New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-13
FRIDAY MORNING, April Is, 1866.
Personal.

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Tie President has recognized Isidoro Mollio as
Coasul Of Spain at New Orleans.
The Davenport brothers have abandoned the
title Of mediu1ns, and now call themselves merely
jugglers
From London we learn Of the marriage of Lord
Charles Inaes Ker, son of the Duke of Roxburgh,
and Captain in the Fusileer Guards. with Miss
Blanche Mary, third daughter Of Col. Peers VIII
dams. It was attended BY his Serene Highness
Prince Frederick Of Holstein, and large number
of tile British aristocracy.
Al. Pardu, q successful coal merchant in the
Lekigh region, has given 100000 to Lafayette
College at Easton, Pa.
]. Ross Browne, who accompanied General
Mcdowell In his expedition TO Arizona, was taken
i'll at Soda Lake, and was left at Fort Mohave.
The effort made by Mr. S. G. Hall to raise funds
for monument to Leigh Hunt has proved failure.
His ungracious son Thornton seemed to have acted
like q dead weight upon it.
Parliament has voted monument to Lord Pal
merston So they did to the Duke of Wellington,
thirteen years ago, and not one stone Of it is laid
Yet; while the lions for Nelson's monument have
been IN tie hands Of Sir Edwin Landseer for some
thing Ike d quarter Of century.
The Reverend A. N. Shipp, formerly Professor
of History and Bellies Letters in the University of
Ecrtal Carolina has become President of Wool
ford College, South Carolina, IA ii
Dan showalter, native of Pennsylvania, and at
one time member Of the California legislature, a
feIlew member Of which he killed in duel, was re-
Gently shot and killed by a barkeeper in Mazatlan,
Mexico. ssa
Miss Melissa Ware, of Pittston, Maine, is hay-
ing ah examination in Gardiner, before the
United States commissioner, on a charge Of rob
bingl the malls S. @
Is Philadelphian Who, few years ago, had a
revenue of twenty thousand dollars per anuum,
and cut o large splurge among the bon ton of that
city, Is now an attendant in an eating saloon
in New York, on q salary Of q few dollars per
week. s ss
Reed Bigler, son Of Ex-Governor Bigler of Penn
sylvhnia. died at Lock Haven in that State on the
22d inst, in the twenty eighth year Of his age.
4 The deceased was q civil engineer by profession,
and had filled many important positions in the line
Of hisbusiness yi1 &
Several stoyies have lately been floating about
with regard to Leopold Meyer, the celebrated
pianist. and his adventures with different soyer.
eigns. The most amusing was his visit to the Sui
tan. Mussnlman etiquette would not allow Of a
piano touching the floor Of the sacred apartment
of the head of the believers. The piano was sup
Z ported by four lesser believers, and as Turkish
etiquette would not permit Leopold Meyer to al
downlin the Sultan's presence, he was obliged tt
play standing up. It would be difficult to imagin,
more coInical performance, which came to
worthy termination. When NJ Meyer had finishe,
his sonata, his highness said, in drowsy kind Q
way, Now let the musician dance
The salary Of the Rev. DR.. Boardman, pastor Q
the Tenth Presbyterian church. Philadelphia, ha
been raised to $4,000 per year. The Rev. ].
Murray, formerly Of Cambridgeport, Mass, as az
inNew York, has salary Of 5000 per year, an
received as gifts during 1865 about $500. Dl
Spring income is about SIS 900. ~
Alta ball in Paris, the other evening, the Prir
cesseof St. Ella appeared as the Press, in rob
covered with the pages and titles Of several joui
mails printed on satin.
The announcement OF the death of Major Arnol
Harris, published yesterday, will be received wit
great regret in this city, where the deceased re
sided for many years, and where he had " troop
of friends.',9 i IA III, ss8 as5s GA IA. AL lsi X
The Hon. Henry A. Wise, whose parole confined
him 70 one Of the military departments Of Virginia
has been given permit by Gen. Grant, to visit an,
part Of the United States.
Queen Emma Of the Sandwich Islands Is in Italy
a new candidate has appeared for the vacan
chair in the French Academy, which ii was sur
posed had already been secured for N. Hem
Martin N. Cuvilier Fleury, the literary critic {
the Journal des Debats, is now spoken of.
The South Carolina papers announce the deaf
of General Elliot, who SO long defended Fo
Sumter against the Federal forces. At the expl
sion Of the mine in front of Petersburg, virgini
he had an arm shattered; and when the war close
he took up his abode in a fshermans hut, in Pc
Royal Harbor, where he supported his family
fishing until the winter set in. He had just secur
staation on railroad, when he was sudden
cut of, in the thirty-sixth year of his age.
NJ. Mazeres, an eminent poet and drama'
author Of the Restoration, an old cotlaboratear
Scribe and Empis, died in Paris last month, at 7
aged Of seventy. He was made project afi
the revolution of 1880, and continued writing
the theater until 1913. He then found himself Q
of fashion, and obtained little success.
Coloael A. Il. MARYLAND has been appointed 81
ciaI mail agent for the postofice department
the district comprising the Pacific coast.