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COLUMBUS: Wednesday Morning, Sepi • 3, 1856. LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION. The Prodigy. Yesterday, much against our will, wo went to see the poor boy now exhibiting on Ran- ‘ dolph street. Certainly hejis a great curiosity, and if ever there was an object of charity, he is that object. To soo him however, is painful in the extreme, and we would advise those who wish to aid him, to drop their fee at the door and pass by. During our visit there was a lady present, with eyes full of a true woman’s pity, yet at , the same time lighted with a true woman’s cu riosity. She put many questions of interest which would never have occurred to a man ; and we were much interested in the conflict between her mind and her heart —the one asking all sorts of questions, and the other uttering ejaculations of commiseration for the afflicted object before lier. As she gli ded out of the door she left a fervent blessing behind her, that is now recorded above, if suen things are ever recorded, ns_we confidently believe they are. To all of our readers we would say, help this poor boy if you have a heart; but if you have a heart don’t see him. Look Out. The Nownan Danner says that counterfeit ••Fifties” of the Bank of the State of Georgia, are circulating in Coweta and Heard counties, Georgia, and Randolph county, Ala. They are said to be well executed, and those who handle large piles would do well to be on their guard. - —♦ C. F. C. Whereas a recent paragraph under the above head, signed “Dauby,” published in the Hun, and written by as loyal a son of the South and as perfect a gentleman, as can be found after a fortnight’s search, has been sadly mis apprehended, and was taken literally though intended to be jocularly and ironically inter preted; and whereas many persons areata loss how to take it at uli; and whereas the said paragraph has created a good deal of talk; aud whereas it is feared that the people and press of the the Northern States are inca pable of rightly construing the said piece of fun and ridicule, and may believe therefrom that woof Columbus really have a Fremont Club among us, when such thing does not at all exist here, neitheir could by any chance exist; and whereas it is further feared that the said Northern press may copy tho said paragraph and pick therefrom aid and com fort, greatly to their own delusion, we have therefore thought proper, under the great seal of our Sanctum and over our own proper hand to issue this proclamation, to wit : Know yo all men by these presents : that there is no Fremont Club among us, and that the mysterious letters C. F. C. mean no more nor less than Columbus Fantastic Club, which Club did on Saturday last greatly contribute to the amusement of our well-beloved, down with Fremont City ; and that is the whole sto ry ; and that further these deponents have naught to soy, deeming that they have effeot * ually extinguished the groat tire which thislittle piece of ironical matter did causelessly enkindle. Eds. Sun. Cotton in Marengo. Tho Demopolis (Ala.) American, is told by the planters of tho couebruke region, that the cotton crop is far below an average one in that section. Tho City Sexton of Montgomery reports nineteen deaths for the month of August,—fif teeu whites, and four blacks. The Mails. Tho mails are still much disordered, and ma ny of our most valuable files are missing from our table. For several days past Charleston papers get on the wrong route when leaving Augusta, and are thus a day behind. Papers north of that city get to us however, which is strange. \\ ill our friend Srnythe please reme dy the matter. It plays the mischief with our news columns. Strange Book. The Mobile Register has received from tho publishers, in New Orleans, a pamphlet with the following singular title page; “A Voice from Heaven, or God’s Cull to the Unconverted.” ••>\m. K. F. Fryer, M. D., truly converted to God aud a Faithful Christian, proposes to publish a small book in pamphlet form of the above title—containing two Sermons preached by himself in the ‘vision.’ One Sermon is for those that call themselves • Free Masons.’— Also, tho Wonderful Revolutions nnd manifes tations of Jesus Christ to him since November Ist, 1855, which are the most wonderful that we have got any Record of since the year 97 almost eighteen hundred years. Every Chris tian of every denomination, should read it; it j will be a ‘Lamp unto your Feet, and a Light ‘ in your Pathway.’ It proves the Wonderful Works ot God, and establishes beyond a doubt, the Truthfulness of the Old and New Testa ments.” “ Yours in Jesus Christ, W. K. F. Fryer, M. D , Ordained Author.” “ N. B—‘Thou sbs't not muzxle the mouth ot the Ox which treudeth out thy grain.” Steamer Chewala. This new steamer, built for the Clmttakoo- j chee and now ready to leave Pittsburgh on the • first rise which will let her over tho falls at Louisville, Kentucky, is of the following di mensions: length, 185 feet; breadth of beam 28 feet ; depth of hold, 4£ feet; draught, 15 inches; two engines, 14-inch cylinders, and I teet stroke of piston. She was built at Pitts- ! burgh, and is command by the energetic nnd experienced boatman, Capt. Thomas Mehin.— I Be are under obligations to Capt. Thomas ! Berry, of the steamer Tampa, for these facts. ! Success to the Chewnla and her enterprising i owners !— Columbus Enquirer, 2m/. We Bhall have even a better paragraph tliau j the above in a day or two, going to -how that as good boats aro building aud can be built in j Columbus as in Pittsburgh. The credit of j this enterprise belongs to Harry T. Hall, one | ot the foremost men of our city. More auon. i At the saino time we re-echo “success to the I t hewala, and her enterprising owners ! ” An Original Letter. The following letter, which we publish ver batim, has been handed us for insertion with a view to putting the Southern public on their guard—the only consideration which would iuduce us to violate that sanctity of letters, w-hich, as a general thing, should be strictly preserved. As will be seen, it is from a com- | rade of the late escaped jail birds, written be- j fore ho had heard of their delivery. We need I hardly call attention to the delicacy of senti- ! inent it contains, ns evinced in the apology for i making one letter answer in place of two ; or on the fidelity of thief Cos thief, shown in the general tono of tho letter : Nkw York, Aug. 10, 1850. Ned nnd Joe — My Dear Friend* : 1 only arrived in New York on the sixth of this mouth, consequently 1 only got your letters a day or two ugo. lam very sorry to hear that you are in trouble, as I calculated to see you both in New York as soon as 1 ar rived here. 1 left home on the 4th of June, 10 or 12 days later than 1 expected. I sup ■ pose yon can guess the reason. We came up the Mississippi as far as St. Louis, stopping at all intermediate ports, but everything being so dull in the summer season, that we just made out to make a good living and pay trav eling expenses; we then came up the Ohio River to Cincinnati, we done pretty well there, considering the times, but business called us away very suddenly. We then went to Cleve land where Blucher had taken board in a 9th Class Hotel for 80 days, and he has got to pay one hundred dollars for his board, which you know knocked all my calculations to pieces. 1 came directly to New York. I will have to be in Cleveland on the latter part of this month to pay his board, and then we will go west again for a short time, and I will come to Col umbus as soon as I can possibly get there, as I should like to see you very much. The times aic veiy dull here ; there is a great many of the boys in town, but hardly any of them has got any money. I expect to come there in about a week or too to get Bluclier. You say that you have put your trial off un til November; wc will be sure to see you long before that time, unless sickness or quay should stop us. Blucher and myself has both been well in health; we would have done well if he had not got stuck at that Hotel. 1 was alone until I came here, and then I found plen ty to work with. I want you to let me know ns much as you can about your case, aud what your chances is; at any rate do not be discouraged, and all will come right in the end. You ask me how my family is. They are all well and hearty, thank you. Write to me as soon as you receive this, and let me know if 1 can do any thing for you before I come there. I will writeagaiu as soon as I get a letter from you both. Excuse me for writing one letter to both of you, as I have very little time to write in. I will write no more at present, but remain your sincere friend and companion, Col. EDWIN LILLY. To Edward Wallace and Joseph Donbon. We learn, says the Mobile Tribune, that the Mayor has disposed of the case of tho free ne gro Stephen Como, charged with circulating Abolition documents, by ordering him to leave tho city in three days. Since our last account tho Board of Health have been reporting one death daily in Charles ton, from yellow fever—-a sufficient evidence that the disease there is not epidemic. English Banking Prosperity. 1 lie half yearly meetingsof the various Lon don joint stock banks have just been complet ed, and notwithstanding an increase of compe tition to which they have lately been exposed by the formation of three or four new compa nies, they continue to show a most extraordin ary growth of prosperity. Duriug the six their customers’ deposits have increas ed X 0 , 139,000, and the total now held among eight establishments is nearly forty millions sterling. TheLoudon and Westminister Bank, of which Alderman Salomons, the present Lord Mayor, is chairman, is the one that enjoys tho largest business, its paid of capital being £l,- 000,000, its deposits £11.170,000, and its guarantee fund (iortned from uudivided pro tits) c 14<,000. Out of the eight banks, the five senior ones pay dividends ranging from 10 to22j per annum per cent., aud at the same timo the satety of the principles on which they arc conducted, and tho soundness of their po sition, are beyond even a shadow of question. Ihe remaining three banks likewise pay res pectable dividends. Serious Allair. Be learn from a gentleman who arrived by tho cars last evening that a very serious dias ter came near happening to the Mississippi train yesterday morning, about five miles this side of Lauderdale Springs. An old lady who had the misfortune to loose some of her cattle on the road, had piled up a parcel of blocks and stumps ot trees on the track near her prem ises, and stood by with arms a-kimbo to witness [ the result. The cars came lumbering on at the usual hour and dashing round a curve, ran 1 into the old woman’s trap without more serious damage than knocking one of tho freight cars off tho track. Tho danger was imminent, ns there was a steep embankment on both sides. ■ The old woman seemed greatly delighted, and said to the men coming up to her, “I’ll teach you railroad men to run over ray cows.” ! l’o the passengers she apologized in the po- ! } * tost manner, saying she hadn’t the slightest intention of injuring any of them—that it was 1 the railroad men she was after for killing her cows. The passengers and officials, wo learn, were I very much exasperated against her, but left ! without violeuee. Later in the day another freight car of this train ran off the track, but, fortunately, with out any serious damage.— Mobile Tribune. - - - - The Cotton Crop. B e have never known the opinion of Plan- j ters more decided nnd unanimous ns to the shortness of tho Cotton crop than it is at pres ent. it never recovered from the effects of the long drought aud is turning out less than was expected. Even with a favorable fall and a late frost, it caunot approach an average crop ] ami without them it will fall very far short.— ! It has opened earlier than usual and must have been very seriously damaged by the late storm, i penitig early aiid commanding good prices, it 1 will doubtless be hurried to market and heavy receipts in the beginning of the season, will create false impressions ns to the extent of the crop, but its close will tell a different tale.— j Aufaula Spirit, let. THE LATE GALE. There was much wiud aud rain in this city yesterday, waich no doubt extended many miles around. Great damage, it is feared,has result ed to the maturing cotton crop. Such as was fully open must have been destroyed, even if the stalks were not prostrated. The wind commenced blowing on Saturday afternoon.— Montgomery Journal. After two or three days of cloudy and threat ening weather, we were visited on Saturday night with a heavy storm from the North East. After raining for some hours, the wind towards midnight became exceedingly violent and from that time until about noon on Sunday the storm raged with unremitting fury. The town was strewn with prostrated trees and fences.— Scarcely a lot escaped damage. The brick stores occupied by Dr. \V. L. Cowan, Messrs. Laney & Dawkins and Mr. L. Schwartz, all sustained serious injury by the fall of a por tion of the rear walls. The gable end of the Masonic Lodge room wss also blown off. The last storm occurred here, we believe, in August 1852, and although at its height more violent perhaps than this, was of much less duration and did less damage.— Eujaula Spirit. There has been a great deal of rain in this vicinity during the past week, and the weather is now quite cool. On Sunday it rained with out intermission for the whole day, accompa nied by a severe wind that did considerable damage in blowing down trees, fences, walls, &c. The crops about here are almost entirely ruined by it. The river is very full.— Macon Telegraph. We have seldom seen a more blustering day than yesterday. There was little rain, but a heavy gale from the south-east prevailed throughout the day and until a late lionr of the night. Considerable damage has been done to the trees aud roofing in the city, though wc have heard of nothing of a very serious nature. Apprehension is felt for the shipping on the coast, which can hardly have failed to suffer to a more or loss extent in such a war of the ele ments. — Suv. llepub. Ist. It will be seen by the above that our infor mation respecting the gale at Savannah was not correct. Doutless our informant left that city before the storm commenced. Affray at Glennville. B e regret to learn that an affray occurred at Glennville on Thursday evening last in which C. W. Jones, Esq., was shot by Mr. Benjamin Screws. Both parties we understand were armed with shot guns and both fired twice.— Mr. Jones received a load of buck shot in the thigh, inflicting a severe but wo hope not a dangerous wound, while his adversary escaped uninjured. The difficulty grew out of private business transactions between the parties.— Eufaula Spirit. Overdosed. The Liverpool papers say that a portion of the English people are about as sick of “dra matised Uncle Tom” as they are of the “Kars heroes.” Mrs. Webb has been holding pro tracted meetings at Stafford House, and would like to enlarge her sphere of operations, but they are getting sick of it, and say “she will not take.” They have been overdosed by the Kars heroes and Uncle Tom. The Boot Black. BY eHILLII’ BARRETT. About a hundred years ago, there lived in tho city of Oxford, England, a boy whose name was George. He was very poor, so much so that he was compelled to clean the boots of the students at the University toobtain money with which to buy the necessaries of life. His countenance was one of no ordinary appear ance. llis eye was keen and piercing; his forehead noble and lofty ; and every feature of his face was perfectly developed. By his easy and polite manners, his obliging disposi tion, and liis warm and generous nature he soon won the confidence and esteem of many of those upon whom he waited. The poverty of his clothing served him better to show the richness of a mind which only needed cultiva tion to make it one ot tho brightest in the whole country. The students of the University seeing such noble qualities in their lowly and humble boot black, determined to educate him, and many of them devoted no little share of their time to that purpose. They found him ready, willing and studious. He lost not a moment of his precious time, but applied himself diligently, perseveringly, to his studies, and soon became an equal, if not a superior to some of his in structors. His advancement was very rapid, so great was it that numbers were unable to recognize in thegitted aud talented young man the°ouce poor and needy boot black. About this time there was a great change in the religion of England. There arose a sect, which from the peculiar habits of its members, their strict ob servance of the Sabbath, their faithful reading of God’s word, and their frequent and stated engagements in piayer, was called Methodists. With this party George immediately connected himself, aud soon became one of its ablest and most consistent members. The youths who once sought his company, now treated him with sneering contempt. Those who once considered him a youngman of extraordinary abilities, then considered him a reckless fanatic, and avoided his society as they would have a worthless drunkard. All this did not move him. He was as firm ns a rook. Nothing could change him. Like Moses, he preferred a little ot Christian consistency to the enjoyment of sin for a season, llis un changing conduct won for him many warm and ardent admirers, and numbers who former ly branded him as a lunatic became his best friends. I have not time, children, to say much more concerning the character of this interesting young man. It will bo sufficient to add, that he soon became one of the most pious aud talented preachers in England, and such numbers Hocked to hear him that the largest house in London could not coiUain them. He preached in the open fields to the thou sands upon thousands, and the greatamountof good which ho did, eternity sh ill tell. Dear boys, do not mind the sneers of your compan ions. Do your duty, let the consequences be what they limy. Be industrious, energetic.— ; Don’t mind difficulties. They only make your j arm stronger, and your heart braver. If this ‘ poor boy could arise from the lowly position of a boot black, to that of one of the most pious and eloquent preachers England overproduced, ! cannot you go and do likewise ? You have no idea what you cau do till you try. Energy combined with earnest prayer will accomplish the most difficult task. Boys, would you like to know the name of tho boy who blacked the boots of the students at Oxford University ? It is George Whitfield. The sentence of the Court Martini, suspend ing Marshall S. Howe from his command and pay for three months, for neglect of duty, to the prejudice of good order aud military disci pline in Minnesota, has been approved by the j Secretary of War. TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS. Congressional -—Extra Session. Aug. 28.—Mr. Crittenden, to-day introduc ed a bill to amend tbe Nebraska Kansas Act, so as to place the legislative authority for the Territories in the Governor and Judges. Some debate occurred, but no action was taken. Another attempt at agreement between the two Houses, was tried to-day without success. The House adhered by a majority of four, nnd tabled the motion to re-conslder. Aug. 29. — The Senate adhered to its disa greement upon the Army bill by a vote of 82 against 0. Mr. Houston presented a memorial from the Texas Legislature asking Congress, if possible, to interfere in the behalf of Judge Terry, now in the custody of the Vigilance Committee at San Francisco. After some debate, it was re ferred to tbe Judiciary Committee. After some discussion upon Mr. Crittenden’s bill, the Senate adjourned. House—The messages from the Senate, in which they adhere to their disagreement upon the Army bill, was read, when Mr. Orr asked leave to introduce that bill. Mr. Grow and others objected. Adjourned. The House of Representatives’ account in pay and mileage amounted this morning to $1,097,000. Later from California. New York, Aug. 29. — The Illinois with late California dates arrived this morning with $1,485,000 in treasure,connected with the Son ora which brought down $1,800,000. The Sierra Nevada for San Juan had upwards of SIOO,OOO in specie ; three hundred recruits for Walker, aud a number of settlers. Edward Bulger, one of the first exiles by Committee, had returned from the Sandwich Islands, was re-arrested and shipped to New York by the Illinois. Ned McGowan had not been captured.— There has been some activity among vessels of war in tbe harbor. Ned fears that the federal government is about to interfere with the Vig ilance Committee. Upon the re-appointment of the Superin tendent of the Branch Mint, they notified some “employees (100 members of the Com mittee) that they must either withdraw from the Committee or leave the Mint. The Peruvian slave ship Teresa Terry put into San Francisco on the 30th July, with a hundred and fifty Chinese, kidnapped at Ma cao, and destined for the Peruvian mines. Au unsuccessful attempt was made to detain her. Advices from the Salt Lake to the 23d of June state that vegetables had been nipped by the frost, aud that the grain crops had failed. It is leaved that tiie people will suffer from the want of food. Sydney, Australia, dates to the 29tli May mention that extensive gold discoveries had been made in Western Australia. The latest intelligence from Oregon states that the Indians to the North are still hostile; there are prospects of peace, however. Central American Question. New Y"ork, Aug. 29.—The Herald contains a London letter professing to give the terms of adjustment of the Central American question. The treaties signed between Clarendon and Herran, the Plenipotentiary from Honduras are: First, a general treaty of amity and com merce. Second, a convention for the adjustment of all claims by British subjects on the government of Honduras; and for the extinction of any Indian Musquito titles with the territories, recognized as pertaining to Honduras. Third, a conventiofi for the restoration of the Bay Island to the sovereignty of Honduras. The latter stipulates on behalf of the people who establish themselves there under the British, in the occupancy of the perpetual en joyment of certain rights and privileges. The ground upon which this restoration is made is the importance of preserving a neutral route of the inter-oceanic railway through Hondu ras. The letter also says that it has been agreed upon between Clarendon and Dallas, that Greytown shall return to the sovereignty of Nicaragua; and that the limits of the Belize will extend Southward to the river Sarstoon. [Tho chances are 53J against 15-lGths that the above is a Roorback.—Eus. Sun.] Brooks Welcome. Columbia, Aug. 29, 10 P. M.—A large and enthusiastic meeting of the citizens of Colum bia, lias just taken place in honor of the Hon. Preston S. Brooks, who is now on a visit to South Carolina and his home. The Hon. E. J. Arthur, Mayor of the city, presented to Mr. Brooks a silver pitcher, a cane, and other testimonials, offered by the city and by pri vate friends. Mr. Brooks replied with elo quent and earnest feelings, and was warmly applauded. Large Fire. New Y ork, Aug. 80. — A large fire has oc curred in this city in the vicinity of the Ctys tal Palace, destroying nineteen builidings, in cluding the Eating Observatory. The Crys tal Palace narrowly escaped destruction. Market. New York, Aug. 29.—An advance of ] cent was claimed yesterday on Cotton, which to-day scarcely maintains it. The sales have been 400 bales at the rates—Orleans Middling, 11- Uplands, lljc. Burlingame. The Boston Courier says of this pretender. Mr. Burlingame is an Abolitionist—as black and thorough an Abolitionist as Theodore Par ker or W. Lloyd Garrison and his election was attained through shameless fraud and disgus ting hypocrisy. He imposed himself upon the Know Nothings of his district as ono of the order, nnd left them as soon as he had received tho favor from their hands which he had earn ed by his double dealing. So his pretence of a willingness to fight Brooks was not his first false pretence. Telegraph Wires. It is said to he the intention of some of the Telegraph Companies, to bury the wires of their telcgrnplis, and a petition was, some time since, presented by one of the corpora tions of the Now City Councils, praying per mission to place conductors in trenches run ning under the street pavements. Could the necessary insulation be obtained, this plan would, doubtless, be found far better than that now in use. It remains to be seen whether a long lino of wire will work advantageously, under ground. ♦— —— The Wrong Vial. Dr. Crawley Finney, a much respected and highly esteemed resident ol’ Nausemond connty, Virginia, died a few day ago from the effects ! of taking morphine by mistake for quinine. l>r. F. had gone to bed very much indisposed from a chill, and gave directions to a person in the family to compound a dose of the two in gredients according to his prescription; but in doiug so the mistake was committed of mix ing the largo portion of morphine with the smaller of quinine, instead of the reverse. The almost immediate consequence after taking it was that the Doctor fell into a stupor aud died in a lew hours. * • The Yellow Fever at Fort Hamilton, New Y’orlc, has materially abated. OOIVCIVIIEIrtOI^Xj. Columbus Cotton. Statement. Stock on hand Ist Sept. 1855 5-24 , Received to Ist Sept. 1856 100.028 “ . 101.152 Shipped to Ist Sept. 1856 100,Sis Stock on hand Ist Sept. 1850 &u3 Received up to same time last year 05,709 Columbus, Aug. 2, iSoe. f It will he seenproru the annual statement above of:, receipts of cotton at this place for the commercial \. .. ending on the 01st nil., that, as compared with tl:e M . vious year, there is an excess of 0*1,889 holes, ‘fhis q, well for the growing importance of Columbus as „ fu| ton market. With the ex ension of the Mobile and 1 ra, and Road, and the favorable impression made on n, J minds of planners last season of the advantage! of ii r . ■ as a cotton mart, we think one can safely predict t) the current year,—notwithstanding the probability! that the crop will be shorter than that of last year-. B excess over the above of at least 20,000 bales. The new crop comes in slowly, but meets with a rf y. demand at high figures, varying from 10% to lit/ fi ’ r The Coninic’ ciel year just brought to a close, exhibit the extraordinary proi uclon, sav, in round numbers, a three and a half millions of bales of cot on, all of W | lja has rerdily been disposed of at reunite.a iug i, r j tK to ti e planting i evest; end though the slock in Bri;e : n at last, dries, say the 151 1 tilt., was. in aUj, ( iptions 208 303 teles, in excess of tbe stock held the same period last year ; yet as it is known that th exportation to that kingdom for the next four month. I and a half wilt be very light indeed ; and theirconsuimj tion full if not on the increase: it will be found that a! of this great supply has met with adequate require’!®, for the Hade of .lie wo u. Although suffering from the infliction of a short u this year, the effect of the lo.ig and severe drouth v have just passed through, which lias materially cur:®:, ed the prospects of supply to our pie iters on all the IV hnd scope th.oughout tile cotton region, together wii the severe gales tha. have devastated the Gulf as w,.i * ns the Atlantic sections of our country, yet a full, remu-1 aeration on the scoro of prices during the coming sens, awaits them. G .’eat Britain and tiie continent of Europe will s ] M | stocks somewhat greater than 1 hose they held 0 1 tin-so ; of January last; hut our own stock on the Ist inst.j, much lighter than wo have seen it at this the conn I mencenient of tho cotton seeson.wiih us for many vni. — never since t tie crops approached any thi.ig like film present magnitude. To sum up the features favorable to the holders of tin new crop it is proper to advert to the following facts: The largest yield ever produced in this country seen,, to have met with a commensurate requirement from Ik wants of the consuming wo Id; this is shewn in tin condition of our present stocks in this country; audit tai; : ng into calculation together the stocks now in ft rope, allowing for the effect on these stocks of their nai four aud a ha'f month’s consumption, and the light im port t.iey will be subject to during the latter portion of their importing year. There is no prospect of a supply for the coining sense at all equal to that of the past year; this is shewn Iv the causes advev ed to above ; to which may be adil-i the fact toat i tile or no old cotton remains over inti, hands of ‘he planter or in the inland towns of the Soutli The ptese it consumption of the world, particularly that of all Europe, is greater than lias ever been know at any previous period. The last year found our g-eatest European custom*: struggling in a destructive and expensive war; not, peace prevails, relieving the commercial world, fret disquieting fears of monetary embarrassment growing out of a state of war ate. The precious metals are accumulating in vast prup* ti ns front the mines of California and Australia, engen der! ig a mruifest desire for Bank expansion, both on this side the Atlantic aud. the other, as evidenced iu the “ Bank Mobiliers” of France and Germany. The Chain crops of Europe are ample *0 secure cheap food to the laboring classes and. to sustain a good “home” trade with them ; labor being well compensated. Money has cheapened in Europe, England particulnr ly, and is sufficiently abu idant with them to allay all app chensions for the immediate future. These enumerated facts viewed iu connection w ith tit shortness of the present cotton crop, would lead tost nous apprehens’ons of a speculation in cotton duriug the eusiung season which is likely to carry those t-nga. ed in it far beyond the hounds of reason and a proper reg i . t for prudence. In the meantime the planting interests stand on strong ground, and (ue game never was more completely it their hands than it is at the present time: it boiioot.* them to play it with judgment and care. From the Mobile Register. While such a law exists as we have now, and which our worthy Mayor is putting in force, to correct an evil, very injurious to the owners of slaves, I think it would be more ap propriate to have an ordinance passed by the Boards of Aldermen and Common Council, to prohibit the holding of negro meetings in churches where they may have full sway, at” are left to indulge in dancing, jumping and shouting, to tbe disturbance of the families in the neighborhood. I have been a looker on st Zion Negro Church in the western part of the city, where they had not a single white person to watch them, and were left entirely to their own control. I think it would be betterfor slaves, and also tor their owners, to have a place set apart in the churches where their masters worship, and where they will be better instructed in their daily obedience to their owners, instead of listening to the nonsense of an old Negro Preacher, who does not know half the time what he means by the language he holds to them, and I learn that our vigilant city Mar shal has now one of the Negro Preachers in his custody, whom he arrested for preaching abolition doctrine to other slaves. I think the Board should take this in consideration, and enact an ordinance to close up all the negi” hurches. A Slave Owner. Jones and Trumbull. Mr. Senator Trumbull, on being called to an account for his abusive personal remark: in relation to lion. James C. Jones. U. t- Senator from Tennessee, denied “having ever used the language imputed to him. The denial will avail him nothing. The reporters have hi remarks as they fell from his lips, and they aver that the expressions were used. The fad can bo corroborated by fifty witnesses, if neces sary. A friend has, this morning, given us the facts precisely as they occurred. In the court* of his late speech in the city, Senator Trum bull read from tho Daily Pennsylvanian the call of the democratic mass meeting, to Law been held the uext evening in Independut* Square, and commented upon those who were announced to speak, as follow : “Hon. A. H. Stephens has been a whig !l kis. life. Hon. Robert Toombs has hern * whig all his life. Hon James C. Jones lue always been a whig, defeated James K. I’ ll -’ for President, and never told a political tint!) in his life.” These, w o are assured, were l)h precise words. It is a significant fact that bull) Mr. Burlingame and Mr. Trumbull were oblig ed to unsay much that they said at the meet ing.— [ Pennsylvanian. Long Speeches. On a recent occasion, a motion was submit ted iu the Britisli House of Commons, that a member when introducing a bill, should not speak for more than half an hour. Lord Pal merston took ground against tho measure. • calculated to do more harm than good, ft” existing obstructions, 110 said, arose rather from the multitude of subjects and speaker than from tho leugth of particular speed ll * The habit of long speaking liud, he believe considerably diminished of late years, as com pared with former periods within parliamenta ry memory. Tho motion was rejected by s vote of 78 affainst 30,