New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-10
Personal.

The Senate has confirmed Robert A. Hill, Of
Mississippi as United States district Judge for the
district of Mississippi, The nomination Of Frank
Blair as internal revenue collector of St. Louis
rejected by vote Of nearly three to one, only the
Democrats voting for him, and several OF the Re
publicans who sustain the Presidents policy being
! absent F, V. L. Finley, of Baltimore, nominated
for an assessor of internal revenue BY the Mont
gomery Blair influence, was rejected.
| Noraman Gardner, of Kngstown, Rhode island
well known as the "Narraganset Huckleberry-
man. was found last week hanging by the neck
to tree near his house. He was seventy-siX years
age.
Anna Cora Mowatt is newspaper correspondent
in London.
The Wilmington Herald was to be resumed on
the seventh instant, under the editorial manage
ment of Thomas N. Cook, Esq.
| A Washington dispatch says 1t appears from
the records in the War Department that with the ex
ception of the Presidents proclamation, none but
verbal orders were given for the capture of Jeer-
son Davis. Major General Wilson says that Lieu
| tenant Colonies Harndon and Pritchard are emit.
tied TO great credit for the zeal and activity with
which they conducted the pursuit. and that is but
simple justice to these worthy officers to remark
that they were ignorant of the reward at the time
the capture. Colonel Prtehard SAYS it was so
dark that he could not distinguish the uniforms
In the course of his narrative he says On the re-
turn to the camp, | was aecosted by Davis from
among the prisoners, who asked me if was the
officer In command; and upon my answering that
was, and asking him what | was to call him, he
replied that / might call him what or whoever /
pleased; then replied to him that would call
him Davis; and upon amoments hesitation he said
that was his name; then he suddenly drew himself
up with true royal dignity and exclaimed: 81 sup
pose you consider it bravery to charge train of
detenseless women and children but it is theft
and vandalism" Nothing is said in the narrative
about his being disguised.
Mrs, Palmer, of Cincinnati, has sued her hus-
band for $4,000 damages, for putting her in a
madhouse.
Count Kouehelef, the incredibly rich Russian
who made Paris stare five or six years ago has re-
fused to pay mantua makers bill of $500 francs
his wife incurred in Paris recently. His defense
was that there was marriage contract between
his wife and himself, by which each agreed to pay
their respective debts; that he had already paid
100000 for bagatelles bought by his wife within
the last three years; that he had sent her away
from Paris to keep her out Of temptation giving
her beautiful home in the south of France, and
allowing her $4,000 year pin-money; but that
jewellers, mantua-makefs and milliners send their
touters to her southern home to tempt her into all
sorts of extravaganza which exceed his ability to
pay, although he has 100000 year income. The
court decided he was not liable for the bill
The Rev. David Keplinger of Indiana, baptized
by immersion, few days ago, in ruscarawas,
Ohio, his father, who is so years old.
TIE GENERAL DEBT.-The honorable secretary
of the treasury gives an official statement of the
United States public debt on the LIST of May inst,
amounting to nearly twenty-seyen hundred mil
lions of dollars, distributed as follows:
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