The Sun. — 1866-07-28 (London, England)

CONFIRMATIONS BY THE SENATE.—The Senate, in executive session have confirmed the following nominations :—Charles Hunter, to be a commander in the Navy, on the retired list. Charles Davis, to be Surveyor of Customs at Nashville, Tennessee, and Joel Grissard, Surveyor of Customs at Windsor, North Carolina. Thomas L. Cuthbert, Naval Officer at Charleston, South Carolina. Martin F. Conway, of Virginia, formerly a member of Congress from Kansas, to be Consul at Marseilles. Robert D. Merrill, Consul at Sydney, New South Wales. Thomas Alcock, Consul at Goderich, Canada West. G. H. Heap, Consul at Belfast. Albert Rhodes, of Pennsylvania, Consul at Rotterdam. The following nominations of Postmasters were confirmed :—A. G. Grant, Jefferson, Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, Missouri. John F. Whitcomb, Ellsworth, Maine, William Allen, Auburn, New York. George J. J. Barbour, Homer, New York. Horace H. Jarvis, Courtland Village, New York. Isaac Fuller, Seneca Falls, New York. Joel H. Prescott, Newark, New Jersey. Charles J. Fenin, Palmyra, New York. Samuel S. Marley, Clyde, New York.  SAN FRANCISCO, July 6.—Chung Wow, the first Chinaman ever executed in San Francisco, was hung today for murder.  The Trustees of Antioch College, Ohio, recently refused to permit one of its graduates, a Mrs. Dodd, to read her graduation essay because she wore the "reform (or short) dress." Under the circumstances she refused the diploma which was offered her. There is much controversy in and around the college, and the general sympathy seems to be with the lady.  A correspondent, writing from Mississippi valley, says that by reason of his cotton operations Kirby Smith is undoubtedly the richest man in America. W. Gillmore Simms, the novelist and poet, of South Carolina, is editing a loyal paper at Columbia, South Carolina. Ho was never a very earnest advocate of secession, and therefore takes kindly to the old order of things.  A. J. Requier, the Southern poet, still remains, we believe, at his residence near Mobile. He has been District Attorney during the war, an office which ho also held under the United States Government.  Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas recently gave a brilliant entertainment in Washington to a very large and select assemblage. It is the first public reception she has given since the death of her lamented husband. Mrs. General Gaines has gone down the Mississippi river, with a retinue of lawyers, to make another effort, at New Orleans, to gain possession of the immense estate left by her father. She has perseverance on her side, at least.  Charlotte Cushman will shortly celebrate the 60th anniversary of her birth. Fanny Kemble is in her 49th year. Kate Bateman is 24 years old. Julia Dean is 35. Madame Celeste is 64. Mrs. John Wood is 36. Julia Bennett Barrow is 41. Adah Isaacs Menken, 27. Avonia Jones, 23. Kate Reignold, 27. Mrs. Vernon is nearly 70. Mrs. J. H. Allen is 22. Madeline Henriques is 20, and is the youngest " leading lady " on the stage. Parepa is 38. Miss Homer is 26. Maggie Mitchell is 30. Every inhabitant of the United States pays three cents a day for Internal tax alone to the United States Government, or the amount paid is at that rate. The United States District Grand Jury has found eight indictments against Charles Rumsey, of Salem, New Jersey, a prominent merchant, for false returns and perjury. A Mobile paper learns that Colonel Olodoski, formerly of the United States Ordnance Department, and afterwards chief of the same branch of service under Generals Bragg and Beauregard, is now, at his advanced period of life, working as an engineer in Mexico at $4O a month.