The Sun. — 1869-04-28 (London, England)

BUDGET OF PERSONAL.-_IEBS Kellogg receives, it is said, £5O a night, which some papers appear to think a large sum, but which we do not, considering her talents —General Simon Bolivar Buckner has gone into the life assurance agency business at New Orleans. —Anna Dickinson is lecturing in Kansas, the favourite ground for Woman's Rights' Women.—A subscription is being taken in Kentucky to buy John C. Breckenridge a residence at Lexington; the rebel generals certainly require houses more than their conquerors, who get Executive mansions andquarter themselves generally on the country. The Hon. Luther Dixon was re-elected Chief Justice of Wisconsin on Monday, April s.—Gao. F. Nesbitt, the wellknown printer and publisher, died April 6, at his residence in Lexington Avenue, New York.—The law which kept Alexander T. Stewart out of the Treasury Department is said to have been written by Alex. Hamilton.—Ambrose Monell, son of Judge Monell of the Superior Court, was 3d April, on motion of Commissioner Owen, admitted to practise in all the degrees in the U.S. Circuit and District Courts. —Brigadier General Burton, commanding at Fort Adams, New York, died on Sunday, April 4, aged 51.—A cutlery firm at Sheffield, England, have sent ex-Secretary Seward an elegant penknife with a star for each State of the Union set in gold upon the ivory handle.—A wealthy San Francisco Chinaman has becOme a Fenian. His countrymen say he is insane and have locked him up.— Ossian E. Dodge has been elected secretary of the St. Paul, Minnesota, Chamber of Commerce. By the recent death of James Harper the partnership of the great publishing house is dissolved, and the rule abrogated which prevents the entrance into the firm of any of the partner's children. They who are :now salaried clerks will probably be readmitted and the firm reconstructed.—Spangle and Arnold the Lincoln conspirators, reached Baltimore on Tuesday from the Dry Tortugas.—John B. Felton, brother of the late President. Felton of Harvard College, and a leading San Francisco lawyer, has been chosen Mayor of Oakland, the suburb city of San Francisco.--William P. P. Longfellow, a nephew of Henry W. Longfellow, will soon be offered the place of Assiiting Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, a position for which he is admirably qualified.—The funeral of Grenville Winthrop, a New York banker, whose death occurred recently in the south of France, took place at Trinity Church on the 9th inst., the Revs. Messrs. Vinton, Ogilbie, and Soabury officiating. —The German actress, Madame Olga Von Plittendorff, committed suicide at San Francisco, April 7.—Mr T. G. Appleton, of Boston, while in ROMP, purchased Cardinal -Tosti's collection of engravings, 10,000 in number, and has presented them to the Boston Public Library,—Ez-Secretary Stanton is extremely ill, and has recently received church baptism —Mrs. Dr. Mary Walker, after several applications for offica, has received an answer from President Grant that she might have an interview when dressed as becomes her sax.--.Theibursting of a steam pipe of the lumen steamer City of New York, at New York, April 3, killed ono man and injnred three others, all of them employds on the steamer.—Mr. Cox, the Commissioner of Pensions, has been asked to resign, and it is likely that either Mr. Perham, of Maine, or Mr. Van Aernan, of Now York, will succeed.—The gift of Mrs. Eliza Sutton to the Peabody Institute, in Peabody, of a $20,000 fund in memory of her son, to be used in buying a reference library, is about to be put to its destined use. The room for this library, fitted up by Mrs. Sutton at a cost of $13,000, has just been completed.—The effort of the counsel to obtain a new trial for Charles Steadman and Harry Jennings, convicted at Boston of the Godding robbery; was overruled by Judge Lord, and they were sentenced to four yeare imprisonment in the State prison.-_ W. Tkilakson, of gootoat walla of Wblioaargo„