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Democratic banner., 1849-12-10

over his face. After he had remained in
that way for some hours, he was awakened,
and his thirst being so great, he went into
the little grocery or grog shop to get a
drink, when he discovered the handkerchief,
at which he looked, and at the name that
was on it. After pausing a few moments
he exclaimsd-sGreat God! who left this
with me! Who placed this on my facet
No one knew. He dropped the glass, ex-
claiming-'Enough I! ,Enough!' He retired
instantly from the store, forgetting his thirst
but not the debauch, the handkerchief, or
the lady, vowing, if God gave him strength,
never to touch, taste or handle intoxicating
drinks.
To meet Miss G. was the hardest effort of
his life. If he met her in her carriage, or on
foot, he would dodge round the nearest cor
ner. She at last addressed him a note I'M
der her own hand, inviting him to her house,
which he finally gathered courage enough
to accept. He told her if she bore affections
for him, he would agree to her terms. Her
reply was: MY conditions are now what
they ever have been. Them said the dis
enthralled Writ, 4 accept them.'
They were soon married, and from that
day he kept his word, and his affairs brigh-
tened, while honors ard glories gathered
thick upon his brow. His name has been
enrolled high in the temple of fame, while
his deeds, his patriotism and renown, live
after him with imperishable lustre. How
many noble minds might the young ladies
save, If they would follow the example. Of
the heroine-hearted Miss Gamble, the friend
of humanity, of her country, and the rela-
ton of La Fayette.
Democratic banner., 1849-12-10
THE SCHOOL HOUSE AND MEETING
HOUSE.

The following anecdote illustrates the
importance of education:
While Gen. Jackson was President, and
Gen. Cass Secretary of War, they visited
a portion of New England together. In
riding over that highly cultivated country,
Gen. Jackson was much pleased with the
appearance of the people, and expressed
his g~ratii alton to his companion.
'What fine manly couatenances these
men carry!' exclaimed the President. 'How
robust and vigorous they are! and what a
spirit of enterprise and perseverance they
manifest Why, with an army of such men,
/ would undertake to face the world
Do you know the cause of these charac-
teristics that you prize SO highiy!' r%ejoined
the veteran Secretary.
'What is it?' asked the old hero.
sDo you see the steeple of that meeting
house yonder on the hill"
'Yes,' replied the President.
Sand that low school-house near it?'
4 see them both,' said General Jack
son.
'Well,' answered Gen. Cass, himself a
native of the Granite State, 'here is where
New England men are made. The in
structions they receive in the school house
and meeting house, give them the pre-emi-
Inence over others which you have SO just
ly described
As it regards England, DR.. Vaughan tes-
titles that he considers the moral influence
ofthe Sunday School instructions as of
more value than all other kind of i~nstruc-
ton put together; and the Edinburgh Re-
view, in d recent article, points to the re-
ligious element IS the only possible security
and hope Of that mighty empire.
Democratic banner., 1849-12-10
~MISCELLAN EOUS.
Reformation of WIN. Writ.

The distinguished William Writ within
six or eight months after his marriage, be-
came addicted to intemperance, the effect
of which operated strongly on the mind and
health of his wife, and in a few months more
she was numbered with the dead. Her
death led him to leave the country where
she resided, and he moved to Richmond,
where he soon rose to distinction. But his
habits hung about him, and occasionally he
was found with jolly and frolicsome spirits
in bscchanalian revelry. tbs true, his
friends expostulated with him, to convince
him Of the injury he was doing himself
But he still persisted. His practice began
to fall of, and many looked on him as on
the sure road to ruin. He was advised TO
get married, with a view of correcting his
habits. This he consented to do, if the
right person offered. He accordingly paid
his addresses to Miss Gamble. After some
months attention, he asked her hand in
mArriage-she replied-sMr. Writ, l have
been well aware of your intentions for some
time back, and should have given you to
understand that your visits and attentions
were not acceptable, had l not reciprocated
the affection which you evinced for me-
But | cannot yield my consent until you
make a pledge never to taste, touch or ham
die any Intoxicating drinks
This reply to Mr.. Writ was as unexpec-
ted as it was novel. His reply was that he
regarded the proposition as abar to all fur
ther considerations Of The subject, and left
her. Her course towards him was the same
a. sver-his, resentment and neglect. In
the course Of q few weeks he went again,
md again solicited her hand. But her re-
ply was, her mind was made up. He be.
came indignant, and regarded the terms she
proposed as insulting to his honor, and
vowed 1t should be the last meeting they
should ever have. He took to drinking
worse and worse, and seemed to run head
long to ruin. One day while lying in the
outskirts Of the city, near a little groe shop,
dead drunk, a young lady, whom it is not
necessary to nsme, was passing that way to
her home, not far Of, and beheld him with
his face iapturned to the rays Of the scorch.
ings sun. She took her handkerchief, with he,
own name marked upon it, and placed i,
Democratic banner., 1849-12-10
POETRY.

From the National Era.
THE SPIRIT OF POESY.
ssCome to the woods, in whose messy dells
A light all made for the poet dwells."
Where dweIleth the spirit of PoesyP Where3
Oh, where can its home be found?
And where is the harp it has TITLED so oft
Whence cometh that low, sweetsound?
You may find its home where the ivy creeps
Alone DER yon ruined wall,
And the gathering moss of an hundred years
Is green in its lowly hall;
Where the night-winds breathe but a mournfu
dirge,
As they sweep round the ~turrrets gray
And the tall grass droops DER a desolate hearth,
But to cover the worm, Decay.
Ye may find its home in the wild wood cell,
Where blossoms the tiniest flower
Butte droop and die, meath a drop of dew,
At the moonlght's hallowed hour.
It dweilefh there in the azure sky
While the starry host above
Are ever keeping, DER land and sea,
Their vigils of faith and love.
Ye may hear the tones of her magic harp
In the sound of the rushing blast,
Or when, with a gentle yet saddened sigh,
The wind sweeps mournfully past.
Ye NAV hear il oft in the streamlet's song,
As it dances along in glee,
Till its merriest lay is forever hushed
By the sound of the moaning sea.
The spirit of Poesy is everywhere
Fen down in the darksome cave,
Where glistens the tear of an amber hue,
In the bed OF the 'ocean wave"-
While its harp of a thousand matchless strings
Is swept by an unseen hand
A hand that will wake, with q softer TOUCH,
Sweet lays in the "Better Land"
Democratic banner., 1849-12-10
SCIENCE AND AGRICULTURE.

Look at that wide valley, with its snow
clad SUBMITS at a distance on either hand,
and its CLASSY river flowing. cribbed and
confined, in the lowest bottom. Smiling
fields and well trimmed hedge-rows, and
sheltering plantations & comfortable dwell
ings, and a busy population, and abundant
cattle, cover its unduIating slopes. For
miles industrious plenty spreads over a
country which the river formerly ~usurped,
and the lake covered, and the rush tutted
over, and bog and messy heath and peren-
NAL fogs and drizzling rains rendered in
hospitable and chill. But mechanics have
chained the river, and drained the lakes,
and boys. and clsyey bottoms; and thus
giving scope to the application of all the
varied practical rules to which science has
led, the natural climate has been subdued,
disease extripated, and rich and fertile and
happy homes scattered over the ancient
waste. Turn to another country, and a riv-
er flows deeply through an arid and desc
late plain. Mechanics lifts its waters from
their depths, and from a thousand artificial
channels directs them over the parched sur
face. 1t is as if an enichanter's wand had
been stretched over 1.-THE green heritage
and the waving corn, c%ompanied by all the
industries of rural life, sprung up as they
advance. Another country, and a green
oasis presents itself, busy with life, in the
midst of desert and sandy plain. DO nat
ural springs here gush up, as in the ancient
oasis of the Libyan wilderness? II is an
other Of the triumphs Of human industry,
guided by human thought. Geology, and
her sister sciences, are here the pioneers Of
rural life and fixed habitations. The seat
of hidden waters at vast depths was discov-
cred by her. Under her directions mechan.
les have bored to their sources, and THEN
gushing abundance now spreads fertility
around. Such are more sensible and larger
triumphs Of progressing rural economy
such as man may we'll boast of-not only in
themselves, but in their consequences and
they may take their places with the gigan.
tic vessel Of war, as magnificent results Of
intellectual effort.--[Blackwood's Maya.
zine. ~
Democratic banner., 1849-12-10

HuMBuG IN ITS PuRlTY.--Two young
bloods of New York, me- at Hoboken adsy
or two since. to settle a dispute with pis-
tolls. They fired twice, but neither were
hurt, for their seconds, being very prudent
men, were careful not to put any bullets in
the pistols. The whole. affair ended by re-
firing to a fashionable restaurat, and late in
the evening, n of the principals was seen
corkscrewing the way to his residence.
Democratic banner., 1849-12-10

B-Rev. ]. N. Mafit is preaching to
crowded houses at Clarksville, Ark. A
correspondent of the Little Rock Banner
says.
One cfthe most glorious ~revivals Of reli-
.gion l ever bsheld is now in progress
The whole town and vicinity are under its
influence, and partaking largely in its ben
.efcial and genial smiles. 1885,"
Democratic banner., 1849-12-10

ODD FIsH.-In all waters there are fish
which love to swim against the stream; and
in every community persons are to be found
who delight in being opposed to every body
else.
Democratic banner., 1849-12-10

A SCHEME FOR MARYLAND AND CALI
FoNIA.-1he New York correspondent Of
the Washington Union states that "there is
a proposition in circulation to subscribe a
joint stock capital of six to seven thousand
dollars, to purchase negroes in Maryland,
give them their freedom, and take FIVE years
iudentures to work in Californis for gold.
q he concern embraces Attorney General
Johnson among its patrons.
Democratic banner., 1849-12-10
MARRIED AND SINGLE MEN.

A contemporary very sensibly remarks,
that there should be some means of distin-
gushing single from married e Un-
married females are known By the prefix of
Miss IN their names but all men are styled
MIR. How much unnecessary trouble and
solicititade might be. spared to the anxious
mothers Of m~arriageble girls, conld they
make this distinction. How very annoying
to a mother and bevy Of girls, after laying
themselves out TO please some "nice young
man." to hear him accidentally allude to his
wife? This subject really demands atten-
tion, and we think that the girls should sug-
gest some plan by which these disappoint-
msnts might be obviated.
We think there already exists q mood in
which single men can easily be distinguish
ed from married ones, by ladies Of discern
ment. 1t is by paying a little attention to
the conversation and manners of GENTLE
men. There is an ease and grace in the
manners of married men,a sensibleness and
want of flutter in their conversation, which
enables them to be readily distinguished in
a mixed company.
Unmarried men may be distinguished BY
a general ~''greenness," and g certain frivo-
lousness of conversation, and a peculiar flut-
ter of department., that nothing but matri-
mony can entirely cure.-EExchange pa
per.
Democratic banner., 1849-12-10

The man who climbed the North Pole is
said to be in Cincinnati at present, hatch
ing snow balls.
Democratic banner., 1849-12-10
WOMAN

II seems as If nature connected our in
:~elligence with their dignity, as we connect
our happiness with their virtue. This, there
fore, is q law of eternal iustice-man can
not degrade woman without himself falling
into the degradation; he cannot raise her
without becoming better. Let US cast our
eyes over the globe, and observe the two
great divisions of the human race; the east
and the west. One half o. the ancient world
remains without progress, without thought,
and under the load of a barbarous civiliza-
ton; woman there are slaves. The other
half advances towards freedom, light, and
happiness; the women there are loved and
honored. Never shrink from q woman of
strong sense. If she becomes attached to
you, it will be from seeing and valuing
similar qualities in yourself. You may trust
her, for she knows the value of your conf
dence. You may consult her, for she is
able to advise, and, does so at once with
the frmness of re Jason and the consideration
of affe ction. Her love will be lasting, for
it will not have been slightly won: it will be
strong and ardent, for weak minds are in
capable of the loftier grades Of passion
Ifyou prefer attaching yourself to a woman
of feeble understanding, it must be either
from fearing to encounter q superior person
or from vanity Of preferring that admiration
which springs from ignorance, to that
which approaches to appreciation.
Democratic banner., 1849-12-10
The Farrner--A BeautifulExtract
by HON. EDWARD EVERETT.

The man who stands upon his own soil,
who feels that by the laws of the land in
which be lives--by the law of civilized ma
~tioms--he is the rightIul and exclusive own
er of the land which he tills, is by the con.
stitution of our nature, under wholesome
influence, not easily imbibed from any other
source. He feels, other things being equal,
more strongly than another, the character
of man as the lord of the inanimate world.
!Of this great and wonderful sphere, which,
fashioned by TIE hand Of God, and upheld
by his power. is rolling through the heav-
ems, a portion is his; from the centre TO the
sky. 1t is the space on which the genera
tion before him moved in its round of duties:
and he feels himself connected by q visible
link with those who preceded him, as he is
also TO those who will follow him, and to
whom he is to transmit a home. Perhaps
his farm has come down TO him from his
fathers. They have gone to their home:--
but he can trace their footsteps over the
scenes of his daily labors. The roof which
shelters him was reared by those to whom
he owes his being. Some interesting do
Imestic tradition is connected with every en-
closure. The fsvorite fruit tree was plant
ed by his fathers hand. He spoIted in his
boyhood beside the brook, which still winds
through the meadow. Through the field
lies the path of the village school of earliest
days. He still hears from his window the
voice of the Sabbath bell which called his
fathers and his forefathers to the house Of
God, and near at hand is the spot where his
parents laid down to rest, and where. when
his time is come, shall be laid by his children.
These are the feelings Of the owner of the
soil. Words cannot paint them, gold can.
not buy them; they flow out Of the heart ;
they are the life spring of a fresh, healthy
and generous character,
A RACE FOR A WIFE.-An incident of this
kind, says the Lawrenceburg lind Jour
nal, occurred at the Clerks office in that
city lately. A young man from the conn
try called on the Clerk with his witness TO
obtain a license to marry a young lady iiv-
ing in Cesar-creek township, and after get
ting his license he took the clerk by the but
ton hole, and in whisper informed him that
another man would call for a license to mar
.ry the same woman on the next day, and
forbid the Clerk granting them. The clerk
promised that he would not issue them and
the man left, satisfied that he had "knocked
the sod from under one fellow"
Democratic banner., 1849-12-10

U~NTuToRED ELoauEkcE.--A Catawba
warrior, in 1922, named Peter Harris, made
known his wants to the Legislature of South
Carolina in the following language:
81 am one of the lingering survivors of
an almost extinguished race. Our graves
will soon be u only habitations. l am one
Of the few stalks that still remain in the
field where the tempest of the revolution
passed. I have fought against the British
for your sake. The British have disap-
.peared, and you are free; yet from me have
the British taken nothing, nor have | gain
ed anything by their defeat. Ipursued the
deer for subsistence-the deer are disap-
.peared. must starve. God ordained me
for the forest, and my ambition is the shade.
But the strength of my arm decays, and my
~fsetfail me in the csnse, The hand which
fought for your liberties, is now open for
your relief. In my youth l bled in battle
that you might be independent-let not my
heart in my old age bleed for want of your
commiseration.
Democratic banner., 1849-12-10

Old Squire B. was elected Judge Of the
inferior court in some county in the State Of
Georgia. When he went home, his delight
ed wife exclaimed: SNOW my dear, you
are Judge, what am ~"
"The same darnd old fool you alters wss,'
was the tart reply.
The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-09-29

E Eighth Session open Monday October which day
the punetuai all The
duties promptly recommended and Il
poan MEMBERS old, should take their places
e opening The academica extends from the
October LIST of August there being but vacation
August September In the College, all the usual classes under
professors have for several years been pursuing the
Of collegiate studies equal TO thai prescribed ~ the older
Al commencement the third
ating class received their acadcmcal degrees.
School, which Immediately adoins the College,
carefully trained by instructors
Professors Of the College, Thus pupils
institution early and pursue their entire
study under the direction Until they graduate The
those partial members Of the
collegiate preparatory be preparing for the
room, professional life Such students admitted
privileges and advantages Of their several classes subs
Of some OF the classical sudies such
cessay TO preparation for business.
study without CHARGE all the classes
In addition 70 The French the mercantile students will be taught
without CHARGE German, other modern language
The location of the College perfectly heaiu and there
villages temptations the
young Moral and religious education chief design Of the
Hiut0n.
CHARGE covering all the academcal domestic expenses
of The rules College carefully
restrict any other expenses of the student itt4
All the departments under the immediate supervision Of the
undegned whom application made for copies Of the
Register for further information well for the admission
ofpupis. JOHN b. KERFOOT, Rector,
Aug3-2aw2m College Of ST. james, r. o., Maryland
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TRANSPORTATION OF STORES.
Ru,s.u Of Provisions and cio,hins, September Is,

- DEPARTMENT.,
Bureau of Provisions and Cothing September 10, ios
DRoPosALs endorsed proposals io freight ma
Gao will be until three O'Clock, p M,
an Tursa The 1919, The transportation OF
400 barrels government stores nom e navy yard
NJ the OF Macao IN China, there 10
be delivered United States naval orekeeper on shore Or 70
e senior naval The offers must state the price
ner barrel without distinction between and dry and each
barrel Tor two bane of beef pork -four ce vinegar pickles.
wbkey or dried apples will be considered barrels all other
packages at the rate Of 5 cubic feet % barrel
whatever they the Of all casks
other an hs will be deducted No pmage 10 be al
lowed weather working laydays TO be allowed at each OF
the taking and dcagng
be made by navy agent in the United states 20 Dc
the within
thirty days producing satisfactory evidence Of the delivery or
cargo The must the usual Inspection and be at the
OF October lS9 ready receive
cargo and presented for examination within three days
liberty offer the freight the next lowest bidder or 10 make
arrangements may best subserve The public interests
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FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.
Robbery in tAs Post oGes, Wa.As~ston, D. @


IN the fifteenth day OF July last Sunday morning
entire mail stolen
IN this city The letters received
box The distribution Of the mail after which they
out Of The box BY the Post Once clerks,
he hostages due ed them into parcel and replaced
Tory 70 delivery Neat morning they IL
clear bold daring robbery
walls Of Post oce under very eyes employed
there BY special Tefained
discovering the perpetrators Of the robbery leaving
In The hands Of the Post Office Department elapsed
and The Department Is yea without any clue the robbery We
therefore public the following
letters ascertaned, and offer
Doars for the detection Of the thief and recovery money
proporonae part thereof for the recovered;
In letter from Medca, Splce Co., Baltimore, July a.
l649-- h l.ss' ,l".1 '-TT 71-'' - ~
Virginia bank Al 800
District COlumba small
In letter from Purys 4 Cover, same date
District Columbia bnnk rs
Check Itos. Parker, G. Il. Parker
Draf J. H. O. Mudd, on Jourdan w Maury, Of this place,
dated July a. l649, at four months l25
In letter from Drexe CO., Philadelphia, July IA, ls49
Virginia, District Columbia, and Wheeling n.
In letter from Th0s Il. Bocock Appomaox, Va #f.
Land Warrant No. A. 1862, issued to Robert A. Richardson,
There were other letters but far know contained
nothing Of value. II. w. LATHAM q co.
Aug M-eodlm te'