The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-27 00:00:00

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Va., and the ex-editor will make his final appeal to
dent Johnson. General Pope has superseded Mayor Slors
as Mayor of Tuscumbia, Ala., by Mr. Lemuel S. Cock-
burn. Mr. Slors was elected by two-thirds of the vote,
white and black alike, and no reason is given for his dis-
placement, but his service in the rebel army is presumed
to be the reason. Col. C. C. Sibley, commanding in Georgia,
has prohibited labour in chain gangs as a punishment of cri-
minals, except in the case of those sentenced to the
penitentiary. Colonel Sibley alleges that the authori-
ties have abused their power to inflict such punishment.
General Sheridan has appointed as a new levee board for
the State of Louisiana, in place of the one removed by
hiin
Effingham Lawrence of the parish of Plaquemine, J.
Oglesby of the parish of New Orleans, J. Burnside of
Ascension, AV. D. Smith of Jefferson, W. L. McMillen of
Carroll. But the most notable of recent instances of the
exercise of the military power is by General Ord, who 110
forbidden the re-assembling of the Legislature of Arkansas
at the time fixed, and in accordance with his orders
Governor Murphy has proclaimed the Legislature dis"

solved.
We extract the following item from the Round
Table :—" Mr. Edward H. Hall, to whose movements en
the Pacific coast we have of late had several occasions to
allude, as the result of his recent tour, has revised and en-
larged his guide-book of The Great West,' designed for
the use of travellers, miners, and emigrants in the North-
Western and Pacific States and territories. It will be
published at the beginning of June by Messrs. D. Apple-
ton and Co., who will also issue within a fortnight the
ninth annual edition of Mr. Hand-Book of Ameri-
can Travel' throughout the United States and British
Provinces."
Mr. Melancthon M. Hurd, of the firm of Hurd
and Houghton, sailed last week for England on a tour, Wn
understand, among English publishers and authors.
Mr. John Codman, of Boston, is about to publish
a volume of travels, entitled " Ten Months in Brazil."
Mr. Samuel Burnham, of Boston, has written,
for private distribution only, a memoir of Dr. E. K. San-
born, formerly professor in the Medical Institution a
Pittsfield and in the Vermont Medical College.
The Rev. M. A. De Wolfe Howe, D.D., is 1.01-
gaged upon a memoir of the late Bishop Alonzo Potter,
of Pennsylvania.
Professor F. V. Hayden, of the University of
Pennsylvania, has been appointed to make the geological
and mineralogical survey of Nebraska, ordered by Con-
gress. Exploration for coal beds will be a leading object.
The new Turkish Minister Blacque Effendi is ex'
pected soon at Washington, with his wife, and is expected
to live in groat state, the Sultan having provided plent!
of money for that purpose, in order to dazzle and capti-
vate the Yankees. Blacque is a Frenchman, and his wile
is a daughter of the late Dr. Mott of New York.
Speaker Colfax is about to leave lecturing alto-
gother and 250 invitations unaccepted.
Senator. Doolittle will soon sail for Europe. Ile
intends to visit Russia, it is said, to transact some business
for the State Department. Probably his mission has re-
ference to Russian-America.
Roberts, the Fenian President, will, it is thought,
proceed to Europe. At a lecture on Thursday, the 9th, be
spoke on the text, "Ths Freedom of Ireland Indispensable
to Universal Liberty."
Harriet Beecher Stowe is back from Florida, at
her home at Hartford.
E. Sexton, of Monson, has invented a gang plosvi
simple in operation, but cutting a wide swath. It carries
three plows at once, and can be used also as double culti-
vator.
\\re extract the following from our young COw
temporary Echoes qf the Clubs :—" American marriage°
seem to be the order of the day. Mr. lloraca Rusabold.,
her Majesty's First Secretary of Legation at Berne, 11
about to marry a daughter of Mr. Harrington, -Unite
States' Minister in Switzerland. Mr. John Adair is shora
to marry Miss Montgomery Ritchie, daughter of the late
Federal General Wadsworth, whose sister also married ',u4
Englishman, Sir Charles Murray, now her Majesty,,
Minister at Copenhagen. Mr. Henry Howard, son of tm's"
British Minister at Munich, marries Miss Cecilia Biggs'
daughter of a well-known banker at Washington,
which capital Mr. Howard is attached."
Mr. Cummings has decided on resigning tl3
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governorship of Colorado, and on accepting the °Men
Assessor of Taxes in Pennsylvania. Mr. Hunt, a Demo-
crat, will probably succeed to the governorship of the
territory.
The Springfield Republican says Lieut.-Colonel
Conger, who delivered the contents of Booth's pockets
Secretary Stanton, says that the missing loaves of 130oth:
diary were torn out by Booth while at Dr. Mudd's hens
Sic transit gloria Butlaris.
Mrs. Rutter, wife of Rev. E. W. Hatter, °I
Philadelphia, has been appointed by Governor Geary
aminer and Inspector of Soldiers' Orphan Schools undo'
,he new law.