Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-11-30
COM. vANDERBILT,S WIDOW.
A report from New Orleans that She
Is about to Marry General Beaure-
gard.
Correspondence Philadelphia Record

Correspondence Philadelphia Record.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.-An interest
ing rumor comes to me from New Or
leans to the effect that Gen. George
Pierre Che has dropped the Pierre.
though, I believe) Toussiant Beaure-
gard is about to marry Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt, the widow of the dead
commodore. Bureaugsrd, as all the
world knows, was one Of the greatest
engineering officers On either side of
the late war. Carefully trained at
West Point where graduated second in
his class III 1910, he rendered valuable
service to the United States in the
Mclean war, and invaluable services
against it in the war OF the rebellion.
he il considered to-day one of the
foremost military engineers 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 Vir-
ginia, for examples pointed out b.
the older engineer officers of the army
as q model for young lieutenants 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 re-
vive southern railroad which was on
its feet within six moths after he left
its presidency, and is now striding for
ward into permanent prosperity. Per-
haps since we have no great engineer
ing work for him to do, Gen. Beaure-
gard is best employed as he is at pres
ent in assisting to manage lottery
enterprise at a salary of $40 000a year.
General Beaureguard is a short, shape
| ly, handsome old gentleman with gray
hair and white lstache and q ruddy
face. He has the appearance and &C
mplishments of courtier of the
days of Louis XIV, and withal hosts
Of friends. He has buried two wives
and has q married son and mar
ried 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 exceeding
ly Observation-Disclosures" stylish"
"loy ely" the old beaus say. She
married William H. 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 her
mother by teaching music. They
had met the Vanderbilts be
fore her first marriage, and it
is said tina. the Commodore,
who admired them, quietly con-
tributed to their support through her
mother, after her separation from her
husband. Be this as it may, they met
again in tie north after the war, and
when Mrs. Vanderbilt died Mr.. Van
berbilt married Mrs. Elliott. Now she
IS handsome widow of about 40, with
u legacy of $500 100000 for
each year of her life with the Connie
dore, as some one has observed-and
nothing to prevent her marrying any
body she pleases to marry. Mrs.
Vanderbilt is, as is well known, like
ner late husband, great admrer of
the Rev. Dr.. Deems, OF the Church of
the Strangers, New York city. Van
derbil' University, at Nashville, Tenn,
probably owes it's existence to the ap
peals made by DR.. Deems and Mrs.
Vanderbilt to the dead millionaire.
General Beauregard, Creole in every
thing else, is presumably member of
the Roman Catholic church.