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Cr.arros. Nov 2 3m 50 Notice, T IE Subscriber co~ntemplahting a chlange in his business. earlyv the esusting~ sprin'1, earnestly reqiuests all indebhted, t-,call andil setitl thir acoutnts previous to the first of .January next. lnte-rest wd-l be charged on A LL accouts oif ovetr six mionths standing, remnaininig unpaid at that inne. M. A. R ANSO.\, Ar:N-r. mamburg. Dc 25 'f 50 PUSH ON!-A LAY OF DESTINY. BY HENRY J -AItGENT. Awake !and I:st, n. Efveryvwhere From upland. grove and lawn, Out-breathes the universal prayer, The orison o morn. Arise! and don thy working garb; All nature is astir; Let lonest motives be thy barb, A nd usefulness thy spur. Stop not to list the boisterous jeers, (lIe woul1 be what thou art :) They should not e'en offend thine ears, Still less disturb thy heart. What though you have no shining hoard, (Inheritance or stealth;) To purchase at the brokers board, The recompense of wealth Push on! You're rusting while you stand ; Inaction will not do; Take life's small bundle in your hand, And trudge it briskly through. Push on Don't blush because you have a patch In honest labor won ; There's many a small cot roofed with thatch Is happier than a throne. Push on ! The world is large enough For you, and me. and all; You must expect your share of rough, And, now and then a fall. But, up again! act out your part Bear smilingly your load There's nothing like a cheery heart To mend a stony road. Push on! Jumip over all the if# and buts; There's always sone kind hand To lift life's wagon from tie ruts, Or poke away the saiid. Remember, when your sky of blue Is shadowed by a cloud, The sun will sliie as soon for you As for the monarch proud. It is but written onl the moo That to.l alone end ures; The king would dance a ri. With that blithe soul of y Push ont ! You're rusting inaction will itot do; Take life's small bundle in And trudge it briskly through. Push on! BROTHER, TAKE MY ARM. When g ief is heavy on me, Or dismal fears alarm. Then. brother, le:i upon me Mv brotlcr, take my irmn. There's many a ioad of trouble That taketh two to lear, Where one w,.u'd bemil quite donble Beneath the heavy care. If malice, in its rancor, I lbs sought thy monital harm, My shoulder be thiie anchor My brother, take my arm. Thioughi all, in time ot' tr.al, May turn their eyes away, Nay. brother, no denial, Mvy armt shall be thy stay. If grief were mine tn-morrow, A grief that naught could charm, I'd cry, in a!l moy sorrow, "U btothier, g:ve thine arm:!", A ve let tme I-eel aothter Will weep with mie itn woe; A briother, yea, at brother, atlay all wrhio sorrow kntow. From the New-York Day-Book. The Gambler's Death-Bed, Among miy visits of late to Ihose whlom I thiught werec miost in tied of the small fa-. vors Iilmighit be able to bestow upotn them., na :s the unorotunate subject that catused thne production of' this articlIe. Three y'ears sinc'e he tand I were thrown to'gther by chance at a boardiiig-house of' this city We wvere riot hiig in understanding each olier, anid that we fiad, at oiie uim.- in ouir lves, been nmiln'rs of' the satine irotIi'-r hood. Without knowledge f'romi any othier source than imy) conversation that I was dead ly opposed to the craf't known as gamblers, he opened to me his heartfelt approval of the course I wast pursuing. Our acquain tance soon placed us upon the platformn of, frindshiip, out of' which grew a conifidenitial intercourse. He gave me his history. He was born and 'eared in this city. Served arn appr'enticeshiip to thte tanning business in te" -Swamp," atnd while in that business visited a howling saloon, and in a fewt years a'er his first visit to that saloon lie became an expert ten'pin player. From this he took onei m1ore step, fliat of visiting a hilliard sit. 'nin, anid there, too, he was sootn iinitiatetd jinto the scieiice of the poli-hed ball. HeI was muchi flaitrered at his eff'orts to exceed tose whi ihan~d in te- the ten- pins atnd biil. lardl sailons befor. ae did. Onie night lie was induced tio play " Pool." He won. Ad hiad the evil consequence of that night's play been summed up arid spread befoire him in unmistakable characters representing his fat', lie in'r no oethe.r human being could have withstood itmme'diate death, so great andt terrible wvould have been the shock ; hot the initerpositiont of Providence ordatined it. otherwise, antd his doomit was sealed. Two months after the success of that night hec made the fatatl pledge, and became a con firmed gambler. He had twenty years of unparalleled suc cess, abounded in wealt, and being blessed with an iron constitution, had excellent h ealth. H is family, consisting of a wife ly cared for, and the children educated in all the higher branches, taught in the best institutiis of our country. His wire was a member of D. C.--'s Church, in which he purchased a pew, and where she and her influitile charge seated themselves for years, w ithoit ever having the husband and ftither too aieccmpaiy them. Am1 let it with shame and sorrow be remembered that the holy Sabbath nights are the New York gambler's harvest timce, the time when he rnakes the money which gives his family such an envia ble position in snietv. At the end of this period he had the sa gasity to discover the instability of the gam. bler's wealth. His neans were now over twenty-five thousand dollars; his children, excepting the two younger ones, were well educated, and though a gambler, no man loved his family better nor took greater pride in furnishinig them with means to keep them above any odium that might revert to them through. their flther's unhallowed profession. One day, while seated upon his gambling chair, ie came to the conclusion that, that night should close up his gambling career. Twenty Iing years of dreadful excitement, high liviig aid broken rest, had diseased his body, and his iron constitution began to give way under it. He played during that niiglt, and the text morniig he sold out his initerest iii the game and fixtures of the room, and left for his residence. Here he assem bled around him his wife and eldest children male and lemale, and related to them h's intention to retire from a profession which he knew would end in sorrow, disease and death, and bring shatne and disgrace upon his offsprings. They were members of a Christain church, and lie thought would lie delighted with such intelligence, although they had never given vent to their displeas ure at hi< course of obtaining them an envia ble pnsition !ii society. He was a credulous man, aid believed their silences significant of their fiier feelings for him as their parent. But olh! how great was his surprise when lie unbosomed his plains and declared his future intentions to follow some more hon. oraible though less lucrative business. Like unchained maniacs they rushed into each other's embrace, and declared that they were utterly ruined, and would have disgrace heaped tpioni them. They never could work ! They had nevPr been taught! -- nne. mothor! Their delicate sister! ann e.sfI VUme u um,,i mia - 0' --- --- asked her in contideice to give her opinioi in relation to the wisdom of the cour.e lie had taken, as he Celt his constitution giving way daily, under the burthen of his present calling. She answered with a deep sigh, " they must have a living!" From that time up to the present date, happiness never ecitered that fhmily. The twenty-five thousanid went in less than three years, and with. it was squandered all the peace and happiness of that oice interesting fiainilv. Some of the daughters married and l'eft the city; two of the. Sols to Cali fornia ; the mother was thrown upon the charity of her children ; the father, in a con suipted state, was left alone to the cold. hearted charities of his Ishnaelitish profes rinn. Thirteen years has passedl since lie left the gamler's tabcle. Aned now whcere is hei Ge) to a desolate chamiber itn Christy street acid there, uponi a lone couch in an uittic, you will see stretched uploni a couch a livinig skeleteon sutferincg unider all the tortures of his dirense (lthe consumeptionc) the nman of wvhomc I lhave hiere spoikeni. Yes, all aloe, unatteneded evene by one kiccd friecnd to spoccge his parched lips, or wipe fromi his cmancly ftetures the cold d-ops of death that will son enccircle hcis brow. There ar'e eo sweet voices teo conesele him ini his solitary chcam-. ber; nio affectioncate wife and lovicng children to keel ici prayver arund his dyineg pillow. They are alienated ancd gone ; they are scattered to the four' wtinds otf heaven, anid they all feel deeply the curse that must ini evitebly aittach itself' to the gambler. T'o those who thicck gamibling an easy way to obtaicn a liveliheood I would say I begt yuct carefuillyv to exmnciene thle paths yocu tread for the love oif gaicn or amunsemeent. T'o sa~ that gancblincg is ciot the most corcrodi 'g v'ice that ever cursed manckincd, would oicly argue for biien who thus gives venct to the expressiotn a feeblec kccowledge oif what gaimbliing really is. Thalk aboieut intemercanice hieing an evtl of' great,-r m agniteude than gambclinig. aend you show the same wvant of' kneowledge re specting the depravity of the former vice. Few who kncow what gamblliing is are will ing to ackinowledge its terrible devastaticg conisequecnces. The timie will cocme, and that, toeo, before anoether gecnerationi passer away, when the Gambcller, the Forger, the lighcwaynmaen, the Burglar, the common pickpeecket, anid all like professins, will have justice meted out as worthy of and deservinig the same severe putnishmcent. Sacy not ticat eur' laws ace too severe, the plunish. miecit too great for the crime.--Better speak the truthi, ancd say our' jtudiciary are corrupt to thce ceore. Is the case here narratedi a tale o'f fiction told to prejudice good men acid virtuous youths, emale andc~ female againist tce pocr meci, tciserable outcast ganibler who depiend alne upoin their credulity for a sustenanice ! Go to the destitute ch.uniber speken of ancd view, in the wreck of' onie oh the brightest men ohf intellect in this great metropolis,-thcis great bead quarters of sinc acd dlegradactiocc accd say th'ei, if youi can, that a wronig esticmate hacs beeci placed uponi the vice of gambiling or' the ganibler, by~the writer of this article. A DI5TINGUIsiIPD mcenmber of the Coving' ton, Kentucky bar, havinig in his youth beeni treated rather scornfully by a lady to whomi ie paid his addresses, thus poured out his grief': " Oh, Een! Oh, Em ! you've me forscakeni, A nd that, too, without just cause, But when you find you are mistaken, - The True Wife She is-no true wife who sustains not her husband inthe day of calamity, who is not, when the. world's great frown makes the heart chill ith anguish, his guardian angel, growing brighter and more beautiful as mis :ortunes crowd along his path. Then is the time for trial of her gentleness, then is the time for-testing whether the sweetness of her temper.beams only with a transient light, or like the steady glory of the morn. iii star, shines as brightly under the clouds. Has she thensmiles just as charming ? Does she say, " Alliction cannot touch our purity, and sh ould not quench our love ?" Does she try, by happy little inventions, to lift from his sensitive spirit the burden of thought? There are wives-nay, there are beings who, when dark hours come, fall to repining and upbraiding-thus adding to outside anx iety the harrowing scenes of domestic strife -as if all the blame in the world would make one hair white or black, or change the decree gone forth. Such know not that our darkness is heaven's light; our trials are but steps in a golden ladder, by which, if we rightly ascend, we may at last gain that eternal fight, and bathe forever in its fullness and beauty. Is that all!" and the gentle face of the wife beamed with joy. Her husband had been on the verge of distraction-all his earthly possessions were gone, and lie feared the result of her knowledge, she had been so tenderly cared for all her life !" But, says Irving's beautiful- story, "a friend advised hini to give not sleep to his eyes nor slum. ber to his eyelids until he had unfolded to her all his hapless case. " And that was her answer, with the smile of an angel-'is tha all I I feared by your sadness it was worse. Let these beautiful things be taken-all this splendor let it go; I care not for it-I only care for my hus. band's love and confidence. You shall for. get in my affection that you were ever in prosperity-oily still love me, and I will aid you to bear these little reverses with cheerfulness." Still love her:! she a man must reverence, yea, and liken her to the very angels, for such a woman is a revelation from Heaven. From the Due-Wesi Telescope. Death. brought to a sense aid sight of his lost con diliol, both by nature and guilty practice, and he seems astounded that his useless life has been spared so long, that time and space are still granted to him, that the hand of mercy is still extended to him with the kind and cheering words, turn from the error and folly of your course, which will only lead you into the black depths of dispair never endin", where the least ray of hope never enters, and take up your cross and follow the precepts of the meek and lowly Lamb. Death is an enemy, with which, sooner or later, each must grapple and struggle to sustain expiring nature only a Few moments, still it will have its course for it has power, commissiuned by Omnipotence, to sweep from earth its teeming millions, to carry off generation after generation to dreary mani siuns, aiid yet it is unsatiated and unsatiable. It heeds not the widow's sighs, nor the or phan's tears. Uninvited it enters the social circle, and drags away the ono upon whom all hopes are centred. It attack,, with equal eagerniess, infancy in its helplessness, youth in its bloom, manhood in its strength, and old age in its decrepitude. It has all dis eases at command, like legionmary minions willing to do its will, ready to obey, its word of command. Such then is death, the last enemy, with which man has to contend. Now the questioni arises why some are racked amnd tortumed, with the mere idea of death, while others go on seemingly careless to think of death, heaven, or hell, and still others that rejoice that the messenger of death will soon call for them ? With respect to the first, they know that death will come, they kniow the consequences, if it should call them unprepared, being aliens fronm the commonoi wealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenant of promise, having no hope, and without Gud ii. the world. TJhe second, aire those to whom conscience, that iniward monitor, has ceased to strive. Theb third are those who are going on rejoicing in the hope of a blessed immortality, and waiting that death may bring the promised rewvand. Those who live as heirs of God, and joiint heirs with Christ depending on his merits, influenced by his grace, treading in his foot. steps, glorying in his cross, and aspiring to his p~resenice, where the inmate shall never say, " I am sick," neither can he die any more, "So live., that sinking in thy last long sleep, Smiles may bc thjine, while all around thee weep." ADVENA. -Bre ALwaYs Bcs.-The more a man ac ~complishes, the more he may. An active tool never grows rusty. You always find toso meni who are the most forwvard to do good, or to improve the times and manners, always bumsy. Who starts our railroads, out steania.ts, our machine shops, and our manuactors? Mon of industr'y and enter prise, as long as they live they work-doing something tokenefit themselves and others, It is just so with a man who is benevolent the more he gives, the more lhe feels like giving. We go for activity'-in body, in mind, in everything. Let the gold grow not dim, nor the thoughts become stale. Keep all things in motion. It is bet'ter that death should find us scaling a mountain than siking in a mire. Jurr out of bed the moment you hear the knock at the door. Tlhe man w~hzo hesitates when called, is lost. The mind should be made up ina minute, for early rising is one of those subjects that admit of no turning Advice to Consumptives. In some good advice to consumptives, Dr. Hall says: "Eat all you can digest, and exercise a great deal in the open air, to convert what you eat into pure healthful blood. Do not he afraid of out-door air, day or night. Do not he afraid of sudden changes of. weather; let no change, hot or cold, keep you in doors.. If it is rainy weather, the inore need for your going out, because you eat as much on a rainy day as upon a clear day, and if you exercise less, that much more remains in the system of what ought to be thrown off by exercise, and some ill result, sone consequent symptom, or ill feeling is the certain issue. If it is cold out of doors, do not muffle your eyes, mouth and nose in furs, veils, whoolen comforters, and the like; nature has supplied you with the best muffler, with the best inhaling regulator, that is, two lips; shut them before you step out of a warm room into the cold air, and keep them shut until you have walked briskly a few rods and quickened the circulation a little ; walk fast enough to keep off a feeling of chillness and taking cold will be impossible., What are the latct of the case; look at railroad conductors, going out of a hot air into the piercing cold of winter and in again every five or ten minutes, and yet they do not take cold oftener than others; you will scarcely find a consumptive man in a thou. sand of them. It is wonderful how afraid consumptive people are of fresh air, the very thing that would cure them, the only obstacle to a cure being that they do not get enough of it: and yet what infinite pains they take to avoid I breathing it, especially if it is cold; when it is known that the colder the air the purer it must be; yet if people cannot get to a hot climate, they will make an artificial one, and imprison themselves for a whole winter in a warm room with a temperature not varying ten degrees in six months; all such people die, and yet we follow in their footsteps. If I were seriously ill of consumption, I would live out of doors day and night, except it was raining or mid-winter, then I would sleep in an unplastered log house. My consumptive friends, you want air, not physic ; you want pure air, not medica ted air; you want nutrition, such as plenty nr nip:nt sind Irnd --u l .i.:. - '* I Ilk %eUsAiV AND TE LAwym.-Friend Broadbrim, said Zephaniah Straitlace to his master, a rich Quaker of the city of Brotherly Love, " thou canst riot eat of that leg of mutton at thy noon-tide table to-day !" "Wherefore not ?" asked the good Quaker. Because the dog that appertaineth to that son of Belial, whom the world calleth Lawyer Foxcraft, hath come into thy pantry arid stolen it; yea, and lie hath quite de voured it !" Beware Friend Zephaniah of bearing falso witness against thy neighbor! Art thou sure it was Friend Fuxeraft's domestic. animal V" " Yea, verily I saw it with my eyes, and it was Lawver Foxcrast's dog, even Pin. chem." Upon what evil times have fallen !" sighed the harmless sectary, as he wended Ihis way to his neighbor's office. "Friend Gripus,"~ said he, " I want to ask thy opinion." "I am all attention,"i replied the scribe, laying down his pen. " Supposing, Friend Foxcraft, that my dog had gone into my neighbor's pantry and stolen therefrom a leg of mutton, and [ saw him and could call him by name, wvhat ought II to do ?" " Pay for the mutton, of course-nothing can he clearer." " Kinow thou, FriendFoxcraft, thy dog oven the beast men denominate Pin chemu hiath stolen from my pantry a leg of mutton, of the just value of four shillings and six Ipence, which I paid for ini the maiket this morning." "If1 it be so, then it is my opinion that I must pay for it !"' And having done so, the wvorthy Friend turned to depart. I" Tarry yet a little, Friend Broadhrim :" cried the lawyer. "Of a verity I have yet further to say unto thee: thou owest fle six and eightpence for advice !" " Then verily I must pay thee; andc it is my opinion~i that I have touched pitch and been defiled !" IA CAUSE FoR GiRrF-First Juvenile: "Say, Billy where did you get that segar ?" Second Jurenjic " Why, you see', dad came home to dinner a little swvipesey, and I stole it out of his hat." First Juvenile, (admiringly :) " Oh ain't you one of 'cm ! I . wish my dad would come homne so, too; but, (sorrowi'ully) then he don't smoke, and I have to pick up old segars."' A vovrin gentleman of our acquaintance created quite a sensation a few eveningsj eince, while reading to a circle of young ladies 'a poetical effusion " To a Beautiful Belle," b'y pronouncing the latter word with two syllables ! THE man who imagies himself wise be cause he detected some typographical errors in a newspauper, hazs gone East to get a per. pendicular view of the rainbow. A noy Is very miscellaneous in his habits. We emptied Master Smith's pockets the other day, and found the contents to consist ot the following articles : Sixteen marbles -one top, an oyster shell, two pieces of brick, one dongh nut-a piece of curry comb-a paint brush-three wax ends, a' handful of corks, a chisel, two knives, both broken, a skate strap, three buckles, and a dog-eared primmer. NEVER repose confdenCe in a blockhead. Trho shallower the wvater the more treacher From the Masonic Mirror & Keystone. Morgan! "Great is Truth, and mighty above all things," is a sentiment that has been verified times unnumbered, since it was first spoken by the early patron Royal Arch Masonry. And we are about to give another, exempli. fication of the mighty power of Truth which will forever put to rest the unfounded clamor raised against the members of the Masonic fraternity, by interested polit:cians, noisy )rawvling demagogues, persons of bad char. acter, who were not found worthy of admis sion into the Order as well as some of the lukewarm among us, who joined in the hue and cry that was raised, in the supposed ab duction of William Morgan, who it was said carried forcibly away from his family and friends in the village of Batavia, ins the State of New Yurk, the 11th day of November 1826, by certain members of the Masonic Order, and who they first killed and then threw into the .iigara. The persecution that ensued in consequence of this falsely vile report will long lie remembered by the fraternity through out the world. The agi tators, and aiders and ahettors in circulating such an unfounded fadsehood, will ever be held in detestation, while those who concur red in the persecution of the members of this Institution, will always be denounced by the good and virtuous of every conitnunity, as men of the most atrocious and wicked char acter. The truth is, William Morgan was never abducted, much less assissiinted. Now, dear reader, do not start at the " Mirror" making such an unqualified and positive as ertion, denying the statement that was re iterated and sworn to in the most solemn manner, and by those who were considered of unimpeachable integrity. But we do make the assertion without any qualification, having proof, living oiroof, of the most un doubted character befor us. A gentleman of high scientific attianments, who has trav elled much, resided-in the East for many years, was made a Mason the same evening and at the same time with Alexander of Russia and Prince Joseph Poniatowsky, (who was killed in the battle of Leipsic,) in the city of Paris, during the reign of Napo leon Bonaparte, in Aptitie Lodge, on tho 7th of Septembor, 1805. Our informant is named Joseph Alexander Bloom. lie is atid was etigged at that tinte in teaching the English and Fiench languages; the hat. ter of which he understood but imperfectly. That this man was other than William Morgan. who with his own lips communica ted the fact to Bro. Bloom, with many cir cumstances which our informant has since his arrival in this country, found to be true. If any other evidence was heeded, it is con firmed in Bro. B.'s mind in the most conclu sive manner by seeing the portrait of the supposed abducted Willian Morgan, publish ed with his exposition (so-called) of the se. crets of Freemasonry. This picture is a stri king likeness of his acquaintance at Smyrna. Brother Bloom states that he could not well help retaining in his recollection the features f Morgan, as they dined at the same house, and had frequent conversations with him. This house was a public place of entertain ment, atid was kept by one .Salco. It is sit uated on the bay, and it wvas near this place where Mr. Costa wias tamken. Bro. Bloom further states that Morgan left this country in thme ship Mervine, which sailed from Bos ton to Smyrna, and belonged to the firm of~ Langdon & Co. Tho captain's name of the " Mervinie" was Welch: this was all told by Morgan to Bro. B. We think our readers can place the utmost confidence ini what has been stated above. It is uttered by a Brother who has reached his three score and ten, and vouches for every word that has been written. Let thme abisurd and in consistent slanders that have been raised in relation to the forcible abduction of Morgan, be forever silent. To the Masonic lnstitu tion it can make very little difference wvheth r thme falsehood so widely circulated gained much or little credence. It is our purpose, as it always has been, to lic down all that may be said of us adverse to Holnor and Virtue. We, as Masons, pursue our oni ward corse, " Loving our nmeighmbor as ourself," and doiing all the good wve cani in our briof passage through life, and in ac-cordanice with these views, we expect to receive the ap probation of our God and the good opinion of the espectable and virtuous portion of the community." SENsIBLE TALK.-There is nothing made in this world by getting "' the ill will oh f-lks," and we agree with the Knickerboeker when it says: "The man who don't care a d-n for any body, should not be surprised if nobody "cres a cent" for him. If you don't want the bratnd of the incendiary applied to your~ out-houses, don't kindle the tire of resent metit ini the bosom of your neighbors. We care not how poor a man may be, 'he can get a match ; nmor how~ ignorant, lhe knows how to light it." ANx honest son of Erin, wvho had saved enough by his inidustry to purchase a small farm undertook to matiage it himself. He bought his seed at thme store, anud planited them all domie up in puapers, just as they came from the store. A bystanider, who obser ved him, began to laugh at himi, and told him lhe was doing wvrong. " Ahm, let me alone for that," replied Pat, " I'm making a seed garden ; did ye tniver see seed growv all prepared and labeled, just as they sell them in the shop?" SINGLE BLassEDNESs.-Sheet-iron quilts -blue noses -frosty bones-ice in the pitch. er-unredeemed linen--heelless socks-cof fee sweetened with icicles-gutta percha biscuits-flabby steak--dull razors-corns, coughs and cholice--rhubarb--alloes-mfis The Next Issue. We publish in another column a eadin editorial of the New York Courier -and En quirer, drawn out by the re-election of W H. Seward to. the United States Senate. The Courier takes the occasion to reenant the achieveniats-of abolition in fillfit.Ijh6 Senate with its minions ; and, With an air '9f great sanctimony, it lays the whole respoi4 sibility of this growth of anti-slavery- onailthe repeal of thu Missouri Compromise:.- It-is the sacred regard for compacts that lias armed the North for this iew crusiade. The Courier does not recall, in this cainunecti, that there is a constitutional dompact for the delivery of fugitive slaves, which the Nort has always rendered practically a dead lett ter by the intervention of mobs, screenied by the general willingness to'see tfie.86uikh deprived of the benefits of the compac. Again, the Courier forgets to remember-the there was a compact made in 1833,'defin ing the conditions of future tarif laws wii remarkable explicitness, and that the instat' the North had the power, they spurned tli: conditions of this compact, and forced upor. us a tariff worse than that which bad befor, aroused the spirit of just resistance. Nay. the Courier forgets that this saine Missou-, Compromise, now paraded as - a saeiF treaty, and which the South submitted to' rather than provoke intestine strife, wais die nounced and vilified by the great mnjorj of the Northern people, and that after thety had obtained the concession of the prohibi. tion of slavery in the Northwest, they.still resisted, with might and nain, the admission of Mis3ouri into the Union. - Now all these things are very necessiu to be recalled, and to be weighed and pona. dered, in making up a judgment on the sin, cerity of the North in this matter of a regard to compacts; and the result will lie, that the North has a strong desire for the fulfilmem of conditions by which she, is to be a mani. fest gainer, and an utter contempt for those. which promise no advantage. We mays therefore, dismiss the matter of ptinile, qs an impertinent intrusion in this question,.aud take it up as a naked issue of fact. It is not true that the North has changed in consequence of this repeal of the Missou& Compromise. Before this measure -vas heard of, had not Massachusetts :int Sum ner to the. Senato ? hut n - . .. . asoL ueena steadily extending for the last twenty years? As we said the other day, anti-slavery is far more a social sentiment than a political or a religious principle; and it is made up of repulsion to the slaves, as a race, and envious di.like of the slaveholders as a class. And this is the reason why it is so indestructibfle, and so easily propagated. Feeding thus upon sen. timents and passions that it dares not openly appeal to, it necessarily lives in pulalb upon pretexts. Everything that can, by any pius. sibfle distortion, be made an apoplogy for ex citement, is greedily seized hold of. False. hood is even better than truth, because it admits of more variations. Every straw up on the turbid stream is laid hold of for sup. port; every bubble is hoaded for its store of windy agitation ; even its crazy movements are charged to the nalignant influence of. slavery ; and the very peace and comfort that southern communities enjoy, while naorth erna labor is wandering about hopelessly cry ing for bread and shelter, is made an tee ment of the war agains; our institutions. But the point t-o which we wish to direct especial attention is the declaration of the New York Courier, that the Northern pro pe have solemnly decided that there a-lall never again bo a Slave State admitted into the Union. And this declairaionm is maade, not with reference to any foreign tenrit'ry to he acquired, but professedly with refer. enee to the admission ot Kansas. It seems now to be agreed that this Tlerritory as in the hands of those who are favorable to the establishment of slavery, and that it will con tinue so. The prospect is, then, that Kansas will apply for :admission into the Union at no distant day w ith a co.n-i. tution recognising slavery. The ate-l a-d position of the North is, that it shaldl be re. fused admission ; that its people shall not determine for themselves, but leave it to the M1assachusetts and other A bohitionisat to dhe ide for them, what shall be the laws and institutions under whic-h they shall commence existence as a sovereign and independent State. The Southern people have now not only a greatt facet but a great principle to settle. Will they submit to be thus dlegraded amnd trapiled on ? W ill they, on1ce andl for all, bow their neeks to the yoke of their enea.mies, aa d have themselves collared and branded as the born thrall of Northern A bolition t They cannot escape this issue. Sleepaing or waking, it will come upon them ; and htow ever they decide it, they will fix their- de'-ti. n, noble or ignominious, independent ce subhjeted, for after senerations.-Charleston,. ~erury. Russr.sN RorLs Is -rimE CasIF.A.- . late decree which the Emperor Nicholas has issu ed in relation to the Tartars of the Crimea is as follows:. . Art. 1. Every Tartar guilty of had inten tions, or of hostile designs, shall lbe pa' in prison until he has givena evidetice that he repents. Art. 2. Every Tartar having commitred a robbery, shall have a leg or an. arm nt foffe .Art. 3. If a Tartar commits miurder with out stealing, he shall he hung. Art. 4. If any T1artar kills and Eteals, he shall have an arm or a leg cut off,.anid after shall be hung._______ " H ALLOG, driver, your wheel'atuming round," sang out a little 'urchin te-a-cart driver, was driving furiously through W~ateit stret tho other day.' Carty pulled up land looked anxiously, first on one side anid ttmen on the other. " You neea' look-now it's