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THE BANNER. E. C. Jt 8. f1. MURRAY, Editors. LOUISIANA. MISSOURI. MONDAY, FEB. 5th. We have received no mail Wednesday last. whatever since 5Nothing from Congress since our last. THE LEGISLATURE. We have received but two days proceedings or the Legislature since our last. That time has been chiefly occupied in debates upon the amendment, offered by Mr. Henderson, to the Report of the Inspectors of the Penitentiary, and the contested seat of the 22d Senatorial Dis trict. A few private bills has been passed. OURSELVES & CORRESPONDENTS. W-h-e-ew! gentlemen, contain yourselves, Much has been said "upon the streets" since our last publication, with regard to the communica tions that appeared in that paper. Mr. A thought 'Observer' unjust in his remarks, and should not have been heard. Mr. B thought the piece an excellent production and should by all means be read Vice Mr. B thought the remarks of 'Citizen' wrong in spirit, untimed and uncalled for ; while Mr. A said thev were iust the thine. In the course of altercation not afew have been to set his bones to shaking) felt by the Ed the wraps dealt us by a cross-fire. Now, with itor, has led him to construe inoffensive into regard to the lattei, with due respect to public. belligerent language. We think there is opinion, (for we always hold ourselves amena ble to it, as well as to the laws,) we beg leave to say those wraps have been gratuitous. What! does public opinion say? Why is it divided as to the merits and justice of those articles ? In our judgment, there i nothing in either to pro hibit their publication, coming as they do from persons responsible, who have the best interest. of. the. town in view, Tbey invade the rights of no one, nor do violence to the feelings of private individuals; they deal in public affairs and in general terms. If, in the judgment of any, injustice has been done to the public, or to pub lic affairs, there is a way to right it. Had we have decided them wrong and exclu ded them which we certainly had a right to dowould our judgment not have been called in question, and who would have decided ? While the columns of tho Banner are always open to correspondents, on all sides of all questions of general interest, we will not hesitate to close them when, in our judgment, public or private interest requires it. ' In our dtbvi into business we taught a school which had been notorious for changing its teach' ers. It was but a short time beforecertain rules were suggested to us as wholesome in their ap plication. Shortly other, directly conflicting, were strongly recommended from other sources. They all came trom persons who thought thy kntw, and were directly interested ; and of course were indignant that their views were not carried out. Reader, what do you suppose we did in the premises ? -Just what our judgment told us was right. Need we add we never lost a scholar on that account ! The Seven! y-Six aad Hr. Fltzslmons. The Seventy-Six seems to be hugely dis pleased With Mr. Fitzsimons' lectures on Ireland, while in Bowling Green. It says they were in some respects of an interest ing character, and generally thought to have been tolerably good, but intolerably long : that he was severe upon the En glish Queen and equally so upon the Kings English that he used the expressions "I done" and "I e!i." If he did, and the Seventy-Six says he did, it was an egre gious fault. It is not our prerogative, nor our desire to make the Seventy-Six like the able lectures of Mr. Fitzsimons not by any means. But when public injustice is don to any one, we feel it our privilege, as well as our duty, to right the wrong as nearly as we can. The wrong of which we speak, consists in the following sentence quoted fronrthat paper: "He denounced the Pope and the Catlio lie Church in no measured terms, dissent ing entirely from every essential belief en tertained by that church, and yet professed to be e firm believer in that faith." We listened to Mr. Fitzsimons in two lectures in Louisiana, upon the same sub ject, and presume his ground was the same. If he changed it he did wrong. We under stood him from his remarks, to denounce the actions of the Catholic clergy of Ire land, in ciding against the confederation, and witb England, in her efforts to crush the spirit of rebellion upon the. part juf the Irish people, for. lending themselves to the British Government for mercenary con siderationsfor meddling with state affairs, and deceiving tho people by teaching them falsa doctrines, the better to exact enor mous contributions to enable them to hire t i . y ,....v.....B -wv.u.,.B order, while Uiey rolled in affluence ; that he . believed in the issentud doctrines of Cstholioistn, not in its abuses as practised in Ireland. As to the correctness of this picture, we are not entirely prepared to de cide. If true, we presume there cannot be a catholic in this country found to diner with Fitzsimons. We make these remarks be cause we think lie is placed in a wrong at titude before the public, and especially be- fore ttie Catholic Church of this country. Again "We must express our disapprobation of las attempts to pamper uie prejudices unu . .. : i? j XClie Uie passions 01 uw people ui mo wur ted States, with the apparent design to em broil us in a destructive war with a coun try with which we now are, and it is to be earnestly honed we inav ever remain at m - peace. We understood Fitzsiinons to take the ground that there had already been too much exctiement inhis country. That England had seized upon the fact to shake the confidence of the American people in the growing republican spirit in Ireland, by raising the hopes of our people to the liveliest height, by means of false reports of Irish success, to fall again into the other extreme; that in their zeal, they had sent contributions that had been misapplied, and productive of harm rather than good. We are inclined to the belief that the aw ful dread if tear, (for its very name seems no cause to fear. One other reflection of the Seventy-Six, and we have done. "Neither do we, like him, estimate the greatness of a country, as we would that of a game cock, by our ability to fight, but consider the acts of peace as far, very far transcending in importance and true great nes, those of war, in which respect a Cos sack or Camanche Indian might rival our greainesii" We hare no desire to flatter the Ameri can people, for self-adulation is weakness at all times! but believe their fame, as civilized, scientific and peaceful nation, is justly far brighter and wider than that of the Cossacks or Camanches. What has in duced the editor to make this fling at the American people, we know not, unless the shock (of conscience) he received by the Mexican war, has rendered him a misan throp in feeling, at least as far as his country is concerned. OF INTEREST TO PLANTERS. We invite the attention of Tobacco grow ers in this part of the State, to the follow ing Card, which we find in the St. Louis papers. It affords a fine opportunity for our farmers to make known the superiority ef the tobacco grown upon their lands, and to sustain the high character it deserves and partially enjoys ; as well as to prove their neatness and skill in preparing the article. The profits of tobacco depend more upon the quality than the quantity raised. At the exhibition held at the Plan ters' Tobacco Warehouse last season, "Old Pike" bore off theirs and third best pre miums offered proving herself the banner county in the State. Will the farmers not claim for her the same distinction again ? A CARD. TO THE PLANTERS OF MISSOURI The manufacturers and shippers of tobacco in St, Lnuis, with a view to encourage the growth and management oi tobacco in Missouri, hereby of fer a premium, as follows, viz : or the best hhd. of manufacturing leaf, a sd- ver piicner, vaiuea at if ou. For the second best hhd. of manufacturing leaf, a silver mug, valued at $25. For the best hhd. of shipping' leaf, a silver pitcher, valued at $50. For the second best hhd. of shinuinr leaf, a 1 I , . n silver mntr vnlnol at L')t 0 , - -- f-"- The tobacco to be the growth of 1848; to be opened at the Planters' Tobacco Warehouse, on the 20th day of June, 1849, and the premiums awaraea uy mree uisintersted judges. W. 4VUt9, 41 All J . APPOINTMENT OF JUDGES. The following Judicial appointments have been made by the Governor of Missouri and confirmed by the Senate : ' W. M. B. Napton, John F. Ryland and Jas. H. Birch, to be Judges of the Supreme Court of Missouri for 12 years. Judges Scott and MBride have been left out. The following Circuit Judges have been ap pointed and confirmed : For 1st Judicial Circuit, Js. W. Morrow. 2d do Wm. A. Hall. 4th do Addison Reese. 5th do Geo. W. Dunn. 6th do H. W. Young. 11th do Jas. A: Clark 12th do 8. L. Leonard. It is reported that Carty Wells, Esq., has been nwiinfi.fl Judo- fnr th 3f! Piroilif. thnncrh u iri s -i --6- - iayt not ieen it officially itated. j j Wm. C. Robards, Esq., of Boon county, has been nominated for Attorney General. THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS EQUAL REPRESENTATION. It will be remembered by every reader what efforts were made, before the last August elec tion, by Whig orators, to impress the people with the belief that the Democratic party op posed equal representation in the State. Not withstanding our candidate for Governor, and the great body of Uie party in this section of the Stale, advocated equal representation upon the stump and through the press, still, James , Railing, the Whig candidate for Governor, and all the little strikers everywhere, charged the responsibility of the unequal state of represen tation upon the Democratic party, because they were in the majority. Let Whigs support the wrong as much as they would, still they were not responsible for that wrong, while in the mi nority, was their nrgiiment. The old ConslitU' tion provided that each county in the Stale should have one representative, and that there should be but one hundred representatives. As emigration flowed westward, new counties were formed until the number nearly equaled the num ber of representatives allowed by the Conslitu tion. The natural consequence was the large counties were nearly all left with the same rep resentation of the smallest. The smaller coua tics finding themselves possessed of the power, and believing that each county was entitled to a representative, determined to hold it without re gard to party. When the amendments to the Constitution re cently adopted were proposed in the Legislature, though they do not fully equalize representation, to a great extent remedy the evil and were the best the larger counties could get. The ques tion then recurred to the adoption of those amendments, which give to St. Louis 10 instead of 4 representatives, to Pike 2 instead of 1, &c, The only alternatives were the amendments or the old system. And how did those Whigs who have been so clamorous about equal representa tion, by charging the Democratic party with op posing it, acquit themselves in the Legislative Halls ? While the small counties, that are chiefly Democratic, with an honorable generosi ty voted for the amendments ; the chief opposi tion they met came from the Whigs. While the representative from Pike spoke and voted for the amendments, the representatives from Coop er, Saline and Boon, leading Whigs, spoke and voted against them. If, after that, they had been defeated, at the next election we would have heard it charged by those same worthies, that the Democratic party opposed equal represen tation. They would not have been censurable no, not they ! They were in the minority and could'nt help it. Jj- We will at all times publish the Marriages and Deaths, that occur in this community, free of charge if their friends will take the pains to furnish us with their names and ages; these things we can't be expected to know. ST. LOUIS MARKET. The price of Wheat in St. Louis last week ranged from 70 to 85 cents, per bush el. Corn, prime, in gunnies, 34. Flour. country brands, $4,25, City do. $4,40. Little or nothing doing in the Pork & Beef line. 25" The annual revenue under the tariff of 1846, is $35,000,000 The annual current expences in time of peace, $22,000,000 Surplus revenue, $13,000,000 Amount borrowed for the war, $49,000,00 Thus, in four years the war debt will be paid. This is the tariff that Webster said would not yield $17,000,000 per annum. The Lancaster Intelligencer, thus noti ces one of the facts stated in Mr. bee retary Walker's triumphant vindication of the Taritt of 1846: $37,472,757! A FACT FOR FARMERS TO REMEMBER. During the year ending June 30th, 1848 which was not the year of the famine a broad, the export of Breadstuff end Vo vision, under the tana of 1846, amounted to THIRTY-SEVEN MILLIONS FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-TWO THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SEVEN DOLLARS. This is much more than double the annual average export unuer toe tarin oi 1B4Z. . I .1 - 4 c .n.A A writer in the Jefferson Enquirer, states that an extensive bed of the finest Marble has been discovered in Callaway county, near Fulton in this State. It is of a light cream color, and beautifully variegated. In the same neighborhood there exists an immense bed of coal, said to be thirty 0r fortv feet in thickness near the surfari f the earth. It is now said, that m coveries of Iron ore have been made in the same neighborhood. St. Louis Union. Gen. Taylor's Age. We perceive a . statement that Gen Taylor is but fiftH." !T.!ein t? twelve' thousand dollarT It " " " v V, " V n """"" "" wasSixty-four.-.V. O. Delta. For the Banner. Ma. Editor: I must apologise to you for troubling you with a few words of explanation, with regard to the communication you wi u kind as to publish or ine last weex, which I find has been misunderstood by some, and misrepresented by others, and I am unwil line that mv motives should be either mis understood or misrepresented lit uie nrst place, a friend succested to me, that my il lusion to the terrible epidemic, is calculated to convey the impression of a greater a-j mount of sickness and greater mortality, than what they really are, or have been. To this I reply, that my illusion was more to the terrible form, and unminagable na ture of the disease, than to the number of deaths or cases, though they have been considerable in proportion to our popula- Iation. 2d. It has been charged that my language contains a broad and unqualified uenuncia tion of our citizens as a mass, for being il liberal in supplying tire wants of the poor and unfortunate. I think such an infer ence is entitely gratuitous, and that the on ly fair construction is what ( intended, that if thev would look around, our citizens might find abundant room for the exercise of their charitable feelings at home. most cheerfully admit, nor have I aimed to convey any other impression, that as a gen eral thing, our citizens have been liberal in extending aid to the needy, but there are exceptions to this rule. 3d. I understand great dissatisfaction is expressed by some, at the charge of want of suitable attention to the sick. I am tru ly sorry that in this respect I can make no abatement of the charge. I made no per sonal illusions charged no particular class as a whole, but stated merely what I am able to prove ; that numbers of the sick have sunered for the want of suitable at tention, particularly of nights, during the extreme cold weather. If the shoe pinch es. I presume those who suffer will crv out. I shall go into no further particulars unless compelled to do so, and hope my sugges tions may have the enect to rescue the character of our town from a po ition in which my conduct at least, has not placed it. 4th. An inference has been drawn from my illusion to the furnishing of the church, that the citizens were censured for not aid ing in that matter. If any censire could be inferred from my remarks, I think it would fall on the members of the church who promised to pay the sexton, while I admit it was my design to convey the im pression that 1 thought it a d'tlj for others to contribute to that which is a common benefit to all, and thought the last sentence in the communication sufficiently explain ed my meaning, to wit : that an opportunity would be offered, probably, for such as might see proper to contribute to that ob ject. A word by way of anticipation of criti cisms on some blunders in that article. How I could have said, or been made to say, of Mr. Fitzsimon's address, "spreading a mong our people the wrongs, the griefs," &c. , instead of the history if the wrongs, &c, I cannot imagine, unles it was because was speaking of an Irt.sh snject, and therefore a "bull" necessarily followed. Allow me to say, Mr. Editor, to prevent all misconstruction, that so far as I, my fam ily, or friends are concerned, in sickness, we have ever received all the kindness and sympathy from the hands of the people, that could be bestowed. It is only fnr others that 1 plead. OBSERVER DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. Just after dark last night, the hemp house and rope walk in the Penitentiary at the lower end of this city, were discovered to be on lire. J he weather was very cold: there was but a limited supply of water in the prison; the combustible material in the building was abundmt, and the fire, when discovered, had progressed to such an ex tent, that it was found impossible to extin guish it, and the building, about two hun dred feet in length, with its entire contents, was consumed. I he citizens of the city generally, with the members of the Legis lature, and a large number of persons tem porarily sojourning here, repaired promptly to the prison, and labored energetically to prevent the spread of the fire to the other buildings, and to save as much property as pussioie iiom uisirutuon. we were a mongst the first to reach the prison, and when we looked at the. building on fire, came to the conclusion that all the other buildirgs, from their proximity to the one on fire, must certainly be burned down. 1 he names, for a tune, were confined with in the walls of the building, but after a little while, as if impatient to be liberated, lean. ed out through the doors, windows and roof, with a fearful and terrific grandeur. One of the largest and most extensive buil dings in the prison was only saved by hav ing a tin roof, and the new and elegant ' . j. " 1 y c1""6 nn"",ed'J e '"ted at.a exl,enS8 upwards of $30, L 1 1 r 1 1 r . .. ... - 1 V0U! would liave been consumed without doubt, but for its roof of slate. Ttere was but little wind, and that fortunately carried the flames directly towards and against the main exterior stone walls of the prison. Th. ltpa innlnJin. tk. .. .. ..t 1 ought to be mentioned to the pra se of the C0Iictf th,t th exer,ed tPhenSelre9 to the utmost in their power, and with seeming pleasure, to save as much as possible iron, the ravages of the destroying element. It is not known how the fire originated. ile Iropohtan, 18M. THE CHOLERA. As we know not at what time this terri ble scourge may fall upon us like a thief in the night, we deem it our duty to pub lish the following remedy, which is said to be infallible. We translate it from the "Courier de Constantinople," of the 14th October, for which we are indebted to the politeness of -an intelligent friend. Washington Union. Translated from the Courier de Constan tinople. We read in the "Imperial" of Smyrna, of the 6th of October. No. 430. tha fnllnw- '"g: "Nothing which relates to the treatment of the cholera should be neglected by sci ence. We hasten to submit to it the fol lowing letter; happy, as the honorable for mer consul-general who addresses it to us says, if mankind can have at last found an efficacious remedy for this terrible scourge: "Svkdia, at the mouth of theOronte,) "October, 1848. To the Editor: "Sir: Having become through Provi dence, an humble instrument in discover ing an infallible remdey for the cholem, even in the roast desperate cases, I hasten to communicate to your estimable paper, the treatment by which, with God's assis tance, this disease may be cured. It is as follows: As soon as the vomiting and diarrhoea commence, place the legs of the patient Bp to the knees in water not too hot to the touch; throw in six or seven liandfuls of coarse salt; cause the legs to be rubbed vi olently by two persons with both hands; open the large vein in both feet, and allow the blood to flow in the warm water for 12 to 20 minutes, according to the sex or age of the patient, or to the stage of the dis ease. "During this time keep the water of the same temperature that it was when tlit limbs were first inserted, by adding more water. The natural animal heat of the bo dy will be immediately restored and fell; the patient will commence at once speak ing, and asking for nourishment, lie will be perfectly prepared t j resume his duties in a day or so. "Of sixty laborers attacked with chole ra, whom I have attended, several had been suddenly seized while at work in the field; others after having retired in perfect health, about day-break have been arous ed from sound sleep with the usual symp toms at the greatest height. Aid could rarely be obtained under half an houi, or an hour and a half, (sometimes six or sev en hours, and in one instance ten houis had elapsed:) still after giving this remedy a fair trial, was the cure so perfect, that they were enable to return to their labor iu five or six days after the attack. In some ca ses the very next day, or the day aftei, saw them restored. "It has occurred, in some rare cases, that the blood not flowing sufficiently at the time, the patient was bled a second time. In such cases, the second bleeding must take place in the arm, and not in the feet. In no case has this treatment failed. "A remarkable feature in this remedy, is the immediate and perfect re-establishment of the health of the patient, who, instead of losing his strength, seems, on the contra ry, to have acquired new vigor. "Henceforth, a visit of the Cholera, will inspire less fear, than such an epidemic as the grippe. 1 have the honor to be &c, &c, JOHN BARKER, Former Consul-General of England in Egypt." The Southern Platform. The Wash ington correspondent of the Philadelphia Bulletin gives the follow in 2 as the sub stance of certain resolutions said to be a- greed to by the meeting of southern mem bers ot congress, on triday evening last: Resolved, That the south, havincr an e- qual interest in the territories of New Mex ico and California, is willing, as a principle of equitj, to accept the terms of the coin piomiseact of 36 deg.30 lat. JKesotved, 1 hat the south is will in a that said territories shall be admitted into tha Union as states, upon the presentation of constitutions, in which the subject of slave ry is referred, upon appeal, to the decision of the supreme court of the United States, such question to be omitted in said consti tution until the decision, as aforesaid, is a- warned. Resolved, That the south will accent of a bill, for the territorial eovernmenta. nn. on the principles of the art of last sessioa, introduced by Senator John M. Clayton. Resolved, That the south will sMont -t the act introduced the present session by Senator Douglass, with certain modifica tions, relative to appeals, in tha second olution. Resolved, That the sonth prefers a sen. aration ol the Union to that of acceptin Wilmot'e proyiso,andthe faith of each state is pledged to protect her interests in said territories, at the point of the bayonet Resolved, That this is the unsnh,,. viibv v wiu ineetintr. representing the south.