New-York tribune., 1882-03-13
PERSONAL.

Prince Prsdang. of Siam, who is to visit this
country soon. is we'll yersed in European manners,
spraks English and French huently, and is said to
have decided taste for literature ana art.
Commodore Up,bur having been appointed to The
command of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, VIII soon re-
move his family thithcr and his present apartments
in Washington will be occupied by Senator voorhees,
and bis family.
1t is proposed to erect III the central hall Of the
new Cotton Exchange in New-Orleans statue OF
Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton-gn, mounted
on a pedestal of granite from Massachusetts, Whit
ncy's native STATE
The death was recently reported, at the Academy
of the Visitation, Washington, of Sister Blandina
who for thirty years had been valued inmate of
that convent To the outer world she was known
as Mary Rainsford Brown, a cousin OF the novelist
G. i. X. James.
The pupt-desll used for many years by the late
DIR. Leonard Bacon in the Centre Church, New
Haven, was sent to Honolulu when the church was
repaired few years ago, and is now in use there
III KaWaiahaO Church.
General FairchIld, Ex-Governor of Wisconsin, and
recently United States Minister to Spain. will leave
Milwaukee for Washington and other Eastern
cities to-day. In couple of weeks he will join his
family in England. and in May will return with
them TO Wisconsin, where he expects to reside per-
mancntly.
Terpschagn. the Russian painter is said 10 have
asked Skobcleh, of whom he is an intimate friend.
what be meant by making such imprudent and in
ccpdIary speeches My dear fellow" was
Skobeeff's reply, we are in terrible condition at
home, and there is no way out of 1t except by n
foreign war"
Dean Stanley's successor appears to sympathize
with Won Moltkc's theory that war is an element
in the ordcr of the world ordained by God, for in it
the noblest virtues of mankind developed" He
said in a recent sermon at Westminster that he was
deeply interested in war because it has Gone so
much to develop human character" eairBTadley
by the way, has himself gone through regular
course Of military Or Ii and discipline.
Pope Leo NIL continues to observe, as Sovereign
Pontiff the austere habits for which he was dis
tinguished while in the lower orders of the Church.
He invariably rises at six in the morning and at
| once SAYS Mass III his private chapel Soon after
| NE attends second Mass said by the almOner on
| duty and then eats light breakfast. The remain
der of the morning he spends i'll reading the papers,
! comforting with Cardinal JacObini, secretary Of
! State and giving audiences to official visitors AT
| noon hc taxes exercise in the Vatican gardens, re-
! turning TO dine at o'clock. After dinner he re-
| tires TO his private rooms to work and pray. An
! hour before evening prayers he takes short nap,
| and then a walk through the halls. At o'clock
! he supS, and at ii rctlIcS TO bed.
The Grand Cross of the Order of Naval Merit,
| fcrred upon Rear-Admral }. W. A. Nicholson, COM
manding the European Squadron, by the King OF
Spain i'll February, has been forwarded by Secretary
! Hunt to the house of Admiral Nicholson. No. 1873
| West FOrty-seventh-st., in this city 1t is white
| cross set in gold, with an enameled anchor Of red
and blue, in relief. The cross is sumounted by a
beautifully wrought crown of gold which is sus-
pended by ribbon four inches wide and sixty
| inches long with rOsctte of the same. The ribbon
| is of crimson and gold. Another emblem OF the
Order is star of wrought gold eleven inches in cir
! cumference also bearing the white cross set in gold
with enameled crowns. Accompanying the Order
| is an elaborate diploma in Spanish, from " Don
Aphonso XII. Constitutional King OF Spain, when
! concludes with these words: 81 have decided to
| confer upon YOU the Grand Cross of the Order oi
| Naval Merit, with the Use of the distinction WINE
as a recompcnse for distinguished services to the
shpwrecked crew of the Spanish stcamer-ot-waI
Plzarro. / order that all officers of the Army and
| Navy Intendants, Ministers, and authorities shal
recognize and respect you as such Knight, Grand
| Cross of the said Order OF Naval Merit"
WASHINGTON, March 12.-Rcpresentative Allen
of Missouri, is reported to have improved little
since last night. His position is still critical Rep
resentatiyc Black. of Georgia is about the same q
! last night Ills physicians say he Is dangerously Ill