The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1850-04-03
TIE nELEInEItE ApOLi.G.
NY HENRY uART MII.MAS.


Youth blooms immortal in his brrntllrsa face
a god in strength with more than godlike grace :
All. ull dcvinc--nn struggling muscle glows.
Through leaving vein Ilu nantling life blood
flows,
But animate with deity alone.
In dcaihlcss glory lives The breathing stone.
Bright kinkling with II conqncror's stern de-
light,
His keen eye tracks the arrows E,,ciul flight;
Burns his indignant cheek with vcugrfnl fire,
And his lip quivcrs with insulting ire;
Firm iiN'd his tread, W! light when on high
lie walks the imralpbc and ls,tllrss sky;
The ricl, llxuriuncr of his hair conincd:
In graceful rnglcts, wantnns on tho winh
That lifts. in sport his muntlc's dropping fold,
Proud 10 display that form of faulirss mould.
Mighty Erhcsiau with un caglc'S niclt
Thy ,rr.,ifT51 T7 -Lroms, the fields af
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VicwT i,,o lri.h, concEye q, i,envcn'r hlcs,
~ rold murblc leap, to lif. 81 g"l
unin. ious awe through, brraihlrts myrinds ran
Eurt'Tnrio,.s how'd before the work OF nr.:.
,,,!H mild h. scrm'l. ns in l;lys,m bowers,
Wasting in careless ease the jnyo,s hours:
iinughiy ~ bard have sung. with princcly sway
--A1thing the fierce flame breathing stccS ul,lay
licautcotis as vision seen in dreamy sleep
BY holy maid on Dclphis haunted steep,
Mid the dim twilight of the laurel grove.
20 to NoTsutp, VpttN W ibNc
Yet on that form. in wild delirin,is trance.
With more than cy'rrncc gaZrd The Maid of
France;
Day after day tn" lo,c sick 'lrca,psr stool
With him alone. nor thought IL solitude
To cherish grief. her las, her dearest care.
Her OWN fond hop.---in cherish ofdr>pair
or ns the shifin. ligh, her sigh, brguilrd
brushing sh" slrunk, and thought the marble
smiled:
n Il, IL. H.
\ voice of fmtisic melt npon her
Slowly she wanrd, and cold scnsclrss grown,
Closed her dim eyes herself hcninb'd to stone.
Ect love in death 81 sickly strength supplied.
Once more She gazcd, then t.cbly smiled aud
died.
Appo!iois in the act Of ,ea'ching tho ar
5ow ~i'9Wheh iI7stt'S 7sts' N,!A.ss ~ serpent Python
tAgasinA of EihrSus 'aScfslEFsrss gaSssFss2,
iThs foregoing fac, Is rela,.d il, 49,
VI. Piaci sur 'h.sauiie. : rs
5Js ;l u; ui 3s5Hs4
LAND.
ITrom the London Times, January III +.
1t is, we fear, only zoo probable
that the crop Il American Cotton
will i'is yHar e. scTNt cu2ugh to in
creasssa IhsBrricc Of that most neccs.
sary ingredient i'll the manufacturing
rosparity Of this country; and al
though the actual deficiency may
possibly be less than is feared, yet
the results will doubtless supply a
sufficient realization Of the contingent
cies which have been often described
as involved in our present system of
action. Almost all that is said re-
specting the Importance of our Cotton
imports may be literally credited, for
so vas: are the interests concerned,
that it is scarcely possible to over
state them. Nearly as much de-
pends upon the Cotton crop as the
the potato crop; and failure in the
former admits, besides, Of no cores.
ponding compensation from private
charity or public bcncvolcncc. Yet,
speaking generally, it may be said, !,
that for the whole Of this staple i'm
port of England, we arc hclplcssly
dependent on two provinces Of for
eisn State. 1t is this peculiar limi-
tation Of the produce which makes the
case SO anomalous and SO full of peril.
Were cotton less an article of the
very first necessity to English com
mcrcc, or were it grown, like corn,
in every country Of the globe, the ar
guments which have been taken to
regulate other imports would be
equally applicable here. But the
difference is this, that while our i'm.
portations of corn could be affected
only by coincidence of so many and
such extraordinary conditions as to
be almost beyond the calculations Of
probability, our importations of cot
ton are liable, as now shown, to be in
huenccd by occurrences of the vcrv
commonest likelihood. A change Of
policy, a false impulse given to spccu-
latlon, resolutions of hostility, or.
what may occur in any season, and
must needs occur in some "A short
crop; each and any of these causes
may imper;: the daily bread Of four
millions of our population, and deeply
affect the financial prosperity of the
entire empire.
The case will appear still more cx-
traordinary when it is remembered
on what wholly artificial conditions its
existence depends. If cotton, like
spices, could be only grown in certain
limited districts of certain attitudes,
there would be no aid for us but in
prudence and patience. As the facts
stand, however, the present limitation
of the produce is not entirely accl.
dental, but is due to none but our
selves. There was q time when In
dia did produce cotton: and there
was % timo, very recently, when
Georgia and Carolina did not Men
| Still IiyiUr can repollrct thp fret I'M,