The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1855-12-14
'unLIsHED 'aLI lII ErERT FRIDAY hloRalssI i
Purchase or Cuba.

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Purchase Or Cuba.
4 Iestsf from L,nion 10 New York Courier
and Enquirer informs the public that the pur-
chase of Cuba y possible, Il the Inter will give
two hundred millions of dollars, one haIf TO he
applied to the liquidation oftha home debt One
hundred millions of dollars is about one-ffth of
the face value OF the foreign debtofS Spain which
stated in full Is GI00 100000, but the faith of
SPAN i OF such y nature that tae. boud-holders
would adly accept one hundred millions of dol
ars from. the United Stat sin full payment. On
this subject the paadeiphia North American
says: kgfssd &xHff
Whenever the twenty two millions of spare
cash now snnbering up our tr asury shall swell
| 70 TWO hundred millions we think the United
States may find something better to do than buy
ing saeh Pandora's box as the Island OF Cuba.
We shall have trouble enough with it when we
get it, and tn refore need be in no such hurry to
squander our millions for it. Far o,is hundred
millions OF dollars, we coud build the great Pa
ciic Riilroad cl ar throu sh the va t wilderdess
to California. For two hundred M lions W,
could buy half of n Mexiso. For fifty millions
even, we could buy up ali Central America. If
we are becoming 50 desperately am5itious, let
as waste our money in som thing Of thar kind,
II we have not enough ,od sense to. apply it to
the improvement OF our rivers anl harbors,. the
com 'lesion of our coast defences the erection of
national Iildngs for the courts AMI post oeices
where they are sos much wanted, and the in
crease OF our mis- rably smah navy. Iscannot
be possible in the nature Of things that Cuba
shall remain attached TO a European power for
many years longer, and when the proper time
arrives, Cuba viii come to us OF her own occord
without any such expel ldture on our plrr as two
hundred millions OF dollars. Let the British
bond holders OF Spain look elsewhere foA their
money.
INSET DiPL5NArTsrs.--W have private ad-
| vices from the Russian domsn;ons, to the effect
that the grain-produ ling districts on the borders
Iof the Black Sea furnish this year scafity and
insufficient harvest. The grasshoppers, the pest
Ehich has ravaged the fields Of Utah ia our hem
z<e done gtsaf q; n;a1hief 70 the growing
466kyegion fro6i xhiclx f'1e oranaries
0Dn5Russian Empire are file [Fom which,
in past years, large quantities Of 81 Ia ke16 been
exported to Western 9 irope. SO great e s
said, has been the deficiency of the harvest = 81
last summer, that Russia is likely to suffer dis
tressing dearth, and to regret deeply the state of
things which closes hnr ports against supplies
from countries where the earth has yielded her
fruit with less stint. The source from which
we derive our inform ation adds the remark that
in this circumstance alone can be found any
! reason to expect thlt the warring nations viii
agree upon peace.
Il Ii we may rely on the information which we
have received, the grasshoppers may possibly
prove the most efficient pegotiasors that have
yet undertaken to deal with the differences be-
tween Russia and Turkey. In the old fable the
m 1use glawed apart the m eshes the net witch
the lion could not rend wi Ii all his strength.
: II peace should follow the dearth sof food in
: Russia. the grasshoppers will have effected what
the efforts of the wsest aud mnst experienced
dplomatists Of England, France and Austria,
were unable 70 accornnlsh,
R,MANrIc.-The following lnr.ning extract
i is taken from an unpublished romance:
= L'stenro me, Gaspanlo. ; When first met
5 the Young lady Arabella IN the brilliant hal of
the Count de P0mperepone.I was struck with
II the spiritual lustre of her dove like eyes. n
short, ny friend loved her, although 1 knew
: knew nothing of her birth, fortune, station
e Twas on a moonlight eve, in tie gardenof ths
E old chateau, when pressed heratas become my
f own my cherished BRIDE: She shrank from me
E saying
i ssThou knowest not who am, -
I II care not. said passionately. sss
4 "TheR / do!' cried she, in a piersings tone
) | am your unknown washerwoman. anI j d
j thank you to pay mafor the SIX pieces Iwashed
i for vcu last week. =
= ally broken hearted man.
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7 Tie following Is tire lasest we hayes een
!. illustrative Of the sagaeity of tie feline race:
) Mr. Tiedamann, the fanoas Saxon dentist,
4 had valuable tovtoise-shell cat, that for days
: did nothing else but moan. Guessing the cause,
= he looked into its mouth and seeing d decayatl
TOOTH soon relieved it Of its pain. Fne fniswin,
day there were at least ten cats at his door-tte
e dav aftar twenty. and, fhpv went an ncrpas,r at