EVERY MAN AGAINST HIS NEIGHBOR.
"THE St. Louis correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette writes of the peculiar nature of the contest in Missouri, owing to the mixed sentiment of its people, and of the state of feeling in and about St. Louis at the present time: "Missouri was not grandly in flames anywhere. There was no terrible army upon her territory threatening her cities with destruction, or menacing the people under her government as a body. Her trouble was deeper and seemed almost beyond the reach of Federal strength and wisdom. Wicked, bitter and devilish feeling was distilled through all her population. Business relations seemed about suspended: the social relations were poisoned; the common feeling of fellowship and friendship and confidence gave way to universal suspicion, mistrust, apprehension and fear. The old farmer found himself at deadly enmity with his old neighbor on the next farm. Mechanics, tradesmen and professional men, in the country neighborhoods, and villages and towns, ceased to understand each other, and no longer worked together like machinery, but began to fear and hate—and deadly fear leads to all lawlessness and cruelty and violence. Murder became an every day occurrence, and lost its awful character. There was danger of such bloody anarchy as was never known on the earth before." What is to hinder a similar condition of things over the entire globe? Such a result is no more unlikely, than is the present condition of things in our own country. And should such a state of society generally exist, it would not greatly differ from what the Scriptures seem to foreshadow of the closing scenes of the present dispensation.—Ad. Herald.