The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-05-17
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.


Governor Thayer. OF wyoming Territory, is ia
Washington.
General William Is. Franklin, or Connecticut 10
sojourning at the New YORK Hotel.
Mr.. Lawrence Barrett, the actor, IL among the
late arrivals at the New York Hotel
Lieutenant W. O. II. Smell, or the British Navy.
is registered at the Clarendon Hotel
Mayor y. +. Graves OF Syracuse, is residing
temporarily at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Paymaster Joseph Foster, United States Navy,
has taken up his quarters at the ST. James Hotel.
Again the season OF pigrimages Is at hand, and
the pious Frenchman Is getting ready his paper
collars.
Lord Dunerin, the Governor General OF Canada
and the Countess OF Durerin, sailed from Quebec
for Liverpool al noon yesterday.
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel James C. Q. Lee. OF
the Quartermasters Department, United states
Army, is staying at the Breyoort House.
Jessie ID. Bright, cx-United States Senator rom
Indiana Is now lying dangerously III at his resi-
dence in Baltimore, with rheumatism Of the heart
The number OF sRlpwrecEs recorded for the
month or February this year Is lbs, OF when
seventeen we're steamers ffET-six we're English
ana eleven American.
Messrs. william e. Perkins and Francis D. sted-
man. members or the Massachusetts Legislature
arrived at the Filth Avenue Hotel yesterday from
Washington where they have been to invite the
President to attend the Bunker Hill Centennial
Celebration.
California paper says they got Wan Using. =
heather, on the gallows the otner day, with ropo
around mis- neck. and he inquired Of William Nye,
the Sheriff. ''Chokee ike hell ~ ''Yes,v said VIII
man, ''chokee, you bet," and then they dropped
him.
the condition or General BrecKnridge remained
unchanged up to last evening. lie was very cheer
at n ia
than those around him. Experienced persons say
he cannot remain much longer and Is liable 10 DO
called away at any moment.
'.CromwellD was PLACED In Paris, but has been
suppressed. In the original manuscript, In a
fierce TRADE, the Protector denounced "tne royal
ists.u Before the play was licensed the word
"royalistsn was cut out; but the actor, who had
studied his part from an uncorrectel manuscript.
gave she passage roy alists and all and 50 theY
stopped the piece.
Keneaiy has found two more Tooley street.
tailors. Mr.. Peter Eddleston, ironfJunder. who
presided at a meeting At Accrington, stated that
ne believed the claimant 10 tie Sir Roger ITCH
borne. The Rev. Mr. Verify, vicar OF Ha0ergham
Eaves said that the Magma Charta movement was
A national one, threatened to be or tTemen i0us
proportions, ana was likely 70 exercise . marvel.
lous political influence upon the desiinies 81 the
country.
IL apaears TO be onlcially confirmed that Prince
Bismarck asked the Pope Tor his mediation vita
Gambetta for the conclusion Of peace IN the war
OF 1870 Tue proposition was made after the battle
Of Orleans when the Germans at Versai les feared
General Chanzy's advance for the relief OF Para.
me Pope hoped that tne service would be returned
by Bismarck supporting the temporal power Of
the Holy see against Italy, but Bismarck saw the
coming or an ecclesiastical conflict and refused o
commit himself.
There exists . letter which may some dav give
rl,e 10 doubts whether Meyerbeer wrote the muslo
OF the "Huguenots.v It's the certificate OF Emile
peschamps 10 tile eject that he, the SAID Des-
cnamps. ala not write the said music. II arose in
rms way. Deschamps wrote part OF the Iuretto
But II the lprctto nad been all written by Serbs
IL would have been his fourth grand opera ana
wonld have entitled him 20 a good pension. SO
Dcscnamps agreed that his name should not an.
near in connection with the Ilbretto ana that he
should get MS remuneration as having assisted In
l the preparation Of tie music. Then Meyerbeer
mad doubts, and required Deschamps' certificate
as security. for though their con temporares we're
aware that "Deschamps know no more OF music
than a turbot," future ages might DO less satlsls"-
| Oriiv informed.