The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-02 00:00:00

who is very ill, die, in, this way before his rival could,
as Mr. Cooper's term, the successful candidate, only
commences in 1871. Newark, New Sersey, elected a Ito-
publican mayor by 338 majority on Tuesday, Oct. 12, and
the day before Col. John Striven, a Democrat, was elected
mayor of Savannah, with a Democratic board of aldermen,
by about 3,000 majority. The negroos mostly voted with
the Democrats. Boathouses of the Virginia Legislature
ratified the Fourteenth and Fifteenth (Suffrage) Amend-
ments on the Bth inst. Gen. Canby, of Virginia, has ordered
515,000 to be appropriated towards the expenses of the
present session of the Virginia Legislature. The following
elections have been made by the Vermont Legislature :
Senate : Henry Clark of Rutland, Secretary ; M. B. Car-
penter of Barre, Assistant-Secretary ; and the Rev. P. B.
Fisk of Peacham, Chaplain. House : G. W. Grandey,
Speaker; D. M. Cramp of Newport, Clerk; and the Rev.
R. 11. Morgan of Northfield, Chaplain. The Chairman of
the Republican State Committee estimates Governor
Geary's majority in the State at upwards of 4,000. The
Chairman of the Ohio Republican Committee - has tele-
graphed the President that the Republican State ticket in
Ohio is elected by 10,000 majority, and that the Republicans
have ono majority in the Senate and three in tho House.
The latest returns from lowa indicate that the Republican
majority in that State will exceed 35,000. The Legisla-
ture will probably stand 42 Republicans to 8 Democrats,
and the House 85 Republicans to 16 Democrats.

BUDGET OF PERSONAL.--Sir Henry Holland has
returned to Europe.— Vice-President Colfax, at Salt Lake,
refused to accept a public reception tendered bim by the
Mot mon authorities.—Ex -Congressman Spaulding is writ-
ing a history of greenbacks.—John C. Breckinridge fiefs
as a Kentucky delegate to the Louisville Convention.—
Harry Placide, the veteran actor, says that the happiest
period of his life was that spent in a debtor's prison
at Ilalifax, when he was only nineteen years old.—
'Pile Nero Forte• Herald tells. us how the irrepressible
James Fisk, junior, began life as a menagerie entp/o.ye, and
served a long time in " stirring up the animals."—
Louia lluhlbach, the novelist, was lately asked to write
an American historical novel on the subject of Aaron

Burr. She replied that she had never bef re heard of the
gentleman.—The health of Admiral Farrigut, who has
been very ill. at Chic•lgo, was improving, with a prospect
of his being able to go out in a few days, but we fear
that later accounts contradict this news.-Major-General
John S. Lafferty, editor of the Lexlngton Gazette,-has been
appointed Superintendent of the Typographical and Ste-
nography Department of Washington College at Lexing-
ton.- Dr. Theo.]. R. Varrick has been appointed Surgeon-
General of New Jersey, ranking as Brigadier-General.—
Major M'Comber, U.S.A., was accidentally killed at Junc-
tion City recently.—Captain J. 11. Gallagher, a promineut
member of the Mompkis Boat Club, was drowned on the
evening of the 9th, by a shell boat colliding with a cual
barge•—Mr. John Ritchie and wife were thrown from a
buggy at New Market, Canada, on Monday, Oct. 11.

Ritchie was instantly killed, and his wife was seriously
injured ; and on the same day, in San Francisco, a man,
named Knettle, killed a girl who had refused to marry
him, and then shot himUlf, inflicting a probably fatal
wound.—General Adam Badeau has returned to New
York from Washington, and registered at the Metropolitan
Hotel.—Mosby, the guerrilla chief, has challenged Col.
Boyd, sheriff of Fauquier county, Virginia, to mortal com-
bat. Colonel Boyd was formerly a United States army
officer. Against him Mosby entertains a bitter hatred.
His Excellency the Hon. Anson Burlingame and the
Chinese Embassy have been cordially received at the Courts
of Sweden and Denmark, and left last Monday for the
Netherlands.-• The will of the late Senator Fessenden has
been admitted to probate. The bulk of property is to be
divided between his three sons, who are also named as
executors.—There is no American ex-President, elected
to that ofile:i by the people, now living.—General Itl'Clel-
lan is in Washington, with his family, and it is said will
spend the most of the winter in that city.—Udolpho Wolfe,
the late schnapps man, left s3oo,ooo.—Carl Rosa is going
to naturalize.—Governor Fairchild, of Wisconsin, prac-
tises total abstinence.—Professor Chadbourne has con-
sented to retain the Presidency of the Wisconsin State
University.—Mrs. Gen. Pillow died of apoplexy while eat-
ing her dinner, at her home in Tennessee, the other day.
—W. Windom, late of the House,professes to have the " in-
side track" for the United States Senatorship in Minnesota.
—Jefferson Davis was a passenger on the steamer for New
Orleans from Baltimore, Oct. 15, so he did not travel, as
expected, via Washington.—The Hon. Charles Sumner
delivered an address on the question of caste, at Augusta,
Ale„ Oct. 15, to a large audience.—John P. Knowles, of
Providence, has been appointed Judge of the United States
District Court for Rhode Island District.—The Rev. Win.
Marvin Jones, of Trinity Parish, has been elected Finan-
cial Agent of the General Protestant Episcopal Sunday
School Union and Church Book Society, New York.—
Bishop O'Connor of California, Bishop Martin of Louisi-
ana, Bishop de Goesbriand of Vermont, Bishop Gurgues of
Ottawa, Canada, Bishop Tache of Red River, the Very
Rev. M. Poiret Quebec, the Rev. M. Valois, Montreal, the
Very Rev. M. Chapolard, Texas, the Rev. M. Cloareo,
Burlington, Vt., and the Rev. M. Duhamel, Ottawa, have
arrived in Europe to attend the (Ecumenical Council.—
A Canadian despatch says the Emperor Napoleon will pay
the expenses of the French Bishops of Quebec in going to
and returning from the (Ecumencial Couneil.—D.S.Curtis,
the nose-pulling aristocrat now in gaol at Boston, is treated
like other prisoners of less consequence. He is allowed to
see his family once a week, and employs his leisure hours
in amateur mechanics and ornamental white-washing.
Senator Sumner has appointed a son of Dr. 0. W. Holmes
his private secretary:—Ex-President Pierce's estate is
estimated at $lOO,OOO, the bulk of which will probably
go to a nephew who is being educated at Princetown Col-
, lege, at the expense of the late President. Graceful tributes
to his memory were delivered in the United States
Supreme Court by the Chief Justice and Attorney-General
Hoar.—Hon. Fernando Wood is contracting for a complete
outfit of Parisian furniture for his new residence in Washing-
ton.—Rev. J. Kimball has resigned the superintendency
of the Educational work of the Freedman's Bureau for the
Northern tier of Slave States, and Major D. G. Swain suc-
ceeds him.—Alexander Simpson, President of the Board
of Return Judges at Philadelphia, on leaving that body,
Thursday night, Oct. 14, was assaulted by roughs and
beaten in a shocking manner. It is said his life is despaired
of. Mr. Simpson is a prominent Republican leader.—On
the way from Los Angeles to San Francisco, ex-Secretary
Seward, according to the New York Tribune, was robbed
of his trowsers.—A Canadian young lady who had a good
look at Prince Arthur remarked in his hearing, " He's
better looking than the Prince of Wales, and more of a
man. wonder who he is going to marry ?" The Prince
smiled and blushed like a girl.—Gen. Butler was inter-
viewed by a Milwaukee reporter with the following result
—" I don't know anything. The papers have told more
about me than I know myself. D—n the papers anyway,
and doubly d—n these interviewing reporters. If God ever
made a nuisance, they constitute one. 1 mean nothing
personal, but you may make it so if you wish. I have not
a word to say about politics, the state of the country, or
finances now. 1 did not come out here for any such pur-
pose." An English Archdeacon has expressed himself in
the same style without swearing about newspapers, but he
had not the provocation of being interviewed.—Dr.
Isaac I. Hayes, explorer, and William Bradford, artist,
arrived at Boston, Friday, Oct. 8, from their summer's
Arctic excursion trip. They breught over 400 excellent
photographs of iceberg scenery.--A party of Bostonians,
including ex-Governor Clifford, Sidney Bartlett, George
B. Upton, and others, left, Tuesday, October 12, for their
annual hunt on the island of Naushon.—A son of Governor
Claflin, a bright lad of six years, is seriously ill of typhoid
fever.—Mr. Roebuck has made a speech at Dewsbury,
when he recommended working-men to become gentlemen,
making him their model, and, at the same time, he said a
good word for his wife and daughter.

During the past few days a number of additional
hands have been taken on in the Laboratory De-
partment, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, to assist iu
executing an order for a quantity of the new bot-
tle-shaped cartridge, invented by Col. Boxer, of
the Royal Arsenal.
BREAKFAST.—EPPS'S COCOA.—GRATEFUL AND Cox-
FORTING.—The very agreeable character of this prepara-
tion has rendered it a general favourite. The Civil Service
Gazette remarks : —" The singular success which Mr. Epps
attained by his homceopathic preparation of cocoa has
uover been surpassed by any experimentalist. By a
thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the
operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful ap-
plication of the fine properties of well selected cocoa, Mr.
Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately
flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doc-
tors' bills." Made simply with boiling water or milk.
Sold only in tin-lined packets, labelled JAMES Errs and
Co., Homoeopathic Chemists, London.