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 J. DOWNING, Major, Downingyille Militia, 2d Brigade.
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 Ne think the work mentioned in the fol- lowing article, an improvement upon the present made of chronicling duels, suicides and other murders, in the columns of inc newspapers of the day. El the "memoirs ol villains" the lovers of such articles will find unmixed eradication for their taste.-- We would suggest an alteration in the tile --it should read '.the Vaidia's OWN BOOK aad RogWe's oaauai." i."-.Nash. Ban.

 ".ifemots's of V7illai,ls.-Not content with the publiqs which the newspapers give to the rapes, murders, suicides. ihefts and nj nor vilianies with which the world abounds. certain spectators upon vitiated public taste are seeking to give to these sicllenine records more extensive circulation and a more permanent form. ssConfessionso of these heartless villains, which are polished. m the Paul Clifford vein, to render them more universally palatable, and in which crme IS stripped of half its odium and fer TOT, and made to assume sometime of inc character of "chiyalryo and honor in dis tress, are deemed a necessary ttibute-to the characters of these violators of the laws of @od ana man; and thus We see paraded on the shelves of our booksellers, in the par lours ot our dwellings, and in the nurseries of children, the biographies and autoara- pines ot these incarnate demons. Such works 1aay inspire a taste for readino-but Will they not create saeb a taste that even mlettered ignorance were preferable to if

 s'Among the numerous peroaica!! nam pfiets which the press Is pouring on the world, ", We have seen a No. of the .sTbe ierrific Register" embracing, in the lanon- age of its own fully explanatory prospectus accounts of barbarities inflicted by savaoe hordes; cruel punishnlents witllwhich crime 1as been visited; barbarous murders: dia- pohcal eroelties; bloody duels and sano,1in- ary conflicts; daring yillanies; frauds. elots conspnacles and rebellons; remarkable robbenes, piraciess ssexecutions, and persec,,- flons for conscience sake; well autbent;ca- 5od e stores of separations, and strange and fearful saperstitions; disastrous aceiaents. perilous enterprises and miraculous eseanes oy sea and land; awful Yisitations and sing,,- 'af ar rferp9sltiens; accounts of plague, ia l1l'he, earthquakes, and other special cbas.

 