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

BUDGET OF PERSONAL ITEMS.—(general A. j; Hamilton is a candidate for Governor of Texas.—AT°ll the arrivals at Washington to witness the inauguration ° the President was his son, from Harvard UniversitY.-Ex-Governor Henry A. S wilt, of Minnesota, died onThurs.' day, Feb. 25, at St. Paul. -Dr. Thomas E. Wilson CO mitted suicide, in Louisville, on the 25th Feb.—Pr°felst°l,Louis Agassiz has been re-appointed agent of the S" sonian Institution by a Senate joint resolution. —ll'-'rn3,:e Wyard claims $125,818 for steel guns supplied to Navy Department in 1811, and a bill to pay being preseece by Mr. Scherde, from the joint Cotarn'ttee on Ordnaececi was passed by the House. Senator Sumner has reeeiven,, a letter from the Right Hon. John Bright, asking bi 6 fluence to wards the settlement of outsta a din g -J. with England, to which he sent a cordial response. H. Hatch, Republican, was elected Mayor of Des ge'iliej lowa, over the Democratic incumbent, by three h"ddreed majority. Secretary Seward's State Depa-tment We° ea $4OO last year for soap.—Henry Ward Beecher earnor $10,006 last year, of which $12,000 was made by Pre3 on iug, and $28,000 otherwise.—Secretary 111'Culloch, his retirement, it is said, intends to try his hand at dusu ciering on Wall-street. Ex-Governor Samuel Dinsra°rbe: of New Hampshire, died at Keene, in that State, F°o 23, aged 70.—Mr. Kingsley, of Yale College, now at Spain, narrowly escaped being shot by an insurgee'qo-.. Cadiz. —The Hon. Samuel Titcomb is the Republican c' diate for Mayor of Augusta, Maine.—Mr E. M. C. Gre„'tlitPensi,a Agent, at Philadelphia, has tendered his ren'b-d.. tion. General Ituboden sets forth in a letter the disc or. vantages of Virginia as a field for emigration. °OS munication is one of great interest, and ho fully proves of case. —The Boston —journal says that one of the last net ,b 0 President Johnson was grautinga pardon toJ.D.Martio, defaulting cashior of the National Hide and Leather jo Mr W. D. Todd, who acted as clerk to Mr. Colfax wucre„ Speaker of the House, has been appointed private 9.,ire oric to to the Vice-President. James Brooks of New said is the oldest, aad C. C. Bowen of South Carolina isgre.. to be the handsomest and youngest Congresatrian'oote silent D. D. F. Farnsworth of the West Virginias 0 of has been inaugurated Governor of that State in PlTiacaitecl Governor Boreman, resigned to take his seat in the van of States Senate. Dr. F. Hall, a well-known physic Rochester, New York, has died suddenly. Acre At the studio of Mr. P. F. Connelly, the roue rican sculptor, No. 10, Via Nazionale, Florence, is avge„tb, representing Honour arresting the Triumph °f United with reference to those who fell in the late war in th States. Death is imagined on the field of battle, rerto big in slaughter, with banner flying and the reins giveniii with horse, riding in triumph over the dying. The skA forth which the difficult subject is grouped has calls Studio. much praise from the visitors to the young artists s' iced Sufficient evidence is thought to have tranlaiust to warrant the Grand Jury in finding an indictment 11/4'hl James Logan, No. 2, for the murder of Mr. gerst.. ther testimony has been given by Martha Els wor namitait has hitherto been too ill to be brought up for ex.. 0 vri, Lion, and this, it is believed, will fix the guilt on tut" it soner. A dreadful murder was perpetrated in s',,,shijaz, Cal" Sixty-sixth-street., on the morning of the 7th. D'otornan lahan was there found dead, and John Hilbert, a orior of scavenger, was arrested for the murder. The into Klein his hovel presented every trace of the desperate str which his mistress had been deprived of her life.