The banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1844-1847, 1846-10-07

MARRIED OR UNMARR1ED-GEr MAR
EIED-A European philosopher has
furnished the world with some very in
tcrcstng statistics, showing the benefits
Of u married life. He says among un-
married men, at the ages of from thirty
five TO lorty-fve, the average number Of
deaths are only eighteen. For forty-onc
old bachelors who attain the age of forty
there arc scventy-eight married men
who do the same. AS age advances,
the difference becomes more striking.
at sixty there arc only twenty-five un-
married men alive, for ninety-eight who
have been married. At seventy, there
are eleven bachelors 10 twenty-sevcn
married men, at eighty, there arc nine
married men for three single ones.
Nearly the same rule holds good in rcla~
| ton to the female Sex. Married women
at the age of thirty, taken one with an
other, may expect to live thir,ysix years
longer; while for the unmarried, the
expectation of life is only about thirty
years. Of those who attain the age of
tory-tiyc, there are scventy-two marri-
cd women for filty-lwo single ladies.
These data arc tho results of actual
facts, by observing tho difference Of lon
gevity between the unmarried and the
| married.
CALIroENA FoLuNrEEEs.-Ncw DIFF
| ficultcs have broken out among tho
California Volunteers at Governors ISL
and, New York, which are explained
at length in the New York Express
On Friday, the Regiment was marched
to the guard house TO receive their boun
ty money previous to cmbarking.
The men of company C-thc first
! company marched up-reluscd to pay
the prices charged for their clothing, viz;
s. for jackets. SO for pants, and $3.50
for caps They were willing to pay 4
fair price, but were confined for insubor
dination. Company A. then came up;
and refused. They were marched back
to their quarters, and confined to their
tents. Colonel Bankhead, finding the
refusal general, told them they would be
compelled to embark without their pay
(which they preferred to taking the
clothing at the prices charged.
| MORE PLAGIAR1sl' Somebody out
in the extreme back part of Missouri,
has discovered that Tom Moore, like
other great poets, has been filching the
ideas of another, and altering them to
suit himself. He cites the following
instance, which is perfectly unanswera-
| ble-the critical acumen of Poet could
no further go:-
"The minstrel boy to the war Is gone,
In the ranks of death you'll find him;
His farther's sword he has girdled on,
And his wild harp slung behind him"
"Little Bo-Peep has lost his sheep,
And does not know where to find 'cm;
Let 'em alone, and they'll come home;
Bringing their tales behind 'em.'
NEwsPArERs.-A newspaper taken
in family seems to shed glcam of
intelligence around. 1t gives the chill
dren u taste for reading it commune
Gates all the important events in the
busy world; it is Il ncver.failing source Of
amusement, and furnishes fund of in
struction which will never be exhausted.
Every family, however poor, If they wish
to hold place in the rank of intelligent
beings, should take at least one newspa-
per. And the man who is possessed of
property sufficient to make himself easy
for life, surrounded by children eager
for knowledge. is instigated by the vile
spirit Of cupidity, and neglects to sub
scribe to a Newspaper, IS deficient in the
duties of parent or good citizen, and
is deserving ofthc ccnsurc of his intelli-
gent neighbors.
Bradbury and Evans, of London, adj
vertisc a new work, in monthly parts,
to be completed in twenty numbers, cdi-
ted bv uBozn and illustrated bv Phizn y