The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-12-01
COM. VANDERBILT'S WIDOW.
Reports from New Orleans that She is to
Marry Gen. Beauregard.

Correspondence of the Philadelphia Record.
An interesting rumor comes to me from
New Orleans to the effect that Gen. George
Pierre (he has dropped the Pierre, though l
believe) 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 greatest
engineer officers on either side in the late
war. Carefully trained at West Point, where
he graduated second in his class in 1870, he
rendered valuable services to the United
States in the Mexican war, and invaluable
services against it in the war of the rebel
lion. He is considered to-day one of the
foremost military engineers of his time by COM
petent critics. Some Of them contend that he
is the equal Of any engineer since Nauban.
Certain it is that he is very highly spoken Of,
and that some of his work-that at Manassas
battlefield, in Virginia, for example-is point
ed out by the older engineer officers of the
army as model for the young lieutenants of
the corps. Heis, however, nothing more than
great engineer. lie was not good fighter,
and after the war he failed signally in an at
tempt to to revive southern railroad 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, Gen.
Beauregard is best employed as he is at
present in assisting to manage lottery en-
terprise at salary of $40, 900 year. Gen.
Beauregard is short, shapely, handsome old
gentleman with gray hair and white mustache
and a rudy face. He has the appearance and
accomplishments of a 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 Orleans. Mrs.
Vanderbilt was the reigning belle of Mobile
while yet very young in the years Immediately
proceeding The war. She was not pretty, but
was exceedingly attractive - handsome, J"
stylish" lovely" the old beaux say. She
married William III. Elliott, a New Orleans
lawyer, but they did not agree with one an
other, 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 Vanderbilts before her
first marriage, and it is said that the
Commodore, who admired them, quietly con-
,ributed to their support through her mother
after her separation from her husband. Be
this as it may, they met again in the North af-
ter the war, and when Mrs. Vanderbilt died
Mr.. Vanderbilt married Mrs. Elliott. Now
she is handsome widow of about forty, with
a legacy of $500, ooo-Ico COO for each year
of her life with the Commodore, as some one
has observed-and nothing to prevent her
marrying anybody she pleases to marry. Mrs.
Vanderbilt is. as is we'll known, like her late
husband, great admirer of the Rev. DR..
Deems, of the Church of the Strangers, New
York City. Vanderbilt University, at Nash
vile, Tenn, probably owes its existence to
the appeals made by DR.. Deems and Mrs.
Vanderbilt to the dead millionaire. Gen.
Beauregard, creole is everything else,is pre-
sumably member of the Roman Catholic
Church.