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THE BANNER. ABBEVILLE C. H., sT C.: Wodin sday. Jau, 12, IS1?. To Oi.U' Patrons. As this is the commencement of the year We take this occasion to say that in future we shall be compelled to adopt the cash system. The expenses of our oflice are such, and the cash payment made us so small, that we are forced to this course. Already considerable amounts are due us scattered over the country at such intervals that it is very inconvenient for us to collect it without great expense. And we have found also by sad experience that by the credit system we may toil on from one year to another and be entirely forgotten ljy a large portion of those who are, or profess to be, our patrons. Wo trust therefore that it will be borne in mind by those subscribing, or ordering the Banner, that our terms arc cash and that we can make no exceptions. Each subscriber will be notified when his subscription closes, and we trust no one will be offended by such notice, but continue their patronage. It is certainly better that we send the Banner to four hundred paying subscribers, than to eight hundred, a third of whom forget that they owe for the paper. Also all persons iudobted to the oflice are earnestly requested to make payment, as our expenses are heavy, and we aroin need of all that is due us. It is onlv through thn j 0~ punctually of those owing u.s that we can be punctual in pnying our own debts. The Gallant Dead. The remains of Cel. 13 utler and Lieut. Col. Dickenson, arived in the steamer New Oleans and have been carried on to Columbia, also those of Sergt. Madison of the Ab. beville Company, but we have not ascertain ed as yet what disposition has been made of them, they were not in Hamburg when the remains of Lt. J. B. Moragne were removed, . Our Volunteers, Several < f our volunteers who belonged to the Company which left this district for Mexico have returned,Richard Watson who was one of the forlorn hope and severely wounded, Jas. A. McKee and W. J. Lomaxthey are all in good health except Wat son who we learn is slill suffering from his wounds. Lieut. Jno. B. moraguc. The remains of this gallant young officer were received in this place on Monday last. I The citizens being informed that the body was some little distance from the Tillage, i immediately collected in front of the Court House, and formed a procession which mo* cum soicmn order preceeded by the hearse some half mile below the village where it met the remains. They were then removed from the wagon to the hearse,and the procession returned with them to the village. At 7 o'clock in the evening a large meeting was held at Mrs. Allen's, where the remains were deposited, to consider the most suitable mannor of honoring the dead. A Committee was appointed to wait upon the family and inform them of the fact, and to confer with ihem as to the time and place of his burial. The Rev. D. McNiel Turner being called upon by the Chairman of the meeting, Mr. Perrin, made some very feeling and appropriate remarks upon the occasion. It was with no ordinary feelings that we gazed upon the coffin containing the mortal remains of this noble young officer ; when more than twelve months ago he left this place with tho most flattering prospects before him, little did he or his friends expect flint hia rofiim ?/* V?!? ?- 11 L .u_. ... ?*,? *?*? vu mo LuuiiLiy wuuiu oc under such meluncholy circumstances. His life has been offered upon the altar of his country. In the battles of Coutreras and at the storming of Chapultepec and the Garita> he was distinguished for his coolness and l>ra very,and nobly fell at his post. Let us now give him a " Green grave in the land of his fathers" and ever cherish his memory in our hearts. - ' Palmetto Regiment. It is stated by thd Washington correspondent of the Charleston Courier, that Gens. Quitman and Shields,who are now at Washington have requested the President to discharge our Regiment^ that the order would immediately be give*. W* trust this may be so, if the Regement can be rcalled, the influence of these officers will effect it. By the late news from Mexico, we learn that adjutant Cantey was elected Colonel over Moj. Gladden, but that he refused to accept, it is the desire of the Regiment now that the office of Colonel shall not be filled, Mai. Gladden bv the laws of thi? Rtntn i? T.i Colonel. Capt. Dunnovaut has also been elected Major getting 4 votes more than his opponent Capt. Marshall. Lt Selleck is now 1st Lt and David Donald 2d in the Abbeville Company, FUNERAL OF LT. J. 13. MORAGNEThe remains of Lieut. J. 1}. Moragne will be interred at Willington Church on Thurs" day the 20th inst. A funeral discourse will be delivered by the Rev. D. McNeil Turner, at 12 o'clock, immediately after which, the burial will take place, with suitable Milita ry hotiois. The day previous, the remains will be conveyed from the Village to Mt. Carmal, attended by the Abbeville Light Infantry. At 10 o'clock, (Thursday 20ih.) the Funeral Procession will be formed at Mount j Carmal under command of Col. Tolman. j The Abbeville Light Infantry and the Ar- j tillery will be in attendance and act as Es- j cort. The two Companies of Cavalry at- J tached to the ilegiment are invited to join i (he Procession and attend the Funeral, as j aiso mc iuinua, uie Military, and Citizens ! generally. By order of the Committe of Citizens. J. F. Livingston. B. Y. Martin. J. H. Wilson. What is Man.?Man, says the Cleveland Ilerald, is a reasoning animal, who paints with the sunbeams,travels by steam, and talks by lightning. FROM OUR VOLUNTEERS. Correspondence of the Banner. xt ...... u. / i**? . - v * imnu.>ALi X AI.AI li, ^ItlKAICOjj / 28th October, 1847. $ Mr. Editor:?As an opportunity now offers of sending letters to the States, I feel it my duty, although painful as it is, to j communicate through your paper to those I of ojr friends, who have always taken a j deep interest in the fate of the Abbeville I Volunteers, the deaths of those young spirits j who so nobly and gallantly came forward j last December and tendered their services to their country. An All-Wise God des'.ined that a large majority of those who have died, j should not fall on the bloody battle fields, ! ?but under the malignant diseases of the country. Would that the bitter cup of dying in a foreign land, without even the consolation of seeing those who could have soothed their suffering in the last hour, could have been removed ; but they yielded up their lives a willing sacrifice upon the altar of their country, thereby erecting for themselves a monument more lasting than I that made by human hands. Others have fallen upon the bloody yet, | victorious, battle fields of Chapultepec and j the Garita Eelen. In the charge uponCha[ pultepec, and whilst driving the enemy j from the Garita Belen, they were conspicuous for thnir rnnlnpsc m?H rroll?n?rtf ! ...... MIIVl Jf UUUVI the heavy fire of grape and canister, and by their fall, their native District has been de1 . prived of some of her best citizens, as well as the Abbeville Volunteers of some of our best officers and soldiers. Though they are dead, yet the name of a Moragnc, a Mattison,a Devlin and a Patrick, will long be remembered by the citizens of their native District. Some have been discharged in consequence of disease incurred in the service, yet I am proud to say that their services have been rendered in a foreign service unj -? -* - 1 ucr severe anucuons, with such prompti- I tude and dovotion that can only be equalled by Carolinians. It affords me much pleasure to say that the rank and JiU, under my command, behaved during the storming of Chapultepec and the driving of the enemy from the Garita Belen, with great coolness, and evinced a determination under the heavy fire of grape and canister which fell in our midst like hail, to conquer or die in the attempt. Although many have fallen, and many more severelv wound**!, vot or? still left under my command deserves much of their country in common with the Regiment, and I take pleasure in recommending them individually to the favorable consideration of the citizens of their native District for the efficient service rendered in | the battles before the city of Mexico. Lieut Selleck,* who has been acting as < Lieutenant of the Ordnance, came out and took bis post, and behaved with great cool ness and gallantry during the storming of Chapultepec and the driving the enemy from the Garita Belcn. Lieut. Stewart, though he is no more, yet true to the reputation he had acquired lor himself while acting as Orderly, was at his post during the battle of Contreras, and rendered me great assistance during the engagement. The following are the Rank and File who behaved with great credit to themselves during the storming of Chapultepec and the advance upon the Garita I3elen : Serg'ls. Higgins, Priv'ts. Ililburn, li Beail.f " James, Corp'ls.Saxton,* " Junkin,* J T Lomax, u Kay. " Rogers,* u McICeown.* u Donald, " Mattison.G P Priv'ts.Anderson, JN " Norwood,+J A " A mold,f W C " Posey, u Arnold, J \V t{ Thompson, 4{ Beau lord, u Watson,^* It " Caldwell, " Wallace, " Calvert,* " Wilson, T W 4 Davis:,* Jas " Wright, " Donald. <l Patrick,:? The following were in the battle of Contreras, hut in consequence of sickness and other causes, were prevented from taking part in the battles of the 13th : Lieut. Stewart. Priv'ts. White, N T Priv'ts.Douglass. " Watson, E u Jonhson, B F {t Wilson,|| Dr J " Mel twain, " Perrin,? Those marked thus (f) were in the Light Infantry Batailion under the command of Major Twiggs. Those marked thus (*) were wounded. Those marked thus (?) were in the storming party under Capl. Reynolds, and distinguished themselves for their coolness and bravery whilst storming the works at the i r ?? uasa ui v^ijiipuiicpec. Marked thus (?) was on furlough in Q. M. Department, but joined his Company and fought gallantly. Marked thus (||) has since been transferred to Medical Department. The following are those left behind sick in Vera Cruz and Puebla : Sergeant Hodges, Puebla. Privates Anderson, J S Vera Cruz. " Alexander, R H Puebla. l Botts, J R " " Bickerton, J G t; ? " Cheatham, Jackson " " rooshee, William " u McCord, Nimrod " McKee. J A " Pnllinm R S ? M Simmons, T P " " Wilkinson, John li " White, J M " ? Wilson. E B " List of casualties that have occurred in Company E. Pal. Reg't., S. C. Vol's, from the date of its being- mustered into service to the present time : KILLED IN ACTION. Lieut. John B Moragne, 13th Sept., Garita de Belen j Serg't. B F Mattison, 13th Sept., Chapultepec ; Piivates Win B Devlin, 13th Sept., Garitade Belen ; John Patrick, 13th Sent.. ChanultfinnrU J / X 1 DEATHS. Privates J H Hall, 2d March, Isle of Lobos, Dysentary; O H P Gilbert, 20lli do., Vera Cruz, Diarrhoea ; Isaac Starkey, 30th do., Dropsy ; J C Prince 26th April, do., Diarrhoea ; J W Huffman 1st May, Encero, do.; Eli Norrel 5th do., Vera Cruz, Dysentary ; E Sterling 7th do., do., Diarrhoea ; Samuel Alexander 9th do., Dysentary; S D Gillespie 13th do., Jalapa, do ; J L Watson 21st do., Vera Cruz, Diarrhoea; Green Harris 24th do., JalaDa. Dronsv : J # i t r~J 1, ' D Hill 28th do., do., Diarrhoea ; William Drinknrd 31st do., do., Typhoid Fever; J H Grayham 8th June, Puebla, Diarrhoea ; Wm P Botts 26th do., Perote, do.; Thos P Lackey 2d July, Puebla, do.; Jesse M Norwood 4th do , Perote, Dysentary ; William Thomas 8th do., Puebla, Diarrhoea; R Barksdale 9th do., do., do.; A G Morrow 10th do., Perote, Dysentary ; G McElden 18th do., Puebla, do.; J S Lamb 28*h do., do., Diarrhoea; Robt R Houston 28th do., do., do.; Jas C Davis 30th do., do., Dysentary ; B W Stewart, 2d Lieut., 28th Sept., City of Mexico, Dysentary ; Edward Watson, Private, 22d Oct., do., do. DISCHARGED. Privates Jas M Norrel 27th January, Mobile, Disability ; WE Middleton 10th April, VeraUruz, Pulmonary Affection; W E Watson 10th do., do., Fractured Tibias; Jno J Martin 12th do., do., appointed 1 st Lieut. 12th Infantry; Geo A Griffin 3d June, Puebla, Disability ; Serg't M H Wilson 28th July, do, Chronic Diarrhoea; Privates Doyle Riley 27th Oct., City of Mexico, do.; John Gray 26th March, Hamburg, left sick ; S B Elmore 26th do., Atlanta, Ga., do.; James Malone 26th do, do 4 do. TRANSFERRED. Private Samuel McGowan, 4th January . J* .. 1847, Ass't. Q,. Master. He was with Gen Quitman in the storming of Chapultepee, and the Garita de Belen., as Volunteer Aid RESIGNATION'S. Lieut A A Roberts 10th Apr^j, to take effect May 1, 1847. DKSKUTIOXS. Privates limijamiu Carrol, 29th December, 1840, Hamburg; David O Hix 131st do., do.; James O Cooper 10th February, 1847, Mobile. I making this report for the satisfaction of our friends, I cannot pass by in silence the gallant services of the officers and rank and lile of other companies composing the Palmetto Regiment. They, one and all (if I am allowed to judge,) to use the language of Gen. Quitman, ''have crowned themselves with immortal glory." I will close by saying, that although we are in the Halls of the Montezumas, yet we are as far from peace as the day we crossed the Rio Grande; and unless the policy oi the war is charmed from the "lenient and suasive system," to tho stern dictates of the conqueror, we never can conquer a peace. Yours truly, J. Fostkk Marshall. From the C/uirlcston Mercury. THE PALMETTO REGIMENT. I believe our Legislature have done nothing for ourgallant dead who fell upon the bloody fields of Mexico. As to providing for the bodily comforts of their surviving j families, that is nothing. There maybe something in a liepublic that might make that an unsafe and impolitic precedent. But then, why lias the Legislature done nothing effective towards commemorating permanently the fame and honor of those sons of South Carolina who have covered the State with glory in a foreign land? But for the Governor's Message, and the reports of a Committee or two, there is nothing official that has passed both branches at Columbia, which would show that the Palmetto banner was borne in triumph by a band of heroes over the perilous ridge of the battle at Contieras, Churubusco, Chapultepec and the CJarita of Mexico. Is there nothing in all these deeds of valor worthy In hn .?11 ? *' ? n .v ?vvU......^iiwi<uiu in an uun tunes.'? Are we but tlie degenerate sons of noble sires ? All people who have furnished examples for the admiration of the world, have taken pride in raising up monuments by which to transmit their heroic deeds to a devoted posterity ; and when a State ceases to remember with gratitude the valor of her gal-lant sons, it shows a cold indifference that chills the heart of a hero, and argues that she herself is degenerate and corrupt.? Those who expect to make South Carolina great by metely developing the physical resources of the State, vastly mistake the genius and the spirit of our people. What are the physical resources of South Carolina, as compared with the other great and gigantic States that encircle this Confederacy? Literally nothing. Th? outv trim way to make us a great people is to develope our moral and intellectual endowments. Make us a brave and heroic people?make us intellectual and eloquent, and you will make us a great people. Others may surpass us in numbers; others may surpass us in wealth ; but lor all those noble qualities that have kindled the admiration of the world, and fired the enthusiasm of the great and the wise in every age and in every country, we will be their superiors. A people arc great, not from their physical resources or brutal numbers, but from their great deeds. The Greek valor of Butler, the Roman intrepidity of Dickinson, and the heroic and i glorious band who died with them under the triumpant flag of their country, upon the , bloody fields of battle, have done more to 1 kindle a noble and high enthusiasm i amongst our children, have done more for the fame and moral worth of South Carolina, than whole generations of men reposing ! in inglorious ease and luxurious indulgence stimu ated into what aro called modern enterprise, by jesuitical financiers, or miserable politicians. Their famtf, at this day, is worth more to South Carolina than all her Rail Roads and all her Banks, j Why is it that Athens, a small and incon- j siderable town of Attica, held for so long a time the moral sway of the world ? It ! I I I- L 1 - ? ' wua ueuuuau nur peupiu xiau me gratitude ' to bring back the bones of Themistocles from a foreign land, and raised over them a magnificent tomb, upon which her children could stand and u wake to ecstacy" the genius of a stormy Democracy. When Pericles covered her glorious hills with those beautiful marble monuments that have been the wonder and admiration of all after times, he well understood the true genius of her people, and all the elements i of genuine greatness. Neither Herodotus, nor Polybius, nor Thucydides, nor any of the trashy historians of modern time, have ever given us as vivid a histojy of that wonderful people, as what we read from < their tombs, their monuments, their temples, on/1 lKoi?? ???* - TWT? " * a..u iiivu pumcuKs. nu man can want by j tho standing columns of the Parthenon, it t seems to me, without communing with the spirits of the mighty, and feeling his heart ' beat and expand with deeper and warmer 1 emotions of enthusiasm. i A lion stone was erected at the straits of j Thermopylae, and the bones ofLeonidas 1 were carried back to Sparta by Pausanias, ( forty years after his death, and a monument j erected over them. These were things for their young men to look to, and form their standards by ; and the spirit that prompted to them was the spirit that made a great people. If the Romans had erected a monument to JJruius, the Caesars never would havo reigned the tyrants of their country. Let South Carolina, with one iiminimnna voice, raise a noble monument to her brave sons who fell in Mexico, whose pure and polished shaft of Parian marble shall bear to unborn generations hallowed and consecrated names; and at whose base our young men may kneel, to kindle anew the lire of patriotism, and catch inspiration from the spirits of heroes. Let thein as they pass by such a monument, forever remember uthat the duties of life are dearer than life itself1 u Oi.d 9G." Correspondence of the Charleston Patriot. WASHIJNOTON, DEC, 30, 1847, In the Senate lo-dav. after some business of an uninteresting charueter, tfie bill of Mr. Crittenden for the purchase of the Madison papers was taken up and passed by a vole of 22 ayes to 13 nays. Mr. Cass moved that his bill providing for additional forces be now taken up. Mr. Calhoun desired its postpomnent until a vote could be had on the resolutions which he had previously submitted. Mr. Cass said he was opposad to the delay and without saying anything in defence ot the war or the President he was only anxious to take measures for the conclusion of the war. Messrs. Clayton and Berrien also declared ihemselves in favor of a postponment. Mr. Berrien wished to discuss the proposition of Mr. Calhoun so as to discover for what reason the war was continued. Several other Senators joined in the discussion, and finally on the question of reading the bill, it was carried by 19 votes tol9 and the Vice President voting in the affirmative. The bill was then read, and the Senate subsequently went into executive session. In the House another one of those interminable petitions on the subject of slavery, was laid on the t:>}?le by t? uo?c of 86 to 70. The prayer of the petition was that achange be made in the constitution and laws of the Untied Slates, and thai the nmoocula *ii?* , |/I vvvvuw Vi iUU public lauds may be applied to the extinction of slavery. The Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported a joint resolution authorizing the Postmaster General to make an arrangement with the Richmond Railroad and Steamboat Company for transporting the mails, as formerly, to be allowed the highest rate of pay allowed to any other line for once a day service; and that the Bay line be compensated tor a discontinuance of us sorvlcc. It was referred to the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union. An attempt was subsequently made to k.. - ' ' ' * * ??cu?c n?u nuic icuuubiut'reu, pending wuicti the House adjouned. Neither House will again meet until Monday. The President yesterday sent the following nominations to the Senate. .1 VV Davis of Indiana, (Ex-Speaker,)Minister to China, in the place of A. Everett, deceased. J Rowan, of Kentucky, Charge d'Affairs to Naples, vice W H Polk. Dr. Niles, of Baltimore, (formerly Secretary of Legation to Paris,) Charge deAffairs to Sard in a, vice Robert WicklifTe re- v siirned. The nominations have not been definitely acted on. A good story is told of General Lane of Indiana. At the battle of Buena Vista, when the Indiana Regiment retreated, the General tried <Jvery means to get them to return. Becoming enshusiastic. he appealed to them as " they loved their native State, to do their duty." ;c Come now," said he, "and rush into the thickest of the fight. I'll lead you, and only think how glorious it will look in history to have it said that the whole Indiana Regiment was cut to pieces.'* Seeing the Elephant.?A wag advertised, in one of the papers, on the morning of the recent election, in extraordinary dis_| ,| At_ _ . n ? jjiiij, niui ine w nmoi I'roviso wouia oe exhibited at the Museum for a week, having obtained the genuine thing from the owner. This was a hit in its way, but a greenhorn, who is called a " native," actually visited the museum for the purpose of beholding the animal, and was shewn the stuffed skin of an elephant, as the veritable Wilmot Proviso itself, whicfr he is reported to have been left gazing at with dubious wonder. Chancellor Kent was, as we have said belore a professor of religion an-J very recently a communicant in the Episcopal Church ; and it is worthy of remark that within the past year, Chief Justice Spencer, Mr. Webster, and Mr. Clay have all partaken of this communion in the same church, Mr. Webster having received the communion about a year since from the hand of the Rev. Mr. Southard in Calvary Church, without any allusion to the fact being made in the public press. The above is from the New York Courier 5c inquirer, which follows up the account by citing it as a testimony in favor of religion from four of the greatest intellects* of the age. Christianity does not need such testimony, rhe history of the world shows that the best testimony in its favor has bean from men who were notthe M greatest intellect*;" Besides, if the arguments Were heldgood, he opponents of religion might biiesome 1 great intellects" onthe other side. # We think that the embracing of christiS3