Show ben holladay dead the new york herald of july ath has the following announcement of the death of ben holladay the proprietor of the first mail and express line from the th e missouri Mif to the pacific coast mr benjamin holladay the orlu ori Bator ator of the overland Overla tid pacific lEx express press and chief of the overland mail company died at 8 last evening in portland agu where he was prostrated forty eight hours before with apoplexy during which time he had not regained regained consciousness mr holladay was originally a poor boy living in western new york but long ago emigrated to what was then known as the far west he tried many occupations and at last won success in extending the benefits of the express system to the pacific states which en ter prise from his bis energetic and bustness like management enrolled his name among the millionaires and made him famous through the breadth of a continent out of his mail contracts grew a claim of which he presented re to the government in 1867 ris this was at the time rejected and slum slumbered bared for a dozen years or more in 1879 the senate cut it down to while the house left it uncalled on the calendar during Darlng two or three subsequent sessions congress treated the claim in a way no more satisfactory to the claimant large investments lu in slope railroad securities did much to swell the amount of mr Holl wealth in 1870 he purchased for a homestead 70 acres of land in westchester county this state lying between harrisons and white plains here he built a mansion on which lie he is said to have expended over mr holladay was twice married his first wife died some years ago of his three children by the first wife one a son survives one daughter married the count de Pour toles a member of an old french family and at one time an of the wrench french legation at washington she died suddenly in a sleeping car and the news hastened the death ot of her mother in 0 ther the other dau daughter ahter married the baron de Busi bassiere fere father was a noted doted parisian banker she too died some years since at the new york hotel in this city it is believed the estate left in oregon to the widow will produce half a million dol ars |