Smyrna times., 1857-01-07

The SLAVE INsU sURREcrIoNs.-Some of the
correspondents deny the extent of the contem-
plated save instructions The Tribune's
Washington correspondent (Dec- 30) says:
81 have reliable information from New Or
leaus that, within few days, there have been
serious troubles among the slaves in IOuisia ma,
and that as many as twenty negroes have been
hung {; but the newspapers carefully refrain from
any mention of the facts"
The same correspondent says:
=" party of South Carolinians from Kansas
passed through here to-day, returning home,
having abandoned that Territory a presenting
no hopes to their political enterprise or perso-
nal fortunes. They and others from the South
relinquish the experiment as desperate, and
complain of the limited material aid furnished
be their own section" -s.
! So then the farce Of Kansas enslaved is play.
ed out, and Southern men who went in for the
repeal Of the Missouri Compromise can see JUS
what they gained by disturbance of that mea
sure. The " Squatter Sovereignty" effected
by Southern action, forbids the establishment
of new Conventional line of demarcation be
tween Saveholdng States. The Southern
men who opposed the repeal of the Missour
Compromise will ere long loom higher among
their constituents than any of those who sPOk
or voted for that measure,
OF Read the advertisements of S c. Eaton
J. P. EIofecker, j. II. Jefferson, Rogers g. Bo
yer and A. G. Cummins, Esqs.
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THE TEMPERAxcE LEAGUE.-The Philadel
phia link of the new movement TO promot
temperance, held its first meeting at Sprin,
Garden Hall, some few weeks since, when it
objects were fully explained. We are happ
to see a revival Of public interest in this direc
5 ton, and we shall tuke great pleasure in fur
) thering any movement TO the best of our abil
!, iy. But there has been too much demagogut
: ism among some professed and most bustin
> advocates of temperance, aud the cause ha
J been injured BY men who have evinced NOR
d attachment 10 partizan politics than the gres
moral retoru, which is so imperiously demand
: ed. Temperance has found more than one Ju
das among its Apostles, and under the pressur
of political demands, more than one Peter ha
= denied the men and measures which woul
o have brought salvation TO weak and erin
n inebriates We are not disposed in the futur
TO Join any League which will have such mil
o stone weights around its progress. We wal
: fair, open and unprejudiced co-laborers in th
g great cause men who will rot seek to elevat
x its worst enemies or give aid and comfort
its most bitter opponets. Not more impossibl
Il Is 10 serve God and Mammon than il is 10 sery
!. Temperance and Partzanship at the same tim
n five would stem the tide of Contemporaries, no
y devastating our city, and and arrest its desoll
y tion, we must guard against the designs
'f those who profess themselves the jealous "a,
j. yocates of Temperance reformAonly to contrC
). 1t in such channels as will benefit this or th,
!, political party The lamentable failure of a
= previous efforts was the Inevitable result 4
y placing mere theorists at the head of the noy
e ments and allowing noisy decIaimers, to tax
d the place of practical common sense men,
let the new Temperance League take war
ing from the past, if il would not have all j
:. fruits tura to ashes. like the Dead Sea Ppl'
!. ofthe present Restraining Liquor Lami Phit