New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-10-29
Personal.

The following advertisement appears in the
Boston papers of the 10th:
Married-In this city, 18th inst, by the Right
Rev. Bishop Eastburn, Hon. Charles Sumner to
Mrs. Alice Hooper, daughter of Jonathan Mason,
ESD, OF Boston.
George Peabody has given $l50,0O0 to Harvard,
| for the formation and maintenance of museum
and professorship of American Archaeology and
Ethnoogy. The trustees are Robert @. Winthrop,
Charles Francis Adams, Francis Peabody, Stephen
Salisbury, Asa Gray, Jeffries Wyman, and George
| Peabody Russell. rE|
Mr.. Cranston, of the New York Hotel, has pur.
chased thirty -four lots opposite the main entrance
of the Central Park.
Western paper says that Buffers el0quence
has the ring of the true metal. Hispockets have,
anyhow.
Mr.. L. ]. Jennings, of the London Times, is in
Washington.
Miss Julia Bryant a daughter of the poet, is in
Switzerland.
s. H. Gay, Esq, late of the New York Tribune,
is understood to be projecting magazine.
Sir Henry Holland, who enjoys the double dis.
tincton of being physician to the queen, and hav-
ing married Sidney Smiths daughter is coming
here on tour.
H. G. is said to have made $100, 600 already out
of :" The American Conflict and he hasn't half
done. That was a profitable conflict for Horace.
Professor Goodwin Smith is writing a short His.
torv Of England.
Walt Whitman is nrenarino = nev edition of HIS
poems.
George Sanders is in Paris and talks of goina to
Rnssia
Longfellow has finished his translation of the
Divine Comedy, and il stTl nrenarinp the notes
and illustrations. The whole work will appear in
a few months probably. His "Flower de Luceu
is in the bindery.
The 'Pagsaees from Hawthorne's Note Books"
will appear in volumes shortly. The first two
volumes will contain all that have appeared in the
Atlantic, and about double that quantity more.
The whole will be brought down TO few months
before his death.
Agassiz, the great professor. is RAPIDLY putting
in shane for the press his "Trayels in Brazln
Edmund Quincy is at his country house in
Dedham, writing the life of his father, Josiah
Quincy.
Garrison still far from being in robust health,
works away daily at his History of the Anti,
Slavery Movement in America"
The author of Herman (Miss Palfrey, is en-
gagged on new story.
Dr. Parsons is progressing with his translation
|
said to be occupied in writing new memoir, OF
whom it is not stated,
Minister Adams is in Brussels
Agas5" Af"'elS III bfaZl' are nearly ready
'ol PtNi,GaHon' .
Dloh loLeroS Is "Flths pooh-' LIE
} American lhsurrecuoh''
iney say hoto Lyons mas peeh appointed bfitisE
minister 70 Pafls.
Emerson Is "iltlhg new volume OF poems We
! give EN- all up in advance.
MaJof-0eneral custer mas gone to Fort Riley
the headquarters OF ms new command.
victor hugo IS 70 receive SloO,Ooo for his new
) romance, Quatre- e-YingtIreize,"
frlhee Napoleon Is suffering from carbuncle
HIS friends are anxious about him.
daughter ot@ emerson Etherldge has taken the
'o,, 1,s. ~ 'nV y S.'e oeoi ~" VI ooHTen'
ooIu ~ Htino! nus oeen az
- 80 i''lll'-7
Coune de mohtaIeMoeft mas been elected honor
ary member OF the spanish Academy OF history
CountJoachm Murat one OF the youngest mem
Ders OF tne corps Legisati' Is about to be marlee
10 Nile. barrot the daughter OF NJ Adophe Bar
rot' senator ana iately french minister az Madrid
Inns young SCION oi lne mouse OF Aufae IS ues
eenuan' oi AhuFe Nura', orother Oh the klhg o
Naples VINO was created count oy Napoleon
ana was LOT many years planter IN Florida
#here tne 1amily sui owns property Mile Bar
fo'S mothef IS an American oy Dlr'n'
Miss Pendleton, sister of Hon. George H
Pendeton, is to be married to the son of the lat
, Minister Dayton.
The death is announced of Mr.. Robert Soutar
who was for forty years connected in various ca
pacites with the literary department of the Lon
don Morning Advertiser.
The ST. petersburg criminal court has tount
Pryy Councillor Gavlosky and Councillor OF STATE
Jakewlm guilty OF embezzlIng public money, ant
sentenced them to Siberia.
1t IS confidently reported that Lord Monck, gov
ernor general Of Canada is to be recalled in con
sequence OF the circumstances attending the alb
s ducuon OF the French refugee Lamlrande.
r Lieutenant General Michael, commanding thu
8 troops in British America is making an oficia
o tour through Canada.
Barnum is lecturing in the West
fatherless story is aloat that Artemus Ward
a dangerously Ill IN London
man named Mcguire is going to write the his
tory OF the Irish IN America.