New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-10-12
PERSONAL.

Ten. BANKS, IN MS dlstrlcp'
Mr. Dickens intends to give another series of
readings in London, to commence Immediately
after Christmas.
i Sir Frederick Madden has resigned the keeper
ship of the manuscripts of the British Museum, an
office which he has held for forty years.
Ricciotti Garibaldi, who was recently injured
by being thrown from his fathers horse, is slowly
recovering.
The pope has sent several medals in gold and
silver bearing his efgy, to the sisters of charity
who have been in attendance on the cholera pa
tients at Amiens.
David Dunbar, q sculptor, at Dumfries, Scot
land. is dead. His best works are busts from life,
and some copies in marble from the antique. he
had sittings from Earl Gray, Lord Brougham
Lord Durham, and other eminent statesmen; and
he executed bust Of Grace Darling, which was
several times reproduced in marble for the Bishop
of Durham and others.
Birthstone Brownlow has been suffering from an
attack of bile, at the Burnett House. Cincinnati
The sudden stoppage of his board bill by the cen
trail committee has made him convalescent, and
4 he will soon be able to travel.
DR.. William Elder, of Philadelphia, has resigned
his position in the bureau of statistics in the
treasury department Alexander DeImar has re-
7 ceived the appointment.
The Hon. Isaac N. Arnold, sixth auditor of the
} treasury, formerly member of Congress from Chi
cago, has resigned his authorship Mr.. arnold
was the lifelong friend Of Lincoln, his chief com
petitor at the Illinois bar and was selected by
him as the historian of his administration. His
appointment was the last one made by Mr.. Lin
coin.
!, Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts,, the other day
addressed meeting presided over by man who
called the President /" drunken trousers maker"
J The Nashville Union well remarks that this is Mas
!, sachusetts shoddy turning up its nose at honest
labor. The remark, too, must have pleased Will
son, who commenced his career as cobbler, and
who would, no doubt, have been very worthy
member Of society if he had stuck to the last.
Forney, in one of his Pennsylvania speeches,
says that the President was complimentary when
he classed him among the species of defuct orni-
! thology. He may (says the Boston POST have
t complimented Forney, but we are inclined to the
: opinion that he was unnecessarily severe on the
ducks.
4 Long John Wentworth improved the occasion of
; the arrival Of the Torch-and- Turpentine troupe
! at Chicago, by getting beastly drunk. The Chi
oago Post and Tribune, both radical Sheets up.
braid him smarty for such conduct.
M. Herman Goldschmidt, the well-known as.
tronomer, has just died at Fontanbleau. Though
only an amateur in the SCIENCE he had discovered
fourteen telescope planets, and his only nstru-
} ment was common opera-glass. We have heard
r of great many people who see stars through OPP
era-glasses, but we don't call them astronomers.
: A Bohemian correspondent Of the London Ath-
f enaum is trying to prove Tennyson is plagia-
rist.
NJ. Theirs is at present staying at the Chateau of
Franconyille, on visit to NJ. Roger (du Nord)
preparing notes for grand discourse on the af-
fairs of Germany.
: Joseph Dion is to play McDevitt match at bill
lizards for the American championship and 81 900,
October 5th, at Montreal. It is to be caroms,
1900 points.
i The Boston Post would like to hear Senator
Wilson tell Gen CUSTER to his face, that he "sold
himself for unmerited promotion" .
1t is said ex-Secretary Harlan, who ten years
ago was not worth $4,000, has accumulated a for
tune of nearly half million of dollars. Public
plunder.
i Colonel Henry Fitzhugh, Of Virginia, has arrived
in London from Mexico.
II The Little Rock Gazette stamps as unfounded
fabricatons the items published in the Memphis
Commercial, the one describing a terrible duel be-
tweens Walter Cogswell, postmaster at Wayne,
and J. 7. Wright, editor of the Wayne Gazette in
which both were frightfully and MORALLY manged;
the other the hanging of noted guerrilla, Dick
: Hampstead, by band of regulators.
I Rev. Chauncey Moore Williams, who was elected
by the last general episcopal convention a mis-
sonary bishop to China and Japan, was conse-
Grated on the 4th, at St. Johns chapel New York,
), in presence of more than hundred bishops and
clergymen
The London Times gives an account Of mar.
riage in high life, which was celebrated recently
at Westminster Abbey. The parties were Mr..
Henry Weigall, the eminent portrait painter, and
Lady Rosa Sophia Mary Fame; the sister of the
, Earl of Westmoreland.
) The failure of Parsee cotton broker of Bonn
bay for an amount of three millions sterling, is
heavy blow for Anglo-Indian commerce. The
Parsees, who monopolize the immense cotton
trade, have all the oriental fondness of sudden
riches and luxury. They alone can control the
: trade, the English themselves being unable to
negotiate directly with the native cotton-growers
9 The English cannot master the language of the
natives and cannot concliate their goodwill. This
is the reason why they are virtually the CONNER
cia slaves of the Parsees, though they claim to be
the masters of the country.
a Prince Metternich's chateau of Johannesburg
has been confiscated by the Prussans notwith-
standing that it was made over to the Empress Of
the French, and the flag of France foated on the
castle.
The Grand Duke Constantine Of Russia with
his eldest son, recently visited the entire line of
e defense of Sebastopol, and the burying-place Of
t the Russian soldiers.who fell at the siege.
J The city of Paris has given Duprez, the singer
$780, 900 for one.half of his house andlot Rue Tur-
! go, and he has sold the other halffor $4,000.
Gen. Ed. McCook, United States minister to the
Sandwich Islands, has arrived at Honolulu, and
has been received with marked attention.
1t is stated that, independently of Miss Burdett
: Coutts's regular donations to the poor of her
} regular round in England, her special donations
g in August were between 1910 and 1850 meal tick.
cts at rate of 25c. each about 500 lbs. fine rice
26O lbs arrowoot, so lbs. sage and so lbs tapioca
and of the finest oatmeal; 20 gallons best beet
tea, % gallons brandy and 50 gallons port wine
3 gallons raspberry vinegar, 30 lbs. black currant
jelly, 70 to 50 quarts pure milk daily, from Miss
, Coutts's farm 400 yards of flannel, above 2OC
4 made under garments, 100 and odd blankets, etc