New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-10-22
Personal,

returned home from Europe on the 18th.
Sir Morton Peto's home newspaper announces
that he will resign his seat in parliament.
The Earl Of Derby has 4atey been for some
time in personal attendance on the queen.
John Morrissey has beennomnated for Congress
by the Democrats of the 5th district New York
Ditto James Brooks in the 8th. Ditto Horace
Greeley by the Radicals in the 4th.
The late accident to Bishop Baraga, of Mar
quette, in attendance upon the council of the
Catholic Church now in session at Baltimore, was
caused, it is supposed, by an apopectic fit
Bishop Baraga is one Of the most venerable pre-
lates of the church. II He is seventy years of
age, and has Travelled several thousand miles in an
infrm state of health to attend the council Forty
years of his life have been spent among the in
dams, Of whom he has baptized twenty-five
thousand.
Benson J. Losing, the celebrated pictorial pub
Usher, accompanied by corps of artists, is visit
ing the various battle fields made memorable
during the war, in the Shenandoah Valley.
The Japanese princes visiting this country are
named j. Woda and J. Wago Their interpreter
is j. Olphant. They were at the St. James, New
York on the 10th.
The London Star of September Goth says:
Yesterday, Minnie Straton or, as the child
used to call herself, Minnie Tom Thumb the in
FAINT daughter of Cen and Mrs. Tom Thumb, died
at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich. The child was
left some days since at the hotel in charge of her
nurse while her parents were a professional
visit to Yarmouth and LOwest0ft, and two medical
gentlemen were called in; they failed however,
to aliay her sutferings and yesterday the child
died from inflammation of the brain. Mrs. Tom
Thumb was sent for; she arrived in Norwich on
Thursday and remained in attendance on the little
sufferer until death closed the scene.
The Emperor Napoleon is plunged in gloom by
the successive deaths of all his most intimate
triends-Morny, Mocquard, and now Bacciocchi.
The latter was q CorsiCan, and a relative Of the
Bonapartes, and one more personally devoted to
the emperor than any other of his followers.
Baron Stoeckl, the Russian minister at Washing
ton, is to be replaced by new ambassador.
Mr.. Haddleston, an NJ. P, and counsel for the
queen, arrived at Baden-Baden and duly registered
his name. Some mischief-maker, in good coun.
terfeit hand, added to the signature tuft-hunter
and toady, and the offensive nsinuation appeared
in full in the innocent German Morning papers.
The St. Louis Democrat announces with great
composure, that :" at the present moment our list
of pending libel suits is as follows: Madame
Cora James, SO 900; Frank Blair 100000; Ed
ward Brooks, SIS, 600; 7. A. Larllin, $25,0C0 j.
O'Neil, S25 ,000 P. A. Berthold, SIS 600; total
| nominal value, so far, 5220,O00."
Miss PendletOn, sister of George H. Peadle-
ton, is engaged to be married to Mt. Dayton, son
of the late William H. Dayton, minister to France.
| Mr.. Alexander Delmar, who has beenapponed
chief of the new Bureau Of Statistics is Viz
gnan and editor Of the well-knownand extremely
able Social Science Review Tie radicals are
greatly incensed at this appointment. They
wanted Dr.. Elder a Chicago "protectionist."
| bronzed statue of Sir John Franklin has Just
been set up in London.
Commander Joseph p Sanford has been ap-
pointed feet captain of the North Pacific squadron
They say Dumas pere is going on with Monte
Christie"
Sturgeon says that the lady who promised
100000 for his Orphanage was moi the Duchess OF
Sutherland. ... .....
Napoleon has given some handsome swords and
equipments to the two sons of Abd-el Kader, who
have lately left Paris for home.
English papers say Bismarck's disease is dis
order of the brain, but Austrians cannot see it il
that light.
Wells, the solicitor who brought the famous
Grim con. suit against Lord Palmerston in behal
of Mrs. o. Kane, was arrested in London las
week as an habitual drunkard and vagrant, an,
sent to Jail for three days i'll default of five shil
lings fine.
Justice Strong, of Philadelphia, has granted tn
two iDjunctions applied for against the Unio
Passenger Railroad Company running cars OIL
Sunday. This company has been running on Sun
day for several months past as carrier of thu
United States mail.
4 Lieutenant Commanders Edward Woodward ant
Morrill, Miller have been ordered to duty at th
naval academy
A so-called fashionable wedding came off a
Washington on the evening of the 10th inst. Tn
bride is the daughter of Mr.. Gideon, the prophetic
of the Washingt on-Georgetown street cars, and
man of great wealth. The bridegroom, Mr.. Coate
originally of Cincinnati, is private secretary an
travelling agent of Jay Cooke & Co., the bankers
Miss Julia Bryant, daughter of William Guile
Bryant, has been lately travelling in Switzerlan
with party of friends, including Gen. Payne.
The French minister at Washington will civ
brilliant receptions in the latter part of next viii
ter. Madam Monthoon will again be assisted, i
doing the honors Of the legation, by her niece
Miss Chouteau of St. Louis.
Mr. Rarey, the horse-tamer, whose death too
place at Cleveland, was man remarkable for hi
modest and loving nature 1t was by his tender
ness and afectonateness that he succeeded
conquerlng the obedience of the most untamabl
horses. The English officers and noblcmen wit
whom he was in personal relation while in Eng
land, looked upon him not only as the friend c
their horses, but as their personal friend, an
missed no opportunity to testify their regard fo
his beautiful nature. Mr.. Rarey was not only
' public benefactor by causing one of the noble,
of animals to be better treated, but he taught ais
the world to emulate his example, and to Sc
: what works combination of goodness and INTEL
/ gence may do not only for horses but also for til
e the higher animal-man.
The late Commodore Stockton was remarkab
for his independent manners. While in Constai
! tnople, many years ago, with his squadron
0 he was, on being introduced to the sultan, admo
) ished to address him in French, but to fUrbe,
delivering his address until hismaiesty had spoke
/. first. The commodore committed his FrenC
a speech to memory, but forgot all about it. Who
! X the sultan made his appearance, and wihor
n waiting for permission to address him, he rusht
5 up to him as the monarch entered the audient
e room, and said graspng his hand; "How do &c
le do, Mr.. Sultan"
30 Louis II, of Bavaria, is said to be insane.
o Mr.. Walter and his son are in Montreal.
re With the exception of DIR. Evans, the Cou