The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-30 00:00:00

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mont for their labor, while it is impossible for any other
contractors to secure their services at all.

During the war 329,000 rebel prisoners were cap-
turod. The number of Union prisoners captured was
157,000.

The floating debt of the War Department is stated
at 8300,0007000. .

Great gold discoveries have recently.been made
in Victoria, Oregon.

A large quantity of rebel money has recently been
captured in North Carolina.

During the war, while the Americans at Honolulu,
Sandwich Islands, were anxiously looking out for news
from the United States, a large clipper arrived from Said
Francisco, and on being boarded by the news boat, the
only reply of the captain was, "'That there was a great
row in the United States, but he didn't learn the par-
ticulars."

In eight counties of California, including San
Francisco and Sacramento, there are 2,886 colored resi-
dents, who own property valued at $1,165,985.
Twenty thousand eight hundred and seventy
immigrants were landed at New York during the month
of November, this year, of whoni thirteen thousand one
hundred and seventy-nine were Germans. From January
1 to November 30, of this year, one hundred and eighty-
eight thousand two hundred and four immigrants altoge-
ther arrived in New York, seventy-two thousand nine
hundred and ninety-six of them being Germans.
Recent New Orleans papers represent busin'ess
in a flourishing condition. improvements were being
pushed ahead in all directions. Houses were being
built, renovated, and repaired throughout the city.
Wharves were being erected at all the river landings, and
at no time has a greater number of first-class steamers,
both from the ocean and rivers, been lying in the stream
and at the levees.

The authorities of the Catholic Church are very
explicit in their ~onclmrnittionr-jaf the Yenans. Bishop

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Daggon, of Chicago, has instructed the clergy to refus'e
Christian burial to such of them as die in membership with
that society.

The New York Times has been enlarged to the
size of the London Times, and is now the largest daily
paper in the United States. Thurlow Weed has become
one of the editors, and his political experience and saga-
city will be of much value to the paper, which is edited
with ability and discretion. The other metropolitan
papers now look small besides the Times, and they will
not be easy till they have expanded to the same dimen-
sions, which is an expensive operation at the present high
prices of paper. _ _

- The Supreme Court of New York is considering
a singularly complicated divorce case. Some time ago,
John L. Phelps was divorced from his wife on the ground
of adultery with Armand F. Peugnet, vice-consul of
France at Cincinnati. Afterwards the lady broke off her
acquaintance with Peugnet, and was re-married to Phelps
on promise of good behavior. Again Peugnet seduced
and drew her away, and again Mr. Phelps obtained a
divorce. Peugnet then married her, but now demands a
legal separation, on the ground that the marriage was of
no validity in law. Mrs. Phelps-Peugnet must be rather
perplexed as to her identity by this times
Rev. Dr. Barnes, a Methodist clergyman, 80
years old, was recently arrested at Philadelphia for mar-
rying a couple who were under age. While the jury were
out, deciding how to dispose of him, the old man died from
a sudden attack of vertigo. _

A sweet nut for the gossips : Anna Dickinson
is soon to be married to a New York journalist and
and widower, to whom she has been privately engaged
for four years. He encouraged her in her oratorical aspi-
rations, and to him she ascribes all her success.

At New York, the prices of butchers' meat, ex-
cept pork, are about 25 per cent. higher than last year at
this time. Pork is ten per cent. lower. Poultry is gene-
rally lower ; butter is five to ten per cent. a pound less ;
fish ara somewhat cheaper, and potatoes and cabbages are
twenty-five per cent. lower.
Fully 25,000 bales of cotton have been stolen
from the Government in Tennessee and Mississippi.
_ _ .

A proposition for shortening the Mississippi river
some 1,200 miles by means of dams and canals has been
laid before the Governor of Mississippi.

Fine specimens of gold have been found among
the borings of several oil wells in the Dunkard Creek (Pa.)

regions.
The Tennessee House of Representatives have
tabled the bill allowing negro testimony in the courts, by
a vote of 30 to 27.

It is said the Mississippi rebels threaten to make
raids upon the Unionists of Southern Tennessee. Gov.
Brownlow has been called upon to protect his people.
A Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian deputatton
is on the way to Washington.