The New York herald., 1873-12-09
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Ex-Governor J. B. Page, OF Vermont, is at the
st. Nicholas Hotel.
Captain w. T. Truxtun, United States Navy, is at
the Everett House.
Ex-Governor Lawrence, OF Rhode Island is again
at the BrevoOrt House.
Wendell Phillips arrived at the st. Dents Hotel
from Boston yesterday.
secretary Belknap LEFT washington to-day for
brief visit to Kentucky.
Ex-Governor Robinson. Of Kentucky. has j1st
married Mrs. Herring.
Baron Waldemar de Bodisco, Consul General OF
Russia, is at Barnums Hotel.
Captain Dauncey, Of the British Army, is regis
tered at the New York Hotel.
e. wely Pugin, the London architect, has re-
turned to the Brevoort House.
Lieutenant Colonel Sanchez, of the Spanish Army,
Is staying at the Holman House.
DR.. Alexander b. Hasson, United States Army, is
registered at the Everett House.
Colonel E. H. LudinQton, Assistant Inspector
General, is at the Metropolitan Hotel.
General N. p. Banks arrived at the Firth Avenue
Hotel yesterday on his way to Washington.
Judge B. Platt Carpenter and Homer A. Nelson,
OF Pouohkeepse. are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
State Senator @. H. Adams, OF Cohoes, N. Y. is
among the recent arrivals at the Coleman House,
General Kemper. Governor elect OF Virginia, win
Judge Nathaniel Shipman, OF the United States
District Court, yesterday arrived at the Clarendon
Hotel.
william Cullen Bryant has presented Princeton
NL) High school with $500, the income Of which is
to be yearly distributed in prizes.
Mrs. Catharine Gift died In Lehigh county, Pa,
recently, at the age Of 90 years. She had chill
dren, 4s grand children, 81 great-grandchildren
and one grest-great- t-grandchild.
The Davenport Qowa) Gazette states that George
II. Williams, nominee for the Chief Justiceship.
formerly resided In Lee county, in that State, and
in 1s46 elected District Judge, which office ne
held fve years.
II is proposed to appeal to Congress to dam the
OHIO River. One would imagine that the ejacula-
tlons OF passengers on board steamers that have
been 'stuck In the sand" at a low stage Of water
were suflclent to answer all purposes in that
direction.
The Calcutta En0ttshmnn OF October "a reports
as follows IAN American passenger, Mr.. Hamlin,
attempted to shoot the Captain OF the steamship
Meinam while coming up the river on the last voy-
age from Gale. He was supposed TO be suffering
from delirium tremens.v
Captain w. M. vanderbilt has been recalled TO
the service OF the Pacific Mail Steamship Company,
he having retired In 1869, after 20 years. service
superintendent. He started on Saturday for San
franciscO TO superintend the bufldinR OF severai
vessels and otherwise look after the affairs OF the
company.
A letter from General A. W. Reynolds, OF the
Egyptian Army, addressed to Major wiiiis Oh
Charleston, s. O., states that the American Cen
erals, Stone and Lorng, In the service OF the VICE
roy, have been promoted to the rank OF major
general, and that General Siblcy has oeen uis-
charged on account OF PHI ysical inability.
Sir Henry Thompson, the British surgeon, ieeis
that u is not proper for him at present TO refute
the court charges that have been made against him
OF improper treatment OF the late Emperor Napo.
leon. After remarklng to this eject at recent
supper OF the Midland Medical Society In Birmin-
ham, Sir Henry said that he was ready to rest any
reputation he might nave upon everything ne dio
IN mat case and ne might venture to say, In con.
nectton herewith, that ne did not look back with
| regret upon anything he counscIlcd or did, and
| that he should b able 70 prove IL oroDncty when
] the time came