New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-24
Personals.

John A Cresswells Senator from Maryland, has
been selected by the committe to deliver the eulogy
on the late Henry Winter Davis, before the House
4 Of Representatives.
| Apublishing firm Of New York has received a
letter from Gen. R. q. Lee in regard to his pro-
I posed history Of the campaign in Virginia. The
General is unable to say when it will be completed,
4 but says that it cannot be done this year. When
finished, be will make arrangements orits publca-
/ ton.
| One of the merchant princes of Cincinnati, l..
g. Hopkins, Esq, has presented the city, through
the council, with an acre of ground on Mt Auburn,
worth SIS. 600, for use as park
Gen. Joe johnson employs about five hundred of
his late Confederate soldiers in the repair Of the
| Orange and Alexandria Railroad. As they became
familiar with the pick and spade in the Confede-
rate intrenchments,s they work with knowledge,
and are glad to obtain living in this way. Some
of them formerly belonged to the first families in
Virginia.
Gov. Morton, of Indiana, arrived in England on
the 22dult His healthis no better, and he writes
very despondingly.
The report that Gov. Pierpont Of Virginia. in
tended to resign, is contradicted.
The health Of GOV. Curtin, Of Pennsylvania, has
much improved during his stay in Cuba; and he
expects to leave there for home in the course of a
few days.
DR.. Folger, late Assistant Treasurer of the
United States Treasury, died at Washington on
the 18th
The marriage of Miss Harriet Lane, niece of ex-
President Buchanan, to Henry E. Johnston, Esq,
took place at Wheatand, Mr. Buchanan's resi-
dence, near Lancaster, at O'Clock r. NJ. on Thurs
day the 18th. The ceremony was performed by
Rev. E. Y. Buchanan (brother Of the ex-Presi-
dent,) pastor of the Trinity Church, Oxford near
Philadelphia, and the fair bride was given away
by her venerable uncle. Among the invited guests
were the following: Rev. E. Y. Buchanan and
lady. and four daughters; Mr.. j. Buchanan Henry,
private secretary of the President for two years,
from 1857; Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. E. Franklin; DR..
Henry Carpenter; Mrs. James B. Lane; Rev. B.
keenan,, Of the Catholic Church; Rev. Mr.. Powell,
Of the Presbyterian Church. all Of Lancaster; Mr..
and Mrs. Brinton; DR.. and Mrs. Nevin, and the
Misses Nevin; Capt. Nevn, late Of United States
army; Mr.. and Misses johnson, of Baltimore,
brother. and sisters of the groom, and Charles
Manchester, of Philadelphia, and Augustus Schell,
of New York.
The ex-President was in fine health, and as
happy as could be expected at separation from
a lady to whom he was so much attached,
and whose refinement, accomplishments and
rare discrimination, have been such Invaluable
agencies to him in his public especially in his Pre-
sidental career, and have been such faithful ae-
compartments Of his declining years Mr.. John
ston, now the husband Of the former lady of the
White House, is gentleman of large fortune in
Baltimore, and banker by avocation.
The Court Journal thinks it likely that Prince
Christian and the Princess Helena will reside at
Frogmore
Mr.. Daniel j. Coburn, formerly Chief of the
Boston Police, died suddenly of heart disease, at
his residence in Maiden, on the 10th.
The youngest oil operator is Mr.. j. O. r. Wilson
Of Rochester, N. Y He is yet in his teens, but has
obtained for himself heavy interest in the Penn
sylyania regions. One of the oil papers says he
has just returned there from New York, where he
disposed of part of his interest in four wells for
the nice little sum of s25000O to the Bennehoff
Mutual Petroleum Company Aninterestng young
man.
The last anecdote of the late King of the Bel
gians is by no less person than William Cornell
Jewett, who says that when In Europe on his 6 in
dependent peace mission, he requested Leopold
Ito act as umpire between the United States and
the Confederacy, and that the monarch replied
that 6 he would not put his finger between the
bark and the tree.n
Mai. Gems. Cheatham and Bushrod johnson are
boring for petroleum in the Cumberland noun
tains, Tennessee.
The Huntsville (Ala.) Advocate states that all
the real and personal property Of the Hon. G. @.
Clay has been libelled by the United States Dis
triet Attorney for confscation.
( Mosby has published card in the Baltimore
Gazette, to the following purpose: 81 The life of
me, advertised by somebody in Urbana, o., is a
pure fiction. Maj. John Scott has in his posses
sion, and will publish during the spring, an auths
tic history of our command, from the time when
first crossed the Rappahannock, "a youth to for
tune and fame unknown in command of fifteen
men, to the day Of our disarmament q
Sir Charles Lock Esstlake, the Nestor of English
painters. died recently in his 7sd year, Under the
guidance Of Faseli his genius was developed at an
early age, and was revealed to the world in his
f. Christ at jerusalem and other remark
able pictures, He travelled over all the classi-
cal regions Of Europe, and lived some time