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COLIJM 15 ITS: Tuesday Morning, October UH, IH.jfi. i.ai(i;kst CITY CIUCUDATION. Bain at Loot. After a drouth of two months duration, the greater portion of which time our city has been smothered in dust, we had last night a drenching shower, and at tho hour of going to press, tho clemonls portray a copious sup ply of rain. We call attention to the advertisement of Riddle, announcing the opening of his new Daguerrean Rooms, lie is fitted up in mag nificent style in Jones’ new building, immedi ately over Purple’s .Jowclry Store. Columbus can now boast of two as fine Gal leries in the Photographic Art as any South ern city. The Hon. Robert Toombs addressed a largo and intelligent audience at Temperance Hall in this city yesterday, in favor of the election of Mr. Buchanan. It was the first time we had heard him, and barring his hoarseness from continuous sjteaking for several weeks in tho campaign, wc thought lie came fully up to his reputation. His speech was receiv ed witli delight by the Democracy. What im pression it made on tho friends of Fillmore, if any, will 1m apparent about to-morrow week. Baptist Church. Tho Pews in tho Baptist Church in this city, were rented yesterday for the ensuing year, ending October Ist 1857. We understand they ranged in:price, l'rouis2o to’sl45 —bring- ing, in the aggregate, about $2,400. - The Yellow fever seems to have disappeard from Charleston, no death having been report ed for several days. Fire in LaUrunge. We learn from a slip from the Reporter of fice, that a lire broke out in that place about 12 o’clock Saturday night, in tlie Millinery establishment of Mrs. Witham, over the Bar room ot'C. C. Nimilz, and before any assis tance could be had the roof of tlie building, including tlie store of Mr. .). Jaeobe, tiic Dsguerrcan Room of Mr. P. Prophitt, and the Hall, known as Concert Hall, was enveloped in flumes. It then extended from building to building until the whole of the West side of the public square was consumed by the de vouring elements. The Reporter is unable to give the amount of Ihe loss, but says it cannot be less than sso,t)(Kt. Tho number of buildings consumed were seven, including the stores of J. J. Ja cohe, Whjtfleld Sc Reid, Lane & Kidd, Myers X: Cos., J. S. Sc W. P. Herring, J. T. Turner & t'o., and Ur. N. N. Smith’s oflico, and the resi dence of J. J. Jaeobe. The residence of Mr. I'ike was blown up in order to arrest the (hones. Most of the goods were saved in a damaged slate, and some were insured. Dr. N. N. Smith received a serious personal injury by the explosion of a house. Mr. John P. Buchan received some personal injury, but we trust not seriously. Telegraphic Connection with Eutaula. We received yesterday morning, tho follow ing message from Rufaula, showing the com pletion of (ho Columbus and Apalachicola Tel egraph line to that place, and sent in return iln* operations of New Orleans and Charleston in cotton on Saturday. We understand the work of putting up the wire below that point, is progressing rapidly. The first messages passed over the line to Eu faiila on Sunday last. Mr. Emory Dennis, Jr., a native of Colum bus, is operator at. this place. Otlice south side of Randolph street. Eufaula, Oct. 27. We quote Middling cotton at 10 to 10!,c., Good Middling 11c., and Middling Fail* 11 Jc. Groensboro College Bunding. We learn from the Greensboro (Ala.) Bea con, that the Building Committee appointed by the Trustees ol’ the Southern University of tlie Methodist E. Church, located at that place, have let outthe contracts for the brick, stone and carpenter’s work, painting and glazing, including material, at $32,701, and that the contracts yet to be made for Ivon Or naments, Slate Roof and Plastering, are esti mated in amount at $0,754, makingt he entire cost of the edifice $3!>,015. The corner stone isto be laid the first week in December. The building is to be finished during the year 1857. Kcnl Estate in llichmond. In pursuance tonti act of the last Legisla ture of Virginia, a recent assessment of Real Estate has been in Richmond) Va., by the Slate with the following result: buildings $9,899,412, lands $8,2812,357; total $17,081,7911. The revenuo of the State will bo largely increased, and this is said to have been rendered necessary to meet the heavy expenditure incurred within a few years past for internal improvements. We learn from the Dallas Gazette, that John W. Lapsley, Esq., a distinguished lawyer of Dallas county, Alabama, an American, and a Whig all his life, has just returned from a sum mer tour in the North, and declares it to be his duty ns a Southern man and a as conser vative, to vote for Mr. ltuclianan. Wo have known Col. Lapsley forever twelve years, and we never knew a truer and more unflinching Whig. To this our friend who presides over the editorial department of the Enquirer, can testify. Give House Uornt and Three Lives Lost. We learn from the Alabamian, that the Gin House of 8. R. Cockrill, Esq., about six miles from Tuscnmbia, Alabama, was burnt on Saturday tho 18th instaut, and three negro men, supposed to bo the property of John L. Malone, Esq., of Franklin county, perished in the tlames. The negroes were runaways, and had concealed thomselveß in the lint room, and it is supposed in attempting to light a pipe with a match, the ginned cotton was ignited, and | they perished in the tlames before they could f make their way out of tho room. It is esti mated that some thirty hales of seed and gin ned cotton were burnt. Steam Music. The Oswego (N. Y.) Palladum says the Sy racusans were startled by the arrival of a Steam Organ, on the noon train there, on Wednesday. It is placed on tho locomotive, and plays Yankee Doodle, Wait for the Wagon, St. Patrick’s Day, &c., in tones that can be heard for miles around. The Instrument is culled tho “Calliope,” and is manufactured by a “Steam Music Company,” organized at Wor cester, Muss. In a circular distributed by tho Company, it is stated that “tho character of the tones of the “Calliope,” will compare fa vorably with those of other musical instru ments, and a tune can be heard ten miles dis tant, distinctly.” The construction of this instrument is very simple, and is played with keys like an Organ, or with a crank and cylinder. It is believed that the instrument is destined to become a matter of utility to navigation as a system of Telegraphing by sounds, or giving signals from boat to boat, or as a pleasing sub stitute for that irksome munotory, the result of one Whistle. The Company have instruments completed, and will furnish them to those that would like to test them practically. Supposing some of our steamboat men get one. The Memphis Enquirer learns that the lion. B. N. Kinyon, a leading and influential old line Union Democrat of Tishmingo county, Miss., lias come out, for Fillmore against Bu chanan. Tlie Enquirer says Mr. K. never belonged t o the American order. Attempt to Assassinate a U. S. Officer. A correspondent writing to New York, from Salt Lake City, under date of August 31st, says: But the event which has created the greatest excitement in this city was a most outrageous attempt at assassination, which was made upon a United States Officer in the public streets under the sanction and countenance of the au thorities of the Mormon church. The facts are these: About dusk one evening, Mr. Jo seph Troskolawski, a United States deputy surveyor, went to tlie store of Messrs. Hoop er & Williams to make a few purchases.— Here he met Bill Hickman, a notorious mem ber of the “Danito Baud,” who engaged in conversation with him in a friendly manner, no one having any suspicion that he had the least unfriendly feeling towards him. Mr. T. then left the store alone to go to his lodgings. Ho had gone but a few steps when three men, associates of Hickman’s, stepped up behind him and knocked him down. One of them then commenced beating him about tlie head with the butt of a heavy loaded whip, and the others stamped upon and kicked him, being assisted by Bill Hickman, who had followed him up from tho store, and who cried out to the other villians, “kill him quick, I’ll stand the consequences.” Messrs. Hooper & Will iams, hearing a cry in the street, ran to their door, and seeing these fellows beating a man, rushed to tho spot just in time to save Mr. T’s life. Mr. Hooper seized Hickman by tho col lar, when the latter drew a knife upon him. lie, however, succeeded in throwing him off. Mr. Williams, in tlie mean time, throwing the other two fellows off, liberating Mr. TANARUS., who staggered, blind and strangling in his blood, towards tho office of the mail agent, and was caught by Mr. Dotson, who carried him in. Hickman and his associates then jumped on their horses and rode off unmolested, yelling and shouting like Indians.” Beware of Jewelry. Many persons have suffcrod imprisonmont and even death on account of rings. The great antiquarian, Winchelman, was murdered hy a scoundrel servant for a very precious ring that ho wore. Conrad, a Napolitan prince, Hying from Charles, King of Naples, was dis covered to a sailor by his ring, informed against, examined, and there being found no sufficient reason why he shovld live, was put to death accordingly. Richard Coear de Lion, having mado a three month’s truce with Sala din, hoped to get safe home, but was betrayed to his enemy by the jewelry on his finger, lie had reached Vienna, when, fearing to fall into the hands of Leopold, the Austrian Archduke, whom he had affronted, he took a cook’s place in a gentleman’s family, but not taking the precaution to roast with his rings off, ho was recognized, arrested, and thrown into prison. The last instance we shall cite of ring prov ing inimical to the liappiuess of its possessor, is taken from a remarkable relation of l’hle gon, of Tralles, llardian’s freed man, who dealt in marvelaus rocitals, and who gives the amongst others of his mirabilia: A young man of the name of Aehatas, traveling in Greece, became the guest of Demostrates, One evening after retiring to rest, he was sur prised hy a visit from the fair Philinnoinc, (the deceased daughter of his host) who pre sented herslfin the most bewitching guise be fore him, and persuaded him to exchange pledge-rings with her. This nocturnal visit was repeated for three nights successively, the young man having no idea the while that his fair innoniirita was a visitant from another world. On the third night, a maid, discover ing a lady in the guest chamber, recognized her deceased mistress, and apprized the pa rents of the late Philionino of what she had seen. Incredulous at first, at the young woman’s story, they at length agreed to enter the cham ber atthosame hour the night following, when, to their bewilderment and joy they saw their own daughter before them : but this joy was soon turned into horror, for the maiden had no sooner recognized her father and mother, than, escaping from the embrace of both, sho reproached them bitterly for thus coming ab ruptly to destroy the happiness which for three more nights sho had else enjoyed with their guest, her leave of absence from the shades extending to a whole week, and feel a lifeless corpse on the ground at their feet. On re covering from the shock, the first impulse of the parents hurried them to the tomb, whence the iiody had indeed departed, and all that remaiued thcro was Achates’ pledge-ring; on seeing which the unhappy youth, terror-strick en at having affianced himself to a spectre, fell upon his sword and died immediately.— Fra~ set's Magabine. Boats for Florida. A fleet of thirty metallic boats aro being built at Francis’ establishment at Grecnpoiut, designed to aid tho United troops in their ope rations against the Indians in Florida this win ter, particularly in penetrating the Everglades. They are twenty-two feet in length, and three feet six inches in breadth, with lockers at each end for ammunition and provisions. Fifteen of them are already finished, and present a fine appearance. Avery largo boat, twenty-eight feet in length, finished in good style, with heavy brass oar-locks and brass tiller, has just been finish ed for the Governor of St. Thomas.—A’. 1". Journal of Commaret. Scene in the Arctic Ocean. From Dr. Kane’s new work upon his Arctic Expedition, we make the following extracts. It will be remembered thathe started a second time in search of Sir John Franklin, in No vember, 1852, and for about three years it was not certain that he was not lost himself. He has published an outline of his excursion, and wc take the following interesting sketch es. The first is a scene with the moon and sun botli shining. The second is a description of one of the many exigencies of that most peril ous adventure : “ The moon is nearly full, and the dawning suidight, mingling with hers, invests every thing with an atmosphere of ashy gray. It clothes tlie gnarled hills that make the hori zon of our bay, shadows out the terraces in dull definition, grows darker and colder as it sinks in the fiords, and broods sad and dreary upon the ridges and measureless plains of ice tiiat make up the rest of our field of view.— Rising up above all this, and shading down into it in strange combinations, is the intense moonlight, glittering on every crag and spire, bracing the outline of the background with contrasted lightness, and printing its fantas tic profiles on the snow field. It is a land scape such as Milton or Dante might imagine —inorganic, desolate, and mysterious ! I have conic down from tlie deck witli the feelings of a man wiio has looked upon a world unfinish by the hand of its Creator. ” Here is a thrilling narrative in a diiferent vein : “ We fastened at last to the great floe near the shore, making our harbor in acreek which opened with the changes of the tide. “ The important dietof the party was show ing itself more andmore in the decline of their muscular power. They seemed scarcely aware of it themselves, and referred the diffi culty they found in dragging and pushing to something uncommon about the icc or sludge, rather than to their own weakness. But, as we endeavored to renew our labors through the morning fog, belted on all sides by ice fields so distorted and rugged as to defy our efforts to cross them, the truth seemed to burst upon every one. We had lost tlie feeling of hunger, and were almost satisfied with our pasty broth and the large draughts of tea which accompanied it. I was anxious to send our small boat, the Eric, across to the lumme liill at Appall, where I knew from the Esquimaux we should find plenty of birds; but the strength of the party was insufficient to drag her. “ We were sorely disheartened, and could only wait for the fog to rise, in the hope of some smoother platform than that which was about us, or some lead that might save us the painful labor of tracking. 1 had climbed the iceberg ; anil there was nothing in view ex cept the Dalrymple ltock, with its red brassy face towering in tlie unknown distance, But 1 hardly got. back to my boat, before a gale struck us from the northwest, and a floe, tak ing upon a tongue of ice about a mile to the north of us, began to swiii upon it like a pivot and close slowly in upon our narrow resting place. “ At, first our own floe was also driven be fore the wind ; but in a lit tie while it encoun tereil the stationary ice at tlie foot of the very rock itself. On the instant the widest imagi nable ruin rose around us. The men sprang mechanically each one to his station, bearing back the boats and stores: but I gave up for the moment all hope of our escape. It was a nip, such as is familiar to Arctic navigators ; but tlie whole platform where we stood, and for hundreds of yards on every side of us, crumbled and crushed and piled and tossed itself madly under tlie pressure. Ido not be lieve t hat of our little body of men, all of them disciplined in trials, able to measure danger while-combating it—l do not believe there is one who this day can explain how or why— hardly when, in fact—we found ourselves afloat. We only know t hat in the midst of a clamor utterly indescribable, through which the braying of a thousand trumpets could no more have been heard than tlie voice of a man, we were shaken and raised and whirled and let down again in a swelling waste of broken hammocks, and, asthe men grasped their boat hooks in the stillness that followed, the boats edded away in a t umultuous skreed of ice and snow and water. “ AYe were borne along in this manner as long as the unbroken remnant of the in-shore floe continued revolving, utterly powerless, and catching a glimpse every now and then of the brazen headland that looked down on us through the snowy sky. At last the floe brought up against the rocks, the looser frag ments that hung round it begun to separate, and we were able by oars and boat-hooks to force our battered little flotilla clear of them. To our joyful surprise, we soon found our selves in a stretch of the land-water wide enough to give us rowing room, and with the assured promise of land close ahead. As wo neared it, we saw the same forbid den wall of belt-ice as at Sutherland and Hak luyt. We pulled along its margin, seeking in vain either an opening or access, or a nook of shelter. The gale rose, and the ice began to drive again ; but there was nothing to be done but get a grapnel out to tlie belt and hold on for tho rising tide. Tlie Hope stove her bot tom, and lost part of her went her boarding, and the boats were badly chafed. It was an awful storm ; and it was not without constant exer tionthat we keptatloat, balingout tliescud that broke over us, and warding off the ice with boat hooks. “ At 3 o’clock the tide was high enough for ’us to scale the ice cliti'. One by ono we pull ed up the boats upon a narrow shelf, tho whole sixteen of us uniting at eaeli pull. We were too much worn down to unload ; but a deep and narrow gorge opened in the cliff's almost at the spot where we clambered up; and, as we pushed the boat into it on an even keel, the rocks seemed to close above our heads, until an abrupt turn in tlie course of the ravine placed a protecting cliff between us and tlie gale. We were completely encaved.” Mormonism in Denmark. Mormonism is making such progress in Den mark as to cause the religious and reflecting part of tho inhabitants to look with dread to tho future, as it might exercise a most baneful influence on the peasantry and lower classes, who are exclusively to be found among tho converts. Several petitions have been sent to the Government from different parts of the kingdom, praying that a stop may be put to the nuisance, and that the Mormons be prohi bited from exercising in future their religious ceremonies with so much demonstrative osten tation as they are now allowed to do. Jutland is the part where the great hot bed of Mormon prosclytisrn is to be found: and, as they even tually make up caravans or parties of four or five hundred together, to emigrate to America, in order to settle on tho banks of the Great Salt Lake, it will have the effect of ultimately depopulating the province to a great degree, and depriving its agriculture of many industri ous hands. It is especially to this point that tho petition to the King, just sent in from the town <>f Aalborg, and signed by upwards of 200 ol the principal inhabitants, lays so much stress, and calls the attention of the Govern ment. The Political Showmen and their Guyas ticutus. Judge Sandy Morton in a recent address in New York, illustrated the character of the Kansas agitation, aud tho profits the Black Re publicans were deriving from the imposition, by an allusion to the story of the Guyasticu tus, which our readers may have heard perhaps before, but which will bear repetition: Well, I will tell it to you, as illustrating how great a hue and cry, and what alarm can bo raised to sustain a false issue. A number of yeais ago, about the time 1 was preparing my self for the active duties of life, a couple of young bloods, about being emancipated from college, found themselves without funds to spend the vacation, or, to use their precise lan guage, “with not a bit of dough.” Their pa rents were well to do in the world, but so ex cessive had been the extravagance of the youths, aud so frequent their calls for money, that a stop had been put to further drafts upon the parental crib. They were too honest to steal and too pround to beg, so they hit upon tho following expedient to raise the wind: At the dead of night they visited an adjoining town, wh**re they were not known, and the next morning notified the peoplo, by mammoth hand bills, that that evening would he exhibit ed, at a described place, the tremendous ani mal calle the “Guasticutus.” It was described a complete nondescript—larger than the mas todon, more terrific than the hyena, that it fed alone on human flesh—in fact, a perfect mon struin horrendum —just about such an animal as you might imagine a cross to he between a grizzly bear and a streak of greased lightning. In speaking of it, the bills used this language: ‘•When it ilrinks, rivers into it flow; When it eats, tho mountains less’ning grow; When it sneezes, whirlwinds from it roll; Anil when it walks, it shakes the earth from pole to pole. [Laughter and Applause.] It was exhibited that night, “Admission twenty-five cents, negroes aud children half price.” Well of course there was great anxie ty to see this curious animal, and the town was in a continued state of excitemen from one end to the other. As soon as night fell the peoplo commenced gathering. One of the young men put himself at the door to receive tlie mouey, and the other was bohind the scenes quieting tho animal. The place of exhibition rapidly filled, anil just as soon as the last quarter was supposed to be pocketed, a tremendous rattling of dhains was heard behind the scenes; groans add shrieks succeeded, and there was a terrible scratching upon the floor, and about the cur tain. The people naturally manifested some alarm, when the rattling of the chains became greater, the groans and shrieks more terific, the scratching more manifest, until finally one of the young men rushed before the audience, his hair disheveled, his clothes in tatters, apparent blood streaming from him, while his face indi cated the most acute agony, and shouted to the crowd. “Feller citizens! men, women chil dren, aud niggers of this good town, for God Almighty’s save yourselves quick for the Guy asticutus is loose! the Guyasticutus is loose!” They did save themselves, and in their con fusion and fright the young men escaped with their ill-gotten “dough.” So, fellow citizens, we have had the Guyasti curus of the Kansas question! The clanking of chains, thegroansand “shrieksfor freedom,” the major intention of all of which has been to impose upon tho people by false pretenses, as the young men of whom I spoke in connection with the Guyasticutus anecdote, imposed upon the credulity of those who listened to them. The Cuban Slave Trade. A letter from Havana states that the slave trade between Cuba and Africa is very active, and adds: Two landings on the South side count 063 negroes; on the North, East ofCardeans, 374 or 375 ; 1337 in all—having lost by death on the voyages thirty six in the vessels, showing unusual care for the comfort of their victims. The importation of slaves is perfectly system atised, and with the best will for its preven tion, in conformity with the words or inter diction uttered and reiterated by the Captain General, can be carried on with impunity; es pecially as long as your merchant princes, shipbuilders, Ccc., are interested in its pursuit. The orders of the Cuban traders are eager ly sought for in your shipyards, and ten per cent, of overt profit will make some of your veriest saints sinners in Africa. At any rate, Yankee ingenuity and Yankee enterprise serve to defeat the best efforts of this Government for the suppression of the slave trade, and they may well give up in despair. The complaints belong at home more than here at the present time, for without a file of soldiers for every foot of 1800 miles of sea coast, and each one imbued with tho power and the spirit of Con cha, it could not be prevented, with the temp tation that is held out for success. Slavery in Nicaragua. We gave in our isssue of yesterday, an ab stract of the decrees of the Nicaraguan govern ment, by which the institution of domestic slavery has been re-established, and ingenious journalists at the North, connecting this cir cumstance witli the recent visit of Mr. Soule to that country, have discovered the workings of a very comprehensive scheme of Southern policy. Our readers will remember that one of the sentiments expressed in tho Democratic Platform at Cincinnati, was the effect that the United States cannot but sympathise with the efforts being made in Central America to regenerate that portion of the Continent, and the lact that Mr. Soule left this Convention and immediately afterwards proceeding to Nicaragua, and purchasing a sugar plantation forSSU,UOU, they think conclusively determines tho meaning of that clause to bo that the re generation of this tract of country is to consist in bringing it again under the institution of do mestic slavery. If the area of slavery were not already too extensive for the number of our slaves, we might confess that the policy, even so interpreted, would be a wise one—but as we have already too much laud for lubor, we cannot confess that the policy has been dictated by Southern influence. The following are the facts in reference to this movement at Nicara gua. Nicaragua, prior to 1838, was a ineuber of the central Ameicun confederacy, embracing also the four other States of Honduras, Gua temala, Sau Salvador and Costa Rica. In 1838, she dissolved hero connection with that confed eracy, but perpetuated its decrees, one of which abolished slavery. This was, in all prob ability, objectionable to Walker as it may have tended to arrest Southern emigration and it was perhaps un act of very wise policy upon his part, whether influenced by Mr. Soule or not, to abrogate the law, aud tnrow the country opetyis well to the property as to the citizens of the Southern States. —Charleston Standard. Fatal Accident. The body of an unknown man was found lying on the track of the Georgia Railroad, near the five mile station, on Thursday morn ing. Ho was a passenger on the down tain of Wednesday evening, and is supposed to have fallen otf, being intoxicated. As the tick ets had been collected, he was not missed.— We learn there was a considerable amount of money found ou his body, but no clue to his name, or residence. He is supposed to be a Tennesseean. —Augusta Sentinel. TELEGRAPHIC. Telegraphed to tho Daily Sun. Owing to tho excessive charge of electricity in the atmosphere last night, we failed to re ceive our usual telegraphic dispatches. Additional by the Arabia. The London Times in its money article of the 11th says that the next monthly statement* of the Banks of England and France will be looked for with great anxiety, and it is believ ed will show a great diminution in unemploy, ed notes. The discount applications at the Bank of England in a single day amounted £1,000,0011 a great part of which would fall due on Mon day 13th. On the same day, however, divi dends and quarterly annuities would full ,], le so that no relief is to bo expected from that score. Professor Morse has convinced all who have consulted him, of the entire feasibility of tel egrnpliic correspondence across the Atlantic. New York Market. New York, Oct. 24. —The day’s business i n Cotton sums up 1,000 bales, at figures allow our last reports. The quotations were, fit, lands Fair 18J, Orleans Middling 12£. Flour has also moved, quotations up to $7.25 a $7.00 for Southern. Wheat goes slowly at $1.57, Red, and $1.7:; White. Corn unchanged. Spirits Turpentine have declined to 441 c. Transactions in Rice ai-e given of 700'tier ces at 5. la Freights, for Grain cargoes, lower rates are taken. The Elections. Columbia, Oct. 24. — The official returns from the several counties of Pennsylvania have all been roceived at Harrisburg, and the Dem ocratic majorities stand: For Canal Commissioner 2,774 Surveyor General 3,735 Attorney General 3,207 The Senate of Pennsylvania, it appear*, will have a fusion majority of 3; the House a Democratic majority of o—showing a joint ballot majority of 3 for the democrats. Telegraphic Rumors. New York, Oct. 22. — 1 t. is rumored that several parties are engaged in fitting out sla vers, in consequence of the recent, decree of President Walker re-establishing slavery in Nicaragua. From llio Charleston Mercury. The Protestant Episcopal Church. Messrs. Editors: It may not have passed away yet from your memories, that some year or so ago, you quoted the New York “Church man,” in of proof Abolitionism beingrifein ihe Protestant Episcopal Church, and predicted the division of said Clmrcli, as of other l’ro testaut. bodies, on the question of slavery. Neither may you, perhaps, have forgotten that I noticed your editorial, and informed you that, the “ Churchman” had long sunk 100 low in the estimation of most people to lie taken as any exponent of opinion in this Church. Aud further, that I had hever, dur ing a ministery of more than a quarter of a century, met with a single clergyman of our church who would allow that lie was an Abo litionist, excepting only one, who was reput ed to be half crazy. Since then, and within a few months, an other has prostituted the pulpit to the utter ance of such sentiments; but lias been re quested by his own Vestry to send in his re signation, and been condemned by the uni versal voice of all our church papers, even the one published in Boston. The General Convention of the church, com posed of Deputies, Clerical and Lay, and Bishops from every quarter of our civil Un ion, and numbering thirty-two Bishops, one hundred and thirty in Clergymen, and seventy two Laymen, in attendance, has now been in session more than a fortnight. In its lower house are some of the most distinguished law yers and politicians of the whole country such as the Chief Justices, present or pre vious, of Vermont, Alabama and North Caro lina —.Judges from Maryland and Pennsylva nia ; besides some who have been, or are, prominent in the Senate and House of Repre sentatives at Washington. These, with not a few of our most eminent clergymen, have been discussing questions of Diocessan aud general legislation, and of the limits and functions of the two respectively, involving the whole Judiciary system of the church. The gravest martyrs have, of course, been brought into earnest consideration; for example, the rules of evidence, the persons who shall be witnesses, and sundry other top ics, which any of your intelligent readers will perceive are of extreme delicacy in the pres ent excited conditiun of the public mind.— We have just passed the last of several days in what must be the “test question,” the ex perimentum crucis in an Episcopal Church— the Canon for the trial of Bishops. The ablest men in the Convention have been at work upon it. It has been debated with the utmost freedom. The keenest intellects have sharpened each other’s wits in shaping its in tricate framework. And yet, from first to last, through the whole debate, (with the ex ception of a single speech, which, though in flammatory enough, fell like a spark upon the water,) not a word lias escaped from any one. however, fur away in the North, or the Fast or the West, which might, not. have been spok en at the corner of Broad and Meeting streets, and would not have met approval there. Ay, more; we Southerners have been greet ed with most cordial affection, listened to with respectful attention, and treated altogether with such fraternal consideration, that our hearts are very full of love in return, and ot thankfulness to God. South Carolina and Massachusetts on the best of terms : New York and Virginia exchange and interchange continual courtesies ; Ohio and Mississippi are arm in arm ; Maine and Texas go side by side ; and, the whole Convention in hnih Houses, by acclamation, agree to meet next south of Mason and Dixon’s line, in Rich mond, Va., expressly to give proof to the Southern brethren of confidence and affection, and evidence to all the rest of the world that, however, conscientiously we may differ, even about the “ (jues/io vexata” of the day, weal are determined that we will not, thereib>' e > break the bond of Christian fellowship; b" 1 would rather, if we may, help with that lowship to stay the torrent, which also may sweep away the fabric of our civil Union. Yours, respectfully, I’AUL TRAPIER- Large Egg Plant- Dr. W. L. Williams seut to our office a e days ago, the largest egg plant that wo hau seen this season. It weighed 5 pounds, !l measured 22 inches injcircumference. — Ore* it’ bar,(Ala. )Beoeon. Cooper K. Watson, of Ohio, who was to Congress two years ago by 2,781 ma.i rl and this year is defeated by a Democrat, ‘is • man,” says tbe Chicago Times, “ w ' lo Jim Lane’s challenge to Douglas. I l| e P e '’’ , of his District did not think Jim Lane s sec a fit man to represent them.”