New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-30
Personal

i MONUAI -MtRN1N0. sAfkllI ~, 1866.
Personal.
Col. Pomutg, late Of the Fifteenth Iowa Ii
fantry, started few days since for St. Peter
burg, Russia, where he is going as United State
consul.
Washington dispatch says Walter B. Scates
formerly adjutant general to Cen John A. Nc
4 CiernaFd, aud some years ago supreme judge o
Illinois, has been appointed collector of the por
Of Chicago, vice Luther Haven, deceased
Gen. Meade stated at a public reception in East
port on the 10th, that he was there merely to en-
. force the laws. He was going to Calais the next
day.
On the 18th, brilliant wedding was celebrated
in st. Peters church. Morristown. N j., the parties
being Capt Jas. s. Van Horn, Of the Eighth United
n States Infantry, and daughter Of Col. John G..
Il. Rafferty,. On the 18th, while the bridal pair
!. were passing their honeymoon at the Aston House,
New York, the bride was taken ILL and in short
time was corpse.
Hon. John p. Hale, present minister of Spain,
is understood to- be an applicant for the position
Of United States district judge in New Hamp-
3 shire, made vacant by the death of Judge Harvey.
DR.. s. James Williamson of Portsmouth, Va,
Ezekiel N, Bartlett Of Mo-, George W. Wright OF
Il Canton, ILL.,, George Cowan of Danville, KY, and
Gilbert 3. Waters Of Burtonville, Mich, have
been appointed examining surgeons of the pension
hnreau. u Z,
John /. Blair Of Warren county. NJ Y, has
given $50, 600 to endow professorship of Geology
and Physical Geography in the College of New
Jersey, at Princeton.
The late D. s. Dickinson left two brothers and
two daughters. His brothers are John R. Dickin-
son, Esq, of Chicago, and Erastus Dickinson,
Esq, Of Elicottville, N. Y. His daughters are
Mrs. Samuel G. Courtney Of New York, and Mrs.
John Tracy Mygatt of Binghampton. Mr.. Dickin-
son had an insurance Of s25 900 on his life.
Victor Hugo was recently asked if he could
speak English. He replied 81 can not only
speak English but write English poetry =" and he
laughed heartily, and said, just listen:
fs sa. sst s.as a ss,s ,sn,
a Cd ave sas s IL s queen
Y Il has been remarked that Queen Marie Anlelie
4 and the Landgraye Of Hesse -Homburg, who both
died on the same day, were also born on the 26th
Of April but at an interval Of one year between
( them. as g s
General Prim has been sentenced to be shot BY
the Spanish authorities; but considering that he
Is ID London, he viii probably not feel very bad
about II. 4 w s54f .s8s5 Il i ~ % WA q. MI
u The London Daily News confirms the report that
Mr.. Goodwin Smith will retire from the sRegus
professorship Of modern history at Oxford, at the
end nf the ensuing term. Reason pressing liter
ary labor.
The widow Of the Rev. f. Starr King was mar
ried ID New York last week to MI Norris, q rich
steamboat man Of San Francisco, and an intimate
friend Of her late husband
Father Cruiser. one of the pioneers of Central
Illinois, died at the residence of his son, near Rush
vile. on the 18th, aged SO years.
4 Lieut.. Gen. Grant and wife, accompanied by
Col. Badeau and Mr.. A. H. Dent, Mrs Grants
fether, arrived at Richmond on the 2lst, on a
brief visit to Postmaster Sharp and family, Mrs.
Grants relatives.
The officers Of the United States army, who
were prisoners of war in 1861 and 1882 are about
to tender to Bishop Lynch, Of Charleston, s. G.,
the proceeds Of public lecture in New York, for
rebuilding the orphan asylum Of Charleston
Brig. Gen. W. G.. Mauk, of Hancocls's corps,
has been appointed consul at Matamoros,
Dr. Henry r. Frost, a distinguished Charleston
physician and founder Of the South Carolina medi-
cal college, died at Charleston on the It'll inst,
aged seventy years.
Y Head Center Stephens is thus described by the
Paris Opinion Rationale:
He is Of middle height and of distinguished
manners. He wears q long, fair beard, and with
long hair of q somewhat darker hue, and his fea-
lures. though delicately formed indicate energy.
His forehead shows uncommon intelligence, and |
frmness OF will made more remarkable by his |
prominent eyebrows. His eyes. though keen and |
sparkling, have something Of the softness of the
north and testify to the sharpness of the intellect
rendered enthusiastic at the idea of Irish enamel.
patton. n word, everything in the physiognomy
md appearance Of Mr.. Stephens proves the maj, |
who deyotes himself to generous ideas, and who |
does not shrink from the responsibility of carry
ing them out.