Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-12-21
Commodore vaAderBlt's Widow.

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An interesting, rumor comes to me
from New Orleans to the effect that
General George Pierre Che has dropped
the Pierre, though, I belieye) Toussaint
Beauregard is about to marry Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, the widow of the
dead Commodore. Beauregard, as all
the world knows, was one of the great
est engineer officers on either side in the
late war. Carefully trained at West
folnt, where he graduated second in
his class, in 1S4O, he rendered valuable
services to. the United States in the
Mexican war, and invaluable services
against 1t in the war of the Rebellion.
he Is considered, to-day, one of the
foremost military engineers of his time
Dy competent critics. Some of them
contend that he is the equal of any
engineer since Vauban. Certain it is
that he is.very highly spoken of, and
that some of his work-that at Manassas
battlefield, in Virginia, for EXAMPLES
pointed out by the older engineer
officers of the army as model for the
young iieutenants of the corps. He is,
however, nothing more than great
engineer. He was not a good fighter,
and, after the war, he failed signally in
an attempt to revive Southern rail-
road which was on its feet within six
months after he left its Presidency. and
Is now striding forward into permanent
prosperity. Perhaps, since we have no
great engineering work for him to do
General Beauregard is best employed as
ne Is at present in assisting to manage q
lottery enterprise at a salary of SO, 900
a year. General Beauregard is a
short, shapely, handsome old gen
tleman with gray hair and white
mustache and a rudy face. He
has the appearance and accomplish
ments OF courtier of the days of Louis
NV, and, withal, hosts of friends.
Me has buried two wives, and has a
married son and a married daughter in
New Orleans. Mrs. Vanderbilt was the
reigning belle of Mobile while yet very
young, in the years Immediately pre-
ceding the war. She was not pretty,
but was exceedingly ttractive-sshand-
some, " "styish," s'lovely," as the old
beaus say. She married William Elliott,
New Orleans lawyer. but they did not
agree with one another, and finally
separated by way of the courts. For
several years Mrs. Elliott, who was still
very attractive, supported herself and
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
contributed to their support through
her mother after her separation from
her husband. Be this as it NAV, they
met again in the North, after the war,
and when Mrs. Vanderbilt died Mr..
Vanderbilt married Mrs. Elliott. Now
she is handsome widow of about
forty, with legacy of $4,000
$4,000 for each year of her life with
the Commodore, as some one has OBJ
served-and nothing to prevent her,
from marrying anybody she ple&ses to
marry. Mrs. Vanderbilt 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. at Nash
vile, Tenn, probably owes its exist
ence to the appeals made by DR.. Deems
and Mrs. Vanderbilt to the dead mil.
lionaire. General Beauregard, a,creoIe
in everything else, is presumably
member of the Roman Catholic Church.
-GorrespOnde,at PtiLadelphia Record.