The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-01-01
Personals.


The Memphis Post says; Every
body has heard. of Gen. r. Y. Richard
,son, Of the Q. S. A., who held the
surrounding country in terror during
the war, conscrlptlng and marauding
with Fecklessness that brought upon
him the animadversions of his supari a
or officers in the rebel army. This
hero, notwithstanding his shining ex
PLOTS during the times of unpleas-
antness, as Nasty calls them, is now
under a cloud. On Thursday last he
was held in bonds Of $500. by
judge Hunter, Of the Criminal Court.
It appears that the General has been
getting up an immense Southern Com
pany, with capital Of some $4,000,
coo, which, by benifcent manage
ment, was intep9ed to enrich every
man, woman and child IN the land
we love 4 young man IN Mobile
took 81 ,250 stock, with the. assurance
Of valuable position. He wait
ed patiently for his appointment. but
hearing nothing further, he came to
this citysand.f0undh himself swind lied
We are told that Gen. Richardson
was formerly a Methodist class leader,
and At one sine Attorney General FOR
this country. =
Marquis de LaYalette, who, it is an
nounced, IS to succeed Moustier, as
French Minister of Eoreign Affairs,
is allied by marriage to the Emperor,
his mother being a cousin Of the EN-
press Josephine, and through his
wife, who was the widow of Mr..
Samuel w els, an American bank Ter.
he Is supposed TO have sympathies
with our own country. This lady was
a Miss Fowler, OF NatertOWn, Massa-
chusetts H. de Lavalette, was born
in 1910, and belongs to the family of
the Postmaster General Of the first
Napoleon. His diplomatic training
was begun in 1887, when he was APP
! pointed Secretary to the Embassy at
/ Stockholm. Since then he has been
/ Consul Generalin Alexandria, Minis
ter to Hessee Cassel, Envoy to Con-
/ stantinople, member of the French
/ Senate, Ambassador to Rome. and
temporary Minister Of State. While
discharging the duties of the latter
position he issued the famous dis
patch, which, though bearing the
name of the Minister, was regarded
as Napoleon's own manifesto.
George William Curtis, in one of
his Easy Chair paper in the January
number of HQrper, is at great pains to
declare his disbelief, that Thackerav
everT said that many a long year he
worked for Frazerzat IS a sheet, of
sixteen pages, and even thought it
GLORIOUS pay, and declares. with en-
! phas clreiteration that it. is1lmpOssible
4 that either Thackeray orauybody else
4 could consider fifty cents a page glo-
rious pay" Mr. Curtis is misled by a
| typographical error in some paper.
! copying the statement from a London
letter where it originally appeared,
and substituting dollars" for
/ said eight pounds sterling sheet,
which d precisely what the london
magazines pay now to writer's not o.
established reputation.
The Norwich Co.. Bulletin says
that Edwin Booth, the tragedian. has
purchased Of William Stuart, pro-
prietor of the Winter Garden, New
York, a few acres Of land below the
Pequot Home, adjoining Mr.. Stuart's
residence Mr. Booth will erect a
handsome house on the land during
the winter, and make the place his
summer residence.
The ex-Confederate Gen. Forrest has
a contract for constructing forty-ive
: miles of the Memphis and Little Rock
railroad, from Duvall's Bluff, to Madi.
i son, Arkansas, and the work is being
prosecuted with energy, but laborers