LOTTERIES.
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A highly respectable inhahitant and long resident of this city, after animadverting up on the perniciOus, ruinOus. and disastrous effects of lotteries, adds-but, The moral loss am not able to calculate, know of several cases where the drawing of prizes unhinged the sober and industrious hahns of the winners, and from that time was to be dated their decline. The suff, rings Oc- casioned by drawing blanks are, in private, l but are not the less, either in pungency or ex- tent, In that account.

 "The other day when paid labourer some hard earnrd gains, he looked at the lt- tie sum, and said. "Wel, if thought could draw prize,I would buy ticket in the lotte. ry." knew that his wife and children had | wants that even this small sum would relieve, and he himself also owed some debts Here we see a poor man. pressed by his wants,and msled by hopes set up by the legislature, tempted to gamble away the bread of a wife and number ofchildren.

 It is in vain--it is mockery for us to he talk ing about religion. VI hen its precepts are set at nought by the law and the people Lead us not into temptation,' was the prayer utter ed by the founder of the Christian dspensa- tion--and yet it is scarcely possible for man to pass his own threshold. without being tempted to enter upon course of gambling which nothing short of a miracle can prevent terminating in perdition. Authorize gamb- ling, and encourage the manufacture of whis- key, and then wisely ilnplore the increase of crime, and the depravity of the people.

 Penn. Gaz. A New Orleans paper complains of the | smallness of the United States Army. and says, that on the frontier. from Pecan Point un Red River to St. Marks in Florida. there should always be d disciplined force of 4.O0O foot and 1000 horse. It urges the necessity of sending strong body ofthe regular army to that part ofihe union, on the ground of ''the disafection and insubordination now spread ing among certain and not the least numerous part of the population in that quarter.

 Bal. Cour.

 This cal. from New Orleans to have the standing army increased, and employed to protect the slave holders, will, it is hoped, have some influence to open the eyes of our countrymen. in respect 10 the guilt and the perils of the slave-holding policy. If the shareholders are already alarmed, what will be their condition in thirty years more. when the present number of slaves shall be d0ub- ledi How humiiating is the thought, that, in country which boasts of the freedom and glory of its institutions, a standing army should be necessary in order to keep sIares from asserting their rights as men! And what is a regular army composed of but bGsds cf sLGUcs-Of men as destitute of ra- tiOnal freedom, as the Negroes themselves