New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-02-03

Gen. Scammon has accepted the Presidency OF
the Ohio Military Academy, and the trustees of
the institution are negotiating for the purchase OF
the building and grounds of the Ohio Female Col
lege at College Hill, near Cincinnati.
Edward B. Ketchun, who was lately convicted
of forgery and sentenced to serve term of four
years and six months inSing Sing has been placed
in the shoe shop of the prison,
The palace of Claremont, heretofore inhabited
by the Orleans family, having reverted to the Brit
ish crown by the death of King Leopold, to whom
it had been ceded as grant only during his life
time Queen Victoria has gracefully waived this
privilege and intimated to Queen Amelie of France
that she delighted to place the palace at her dis
posal in the future as in the past.
Much satisfaction has been expressed in scien.
tifc circles in Great Britain in regard to the con-
ferring of pension of G200 by the Queen upon
the widow and children of the late Sir W. Rowan
Hamilton, the eminent Irish astronomer.
Mr.. Julian Fame, of The British Legation at
Vienna, has been appointed to succeed the Hon.
Mr.. Grey, who recently died of cholera, as First
Secretary of the English Embassy in Paris. Mr..
Fame is younger son of the late Earl Of West
moreland, who earned so much musical fame while
Ambassador at Berlin and Vienna.
The Rev. j. B. kerfoot was consecrated on the
Gath as bishop of the new Episcopal diocese of
Pittsburg.
At an interview of leading Pennylvanans with
the President, on the 2lth Mr.. johnson reiterated
the opinion that the late Confederate States should
be admitted to representation in Congress- and
stated that he considered the passage of the ne
gro suffrage bill as untmely.
Sebastian Anzinger, an Alpine hermit recently
died in chapel Economically situated on one OF
the spurs of the Tyrolese Alps in his Goth year.
He studied natural history and philoogy, travelled
over Europe, America and Africa, was captured
by slavers at Trebzond, and was obliged to work
in Ismael Pasha's garden where his horticultural
knowledge advanced him in the estimation
of his master and eventually procured his release.
On his return to Tyrol he published work de-
scriptive of his adventures during his captivity.
In 1909 he rallied under the banner of Andreas
Hofer, and was captured along with that cele-
brated Tyrolese patriot, but was fortunate enough
to escape from the death to which his chief was
doomed at Mantua by his French captors. Carried
to France as a prisoner of war, he afterward
became a Professor of Botany, and mar
red the widow of Baron Fleury In 1925
he took up his residence in Spain. His
wife died in that country, and when his only
uauSHtei also away Win IL spanish Sfdnutc,
| the old mans sorrow knew no bounds, and he
spent the rest of his life as hermit on the summit
of his native mountains, having no other means of
subsistence than the aims given to him by the pill
grims to the holy shrines of that region. His only
fortune on his death consisted of ten dollars, which
the weather beaten, sorrow stricken old hermit
bequeathed to the poor.
Alexander Dumas has made failure at Venice
| and Vienna. His cd,tseries or conversations, so
interesting by their gossip to Parisans initiated in
the secrets Of literary and artistic lfe fell dead
upon foreign audiences, and the gay Viennese, as
well as the picturesque Venetians, denounced
Alexander, the great romancer, as great deceve1
and king of humbugs.
At indianapolis on the 25th man named Igna
titus Buchanan chopped his wife to pieces with ar
| axe.
Gen. Sherman has been summond to Washing
ton by General Grant, for consultation upon the
new army bill.
| The Board of Admirals, now in session at Wash
ington, is examining the merits for promotion o.
naval and marine corps officers.
The Canadian Parliament it is believed, will
pass bill consolidating the Grand Trunk and the
Buffalo and Lake Huron Railways.