The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-03 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

(From the Anglo-American Times)

Mr. Bateman is about to leave America for Paris to
collect fresh attractions for which to open at Nibto's on
the 11th July.

Philadelphia is about to decide judicially whether an
actor who is to play the part of a drunken man is justified
in qualifying himself therefor by actually becoming in-
toxicated.

Othello" was lately performed at Hayti, and the part
of Othello was taken by a black man, who painted his face
white.

The lowa Republicans have nominated General
E. Wright for Secretary of State, and put up a full ticket
for other State'officers and prebidents. Generals Kilpa-
trick and WAlister and Cornelius Walsh aro the most
promineLt candidates for the Republican nomination for
Governor in New Jersey, at the next election. South
Baud, Indiana, the home of Speaker Colfax, has gone Re-
publican at its municipal election, gaining heavily in
vote 400 larger than last year ; and Providence, Rhode
Island, at its election on Wednesday, May 13, elected the
whole Republican ticket, Thomas A. Doyle having four
majority for mayor in a light vote. At the election for
Congressional Dolegate in Arazona, June 3, Governor
M'Cormick is the Republican candidate and John A. Rush
the Democratic.

General John A. Logan, Commander of the
Grand Army of the Republic, has issued an order to all the
posts in the country, designating Monday, May 31, as the
day for strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating the
graves of their fallen comrades in the various churchyards
of the country.

Liberty Billings, of New Hampshire, who nomi-
nated himself for Governor, and afterwards for member of
Congress, only succeeded in getting himself arrested, and
a freo passage, under guard, to St. Augustine, after two
days in the guard-house at Tallahassee.

‘4 Governor Hamilton, of Texas," is again in
Washington, and is again "sensationalizing." He affirms,
so the newspapers report, that "two hundred and fifty
Union men have been murdered in Texas since General
Hancock was appointed to command there ; that the Con-
vention there is the ablest body ever assembled in the
State; that there are fifty Radical members of it fit to sit
in Congress; and, finally, that unless President Johnson
is removed no Union man can stay in Texas and live ! As
President Johnson is not removed, we fear there will be
another slaughter of the innocents.

General Buchanau has suspended the collection
of taxes in the inundated districts of Louisiana.

Intelligence from Hayti via Havannah announces
that the Cacos rebels hold the north part of the Republic,
and it is rumoured that they have captured Gonaives.
President Salnave was surrounded at Gonaives,
and a deputation had gone to Jamaica to invite ex-Presi-
dent Geffrard to return.

Speaker Colfax made $lO,OOO from hie lecture,
"Across the Continent."

Governor Patton, of Alabama, had been in Bos-
ton for several days, examining the public institutions in
that city, with a view of improving upon them in
Alabama.

It is stated that General M'Clellan will return to
America in September next, and take an active part in
the Presidential canvass in behalf of the Democratic can-
didate.

The racehorse Kentucky has been sold for
$35,000. The transfer was effected on the 14th May, and
the horse was given into the charge of Charles Littlefield
at Jerome Park.

George T. Shorn, Esq., a member of the Penn-
sylvania Legislature, died at his residence, in Philadel-.
phia, on Sunday night, the 10th of May. He was a vet'
deal printer, and was serving his fourth term in the
Legislature.

Mr. George F. N. Davis, brother of Mrs. George
_Francis Train, was recently killed in a quarrel on the
Western border. The murderer has been arrested.

A new reason has been discovered why Grant
can't be elected President, nor anybody else either. At
meeting of Adventists in New York, on a Sunday, it was
announced that the world would surely come to an end in
October.

The Hancock Committee, appointed to wait on
Horatio Seymour at his residence at Utica, report that he
is not and will not under any circumstances be a candidate
for the Presidency. Mr. Seymour said as much some time

ago.
The Democrats of Mississippi have nominated
General Humphreys for Governor and a full State ticket.

The portrait of Queen Victoria given to. George
Peabody was received at the Peabody Institute, in the
newly named town of Peabody, Massachusetts, on Tue'
day, May 12.
E. P. Weston, the pedestrian, par eminence, de-
livered a lecture and walked a mile in eight minutes and
twenty-five seconds in Boston Music Hall, on Tuesday
evening, May 12. His advice to walkers is to swing the
arms by the side, keep the mouth shut, not run down hill,
wear laced shoes and linen stockings, and pour whiskl
now and then in the shoes.

Colonel John W. Forney's resignation as clerk
of the Senate has been accepted, which, it is said, has bon
a "sell" for him, as he never intended it, designing only to
make political capital, and to give himself free scope ill
pouring out vials of wrath on the heads of the traitor Re-
publican Senators unsound on Impeachment "in my tare
papers, both daily." The Springfield Republican says—"lt
is too bad that he should have intended it only as 5'
joke, as by the little stratagem • ho has secured a
her of first-class notices, which he never merited and
never would have received but for his opportune taking
off. No one supposed that he
_would leave his fat place
till he had made up for the recent defalcations of bill
clerk, and it is remarked as singular that the Impeach'
ment trial had at that time only resulted in his removaV
The following returns of income for 1867 ar°
made by leading citizens of New York 13'
Astor, $977,452; Moses Taylor, $293,780; William V'
Dodge, $103,618; William E. Dodge, jun., $95,247
James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald $167,000;
Robert Bonner, of the New Pork Ledger, $238,411; August
Belmont, $94,617 ; Lorenzo Delmonico, $68,478 ; Aaron
Arnold, $152,752 ; Loring Andrews, $110,805; Stews'
Brown, $100,889; David Dows, $127,595 ; Aril°°
R. Eno, $196,790 ; Robert Goelet, $117,986 ; Pei°
Goelet, $210,547; Benjamin Hutton, $161,656 ; George
Kemp, $100,042 ; Theodore Roosvelt, $101,569; John P•
Woolfe, $111,241; James Gallatin, $28,336 ; Francis 13'
Cutting, $55,329 ; Richard M. Hoe, the printing-Pol
maker, $100,951; John R. Cornell, $217,832 ;W. W. Cornell
$215,394 ; G. Godfrey Gunther, $68,135 ; C. V. S. 111:
velt, $93,066; John Hecker, $123,832 ; William
Rhinelander, $104,747 ; Jolla J. Cisco, $61.`921'
James M. Constable, 861,310 ; Peter Cooper, $18,31"
Jackson S. Schultze, $88,182; Henry C. FahuestoA
$71,399; William H. Webb, $453,806; James H. 1300:
diet, $132,451 ; A. Oakley Hall, $7,000 ; Charles
O'Conor, $18,225 ; Henry Keep, $55,013 ; Rufus
Lord, 897,609 ; Ogden Haggerty, $82,261; Abiel
Low, $111,131 ; and the Rev. Henry Ward Beech
$38,218. In Cincinnati the Hon. George H. Pendleto;
returns $9,316, while the largest income in the city is the
of B. Metz, $120,800. Nicholas Longworth's estate re;
turns $89,008. In Chicago the two largest returasnsor,
made by the manufacturers of "M'Cormick's reapers,
H. M'Cormick returning $202,306 and J. L. M.Coriel
$lOO,OOO, while George W. Pullman, the maker of "sleep
ing cars" for rail ways, reports $72,000. William B. Ogtlis
a Western railway king, reports $82,998; and Wily so
Medal, of the Chicago Tribune, $27,690 ; J. P. Bross, .f!or,
of that newspaper, $26,391, and Horace White, its ecio!l
$16,493. Governor Ogelsby, of Illinois, returns solo'.

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