The New York herald., 1872-11-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

General F. Hayden, OF the United States Army
Is at the st. Nicholas Hotel.
Colonel Charles Swaine, of the British Army has
arrived at the Brevoort House.
Count Kreutz, of the Russian Legation, yester-
day arrived at the Brevoort House.
State Senator N. T. Horrobin OF Vermont is
stopping at the Westminster Hotel.
Mr.. George Anderson, MP. from Glasgow Scot
land, yesterday arrived at the Brev0ort House.
A London paper states that during the last
month or two the number OF the English aristoc-
racy who have left England for America is unpre-
cedented.
The remains OF Heinrich Heirfe, the German poet
have been exhumed from the Cemetery of Mont
martre, Paris, and transferred to Germany to the
vault of the Heine family
The Journal de Genepe we learn by telegram, pub
fishes letter addressed to the Council OF State,
with the concurrence of tho Pope by Mgr. Mariley.
Bishop Of Lausanne and Geneva, resigning his
episcopal functions OF this last-named place.
The Mayoralty campaign in this city, IL is authori-
tatively stated cost as foows:-For Lawrence.
$4,000; for Havemeyer, $4,000; for O'Brien,
$4,000. The truth OF the old adage, that "MOney
makes the mayor CO." Is not always realized
Western paper states that Terre HaSte boy
OF tender years and heart has drowned seventeen
Kittens tied pans to the tails OF nine dogs brushed
his fathers new silk hat against the grain and
blown up pet canary with nrecracker IN the
last month, and still his fond mother intends him
for the pulpit.
The Baltimore american suggests that the MUIR
deress, Laura Fair, should be made to share her
wealth with Mrs. Crittenden, the widow OF the
man she murdered. Mrs. Crittenden is poor, but
not likely to take any steps in that direction, al
though an action for damages by law Is proposed
by her friends
Miss Annie Sedgwick. daughter OF Charles B.
Sedgwick, was in Portland and Chicago at the time
OF the great fires in those cities, and, singuarly
enough, she was in Boston on Sunday. and wit
messed the awful connagration. City corporations
had better double their fire brigade whenever Miss
Sedgwick pays them visit.
Charles Laisun, well known to Auburnians at
Hamilton College In 1S47-s as Chinese boy Of
eighteen and q student preparing for missionary
service, is reported by the Utica Herald as now
visiting at Clinton. He now ranks as second
mandarin, and, with his wife, a Chinese lady, and
three sons and three daughters, will settle in
Springfield, Mass.
Captain Whineray, who was for several years
Commodore OF the Guion Company's steamship
line, has just retired from its service. His latest
voyage was made In command OF the steamship
Wyoming. Her passengers on that trip, among
whom was Mr.. Ralph Waldo Emerson, on arriving
in the Mersey adopted resolutions eulogizing Cap
tain Whineray and expressing the kindest desires
for his future well-being.
The remains OF Lady Becher Miss O'Nel, the
the great tragic actress were inferred on the lst
inst. in the family vault in Castlemartyr church
yard, Ireland. The funeral cortege was more than
mile in length. The chief mourners were Sir Henry
wrixon Becher, Bart, Mr. John Wrixon Becher
and Mr. william Wrixon Becher, the three sons
of the deceased. The tenantry Of Sir II. W. Becher,
to the number Of 2Oo walked four abreast. The
windows of the Ballyhass National School, in which
the deceased lady took deep interest, were
draped In black, and q black streamer was sus-
pended from the roof.
The proneness OF hotel clerks to dub the tempo
rary residents in their hotels with imaginary titles,
to the end that the houses may be advertised
cheaply yet effectively places of resort by most
distinguished people, is lamentable. The natural
vanity Of men usually prevails upon the promoted
ones not to publicly dsown the titles 80 conferred
That this hotel-counter order OF knighthood, gen.
eraship or lordship Is not always appreciated, Is
evident from the earnest desire OF Mr.. Anthony
Barclay, a gentleman who was formerly British
Consul in this city, to be relieved OF baronetcy
credited to him in the HERALD through the crea-
tive agency of one Of the gentleman ly" clerks at
tho AstOr House.