New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-26
PERSONAL

The Diario del Imperio tMexican) of the 18th
ult gives an official list of the Confederates who
have settled on the land at Cordova, purchased by
Gems Magruder, Shelby Price and others: Per
kins, Harris, Jouquet, Appleby, Boisse, Egbert
Price, H. H. Wilkinson, Duncan, Ceilings, Kunkle,
Gage, Fort, Hall, Santiago, Anderson, Hendry,
skidmore, Blackwell, Wilwhite. Douglass, John
Maury, Venice, Henry, James Anderson, W. G.
Henry, Young and Brown, each have 800 acres,
Gen. Magruder, E. York, Sterling Price, Chatter
lin, Maury, NJ. f., Caldwell, Schultz, Bannon, De-
Cretty, Didier, each have $40 acres. The above
named gentlemen hold all the land that is held by
the Confederates in Mexico, and have documents
to prove that all of said land was purchased from
private individuals, not given by Maximilian's
government
Quantreh is living quietly in the neighborhood of
Cordova. A correspondent of the New York
Times tells very improbable story to the effect
that last August, Quantrel, under an assumed
name, reached Zacatecas with eleven companions.
all being bound for the Pacific port of Mazatlan,
with the intention to take passage on the United
States passenger steamer John L. Stephens, and
take possession Of her on the voyage. This story
was told to the correspondent by Texas Union
refugee"-one Of class of people whose infor-
nation Is generally about on par with that Of the
famous intelligent contrabandn pendeate beEo.
The Rev DR.. George NJ Randall, the new Bishop
Of Colorado, preached his farewell sermon at the
Church of the Messiah, Boston, on the 18th
The death is announced in his chateau in Calva
dos France, of Count de Guernon- RanyilIe, at the
age Of 50. He was formerly one Of the Ministers
of Charles x, and signed the famous ordinances
Of July. Having been tried and condemned after
the revolution of $780, for his conduct as minister
he was imprisoned for seven years in the Fortress
of Ham.
London letter, speaking Of George Peabody,
says; E His fame for benevolence has brought
with it some Inconvenience. at the Palace Ho
TEL Buckingham Gate, where saw him few
days ago, and where he has SO long resided, /
learned that the postman regularly brought him
about two hundred letters per day-neary all of
them being begging letters. His secretary had the
pleasant little snecure Of opening them and as
pertaining their contents"
Mrs. Somerville now in her eighty year
has prepared new work, containing the results Of
all the recent researches in physics, more partc.
ularly in the anatomical department, as connected
with the great doctrine of tile conservation and
correlation of forcesn
A" Memoir of Junius Brutus Booth y written by
his daughter, Asia, the wife of Mr.. Clarke, the
comedian, is presently to be published
Probst is a puzzle The divines cannot under.
stand him. A month ago he rolled upon his pallet
of straw at night in terrible agony. Now his rest
is unbroken. He eats with all the relish of a
school boy, and sleeps with all the soundness of
infantile sumber.
Paris has recently been excited by weddings in
high life. The grand daughter of Cashier Perier,
the celebrated minister of the restoration married
the Marquis d'Anglade, and Mile. Marie du Boys
the Count de aRochefoueauld.
Gen. Writ Adams is in New York.
Gen. Kirby Smith, Roger A. Pryor, Judge Nc.
Cane and others called on Gen. Beauregard when
that gentleman was in New York.
William G. Bryant has funny habit of perform
ing gymnastic exercises for the edifcation of his
visitors. He uses the door of his sanetum as tra
peze. There is telling what antics these radical
editors will not play.
The Dublin Nation states that by the sale of the
estates of the 0'Donoghue, they do not as was
pass forever from his hands. They were |
g purchased by his friends with the view of
saving them for him if he can procure the pur |
chase money.
The Emperor Napoleon has conferred the title
Of duke upon the Count Colonna Walewski. The /
second empire has thus created seven dukedoms-
dalakof de Montmorot (son of Queen Christana) I
Magenta, de Morny, de Persigny, de Montmorency
md de Colonna Walewskt. Of this number, two.
he dukedoms of Malakoff and de MontmorotA
AVE already become extinct.
The widow Of Prince Talleyrand Perigord died
i Paris recently, aged77 years. She was origi-
ally Duchess of hoiseul-Praslin, and leaves two
hildren, Prince de Chalais and Count Paul de
Perigord.
Ex-Goy. Andrew, of Massachusetts, will go to
europe early in June with his family, for four
1onths' tour.
Gen. J. B. Gordon, one of the most prominent
Ulcers Of Lees army, is now in the lumber bust
ess at Brunswick, Ga.
Two Irish peers and one Scotch peer have been
romoted to the peerage of Great Brltain-the
arl or Caithness as Baron Barogill, Lord Athlum-
ey as Baron Merydeth, and Lord Clermont as
aron Clermont.
The Marquis De Boissy is so indignant at the re-
lsal of the hanging committee of the French
cademy to exhibit his portrait, that he threat
Is to exhibit it in public himself. There is a mot
circulation that the picture was refused because
was a speaking likeness.
Mires, the lately prosecuted Partisan inancier,
rs inaugurated his new career by purchasing the
reese newspaper, the price paid for which is said
have been 100000. NJ. Emile Olivier and his
afr have, as matter of course, withdrawn from :
e journal, the direction of which has been con
led to NJ. CucheYalC larigny, ex,editor of the
atrie.
The Buffalo Courier says :. The supreme court
New York has decided the viii Of r. P. Christy,
rmerly OF this city, in favor of his legal wife and
dldren. 1t will be recolleeted that Christy the
iginal minstrel man, repudiated and deserted his
lie, Harriet harrington, and her children, in this
by, destroyed the family record of the marriage,
d took up with one Mary Miller with whom he
hahited as his wife, May 8, 1862 Christy, in q
of temporary insanity, jumped out of the second
Dry window Of a house in which he resided in
ew York, and received injuries from which be
ed. Previous to his death, and while ia a state
insanity, will, purporting to be executed by
m, was made, excluding his wife and heirs from
y participation in his estate, and assigning the
III Of his property, $l50,000, to Mary Miller.
us very righteous decision of the court gives the
operty TO his wife and children. 0ut of four
ldren, there are only two boys remaining, who
e engaged in the minstrel business"
Mr. Durant, one of the richest and most success.
u lawyers in Boston formerly a partner of Rufus
loatel, has on the occasion of severe domestic
hcaon, the loss Of his only SON. and under the IN
fence Of the revival movements in the city, left
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