowa Of
the best blood and argues therefrom, that no
body doubts his courage
The Queen of England has presented the widow
Of Major de We're, who was murdered by private
soldier shooting at him, at Chatham, with a resi-,
dence at Hampton Court Palace.
! Chapel Hill IN. o. University, in a recent dis.
| tribUhon Of the alphabet, conferred the letters
Id. D. upon Judge Raade of TIE North Carolina
Supreme Court, and upon Andrew johnson.
Miss Anna Dickinson remarked, in a public
speech few days since, that " the nation wants q
man which is perheps a modest way Of saying
that Miss Dickinson considers herself the nation.
Mr. George Peabody declines the public dinner
rendered by Massachusetts,.
| Major General Sherman has been paying Canada
visit his object being tour Of inspection, mill
targ and otherwise, around the upper lakes
General Shepley declines allowing his name to
be used in the radical State convention Of Maine
as q candidate for governor.
An offer of $4,000, and al expenses paid, has
been made to Artemus Ward to lecture ID England
f0rsix months.
A. 7. Stewart has purchased Kellogg's "Prin
cess after the Bath, said to be a marvel Of color
ing, for the nice little sum of $25 600
Brigham Young is sixty-aye years old, aud much
married.
President Johnson's June Journey will probably
embrace general tour of New England
The Royal Geographical Society Of England has
presented purse Of one hundred guineas to M.
du Chaillu to reimburse him for the loss Of bis in
struments in Western Africa. and also as testi |
monial of the value of his services.
Augustus Taft, 3 lad of thirteen years, son Of |
Or. TAFT Of Hartford, claims to have seen the new
star in the Corona Boreays constellation two DAYS
before it was discovered by Professor Gould, of !
the Cambridge Observatory.
Rev. William E. Armitage, Of Christ Church, |
Detroit, has been elected Assistant Bishop Of WIS
consin.
Belle Boyd recently made her debut at Manches |
ter. England, in the Lady of Lyons.
Elias Howe, Jr., says that he shall no. apply for
an extension of his sewing machine patent. which
expires this year, as he has already made mil.
lion and half dollars on it., and thinks that i
enough.
MI 6. W. Carleton is now running four presses
on Or. j. J. Craven's "Prison Life Of jefferson
Davis and is far behind the orders for the work.
Of. Drouyn de Lhuys has been decorated by the
king of Denmark with the Order Of the Elephant.
which has been conferred upon only two French
men outside Of the imperial family,
The fifth and sixth volumes of the German trans
ationof Byron, BY Otto Gfdemaster, have Just
appeared containing don Juan"
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, has called
Napoleon 50 puppet Emperor, - and the report Of
Napeolsone abdicston Is looked for BY the ueztl
steamer.
General Senta Anna is negotiating for the eques
rian portrait OF General Scott painted By Troves
" resolution Of the Senate of Virginia.
Brigadier General Dent, brotbornIaw Of
leneral Grant is lying dangerously i'll tn WASH.
nston.
Prince Alfred has taken his seat in the
English House of Lords as the Duke of Edinburgh
Il the nursery, he led the "opposition."
General Gustavus W Smith is now engaged il
he superintendent of rolling mill at Cbatta-
oOga.
CAPTAIN Crawley has written for Messrg. Long
lan & Co, London, "The Billiard Book an ex-
austye treatise on the game, illustrated with one
undFed and fifty diagrams aud other engraYings G
n wood.
The Rev Dr. Eldridge, of Michigan, has arrived
4 Paris to take charge of tile American chapel,
he pulpit Of which has been filed since the de- C
'arture of the Rev. DR., Sunderland for America, d
" the Rev. DR.. Birmingham, of New York.
The master and fellows Of ST. Johns college, o
cambridge have nominated the Rev. Henry White
lead Moss B. A., fellow and classical lecturer Of
It. Johns, TO the head mastership Of Shrewsbury
chool, as DR.. Kennedys successor.
Cen Casss wife died March, 1866, and left four
hildren, all of whom are now living. They are y
iajor Lewis Cass; Mrs, Ledyard, wife Of Henry u
edyard, Esq, formerly mayor Of Detroit Nine.
on Limburg, wife of the resident minister of the
and Mrs. Garfield, widow of Capt Z
anfeld formerly of the United States topograph. -,
'al engineers. "
Madame Iturbide has left London for the United d
tates. A
Collector Clapp, of Burlington, Vermont, whose
erquisites amount to $4,000 a year, has been re-
uested by Andrew johnson to give way to
mother man,
The Empress Eugene has just closed, With q
riliant fete, the series of private entertainments
hich succeed the crowded state balls given
the Tuileries, or the return of the court to the
apital.
In general expression Of couDtenauCe, there Is a
resemblance between NJ. Dore's photo I
raph and the portrait of Edgar Allen Poe, in the
rst volume of the WiddIeton-GrisWold edition Of
II. Poe's works.
DR.. D. J. Macgowan sailed from New York last
eek for San Francisco and China, as the com
issioRer of the East India Telegraph Company
Dr.. J. &. Irving, late Of Charleaton, S. c., has