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 o. the English aristoc-
| racy who have left England for America is unpre
| cedented.
| The remains OF Heinrich Hethe, 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 of tho Pope, by Mgr Marilley.
Bishop OF Lausanne and Geneva, resigning his
episcopal functions Of this last-named place.
The Mayoraty campaign in this city, IL is authori-
tatively stated, cost as follows:-Por Lawrence.
$4,000; for Havemeyer, $4,000; for O'Brien,
$4,000. The truth of the old adage, that "Money
makes the mayor gon 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 q frecracker In the
last month, and still his fond mother intends him
for the pulpit.
The Baltimore american suggests that the mur-
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, singularly
| 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 a second
mandarin, and, with his wife. 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 eulogzing Cap
tain Whineray and expressing the kindest desires
for his future well-being.
The remains OF Lady Becher miss O'Neill the
the great tragic actress, were inferred on the 1st
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
| wrlxon Becher, Bart, Mr.. John Wrixon Becher
and Mr.. william Wrixon Becher, the three sons
| of the deceased. The tenantry OF Sir H. W. Becher
| to the number of 200, walked four abreast. The
windows of the Balyhass 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 as places OF resort by most
distinguished people, is lamentable. The natural
vanity OF men usually prevails upon the promoted
ones not to publicly disown the titles 80 conferred
| That this hote-counter order OF knighthood, gen.
eralship 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 y" clerks at
| tho stOY Housp