The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-29 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, Jan. 29.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly ; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

SWANSEA, Jan. 28.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Northumber-
land, for Jamaica.

POILTSMOUTII, Jan. 28.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Royal
Bride, from Rangoon.

NEWPORT, Dec. 26.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Tamussa,
for Valparaiso.

CLYDE, Jan. 27.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—Transit,
from Moulmein.

LIvERPooI, Jan. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Elizabeth
Charlotte, from Pomaron.

YATIMO UTH, Jan. 2G.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Humboldt.,
for New York.

COWES, Jan. 28. —Wind S.W.—Arrived—Henry B.
Wright, from Callao.
PLYMOUTH, Jan. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Witch of
the Seas, from Iquique.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. I
Gravesend, Monday Evening.
Arrived, Jan. 29—Velasques, from Seville.

The commerce of the world is estimated to
require 3,600,000 able-bodied men to be constantly tra-
versing the ocean, of whom 7,500 die every year. The
amount of the property moved on the water is from fifteen
hundred to two thousand millions of dollars, and the
amount annually lost by the casualties of the sea average
twenty-five millions of dollars.

A company has been organised in Richmond
with a capital of $5,000,000, for the purpose of making
loans to Southern planters who need capital to commence
planting.

An effort is being made in Washington to revive
popular interest in the Washington monuments, upon
which no work has been done since 1859. Congress will
be memorialised on the subject, and an appropriation of
$200,000 requested.
The total amount of the United States naval
captures reaches $30,000,000 in value. One-half of this
goes to the Government, and the other is divided among
officers and seamen. The average per man is but $l2O,
whereas, in the matter of bounties to soldiers, the average
has been nearly $l,OOO per man, and about $700,000,000
have been expended iu bounties alone.

The Congressional Committee on Reconstruction
propose to send a special commission South to inquire
into the condition of affairs, with the view of obtaining
proper information.

The Boston Evening Courier says:—"We have
been shown a copy of a new paper, called the Black Re-
publican and Office-holder's Journal.' Pluto Jumbo, is editor
and proprietor, and bears on its motto, " God and the
negro are our only hopo."—H. W. Beecher. The prospec-
tus is set forth in the following notice :—" All dem that
scribes to dis here paper will have a portrait of de editor
thrown in. Day can take it if dey pays in advance. Ticker
attention paid to white advertisements, which am charged
dubble price, and hot corn for sale in de basement. Nossin
to do paper till it had been inspected by the Loyal League."
Contemporaries of the press are cautioned in the following
language against stealing the thunder of the Black Repub-
lican :—" As dis paper am de organ of Wandle Flip,
darfore all de orations ob dat gentleman will pear in dese
columns, and dem dat takes em out and puts em in dar
own paper will be pussecuted cordin to law." An adver-
tisement appears for a boy "to keep flies off de editor's
bell, and a white boy to do de dirty work ob do office."
In the St. Louis Democrat we read:—On the
27th of November a lad, supposed to be about 12 years of
age, of rather dark complexion, came into a rancho about
170 miles east of Denvir City, Colorado. He could speak
very little plain English, but by signs was easily under-
stood, and Lieutenant Sallee, in command of the military
at a neighbouring station, took charge of him, and ascer-
tained that he bad been a captive among the Sioux Indians
ever since he can recollect, and knows nothing of his
parents or his name. He states that the Sioux have two
white women captive now. He made his escape on a pony,
and in his fear of being overtaken rode the pony to death
the first day, and then walked for three days before he
reached the ranche. All that he had to eat in the four
days was a crow that ho found dead and a piece of a dead
ox.

THE WIDOW OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.--The
Washington correspondent of the Morning _Herald says:
—" When Mrs. Lincoln left Washington she took with
her to her prairie home the better part of the furniture,
upholstery, and decorations of the White House. Imme-
diately upon the death of the late President, Mrs. Lincoln
shut herself up in the Executive mansion, refusing to
leave her room, even to attend her husband's funeral. It
was at once given out that she was very ill ; that the
murder of her husband had prostrated her; indeed it was
at one time reported that the most serious fears were en-
tertained as to the result of her sickness. The obsequies
were brought to their conclusion ; the assassin had been
overtaken by the swift vengeance ho had provoked ; the
trial of the conspirators had begun—still Mrs. Lincoln re-
mained in the White House. Meantime President John-
son, unwilling to intrude upon the retirement of a lady
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field, Illinois. With her also went the bulk of the orna-
ments and furniture of the White House. These articles
—among which were carpets, window-curtain; chande-
liers, statuette; &c.—filled, when packed, 94 large dry
goods boxes, and their removal to the railway station
was effected by means of seven of Adams's great express
vans. These facts were hushed up, as well as might be,
and it was hoped that they would be forgotten. Congress
met, and among the first bills introduced into the House
was one offered by Mr. Wentworth, popularly known as
long John Wentworth,' of Illinois, appropriating $lOO,OOO
for the relief 'of Mrs. Lincoln—that, in the language of
the bill, 'being the sum to which Abraham Lincoln would
have been entitled' if he had served out his term. As
soon as it was announced that such a bill had been offered
and ordered to its second reading, a host of tradesmen, small
or otherwise, gathered in the lobbies of the Capitol.
These patriotic persons displayed an extraordinary inte-
rest in the passage of the bill. They proclaimed that it
was but a ' proper mark of national gratitude.' In fact,
so far did their loyal zeal carry them, that it attracted
the attention of the honorable legislators themselves, the
most of whom were for sometime at a loss to conceive
why the lobby' should be so deeply concerned in the
relief of Mrs. Lincoln. Awakened attention led to in-
quiry ; inquiry brought out all the facts. Wentworth,
chancing to go into the lobby, overheard a patriotic shop-
keeper enlarging upon the sacred duties of the American
people to the widow and children of the martyred Lincoln,
and on inquiry Mr. Wentworth found that our loyalist'
was interested in the fulfilment of these 'sacred dutie s
to an amount a little in excess of $7,000. This fact, with
others, became known. When the bill came up for deci-
sion it received but one affirmative vote—that, it need
hardly be said, of Wentworth, the proposer, himself. A
bill which was simply an amendment of the other, andci
which gave to Mrs. Lincoln the sum of twenty-five thousand
dollars, was then offered and passd by an almost
however,
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will be presented to the Prince by the Chamber in
a body, as has been already been done by the
Senate,