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|THE daily sun (•Monday Morning July 10 . f; =.1 ' Reported Specially for the Daily Sun. — - i Commencement Sermon West | Point Female College. 1 death. When we come to suffer and die | it would bo only mocking our agonies to tell ns of the Koran and the Shasters. j Then the philosophers of the Porch, the Academy and the Lyceum, could afford ! ns no consolation. Then we must have a diviner Saviour than Socrates; under DY BUY. david wills, d. D., pbesident op, such mighty trials we must have Jesus as a strengthened comforter and Saviour, OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY. West Point, Ga., July 9,1871. Jesus to light up the portals of the tomb j with Hih cheering presence, to perfume The commencement exercises of West I his cold grave with the fragrance of His [{Point Female Collego—A. P. Mooty, j merits, and to admit our departing spir its into the glories of the Paradise of God. President—are in progress. The com- j mcnrcmuit 'v,n preached toJ-.iv in the Methodist Church, the most com modious edifice in in the place. An immonse multitude was present— Alabama was largely represented. The people were there from all the surround ing conntry and every denomination, participated in the services. The crowd exceeds that attending all oilier commencements at this place. I give yon the following hasty synop sis of Dr. Wills’ sermon, which was truly one of the greatest efforts of this re nowned and pions divine. The subject was the adaptation of- Chris- \tianiiy to the present condition of human ynattcre. This profound and important topic was l discussed under two leading divisions. 1. Man is a religions being by creation. The argument on which this central proposition rests is threefold in its char acter. First, The repeated and luminous les sons of scripture. Man was made in the image of God, and the reference here is obviously to a moral and intellectual re semblance and not to a physical simili tude. Second, A rigid analysis of human nature conducts ns to the same conclu- • sion. The moral faculties of man lie at I the foundation of the most sober and brilliant phenomenon of his history. He has a conscience which when left to its le gitimate operations supports the authori- I ty of the divine law, thunders forth its condemnation against all sin and antici pates the fearful retributions of eternity. The deep and overflowing fountain of the affections sends forth its crystal cur rents over a wider sphere than the har row circle of earthly relationships, uud pours them into the bosom of the infi nite and ever blessed God. It is os nat ural for man to love as to breathe, and it is only when he loves his Makor with all his powere that his capacity for loving is fully developed. Thirdly, All the systems of religion, of man’s devising, which are labelled in the vast museum of history, testify that he is a .religious animal by nature. The au thor of the Consulate Empire has well said: “ Man must worship at some altar, whether it be venerable, blood-stained, or degraded.” This fact appeal's in the symbol-worship of ancient Egypt, the tire-worship of ancient Persia, and the SABBATH PULPIT REVIEW. : star-worship of ancient Chaldea. It looms up in the poetical mythology of classic Greece, and in the magnificent heraldry of old Rome; yea, tiaoes of this trnth are discernable in those disgnsting orgies which have cast a dark cloud over the entire history of heathenism. But why need we dwell upon this point when tho whole paraphernalia of Paguu- ism, its social features, its systems of philosophy, its armorial bearings and na tional monuments; yea, when its altar fires blazing from a thousand hills, pro claim that man is a roligious being in the broadest import of the term. Plutarch is the father of the noble truth enshrined in these plain words: “In travelling through the world you may find cities without walls, without a mint, without a theatre and a gymnasium, but you shall never find one without an altar, withoilt a sacrifice, and without, a God.” 2. The r » l'wJmt Chris tianity is the only religion which can meet the minute and manifold exigencies of human nature. This opens up n broader . field of thought thau we are able to tra- verse to-day; wo propose only to skirt the bolder headlands of the subject Our thonghts on this branch will be general ized under four heads: A. Christianity is the only system of truth which reveals a personal God, clothed with all the attributes of a perfect being. B. The pardon of sin is another great and urgent want of man to which the gospel of Jeeus Christ alone is adapted A half-witted man used to go about the streets of London singing the couplet, “I am just nothing at all. But Jess us Christ is all in aU.” . These simple lines contain two of the grandest truths of religion, and God mode them instrumental in the conver sion of this half-cracked character, who is First Presbyterian Church, Rev. Jno. S. Wilson, Pastor. Text—“A companion cf fools shall be destroyed.”—Prov. 13: 20. There is an animal of the lizard kind known by its power of changing its color to that of any object on which it may be. There is also an animal not of the saurian or lizard kind, which also takes its color from its associations, and that animal is man. " Fool” in Scripture means sinner, for sin is folly. Our Saviour used the word in the parable of the rich man, who had not where to bestow his goods. Sinners are fools in a higher degree than other men. ' ,. The doctrine of tho text is that he who frequents the company of sinners will be destroyed. The words of the text are absolute, but they are to be taken ia a qualified sense; for many associate with sinners by necessity or for the purpose of doing them good. The companions of sinners, who have come to an untimely end, can trace their ruin to their associates. They are de stroyed—not in time, but in eternity. 1st. When sinners become companion.- they mutually assist each other in sin ning. Men may have different views when they are apart, but when they come together they become of one mind, mere ly by association and interchange of views. Especially is this true of siuners. Hence, State Prisons, as generally man aged, are a curse instead of a blessing to society. The young and inexperienced criminals are thrown with the burd ened, confirmed, and thus become more depraved and hardened. The same is true with regard to gaming tables, iutemperence and lewdness. As there are inventions in arts and scieuces, so there are inventions in the practice of sin, for hiding it from parents or magis trates. 2d. Sinners encourage each other by argument and. invitation. "'We are especially apt to imitate sin. Sinful companions encourage each other by argument, flattery and ridicule. How many youths of pious parentage are laughed out of their good principles by mocking companions. Sinners tell their victims that the warnings of teachers and parents are a bugbear. 3d. Sinners communicate their sin by contagion. The body is more suscepti ble to disease at some times than at others; but the soul is, <rom its natural pvoneness to sin, always ready to imbibe the infection. You see a mob shouting and raving, but you know not what has assembled them. They themselves know not why they are full of passion; but it is from the principle of sympathy. 4th. Sinners exclude each other from good company. He that walketli with the good js wise, according to the first part of the verse of the text. The wise are the religious, and so the companions of sinners cannot be wise. The change from virtue to vice is grad ual;' For instance, the drunkard learns of his companions and then retires into his closet or the social board to indulge. He may drink much in private, but ho learns in society with others. With sinners the young victim learns his first lessons of fraud. The cheat be comes a thief. Profaneness has its school and holds its malignant dominion in the company of sinners. With trembling lip and aching heart, the young swearer utters liis first oath—only when he has learned to hold lightly the name of Jehovah from the association with sinners. The same is true of licentiousness.— The society of the libertine causes the feot of youth to leave the path of virtue and taking hold of tho way3 of death go down to hell. Like the Trojan youth who gathered around the Grecian horse with laughter and dancing, and hailed with joy the very cause of their ruin, so siuners treat as an object of contempt tho very cause of their ruin. “ Fools make a mock of sin.” Better put a chain around your child and keep him at home than to allow him for these’ are ever variable, oscillating like the branches before the wind. These impulses, however, can be con- troled by the exercise of determined, will and sober reason. If impulse be superior to will, n »t only no progress is made but no work can be accomplished. . v . \ We dishonor ourselves by allowing in clination to supersede duty. When the bold discoverer of America was tossed on a stormy ocean, his mind was racked with doubts, but as the undercurrent of that ocean moved onward -despite the winds, so his own indomitable will car ried him on, upheld by the religion of his ancestors and the strength of his own convictions. The reformers of the sixteenth centu ry exercised similar determination in their battle against priestly wickedness and their efforts to restore Christianity to its primitive purity. Luther was irre sistible even against the power of Kings; the consciousness of duty was even pres ent with him, and through it smote his enemies. He was strongly in earnest; the Holy Ghost shed God’s love in his heart, and opposition could not make him turn aside. He had pnt his hand to the plough and would not look back; had he done so he would have failed to leave us the legacy which we have from him, the reformation—from which our present en liglitenment is an outgrowth. We, too, have pledged ourselves to the covenant, and must; not be drawn back by the dignity of our title and power of Christian integrity; we ought to rise above trifles. Too often do men unite with the Church, not considering the importance of their vows; then fall away—thereby making others as well as themselves mis erable. May God help us to have courage and resolution to continue faithful unto death, and to lie down with the noble soldiers of the cross, and with them ascribe all honor and glory to the God of our salva tion. What in each, of you? “Nothing but leaves. ” 3. Is his curse resting upon any here? Are there blighted hearts, dead spirits, emotionless souls, fruitless lives, severed branches, withering, dying? ^ Are yon bearing the golden sheaves of a bountiful harvest, or only chaff? Have you precious fruits, or nothing but leaves ? ■‘Ah I who shall thus the Master meet, Bearing hut withered leaves? Ahl who shall at the Savior’s feet. Before the awful judgment seat, Lay down for golden sheaves, Nothing but leaves? new a shining light in the chnrch of Mr. j to rnn abroad at nigbt or otherwise asso- Spurgeon. C. Christianity is preeminently a reli gion of facts, and on this account it is peculiarly adapted to all classes and con ditions of mankind. “The Dairy man’s Daughter," “The Young Cottager,” •‘the African” whose characters have been vividly portrayed by Legh Rich mond, and who spent all their days amid snes of poverty, obscurity and toil, re as noble examples of piety as the r sun ever beheld, and died as no mere ilosopher ever died. D. But tho eminent adaptation and ad- ciute with the vile. criug. In ordinary affairs we feel the autoge of the Christian religion con- j great advantage of unwavering fidelity to St. Phillip’s Church.-Pulpit filled by Rev. S. J. Pinkerton. Text—“Aw cf Jesus said unto him : Noma, hiring put his hand to die plough and tooling bad is ft for the kiujdoin of God."’-—Luke ix: 62. This language inculcates the absolute necessity of looking forward, if we wish to attain spiritual prosperity aud future salvation. This is taught by the Apostle whenever he saw the appearance of wav- FlRST BAPTIST CHURCH—REV. E. W. WARREN, PASTOR. Text—And when he saw a Jig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon but leaves only, and said unto it, ‘ Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward forever. And presently theji6 tree withered 11 may.—Matt. 21:19. On the day before this miracle, Christ had enjoyed a grand triumphal march into the “City of the Great King.” The multitude spread their garments, and cast palm branches on the way, and cried hosannah to the Son of David ; blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord; hosannah in the highest.” He cast out from the temple all those who had made His Father’s house “ a den of thieves.” As he healed the blind and lame—the children who beheld these good works echoed the shout of the multitude, “Hosannah to the Son of David.” On the next morning before breakfast, as He returned to the city, from tbe hospitable home of Laza rus, where He had spent a night of quiet repose ; He saw one fig tree by the way- side, clothed with foliage. Although “the time of figs was not yet.” Still as a man, He had the right to expect fruit, because there were leaves—for the two always grew together. Finding the tree had pnt forth the pretensions of fruit, without meeting the expectations awakened there by, He pronounced a curse upon it, Among all the miracles of Christ, this, upon an inanimate object, is the only one characterized by any degree of severity and yet, this is the most brilliant display of mercy found among His wonderful works. It is the bell of warning, hung upon the rock of death, and constantly rung by the waves of time, sounding out in the ears of every mariner, “Be what you profess.” This tree is symbolical of 1 The Jewish nation. It professed to hold in reverence, all the sacred treasures of Godliness, but when search was made by the “King of the Jews,” He found chaff for wheat, and dross for gold. His curse rests upon it yet. 2. The Pharisees. They were the religious teachers; invi ted the people to learn of them and fol low their examples. Their professions were so far ahead of Christ that they ut terly rejected his pretensions and princi ples. But they had only the form, not the power of godliness; the shadow, with out the substance. 3. Church members of the present day. We say, by our profession, “We are the light of the world;” does it “see our good works ?” “We are the salt of the earth;” does it feel our savory influence? “We are witnesses for Christ;” do we commend Him by the evidence we bear? “We are his by the purchase of his blood;” are we really and in practice his, or do we serve ourselves ? 4. The unregenerate. Yen profess to fear God, does your life prove it? to reverence religion, but do you embrace it ? Why reject that which j you reverence ? To believe then why withhold your heart and life service ? CHRISTIAN CHURCH—HUNTER STREET—REV. T. M. HARRIS, PASTOR. Text—“Arad ye are complete in Him.” —ColL 11, 10. «*/ can do dll things through Christ, which strengtheneth me.”—Phillipians 4, 13. The lesson taught is-the weakness of humanity and the strength of Christi anity. The weakness of the natural man —the power of the spiritual man.— Strength in weakness. From this we evolve two points. 1st Human weakness—or the Natural man. 2d. Spiritual power—or the New man. The view taken of human weakness in matters of spiritual or religious life, is that we are completely powerless, that it would require as great a miracle as the resurrection of Jesus from the dead to enable man to do anything acceptable to God. It is urged that he is “dead in trespass and in sin;” that he has no more power to do one spiritual act than a body dead has to perform a phys ical act; that he might live in the very blaze of gospel light, at the feet of the living ministry, in the congregation of the saints; but except he be quickened by the Spirit of the Living God, he would live and die; and never experience one single spiritual emotion—no more than a corpse could feel the motion of life in it. Every conversion is considered a miracle as great as raising the dead; greater even, as the soul is greater than the body. SCRIPTURE VIEW OF THE NATURAL MAN. “ When we were* without strength in due time Christ died for the ungodly.” You hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and in sin. At that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenant of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. By the offence of.one man judgment came upon all men to condemnation. This is the dark .picture. He is weak, ungodly, a sinner, an alien, an enemy under condemnation, dead in trespass and in sin, without hope and without God in the world. Yet to such the apostle preached the Gospel; they were able to believe and obey, and of such he said, “And ye are complete in Him.” - Of these very men he said, “Christ is made unto you wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption.” I can »t in the fact that it is the trnel y and solace of man in the dark j of adversity and ia the awful hum' of any plan whatsoever; still more is this ii. cessaiy in Christian da ties. There can U do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. How is it that these men, once dead, now stand complete in Christ, lacking nothing. First. “He is in Christ.” Second. “Christ strengtheneth him. 1 He heard the word—trusted—obeyed- was baptised into Christ—put on Christ —is complete in him—can do all things through Christ. ’Tis first necessary to be in Christ— adopted into the divine family—to have in him the power of endless life. His former state, as compared with this, is as the idiot compared to the man. The idiot is a blank—no progression, no advance forever ;.the man has in him eternal capabilities and an endless pro gression. Th^jfiatural man is to spiritual life a blank/no advance, no progression. But the new man in Christ Jesus, is a true, living force, a fearful power carreering on its way to eternity ; growing, radiating, expanding, forever approximating the glorious excellency of God. The coarse of the natural man is down ward, increased by accumulating gravita tion ; the new man in Christ Jesus, in the world, yet living above it, say without blasphemous presumption, “I can do all things through Christ which strength eneth me.” Satan has a kingdom and its ordinan ces; and men, by waiting upon these, be come the “rulers of the darkness or wickedness of this world.” It is by vis iting the ball room, the theatre, the card table, the bar room and- other nameless places of infamy, that men become adap ted to crime. The devil does not impart to them in any other way his devilish na ture; but by practicing these they can at last say, with blasphemous boldness, “I can do anything that is wicked.” You have seen such men, and you will become such if yon continue to walk in the devil’s commandments and ordinances. Christ has his ordinances, by observing which we grow in grace daily until we ar rive at the stature of perfect men Christ Jesus. Among these are secret prayer, family worship, religious associa tions aud conversation; reading the word of God; exhorting one another, and the Lord’s supper. If we will walk in these commandments and ordinances blameless we shall stand complete in him, lacking nothing, and say with Paul, “I can do all things.” What are'all things? Not to make a new world, or a new star in the Heavens, or remove the course of nature, but to do all things that God requires ; believe all things; endure all things; perform aU things that God requires, looking, duty full in the face. Then we can say with holy boldness, as if girt about with omnipotent power, “ I can do all things through Christ which strengthenth me.’’ ' REFLECTIONS. 1. We will be judged by our works, not by our professions. The five.foolish vir- From the Americas Republican, 7th. . , A Preston correspondent says.— incimst; There is growing on the plantation and hfc 0 f p ro fes S or Windsor, in this county, a single stalk of com bearing one hundred silks and shoots! There are twelve of the former, all of which look as though they will produce gins professed quite as much as the wise eori b and many of the latter 4t is ones, but were shut out from heaven. thought will do the same thing. The Those who say, “Lord, Lord, open unto I latest ^counts from the crops of this ns,’’profess more than the loving disciples ' P 11 ^ o raSa thr. ahead, and many r -’ ot the tanners ready to give up the contest. Some of them have quit their cotton and turned their atten bat will fail of an entrance into the house of the blessed. 9 Christ has a right to expect fruit From tbe Cincinnati Commoner, July 1. The Manager’s Carnival. In many of the so-called Demo cratic States of the North, the mana gers of the party-caucus insist on bothering people with their protesta tions, not against, but in favor of the so-called New Departure. Having the party-bugle—the noise-making, as dis tinguished from the thinking instru ment—in their hands, they echo and re-echo one another all around the horizon. It reminds one who has travelled in Europe of the twilight concert of the country jackasses.— These inexpensive little beasts of bur den, so much given to inharmonious vocalization, hold forth, principally at the sun-setting, or rather between that and night-fall—the labors of the day being over, and the evening meal duly dispatched. Then come leisure for all the harmonies of the asinine orchestra; the spasm of sound soon commences, and challenges attention from all created things for its hour, to the silencing of every other noise, even the shrul scream of the locomo tive. First, some speedy feeder, who has bolted his beans and hay, begins. He is slow and faint at first; but soon ascends to loftier and mightier notes. Tbe air shakes with tbe vibra tions ; but before the highest point is reached, list! another ass emuluous or wanton from the fullness of his stomach, chimes in with his sweet and variant voice. Then, lo! anoth er, and down the horizon another, on its verge another, and still another, till the discourse becomes so perfect ly frightful that human ears are all too weak for the trial, and can not bear it at the moment nor bear to re call the infliction, till both time and distance have made amends for such a strain upon patience-and endur ance. Any one, especially a stranger, can never forget this furious smiting of the air; it has no parallel in the round of nature. The authors of it do not suffer from it; nay, they are not only equal to it, but they take a daily pleasure in it; deserve to be as they are, not only asses themselves, but the progenitors of asses for gene rations. We are reminded of this rustic dis play every few days by the idle reso nance of the caucus declarations in our own and mightier States, as one after another they plunge into the cheat pasture, now known and exe crated of all good men, called the New Departure, which was started a month ago at the St. Nicholas, in this city, by Mr. Vailandigham. It has a most uncertain, most dis cordant, in brief, a perfectly asinine sound, which intelligent men loathe and detest from the bottom of their hearts. The echo has gone at last to the jumping-off place—that is, to Augusta, in the State of Maine, where five hundred of the Democratic man agers were assembled on Tuesday to go through the sinister- perform ance. These harlequins resolve first and last, on burying old issues out of sight, on addressing themselves to the living issues of the hour, on deter mining these latter by the living prin ciples of Democracy—and as a sequel according to the fathers. Now, the old issue was and it is between the limited powers of the Federal Gov ernment and its utter despotism—in one word, its right to fix the line of division between the delegated and the reserved powers according to its own will and pleasure, or what is still more descriptive, according to its own interest—that is to say, the pecuniary and other profit of the people’s ser vants who conduct Federal affairs, but who are bent upon making it high life below stairs, not for themselves, but for the masters of the house, while they hold high carnival above. It is the most repulsive thing in the world to behold this official Demo cratic (?) sound and fury signifying nothing, repeated by five to six hun ched fellows in each State, for their own miserable purposes. It does not signify anything to them whether the mass of the poor are roasted alive at the stake by the slow process of tax depletion and caloric, which con sumes them and their families, or not. They themselves hold that the masses have no intelligence and no character; but that from, a mere fitfulness of change, they will run after something new, and the more superficial the better. Consequently they propose to overlook the difference of races, and violate the letter and spirit of the constitutional protection which the States gave themselves in their solemn mutual compact, and more than that, to forgive—to condone the outrages called amendments, so that they, the managers, shall in their turn wield despotic powers. They want to in terpret the constitution liberally, to give Congress absolute power; such as has been exercised by Stevens and Butler, with their own noble selves for administrators. And then, they are going to be so very abstemious, not to say virtuous, in the role of tyrants. They will rival the Dutch ladies who came over with George I. from Hanover to rule England with out any constitution, written or otherwise. Dutchess Killmansegge vowed publicly to the unbelieving sailors and laborers about the dock where she landed that she and her friends came over from Europe for the good of the British people. She said in her nearest approach to the vernacular, “We come for your goods,” which the crowd taking advantage of, improved so as to fully express the idea, “Yes, by G—, for our goods and—and chattels, too,” which the five hundred Maine Democrats say that they recognize their binding ob ligation to the existing Constitution of the United States; and they de nounce the means by which the same became the-supreme law of the land, but it is not likely to be literally true. The Vicars of Bray, in California, as we write, send their pacific but stupid echo from other five hundred throats across the continent, so that shallow answers shallow; as formerly, “deep unto deep.” Now, we hold it for certain, or we should despair of the republic and of free institutions, that the Maine con vention nor the Ohio convention, nor any of the other false-departure con ventions, express the opinion of their respective peoples. They have each trimmed the party sail to the popular wind; they essay-popularity, and try to catch the breeze; but the constit uents will not lend themselves to the cheat. In Ohio, there will be a light vote, for the tme Democrrcy contains hun dreds and thousands who adhere to the old issue, and who will not be used for the personal advancement of candidates, if there were anything to choose between them, as there is not. They .go to the polls as they take an oath in the court-house; at least they will not call on the most solemn sanctions to enable them to profit by a more deliberate lie. They Enow the amendments are the result of fraud, of duress, of force, of precipitation and the absence of good faith. They know that they are fatal to the whole constitutional system, by inviting the mailed hand of Congress and its gen erals, and the sword of the President, now made the armed interpreter of their acts, into the very heart of the States. They do not want to be as sured fidelity and good works by such models of patriotism as will be ad vanced by military means to the sa cred places of trust for good, and wise civil rulers. It is a most fantas tic, and we repeat it, almost asinine exhibition for us to make, all over the •North in the rotten aud debauched assemblies, called State Conventions, which, in the interest, and at the beck and nod of County Court At torneys, proclaim cemetery honors for the vitals of the Federal com pact. Of another thing, we may feel as sured, viz: That no Democrat can possibly be elected President unless he have every vote of every State South of the Ohio river; and the New Departure candidate, whoever he is, will not be,able to count on the first one of them all. Let the asses to the otjjer asses bray. * From the Chattooga Advertiser. The corn crop is how the foriom hope of our people. The wheat crop which was early and very promising as we thought in the spring, was al most An entire failure. The rains always unfavorable to wheat, came just at the season of the spring to make certain the rust and a failure of the crop. Our farmers are about now to begin threshing, and it is supposed that the majority of them will not get more than their seed back. But for the beautitnl crop of last year, much of the present crop yet in the field would have been threshed and consumed, but thanks to the good one, we have some old wheat and corn with which to lighten this calamity. Our oats are poor indeed. They are tall and the acres yield an abundance of straw, but no grain. The rust destroyed many whole fields. Many farmers, usually thrifty and well up with their work, are, to use their words, “badly in the grass.” Some have abandoned whole fields rather than undertake to clear them of grass. Cotton is mostly the crop left to go, be it said to the good sense of our people. From the Columbus Sun 7th. Work as planters will, they cannot get grass out of cotton. Good show ers have fallen every day of this week. On the river, plantation laborers are being hired at the rate of 75c. and $1 per day, and still the grass holds the ascendancy. The prospect of a quarter of a dollar per pound does uot kill it very .fast. On the uplands crops are passably clean but the pres ent weather helps the grass more than cotton. The crop is several weeks backward. Here it is July and we hear farmers showing cotton blooms as curiosities. This report is general throughout this section. Com has suffered much, but there will be a large yield. It can be hurt but lit tle now. From the Constitutionalist, 7th. Twi of our citizens who have had much experience in watching the growth qf cotton for many years, have just returned from Charlotte, N. C., and they report that the pros pect in regard to the growing crop is very gloomy. The stand is only fair, the crop generally overrun with grass, and the plant much smaller than is usual at this time of the year. The wheat and oat crop is almost a fail ure, but the com looks remarkably well, and much more has been plant ed this than any other year since the war. From the Valdosta Times. Crops in this section are unusually ; .,, poor. We stated some time ago that they were then more prosperous than had been. Since that time it has been raining almost continually.— Ihere will be probably as.much com made as last year, there having been so much more planted; but the cot ton crop will not be more than one- -,o I ^i I , re * I a t oo OTto p„^,