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1 ' DEMOCRATIC BANNER. rVlLIIHIS ITItT K0ITD1T MOBKIltD RT PICKETS &KOB15SO jr. - A. . WirS. V. F. R0BIIT8OS. r Term of the Banner. Single copy, per annum, in advance, $1 50 If nut paid within three months, - 2 00 If not oaid within the year, - - 2 50 No paper will be discontinued unless the same be paid lor up to me ume oi aiscoiiunuaiivc. Rales or Advert in! nr. Twelve lines or less, first insertion, - 75 Each additional insertion, - - 38 Yearly and quarterly advertisements at rea sonable rates. JOB WORK of all kinds, done with neatness and despatch, cheap for cash. POETRY. From the National Era. . THE SPIRIT OF TPOESY. "Come to the wood, in whose mossy dell A light a!l made for the poet dwells." Where d welleth tne spirit of Toesy ? Where T Oh, where can its home be found ? And where is the harp it has tiilled so ft Whence ooineto that low, sweet sound ? You may find its home where the ivy creeps Alone o'er yon mined wall, And the gathering moss of an hundred years Is green in its lowly hall ; Where the night-winds breathe but a mournful dirge, As they sweep round the turrrefs gr.iy And the tall grass droops o'er a desolate hearth, But to cover the worm, Decay. Ye may find its home in the wild wood dell, Where blossoms the tiniest flower But to droop and die, 'neath a drop of dew, At the moonlight's hallowed hour. It drelle(h there in the azure sky While the starry host above Are ever keeping, o'er land and sea, Their vigils of faith and love. Ye may hear the Idnes of her magic harp Jn the sound of the rushing blast, Or when, with a gentle yet saddened sigh, The wind sweeps mournfully past. Ye may hear it oft in the streamlet's song, At it dances along in glee, Till its merriest lay is forever hushed By the sound of the moaning sea. The spirit of Poesy is everywhere E'en down in the darksome cave, Where glistens the tear of an amber hue, In the bed of the "ocean wave" While its harp of a thousand matchless strings Is swept by an unseen hand A hand that will wake, with softer touch,' Swt lays in the "Belter Land." MISCELLANEOUS. Reformation of Win. Wirt. The distinguished William Wirt within six or eight months after his marriage, be came addicted to intemperance, the effect of which operated strongly on the mind and health of his wife, and in a few months more she was numbered with the dead. Her death led him to leave the country where the resided, and he moved to Richmond, where he soon rose to distinction. But his habits hung about him, and occasionally he was found with jolly and frolicsome spirits in bacchanalian revelry. Tis true, his friends expostulated with him, to convince him of the injury he was doing himself. But he still persisted. His practice began to fall off, and many looked on him as on the sure road to ruin. He was advised to get married, with a view of correcting his habits. Tliis he consented to do, if the right person offered. He accordingly paid his addresses to Miss Gamble. After some month's attention, he asked her hand in marriage she replied 'Mr. Wirt, I lave been well aware of your intentions for some Ume back, and should have given you to understand that your visits and attentions were not acceptible, had I not reciprocated the affection which you evinced for me. But I cannot yield my consent until you make a pledge never to taste, touch or ban die any intoxicating drinks.' ' This reply to Mr. Wirt was as unexpec ted at it was novel.' His reply was that he regarded the proposition as a bar to all fur ther considerations of the subject,' and left her. Her course towards him was the same avar-i-his, resentment and neglect. In tha coarse of a few weeks he went again, Wd again solicited her hand. But her re ply was, her mind was made up. Ha be. came iodignant, and regarded the terms she proposed as insulting to his honor, and vowed U should be the last meeting they should aver have. He took to . drinking worse and worse, and seemed to run head lftojruitt. One day while lying in the outskirts of the city, near a little grog shop, dead drunk, a young lady, whom it is not necessary to name, was passing that way to W home, not far off. and beheld him with lis face upturned to the rays of the scorch, log tun. She toother handkerchief, with her own name marked upon it, and placed it VOL. 5. LOUISIANA, PIKE over his face. After he had remained in that way for some hours, he was awakened, and his thirst being so great, he went into the little grocery or grog shop to get a drink, when he discovered the handkerchief, at which he looked, and at the name that was on it. After pausing a few moments he exclaimed 'Great God! who left this with me ! Who placed this on my face !' No one knew. He dropped the glass, ex claiming 'Enough ! -Enough!' He retired instantly from the store, forgetting his thirst but not the debauch, the handkerchief, or the lady, vowing, if God gave him strength, never to touch, taste or handle intoxicating1 drinks. To meet Miss G. was his life. If he met her in her carriage, or on foot, he would dodge round the nearest cor ner. She at last addressed him a note un der her own hand, inviting him to her house, which he finally gathered courage enough to accept. He told her if she bore affections for him, he would agree to her terms. Her reply was: 'My conditions are now what they ever have been. 'Then,' said the dis enthralled Wirt, 'I accept them.' They were soon married, and from that day he kept his word, and his affairs brigli tened, while honors and glories gathered thick upon his brow. His name has beenl,nM ,,,at ne considers the moral tnfluenci enrolled high in the temple of fame, while!ofthe Su.aday Scho1 J",ction as ol C- i .- j I more value than all other kind of instrnc ...s ueeas, n.s pauousm ana renown, live ion pHt logel,er. and the Edinburgh Re after lam with imperishable lustre. How view, in a recent article, points to the re many noble minds might the young ladies iligious element as the only possible security save, if they would follow the example, of, the heroine-hearted Miss Gamble, the friend of humanity, of her country, and the rela tion of La Fayette. SCIENCE AND AGRICULTURE. Look at that wide valley, with its snow clad summits at a distance on either hand, and its glassy river flowing, cribbed and confined, in the lowest bottom. Smilingj fields and well trimmed hedge-rows, and sheltering plantations & comfortable dwell-' ings, and a busy population, and abundant' cattle, cover its undulating slopes. For miles industrious plenty spreads over a! country which the river formerly usurped, and the lake covered, and the rush tutted over, and bog and mossy heath and peren nial fogs and drizzling rains readered in hospitable and chill. But mechanics have chained the river, and drained the lakes, and bogs, and clayey bottoms ; and thus giving scope to the application of all the varied practical rules to which science has led, the natural climate has been subdued, disease extripated, and rich and fertile and happy homes scattered over the ancient waste. Turn to another country, and a riv er flows deeply through an arid and deso late plain. Mechanics lifts its waters from their depths, and from a thousand artificial channels directs them over the parched sur face. It is as if an enchanter's wand had been stretched over it the green herbage and the waving corn, companied by all the industries of rural life, sprung up as they advance. Another country, and a green oasit presents itself, busy with life, in the midst of a desert and sandy plain. Do nat ural springs here gush up, as in the ancient oasis of th Libyan wilderness? It it an other of the triumphs of human industry, guided by human thought. Geology, and her sister sciences, are here the pioneers of rural life and fixed habitations. The seat of hidden waters at vast depths was discov ered by her. Under her directions mechan ics have bored to their sources, and their gushing abundance now spreads fertility around. Such are more sensible and larger triumphs of progressing rural economy- such as man may well boast of not only in themselves, but in their consequenees ; and they may take their places with the gigan tic vessel of war, as magnificent results of intellectual effort. Blackwood's Maga zine. JJ"Rev. J. N. Maffit is preaching to crowded houses at Clarksville, Ark. A correspondent of the Little Rock Banner says One of the most glorious revivals of reli- fion 1 ever beheld it now in progress. 'he whole town and vicinity are under its iiiuuenuc, sou pariaaingiargeiy in us ueu eficial and genial smiles. "United We Stand Divided We Fall." COUNTY, MISSOURI, MONDAY, THE SCHOOL HOUSE AND MEETING HOUSE. The fallowing anecdote illustrates the importance of education: - While Gen. Jackson was President, and Gen. Cass Secretary of War, they visited a portion of New England together. In riding over that highly cultivated country, Gen. Jackson was much pleased with the appearance of the people, and expressed his gratification to his companion. What fine manly countenances these men carry!' exclaimed the President. 'How robust and vigorous they are! and what spirit of enterprise and peiserverance they 'manifest' Why, with an army of such men, would undertake to face the world.' Do you know the cause of these charac- .i. t. a . r . Jtwistics that you prize so high!!' rejoined the hardest enort of jtjie veteraD g(,creta i What is it?' asked the old hero. 'Do you see the steeple of that meeting house yonder on the hill.?' Yes,' replied the President. " 'And that low school-house near it?' 'I see them both,' said General Jack son. Well,' answered Gen. Cass, himself a native of the Granite State, 'here is where New England men are made. The in structions they receive in the school house and meeting house, give them the pre-eminence over others which you have so iust- iy described. As it regards England, Dr. Va'ighan tes ana ntTe " mighty empire MARRIED AND SINGLE MEN. A contemporary very sensibly remarks, that there should be some means of distin guishing single from married men. Un-! married females are known by the prefix of miss m uieir names nut all men art styled Mr. How much unnecessary trouble and !8olicititaIe wight be.spered to the anxious mothers of tnarriageble girls, conld they make this distinction. How very annoying 10 a motr.er and bevy of girls, after laying memse ves out 10 piease some "nice young . i man u, near ii macciaeniaiyaiiude tolas wife ? This subieet really demands atten Hon, and we think that the girls should sug gest some plan by which these disappoint ments might be obviated. We think there already exists a mood in which single men can easily be distinguish ed from married ones, by ladies, of discern ment. It is by paying a little attention to the conversation and manners of entle- men. There is an ease and grace in ine: manners of married men, a sensibleness and want of nutter in their conversation, which enables them to be readily distinguished in a mixea company. Unmarried men may be distinguished by a general "greenness," and a certain frivo- lousness of conversation, and a peculiar flut ter of deportment, that nothing but matri mony can entirely cure. Exchange pa per. Untutored Eloquence A Catawba warrior, in 1822, named Peter Harris, made known his wants to the legislature of South Carolina in the following language : "I am one of the lingering survivors of an annual c AiiiiKuisiiru race, uur prives will soon be our only habitations. I am one ' r- of the few stalks that still remain in the field where the tempest of the revolution passed. I hare fought against the British for your sake. The British have disap peared, and you are free; yet from me have the British taken nothing, nor have I gain ed anything by their defeat. I pursued the deer for subsistence the deer are disap peared. I must starve. God ordained me for the forest, and my ambition is the shade. But the strength of my arm decays, and my feet fail me in the canse, The hand which fought for your liberties, is now open for your relief. In my youth I bled in battle that you might be independent let not my heart in my bid age bleed for want of your commiseration. Humbug in its Purity. Two young bloods of New York, met at Hoboken aday or two since, to 'settle a dispute with pis tols. - They fired twice, but neither were hurt, for their seconds, being very prudent men, were careful not to put any bullets in tha pistols. The whole, affair ended by re tiring to a fashionable restaurat, and late in the evening, one of the principals was seen corkscrewing the way to his residence. Odd Fish. In all waters there are fish which love to swim against the stieam; and is every community persons are to be found who delight in being opposed to every body else. 1TT7 MflSK DECEMBER 10, 1849. N0.34. The rarmerA Beautiful Extract nr nos. tnwAitn rviRCTT. The man who stands npon his own soil, who feels that by the laws of the land in which he lives by the law of civilized na tions' he is the rightful and exclusive own er of the land which he tills, is by the con stitution of oar nature, under a wholesome influence,' not easily imbibed from any other source. . Me feels, other (lanes Im-hib equal. more strongly than another, the character of man as the Jru of the inanimate woild Of this great and wonderful sphere, which, aiBshi.one'1 bv U:e hand of God, an.l upheld by his power, is rolling through the heav. ens, a portion is his ; from the centre to the sky. It is the space on which the genera tion before him moved iu its round of duties: nd he leels himseir connected y a visible link with those who preceded him, as he is also to those who will follow him, and to whom he is to transmit a home. Perhaps his farm has come down to him from his fathers. They have cone to their home: but he can trace their footsteps over the scenes of his daily labors. The roof which shelters him was reared by those to whom he owes his being. Some interesting do mestic tradition is connected with every en closure. The favorite fruit tree was plant ed by his father's band. He spotted in bis boyhood beside the brook, which still winds through the meadow. Through the field lies the path of the village school of earliest days. He still hears from his window the voice of the Sabbath bell which called bis fathers and his forefathers to the house of tGod, and near at hand is the spot where his parents laid down to rest, and where, when his time is come, shall be laid by his children. These are the feelings of the owner of the soil. Words cannot paint them, gold can not buy them ; they flow out of the heart; they are the life spring of a fresh, healthy and generous character. . A Race for a Wife. An incident of this kind, says the Lawrenceburg find ) Jour nal, occurred at the Clerk's office in that city lately. A young man from the conn try called on the Clerk with his witness to obtain a license to marry a young lady liv ing in Caesar-creek township, and after get ting his license he took the clerk by the but win ton hole, and in a whisper informed lum that anotner man would call for a license to mar rv the same woman on the next day. and forbid the Clerk granting them. The clerk promised that he would not issue them and the man left, satisfied that he bad "knocked the sod from under one fellow." WOMAN. It seems as if nature connected our in- :elligence with their dignity, as we connect our happiness with their virtue. This, t hero lore, is a law of eternal justice man can not degrade woman without himself falling into the degradation; he cannot raise her without becominc better. Let us cast our eyes over the globe, and observe the two great divisions of the human race; the east and the west. One half of the ancient world remains without progress, without thought, and under the load of a barbarous civiliza tion; woman there are slaves. The other half advances towards freedom, light, and happiness; the women there are loved and honored. Never shrink from a woman of strong sense. If she becomes attached to you, it will be from seeing and valuing similai qualities in yourself. You may trust .her, for the knows the value of vour conn- iuvijuc lull ill a V LUIIBUIL IUI D 11 u v r. -i,- is able to advise, and, does so at once with the firmness of reason and the consideration of affection. Her love will be lasting, for it will not have been slightly won: it will be strong and ardent, for weak minds are in capable of the loftier grades of passion. If you prefer attaching yourself to a woman of feeble understanding, it must be either from fearing to encounter a superior person or from vanity of preferring that admiration which sorines from ignorance, to that which approaches to appreciation Old Squire B. was elected Judge of the inferior court in some county in the State of Georgia. When he went home, his delight ed wife exclaimed: "Now my dear, you are Judge, what am I ? "The same darnd old fool you allers was," was the tart reply A Scheme for Maryland akd Cali- roniA. I he New xork correspondent ol the Washington Union states that "there is a proposition in circulation to subscribe a joint stock capital of six to seven thousand dollars, to purchase negroes in Maryland, give them their freedom, and take five years indentures to work in California for gold. The concern embraces Attorney .General Johnson among its patrons. The man who climbed tha North Pole is said to be in Cincinnatti at present, hatch ing snow balls. -, 'GcexoK'LivARB. thai author tj-fa-' Uoot letUraddmsed.fc'CeaVWja bow the editor of the Quaitr C7yi,fiMish- ed.in Philadelphia, PfM TbtT iUmOg remarks are from 4lal numbeYof &arfa P" . . . f w f . . " ''I . We are opposed to slavei of aB lindr, . shapes and colors, bat for tha life of us, we; ' cannot understand the coVtf of thoee per1 sons who make war npon negro slavery and at the same time profess tha aaoit bound JM . admiration for the very name of Great Bri- , tain. Multiply the evils of Black Slavery by ten thousand and they will not parallel - the wrongs and atrocities committed by. England on her White Slavei.' These white slaves are not found on cotton plantations. but they are found in the cotton mills, yi the . manufactories of England. Go to Eati&id -' if yon would survey human nature- m it- ' lowest depth of degration.,. There la tbi : - caverns of London, in the factories of Maaj Chester, in the depths, of the coal mine. you wii! find thousands of white men tad;,; women who have never beard of too exis tence of God. You will find childhood blast ed into precocious crime. Yon will find womanhood degraded below the brute ere- : ation. Yon will find manhood, to trodden ' down, overworked and enslaved, from hia veriest infancy, that it no longer, remade you of God, or of hia creation, bnt of Sa. tan and a satanic creation . Go to Ireland. , and survey the bones of a million of skele tons, which, three years ago, were living men, women and children, but which are now the trophies of the great battle fought ' by England against humanity the battle of the plague and famine. " Talk of England ' as the fnend of mankind,, or. as the enemy of slavery! As well might yoa speak of Satan as benevolent, or of Tartarus as . . place renowed for its salubrious climate. England is the enemy of mankind.. Her . power is fed upon human flesh. Her thou- sand lords live upon the death of. ten thou- sand of the poor the poor, without bread or hope. Her bishops offer prayers t God, and at the same time proclaim their 'A the ism .to the world, by their jrioQuk living, ani ? by their consistent oppression of the mattes True, there are two buglands the Jung- land of the Government, backed by the monied and landed aristocracy, and the. England of the People, who are only born to toil and die. The English government . we hate, as the Juggernaut of modern civ- . ilization, which never moves but to crush the innocent and the weak. , The English people ; the men, the women and the chil , dren, whose prostrate necks make the patb- way of this great Joggernaut we love a , the great family, whose Father it God. r- But the England of the Banker Lords,'; and Bishops, is the foe of mankind. The sooner it is blotted out from the list of na- ' tions, the better for the world. , Every day that it continues to exist, is only another . day of starvation, suffering and blood. The. hour which witnesses the downfall of Eog-. land, will be called by mankind at the 4tU of July of a freed world. . r..:r... Let any man read the reports presented to the English Parliament in relation to the degradation of the factory population of England, let him peruse the British papers, and see how day after day murder, famine and robbery go hand in hand over the British dominions let him except the testimony of British authors, in regard to the utter mise ry of the masses of the British people and then, it he hat the heart to do it, let hia de ny that England is the common executioner of the human family. . : ;. :;, That Americans opposed to slavery should admire this England may well excite our wonder. But that in their haste to get rid of Black Slavery, they should eulogize the White Slavery which prevails in England, may well excite not only the wonder, but the horror and contempt of all honest men.3 Away with the hypocrite, whose bowels yearn with compassion fur the negro, while his heart hat not one throb, nor hit eye one tear, for the English slave." -.. Extraordinary Oiscoviry in Califor nia. -The following is an extract from a letter written to his wife by a New Yorker, now wot king in the mines of California. The letter bean date August 26,1849:- "There was a goldmine discovered here (what is called Murphy's Diggings) one week to-day; it is evidently the work of an-.' cient times 210 feet deep, situated on the summit of a very high mountain. It hat made a great excitement here, as it was sev eral days before preparations could be made to descend to the bottom. - There was found in it the bones of a human being, also an al tar for worship, and tome other evidences of human labor. From present indicatione it is doubtful whether it will pay to be work ed, as it is mostly all rock, and will require, a great outlay for tools and machinery to work it" , , i - Thit discovery, if properly pursued by competent observers, may prove of the high est historical importance. - It will establish the fact that the mineral wealth of the' re gion bat been known to preceding genera tions, and the relict which have survived may enlighten us as to the nationality the . people who first pierced; thit mountairt'two , hundred and ten feet, and will doubtless suggest an inquiry into the reasons for . doning the pursuit of gold 1 epnntrjla which it seems to abound,1 and where it dis coveries had found eneonragesaentto rntke tueh extensive excavations in former timet; N.Y.Post 7f . i