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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. ♦ 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.” —.——■ - • 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. ’ ‘ ‘ —% • 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.