Morals Of Slaveholders

We cut the following from our exchanges. They illüstrate 'Life at the South' to much advantage. Liee in Vicksburg. The Vicksburg Daily Sentinel of Nov. llth, whicfya friend has handed us, contains the following editorial, which may serve as an index to the state of the temperance cause among slaveholders: "Kind and intelligent Reader, whntevcr defecas, blunders, mistakes, bulle, and abeurdities, thoti seest in onr paper of ihis morninf, are solely attributable to the Old Cogniac, Madeira, ar.d Monongahela of our worthy friend T. P Raymond - Venly, friend Rymond, these liquors of thine aie beyond comparison, our lips invohintarily sm-ck at the recollection of that bottlo of Oid Madeira, ihy. Brandy, mild and païatable ns it seems, we know to be a real giant, too powerful for po feeble an antagonist as ourselves, and that f our leen years old Monongsbela, of tbine, h:is had euch an influeuce on our rolling-boy, John O'Neil, that he swears it must be "the re&l ould Cork." We ndvise those who lovo ijood liqnors to cnll at the Col.'s storo os Levee street ." The same paper contains a cot reapoiidenc between two honorable gentlemen preparatory toa duel: as well ns some comments of its worthy temperance editor upon a murderous affair of the kind in hich he liad himself been engaged . As a matter of course, the editor roes strongly in favor of repudiation - and of cheating the creditors of the state out of their nioney; and in adv'catingthis wholepale swin dling he says he is rriaintaining the cauae of "Freedom, Justice and Humanity!"- Estsr Transcript. Judges m Ark ansas. The Arkansns Judges appear, by their own account to have hard time of it. The following is from the Charge of the Hon. John Field, Judge of tha Sixth Judicial District, to the Giand Jury of Hempstead County : "ín some parts of Arknnsas it is really dxngerous for a Judge to protect bis station frotn insult, or assert his nuthority . Il' what he does or says is nol exactly ngreeable to the tnste of tome, he is in danger of annibilation. One of the two Attorneys, in ihe northern part of the State, have been waylaid and murdered for doing their duty. - In another part a judge was barred out of the court house by ihe populace, mercly because he wished to hold his court as the luw directed. Another jude was near being attacked whilst on his bench, for exercising hi anthority in keeping silence in ihe conrt house dtirinjr btiisness hours. Another judge was Torced by an armed ruffian to leave the benei and drink vvith him, and this whilst the court was in session." The Kidnappers. The two men who committed the daring outrnge nt th house of an old gentleman named Brittinham, in Worcesler County, Marylond, a short time Bince - carrying oflf by forcea whole family of slare - were arrested recsntly by three young men from Alexandria. They were found at t house near Drnnesville, with the negroes- an old woman and her three children. The Kidnappers fired upon their cnptora, but without effect, and were quickly overpowered and secured. They were taken to Fairfax, in Virginia, and there committed to jatl. Th&j carne from, and were going to Kentucky. Fatal Affbat. An affray occured at Baton Rouge on the 12th inst., between two men nomed Candero and Fearson. They had played at cards and quarrelleo. Candero was then requested to leave the house, whieh he did, but challenged Fearson to fight.- Fearson refused andshut the door, when Candero reumed and advneed towards the former. Fearson took up his gun, Ioaded witb bird-shot, and warned him not to advancc, nt he would shoot him. Candero disregarded the warning and advanced on him, when Fearson shot him, the charge, wad and all paiiingf through the thick part of his right arm, 4. entering his Dody near the breast. He continued to live in great agony until the noxt day, about 5 o'clock in theevenjng, wben h expired.-JY. O. Picayune. Affrat. We learn from the West Tennessee Wbig, published at Jackson, that on the 29th It. an unfortunate affray took place between Mr. John H. Rawlinge, of Jaekson