The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-02-15

Mrs. PREWETT:- your learned aftcle last
week, accounting for the extreme cold weather,
did you mean to say we were flying off towards
Saturn or Satan? Some of your readers think
Saturn was one of your famous printers blum
ders, and you meant TO be read Sataa. Let US
know whether it is Sa.aa or Saturn?
Il Subscriber.
The above letter, like many we receive, ex-
plains itself We had jus. issued the number
OF the Banner, in which we had, as we thought,
mmortal;zed eurse!f, by the discovery Of a
mighty truth in r. gard to the projectile force of
the earth, truth or theory, which we expected
would confound the oldest inilabitant and pro-
cure for US medal from the Royal Academy,
to say nothing Of i place among the gods. We
were swelling with our importance, even into
sublmitv We had looked farther into mill
stone than any of our ncighbors had--whlle
they had been merely shivering over the fire, we
had consumed the mid night candle, and got
warm in working out theory that would as
tonish mankind! We felt like Gbbon, the inn
mortal historian, when he finished the last chap
ter of the decline and FALL as he sat in the old
Swiss, moon lit garden on a rustic bench. lie
knew he had with his own hand, cut the mich
in the Temple of Famesinw hich his name would
ever more be eashrned. Thoughts too big for
ltterance pressed upon his mind, great work
was ccemplished-well, SO felt we, till the
above letter fell like bucket of cold water on
our newborn hopes and aspirations. We are
prove rbaliy amiable, in fact we doubt if there
is any body in the world more amiable than we,
and so we are not mad, only feel as the French
man did when his father died-thnt it is proper
to show suitable resentment. Wewill state in
the first place that. as the weather is warmer
we have abandoned our theory, namely, that the
md the earth is on an express train toward
Saturn. Or correspondent thinks we meant
Satan Our theory was predicated on the ex-
IRENE cold weather, AMI we cannot see how he
thinks that Satan's dominions are colder than
the earth-the wish is no doubt father to the
thought. He is personally interested, we may
suppose, in the temperature of Satan's KING
DOM and therefore seizes with avidity, as drown
ling men catch at straws, on the hope that the
region to which he is bound may not be sovery
warm as the preachers say it is. We can give
him no information on that subject as we never
i intend to make personal experiment of the
heat Of Satan's kingdom. If he had read the
papers lately, as good citizen is bound 70 DO
he would have learned from the debates in Con
gress, that part of the State, called the
Future, lies south of the line, and is a Slave
State, and suarm of course Whereas, accor d
inc to the Copernican system, which IL The bash
of our text books of Astronomy, and is com
monty received IS orthodox among the Swans
\ sSafaga lies ION the extreme verge ofthe Sola
4 System. Our books DO not tell Us. but We sup
pose The other warm State to which our cor
j respondent seems al lalys looking, les d
| near to the inhabitants hat planet as to ii,
| Earth; So Bed nv Y himself, that h !
will in any lose naaa1in zee
when he is dd1g writing imp I.
1 good natured editors. D
r,a hoss chilly orbs,on lerge Of creation
nshine and smiles must be equally
want SUP Vi cold hearts for tha
alton, Ess g ssAsgsv a
4ven knows there's enough on this earth w
Il could spare s.sss $50
& @! think what world we could have of It here
Il If the hafers Of love, true affection and glee,
II Were to fly off to Saturns comfortlcss sphere,
Il And leave earth to such spirits-Gs fen 20