The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1855-05-25
!. YAZ00 CITY, MISS. FRIDAY, MAY, % 1856.


Tie love OF flowers has been cherished md euls
tivated in all ages and elnes with interesting at
tention and admiration. Intbeir opening pate 4
aud fldng beauties they invite the most pleasing
"reminiscences ana aff.cting rejection that are as
sociating with life.. IN the one we behold the
morning Of our existance beautifully exhibited ]
with the freshness and dews aof ycuth upon us,
wlIiIe the other invites the reflection that a 1csh
is grass like grass it witheretI like tlse flower is
fadeth, and its godIiness passeth away. Andthat
every age fink in them some emblem Of their
own fleeing being. Tale bright beautiful flowers
bloom alike in the limited territory Of the cottage
and the proud and dominons Of the rich and gay.
What varied langnaed they speak, 50 replete
with pleasing sentiment And what more delicate
Way we can choose to expressive delicate feelings
of tile mind than by these pure empleris Of limo
cence and love
Flowers are tlie poetry IF earlhl They seetti to
hold communion with our minds and while g lzing
upon thom all the coarser feelings of our nature
finds no expression. We read in thein volnites
of instruction pencilled bys the hand divine. They
shrink beneathsthe shril!ing blasts ofwinter, but
when spring comes fotth and smiles upon them,
they renew their bloom reminding us of ouI I'm
mortality. We may cultivate them in limitation
of him who has strewn them around us in such
rich profusion. The love of flowers ever been
considered as an index of moral excellence and in
effectual refinement. When we see house sur
rounded bp flowers, we almost instinctively as
cribe deicacy aud refinement with all the gentler
and nober feelings to its occupants. Butinstead
of mere observing and admiring them we shall
find it pleasant and agreeable way of spending
our time to study them, to learn of their delicate
exture and the skill and workmanship whsch are
displayedin their formation. This naturally leads
our thoughts to that being who has traced on the
llowliest flower those great lines of Beauty for
which we SO mucn admire theml
Where 1, oil God, ii churchles lands remaining
Far from all t6achcfs and divines,
Ny soul could and in flowers of thysrlaining
Priests, sermons, shrines!
TIE PRonIBrroRY LIoUoR Law IN NEN
YoRK. The liquor dealers Of New York are il
terrible state of excitement, in consequence o
the passage of the Prohibitory Liquor Law. Mos
of the newspapers are Tiled with the most dole
full complaints concerning its stringeney, ant
predict that its enforcement will cause the entir,
destruction of one of the most extensive and lu
cratiye branches of trade in that State. The,
pronounce it unjust, oppressive, and odious T
nine-tenths of citizens of New York, and declar,
that it was fraudulently forced through the Leg
isIature. On the other hand, the Tribune an
kindred prints, are in ecstacies over the passag
of this law, and are busily engaged in picturn
TO the minds of their readers the many benifca
results that will flow from its rigid enforcement
They are lubiiaut over the idea of proclaimins
on the next anniversary of our nationul inde
uendence-.the day which the law goes i
operafion-the freedom of the Empire State fror
the thraldom of King Alcohol. Mayor Woo
has issued proclamation, in which he says th
law is dstasteful to him, but expresses his de
n termination to enforce 1t to the extent OF h
T. power. To do this effectualy he believes ths
er it will require force OF two thousand police
ct men. In the meanwhile the liquor dealer
d. eyince determination to resist the operatio
of the law with all their means, and by every col
of triyance within the scope of human ingenuit,
he The different classes of dealers have formed a
as sociations and are holding nightly meetings
nd organize measures to test its consttutlonant
in It is contended by them that, as the act OF Go
ice eress licences and authorizes the Importation
ne. liquors, the sale of it in any measure cannot
lth prohibited by local such leg
ars slation is an assumption of right to regula
ife, trade and commerce, expressly given by GO
is gress.
lnd When we look at statistics of tlieiquor ira
: in New York, furnished by the Herald, we
I'D see why there should be a fermentation amo
tile the traders. The whole number OF Hcens
we places for selling liquor in that city IS now 90
her and of unlicensed about 1870, making tota
gled over seuea thousand liquor shops in the CT
cart The estimated profits of the liquor trade 70
DIM hotels alone is set down at over $500 ,ooe
sun year. The profits of the four principal hot
her are niyen as follows: st. Nicholas, $500
kes, Metropolitan, s45 ,00e; Astor $4h,0O0; y
can York, $4,000 The average value of eaeh
hrst room in the city is set down at $1,000. Il y
the - ,, =. .l.ss u tof,ant what a vast amoun
till sssa-.s, ! ;atarasted IN the question whethel
not the law shall be maintained
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eter- LIBERIA The New Orleans Bulletin 81
he .The success of the Rapublic Of Liberia d
may onstrates an interesting truth, that such Il
!. and as African nationality is not amere chimer
out idea d 81 eaertained by enthusiast and zeal
but dS1 {iIstf, Substantive fact, and that the
nix Of gregation 81 the nomandic people Of Africa
anee- organized communities under fixed rules OF
49, ernment is entirely practicable. Viewing
an experimental effort to civilize and christ
ire the natives of Africa. and to improve