The Sun.
London, England, 1870-02-25 00:00:00

the House.—Abel R. Corbin' threatens to prosecute Fisk
for libel.—The will of Edwin M. Stanton, written on one
page of letter paper, was admitted to probate in Washing-
ton, on Saturday, Jan. 29. He bequeaths two-thirds of
his property, chargeable with payment of two-thirds of his
debts, to his wife; and the remaining third, chargeable with
one-third of the dlebts, to his mother, the surplus, at her
death, to be divided among his three youngest children.
The Kansas Senate has passed a resolution asking for the
recall of Hugh Ewing, the Americen Minister to the
Hague, on the ground that he is not a resident of Kansas,
was a supporter of Andrew Johnson.—Nathan Matthews
returns the largest income in Boston, $730,000. He is a
real estate speculator. -The successful revolutionary party
in Hayti have offered $5,000 for General Tate's head, Sal-
nave's Minister in Washington.—A memorial chapel to
Stonewall Jackson is to be erected at the Lexington (Vir-
ginia) Military Institute.-- Governor Wat,hburne is lying
dangerously ill at Woodstock, Vt., and there is little
hope of his recovery.—Mark Twain has been married to
Miss Olivia Langdou.—General Ames has change d his
mind about resigning his commission in the Army, and
hopes so to arrange matters that ho can suspend it,
while taking his seat as Senator from Mississippi.—
Mr. John Blight's health has benefited from the change
of air to Norwood.—A denpatch from Key West to New
Orleans, says Castanon, of the •' Voz de Cuba," was shot
dead after having slapped one of his adversaries in the
face.

POLITICAL—A telegram from General Alfred H.
Terry to Adjutant-General Townsend states that the
'3eorgia House of Representatives was organised January
26th, by the election of M'Whorter, Republican, as Speaker.
Three members were excluded as. ineligible, and eleven of
those whose cases were inquired into were declared eli-
gible. Sixteen, who had refused to take the required oath,
were declared to have become ineligible by their refusal.
General Terry says that, after a careful examination of
the Act of December 22, 1869, he had decided that he was
not authorised to give the vacant seats to the candidates
having the next highest number of votes. A resolution
was agreed to Jan. 31st in the U.S. Senate, instructing
the Committee of Reconstruction to inquire and report
whether further legislation is necessary on the subject of
the organisation of a Provisional Legislature in Georgia.
General Canby, Jan. 28, issued an order turning over the
administration of affairs in Virginia to the civil authori-
ties. Tho Legislature of South Carolina elected J.J.Wright,
coloured, through the Democratic vote, Associate Justice
of the State Supreme Court. The election was regarded
as an acceptance of Republican doctrines by the Demo-
crats, though it might have been dictated by very different
motives, but it was most likely a bid for the Negro vote.
The New Jersey Assembly, on the Ist inst., rejected the
Fif eenth Amendment by a vote of 32 to 27. Leon Abbott,
Speaker of the House, spoke for an hour and a half against
its adoption.
JOURNALISH.—Among the novelties, is the ap-
pearance in London of a new daily, not a newspaper, but
an index to all the metropolitan pipe's and magazines. It
does for the Times and other principal journals what the
Times Index did for the Times alone ; and we can see no
reason why the Telegraph, Daily News, Stanctird, and
Pall Alan should not have their contents classified and
arranged for ready reference as well as the Times The
News List and Index is published at two o'clock every
afternoon, and sold for one peony, and ought not only to
be taken, but filed by every club, library, reading-room
and in all places to which men resort to obtain any spe-
cial information, for it cannot fail to save that most weari-
some of all work, weding through ponderous files of
newspapers to get at some special article. The Brooklyn
Union has passed into the hands of Mr. H. C. Bowen,
proprietor of the New Yerk Independent. Its principal
editor is to be ex• Lieutenant Governor Woodford. John
F. Mines, formerly of the Troy Times, will also be on the
staff. In politics it will continue Republican. The Stand-
ard's American correspondent gives some curious infor-
mation extracted from tabular lists about the Now York
press, where there are now published 150 papers. "Of
tLese, 24 are issued daily, 13 in the morning and 11 in the
evening. Three of the daily papers are printed in the
German and two in the French language. Of the 126
weeklies, 18 are printed in German, one in Italian, and
two in Spanish. But there is not one comic paper after
the manner of Punch, the Charivari, and Kladderadatsch,.
The experiment has been often tried, but the countrymen
of Artemus Ward were lacking in appreciation of the fun,
and the poor paper went through the humiliation of being
called a weakly and died. Artemus was himself a contri-
butor to Vanity Fair, the best of half-a-dozen efforts in
this line. Mr. Maverick tells a good story of the Lantern,
a comic paper that blazed a little while and went out under
the charge of John Brougham, the popular actor.
" Brougham one day, on entering a restauran t,found Burton,
a rival comedian, sitting at a table. Burton replied to the
question, ' Have you read the Lantern this week ?' by
saying, 'No, I never read the thing, unless I'm drunk -
unless I'm drunk (repeating in a louder tone)—unless I'm
drunk !' " Brougham immediately rose from the table at
which ho was sitting, advanced, hat in hand, towards
Burton, and making a bow in his grandest manner, ob-
served, "Then, Mr. Burton, I am sure of one constant
reader!" Returning to statistics, however, it may satisfy
A not idle curiosity to know something of the monetary
standing of the New York doilies and weeklies, of which
Mr. Maverick gives us a table. The computation of gross
receipts is made for the nine months erding with the 30th
June, 1869. The Herald's receipts were 1093,071, the
TV arld4 8342,933, the Tribune's $425,267, and the Times'
$344,861. Among the weeklies the receipts of the Ledger
reached $196,638 ; of the New York Weekly and Phunny
.Phellow (the New York Weekly very closely resembles Bow
Bells, and the Phunny Phelloui is made up of coarse comic
engravings that are not funny at all), $372,107; and of
Harper's Weekly and Bazaar (the latter a ladies' fashion
miscellany like the Queen), $332,285.

_ .
OBITUARY.—Wm. Coniston, the President of the
Boston Metropolitan Horse Railroad Company, died 30th
January.—The Hon. Alexander M'Leod died at his late
residence, No. 351, West Twenty. first-street, at 11 p.m.,
Jan. 31. He was a son of the Rev. John M. APLeed, who
officiated for many years as pastor ofA the Twelfth-street
Presbyterian Church, and was born n August, 1832.
Mr. Charles 0. Faxon, formerly political editor of the
I ouisville Courier, died in Clarksville, Tennessee, on the
27th January. He was connected with several Southern
papers during the war; and was editor of the Chat-
tanooga Rebel when that city was captured by the Union
forces. He is said to have wielded a very caustic pen,
and, according to The Louisville Courier Journal, he ranked
next to Prentice as a keen paragraphist. He was a son
of the founder of The Buffalo Express, and a brother of
Henry W. Faxon, who was the author of the famous
"Silver Lake Snake Story," and whose friends claim for
him the authorship of "Beautiful Snow."—William H.
Keith, President of the Pittsburg Gas Coal Company, died
on Friday, Jan. 28, at Cleveland, from injuries received
two days previous from a runaway.
BUDGET OF MISCELLANEOUS.--All Act has passed
the Legislature, and been approved by the Governor t f
Tennessee, granting aid to the Mediterranean and Cliental
Steam. Navigation Company of New York. The measure
is intended to promote the immigration of labourers from
Southern Europe.—A reformed thief, on being discharged
from the gaol of Keokuk, took along with him the gaoler's
revolver.—The fashionable Chinese restaurant in San
Francisco is the " Canton Chow Chow 'long."- A
St. Louis husband seeks a divorce because his wife
keeps too many fast days, and almost starves him.—
A South Carolina paper declares that a young man who
lost his wife one week, married another while friends were
making preparations for the funeral, and with his bride
followed the remains sorrowfully to the grave.—Twelve
thousand pupils attend private schools in New York city.
'treasure shipped from San Francisco overland to New
York, for the week ending Jan. 29, amounted to $160,000.
—The Pa eitic mail steamship America sailed from San
Francisco, Feb. 1, for Hongkong, via Yokohama, with
$636,000 in treasure, and 500 passengers. Of the treasure
gt;420,U00 are for Hongkong, $200,000 for Yokohama,
$12,000 for Shanghai, and $4,000 for Iliego.--Two medals,
connected by a gold chain, were picked up by a farmer
while building a fence at Lawrence, Kansas, the other
day. One was stamped with the British coat of arms and
a bust of George 111., while the other has the inscrip-
tion:-"`Second Presidency of George Washington,
MDCOXCVI." Five hundred dollars has been offered
for the medals. The results of the direct tea trade to
Chicago ria San Francisco are said to have been very
satisfactory. During the month of Dec. 5:1,363 pounds
of tea were shipped east from San Francisco, most of
which, it is believed, went to Chicago. The ocean freight
to San Francisco by steamer was $3 25 per cwt., and the
railway charges $4 20.—. The Washington Chronicle makes
the stet tliug statement that the agitation of the question
of removing the Capitol "has already cost the people of
Washington not less than $12,500,000 within a year in the
depreciation of real estate."—The Government recently
sold 8,000,000 acres of land in Texas for unpaid taxes,
realizing only $6,000.

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