New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-16

The ten richest men or estates in Boston, ac.
cordng to recent official estimates are the follow
ing Estate of Aug. Hemenway, $2,4O6,ODO;
Moses Williams, $l,27l50O; Nathaniel Thayer
$2,362,5OO; estate of John Bryant, 81 100000;
Searss estate 81 742 900; David Sears ST. 4O1 900 !;
estate of E. Frances, $1OlO 700; William Phillips
1858 600; Fl, e. Hunnewell, $818 800 John Sim
mons, 1902 900.
BTr. r. o, @. barley, Tie artist, has gone TO Eu-
rope for summer tour.
Gen. Don Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, his
secretary and suite, are living in West Twenty
eighth street, New York,
It is reported that Charles W. Griswold, of Bos-
ton, is to be connected with the management Of
the Fifth Avenue Hotel in place Of Mr.. Hitch
cock, who has retired.
Baron James de Rothschild has forty thousand
volumes and great many rare manuscripts in his
library
The Emperor of Austria has two ancient
services of plate on exhibition in London.
M. Emile Angler is quite happy over the fact
that five thousand copies of his new comedy, " La
Contagion,n sold on the day Of publication.
NJ. Lamartine has nearly completed Biogra-
phies of Some People,"
Leopold I is to have a monument in Belgium
costing million of francs.
Mr.. Erastus Brooks is almost the only one of the
New York editors who lives on Staten Island, and
consequently, he is the only editor who opposes
! the selection of Segune's Point as quarantine
ground-the fact being that with regard to the
picking out of that place, Mr.. Brooks sees the
point" and the rest don't.
Bishop Hopkins, of Vermont, has written a
speedily forthcoming History of the Episcopal
| Church."
Mr.. Theophie Gauter's daughter, Judith, trans
has lately married NJ. Catule Mendes, promising
young French poet.
Mr.. G. K. Tuckerman, nominated as minister to
Greece, is brother of H. T.
Mr.. Alexander Smith says he became novel
reader from reading the denunciations against nov
els in g Todds Students Manual" The remark.
able thing about the statement is the fact that he
i" or any other !" has read the Manual by Todd
Professor John Stuart Blackie announces four
volumes giving, Homer and the Had " in three
parts dissertations, " The Had" in English verse
and commentary, pathological and archaeological
NJ. Theirs is now 60 years old. He first came tc
Paris from Provence, in 1920; tried to be law
yer-failed turned historian, and his i" History Of
the Consulate and Empire brought him five hun
! area thousand francs.
Horace Vernet's picture, Joseph Sold by hit
Brethren;" brought at the recent sale in the Hote
des Yenies, Paris 9l50O. This is considerably
more than Joseph's brethren received for the
original.
Sturgeon is about to appear as rival of jos
Miller. A London house announces Anecdotes
and Stories of Rev. G. H. spurgeon, now first col
lected and arranged"
Thos F. Meagher is publishing his "Persona
Recoections in the Irish People.
Mazzini has issued a manifesto entitled Z" The
War;
Henry S. Foote has established himself at Louis
vile, Ky, to carry on the practice of Law.
Senator Dixon has SO far improved in health
that he will be able to take his seat in the Senate
next week.
:" Mustapha Pasha is about to make grand
tour Of Europe, to study and buy the useful ant
beautiful" says the report.
Gov. Wright, United States minister at Berlin
drives jet,black fast pair on the Gorso, and ex
cites considerable attention.
Archbishop Cullen, of Dublin, has been created
a cardinal,
Prof. R. L, Dabney's Life Of stonewalI Jack
son, revised in manuscript by Gen. Lee, is repub
fishing in London.
The Malay prince, now visiting England, regis
tiers himself at the hotels as Datu Tumongoal
Abubakar Sri.Marahajah. of Johore.
In speech which he recently delivered in Mere
opolis, Minnesota, General I. W. Sherman said
~ have studied politicians, aud have learned b!
! initiating them, to talk few minutes withou