The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-27 00:00:00

Ships at market, 18—sold, 18.

•
Captain Semmes, of Alabama notorietYl
editing a paper in Mobile, from which we extract a VIII
graph :—" We have been beaten in all our contests ``arethe Northern people by want of energy. While 'age
day-dreaming or sleeping they are at work; at work
so many beavers or bees in a hive. If they have 3 rail
road to build they set Energy at work, and it is 1.3,11,,iff
witness the great Pacific railroad, now stretching ;t
like an immense serpent across the Rocky Mountain o'l
work scarcely retarded by the war. They are as enen'etuo
in politics as in political economy. We picked °Pot
Detroit Post the other day, and among other things
energetic worker in the great beehive of ldic,/1;' 0
politics informed us that it was putting out a 0°47 ia
paper,' and that it had received 1,100 subscribers
one day. At the last census (1860) Detroit contail3ceer
population of 45,000, and was therefore a little IttirrPost
than Mobile. The Post is a Republican of the piaci -
stripe. This is the way in which the Republican Na
,b.
ties aro maintained, and even increased in the 14% aS
Every man subscribes to a newspaper and reads; ttlj, f
the newspapers are Republican machines—nine-tentd'
1t
them—run by the giant Energy, do we wonder that
people aro Republicans ? What a pity it is that this g,1,10
does not live among us." There is no doubt of it 't
iri
newspapers are generally Republican machines, but n° so
the narrow, partisan sense in which the ex-sea-rover
it.—Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper.
President Johnson has presented a silver 13:1_.,,e to
a certificate of merit, and one hundred silver dollw
1100-ke-Op, an Indian chieftain of the Blackfoot trinilits
recognition of that savage's gallantry in rescuing W
woman from capitivity amongst the Sioux.

Births.
Gmsox—On the 26th inst., at 6, Milner-street, Is
Mrs. F. R. Gibson, of a daughter. the
HUNTER—On the 25th inst., at 8, Westbourne-Par" ,
wife of R. H. Hunter, Esq., of a son. s°l
v4,ro- A
KITCHING —On the 21st inst., at 156 St. rau.,ja o°-
Canonbury, Mrs. Wm. Kitching, of twins, v. °-
daughter. 13
LECKIE—On the 24th inst., at Palace-road, Strew
the wife of P. C. Leckie, Esq., of a daughter.

Marriages.
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BORRER—FRESIIFIELD—On the 25th inst., at 6-td
church, Brighton, Clifford Br E late ofwel '

- —or Jorrer, Esq.,
Rifles, to Christina Sophia, daughter of C. lire6'
Esq., M.P.
Dowsox—RicH - the 2Gth inst., at Littlebaln-c'i, CO:,{
mouth, Thomas E. H. Dowson, Esq., d
of Greystoßtior
Berland, to Sophia Louisa Jacinth ia, only "
Rear-Admiral Edwin L. Ricb, Exmouth.

Deaths. s, 0001
BURNETT—On the 25th inst. at Westbrcoko HolOe'
Hants, C. M. Burnett, M.D., aged. 60. t'
0 t'
BELL—On the 25th inst., J. T. Betl, Esq., of 23, alcgic
place, Hyde-park-gardens, aged 82. nistct.CONQUEST— On the 24th inst., at Tho Oaks, ,FlT,us , 't"
common, Kent, J. T. Conquest, Esq., M.D., ''''.. .
late of Finsbury-square, aged 77. ~,,,' SA.'
EYKYN—On the 26th inst., Maria, wife of B. s''''''
M.P., of The Willows, Windsor. , f,f1601
GRAHAM—On the 24th inst., at Stonehouse, I).„elVrall'i 11
Fortescue Graham, wife of Lieut.-Gen. Sir x•
K.C.B. gtijor
JENKINS—On the 28th inst., at Gowhatt, in Assf.“l,l'd 74•.,,.
Gen. Jenkins, late Commissioner of Assam, t,.,61".4,y, '.
NEWBOLD On the 23d inst., at The Hardwick, vv.'
Thomas Newbold, aged 49.
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Blideilesez.— Saturday, October 27, 1830.