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Miscellaneous, ... :.iaonlflnft.;whether abstinence should taka 'hv .Iriinkentfess. thev rarely pro- oqnaii iy anu it-u. - thoHiace 0f temperance. When- l"J ' " " " ivhnvo IT Will OU U1U iHtu " i vide for themselves, in every - , . , . , be 01 act lliiii uu oiiumiu -- the fruits ot their muus- FOR THE FREE PUESS. Europe brought by the last arri vals, seems to give a different as pect to the great struggle be tween the Russian and Ottoman empires. The defeat of the Grand "Vizier on his retreat to Shumla, the fall of Silistria, and the in vestment of Shumla are events favorable to the success of the 5lussian arms. Still it should be considered that all the accounts we have seen are Russian ac counts. What effect these ope rations and successes of the Rus sian army will have upon the con tinuance of hostilities between the two nations, it would perhaps be presumption, with the imperfect information to be obtained at this distance, to undertake to predict. One of two things must take place either Russia will be encoura ged to prosecute the war with re-1 newed vigor, or will seize this op-' portunity to retire from the strug gle, without disgrace. Russia Turkey. The Augs- j burg Gazette contains the follow- j ing bulletin, dated Bucharest, Ju ly 2: At this moment a courier,; aent off from Silistria bv Lieut. Gen. Krassowsky, has arrived with the intelligence of that place having fallen under the victorious attacks of the Russians. The Turkish garrison, who after an. obstinate resistance, had been re duced to the last extremity, havoi surrendered themselves prisoners of war. The garrison consisted Manumission of Negroes. The Baltimore American Farmer savs: mi.- : 1 : i i. jl ne unit; lias mmeu wnen mis ncct the presence of manumitted negroes is highly destructive of the morals, the happiness, and even of the lives of themselves and the slaves with whom they associate and are connected. On the score then, of sheer humanity as well as of policy, for in this case thev are inseparable, it be hooves the Legislature to provide o-against the manumission of ne tigrocs, unless on condition of pro vision being made for their leav e ing the country. It may be said pthat this would be an unwarranta ble interference with the right of tj property, but does not the very r institution ot government pre suppose the power on the part ot Jthe government so established, to interfere with the rights and dis position of property, with a view to the general good! Is it not the very aim and purpose of govern ment? For what other end would men surrender their natural free dom? If the Legislature of a State can say that I shall not sell a barrel of flour but of a particu lar weight, and that a hogshead of tobacco shall be of certain di mensions if it have power to re gulate the number of nails in a hoop, shall it not have power to prevent men under the influence of mistaken philanthropy from en- secure in try we will not permit society and the very subjects of your ca price, or your ill-directed philan thropy, to be essentially injured that you may be gratified." Where they are emancipated by the last will and testament, re quire the testator to make a pro vision also for their transportation; and for this purple the labor of those who are grown might be ap propriated for a term sufficient to defray the expense of transporting all. But it is not our purpose to go into any details and all we mean to say is, that self-interest and humanity alike demand that measures be adopted to prevent the residence of iVec negroes in the country Were we recom mending that measures be taken to extinguish the race altogether, we verily believe that after the axe, the means most certain, and far more cruel would be to manu mit thorn all, and leave them like the poor Indian, with "the word of promise kept to the ear and broken to the hope," to go by the same road, surely, though perhaps hot so slowly, to the same goal uffnial extermination. It would humiliate us, if we could believe it necessary here to whether real or sumptuary, and when we can no longer derive from it advantage or pleasure, be permitted to cast the refuse mass on the highway, there to corrupt and putrify, exhaling disease and death to all around! Bo it obser ved, tiiat we are not discussing the right of slavery in the abstract t hat is quite another matter; we abhor the principle, but the evil is here: it exists: it has been entail- subject ought to be taken up byjed upon us, and it is worse than the Legislature of Maryland we folly to say that we shall not romi- feel neither disposed nor qualified -bite, modify, diminish, and extir- tailing a moral pestilence on the; guard the reader against a mis- community. Shall we be allowed construction oi our principles, so to extract from any substance, all far as to imagine that we recog that can be squeezed out of it, to nisc any right but in the State satisfy our own wants and desires, Governments to interfere in any manner or form in a matter es sentially domestic. It is one at which we hold the General Gov ernment to have no right even to glance. It is not in the bond, and that is enough neither was it fit that it should be there. to discuss it; and we shall set out with the avowal of our resolution not to be drawn into any debate, on the abstract question, nor into angry recrimination with any who hold opinions differing from our own. We will unite in denoun cing it with the bitterest enemy of slavery in any torm, exist as it may, "still, slavery, thou art a bit ter draught" but bitter as it is, it !S not so deadly and poisonous, as manumission is to those who re main where slavery is sanctioned by the laws experience proves that there is no condition of hu- . manity,which begets more wretch edness, more vice, more prema ture disease and mortality, than that of emancipated negroes who remain without political rights, in the midst of a free white popula tion. They embitter by their pre sence the happiness of those who remain slaves. They entice them and furnish them facilities to elope, and lead, forever after, a miserable life in perpetual dread of apprehension. Nay, it is no torious that they often'seduee the slave into criminal violations of the law, to supply them with the means of subsistence which, over come by indolence or enervated pate that evil, in a manner most promotive of the public interest and general happiness. If a man would so far forget what is due to mercy and humanity, as to con sign a number of his fellow crea tures to inevitable privation and wretchedness, under the garb of honest influence of religion, or benevolence, arrest his hand and tell him, "No, Sir you shall che rish these unfortunate people, you shall, as your neighbors do, feed and clothe them provide attend ance and medicine when sick, and kind treatment at all times, com pelling them to labor regularly and steadily for their own happi ness' sake as well as for their sub sistence, but do not, for profit or conscience' sake, turn them loose upon your neighbors, to work their way through drunkenness and mi sery, and crime, lo the penitenti ary and the gallows-stung as tuey must ever be in the sight of genuine liberty by an eternal sense of real degradation. Ifyou would accomplish for thern the benefit you profess it to be your wish to confer, provide the means ot sending them to Hayti of Afri ca, where they may become ani mated antj elevated bv a sense of Eolith-Carolina. A census of the population of the state of couth-Carolina is now in pro gress. A writer in the Charles ton Courier is of opinion that the result will show that the white po pulation has diminished. He mentions that York District ap pears to have been stationary. Fdgcfield has an increase of two thousand, but this is attributed ra ther to greater accuracy in the enumeration than to any actual increase of the number of inhabit ants. Pendleton has, it is said, an increase of population suffi cient to entitle the district to an increase of representation. Ker shaw has declined this district in 1820 had 5028 whites and GG92 blacks. At present it has but A Ci r. 1 ... nzz whites, while the blacl have Increased to 8200. ever we hear this doctrine enfor ced, we are reminded of the prac tice of Dr. Holy oke. That vene rable patriarch whose life was a practical example of the benefits and pleasures of temperance ac cording to his own account, did not drink much less than two glasses of West India rum, daily, for fifty years, and smoked as re gularly his two or three pipes of tobacco; yet, in spite of this habi tual use of anathemized stimu lants, the doctor lived his hundred years which- is more than vb would insure to any of those he has left behind him in the profes sion, notwithstanding their boast that ardent spirits are banished from public feasts as well as their private tables. Spunky Editor. -We learn by the Lancaster (Pa.) Sentinel, that one Robert M. Barr attacked the editor while standing near his own door, and in the presence of his own family, with intent to disfi gure his face by Jistication but which was well warded off, and poor Robert received such an un merciful thump on his face handle that it spouted like a spermaceti. The editor concludes that Mr. Burr's uncle, who is a do.ctor, will have no immediate occusion to bleed his nephew. Cure for Warts. A writer in a New-York paper gives the fol lowing very simple remedy for these unseemly excrescences: Take the leaves from a peach tree and rub them to a pumice over your hands; let it dry on, and refrain from washing eight or ten hours, and the cure will be complete. x Ks Anti-Ncictonian System. Mr. Richardson, of Illinois, is deliver ing lectures at Indianopolis,(Ind.) m opposition to the Newtonian system. His arguments are said to be very ingenious. Spirits and Tobacco. .There is good sense in the following Cv. tract from the Boston Courier: After all, it is not the use, but the abuse of these luxuries spi rits and tobacco that calls for reprobation. Total abstinence can never be produced by all the labors of even "apostles of tem perance:" & wc jiavo gome (,oubt? j Scraps of Consolation. ..When things go wrong in spite of all your endeavors, 'Give it up,' and console yourself with the reflec tion that 'Whatever is, is right.' When your friends forsake you, and enlist on the side of vour ene mies, rejoice that you " have so soon discovered their true cha racters, and that you are no long er liable to their hypocrisy. When you meet with any sud den or unlooked-for disaster, com fort yourself with the assurances, that it was what no human dis cernment could have foreseen or human effort thwarted. When you are ill, reflect that sickness is what all men are liable lo, and that millions are in the same condition. When you have lost ail your substance by knavery or calamity, consider that you have no longer the care on your mind of preser ving your property, and that 'there is but a penny difference between him that works and him that plays, and he that plays gets it. When you become reduced to the lowest extremities of pover ty, remember that you can get no lower. When you have been subjected to every possible vicissitude in life, sing 'the world is all a fleet ing show.' When a man tells vou he hates liars, believe him; "two of a trade jean never agree,
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