The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1847-08-11

VALLEY OF TIE M1ss1ssppr.-Mr. Ben.
ton, iii his letter to the Chicago Conven-
ton, said -
"Ihc river navigation Of the great West
is the most wonderful on the globe and
since the application Of steam power to the
propulsion of ofvessels, possesses the essential
qualities OF open navigation. Speed, dis
tance, cheapness, magnitude of cargoes, are
all there, and without the periis of the sea
from storms and enemies. The steamboat
is the ship of the river, and finds in the
Mississippi and its tributaries the amplest
theatre for the diffusion of Its use, and the
display of its power. Wonderful river:
connected with seas by the head, and by the
Notwithstanding its arms towards the
Atlantic and the Paci6c-lying in valley
which is valley iiom the Gulf of Mexico
to Hudsons Bay-drawing its first waters
not from rugged mountains, but from the
plateau of the Lakes in the centre of the
Continent. and in communication with the
sources OF the St. Lawrence and the streams
which take their course north to Hudson's
Bay-draining the largest extent of the
richest land-collecting the products of
every CLINE, even the frigid, to bear the
whole to q genial market in the SUNNY
South, and there to meet the products of the
entire world. Such is the Mississippi
And who canyzcalculate .thesvaggreeate of
its advantages, and magnitude ofits. future,
commercial results 7 ssa IS 49, ~ ~.
Many yyeags ago, the latds Goyelnor CLARK
snndsmyself 1nderteo to- calculate gthe ex.
tent toEthe boatable sswatersin valley of
the mississippi; we made ii about $4,000
miles of which 10000 were computed to
unite above st. Louis, and 10000 below
Oh course we counted all the infant streams
on which flat, keel, or batteau could
be tloated, and justly: for every tributary
of the humblest boatable character heIps to
swell not only the volume of the central
waters, but ofthe commerce upon them"
SII.As WRIGIIr.-From Sacket's Harbor.
l descended the st. Lawrence to Ogdens-
burgh, and from thence by stage to Canton,
to visit Governor Wright.
"Governor Wright and myself arc per-
sonal frcnds-bcsides, we both belong to
the democratic party; and though he was
at the head of it in the State, and I some
what nearer the caudic. extremity, still ex-
tremes oft-times meet-and took friends
privilege to visit him sociably. In the
morning after my arrival 1 accompanied
him to the bayfield,, and admired the ease
and dignity with which he adorned his
translation from public to private life. All!
Sir, could you have seen him with his cool
straw hat and cooler tow pants, and noted
how dexterously he handled his scythe and
neatly laid his swaths Visions of Roman
austerlty and simplicity -Cincinnatus be.
hind the plough, "the noblest Roman of
them all" danced before my sight, and
then swelled out in all the pomp and cir
cumstance OF glorious reality. l could
not but wish that had daguerrcotype
apparatus at hand to catch the portrait as it
was, for the benefit of some future Livv. 20
illustrate and adorn his text. His excel
lency was in the best ofspirits of health
the scurvy tricks of fortune and party do not
ruft1e him particle.
Corr. Syracuse Star.
FAITH OF AN INDIAN MoTHER.-If a.
mother lost her babe, she would cover j,
with bark and envelope it anxiohsly in the
softest beaver skins; at the burial place she
would put by its side its cradle, its beads
and rattles and as last service of mater
nal love, would draw milk from her bosom
in cup of bark, and burn it in the fire, that
her infant might find nourishment in the
land of shades. Yet the new born infant
was buried, not as usual, on scafold, but
by the wayside; so that its spirit might Sc.
cretly steal into the bosom of some passing
matron, and be born again under happier
auspices. On burying her daughter, the
Chippewa mother adds, not snow shoes,
beads and moccasins only, but (sad emblems
of woman's lot in the wilderness, the carry
ing belt and the paddle. "I know my
daughter will be restored to me-" one-said,
as she clipped lock of hair as a memorial,
+" by this lock of hair I shall discover her,
for / shall take it with me-" alluding to the
day when she, too, with her carrying belt
and paddle, and the little relic of her child,
should passed through the grave to the
dwelling place of her ancestors.
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