The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-26
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.


st. Louis municipal election April I. Somebody
will be fooled.
Ex-Congressman T. A. Jenckes, OF Rhode Island,
is at the AstOr House.
Congressman William Whiting, OF Massachusetts,
Ia at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Complete letter writer on "resignation"
Senator Caldwell, Of Kansas.
General George hom of the United States Army.
has quarters at the Holman House.
Kansas United States Senatorships-'Many are
called (welD. but few are chosen"
Colonel J. B. Symmus. of the United states Army
Is registered at the Grand Central HOTEL
Brigadier General george w. Cook, OF the United
States Army, ia at the Metropolitan Hotel.
United States Senator William I. Hamilton, OF
Maryland. Is in town, at the Metropolitan Hotel.
Senator Kelly, OF Oregon, prefers his mileage to
his back pay, and makes q little by the operation
The Turkish Minister, Blacque Bey, arrived at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel from Washington last even-
ing.
Mrs. Commodore Vanderbilt is q sister OF the
wife Of Bishop McTyre. OF the Methodist Church,
South.
''Old Pr0babtiesn is descendant OF Connect
icut family. Probably that's what makes him so
good on q guess.
Is the report true that Governor Hendricks pro-
poses to abandon the name aud organization of
the democratic partyr
John p. BigelOw Chief of the Loan Division Of
the Treasury Department at Washington, Is stay
ing at the Hoffman House.
Mr.. Oluf Stenersen, the Swedish and Norwegian
Minister has left Washington on tour Of inspec-
ton in the Western States.
The republican candidate for mayor OF st. Louis
Is named Ban The democratic nominee is not
expected to prove his antidote.
Baron Lederer, Minister OF Austria, will soon
leave on temporary visit to his country, and viii,
be in Vienna during the great Exhibition.
Hon. Henry LIE P0er Trench, OF the British Lega.
ton. is expected to return to Washington to-day
after somewhat protracted visit to his native
land
Minister Mori OF Japan, has been taking ride
around the suburbs Of Boston prior his departure
for Europe in company with G. w. Brooks, jap
anese Consul at San Francisco.
MIR. j. Fl. Pulestone, formerly q banker in this
city, but now living in England member of the
firm Of Jay Cooke, McCulloch & Co., has been re-
quested to stand for Parliament by q Denbighshre
constituency.
Pool selling at races has been decided misde.
meanOr by the authorities of Buffalo. 1t should be
so regarded everywhere and discountenanced by
all decent people. Pool selling in Wall street Is
about as bad.
Henry Ward Beecher and W. p. Shilaber MRS.
Partlngt0n) VIII be the SHINING literary lights at
the annual Convention OF the New York Editors
and Publishers Association, to be held at Pough-
keepsie in June next.
George A. Goss, member Of the New York Assem-
bly, from the Eastern district Of Msnroe county,
has recovered extra compensation for services rem
dered after the expiration OF the regular session
last Spring. His case was test one.
extra Billy" Smith, formerly Governor of Viz
gnia, was on Broadway the other day. He Is
among the candidates for nomination for a re.
newal Of the honor, together with r. M. 7. Hunter,
Alex. H. H. Stuart, Robert E. Lee, son of the Gen.
eral and others.
General Whittlesey, formerly an oflcer of the
Freedmen's Bureau. was yesterday morning con-
veyed to the government Insane Asylum in Wash.
| ington. The General has been suffering for some
| time past with paralysis, and went to the Asylum
for treatment under the advice Of his physicians
and friends.
Miss Faithful leaves for England the Atlantic
April 8. Steinway Hall has been placed at her SER
vice for O farewell matinee on the 80 prOx., as a
tribute to her efforts on behalf Of her SEX Miss
Faithful will on that occasion speak on the wO-
man question and relate her American and Eng
lish experiences.
1t is stated that Vice President Wilson, when
chairman Of the Military Committee of the Senate
opposed making General Grant brigader be-
cause he was incorporate. But he was made o
brigadier. President Lincoln about the same time
wished some other Union officers besides Grant
took their Pourbon straight