The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1847-11-24

WRITTEN FOR TIE ADDRvILLH pANNER.)
Lines
Suggested by The Death Of 6c1oued Son, Ia
member of the Palmetto Rcgiment,) avho
died IN Merico
Hush'd is tho voice of song-the silent hearth
Tells deeply of tho grief for thoe, my son
For low thou liest beneath the clods of earth,
And now thy race, for time, is fully run.
do not sorrow for thee as do those
Whose hope is diinm'd by doubling Of the grace
Of Him, who sent his Son to seek and save
Poor, crring, lnortals from dire Sins embrace;
For can look, by Faith, beyond the skies,
And 500 thee, basking midst the realms ubovo;
Can realize thy dust shall yet arise,
Be reunited, by God Of Love.
What consolation to the weary soul
The heavy laden-are such thoughts as these;
What joys extatio throug! the mind doth roll,
And acquiesce in the Divine decroes.
Tho Judge Of all tho Earth! He deeth right
Let NAN succumb, nor murmur at his ways;
But trusting to His Mercy, Justice, Might,
Adore, and magnify His name with praise.
FOREIGN NEws.-The news by the last
steamer is indeed of the most melancholy
character, though perhaps, not more so than
was generally anticipated. The distress
in the English commercial world, after
temporary cessation about the 7th of Octo-
bcr. seems to have increased to an almost
unparalleled extent up to the departure of
the Caledonia, on the 10th; no less than
forty heavy failures having occurred be-
tween the 5th and 10Th. Stocks of all de-
scriptions were depressed to the lowest
point, and money was almost unatainable.
The Government, though earnestly appeal
ed to from various quarters, had manifested
no intention to interpose whether from the
conviction that the failures were the result
of overtrading and speculation, or the i'm
possibility Of furnishing any effectual relief
without embarrassing its own operations
does no appear. In the manufacturing
districts business is nearly paralyzed; in
ITS mills in the borough of Manchester,
but little more than one half of The opera
tives were working full time, and nearly
one quarter OF them were entirely unem-
ployed.
Ireland is raising again her famine-strick-
en- cry for help; and mingled with it, are
the walls Of tho victims of the lawless and
murderous acts of her desperate population.
France, too, is beginning to show uneq uiv-
ocal signs of suffering. The saving banks
are almost stripped of the boarded earnings
of her prudent operatives and laborers;
wages are being reduced in her manufacto-
ries and tho effects of this are beginning to
show themselves by unequivocal signs
among the people.
In the mean time Louis Philippe is &C.
cused Of breaking the neutrality of the
kingdom by furnishing arms and ammuni-
ton 10 one of the parties in the civil war,
which is every day expected to break out
in Switzerland. The affairs of Spain and
Portugal, though somewhat changed since
our previous intelligence, have not improved.
Italy, indeed, is somewhat more quiet, the
Austrians having yielded their ground to
the Pope, but the end is not yet In Russia
we hear of devastation and death made by
the progress of cholera whole villages be.
ing depopulated by this terrible scourge.
In Chinumatter are assuming more quiet
and peaceful state but in Africa war is still
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