The Sun. — 1869-04-19 (London, England)

BUDGET OF PERSONAL ITEMS.—.Mr. Theodore Tilton has returned to New 7c ork, after a succesful lecturing tour.—The leading offices of the Freedmen's Buret° have memorialized General Howard to withdraw his resignation, and to continue at the head of the Freedmen,g Bureau till the department is abolished.—General Adelbert Ames has been appointed Assistant Freedirol Bureau Commissioner for Mississippi, and General .1. • Reynolds Assistant Commissioner for Texas.—Marshall 0. Roberts has presented to the Central Park Conn't. sioners Miss Stebbins' celebrated colossal statue of (s°lumbus.—Delmonico pays Moses H. Grinnell $27,500 6 year rent for his Fifth-avenue mansion in New York.' Neal Dow is recommended by the Maine Congressmen fr a foreign mission.—General Robert E. Lee has !at", visited New England, and has returned to the South.'" Tho late James Guthrie of Kentucky left an estate $1,000,000. Ex-President Pierce has recovered sufficiently to visit Boston. Benjamin Miller and Clay Matthews l'ref committed for extradition at St. Catharine's, Cana' March 27, on the charge of highway robbery in John°.: town, New York.—Thomas S. Woods, editor of the OM" Patriot, and a prominent local politician, died at Saleliij r Ohio, on Friday, March 26.—The death of Captain A. Wise, of Virginia, at the Hotel de Rome, NaPle; is announced. He was related to Governor Wf';', of Virginia.—Mr. Longfellow and family have beet stopping at the Hotel Tramontana, Sorrento, b" are expected back in Naples immediately.—Adolphef Rodewald, many years a member of the firm ° Rodewald and Winterhoff, died March 27, at his hell New Brighten, Staten Island.—Plymouth church is s to to bo raising a fund to enable Henry Ward Beecher , take a foreign tour.—A lady in Waterville, Maine, has r'„, covered $1,611 from a physician, in law suit, for mAlPrate tice in reducing a dislocated limb.—General Robert an; derson contemplates a foreign tour.—The surplus precee „e of the Inauguration Ball are to be devoted to the pueehel, of Clark Mill's statue of Lincoln.—Major W. M'Farlen, Corps Engineers, has been assigned to the charge of the l"° hour improvement of Lake Erie west of Cleveland, 011ie' i, Mr. George Douglass died suddenly, March 29, at his .11111 dente, 35, West Sixteenth-street, New York, in the year of his age. A. and E. Amos, leather dealers of ge'r trial, Canada, have failed for a largo amount. Mr. Delo lingame's Chinese Embassy, it is said, will make grand tour to Berlin, St. Petersburgh, Stockholm, Spain, And Italy. Judge S. W. Brockway, a prominent lawyer e politician of California, died at San Mateo, March 2°' The Rev. Ambrose O'Neil died at Albany, March 28' )f The Hon. Thomas C. Acton, President of the Board Police Commissioners, has returned from the Snutbto New York.—The President has nominated Emil .`', il ffit chester to be Consular Agent at Bremen.—The Presidia, has nominated George Earle First Assistant Postmasthete General, vice Gen. Skinner.—J. Townsend Connolly, boo son of the Comptroller, of New York, is announce the engaged list, and is to be married early to a Miss Oxnard of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. ,n5l Fire Marshal Baker announces that the total '",O fires in New York, for the month of March, 1!0% $427,850, an increase of $154,000 over the losses clorloi the month of February.—The Hon. Benjamin F. Wndiedg Ohio has written very warmly in reply to an adur-el from the National Executive. Committee of Colonlie Men. He says nothing has given him so much Prrise, and satisfaction as their appreciation of his eeu Di 9 —Commodore Thornton A. Jenkins has resigned, be office as Chief of the Bureau of Navigation. He will assigned to other duty.—David Clark, of Hartford, ity, necticut, after a personal inspection of Howard Univers has given $25,000 towards its endowment.—Richer did d Wood, ono of the oldest merchants in Philadelphia, r, on the Ist inst. Ho was 70 years of age.—Harrisealti, Turner, aged 51 years, a commission merchant of 13epi0 more, committed suicide on the Ist inst, by cuttings,/ throat with a razor. Tho cause was business misfortune tee The Memphis Common Council has appointed a Comiel,ore of Arrangements for the reception of ex-President John'ive —Governor Morton, on account of illness, has been he able to be present in the Senate for two days. pig Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge is seriously ill at 004 home in Danville, Kentucky. General The ea recently had a purse of $lOO,OOO tendered him and retnoe 1,4 it. —The Buffalo man who made the $2OO pair of ev;io for the President now swings a sign, " Bootmaker t 0 et, Excellency r. S. Grant."—By direction of the Presf"tee Brevet Major-General George Stoneman, Colonel e' 21st United States Infantry, is relieved from the temp 'aer command of the First Military District, and will sec:fie pany his regiment to the Military Division of the pas„ie, —J. Tobens has arrived at Washington from St. Donll,-s./ with power to annex that Republic to the United Stal: tee John W. Johnson, Esq., recently appointed Judge e` Abingdon District, is not a brother of General JO5-I,je E. Johnston. He is a nephew of the general. Dig' Raymond is at Washington working up Tracy fel; Ale trict Attorney.—Ex-Congressman Tom. Stewart is the there pressing Inspector Dilks for the MarshalshiP,a ° Southern District.—Mr. Foster Blodgett, suspen",„ 0 the late Administration from the Postmastersuir Augusta, Georgia, has been re-instated. f. I 'tee' [-