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COLUMBT T R:
Monday Morning, Nov. 3, 1850.
IjAIIUEST city circulation.
Melancholy Affair.
’ Our citizens were much surprised and pained
yesterday morning, by a report that Dr. E. T.
Taylor, an estimable citizen of Columbus, and
the President of the Manufacturers’ and Me
chanics’ Bank in this city, bad attempted, on
Saturday night, to commit suicide, by a stab in
the breast with the spear of his sword cane. It
occurred, we understand, about five miles east
of West Point, on the cars of the Lagrange
Hail Hood, lie was carried to West Point, in
which direction the train was moving at the
time, whore modical attention was given him.
The stab was attempted at the heart, but ap
pears to have missed its object, and we learn
by the noon train yesterday, his physicians
think he will reegper'.
It is supposed ne was laboring under mental
derangement caused by pecuniary embarrass
ment.
Agricultural Papers.
The “Soil of the South,” published in this
city, and the “ American Cotton Planter,”
published in Montgomery—for November, are
on our table. They are both filled with inter
esting reading for the Planter and Gardener.
They should bo in the hands of every cultiva
tor of the soil. Price’—one dollar a year.
A Post Office clerk at BulFulo, New York,
named E. F. Fellows, was arrested on the 25th
ult. on the complaint of Maj. Dickii, Postmas
ter, who charges him with robbing letters pass
ing through his hands.
Mr. Richard Moore, his wife and their five
children, in Philadelphia, were shockingly
burnt on the 25th ult., by theirclothing taking
fire from the explosion of a Carnpbene lamp.
Three of the children have sinco died, and the
other two are not expected to livo. Mr. and
Mrs., M., it is said, may possibly recover.
Tile Baltimore papers are earnest in the ex
pression of a hope that the peace of the city
will be preserved during the coming election,
and in anticipation of the danger of distur
bance vigorous measures are recommended. In
view of the disturbances which lately have so
much affected the peace of that city, the Ame
rican recommends a strong, well organized
and disciplined police, efficient not only for
great occasions but for tho vigilance necessa
ry to the ordinary incidents of daily life.—
Tiiis measure has been defeated by petty dis
agreements, but it is hoped that the emergen
cies of the present occasion will be sufficient
to bring about harmony and co-operation.
Fire in Norfolk.
On Sunday morning the 26th October, a
destructive fire occurred inNorforlk, Va., de
stroying about SBO,OOO worth of property.
Among the sufferers are, James Barry, whose
China Store and residence were burnt; also,
the six handsome stores on Market Square,
as well as damaging the houses on the South
side of Union street. Twenty-four persons
wore, with difficulty, rescuodfrow the flames,
by the use of ladders extended to the porticos,
and windows of sleeping apartments.
The Democrats of the Fourth District of
Massachusetts, have nominated Col. Charles
<l. Greene, editor of (lie Boston Dost, a sound
national statesman us a candidate to represent
the District in Congress of the United States.
By nominating in the first place the most bril
liant and eloquent man in America—Hon.
Ilufus Choate, and then upon his declination,
conferring the honor on Col. Greene, they
have shown a determination to place in the
councils of the country, the very ablest and
soundest men amongst them to guard their
rights, and promote their interests.
Two curious cases of intermarriage (says
the correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch,)
has occurred in Nowton county, in that State.
Mr. Stephen Daniel, aged 50, married a daugh
ter of N. Rogers, who was 15; and N. Rogers,
aged 152, married a daughter of Stephen Dan
iel, who was 14 years of ago. Will you be so
kind as to let us know the relationship of their
offspring, ns each couple has several ? All the
parties are still alive.
A New Caunon.
The Dallas (Texas)Gazetto says a gentleman
residing in Tarrant county, in that State, has
invented a Cannon which ho can discharge forty
times in a minute. The gun swabs itself und
does not become heated at all. Tho inventor
will proceed to Washington soon, to get a pat
ent for the invention. Should it prove suc
cessful, it will revolutionize military opera
tions, and be numbored among tbo most im
portant discoveries of the age.
The Inventor entertains no doubt of its com
plete success.
A Novelty.
Tho Shreveport (La.) Gazotte was presented
on the 18th of October with several small yel
low peuches, which are of tho second crop of the
present year. We have known npplo trees to
bear a second crop, but we nover know nature
to play such a prauk with peach trees before.
Tho fruit was quite sweet, and the stones with
out koruels.
Official Vote in Texas.
Tho otlicial vote of Texas, given at the Au
gust election, has at length been received at
Austin. Tho average democratic majority on
tho State ticket, is 20,0 ti I J.
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Mexican Affairs.
The Now Orleans Picayune publishes a let
ter from Gen. Gadsden, which intimates that
iho new American Minister will not find the
Government to which he is accredited in exis
tence, and states that Alvarez and Vidaurri
were both advancing on the capital, in order
to overthrow l’resideut Comoufort.
Such is tho extreme of financial (rouble in
Franee that “all the editors of the l’aris jour
nals have been summoned before tho Minister
of the interior, and ordered to withhold all
comments upon the commercial and financial
crisis.” That’s the way of relieving a “tight”
(money market, which is particularly Freuch,
but is not likely to prove very successful.
Large Sale in Nicaragua.
The Slobile Tribune has received copies of
El Nicaraguense of the 20th and 27th ult
They contain a sale advertisement of tho con
fiscated property of those persons who viola
ted their oath of allegiance to the new gov
ernment. The whole value of this property,
as set down by the commissioners who have
charge of it, is $763,000. Judged by the
standard of prices within this country this val
uation is very moderate. For example, one
estate is pot down—its acres and condition are
not described—as having six thousand head of
cattle and five hundred horses. And for all
these the valuation is $41,000. In this coun
try the cattle would, on an average, be worth
at least ten dollars a head and the horses at
least forty—so that there are here SBO,OOO at
once. U’ there be such an amount of cattle
and horses, and they arc any thing even re
motely resembling the same sort of stock with
in this country, one would suppose that in this
single sale there is the finest chance for a large
speculation. Another one, with 1500 cattle
and 200 horses is put up at $11,000; another
with 2000 cattle and 300 horses at $12,000,
and so on through two columns of advertise
ments in El Nicaraguense.
These farms, in addition, contain large quan
tities of valuable laud—for it is impossible to
suppose that they should feed so many horses
and cattle without pretty valuable soils for
supplies.
What is more, payment for the purchase of
these properties rnay be made in military
script, which may be, or could have been
recently, purchased, we suppose, in any quan
tities at ten or twenty cents in the dollar.
El Nicaraguense says:
We do not vary from the truth at all when
we say that much of the property uppraised
in the advertised list is put at a price one-third
below what it will bring, and one-half wbat it
is worth. Speculators abroad will see that
this chance is not allowed to go by default.
If a few men of capital, having proper man
agers, should take advantage of these offers,
they might run a steamship between this coun
try and Nicaragua in carrying away the horses
and cattle, and with profit.
The sale is to take place on the first day of
next January, as set down in thoofficial adver
tisement of sale.
For the Daily Sun.
Col. Bnker's Speech.
“On Wednesday evening last, after only a
very short notiee by handbill, the largest polit
ical meeting held iu this city during the can
vass, assembled at Temperance Hall.”—En
quirer of Saturday.
On reading the above paragraph in the En
quirer of Saturday, 1 involuntarily exclaimed
with a Shakspearean hero, “Lord! how the
world is given to lying.” Now, 1 happened to
compose one of “ that largest political meet
ing,” and in all candor, 1 must say, it was de
cidedly the slimmest affair of the kind I have
attended during the canvass. The Ilall was
not more than half filled, and among the num
ber present, 1 noticed many prominent Demo
crats, who served to swell that number. In
the back part of the meeting where I sat, there
was a beggardly account of empty boxes,
whereas, at several Buchanan meetings that I
have attended “during the canvass,” they
were filled to overflowing. The Enquirer cer
tainly must havo indulged iu a “smile” or
two before he went to that meeting, which
caused him to see things double.
As tho notice was only given by hand bill
we should like to know what all that drum
ming around town just before night, was for ?
Wonder if it had anything to do in notifying
the citizens that “ Black Ben” Baker, as the
Enquirer familiarly dubs him, was to address
tho pcoplo that night at Temperance Hall. If
it did, I should call that sufficient notice to
collect all the citizens of Columbus, and 1 ap
prehend there are few people that are anxious
enough to hear “Black Ben” to pay for. a
nights’ lodging at the Perry House to do it.—
If there are, all 1 have to say, “ there is no
accounting for tastes,” as the old woman said
when she kissed the cow.
An Independent Outsider.
Brutal Murder.
A most brutal and unfeeling murder was
perpetrated iu the Western part of Guilford
couuty, N. C., on Saturday evening, the 18tli
ult. A young woman by the name of Martha
Finnix. daughter of Johu Fitmix, started on
that afternoon to go from one neighbor’s house
to another; but not arriving, her friends and
neighbors becoming alarmed, made diligent
search from Saturday night till Monday morn
ing, when hor dead body was found iu a thick
et in the woods, having been shot through the
head with a shot gun, and her throat cut.—
She had evidently been enticed into the woods
by some fiend in human shape, and thon bru
tally murdered. The girl and her parents are
highly respectable, says the Greensborough
Times, and the shocking affair has created the
most intense excitement throughout the whole
neighborhood.
An Irishman Caned by Lewis D. Campbell.
The Cincinnati Commercial has the follow
ing account of the caning of an intoxicated Irish
man, at Hamilton, Ohio, on election day:
“Hon. Lewis D. Campbell caned an Irish
man, on election day, at. Hamilton, with con
siderable fury, putting him in the way of being
among tho ‘sore headed’ for some time. There
are about twenty-five different stories concern
ing this affair. The Campbell version is that
the son of the Emealdlsle was very drunk, and
followed Campbell from placo to place, abus
ing him in most villainous terms—that Camp
bell left tho polls to keep out of his way, but
being still followed up, hunted ‘and perplexed
in the extreme,’ fell upon his persecutor and
caned him. The ‘other side’ is, in brief, that
the Irishman had been hired, for the sum of
three dollars, to veto for Campbell, and getting
druuk on his unusual supply of cash, voted the
‘whole dimicratio ticket,’ and then took occa
sion to tell Campbell about it, and taunt him,
uutil ho provoked the vengeance of the Butler
Poney, who was fined fifty dollars for the satis
faction lie had taken out of Erin go Braugh.”
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Lot Knougli of Illinois.
Speaker Banks made three speeches in llii
uois—the last in Chicago—and has got enough
of Illinois! He left yesterday for Massachu
setts, abandoning all his appointments in thnt
State. It is thought he has gone on to arouse
the (Quakers of Massachusetts to vote, lest that
State too will go for Buchanan,
The Transfer of Texas to Spain.
Some of our readers familiar with the fact
of the transfer of Texas to Spain simultaneous
ly with the acquisition of Florida, may like
ourselves, have lived in ignorance of the rea
son of it. Why was it that Texas, once an
nexed to the United States, after tho lapse of
many yeare, had to be re-annexed ?
An interesting explanation is given in a late
letter from Gen. Jessup, to Senator Yulee.—
We quote a portion of the letter :
My Dear Sir: Agreeably to my promise to
communicate to you, in whttiug, the substruce
of the conversations I have held with you on
the transfer of Texas to Spain, and of the at
tempt by sectional political leaders to restrict
negro slavery in tho Territories of the United
States west of the Mississippi, I proceed to
give you the following narrative of facts, with
the view which I entertained at the time and
still entertain, in regard to the attempted re
striction.
As regards Texas, Mr. Monroe, find some,
it nut all, of the members of his cabinet, were
apprehensive, as early as the dose of the first
session of the 15th Congress, that great oppo
sition would be made to the acquisition of Flo
rida if Texas, a part of Louisiana, were not
surrendered to Spain. The acquisition of Flo
ida was then a Southern, and the retention of
Texas a Western question ; but the leaders of
a powerful party in the country, chiefly sec
tional. had resolved that we should not have
both. A Northern Senator, the acknowledged
leader of one of the great parties in the coun
try, was understood to have declared that the
treaty then being negotiated should not be rat
ified if the line were placed a foot beyond the
Sabiue ; he said the South and the West were
taking too rapid a flight, and it was time to
clip their wings. The negotiations for the
purchase of Florida were continued with the
Spanish .Minister during the recess of Congress,
and Mr. Monroe, from information from vari
ous sources, became almost certain that the
treaty would not be ratified should he insist on
retaining Texas.
Some time in the autumn of 1818, therefore,
the Secretary of State was required to offer,
iu a counter proposition to one from the Span
ish Minister, the line pretty much as it was
afterwards adopted. Mr. Monroe, knowing,
however, that the instructions of the minister
would justify him in transferring to us the
Spanish claim to the whole territory east of
the Rio Grande, hoped before the close of the
negotiations to find our own people disposed
to receive it; but, after the meeting of Con*
gross, he became satisfied that no treaty re
taining the whole, or even a.considerable part,
of Texas could be ratified. There were high
considerations, as well of national interest as
of public policy, which made it not only desir
able, but necessary, that the treaty he ratified.
The South had suffered greatly by the Brit
ish occupying Florida during the war of 1812,
and by their agents remaining there and ex
citing the Indians to hostilities subsequent to
that war; The possession of Florida was,
therefore, considered necessary to the peace
and security of the whole South.
The settlements of Georgia were rapidly ex
tending to the Chattahoochee; and Alabama
was fast rising to the condition of a State.—
Should Florida remain in the hands of Spain
difficulties similar to those in relation to the
navigation to the Mississippi, but on a smaller
scale were foreseen in regard to the navigation
of the Apalachicola, a river formed by the
junction of the Flint and Gbattahooehee rivers
at the southern extremity of Georgia and Ala
bama, running through Florida, and falling
into the Gulf of Mexico within its limits.—
These difficulties, it was believed, could be
avoided only by acquiring the territory.
Another object was to put an end to the
African slave trade; for it was known to the
administration of Mr. Monroe that persons en
gaged in that trade were iu the habit of smug
gling African negroes through Florida into the
Creek country, and thence into Georgia, Ala
bama, Mississippi and Louisiana; besides,
Mr. Monroe was desirous that the indepen
dence of Mexico and Spanish South America
should be acknowledged ; but it was deemed
important that the line between the territories
of Spain and the United States should be de
termined, particularly on tho Pacific, as outlie
acknowledgment of the independence of Mexi
co the claims of Spain would become Mexican,
and it was believed the line could be more
read’ly adjusted with Spain than with Mexico.
These were some of the leading considerations
which induced the administration of Mr. Mon
roe to accept the treaty with the line which it
established.
From tho Dumfries (C. \V.) Reformer, Oct. 15.
Shocking Occurrence—Two Women Eaten
by Wolves.
(Jur pen has seldom had to record a more
heart rending circumstance than we are about
to relato. Some ten days ago, in the northern
extremity of the township of Mornington, two
females went out in the evening in search of
their cows, and, not returning that night,
search was made in the morning, when, and
to relate, their skeletons were only to be
found, their flesh having been devoured by the
wolves. We are yet unable to record the
particulars, the sad outlines only having as yet
reached us. Our information also states that
a man in that locality has been missing for
the last ten days. No trace of him cau be
found, whatever, and fears are entertained
that he met the same lamentable fate as the
unfortunate women.
The wolves were never known to be so nu
merous or so ravenous as they nre this season
iu this section of the country. It is regarded
as unsafe to be alone on the public highways
after dark. Reports are reaching us almost
every week of some of their ravages through
the country. Almost everybody has been vis
ited by them, and mischief done to a greater
or less extent.
A farmer in North Easthope had thirty
sheep killed in a single night by them. They
drove them to the barn-yard and killed them
there. A few nights previous they killed 12
belonging to tho same man.
Bears are also numerous and remarkably
saucy. A Mr. Bennett, of Mornington, was
attacked a short time ago in his own field, a
little after dark, by an old bear with three
cubs. lie fought her off till somo of the neigh
bors came to his relief. An immenseono was
killed in Mornington a few days ago.
Wino Test—Mr. A*t's Proprosal.
The wine test of Mr. Charles Axt is post
poned until Thursday, Nov. 20th, when he
will be happy to meet in this city all manu
facturers of or dealers in Hock Wine, native
or foreign, in competition with his Georgia
Hock, made from the Catawba Grape, of tlie
growth of 1850. He hopes there will be a
full attendance, ns lie is determined to con
vince the public that better wine can be made
in the South than in any other part of the
world.
Will exchange papers, in the South, please
copy. —Auymta Conetitutionaloit.
On Sunday afternoon, Jolm Humphries and
William Carberry, laboring men, accidentally
blew themselves up by smoking pipes iu Whip
ple’s p ‘\vder drying house. There was very
little powder in the place, but both men were
biumv . to death.
from the Spiritual Telegiaph.
Hon. J. B. Macy lost from the Niagara.
Letter from Governor Tallrnadye:
Fond ku Lac, Wis., Sept., ISSG.
Mtmrs. J’artridye urn Brittain:
You have, no doubt, seen in the public pa
pers the melanebolly fate of our friend, the
Hon. John R. Macy, by the burning of tho
steamer Niagara, near Port Washington, on
Lake Michigan. lie, with several others, was
precipitated from the small boat into the wa
ter and drowned, whilst it was being let down
at the stern of the burning steamer. Mr. Ma
cy, for his many private virtues and great
public spirit, has left an example worthy of
imitation. His loss will be severely felt by
his afflicted family, nnd deeply lamented by
the whole community in which he lived, lie
was a devoted husband, father and friend, and
pre eminent iu the discharge of all the duties
appertaining to these various relations. He
was unsurpassed in his energy, enterprise and
public spirit, and was withal a devoted Spirit
ualist, and departed this life in the firm and
confident belief of entering on a place of ever
lasting Progression. He stood where every
true Spiritualist should stand, on the broad
platform laid down by Christ, of love to God
and his neighbor, and, to the best of his abili
ty, endeavored to perform the duties conso
nant with his belief. His bereaved widow en
tertains the same belief; and the greatest con
solation she has in this sudden and trying be
reavement is, that she can still communicate
with her husband ns a “ministering .Spirit”
from another sphere of existence.
Mr. Macy was drowned on the 24th instant
about 4 o’clock, p. m. On the morning of the
next day, and before any rumor had been re
ceived of the burning of the steamer, my
daughter, who has at times exhibited dif
ferent phrases of mediumship, saw shadows
entering and flitting across her room. She
related this fact to the family, and said she
was impressed that it betokened bad news. In
the afternoon the news was received of the
the burning of the boat, and a rumor that Mr.
Macy was on board. This rumor was not be
lieved by Mrs. Macy or by his friends, because
they knew he started for Lake Superior, and
was not expected back for several days. In
the night, after the family had retired, my
daughter discovered a bright light in tho sitting
room opening into hers, and this shadow which
she has distinctly seen in the morning now
appeared in the shape and proportions, and
with the features, of Mr. Macy. She inform
ed her mother of the fact, and of the light in
the other room, which then disappeared, and
exolaimnd, “Mr. Macy is drowned! ” Anoth
er daughter, who has also had different phases
of mediumship, sleeping in another part of
the house, saw about the same time the shad
owy form and tho light in the room, as describ
ed above. Before she hau heard the name of
the steamer, and before there was any rumor
even of the manner in which he perished, she
was influenced to take her pen, and wrote
“Niagara”—“he was drowned by the upset
ting of the small-boat.” The next day for the
first time was brought the news of the manner
iu which he was drowned, by the upsetting of
the small-boat as it was being let down at the
stern of the steamer! Now, let skeptics ac
count for these manifestations in any other
mode than on the spiritual theory. His spirit
undoubtedly sought the first opportunity to
manifest itself to his friends, and that, too, in
advance of the news which afterward confirm
ed these manifestations.
Very truly yours,
N. P. Tallmage.
Ocean Currents.
The following communication is a transla
tion of a document forwarded by the Institute
of France to Dr. C. T. Jackson, of Boston,
with the request that it should be translated
and published extensively throughout Ameri
ca and the West Indies :
“The Perpetual Secretary (M. Be Beau
mont) in his letter remarks: ‘lt is desirable
that it should receive a large publicity through
out America and the AVest Indies. Since ma
ny of the floaters cast into the sea from the
frigate Queen Hortense may drift along the
coasts of Europe and Africa, even to the equa
torial current, and from thence to the Antilles
and into the Gulf Stream, making several pas
sages across the ocean, and as some of them
may pass Blicring Straits, it will be useful to
have this communication re-published in San
Francisco.’ ”
IMPERIAL INSTITUTE OF FRANCE ACADEMY OF
SCIENCES.
Extract from the Contes rendus of the Sessions
of the Academy of Sciences, Vol. XLIII.
Scssiou of Bth Sept., 1856.
PHYSICAL UEOURAI’HY.
Experiments on the direction of the currents
of the Northern Atlantic Ocean. (Letter of
It. I. 11. Prince Napoleon to M. Elie De Beau
mont, Perpetual Secretary.)
On Board La Reine Hortense, 1
20th Aug., ISSG, Lerwick Hoads, Slietlan Isles, j’
Monsieur le Secretaire Perpetuel: In the
bays of tho northern coasts, at Spitzbergen,
Iceland and Greenland, is found much floating
wood, which, of ten having wandered a long
time in the sea, impelled by currents, is at
length thrown on shore.
These woods are mostly of the pine tribe,
but nothing certain indicates their origin.
1 have wished that my voyages in the North
ern seas should contribute to our further
knowledge of these currents, which have been
studied already in their principal directions,
but whose ramifications ure little known, and
l caused to be thrown from the frigate Reine
Hortense, in her different voyages, a large
number of floaters, (fitly,) bearing the record
of their points of departure.
These floaters are made of cylinders of pine
wood, twenty-five centimetres (about, ten
inches) in diameter, and tho same length.
In the direction of the axes of the cylinders
are pierced holes, destined to receive small
phials, sealed with wax, enclosing notes of
this kind:
\ oyage of 11. 1. H. Prince Napoleon, on
board the frigate Queen Hortense, commanded
by Al. do la Ronciere, captain of the ship.
Note cast into the sea 1856.
Latitude
Longitude from Paris meridan
Those who find this billet arc requested to
send it to tho nearest French consul.
The billet is translated into English, Latin
and Russian.
The phials arc cemented into the wooden
cylinders by means of pitch, which entirely
envelopes thorn; and over them arc nailed
sheets of lead, bearing the name La Reine
Hortense and the date of their being cast
overboard; and, to attract attention to these
floaters und to prevent, their being confounded
with other floating wood, there have been
pierced through tlie cylinders two holes at
right augles, iuto which strong pogs are
driven, which project about two decimetres
and form a cross.
1 shall be very thankful to you if you will
have the goodness to write to various scientific
bodies in Europe and America, to make these
facts known to them and give them publicity,
and request them lo inform the Aeftdemy of
Sciences of France of the place where these
floaters are found.
Receive, Mr. Perpetual Secretary, tho ex
pression of my distinguished consideration.
Napoleon.
TELEGRAPHIC.
THREE DAYS LATER FROM El’Ropi;
ARRIVAL OP THE ASIA.
Telegraphed to tho Daily Sun.
New York, N ov . ]
The steamship Asia has arrived with i j
vices from Liverpool to the 18th October.
The cotton market is reported to have sii>
fened alter the sailing of the Atlantic on u, t
loth, and was firm at the sailing of the Lj.
on the 18th. Sales of the week 73,000 bale
Money continued tight, and Consols were
quoted at 91$.
From New Orleans
New Orleans, N' o v. ]
There was no change in cotton to-day, aB( ;
the sales foot up twenty-five hundred bale
Pork s2l per barrel, more asked.
Molasses 01c.
Ship Burnt at Sea.
New York, Oct. 80.-The ship South*,
Belle, was burnt at sea on the 17th inst. whil
on her way from Liverpool to Boston. ’ ‘ ‘
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New York Markets.
New York, Oct. 30.—The cotton market
continues firm. Sales to-day 800 bales.
Potestsnt Episcopal Covention, Pa
The Convention of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, lately in session at Philadelphia, iu |.
journed on Tuesday evening. The houses
tailed to concur in the proposition made l v
the House of Bishops to elect a missionary
Bishop ol Kansas and Nebraska, but the
House of Bishops revoked the sentence by
which the Right Rev. Henry U. Onderdonk
was, some twelve years ago, suspended from
the ministry. The vote, we understand, was
21 in favor of his restoration to 8 in opposition,
though the fact, however, does not appear
upon the published proceedings of the Conven
tion. This sentence was imposed at the time
that his brother, Bishop Benjamin Treadwell
Onderdank, was also suspended, and with the
facts in these cases our readers are doubtless
sufficiently familiar. The remission of the
sentence with respect to Bishop H. U. Onder*
donk will restore him to liis ministerial func
tions. hut not, it is presumed, to his Bishon
ric, which is now filled by Bishop Potter.—
This morning he will recommence his ministe
rial offices in the Church of the Ascension, at
Philadelphia, where he will preach a sermon;
in the evening he will preach at Trinity Church’
Philadelphia. The decision is received with
general satisfaction by the people of the Epis
copal Church, whose feelings have been soft
ened by the lapse of time, and by the exempla
ry conduct of tho reverend gentleman since
his suspension.
At the close of this Convention, Rev. Dv.
Hanckle, from the joint committee to nomin
ate trustees for the fund for relief of the will
ows and orphans of deceased clergymen, and
of aged and infirm clergymen, reported the
names of the Right Rev. Alfred Lee, D. 1).,
Rev. John Henry Hobart, D. D., Rev. Charles
Burroughs, D. D., Hon. Hamilton Fish, Hon.
Luther Bradish, Robert B. Minturn, Esq., and
Josiah Collins, Esq., which nominations were
unanimously confirmed. The Rev. Mr. Shand,
of Columbia, offered the following resolution:
Resolved, That the Convention cannot close
its labors without the expression of its heart
felt gratitude to the Almighty God. from whom
all good counsels proceed, for the large meas
ure of harmony which has attended its delib
erations, and the Christian courtesy and kind
ness which have characterized its proceedings.
Before the question was taken, Rev. Dr. F.
Vinton rose and said :
Mr. President: Called as we have been from
various parts of our great land, and a at season
of uncommon, unprecedented passion in the
world, without remembering that we are ciiti
zens of this great country and cannot but im
bibe the spirit that is spreading abroad
throughout the land—a spirit of estrangement,
of bitterness, ot detraction, when brother is
set against brother and father against son—
that we should have come to this assembly
and found the grace of God sufficient to enable
us to deliberatehm the solemns concern of the
Church of God for the time to come, in peace,
in harmony, with courtesy and reciprociallove,
is a spectacle which cannot fail, I think, to at
tract attention. Those who have been baptiz
ed in Jesus Christ, and who have knelt around
this alter to receive the emblems of a Savoir’s
love, and who have joined together in prayers
for the Holy Spirit to descend on this Council
of the Church, have felt in the course of our
debates the power and presence of God. To
this great land, which has been so disturbed
and is now disturbed, the spectacle of which
this resolution takes notice must be one of
hope—inspiring hope—and this, our beloved
Church, stands forth before the world as a
united Church which no dissensions cau break
and which no evil passions can pollute.
While, Mr. President, other denominations
of Christians have been split and sundered,
this Church alone exhibits unity in her code:
and though we are men of like passions with
other men, are no better than other men, are
governed by the impulses of other men, the fact
lias been presented before the world, and is
now, that we arc cue. This can been ascribed
to no other agency than thnt ascribed in this
resolution—the presence of God. And the
stability of our Church—that Church wherein
we utter one praise and one prayer in her lit
urgy—that Church which has bound us togeth
er in bonds not of man, must, in the estima
tion of the world, be esteemed as a bond of
union and of brotherhood. Wo go forth to oor
rcspcctativo homes, carrying this spirit with
us. If, iu tho course of debates, there have
been personal remarks injurious to the feelings
of any member here, for one let me ask pat
don wherever I may have been guilty. In the
spirit of these resolutions, I shall go forth
praying for God’s continued blessing upon us.
hoping still, to hear that this is a united
Church whether iu the North or South, when
ever it may be; and may God’s blessing still
rest upon it, and at tho close of every subse
quent Convention of the Church may this be
the true, unftfreed, spontaneous expression ot
every heart—gratitude to God thnt unity has
prevailed and love above.
The resolution was adopted with only one
di sen ting voice
The Gonzales Enquirer states thnt the cot
ton crop iu thui vicinity cannot possibly exceed
one third of what was raised last year. The
telegraph at Now Orleans, reports heavy rains
iu the upper Mississippi, and a slight rise m
the Ohio river, which will much facilitate the
business operations of that section.
The advices from Buffalo nnd New York are
to the effect that the Hon Carlos Euwionds,
for many year* a State Senator from tba*
county, mid delegate to the recent Whig
tionnl Convention at Baltimore, a prnminen
Silver Grey Whig, is out with a letter an
nouncing his determination to support l‘i’ e ’
lftout.