The New York herald., 1872-12-04
yesms 10 meet with much favor" and, It
might have added. is likely to have powerful
influence in General Grant's new admins
tgAhon.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

General Thomas widow has gone TO Europe, and
viii spend the Winter In Florence.
Ex-C0ngressman Thomas II. Canfeid OF YER
mont. is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
It is being said that Vice President Colax win
be the next editor in chief OF the Tribune.
Mrs Wallace, of Richmond Va, has undertaken
the management OF the Qua Dominion Magazine.
Bishop Coke, OF New York, has gone to Hayti to
organise diocese Of the Protestant Episcopal
Church.
Sir Alexander Milne has been appointed First
Naval Lord OF the Admiralty, In place OF Sir Sidney
Dacres.
Edmund Yates will ego west' on Friday to enter
ON lecturing tour that will occupy the next two
months.
Tho first consignment Of exied Communists have
arrived at New Caledonia in the ships Guerrtere
and GarOnne.
Walter Scott has just been acquitted on charge
OF numbering Oliver Cromwell in Michigan.
What's In names
Mr.. H. 8. Sanford OF Florida, formerly United
Btates Minister to Belgium, yesterday arrived at
the Brevoort House.
Governor Jewell, Of Connecticut, is at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel He will be present at the funeral
services OF Mr. Greeley
Senator Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois, has arrived
ut the fifth Avenue Hotel from the capital to at
tend Mr. Greeley's funeral.
Mr. A. II. Stephens can walk only with the aid OF
crutches and Q servant, and does not leave his
house except on pleasant days.
Earl Granville has won the thanks OF the literary
world BY opening the papers in the Foreign once
for their examination down to 1850.
Governor HOFFMAN has come from Albany to pay
MS respects TO the remains OF the dead great jour-
nalist. He IL at the Clarendon Hotel.
Senator Fent0n reached the Fifth Avenue Hotel
nom the capital late last night He win be present
.at the obsequies Of MI. Greeley to-day.
James Watson WEBB, editor Of the late Courier
ana inquirer, OF New York. is seriously i'll in Nice
France, with aggravated gout and bronchitis.
Je6 Davis got one vote for President in Daupnn
county, Pennsylvania, but John Quincy Adams got
only his own vote In the whole OF Massachusetts.
Laura Fair cocktails, recently sold In San Fran
cisco saloons, have been discontinued since the
rumorod attempt Of that lady to poison Judge
-Dwinelie.
Mrs Day Of Springfield, H.. lately gave birth
to bankruptcies. The bereaved father says Shaks-
peare was quite right when he said we do not
know "what day may bring FORTH"
The condition Of George Macdonald is still crlti-
cal, though not altogether alarming. He has had
no fresh attack Of bleeding at the lungs, but is
quite weak. He is at Dover N. j., with friends.
Upwards OF six hundred pounds sterling has al
ready been subscribed by the members OF the Bar
ony parish (Scotland) congregation and their
friends to erect memorial to the late Dr.. Norman
Macleod.
Mr. Josiah Mason, Of Birmingham has accepted
the honor OF knighthood which was lately offered
to him a. o reward for his benefcence. 1t Is un-
derst0od that the distinction will be conferred on
him BY letters patent, Mr.. Mason is too old to
travel to London to receive it from the Queen per-
s0nally.
Sir Roger Doughty Tichborne, alias Thomas Cas-
-tro, threatens the Court of Queens Bench with q
three m0nths' trial upon the indictments for fOrg-
cry and false swearing. Mr.. Sergeant Sleigh in
tends, after successfully defending him, to procure
his acceptance as heir to the Tichborne estate.
probably by sieighing the incumbent.
The Hons. Walter Williams and A. W. Hanbury,
members OF Parliament, Of England, yesterday
agrived at tho Brevoort House from Washington.
Their visit to the capital which followed an ex-
tended tour Of the West was abruptly terminated
by the death OF Mr. Greeley, as they desired to see
the unanimous expression Of respect and honor for
bis memory which has been evoked by his death.
We regret to state that Mrs. J. +. Cleveland Is
now lying very Ill at her residence, in Cottage
place. Owing TO the critical condition into which
she was thrown by the shock OF her brothers.
death, and which prevents the admittance even Of
adopted BY them for Mr. Greeley's Obseques was
altered, and the remains, instead OF lying through
Sunday and Monday at Mrs. Ceveand's house,
were taken to that Of her cousin, Mrs. Sinclair.
Mrs. 0leveland's physician is In hourly attendance,
and 1t was by express orders that the change Of
arrangements was made