The Sun. — 1869-03-25 (London, England)

BUDGET OF PERSONAL ITEMS.—General A• Hamilton is a candidate for Governor of Texas.-AT°11„1 the arrivals at Washington to witness the inauguration.; the President was his son, from Harvard Universitl' Ex-Governor Henry A. Swift, of Minnesota, died on Thurir day, Feb. 25, at St. Paul. -Dr. Thomas. E. Wilson ce mitted suicide, in Louisville, on the 25th Feb.-Prefes i ° 1r Louis Agassiz has been re-appointed agent of the S"' as sonian Institution by a Senate joint resolution. -Isterraio Wyard claims $125,848 for steel guns supplied to Navy Department in 1831, and a bill to pay 11"iDg preset' e by Mr. Scherde, from the joint Committee on Ordea.ereci was passed by the House. Senator Sumner has recel'i.eir a letter from the Right Hon. John Bright, asking bie fluence towards the settlement of outstanding diePtj. with England, to which he sent a cordial response' psi H. Hatch, Republican, was elected Mayor of Des geta lowa, over the Democratic incumbent, by three h'le'd-otl majority.-Secretary Seward's State Department OP° ea $4OO last year for soap.-Henry Ward Beecher eartich.. $40,006 last year, of which $12,000 was made by Pre3 ing, and $28,000 otherwise.-Secretary M'Cullocb, 11Pa, his retirement, it is said, intends to try his hand at fi , tiering on Wall-street. Ex-Governor Samuel Din' Leh. of Now Hampshire, died at Keene, in that State, iu 23, aged 70.-Mr. Kingsley, of Yale College, newt at Spain, narrowly escaped being shot by an insurgen`o, Cadiz.-The Hon. Samuel Titcomb is the tnna diate for Mayor of Augusta, Maine.-Mr E. M. C. Greco, Pension Agent, at Philadelphia, has tendered his tion. General Itnboden sets forth in a letter the 1311. a. vantages of Virginia as a field for emigration. rfhis munication is one of great interest, and he fully prey" of case. -The Boston Journal says that one of the last se the President Johnson was gramting a pardon toJ.D.Marti°',,tr• defaulting cashior of the National Hide and Leather De, Mr W. D. Todd, who acted as clerk to Mr. Coltoc `v ere' of the House, has been appointed private siret'ofg tary to the Vice-President. James Brooks of Ne'w ,lid is the oldest, arid C. C. Bowen of South Carolina 'sfro.. to be the handsomest and youngest Congressnlan'cooate sident D. D. F. Farnsworth of the West Virginia of has been inaugurated Governor of that State in Pirnited Governor Borman, resigned to take his seat in the .11-0 of States Senate. Dr. F. Hall, a well-known Physici Rochester, New York, Las died suddenly. Afile At the studio of Mr. P. F. Connelly, the roue rican sculptor, No. 10, Via Nazionale, Florence, is loth, representing Honour arresting the Triumph of United with reference to those who fell in the late war in the olliag States. Death is imagined on the field of battle, rat° big in slaughter, with banner flying and the reins givell With horse, riding in triumph over the dying. The aki,, forth which the difficult subject is grouped Las calla studio. much praise from the visitors to the young artists D'irea Sufficient evidence is thought to have tr3nsPaiost to warrant the Grand Jury in finding an indictment o. James Logan, No. 2, for the murder of Mr. Itogerst.b, nth° ther testimony has been given by Martha Elswer oinahas hitherto been too ill to be brought up for et.t3 vrition, and this, it is believed, will fix the guilt o ,watltyla a soner. A dreadful murder was perpetrated in n , Sixty-sixth-street, on the morning of the 7tu• - Galvalahan was there found dead, and John Hilbert, a riot of scavenger, was arrested for the murder. The Italie°. his hovel presented every trace of the desperate Ai' which his mistress had been deprived of her lifeliti-_,Oll,