New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-16

Captain w. Talbot, a captain in the late Con-
federate army died in Baltimore on the 5th at the
residence of his mother after lingering illness.
During the fire in West Troy, on the 5th, an old
lady named Leonard, aged about eighty years, who
resided near the place where the fire originated
died suddenly of fright.
Colonel B. H. Bristow has been appointed United
States district attorney for Kentucky, to succeed
Joshua Tevis, resigned.
Mr.. George Peabody is expected to arrive in
Washington in a day or two, as o guest of Mr..
Corooran. .ur..au. ...... ........
The Count de Lasteyrie of Paris, a member of
the French Institute, and until the accession of
Louis Napoleon, prominent representative in the
French Assemblies, arrived in Washington on the
It'll. The count is lneal descendent of the Mar
quis de Lafayette.
Mortimer Thomson, better known as 60. X.
Philander Doesticks, P. b." has commenced a
new series of humorous letters, over his old sigma
ture, in Street & Smiths Weekly.
Theodore Tilton was recently requested to fur
nsh sketch of his life for the chronological Jour
nal. He replied as follows;
My Dear Si,-In answer to your request for
my biography, have only to say, that was born
in New York city, October 2, 1885; that have as
yet done nothing worth mentioning; and that
cannot tell when I shall die, This is the whole
story. Yours, truly, THEODORE TILToN.
NJ, Laboulaye has been defeated in France for
the Corps Legisatfby vote of 1860 out Of 1000
Which, says an exchange, was not Boulaye fol-
him.
Gustave Dor6 has finished his illustrations, thirty
in number, for Tennyson's Idylls Of the King
They will be engraved in London and published il
Paris. a.-.
Miss Polly Bowen, aged IS years and months
died in Warren, R. l., recently. She always lived
in the same house in which she was born; was
| neyepin steamboat; never saw railroad.
Dickens gets price equal to about five dollars
minnie during each performance, for reading.
His resumption of the readings has caused great
expectations" He is the best of the English
amateur actors but near him in this respect is
George Henry Lewis, the distinguished editor Of
The Fortnightly Review.
An autograph of Tasso was sold lately in Paris.
It bears the date ofMaroh 2, 1870, when the poet
was twenty-six years old, and is simply pawn
brokens pledge worded as follows: al, the under
dersigned, acknowledge to have received from
Abraham Levy twenty five livres, for which sum
have pledged a sword of my fathers, six shirts,
and two silver spoons.
Among the latest arrivals in London is Hon.
Louis I. Wigfall. former Senator from Texas, both
in the United States and Confederate Congress.
Mr.. Wigfall sailed directly from Galveston to Liver.
pool in sailing ship and was sixty days in making
the voyage.
John B. Magic, an eminent artist, died at his late
residence in Philadelphia, Pa, o Friday.
Some of the citizens of Philadelphia are taking
action for the purpose of properly providing for
and educating Willie Deering, the only survivor of
the Deering family. 50 inhnmanly butchered, The
poor desolate little boy is left entirely without
means. . ............. a....
James Parton, the book-writer, says of James
Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald He
had no friends at the start, he has had none since,
and he has none now. The whole of his power as
a writer consists in his detection Of the evil in
things that are good, and the falsehood of things
that are true and of the ridiculous in things that
are important"