The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-17 00:00:00

AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
ELECTION .NEWS.—The Governor of lowa, de-
clines to appoint a successor to Senator Grimes, as the
Legislature was to meet last Monday. The three most
likely candidates are Representative Allison, Judge Wright
and Governor Merrill. The election took place last
Tuesday. The contest, it is thought, will be so close
that a new man will have to be chosen. General Amos
has ordered the Legislature of Mississippi to meet on
January 11th. The newly-elected States officers are ap-
pointed provisionally until their installation. General
James L. Alcorn hasAeclined the position of provisional
Governor, tendered to him by General Ames for the time
intervening between this and the day of his inauguration,
as Governor by authority of his election by tie people.
Speaking of Alcorn's competitor, General Grant, his
brother-in-law, says Louis Dent "is a carp t-bagger,
pure and simple ; ho does not live in Mississippi. Ile
claimed to live in Missouri, but he really belongs to
Washington city. He is a carpet-bagger in the worst
political sense, and I shall have an interest in seeing hint
defeated."

BUDGET OF PERSONAL.—Nathaniel Brown Lee
received the Republican nomination for Mayor of Salem--
Brevet Brigadier-General Adam Badettu, late Assistant
Secretary of Legation in London, who returned to Ame-
rica several weeks ago, has been assigned to duty in
Washington by order of the President.—Mr. A. T. Stew-
art is said to bo negotiating for a water front in Green-
point with a view to establishing a ferry landing and rail-
road terminus in connection with hin projected railroad to
Hempstead Plains.—A well-dressed Chippewa gentleman.
Mr. Vash Kong, tho chief of the Mille Lac baud, called
not long ago at the St. Cloud land office for the pur-
pose of purchasing an addition to his homestead.—Al-
derman Dakin, of London, President W. K. Muir, Gene-
ral Superintend,nt Brackstone Baker and Amilius Irving,
Directors of the Great Western Railway of Canada,
have arrived at New York, and ate stopping at the Bre-
voort House.--Mr. Peabody's expenses for the last ten
years did not average $3,000 per annum.—A member of
the Russo-American telegraph expedition says he found
a picture of Major-General Dix, cut from a New York
pictorial newspaper, in the hut of a Kanak. General Dix
was represented dressed in full uniform, and was wor-
shipped as a saint by the happy Kanak. -Ex-President
Fillmore has ordered a Scotch granite family monument.
—The battlefield of Chancellorsville has been bought by a
Baltimore gentleman for 88,200.- General Hiram Wal-
bridge, of New York, it is said, intends making Rich-
mond his future home.—B. F. Reinhart, of New York, an
artist well known in London art circles, has recently
painted two remarkable heads, Helen of Troy and As-
pasia.—David Joseph, a merchant of Cincinnati, has been
taken to New York, on a requisition from Governor Hoff-
mann, he being charged with procuring 660,000 worth of
dry goods from Claffin and Co. by false representations.--
Ex-Minister Hale will, we believe, return to America next
July.—Lyttia Thompson is in New Orleans, Susan Galton
is in Charleston, and Edwin Forrest is in Indiana-
polis.—Mr. Bergh has brought a man before the /seW
York courts for skinning a dog alive.—Senator Pratt, of
Indiana, walked nearly all the way from Maine to the
West, in 1832.—The lion. George W. Julian, M.C. from
indiana, has a cerebral affection, and cannot sleep.—The
Hon. R. B. Rift's advice to the people of Georgia is, "Do
nothing, say nothing."—Fechter, the tragedian, arrived at
New York in the steamship Blaine, December 31, and is
at the Westminster Hotel. Last Monday he made a most,
successful debut at Niblo's in the drama of Riiy Bias.
—The lion. Horatio Seymour had his shoulder dis-
located by being thrown from. his carriage at Utica,
New York, on the 29th December. That gentleman
speaks in the highest terms of the cheese-producing capa-
city of his State, and anticipates its erection into a large
and remunerative industry.—Generals Banks and Burn-
side were expected.back in America almost immediately.--
Mr. Seward and party left Mexico ou the 15th Dec., and
arrived at Puebla ou the 18th. On the 19th they were at
Tlascala, visiting the historic remains for which that place
is celebrated. On the 21st they were to visit the tnonu-
rnents of Cholula. They go next to Orizaba, where they
would arrive on the 23d. Minister Nelson accompanies
the party on the excursion.—Mr. Seward was to sail front
Vern Cruz for Havana, January 2.—lt is said that Mrs.
Rose Eytings Butler, who married the nephew of General
Butler the other day, will return to the stage. We thought
the lady and her husband, who had been appointed Consul-
General at Calcutta, were on their way to that city. -- Mr.
Daniel G. Major, United States astronomer and surveyor
of the boundary between California and Oregon, has ar-
rived in Washington with his report of this important sur-
vey.—Ernest Longfellow, a son of the poet, has adopted
the profession of portrait painting, and opened his studio in
Boston.—Gen. Sutton has lived in but one house, yet at
different Hines has been a resident of Salem, Danvers,
South Danvers, and Peabody.—Mrs. Robert Colt of Pitts-
field, and her daughters, Mary and Margaret. accompanied
by her brother, Captain Lewis of Westfield, sailed for
Santa Cruz, last week, where they are to spend the winter.--
Luke Bemis, formerly of Chicopee, has been appointed as-
sistant appraiser at the Boston Custom-house. For some
months past he has been superintending the manufacture of
the paper for Government use in greenbacks and currency
in Pennsylvania.—Mr. Lorillard, captain and owner of the
late Aincrican schooner yacht Meteor, wrecked off Cape
Bon, returned to Malta with the crew of that vessel on
Sunday, Jan. 2, in the screw steamer Lancefield.—The
Berlin University will shortly confer the title of LL.D.
on several distinguished American statesmen. —natter
Hyacinthe brought to the United States but 2,000 francg,
which were quickly gone. The Fifth Avenue Hotel gave
him a home without charge, and the French Benevolent
Society paid his passage to Europe.—The personal friends
of the late Mr. Stanton had resolved to place $lOO,OOO to
the credit of his family by New Year's-day.—Ex-Sub'
Treasurer Cisco was married at Trinity Chapel, NeW
York, Dec. 23. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr.
Dix.—The steamship China arrived at San Francisco Dee'
26, with advices from Hong Kong to Nov. 19 and Yoko-
hama Dec. 2. She brought a heavy freight and a number
of passengers, including 520 Chinese and Japanese,
and General Van Valkeuburg and suite, late United
States Minister to Japan ; also the following United States
officers: C. W. Cushing, W. F. Thomas, L. Russell, T.
J, Ilanscne, W. T. Arthur, and forty others. For Se''
York—Mrs M. G. Holmes and two children, H. Gelpilith
B. Wagner, Rev. J. B. Morere. For Europe-LBaron Van
Barsent, E. Witherbob, and John Paul.— The reappear'
ance at Peking of Brown, Chief Secretary of the Burlite
game mission, created considerable astonishment.—Bisholl
Kingsley, of the American Methodist Episcopal Church,
left Peking on October 24, making an official visit to the
mission stations of his Church in China, and was to leave
Hong Kong about December 1, for America, via India and
Europe.—The new American Minister to Japan was pre'
rented to the Mikado on November 18.—It is rumoured
that the Rev. Dr. Osgood, the eminent Unitarian clergy'
gyman, has entered the Episcopal Church, and will at
an early day apply for orders. The fact is now made pub-
lic in one of the New York evening papers. It is also
stated that the reverend gentleman, previous to his de-
parture for Europe, retired from the Church of the Messiah
with this end avowedly in view.—The American Consul
at Naples, Mr. B. 0. Duncan, has been voted into the
post of Vice-President of the British and American Hospi-
tal. Mr. Rogers is a leading member of the committee.-
A controversy has been going on as to who the man is,
standing in the same relation to the Pacific Railway ill
which Cyrus W. Field stands to the Atlantic Cable. Mr'
Wilkes claims the honour in the Spirit of the Times ; Geo.
Francis Train has often claimed it eveu in our columns;
but Thomas C. Durant is said to be the tnan.--•
It is not yet settled whether Davis has been successful in
his candidature of the Governorship of Texas, but he
believed to be 500 ahead.

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