Daily American Organ

Colonel Benton is engaged in preparing a condensation of the debates of Congress from the beginning of the government to the present day. The full reports occupy about one hundred volumes, and the ex-Senator expects to reduce them to some fifteen or twenty, of about eight hundred pages octavo each, in double columns. Of course, his aim will be to omit nothing essential to a complete and fair account of each discussion, so that we can have the substance of everybody's remarks on every question, and to give every set of yeas and nays that is necessary to show how each member really stood in every case. The abridgement will consist in omitting discussions on private bills, where no great political principle is involved; in leaving out repetitions in speeches, and in reducing their verbosity.