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We are glad to announce that Mrs. Psck, who
comes here very highly recommended. has open-l
cd her school in an upper room ofthe house next
the Banner oaice.k'A goody number Of pupils
have ALREADY entered, but thcreis still vacancies
to ILL., We.take pleasure in bespcaking for Mrs.
Peck the kindness and confidence Of our citizens
having daughters to educate.
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Yaz 10 County, Janzs, 1856.
Mas. PREwETT:-I regretted seeing an article.
in your paper 81 last week signed s. H. VIII.
con. is which he requests you to stop bis paper.
aid spec|r 61r >Iiek| AZ. sknayas and
EEL very sorry Tor vol possBiy
imagine how you can sasV paper ssincc
he has withdrawn his valuable patronage.
have ever stood aloof from politics, preferring
the great happiness efhome to the noise and
strife of the political cock pit, but seeing the
article in question, rather disturbed ssmy Irish
and lest you should beruined by your 'sSag
Ncht' friend, ! enclose you SIS, for 5 copies
of the Banner-wll send you two more next
week. Send them all to my own address as
they will be more convenient for distribution.
Very respectfully. -. :
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rra- Our Carrier desirssus 70 state Chat a. A.
tbeeopy right Of his Annual A1'r
thos, young eentiemeH VIC |ooo tnSI1l.
fes rhershe h,i sold them ard went about SELL
<them below the market price, much injured
his business and lnssened his pcrqusites rendering
themselves liable to prosecution.
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Preserve yonr lseauty.

). 3 nlvof neek, csleek of soIIest bloom,
lands smoo'h and fair, and white mao
like brow,
These were her fascinations y
There was time when il was bslieved
that aclear and brilIiant complex son could
not beobtained by ARTIFICIAL nieans "A new
disco veryi in chemistry has given tfat idea
70 The wind itis now knoan that tile Pa
phion Lotion, pure floralcompo1nd, By It's
action upon the absorbents and Che exterior
vessels will remove Freckles, SsiIow ness,
EruRlons &s, in short tins and give trans
nareney ard bloom to the most unfortunate
complexion.
Pfensred aud sold by r Phaion s. Nich-
oias II tie, and 81 Broad way New Fork,
For sale 10 New Orleans, Wnoles III aud
retail BY
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re2r We have had rain aud snow, and ice and
sleet, tin a fne suushipy day will be hailed with
real joy.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-12-18
ByrOil's Loves.

Several women were in love with Byron;
but none so violently as Lady Caroline
Lamb. She absolutely bessiged him. He
showed me the first letter he received from
her, in which she assured him that il he was
IN any want of money, call her jewels were
at his service" They frequently had guar,
rels, and more than once, on coming home.
| have fonnd Lady c. walking In the gar
den' and waiting for me to beg that would
reconcile them. When she met Byron at a
party she would always. if possible, return
home from it in his carriage, and accompa.
MED by him; | recollect particularly their
returning to town together from Holland
House. But such was the insanity of her
passion for Byron, that sometimes, when
not invited to party where he was to be,
she would wait for him in the street until il
w's owe. Onsr night after great party at
Devonshire House to which Lady Caroline
had not been invited, l saw nerves, saw
her-talkiDg with Lord Byron, with half her
body thrust into the carriage which he had
just entered. In spite of oil this absurdity;
my firm belief is TINT there was nothing
criminal about them. Byron at last was
sick of her. When this intimacy was at an
end, ard while she was living in The coun.
try she burned very solemnly, on sort OF.
funeral pile, transcripts Of all the letters
which she had received from Byron, and d
copy Of miniature (his portrait) which he
had presented to her; several girls from the
naighborhood whom she dressed in white
garments, dancing around the pile, and sing.
ing song which she had written for the
occasion, "Burn, FIRE, burn," &c.-Rodyers.
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The EWd Of Great NEals.

Happening to cast my eyes upon a print.
ed page ofminiature portraits, the person
ages who occupied the four most nspieu
Gus places, were Alexander, Hannibal, Cesar,
and Bonaparte. ..a
had seen the same unnumbered times
before, but never did the same sensation
arise in my bosom as my mind hastily glanc
ed over their several histories.
Alexander, after having climbed the dizzy
heights Of his ambition, and with his TEMPLES
bound with chaplets, dipped in the blood of
countless nations, looked down upon a
conquered world and wept that there was
not another one for him 10 conquer, set fire,
and died in scere of debauch.
Hannibal, after having, to the consternu.
ton and astonishment Of Rome, passed the
Alps; after having put to fight the armies
Of the mistress OF the world, and stripped
three bushels of go.d rings from the fingers
OF her slaughtered knights, and made her
very foundations quoke--fled from his coun.
try, being hated by those who once exulting.
ly united his name to that OF their god, and
called him Hannibal, died at last by poison,
administered by his own hands, unIamented d
and unwept, in foreign land
Caesar, after having conquered eight hun
dred cities, and dyed his garments in the
hind nf ono m ;ll;np of b;S foo. oftor hn,,
ing pursued to death the only rival he had on
earth--was wonderfully assassinated by
those considered His dearest friends, and in
that very place, the attainment ofwhich, had
been his greatest ambition.
Bohnpurte, whose mandate kings and
popes obeyed, after having filled the earth
with terror of his nnme-after having delug-
ed it with tears and blood, and clothed the
world with sackcloth, closed his days in lone!
ly Punishment, almost literally cxled from
the world, yet where he could sometimes
see his country's Banner floating over the
deep, but which could not or would not bring
him aid.
Thus, four men, who from the peculiar po- |
sition. of their portraits, seemed to stand as
of the Representatives, oft
all the world calls great; those four, who
each in turn, made the earth tremble to its
very center BY their simple tread, ssyerallfi
died-onc BY intoxication, Or. ns some sup
pose, by poison mingled III his winefone muir
dered BY his friends; and one in lonely exile.
How are the mighty fallen slll as'og aEaNe
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Death will come.


Death will come; he will certainly come
He cannot be evadedi he cannot be pul
back; he cannot be made 10 take his step
any slower. Oh, he will come! All that
lives on earth will die every beast, bird,
and creeping thing; the hummng. bird, the
insect that flutters in the sunbeam; every
tree and shrub and hower-the oak the pine
acacia, the moss that grow over the wall;
every monarch, every peasant; every rich
man, every poor man; every slave, every
master OF slave; every man, every woman,
every child; every old man that prides him.
self on his honors and his wealth; every
young man that prides himself on his talents
or his strength; every maiden that prdes her.
self on her beatty. Oh, all will die. am
in world of death; | am amid the dying and
the dead; see not a living Thing in all my
rambles that will not die--no man, no wo.
man, no child; no bird, no beast; no plant,
no tree. The eagle that cuts the air, can.
not fly above it; the monster of the deep
cannot dive below it; the tiny insect cannot
make Itself SO Insignificant that death will
not notice it,; the leviathan cannot, with his
great strength, struggle against it. The
Christian will die; the sinner will die--yea,
the sinner! Your wealth cannot save you.
Death cares for none Of these things; they
are alitrifies and gewgaws beneath his notice.
lie no more Gloves shining mark" than
an ignoble one; he has no more pride in
cutting down the rich man than the poor
man-the daughter of beauty and fashion
than the daughter of ugliness and sin. lie
loves to level the thiSle as we'll as the rose
bud; the bramble as the magnolia; the briar
as the cedar OF Lebanon. He cares as little
tor roses OF ermine as for the begs ais rags;
as little for your richest vestment and CAV.
est apparel as for the blanket of the savage.
You will die, and the fear of death will come
upon you. Death comes just as he is-paIe,
solemn, fixed, stern, determined on his work.
lie hears no cry for pity; he regards no
Shrek of TERROR He comes steady, certain,
unchanged and Interchangeable in his purpose,
to take you from your bed of down; to hurry
you away from your splendid dwelling; to
call you out of the assembly
you away from your companions, that will !
miss you for moment, and then resume
the dance, that you may die. Death will
come. He has been advancing toward you
ever since you began to breathe. He has
kept on his way, always advancing to meet
you, while yon have been asleep or awake;
and II you have gone north, or south, or east.
or west he has always put himself into your
path-how near or how remote, you have
never known. Death will come. He has
always been advancing, never rcceding; and
soon his baneful shadow will fall upon your
path; and that shadow will deepen and be.
come more chilly, like an advancing eclipse:
md then her dark form will stand RIGHT be.
ore you, between you and the light of the
living world, and you will be in the dark
alley. Death will come-fearfuI enough
lnder any circumstances, even if you are q
ihristaIn-awiul, unspeukably awful, ii you
IRE not.
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bead raIlare.

We were returning from the great aBos.
ton" and Fashion" race on Long IsIsnd,
and as it is generally the case atsuch time
there was uqueer crowd on ths train, end
the conductor experienced considers Bile dff.
iculty in collecting his fare. In the motley
mass was a seedy looking Dutchman, who
took seat just in front of Us. and we noticed
as the collector Of the tickets end i'ruo,p ap.
preached, he twisted about uneasily, and
looked particularly nervous. At length the
dreaded money demander stood cOnlrontina
him.
"FSre, sir, said he, extending bis palm,
(" Didn't pait you pefof el" sn6wefed
Hans, with wretched effort to look surpri.
sed.
"No, you didn't paid me before" sneefed
the conductor. "Come, fork over" y, :.
"VelI, den, I 'spose pays you .agin,"
said the Dutchmun. IL doesn't want no
troubles about it," and he continued feeling
in his pockets. After much fumbling he
pulled out suspicious. looking Spanish dol.
lar, and handed It over.
"Look here, my fine fellow" said the con.
duc,or, rubbing his thumb over the coin,
"that won't do with me! you must pass of
your bogus money on somebody greener."
"Vot ist de matter!" qusried the Dutch,
man, as he took the coin back.
"The matter is," said the conductor, be.
ginning to get impatient, "that your money
is bad, and you must pay or get out of the
car" s st 4
"Mein Got!" exclaimed Hans, "ef dat il
a pad tollar, den te tam rsscal on de track
sheat me-for pet him nit tollar, unit |
wins, he gf me dat yust as sos git inter de-
car :" 'h" st3
"Well, "said the conductor, "if YOU bet 1
dollar with man and you won, and he paid
you just as you were getting into the cars:
you havn't had chance to spend any money
since, and so you must have the dollar yoa
bet with him-hund overt" s@
"oh, yas!" and the Dutchman's Jaw fell
'abont feet" "Oh, yas! had a toilat Is
bet NIT him; mine Oas pad one too," a.''
Hans had to walk, s-4
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Mr.. O'Flaherty undertook to tell how
many were at the party. The two Crogan:
was one. myself was two, Mike Fin was
three, and-und-who the mischief was four!
Let me see Counting his fngers) two
Crogans was one, Nike Fin was two, my!
self was three--and bedad! there was four
of us; but st Patrick couldn't tell the name
of the other. Now it's meself that have it:
Mike Fin was one, the two Crogans was
two, myself was three--and--and--be tho
powers think there was but three of ils az.
ter all.--Pusch.
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true to the dead could not but prove affec
tionate to the living. She declined his at
tentions, for her thoughts were irrevocabll
engrossed by the memory Of her former Low
er. He however persisted in his suit. He
solicited not her tenderness, but her esteem
He was assisted by her conviction of hi,
worth, and her sense of her own destitute
and dependent situation, for she was exist
ing on the kindness Of friends. In word
he at length succeeded in ginning her hand
though with the assurance her heart was un.
alterably another's.
He took her with him to Sicily, hoping
that change of scene might wear out the re.
membrence of early woe. She was an ami.
BILE and exemplary wife, and made an effort
to be happy one; but nothing could cure
the silent and devouring melancholy that
had entered into her very soul. She vast.
ed in slow and hopeless decline, and at
length sunk into the grave, the victim of a
broken heart. ..
TWAS on her that Moore, the distinguish.
ed Irish poet, composed the following lines:
sho is far from the land where her young hero
sleeps,
Aud lovers aroundher are signing;
But codly she turns from their gaze and wceps,
For her heart in his grave is lying.
He had lived for his love-fo- his country he died:
They were all that to life had ontwned him
Not soon shall the tears of his country be dried,
Nor long will his love stay behind him.
Oh, make her grave where the sunbeams rest;
Where they promise glorious morrow,
They'll smile DER her sleep like smile from the
west,
From her own loved Island OF sorrow.
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4uthtal,
The Dead Child.
NJ MRS. SupsoN.

A mound is in the graveyard,
A short and narrow bed;
No grass is growing on IL,
No marble at its head;
Ye may go and weep beside It,
Ye may kneel and hiss the sod,
But yen find no balm for sorrow,
In the cold and silent bed.
There Is anguish In the household,
II is desolate and lone,
For fondly cherished little one,
From the parent nest has flown,
A little form is missing;
A heart has ceased to beat,
Aud the chains of love lies shattered
Al the desolator's feet,
Remove the empty cradle, ..
His clothing put away,
And all the little playthings, f
With your cffofcest treasure lay;
Strive not to check the rain drops
That fall like summer rain,
FOR the sun OF nope shines thro' them /,
You shall see his face again.
oh! think where rests your darling,
Not in his cradle bed,
Not in the distant graveyard,
With the still and mould'ring dead,
But in heavenly mansion;
Upon his Saviour's breast,
With sisters arms around him,
He takes his sainted rest.
He has put on robes Ct glory,
For the little robes ye wrought,
And fingers golden harp-strings,
For the toys his sisters brought;
oh weep but with rejoicing,
heart gem have ye given,
And behold its glorious setting,
In the diadem Of heaven.
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6T"Madam," said the keeper at the gate
fof Kensington gardens, ri cannot permit
you to take your dog into the gardens. -
"Don't you see, my good friend" said the
lady, putting couple Of shillings in the
keepers nnnd, "that it is q cat and not q
dogi"' "Madam," " said the keeper, instantly
softening his tone ofvoice, Il beg your par
don. forgniy mistake. / now see clearly. by
aid Of the pair of spectacles which you have
been 50 good as to give me, that it is cat,
and not dog.'' atgf
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GA sailor had wandered into church
yard, and was amusing himself BY reading
the inscriptions on the gravestones. Pres
emily he came to one on which was inscribed
the following. 80 27 a "'AA3 sa
Y" Weep not for me, my dearest dear, #A
II am NOT dead, though l lie .here.n sge
This was too much for Jack. Shifting
his quid, he calculated. swell, I've heard
say that there are cases in which a man may
lie; but II mas dead I'd oWu g." sa;Yose
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BottOnilcss Pit.

The Bottomless Pit in the Mammoth CayS
of Kentucky is suspected by many to run
through the whole diameter of the earth.
| The branch terminates, in it and the explo..
rer suddenly finds himself brought upon its
brink standing Upon projecting platform.
surrounded on three sides by darkness and
terror, gulf on the left, and before him
what Gems an interminable void. He looks
alot; but no eye has yet reached the top of
the great overarching dome; nothing is there
seen but the flashing Of the waiter dropping
from above, smiling as it shoots by in the
unwonted CLEAN Of the lamp. He looks be.
low, and nothing there meets his glance save
darkness, as thick as lamp-black, but be
hears wild mournful melody of waief; the
wailing of the brook for the green and the
sunny channel left fn the upper world nev.
er more to be revisited. Down goes rock
tumbled over the cliff BY the guide, who IL
Of the opinion that folks come here to see
and hear, not to muse and be melancholy.
There it goes--crash! II has reached the
bottom. No--hark, It strikes again; oncs,
more and again, still falling. Will 1t ever
stopl One's hair begins TO bristie AZ he
hears the sound repeated, growing less and
less, until the ear can follow it no longer.
Certainlyif the pit Of Frederick shall be
eleven thousand feet deep. the BottOnSlSss
Pit of the Mammoth Cave must be It's equal.
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GT0nly weak minds allow their iudg.
ment to be warped by sympathy orr indig.
nation. .sa,F i,s .,fy S, &. n
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OFAn Eastern mason wishes to purchase
a hen that will lay brick.
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6.rAsman who had cause III in Court
said, "If | lose in the Common Pleas. / viii
appeal to the Supreme Court. and from
thence to Heaven
as"Apd there" replied gentleman, syou
will be aufs 70 lose, for you viii noa -
present 70 snswer for YOURSELF and No e.
.torney il ever admitted there's
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or Contentment is better ,hangwsalth
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1856-01-25

as in other States, demanded a prohibit.
DRY law; and in this demand it has beer
gratifed. This obtained, the temperance
community, in some sections of the State
at least, have seemed to suppose that
their labors were ended-that the law
needed not the active aid of moral sua-
sion. Now, we deem this a fatal error
more fatal, in fact, than its opposite. If
moral suasion is ever useful-if it is ever
indispensibly necessary, it is now that we
have prohibitory law; as without it, the
law will not be and cannot be enforced.
All the influences that can be summoned
to its aid, are required in order to secure
the due enforcement of the law; and
these influences must not intermit; they
must be perennial; ceaseless, vigilant,
ever and at all times active. All expe-
rience proves this; and the slightest OBJ
servation at the present time, in this part
Of the State, affords it a powerful attest
alton.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1856-01-25

the dark masses of clouds, and taken the
whole force of hundred storms, than
place themselves, thoughtlessly, within
that cave.
So, my young friends, the world is full
of dens, and satan stands ready to push
you in, that he may laugh over your ago
ny and death. But be careful; never
tell a lie to shield yourself from blame,
and if such temptation should present
itself, think of the fate of the two hunt
ers, and rather stand out boldly in the
storm, rather meet the blame like hero
than avoid it by any but honest and up
right means; and never grasp some
questionable enjoyment, until you have
first inquired if there be not tiger, Ell
Their before you or following quickly af-
ter. b.
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JAMES.

IHE PRESIDENTS CoUP D'ETAr-
The Washington correspondent of the
Courier and Enquirer writes as follows OF
Friday:
Rumors of a meditated coup detat
on the basis of the intimation thrown out
by the official gazette yesterday, continue
1t is said that the President has prepared
a special Message for Congress, appris-
ing that body that he has given orders
for the suspension of diplomatic inter
course with England, on a contingency
almost certain to happen; that he has
summoned the Cabinet to deliberate
whether he shall transmit it to the Sen
ate alone, or to the House also. If he
decide to exclude the latter body in this
official act, it will be regarded as an Ex-
ecutive reprimand for its failure to Or
ganize. He will demand that the conn.,
try be placed in state of defence. The
House is expected to fly into a passion.
and to insist on its privileges as a non
existent and prematurely deceased. or
rather, yet unborn body. 1t is superAu-
GUS to say that the country would in such
case fully sustain the President. and treat
Al
the passion of the House with contempt.
may state in passing, that a member
Oh the Cabinet alleges that we are in the
midst of crisis, and that a war will tako
place with Great Britain within sixty
Gays. L would advise the merchants
however, not to act upon this rumor. but
10 proceed with their shipments and other
business as if no war were pending"