The Olden Time!

With number four Mr. Simpson terminates his labora as editor of the Emigrant. The paper contains a letter of invitation from Gerrit Smith, president of the alumni association of Hamilton college, N. Y., to Gov. Cass to address the associatiou at their coming anniversary- n compliment to Michigan and its talented governor. The governor modestly replied that, though he feit incompetent to the taak assigned hiui, he had determined to comply with tlie wishes if the association. TEMPERANOE. The subject of temperance was (juite as prominently before the people in 1829 as in 1882. A notice of a meeting of the citizens of Dexter to be held at the house of S. V. Dexter, to take into consideration the best method of arresting the destructivo use of ardent spiritR, was printed in this number of the Emigrant. The meeting was called for January 1, 1830. This was the first cali for a temperance meeting made in this county. John Allen &■ Co. issue a notice of dissolntion of the company. The business was continued by Jas. T. Allen, bnrther of John. Mr. J. T. Allen is now a resident of Chicago. With number flve commences the editorial labors of S. W. Dexter and John Allen. The article introducing the new edition occupies two and one-half columns of the paper. I quote some of the words of the NEW MANAGEMENT. "We think it the duty of an editor to admit Communications upon subjects of general interest; the press is the mirror of life, and should reflect the public image; it is the medium through which inelligent men, however far removed, verse with each other; the field of intelectual contest and truth is struck out by collision. A book may expresa the opinión of one man, but the public jrints should speak the public voice. The press should be the intellectual arena, WHBHE AM, COMBATANTS, lecently arrayed, may meet and break a anee. But the editor must not be all hings to all men. While he respecta the opinions of others, he must have opinions of his own, and upon subjects of great ublic interest it is his duty to avow hem. It is his duty to allow a hearing on all sides, but, after all, the public are ihe judges, and the editor is but the moderator or chairman before whom the liscussion takes place." The article then aya out the work of the new editor, whioh, in the main, will be to CRÜSH OÜT MASONRr. A whole column is devoted to this subect. From the following editorial notice should judge that very soon after it was known that the paper had become an anti-masonic journal, there was a sudlen and general escapade of names from he subscription list. It says, "We would nform our anti-masonic friends (and {rom the present mutilated appearance of our subscription list, we doubt having many others) that we have niueh interesting matter to present to them which will soon appear." In this number appears THE MESSAGE of Andrew Jackson to congress, delivered Dec. 3, 1829. The editors say of it, "By crowding out other matter we are able to print the president's message, which is a highly important and interesting document. We have never been more entertained than by the perusal of this article. The writer evinces a talent, and a knowledge of our affairs which gives him great credit. We cordially recomrnend its perusal and preservation to every lover of true eloquence." I wish, Mr. Editor, that about one column of this message could be printed in every paper in the country. His words seem ALMOST LIKE PROPHECY so appropriate are they to the present time. Let me venture to quote a single sentence, "There are, perhaps, few men who can for any great length of time enjoy office and power without being more or or less under the inrluence of feelingB unfavorable to a faithful discharge of their public duties." There are but few among us who can go back in their memory to the dayg of the ANTI-M ASONIC excitement, and those who can, will endorse the statement that nothing has occurred of a public nature within the last fifty years which so agitated the public mind as did the abduction of William Morgan. The feeling extended to very nook and corner of the country, and was wafted across the Atlantic. The excitement was so great that husbands and wives, in some instances, were eeparated, households were broken up, pastors and churches divorced, and the peace of neighborhoods destroyed. Men, intelligent and I well behaved, men of real worth, would become so enraged on the streets, in the offices, and other places where business called them, that they would QUARKEL AND FIQHT like mad men, as they were.. The writer once witnessed a scène illustrative of this, in 1832, when living in Ypsilanti. One bright afternoon in August the littte village was startled by the appearance on the streets of two of its best and most peaceful and intelligent citizens, Isaac Powers and Isaac Sines, in the ATTITUDE OF BATTLE. They were both physically very strong men. Mr. Powers was the postmaster and Mr. Sines a farmer living near by. Sines called at the office for his mail, but before he left, the subject of masonry came up, and, he being a masón, and Mr. Powers an anti-mason, they had some very sharp words, and there and then to settle the matter, deliberately agreed to go out on a vacant spot and try what viihie there was in FOUB PONDEROrS FI8TS to knock masonry out of one or int o the other. So they passed out onto the green near where the postoffice is loeated, side by side, shaking their heads like tigers, but saying nothing. They were the maddest men I ever saw. They were mad all over. Every muscle seemed swollen to doublé its normal eize, and every vein ready to burst with the rapid flow of the vital Huid. Arriving at the destined spot, they in part disrobed, tied thoir suBpenders aronud theii waists.and were just READY TO TITCH IN, when E. M. Skinner, a triend of both parties, stepped betwecn them, and in a few words, shamed them out of their foolish design, which, if carricd out, would have resulted in the sevorc punishin;,' of both of them. i.