The Sun. — 1869-09-28 (London, England)

BUDGET OF PERSONAL.—The oldest theatrical manager in America (in point of experience) is Benjamin Do Bar,. of St. Louis, who is probably the wealthiest also. John T. Ford, of Baltimore, is the second. His theatre (the Holiday-street) is the oldest now existing, having been built in 1812. J. H. M'Sricker (Edwin. Booth's fatherin-law), J. L. Wallack, Ben. De Bar, John T. Fold, and Moses Kimball, of the Boston Museum, are the wealthiest managers in America. —lgnatius Donnelly is very anxious to be nominated for Governor of Minnesota. If " slangwhanging" could get him the office we know no more likely candidate.—Among the " matrimonial engagements" recently announced is that of General Phil. Sheridan to  Miss Bessie Cheover, of Boston.—Vanderbilt, being immortalized in bronze, it is now proposed to erect a statue of Fisk, jun., in front of the New York Opera House.—Theodore Tilton has promised Ida Lewis that she shall become Secretary of the Navy when he becomes President. —An enthusiastic New England lady wishes to wipeout the defeat of thejlarvards, by a crew of American girls challenging an equal number of English girls to row in American waters.— Judge Jeremiah S. Black, of Pennsylvania, has brought suit in the sum of $25,000 against the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, for injuries sustained by him (luring the summer.—F. E. G. Lindsay, Postmaster at Raven's Nest, Scott County, Va., was arrested and brought to Richmond, September 7, for robbing the mails.—Baron Gerolt, Prussian Minister to the United States, arrived at Washington Sept. 8, from his tour through the States of the North German Union.—Judge Gleeson, late United States Consul at Bordeaux, is at the Metropolitan Hotel, New York.—Mr SamuelG. Wheeler, jun., of Poughkeepsie, New York, and Miss Isabella Sloan of Cold Spring, were married .in the Episcopal Church at Cold Spring on the 7th of September inst.—The New York. Sun, remarks the Tribune, brings forward another editor as a candidate for the Chinese mission. It is Mr. Geo. Wilkes the proprietor of the Spirit of' the Time; and says : "Wo are opposed to his appoiutment, and don't think ho has any business to interfere between two such political and literary giants as the editor of the Tribune and the editor of The Times." We believe George Wilkes is a candidate, and will get the appointment; but Horace Greeley is not, and would not accept it if pressed on him, nor do we suppose would the newly-installed editor of the Times.—Henry T. Moore of the Rutherford Park Hotel, highly-respected, and in good circumstances, committed suicide by shooting himself on tho 7th insta.nt.—Joseph Snyder, the murderer of Mr. Carter, at Philadelphia, committed suicide in his cell, Sept. 8, ty holding his head in a bucket of water.—The leading spirit of Japan now is Satsuma, the Treasurer of the Empire. Ile is the richest of the native princes, or Diatnios ; adopts every improvement, arms his followers with breech-loading rifles, has sent as many as 50 young Japanese to be educated in various parts of Europe, and, in a word, is a man of the times.—Senator Cole, of California, has returned from St. Domingo, and gives a glowing account of the desirability of Samana as an outpost for our Government.—The Hon. C. H. Van Wyck of New York was married to Miss Kate R. Broadhead, at the Presbyterian Church, at Milford, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, Sept. 15. The wedding party, consisting of six or eight persons, afterwards started for California, and