The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-05-09

lS IL COME f-BY MISS FRANCES BROWN.
1.-THE following is the poem that attracted the at
tention of the Marquis Of 1ansdowne, and induced
him TO make present Of f10O to the authoress.
Edinburgh Ladies' Own.1
Is it come 2 they said on the banks Of the Nile
Who look'd for the worlds long promised day,
And saw but the strife of Egypts toll, /
With the deserts sands and the granite gray.
From the pyramid, temple and treasured dead,
We vainly ask for her wisdom's plan;
They tell of the slave and tyrants dread
Yet there was hope when that day began.
The Chaldee came with his starry lore,
That built up Babylon's crown and creed
And bricks were stamped on the Tigris' shore,
With signs which sages scarce can read.
From Minus Temple aud Nimrod's Tower
The rule of the old Easts empire spread
Unreasoning faith and unquestoned power
But still, Is it Gomez the Watcher said.
The light of the Persan's worshipped flame
In bondage its ancient splendor threw,
And once on the West sunrise came,
When Greece to her freedoms trust was true.
With dreams to the uttermost ages dear,
With human gods and godlike men,
No marvel the far-off day seemed near,
To eyes that looked through her laurels then.
The Romans conquered and revelled, too,
And deeper old Ernope's darkness grew
As wave after wave the Goth came on
The gown was learning. the sword was law,
The people served in the oxens stead
But ever some gleam the Watcher saw,
| And evermore, Is it Gomez they said.
Poet and Seer that question caught
| Above the din of life fears and frets
1t marched with letters--it toiled with thought
| Through schools and creeds which the earth for.
And statesmen trife, and priests deceive. (gets
/ And traders barter our world away
Yet hearts to that golden promise cleave,
1 And still, at times, Is it GOMEZ they say.
4 The days of thenation bear no trace
OF all the sunshine SO far foretold
| The cannon speaks in the teachers place
The age is weary with work and gold;
/ And higher hopes wither and memories wane-
1 On hearths and affairs the fires ares dead
But that brave faith hath not lived in vain:
/ And this is all that our Watcher said.
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A SISTER OF CHARfTY-An immense sensation
has been created in Paris by the death of Sister
Charity named Soeur Rosalie, whose existence ha,
been, for the last fifty years, one OF toll courag
and mercy. Truly, our age has perhaps, take he
i all in all, seen no human being SO remarkable a
y Suur Rosalie. To the valor of she adde
the tenderness of u woman and the simplicity of
child. She was, practically, one of the most Pre-
, found political economists, and one of the mos
wonderful administrators that any country ever pos
sessed. Her humble dwelling, in the Rue de PEpt
de Bois, as much the centre of every chai1t.lh
enterprise as could be the archbishcpric Of Parl
Princes, bishops, statesmen al the great OF Il
: and-were to be found, at times, around her door
e and have seen, in lS4S-'49, those very minste
y waiting for an audience of this very extraordinar
i woman, who an hour before would have kept ever
n one else waiting in their own ante-rooms.
i l. The Emperor and Empress wero often among hs
-, dna
y rated Seur Rosale with the Legion d'Honneur
7 lS4S, for her heroic conduct in the revolution
l. j June. Wherever there danger, there was SH
d Rosalie Did the cholera scare the town, S9ur
sale in every most infected spot, sucking IN
l. very breath of the plague stricken, and opposll
IL the egis of her strong faith to the plague Did
surrecfion appal the population, S9ur Rosalie W
m there where the strife the widest, helping
II DYING exhortinc the living to nider courses, b
a confronting death with the calm strength of Chr
Il tan soldier. The barricades of une were her hoI
IN during that awful time, and to the combatants
no both sides she only seemed angel heaven Sci
Poor woman she had but mortal tie -h
! mother an aged woman of past ninety, who
s' absent from Paris The StHur herself had reach
I the age of seventy. ..e-,. - J.
ne A few weeks back, lady who went to see
=. was speaking to her of her mode of life, its cal
" and compensations "Ah!" !" said the admiral
9 e9 woman, "God has done everything to make ]
ca happy-His name be blessedl He has yet ward
Il. II off from me the only grief feel should be-
eu weak to bear my mothers death, know i
:, wrong but cannot yet for an instant reflect W
"a "a the possibility of losing her," The Almighty
o indeed befriend her for strange to say, few no
:s after her death ast week letter came announc
40 her mothers demise. The mother and daughter
left this earth within two days one of the other.
THE LONE GRAVE The California Americ
published at Placerville, gives the following tou
io- ing incident of travel on the plains:
Mt The overland emigration to California, in Is
ks was immense, and attended with much of sckr
and death. Hardly company that was not d
mated, and many doubly so. New-made grs
he that during the first ten days upon the plains
ra. sessed at least passing melancholy interest,
10. fcient to turn the steps of tho traveller if only
~ to know the name and where from, of length bec'
vac vac so numerous as hardly to attract passing not
INC unless in the immediate vicinity of our camp
AL grounds We had encaniped upon one of the /,
ad small streams Between the Little Blue and Pl
and rivers we were all joyous and happy; our amir
art as vet in excellent condition, our company al
re: good health, and we had not been long enough
csc the plains to know feel fatigue. 1t was Satu
,;sl, afternoon, and we had stopped early, where "
s W. and grass were abundant, and intended b ren
n0 here over Sunday. :
me Tents were pitched, our horses quietly graz
we and mirth and gaiety resounded throughout
ros- camp. More than one of us had observed a
did strip of board no wider than mans hand, ST
3 to ing upright amid the green grass, but few
Ad from our wagons One of our company thinkil
.ad would make GOOD kindlings went out to get it