A Letter From Mr. Cobden

The subjoined letter has been addressod by Mr. Cobdeu to the American Minister at Copenhagen : MipriuusT, Feb. 5, 1865. " I congratúlate you on the course which events havo taken in your country during the last few months. It seems to me that there are uumistakeablü signs of exhaustion in tho Confoderacy, and il would not be rash to prpdict now that the famous ' ninety days' will witnes-" very decisivo events in the progresa of the war, Jeff. Davis rules in Riehrnond. but the Union armiea control hia domana. I hold a tlieory that in these ■ times, vvhen armies require vast appliances of mechanical resources, and when they are eo ranch larger than in olden days, it is imposfibla to car-ry on war withouc the bise of large oities. If tho seaports be taken, Lee obliged to evacúate Richmnnd. there will not be a town left in the Confederaqy with twenty thousand white inhabitants. It w U b-j impossible to maintain permaneully large armies in the interior of the slave states, amid scattered plantatioas and unpaved villagoa. ' You eannuti, in euch circumstances, concéntrate the meana of subsistence, or furnisb. the necesaary equipment for an army. I expect, therefore, to Bee the osa of the large towns lead to a dispersión of the Southern armies. I have sometimes speculated on what courso Lee will take if obliged to abandoD the position at Riehmond. I have my doubts whether he will continue the struggle beyond the borders of bis native State. llowever, all these arespeculations, wb,ich a few months will dispose of. I pray Heaven we may soon see the termination of this terrible war. " I observe what you say about Confedérate agenta having found encouragement in Europe. I can easily believe this. If the South caves in, there will be a fierce resentment feit by the leaders towarda thpse potentates or ministers in Europe who have deluded them to their ruin, and I shouid not be surprised it' we ye■e to hear some secrets disclosed, in consequenoe, of an interesting kind Douiocracy has discovered how very lew friends it haa in Europe among the ruling class. It has at the same time diacovered its own strength, and what is more, this bas also been disoovered by the oristocracies and absolutisme of the O!d World. So that I think you are more safe than ever against the risk of intervention from this side of the Atlantic Besides, you must not forget that the working class uf England, who will not always be without direct political power, have, in spite of their sufferiogs, and tho atteinpt to mislead them, adhered nobly to the cause of civilization and freedom. " You will have a task suffioient to employ all your energías at home to bring your finances into order. There is a dreadful waut of capaeity at your head in questions of political economy- ypu seem now to be in the same state of ignorance as that from which wê began to emerge 40 years ago. The labors of Huskisson, Peel and Gladstone seem neyer to have been heard of by Messrs. & Co. Depend on it, that, as there ia rio royal road to learning, so there is no repubiican path to prosperity. You must follow the beaten traok of experiencp. Debt is debt, whether on the East or West of the Atlantio, and it can be paid only by pru dence and economy, and a wise distribution of its burdens. "Yowb, very tru)y, "R, COBDEN. "Hon. B. R. Wood." ÜZST correspondent of the Albmy Journal, writing from Alabama, giveg an account of the plunder of a plantation on which negroes, !eft to themselves by the owner, had raiged a erop and were living comfortably, says : I was hardly ever more taken back by an answer than by an old negress on this place. " Well, granny;" I said, "you never expected to live to seo times like these, did you ?" I referred of oourse to "the day of jubilee." Bnt the old negrees was not at all sentimental. " No ipassa," she saiñ, taking a blaok corn-cob pipe from her mouth, and spitting quite deliberately into the wood fire on the bearth. "No, maesa, I neber did expeot to see the Yankees come and rob we niggers dis a-way." An Engltsii Cürb for Drunkenness. Thero is a famous prescription in use jn England for the cure of drunkenness, by which thousands are said to have been assisted in reoovering thetnselvei", The recipe carne into notoriety through the efforts of John Vine Hall, commander of the Great JEastern steamship. He had fallen into such habitual drunkenness that his most earnest efforts to reclaim himself proved unavailing. At length he fought the advice of an eminent phyvsician, who gave him a prescription which he followed faithfully for seven months, and at the end of thnt time had lost all desire for liquor, nlthough he had been for many years led captive by a most cebasing appetite. lhe recipe, which he afterwards published, and by which so many otber drunkards havo been assisted to reform, is as follows ;-sSulpbate of iron, five gïame ; mngnesia, ten grains; peppermint water, eloven drachms ; spirit of nutrneg, one drachm; twice a day. Thia prepartion acts like a tonio and stimulaut ; and so partinlly supplies the place of the nccustomed liquoi, aüd prevents that iibsolijte physical and raoral prostration that follows a sudden breaking ofl from the use of stirmilating rlrinkp.