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ton paints 1t to US, We could not, for m, lives, exult over it. Compared with this tho Porteous riot, in Edinburgh, which made Ep. gland quiver to its centre, was but chi,d,, play. That five men, in the broad open lisl,, of day, should be taken without even a rnoet form oflaw, and hung by the neck on the gal lows, is something which may well teach us that the widest dreams of romance can never equal the reality. To us these occurrence. suggest many stern and solemn thoughts The Consultation and the laws of Mississinn are ultra Democratic. It is a melancboIv consideration, that in our great Republic-in any part of it--the laws are so weak and in. efficient, that measures so terrible of ven. geance are metedoqt by mobs to make up for the default of the law or it's officers. It isa melancholy confession to make-one that must degrade us in the eyes of Europe-asit does degrade us in our own, that our laws are too intellectual to protect us, without tbe commission of Illegal violence and murder The truth stares us plainly in the face.- Blaek-hearted outlaws though these men might have been, they had done nothing to deserve death, for they killed Rodley in self defence. On the laws of Mississippi, and the officers who should have executed those laws, rests the murder of these men.

 We do not make these remarks with the in- tention of branding the citizens of Nioksburo as nearderers. By no means. They were highly exasperated, and there are few men who would not have acted as they did, But we again repeat, and it should be a lesson to us, hadthe lasos been efficient and aoeu eneou. fed, the gamblers would have been put forth from among them without the dark stain of blood resting upon the city,

 \ large importation of these men recently arrived here on the Neosho. We join the Gazette in it's wishes with regard to then-- and with the melancholy spectacle above re- lated, before our eyes, we emphatically warn all those amongst us whose duty 1t is to take cognizance of these things, to see that they perform that duty. Cur laws on this subject are strong and sufficient. Ifthose who are charged with them do not their duty, they may have violence, though we hope not blood to answer for.

 