The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-07-23

us u trophy Lo, tue HlctOIS, Out ne was SHOT
down with that proud flag as his winding
sheet ~.
The Mexican army scattered, routed and
utterly demoralizcd (miitary sense) did not
halt its shattered columns, until it bad left
many leagues betwcensit and our army.
Ampudia was degraded by the Mexican
President, and court material called to
try him for cowardice, and. bad general
ship.
Of the first he was unquestionably guilty,
for on many other attlefields, the flowing
maine and tale of that wl,itc-horsc was
seen foremost in the tactical movement,
known as p" devil take the hindmost." 49,
Gen. La Vega, the Ney Of Mexico, was
made a prisoner of war. Refusing to ac-
cept his parol, lie was sent TO the United
States.
Thus ended the beginning Of the war
Two pitched battles, on an open field had
been fought with numbers and advantage
OF positions on the side of the Mexicans
but the eagles of victory pcrched upon the
banner Of the North Americans. This was
indeed "the beginning of the end" for on
every field from Palo Alto TO the gates of
the capitol, against all odds in every battle,
and in every skirmish, North American
valor carried its starry banner in triumph.
The history of the war is not plumed by a
single defeat. From mountain height, and
from embattled plain; from castlcd wall
and mooted gate, was victory snatched by
the daring hand of the North American.
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French Love Of F2owcrs.-FIowers play
an important part in Paris. The Partisan.
loves flowers lie loves them more than
animals. What sweet smile, what grace
ful words, can nosegay not win from
lovely lips! For the Partisan lady loves
flowers too; but she loves them only when
grouped together; for her they grow ready
twihed in garlands and in posies in the
shops of the Boplevarls; she loves them
only as an ornaments only as the gift that
homage Offers. Flora is not her goddess
only her hand-maid who decks her head
and her bosom; she herself will be the
goddess. On entering ballroom at the
end Of the season, would one not imagine
that Flora, the lovely one, was multiplied a
hundred foulds What warmth snnst they
possess? In the hair, in tile hand, aud OH
the bosom, all is budding in greatest. .luxu-
rance. The parts of the garlands are SO
wondrously y interviewer, that one thinks they
must have grown SO on the bushes; and
again, they nestle on the fair temples rs if
they would never leave them, and had had
their place there from all eternity. The
colors of the nosegay. for the boson'a are so
tastefully arranged, so melting one into the
other, that you fancy the harmonious pen
Gil Of Nature herself created this union of
tinls, had produced this posy-fowcr; for,
like single flower, the whole grows out of
| an entwincd stalk, and nestles and mods
with delight. But the noscgay for, tho
hand consists of wreath in wreath n wreath
Iof migionetto closes round the violets +;
xoubd these circle Of rosebuds; then come
heliotropes, &c. The 4Parisian Joqueticrcs
arc celebrated thsoughout the world, and
over the whole province their+productions
t;are continually being sent. So
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Lewis, the, Legislative wag of the North
Mississippi Union, tells the following good
one Upon the Mississippi Legislature, in lis
correspondence with his paper:
!; "A; ;.Le1;sluto,''s First SpeccA-A friend,
g Roratedn the following "anecdote," which
started the buttons, to us the other evening.
For manyyears heretofore has been n mem
Der of the House from one ofsahe lower
counties, which boasts Of hundred votes
Forsso, psssoB, named M--., lie was a
member many years before lie opened his
mouth, except % say "Aye" and "No,'
and put something into it, the latter a very
Observation-Disclosures highly useful
proceedings. except At bangler's. Once
]:upon n time Ms county received, not a
"first rate notice." as the newspapers say
which it became necessary for him to an.
swer. It was affirmed, that The county did
not pay taxes enough to pay the member
that he, NJ, was a tax upon the
Treasnry-and shat if he would accept tho
tProposition, tlfS Legislature would give him
an order on his Sheriff, to collect the taxes
and let linn stay at home hereafter!
M rose in defencc-his maiden
speech.
"Mr. Chairman, the people ofsmy coun
ty arc poor, but honest"
Hs'was interrupted by c., from
Monroe, WHO with stcrnation voice criet
out:
Ibid the honorable gentleman say his
people were poori''
"Yes."
"And honest3" &E