The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1850-05-08

act rushing down with irresistible
impctuosity. Knowing the end of
life is death, every right minded man
ought to pursue that which is connco.
ted with happiness and ultimate bliss.
-Du6lin University Magazine.
TO YOUNG MEN.-Don't rely up
on friends. Don't rely upon the good
name Of your ancestors. Thousands
have spent the prime Of life in vain
hopes of aid from those whom they call
friends, and thousands have starved
because they had rich father. Re-
ly only upon the good name which is
made by your own cxcrtions, and
know that the best friend you can
have is an unconqncrahlc dctcrmina-
ton, united with decision Of ckarac.
ter.
SOCIETY IN CALIFoRNlA.-An in.
telligcnt correspondent of the Journ-
al Of Commerce, gives the following
picture of California Society:
| "This mining business rusts man
wonderfully, and yet I find more lit.
crary men engaged in it than Of any
other class. In fact, the mines ale
well stocked with lawyers, doctors
and schoolmastcrs. The first of
these have little in their calling to at
tend to; the second, plenty Of physick-
Ing, but no pay--thc third undoubt-
cdly find golddigging a much more
agreeable occupation than ramming
ideas into thick skulls, or bclaboring
the unfeclng backs of stubborn ur-
chins. OF ministers, the number is
not great deal, nor the detnand;--
every effort here to get up Sabbath
Can n do is to hoia ( qp,~, TO- corrsr. %e
cnce meeting among 5, 5, 6 or -.,,ra
protesting christians Of different dc.
nominations. The ravincs arc from
one to six miles apart, with high hills
intervening, and the cabins are even
more scattered. Sunday, to-, as |
have heretofore told you, is washing
day, mcnding Jay, prospect hunting
and sala.day. There is no marrying
to do--no children here to baptise-
no sacramcntal fcast---no females to
exert hallowcd influence homes
to tic men down. Such state of
society, venture to assert, has ncv-
cr before existed in the worlds histo-
ry. am impatient to get back to
some spot where the thirst for gold
has not drunk up the noblcr qualities
Of the human heart, and made men
british, selfish and unholy. | admit
there arc some exceptions, but gen
orally Speaking, men hero are not
what they were at home. All re-
strants arc removed, and the clovcn
foo: was boldly Displayed"
MATRIMONIAL SrECuLATIoN.-
Some years ago, when the world was
mad upon lotteries, the cook Of
middlc-agch gentleman drew from his
hands the savings of some years.
Her master, curious to know the
cause, learned that she had repeated
ly dreamed that 4 certain number
was 4 great prize, and had bought it.
He called her a fool iorhcr pains, and
never omitted IN occasion to tease her
on tho subject. One day, however,
the master saw III newspaper that
the number was actually prize of
100000. Cook is called up--a pal
aver cnsucs--had known her mauy
ycars--loa,h to part, &c, in short,
he proposes marriage andis accepted.
They were married the next morning
and as the carriage took them from
the church the following dialogue cn-
sued:
"Wcll, Molly, two happy events in
one day. You have married, ! trust
good husband; you have something
else. But first let me ask you where
your lottery ticket is :"
Molly, who thought he was begin
ming to banter the old subject, re-
piled
"Don't you say more about that.
thought how it would be, | never
should hear the end ont 50 sold it
to the baker for n guinea protit--so
needn't make any more fuss about
that"
A CAPITAL RAT SToRy.-licv.
Walter Cotton, in his agreeable and
christian-|ikc diary Of ? voyage to
California in man of-war, entitled
"Dcck and Port" (ip which, by the
way, much is mildlyand convincingly
said against the spirit ration and fog
ging in the na,S,) relates the follow
ing capital rut story:
s'I havt always felt somo regard |
for a tar since my cruise in the Con.