The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-12-22
Com. Vanderbllts Widow.

An interesting rumor comes to me
rom New Orleans, says II Washington
correspondent of the Philadelphia Rec
ord, to the effect that General George
Pierre Che has dropped the Pierre,
though, ! believc) Toussaint Bcaare-
gard is about to marry Mrs, Cornelius
Vanderbilt, the widow Of the dead Com
modore, Beaurcgard, rs all the world
knows, was one OF the greatest engineer
officers on either side OF The late war.
Carefully trained at West Point, where
he graduated second in his class in 1910,
he rendered valuable services to the
United States in the Mexican War, and
invaluable services against il in the war
of the rebellion He is considered to-
day oGe of the foremost military ccgi-
neers Of his time by 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 Viz
ginia for example is pointed out BY
the older engineer officers of the army
as a model for young leutenants of the
corps, He is, however, nothing more
than great engineer, He was not
good fighter, and after the war he
failed signally in an attempt TO revive q
Southern railroad which was on its feet
within six months after he left ils prcS-
dency, and is BOW stridmg forward into
permanent prosperity. Perhaps, since
we have no great engineering work for
him to do General Beauregard j, best
employed as he is at presentin assisting
to manage lottery enterprise at sal
AIRY Of $4,000 year General Bcaure-
gard is a short, shapoly, handsome old
gentleman with gray hair and white
mustacho aud Il rudy face. lie has the
appearance and accomplishments OF
courter Of the days VI Louis XIV, aud,
withal, hosts of friends. lie has buried
two wives and has 4 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 preceding the war.
She was not pretty, but was exceedingly
attractive" handsome, h"st} lish. Glove
~, tut Olu UttuN SAY, Nht HliIIltu
William H. Elliott, New Orleans law
yer, 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 her mother by
teaching music. They had met the
Vanderbits before her first marriage,
and it is said that the Commodore, who
admired thcnL quietly contributed to
their support through her mother after
her separation from her husband. BE
this ao ii may, they met again in the
North after tie war, and when Mrs
Vanderbilt died Mr. Vanderbilt married
Mrs, Elliott. Now she is a handsome
widow Of about 10, with legacy Of
$500, 000-s 600 for each year of her
life with the Commodore, us some one
has oD:crved-and nothing to prevent
her marrying anybody she pleascs to
marry Mrs. Vanderbilt is, rs is well
known, like her late husband, great
admircr of tie Rev, Dr. Deems, of the
Church Of the Strangers, New York
city. Vanderbilt University, at Nash
vile, Tenn, probably owes it, existence
to the appeals made by DR.. Deems and
Mrs. Vanderbilt to the dead millionaire
General Beaurcgard, u Creole IN every
thing else, is presumably member of
the Roman Catholic church