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0 ORIGINAL, AS WB]" AS SELBOTE WOMAN. Woman, dear woman! in whose name Wife, sister, mother meet Thine is the heart, by earliest claim And thine its latest beat! In thee, the.angels virtues shine; An angels' form to thee Is given Then be an angels' office thine And lead the soul to heaven! Have courage enough to review your owi - conduct; to condom it where you detect fault. to amend it to the best of your abilities; t make good resolves for your future guidanc and to keep them. One of the sacred obligations of men is t augment to the greatest possible extent pos sible, his power of doing good. Accomplishments and ornamental learninj are sometimes acquired at the expense of use fulness. The tree which grows the talles and is most thickly clothed with leaves, i not the best bearer, but rather on the contra ry. WHAT IS JOY ? SAY, what is Joy? A meteor bright, That dances awhile, on the stream of time Then, to us, is lost its silvery light, As it darts from this world to a purer clime And what is Joy? A rainbow hue, Sent for a moment, this dark world to light Yet scarce its varying tints we view, Ere it is lost in the blackness of night. Still what is Joy? A wandering breeze, That lifts the bright curls from childhood' brow, He lingers awhile, then turns to seize Aha! the truant has gone just now. Is this the Joy, of this fading earth? A meteor flash, a rainbow hue? A wandering breeze, so filled with mirth? Ah! I would away, where joy is true. CAssIoPEA. If you fall into any great misfortune die engage yourself as well as you can. Cree through those bushes which have the fewei iriars. A newspaper is a perfect history of th limes, It is a record of events transpiring the place of its publication, in the State th ;nation and the world. Every family shoul carefully preserve their newspapers, an have them bound in convenient volumes v the end of the year. They will thus have most valuable and costly history of the worl for the mere subscription. to the paper, an the cost of binding. Such a history carric with it a thousand interesting reminiscence Save your paper. IT is proper for all to remember they mui not raise expectations which it is not in the power to satisfy, and that it is more pleasin to see smoke brightening into flame tha flame sinking into smoke. Oh! what is not hope to nan?-the vitalil of vitality, the life of his life, the great motis power of all exertion, the strengthener, tt consoler, the stay, tho great battle swoi that cleaves through the armor of all adversi ris, that the conqueror that strikes dow opposition, tramples on reverses, bursts ope the gates of the tomb and treads on the nich of death.-James. THE VISAGE. In vain we fondly strive to trace The souls reflection in dhe face. Boobies have looked as wise and bright As Plato,or the Stagarite; And many a sage and learned skull Has peeped through windows dark an dull. INNOcENCE. WIKAT a power there is in Innocenc< whose very helplessness is its e afeguard-i whose presence even Passion himself stand abashed, and turns worshipper at the very a: ter he came to despoil. KNowLEDGE.. Knowledge is not a couch where-upon rest a searching and restless spirit, or a tel race for a wandering and variable mindt walk up and down with a fair prospect, or tower of state for a proud mind to raise ite * pon, or a fort or commanding ground fc strife or contention, or a shop for profit c sale, but a rich storehouse for the glory of th Creator, and the relief of man's estate. [Lord Bacon. It were better to have no opinion of Go at all than such an Opinion as is unworthy c him, for the one is unbelief and the otheri contumely. SELECTED PASSAGES ON GENIUS. "PoETs seem to have fame, in lieu of mos temporal advantages. They are too littl S formed frbusiness tobe respected; too ofte, * feared or envied to be beloved." "ONE can now and then reach an author' head when he stoops; and, induced by thil circumstanco, aspire to mieasuro height witi a. him." "PanArs an acquaintance with men o ggnius is rather reputable than satisfactory.' "PEOrrLE in high, or distinguished life ought to have a greater circumspection in re. gadto their most trivial actions. For In sttce: I saw Mr. Pope. And what was hi doing when you saw him? Why, to the boa of my memory, he was picking his nose." .Po never oncgmentions Prior,, tuu Prior speaks s 14ads41e of Pope. gil ngver mentions Hpraice, thoigh indled to ln for two ve weldj--tiired comyli ments. This can btily be 1m(uteto prlds or cunning; in other words, tasome modiica. tion of sol6lhness." - "PannDZS allow no quarter to such ladies as have fallen a sacrifice to the gentle pass ions; either because they themselves, being A borne away by the malignant passions, never c4 felt the others so powerful as to occasion them any difficulty; or because. no one has B tempted themn to transgi ess that vay them- P1 selves. It. is the same case with some crit ice, with regard to the errors of ingenious writers." "A POEr that fails in writing becomes of ten a morose eritic. The weak - and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vine gar." [FoR THE aUMTsr RANNER.] a Swearing. b "or sll the nauseous, complicated crimes, b That both Infect and stigmatise the times, ft Thor's none that can with impious oaths com-- e pare t Where vice and folly have an equal share." e - n It is not our purpose to write a homily n on this subject;. but simply to call attention ti in a few plain remarks, to a wide spread and pernicious evil. Swearing, like drink. ing, is confined to no one class, or condi. tion of society. - The young and the old, persons of both sexes-the rich and the poor, the learned and the ignorant, the l bond and the free, are more or less guilty a of the practice. Should the eye of a pro. t] fane swearer light upon those lines, we t< respectfully ask him to pause a moment, ii and seriously ponder the following con. tI siderations. Profane swearing fsforbidden by God. "Swear not at all."-This command is r positive; as much so as any precept of the ti Decalogue; and for the violation of which ' you are as responsible as you would be 0 for theft. For, he who said, "Tho shalt is not steal," has also said, "Swear not at o all." If, therefore, you have any regard a, for your Maker, desist from the practie f of profane swearing. o nsider, that it is a uscless practise. a We have heard men justify the use of strong drink on the grounds of its utility- y p they tells tell us, it warms them in winter a t and cools them in summer; and they are C firmly persuaded that all this is so! But s who ever heard a just, or even a sensible v plea for an oath ? who will pretend tosay p n that, the use of profane language is profit a able in any way ? The swearer himself d knows that it is not. It makes him neither d wiser, nor richer, nor more respectable, t It increases in no degree his influence a and it is very far from recommending him d to the favorable notice and regards ofthe d good and upright. Besides a I this, it is v a well known fact, that, but little confi. t a dence is placed in the statements of a man 3- who backs what he says by a hard oath. His veracity is most commonly suspected it by men of strict integrity; and if believdd ir at all, it is because what he states is known to be true, independently of his tes. g imony. In short, not one single advan. C " tage can be shewn to result from the prac. I tice-wvhy, then. persist in it ? Consider too, that it is no mark of a e gentleman to swcear. We do not say, that, t he who swears, is no gentleman-we t d leave others to determine this-but we do say, that, profane swearing is no mat k of good breeding-of gentlemanly character t n What are the facts of the case? WVhy, t n "the most worthless and vile; the refuse e of mankind, and the drunkard swvearer as well as the best dressed and educated gent lemnan. "And it is a well-known fact 1' that, common sailors. whlo are looked up. a on as among the most degraded in morals are also, among the most /intished in "the c art ofoursing." It requires no particular ii smartness-no special intellectual endow. n ments, to acquire proficiency in this art.d cd "Tile basest and meanest of mankind swear wvith ase much tact and skill, as the t most refined." To say the least, then, i~ the common swearer can, on this accountt ay racticeim to being a gentleman--the a rcieadds nothing to his respectabili. s ty. L - But, the most weighty consideration. against swearing, is, that God will not g hold you guiltless. One of the ten com.- a mandmnents is specially directed against id -this practice;--"Thou shalt not take the ' name of the Lord, thy God in vain." No man so frequently, and wantonly,b takes the name of God in ...n, as the ti f profane swearer. 1He never uses it, but fi r with profane lips. He never uses it, but r in invoking imprecations either on his ei o own head, or on others. For such wan- aj ton, impious use of his name-a name ha before whioh, all holy intelligences pros trate themselves --God has solemnly do. a clared, that he will not hold the swearer at f guitless;--"I will not hold him guiltless c< B that taketh my name in vain ! " A wful threatening ! let the swearer se riously think of it; and let him abandon a P practice, which is not only wholly unprofi. s( t alble, but which, if not repented of, must F finally expose him to tihe malediction of his offended Maker. D ai SINGULAR COINelDENcE.-Died, at ig Marshfield Mass., on the 5th instanta Deacon Joel Hatch, aged 70; on 0th in stant, Deacon Joseph Clin, aged 84.- m They were both elected deacons of the se Congregational Church, in North Marsh- *a field, In 1801, and they wvere both found dead, the one in his bed and tile other in sC his yard. bc Jr4 Seventeen millions of passengers gi have been carried ever the Massachu. setts railroads, wvithin the past three yea rt.e Fifty-six killed and sixty-fien injure, in 'IUMTER BANNER: Znitctt le, 0..4 WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1849. TRAVELLING AGENT. ID"Rev. FREDERICK UUsn, is a travelling gent for this paper, and is authorized to re wve subscriptions and receipt for the same. 3T All communications intended for the ANNER must be directed Post Paid to the -esent EDITOR. Cotton. Uharleston.-Prices from 5 8.4 to 1-2 cents per pound. Virginia Election, The returns of the election in Virginia shew Democratic gain. The Whigs on the sea 3ard exhibit but little diminnition of strength, at the men in the mountains are true and ithful to sound principles. We hope that very Southern state that is yet to hold an lection will remember that i- is the determi ation of the Whigs to fasten upon the Do iocrats the infamous Wilmot proviso, that tey go into the fight under that banner, and very Southern man in favor of the rights and iterests of the South we hope and trust will a up and doing, will stand by their homes nid their institutions, their families and their resides. Let the South only be UNITED id we have no fear as to the result; the bat e is to be fought at the ballot-box, and a vic iry ovet political fanatics and intriguing po ticians in the next Congress will satisfy to Administration that the South must be it alone and is determined to stand up for her ghts. "In union there is strength" and if ie South is anxious to put an end to the mwarrantable interference of the North in irdomestic institutions, the only sure way to unite at the ballot-box and put down ab ition in its worst features by the election of ,und and true men. As this policy is urg I by every patriotic consideration there ould he no hesitancy, no holding back in iese contests. The slave--states which are et to hold elections will determine the char :ter of the next Congress, and the plans of me Cabinet in carrying out measures which rike at the best interests of the country, as tell as the safety of the South, will be romptly checked. As yet, it is not known hether the President is to follow his Cabin t, or the Cabinet'is to follow him, there is a mysterious silence upon this subject. If leneial Taylor has the decision of WAsIt. IGTON, and the firmness of JACKSON, HE 'ill be President. But our course is on. rard-our BANNER is-" Union of ihe Soith".. preserve the union of the States. The Canada Outbreak. For some time past, the English par y in Canada, (we say English party in ontradistinction to the French,) has cen restless and uneasy, at the pros ect of the passage of a bill through eo Provincial Parliament remunerating ie revolutionists for their losses in the to rebellion; and what stamped the ie measure with the blackest ingrati. tde, taxingr the loyal inhabitants to ay the losses of the disloyal and un ithful. It was no doubt a ministerial esure to cor.ciliate the French party, ad had the ministers charged the rown with the cost of this concession, would then have been offering a pre ium for rebellion; but to lay the bur en on loyal subjects, who put down te rebellion, it was an act of such cry g injustice that history has no parallel it. The bill, however, passed: Lord 1gin, the Governor General, signed it, ad the Tory party rose against a Tory overnment, fired the Parliament house, ad committed many outrages. We >not believe that anything serious ill grow out of this incendiary stop, yeause the French will not move in te matter, the bill being for their bone b; and the English party, having no muse for complaint but this to make iainst their Government, will stop ire. One singular fact was develop. I in this out-break--not a. word was id in favor of annexation with this muntry:-our Northern friends were :cited with the hope of adding a cou e of Northern states to the Union to cure the balance of power, but the rench party said not a word on the Lbject, and the Tory party have never en in favor of it, so that thcir hope ,for the present extinguished. Eng nd may part with some of her colo es, but will not permit Canada to be perated-the provinc begins to be iportant and valuable. There is still me doubts whether Lord Elgin will recalled-we do not see any neces ~y for such action by the general vernmont. lie is a man of much orgy, but may have been overruled this mat ter. Since the time AP. N'p ',1who tL made war k buines d ao and who'gave 1i)!J e allqhe se she ever achieved, r nov he of Europe; all Europe being agi as at present. Wheriever we cast our * eye on the map trouble presents itself in some aspect-local troubles, secret difficulties, and open war. England . has her difficulties in India and her, troubles in Ireland, and .such T is the e pressure upon her from various sources P that she dare not take part in any of 9 the Continental difficulties and disputes. France is in a state of transition, gradu ally approaching monarchy in some e shape; her Red Republicans are put down, her clubs suppressed, her army surrounding Paris, and her; working classes overawed and silenced., Italy h may be considered as conquered, though fI still exhibiting a brave and unyielding . spirit. Austria will repossess herself. al of Lombardy and Venice, and the , Pope will be invited to re-occupy the fi Vatician. For the present the curtain g of Liberty ralls upon Italy. The Danes have again commenced . war with the b German Duchies, and have lost some of 6 their naval force. Germany cannot ob. t d tain an Emperor. The Hungarians are beating the Austrians and may recover their liberty. But the most important k feature in all these movements is the u close alliance between Russia and Aus- 6 tria, and the moment there is a calm in Europe their designs against Turkey F will be carried into effect. The Turks s expect it and are preparing for it, and if * a blow isstruck in the East, England and i France will unite against Russia and P Austria, and the war will be general. While England retains possession of her t: Asiatic colonies, she can never be safe with Russia in possession of the Darda- it nells or her army concentrated in Cir cassia. The eyes of the world will a shortly be directed towards the East as indicating stirring events. --- a No Union. It was predicted that the Democracy and the "Free-Soilers" at the North d b would finally unite against the new ad- 1' ministration and, when proscription has done its work, the disappointed would * be fierce for resistance, but we observe p in the New York free-soil papers a di rect avowal that no union can take place d without recognizing the "Free-soil" doc- 0 trine. This has been answered, we arer gratified to observe, by an indignant declaration that under no circumstances will that corrupt, disunion doctrine be g recognised by the true, pure Democra cy of the State. A perfect union of ti the Democracy can carry that State atc the fall election, but, unless the ficti- . tious question of free-soil is surrender- a ed, the Whigs will maintain the supre- d macy they now hold and we trust that I the friends of union and constitutionalP rights will remain firm and hold no in. t tercourso with traitors in disguise of friends. The South has ever had at 2 the North a band of honest citizens, ft faithful to the Constitution and its comn- 0 promises--if they stand their ground they are invincible. ~I le vi Frnas.--The torch of the incendiary " has been busy in Charleston during the ti last week. Three distinct attempts were made to fire buildings on the t Neck, one of which was successful. tE On Wednesday morning some eight or * ten shanties together with the premises ai of Mr. Cochran on King street were E destroyed. The attempts are rendered c more dastardly in consequence of the ha very small supply of water now in the ei city.W SUIcos.-Mr. Vergnol, the Vice to Consul of France to Charleston, comn- itl mitted suicide last Wednesday morning T at his office in Broad street while labor- Pi ing under mental depression. Hie 3 ~ represented to have been a very intelli gent man although inclined to favor n' atheism. r la 07 Among the distinguished emigrants to ar California is James Arago, a brother of the a great astronomer, and a blind person. Ho Li does not go in mcarch of gold, as he has a large fortune in France, but merely to ascertain th the physical condition of the country. V O27 Four hundred omnibusses are now running in the cityof New Yomrv., Idiert age re.years r "ew. ad been 'a er VIRGItMA EOT OX--ThK3 esi iutti members in Vir ma en Den ocrat.i' Whigs are said to have Lined fivemeuberaoLeiaslure.. .ILLINOIs U. S. SENATR.-The St. Lou. .Republican says that Gov. French has lm6to h 'conclusionthat-hi doe, not pos. s; under the. hitiktioff W-power to ap. >int a Senator" to fill. thel place to which eneral Shields was eleced last winter, and hicrhe did fill for seireral Idays - befors his "eligibility was determined byJ the Senate. this bsoi: there must necessarily be a lled session of the Legislature. AIIUsING .INIDET.--Oa Sunday. last' iveralladies in company with gentlemen en red-one of the Baltimore churches; asithe Bat -was excessive, and they. were without bne -a gentleman in the, choir noticing it, aled the sexton, and giving him .a couple of ns, told him to hand them to the gentleman tthe head of the,0w for the ladies, and af ir service to brin then ip-meaning the ns. Instea.'of the (ans he seat the stran era up... . AsT unmG.- lv residing at Itarris. urgh, Pa., bn tho 23d ist.ant was obliging nough to give birth to,#e boys, all of whom, e Philadelphia Ledger.says, "are alive and Ding well.". Whatmakes the case singular, r rather plural, is that she produced twins n one occasion, and a trio on another, ma ing altogether, with the last consignment, .n children in four years. She certainly de mrves apensionforlife and we trusther sphere f usefulness may. not be untimely durtailed. erhaps she intends going to settle California -if she docs not. we would advise her to do 3 with all speed, and as an inducement we tart the proposition of sending the family out a government- vessel-who seconds the roposition. The American pontoons are to be used by le British army in India Some heavy forgeries have been committed i Baltimore lately, a la Monroe Edwards. articulars yet unknown. The House of representatives of Massachu. At have reported' igainst incorporating a atholic college at Worchester. Vire la berte. - Louis Blane has been tried in France, and antenced to be transported. Being In Eng. mnd quite safe, lie will give himself no trou le about going beyond the seas. "How do you like General Taylor?" said a emocrat to a whig. "He turns out much etter than I expected,'" said the old coon. 'his is a joke of the Bosten Post. LARGE AND VAiUABLE CARGo.-The uip America, Captain - Dunn, cleared from. harleaton on Wednesdiy morn' ,for Liver.. Dol, with a cargo of 8,634 bales Uld, and 00 do. Sea Island, valued at 94494 The whig Common Council of Albany cut awn the salery of the Mayor from #1,000 to 400, in expectation of the election of a de hocrat; but a whig was retu~rned, who canndit use the tbermometer. Served him right! : A fire broke out A prnil24th In the cooper's [aop attached to the Jefl'ersonville (Indiana) enitentiary, which was totally destroyed, te ether with the large hemp shop and several ther minor buildings. Loss not known. TRE YIENNoIsE CoNFIRazED.-Eleven of tese sweet little girls, dressed in white, re sived the rite of contlrmatiou at the Lutheran hurch, am Richmond, (Va.,) on Sunday last. ii immense number of people were present the ceremony.. A Mr. Coddings, in attempting recently to tliver an anti-slavery lecture in Shelleburg afayette county, Wisconsin, was mobbd sited with bggs, and driven ofE Strange, md that in a free soil statet They are get ng tired of the humbug. NAVEL. COUR T MARTIAI..-A Naval Gene I Court Martial will ssemble on board the .S. ship~ Pennsylvania on the 7th of May, r the trial of Commodore Read, and such hers as may be brought before it. Commo. >re Stewart is to be the President. The landlord of. the .gswam :Iouse, at swichi, Mass., has posted up a notice that all afers would please consider his house a pri te dweling on Sunday. He no doubt will *1I them as much rum as they may want any her day. How these pious fellows whip e devil round the post. A United States soldier, named WV. B radford, and two of his comrades, all closer. ra from Carlisle (Pa.) barracks, broke into ea house of a Mrs. Polly Fulton, at Ship-. nsburg, (Pa.) a few nights ago, and stole 2,000 and a gold watch. Bradtord has been rested. A REVEREND LYNentER.-A certain Rev. 1w. Stimson, of East Greenbush, Rensselaer unty, a clergyman of the Methodist Church, a bound over to keep the peace, in conse ience of hiring a numberof, sailors, forahe m of 620, to tar and feather a man against koem he had a grudge. FAII.URE.-Bishop Deane of New Jersey a failed for #250,000, and is said to be able pay only a trifling portion of his vast labil es. Most of this money is 'said to have en spent in building churches and chapels. ae fortune of Mrs. 'Deane formerly Mrs. o~kins of Boston, is not. involved., in this ash. Her income is said to be *12,000, r annum. SAL.E Or O'CONNELL'S to~si-OC"iD. li's house in Merrion-square, and his libra are advertised for sale. Concepiation Hail likewise spoken of; the fittings up were sold ely--ballotingbox, pressee,- forms. maps, d some musiceal Instruments. Mr. Ray hls upon the people to preserve tho house ii library, ait least, In remembra'nce of the berator. This is the mating season, and we observe it two turtles, named Noah Smith and Sally illis, conniabialised at. Taunton,-.Mass., on a 12th inst. The bridegroom was a youth of , the bride sweet 03. The marrriage took ice in the open air, In the presence of a 1re number of snantatna - took An" ' W'IW majority of 62pot IV cAon kier, A" ning (says the: hit .WColr f bel ow' tIs p aP,*OM1t body o0wate p me erohans i ing thebreachiar hsaUf thel emetry0 uiz.. A trom thepe f a land adjacent 6 e n {re quire extra orart'y e A NoTRtE CaBVAss steasiher Viola,- 4d '1 Bay onLafourhlbe took plac in . Lwye Co's plantation on the bo night lost. he; orsas forty' and4fty: feet instentea'd terd rusf wtheroug s ith-' number of hands were einp.oy deavorg to stay -the atu efforts were almost fuejM4M4 the anti ofPaSdl.-- o. "CAms LN fasu The hacienda. or estate orthe Jaro-a embraces probably t ed podjaseon in the wri'4 the nororn -part' 6 f the axuato,-and ila p Zacatecas, andamontwis tiabout -square mie. Tvti ag hei wholc of the. State ofeTe ittuame nabob also owns 8,000o,000. head fjg stock. CRUE .--The Pittshu 'Gil 20th uit. mention*& este oi sembling the phobab the steamer Brilli'at'fre The patient was remloved"fo end placed upon a the rnituwiri P . tels refusing to take him in,'a dias of the poor" do ng suffererlay inbthis coni to houras unt when 'Ins thib outh death, Dr. PenliinOh'rta2en his door and he there died. wo brough on y eati o ftelase. vpplah 0tik ''v. 1 -J Paohnut. metons Po arnsof slin the holea ro"jj the steamer Br fillt f0 ' sand. and In 1821a tu V hundred antdsixty, a.. twenty years bein a hmndh The popflation or a Bri I th same period, increadfrn ten!. *AH nine hundred and forty.two f' fourteen millions fuur huhdred~andA*_ one thousand, an increase o tf i'se dthy-, er enant. rat 'pre hiMorand h URtersdied Th et Ca'rouna b la eatin re a i pl givng!h ~lan...tler fopuern ci trance in to6he01, andiy~ thathe an in ,swthei an - ohded absis nes.e'aHe5eI Bawey yeastrit abortifissbtis e samedperod theasedh fayop'tr Ul nihundred and ninetye ou it foulreer ilin b ur hrel ~ a ~ Costto erls centsen fet octn of ne D0408!&ua Caiolisa herai~nly arettfirebgd s. busies ot nkin,,uave t equa or 5nL I. Hylo Augusothaanemnea ugigcah laner ofW glrvd$.-aVN tohs aie nbigal to thste adtoate tat~ thatge hac in thow ditngherusst of the usiessCut.fte ntd edafowr Diy-trict yiearththa~ cold cot reand frtout the lay of aseos Pir4sir paietha'wthNoutmt glalshe bhindread tad reteey oftin,~~ rinughtae arn e ily a , dolaserbarrde iatf Wa Cost of thelsdansecl#L Ofeth prouc ofe oad~ hs er tinelyatett fbaui The efrho have pin resIn~bma ofuthesari th rest.iet.qao(M fro it 1 lepai forie erpa boucgraied rIn biali, to srtat'bat odeMcandloerfy tde ofsdnsed'nit of te Surem [CouitoshUle Ogdtgg anieg uaving hivisoir susoi l.Ipf edfolrfifthtoheartha 'w cud bee withoret glansehs'eere red wtouterado lse. oldI aedatw us b gla ;hewC hedt rad, thbrooeyofhy thoma hesalt whlabh he reinvigrated Jueerisile e9 pe. era ibeto g toediym o w eo.--M hcufdcaydu~ods sy