The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1850-07-24

fine of sixteen francs, and fifty francs
damages to The complainant.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Destructive Eloquenoe.
"Our Country Ills of thee ~
Ma'an,,' said free.spoken, warm
hearted, enthusiastic, ant rather quiz.
zical son OF old Kentucky, whiha pay
ing his devoirs to one Of the famous la
dy tourists Of America, 'Mu'am, you
should have been born in Amcrica, the
greatest country in the known world.
Nature has clustered all her slupendous
and dazzling works upon This land, and
you should be among them! We have
got the greatest men, the fnestwomen,
the broadest lakes, The tallest t,ees, the
widest prairies, the highest waterfalls,
and the biggest hearts in all creation.
.Ma'am, 20 and see tho Falls Of Nj
agara. My dear ma'an, if didn't
think I'D walked up in fu,uN;y when |
first seed thg, big slanlcndcularpuddle!
(slantcndicular's an algebra word ma
am-you mayn't know ii.) Why,
a'am, could tell you something
about them taIls-but you mustn't pu,
i, in your book, COS nobody will ever
believe it. The people that live round
about there all lose their speech, and
never hear each other speak for years,
with the noise Of the cataract! Fact
ma'am, true rs that's pencil and n
notebook your taking out Of your pock-
ct. Why. there was man lWcdttllerc
ten years, and he got 50 deafhe never
knew man was speaking iilla pail Of
water was poured down the back of his
neck When you 20 to see the Falls,
ma am, you must do all The talking
you want to before you get within twen.
ty-fvc miles Of them: for afteFitaf. moi
word Of any kind can belipard!
'Thcn, ma'am, you should 20 and
sec the great cave in Kenpfsss where
the bats hhornacula,es iis sless
millions. There is nas aSsa sillsl
iI nole IN IN 'he fSs;r ,.',,, -,
the nn DnsH ,nie 10 Of Eoan q" s sul sur
Mammoth Cave, you'll pu, your feet
in it-no, beg your pardon, eXcuse me,
that's quite impossible; but you'll leave
big hole in the book you are going
to write. There was no end known to
it, ma'nm; and there is sal,-w
lake in the middle Of it, twenty five
miles broad. One Of the rooms is called
the 'Anlipodcan Chamber, from the
unpronolincenble TACT that man can
walk just as easy on the ceiling as upon
The floor; and in this apartment. there's 8
natural fountain OF pure brandy The
same cave, too, is a positive cure for
consumption.
You hahn, been South, yet, have
you, ma am? You haint seen the Mis-
sissippi river and the city Of New Or.
leans? Well, ma'am, New Orleans is
hundred and twenty-five feet below
the level Of the sea, and The Mississip.
pi runs through canal bridge right
over the city! The Inhabitants are
chiefly alligators and scrcech owls, ,he
last words have been vuIgarly perycrt-
ed into Creole. The food is chiefly
gum, produced from trees in tho swamp
and which they call Sumbo. There is
paper called the Picaroon, the name
being we'll chosen, significant ofits pro-
lcssed piracies upon HINTS Philosophy,
Baron Munchausen, the Pilgrims Pro-
gress, Joe Miller. Washington Irving,
and Bells Life in London. 1t is vio-
lent and s,upcndous political print, and
the Government of the coun,ry has en-
dcnvored in vain 10 suppress it. One
of the pcculiar ma ks about this eS>