Southern Barbarism

VV e lui ve ufien adduced eyidence lo show ihat the eiaveholding States uie but partiallv civil.zcd, and in tlier la.wp, customs, nnd insti Ciüion.-, they retain an ainount of bnrbirism, wlucli weshouid Fcnrcely expcct V) find nmong tlie followcrs of .Mahoiner. ín North Cuio!ua, acco.-ding t0 l''C National P.lot, ihty sliïl continue to bang for t!tji, nnd tliat paper quóles a Bt.itement iron R;iieicrli Register repecting a nnn nnmed Uardy Cairo!, wlio was liauyednt Lpiiisburgí a f hort time in tiie pres.-nce of a real crowd, fur straling a pair of sutjunders! Dut il scem tluit in tJmt benighted región they not only liang fur stealin, btit Uiëy rant i benefit ol clcr{ry lo ino beitcr infbrmed roundrels, oud thoothers, tli.-y obi;,d to hang becaose they are loo lazy or -l.ifile.-s to büiíd a Penitenrian! Wc gather ih.'se fact.s lioin tlie ful owífíg pïiragraÜ of ihe Ri-gistei : IVrlinps tlicro never was a chsó yvhich rimre pironly illiiPlrütRd ihe want (.;' Peñít-iaary tlian tl.i--. Hh hw'. n monomanía lor stenÜiiir, and been conviCtéd cj.pitfiHy, webelifve, thn-e timoi lor lior.e MeuJmg, bn e!nped e.'.c.'i time, iihpr by ciai(i the beneht of cleigy, ur ihroúgh áoine defect in the record. He was final ly hmig for grand Jarceny, thp. Br;ie!e stolen, being a air of' sus panders froin a Btore."tt? The madness for obtaming office seems to be on the increase. Even the most subordínate situations are sought after with the greatest avidity. It should be a rule with the appointing power never to give office to a man who npplies for t. The correspondent of the Christian Citizen vvritea from Washington: "IIow many thousand npplicntions do yon supposo have been made within the last three or four weeks for midshipmen's warrants? Perlmps you may guess when I teil you that more than Twelve Hündred npplications were lately mude lo fill one place of 2d lieutenant of marines which had become vacant." Upon which the Citizen remarks: "A most impressive tact! - Some thousandsof our boyswish to be midshipmen. It must be a most desirable office! Only think of t; to receive more than twentydollarsa month; to wear bright buttons, and a long butcher knife by the side to kill with! ïhen with a shrill and baby voice to command the old jack lars. And who knows but that, at sorne future time, these infant héroes may kill a dozon men, or - get killed themselves! Think of that, ye men and boys of small ambition, how can you stay at home, n)ere merchants, mechanics, and farmers, and resist the fascination of the midshipman's career ofglory."Q53 There is some hope of the civilization of the slaveholders, after all. The papers state that the Louisiana Convention have incorporated a section in the new Constitution, wliich disfranchises and renders ineügible for any civil office under the State, any person who shall herearter fight a duel, be a second in a duej; orcarry a challenge toHght a duel. VVebehcvo political dlsfranchiaement willbeone of the most eflectual preventatives of the crime