Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-25
A Rumored NEEDING


An interesting rumor comes tO mo from
New Orleans to the effect that Gen. Pierre
GustaYe Che had dropped the Pierre
though, belieye) TOutant Beauregard il
about to marry Mrs. Cornelitls Wander
Dllt, the widow of the dead Commodore.
beauregard, as all the world knows. was
one OF the greatest engineer officers ON
either side i'll the late war. CarefiIlIv
trained at West Point, where he gradU.
ated second i'll his class in 1S40 he Render
ed valuable services to the United States
In the Mexican war, and invaIuabIa
services against it in the war of the
rebellion. He is considered TODAY
one of the foremost military ENGINEERS ~
his time by competent critics. Some Of
them contend that he is the equal of anv
engineer since Nauban. Certain il is that
ne is very highly spoken of, and that some
OF his work-that Manassas battlefield
in Virginia, for eXample-is Dointad out
by the older engineer officers Of the army
as model for the young Lieutenants Of
the corps. He is, however, nothing more
than a great engineer. He was not a
good nghter, and after the war he failed
slgnally in an attempt to revive a South.
ern railroad which was on IFS feet
within SIX months after he left the Presi-
dency, and is now striding forward into
permanent prosperity. Perhaps, since we
nave no great engineering work for him
10 do, Gen. Beauregard is best EMPLOYED
as he is at present in assisting to manage
a lottery enterprise at salary of $4,000.
1en. Beauregard is short, shapely,
handsome old gentleman with gray hail,
and white mOustache and a ruddv face.
lie mas the appearance and accomplish
ments OF cOurtier of the DAYS of Louis
XIV, and, withal, hosts of friends. He
has buried two wives, and has a married
son and married daughter in New Or
leans. Mrs. Vanderbilt was the reigning
vnf
years, Immediately preceding the war.
She was not pretty, but was exceedingly
attractive-"h handsome y ''stylish, :" Glove
ly," the old beans say. She married Will
liam I'll. Elliott, a New Orleans lawyer,
but they die not agree with one another,
and finally separated by the way of the
courts. For several years Mrs. Elliott,
who was still very attractive, supported
herself and her mother by teaching music,
They had met the Vanderbilts before her
first marriage, and it is said that the Com
modore, who admired them, quietly con-
tributed to their support through her
mother, after her separation from her hus-
band. Be this as it may, they met again
in the North after the war. and when
Mrs. Vanderbilt died Mr.. Vanderbilt mar
ried Mrs. Elliott. Now she is a handsome
widow OF about forty, with a legacy Of
$oO,WO-$lO,OOO for each year Of her life
with the Commodore as some one has
0bseryed-and nothing to prevent her mar.
Tying anybody she pleases to marry. Mrs.
anderbilt is, as is well known, like her
late husband, great admirer of the Rev,
DIR. Deems, of the Church Of the Strangers.
New York city. Vanderbilt University,
or Nashville, Tennessee, probably owes
its existence to the appeals made by DIR.
Deems and Mrs. Vanderbilt to the dead
millionaire. Gen. Beauregard, creole
in everything else, is presumably MEM
Der of the Roman Catholic Church.