Democratic Banner (Newspaper) - December 23, 1853, Davenport, Iowa DEMOCRATIC By no no no West but a maintenance of dominant Haiti fare to Common Pi per VOLUME DECEMBER 23; 1853. NUMB Kit 8. AKD BY D. G. What is A freighted with the 11U oE and pursuit alike liaf h it burthens his precious With schemes by and visions through the I Of means the And lie that hath it bears a world of To save it from decay and wiles of From claims of jind at j From Fall of frauds and sad From those agency he needs must All men are anxious to secure the splendid That blights the peace of all its Barings or Astors or j Their golden millions and laborious j as cheaply as the slave is With food and when Then this posthumous evil and wreckless Who scatter their hard earnings to I naught is such lived i And toiled and And what is 'Tis the vibration qf the 'Tis but the echo Eroja some dUt ml The bare reverberation of a The shadow not tbe of The deeds once the substance The echo ceases and thr They look like bwi 1 i-e now no IE Wealth ami And fail a life's long lo Waat is there else for restless p i Some unexperienced an I yo Jn tile waim flush of h s fresh That Friendship's balm the And a lasting And what is Friendship to be cradled m the tall tree's top In summer's o'er hanging boughs Hear high their shadowy and Like many thousand fan the soft And fresh fragrant to our But when the winter's mil The leave us to tlic The branches yield no longer their But break beneath in hour oC nee Thua human most want its far and all our of And Friendship soon is comes the maiden with her black Dancing joy amid the crimson That gathers in her face wlie n first The deep emotions of her ti lifting And looking archly up she whimpers Fern in the Fanny Feru has tbe Hoar what she says about in tbe N. Y. Musical World and aru weary of this hollow show and 6f of smirking fops nnd less exchanging their small coin of flattery and their endless Let us go out of Turn tne wheel For- and show up the other wo never to be we are not to be ened by a graced door or stone so we pass leaving behind the soft wind of this Indian summer to lift the Autumn leaves as gently as docs a loving nurse her drooping We gaze into the narrow cells nnd draw fi long Poor tempted and How many to whom tho world now pays its who in hish should be in their steady God fc no of the Secretary of The Secretary states the authorized strength of Secretary of ihc The first part of the Navy Report is of the United States Army to bo men pied with relative to the and but the actual j East India and Pacific ing to the latest is only of j and various ships and officers in tbe which number are employed in the The efforts of Lieut. Dale Ureen to improve frontier or are on their way the ordinance of tbe navy have been to Ue the The is forwarding the sures taken for protection of cur tract with Robert U Stevens and total number of Poet have been that the troops r shell iron ordered in tho everywhere have been constantly and actively i The Academy is supplying tho navy Post Offices were 479 were that Indian have J with excellent The Secretary re- j there were appointed to of the Postmaster Tho whole number of Post in the United States lit the close of tbe last official ending June 30, 1S53, was 23.32U. Of this 205 UFP of the highest of which appointed by tho 1'ivtfidcnt. At the present f. From the New York The Hat t or of to be established in the Indian country tbe inasmuch as steam is now such west of the in moro favorable I a powerful element in the The to enable the Department to dis- in the various navy is in good pense with a number of the smaller and less A hoard appointed to test the important A greater force is also to t basin ut ro- be employed for the protection of the ported unfavorably upon but the grants crossing tbe A majority of has action against the the cuses of Indian depredations in Texas contractors till another test at the expense which have come to the knowledge of the of the has been been by Indians from The Attorney General having reported that re been by y. Gen. the title for the laud needed for navy yard of is improvements in California was not fortifications the Secretary had not executed the annual thereof of 1S2 by of 91 where the Postmaster hud moved nnd on the removal of prior Postmasters appointed during the year ing June 30, 1853- At the close of the fiscal ending on 30th June there were in operation in the United mail length was and 583 contractor employed The annual transportation of the mails on routes win and the ing them not frt a Oo you sec tbat floury sc in the farther OHRT of his Itis while it. III of iL IV the rod to spoil ilie There vet. but kept on fur death laughs at bolts and u poor wretch is borne ihe length he in thing it on so one of the of the urmy ordered 10 the Nine com- panies of artillery nrc posted in Florida to the now in there to the removal of Coercive Mires are to he if Two of the of artillery tire to be on the und the Atlantic and a third on the hound ami a fourth en tho Of the one will be in one in nnd the rcm ure tor the A fourth of cust of r nine four miles in at o ix mills I five 443 miles in within these gloomy only uf bv the Three to to none regiments of infantry are required Texas fill but not the for reasons st it i i rean of and at the Thu almut per entire of ind regulations of the oi thp found the The nur i revenue from aii Sources was On the uf the 7'24. At present it is i It appears from the entirely for protecting our revenue of iho ending and It of 70 ships many June 30, 1S53, of the expenditures of which ure unfit for not worth by the sum of Thy bale of of us ticen postponed finm Yird but God may ever know at whose fireside stands his vacant And here ia a woman's There are two or dresses hanging against the and a bonnet for which she has little tier friends brought her some bits of which spread over the stone with her womanly love of to mado her place look And there is a And what is Sending his radiance like As touching all that's pure In life? rainbow soon the evening The spangled arc and The sun descends into hiri And all the beauty of the gorgeous after keeps our is left to stay the gathering But dim reflection from the western Of glories passed memories love in J what shall bring What cheer the wearied soul iti dark hour Of its all When earthly hopes have such cord Is severed that twined by I. jve V When and Live is And of another world Then naught can the j the of a well spent 1SJ3. Curing i The best method I have found for curing bams after the hums have been them lie out on a where they plenty of cool BO that the heat entirely out of them before you attempt to pat them down in then corn them down for two or three after which drain of any bloody water which corne then make the following to cover 9 pounds of ounces of I oz. of 4 ot brown sugar or nnd six gallons of let them lie in thu from three to six according the size of tbe when you may take them out ami them with hickory or applo wood until sufficient to They should be taken down and up in a bags to protect them from the I. have hams cured after thiis were almost aa fine when eighteen months old as taken from the smoke And while upon the subject of I would further say when you boil they should be boiled until in soft when nearly throw in a handful of timothy it absorbs all im- purities which may be around the outside of tho AB soon as out the but leave the hara in the until when you may take it Office For wounds received from old or outs occasioned by broken peach tree steeped and applied to the will give immediato By thickening the liquid from which the leaves been taken with meal or a good poultice is which will keep moist for ID ease tbe leaves cannot be a tea made of young twigs of tbe peach and thickened will do as I the she kneels before it. May the Holy Virgin's blessed who said to 1 the do condemn send into her stricken heart the holy Who is that? it cannot it ia what a and a bright Hush chases the marble paleness from his God bless 1 come to Still In- with and still it 19 the nnd and warm who of- tenest answer the 1 More there is no bed in only n wooden platform raised above the stone It is for gutter too loathsome to be placed upon n. bed I in here like swine to wallow in the same how festively sipping the rosy say mountain stands e'er dream of such as end Look tread angels are near Through the grated window tho light streams f tills faintly upon a little pallet whero sweet as a dream of lies sleeping Over its cherub fact a is i The has no other gels only watch the slumbers of the Tbe place is I to kiss 1 its From the crowd of women pacing up and down the guarded gallery one glides gently to my saying half my ia to Hnd and said The mother's lip wiping away a tour with her she said in a choking it is the little liken of you know how hard it ia fur us to get the honest be thought 1 that there ia one who nor as man win holdeth evenly the scales of who our the whirlpool of our who never the fur tho victory ere the eary out the light uf so that it about 40 in of is supplied besides two on tbe frontier west of the The complement of 75UO id not by on ihe Auditor's books of tn it Hoet of 50 nro 1. by to rate nations of j to of he provided f the veur one in New and one in the Indian country of the It is tlv purpose of the Department to post tbe troops thinks it a fair proposition that j leaving in large bodies at commanding thu navy thould lie large enough to by fur thf service o i lur nig 1S53- in large 1. stead of dispersing them among numerous our own ami small In of the are touch more better ty of keeping tho ranks the Secretary ted to war purpose than tide wheel an increase of the pi pay of the common 2d, an nl increase fur each successive five can be in months at a cost uf to credit of so as he shall remain in the million The at Ut 1852 J I nt 1 present He the immediate 1 for the year of sis screw 1853: The fol is a summary statement of of the Office De- 30th 3d, provision lowest grades of d for the promotion to the j the New on thi officers of 1819, can be mado substitute army 113' muy be qualified for i putes uf same withdrawn us by character and services entitled I The old ship of the is heing bueh that every for the same No having been honorably dis- now carries more 10 but charged from the service of j should carry A gradual increase of the within one month I navy is warmly be entitled to two dollars per month in On account of the recent failures of tion to the ordinary of bis grade for the chin cry In steam he recommended first period of five years after the expiration J government machine instead of the of his and a further sura of one j contract Ue also discusses at length dollar per month for each successive period I the necessity of reorganizing the BO of live so long as he shall remain con- j that efficient officers will have a better chance in tbe Tbe Secretary ar- Under the present gues elaborately in tbe I fleers of many the the actual necessity of promotion by tin ie stocks since Total receipts in fiscal in- for two eluding the sum of drawn from the Treasury un- eers of many years service are deprived of by have been longer in such a lie recommends that the j the navy but have 5een less lie re- minimum organization companies be j commends an honorable discharge list of in- as in the mounted at C4 firm a total discharge of inefficient and that there be added to tbe and promotion according to not military establishment one regiment of j lie also recommends that For the goons and two companies of better securing of able a plan of re- which would give a minimum organization wards be and that they be more of and which may be ex- identified with the by continuing them if the limit fixed by tho of June on an discharge to be con- 7th, 1350, be and on a i a leave of absence on they re- of 123 privates per com- enlist within a specified instead of to thus providing for a state discharging them at the end of a or war Jin effective increase of from to 123000 men without the creation of new Gen. Scott recommends a larger The Secretary recommends tbat another company of sappers and miners be added to the engineer der acts of Congress in aid of the Post Total for tbe Expenditure for the have received the official record of the operations of Col. Walker's of the battle of La and tbe choice of a the new it is an- HEAD QUARTERS or THE OP LOWER 7, 1853. 5 On the morning of the 17th of sailed with the first independent Battalion for Lover Tho con- of forty-five Our voyage was ft prosperous one to St. we landed pa che 28th there wo gained some information of nnd proceeded on our way to Li On the 3d day of our vessel east anchor opposite the A party was ordered bv Col- to possession of the and seize tbe person of the tenant commanding the In lesa than thirty tbe town was taken and the Governor ed down the Mexican in front of the Governor's tbe j dence of Lower ami our pendent Sag but a that of Mexico had waved in supposed Our and munitions of war wore town Col- Walker upon his duties ax President vf the Republic of Lower such decrees n-s were most congenial to the as well to tbe security and comfort of his Here we remained until Nov. whun the President determined to remove tbe seat of Government to St. In cordance with bis embark ed. taking with us and tbe public Shortly after our a vessel came into having on board who was sent by the Government of Mexico to A small detachment was soon to bring Col- on board the This order ly About an hour after this a party was sent on shore to procure While in the act of returning to their they were fired upon by a large of thus commenced the first purty consisted of but six who ed to under a heavy fire of without losing a Meantime a fire opened upon the town with our which was kept up until Col. landed with his thirty when the fight became From the time of landing until the close of the signal defeat of the was about one and half Tho was six or seven killed and eral Our men did not so much as 15. The Steamer ho u Liverpool Dec. arrived The wng to in a day or two for news is no of had tuken the some severe ut Inland and at where the tire pretty In Asia the Turkish The Turks have captured tbe pirates und hive on a small scale on the Black A Turkish steimer has captured nnd .i has taken an steamer of 10 after a The There vas a report tho ileet intended to bombard f It is that Austria has proposed a new conference to be held at don or The Powers are favorable ry it and Russia Turkey wilt be invited 10 A from the Czar H The Turks after Urn of will seuc and the after the will the The to receive iur supplies the I us be dois wish tbe hostilities to be regarded a holy preparing at tiie in I The Servian government the that he given to the Russian The Port thinks that to in- although the maintain that VM hurt or currant but There is a report oT an Spain and oppressive A revolution is reported to huve out in Portugal in favor of Don not of large arrivals from of on the 1 at holders decline to Indian Corn derate at previous American aurf tuc of arel in the rear of the Thus ended the battle of La A YOUNG readers will ly all recollect the story of the Norwegian boy at nho was drowned bv some older boys because he to assist them j in robbing an Some of the papers whole number of j at now raise as to tho Indians within our limits is estimated at i of tbe and to account About yet linger in some for bis death in some other way than that of the States east of Mississippi It seems to such tbat ed to the present Such and being in editors A of North Mississippi and ral heroism exceeding that imputed to Knud The number in and along the occurred in frontiers of the comprising ma at of the ami related to us and any of our presided tit thu principally in New Michigan and j ism oE the kind the remainder consisting of j esist in the world at ti Leaving apparent balances to credit of ist 1853, From tbH should deducted the balances from late brought report of 1851-'52, Deduct amount paid Brit- ish Government on account of postage of previous properly chargeable to for last fiscal of expenditures ill uver the uf tho the ances on hand July 1, and the drawn from Treasury to supply deficiency of we find the cheap our efforts with relaxing of the not bf till Napoleon 01 to nor renown an samo ll u was by nil that uur ia m the Spanish anu of or Amanz as f ere j of thn The officers who compose the government re 33 THE lie Frederick John M. A. John Chapman John Samuel Secretary of Secretary of Major of Capt. of du. 2d creating an actual deficit in the of the of nearly The last cheap Postage Aec in an oft of 20 per which a million a The has coat ly moro the amount and the two thirds more than it on newspapers under last reduction fallen Western States to a little a year tne fuels of i. in inly is ea were established by judicial investigation the last enquired Judge i from the of his to do so. We re- The commercial the f and agricultural wealth of the republic of h f h men are all in fine health and are as noble and determined a bod ever collected of. 1 of the Mr. the w of the Duke ot Alba hns been in 19 therefore a judge of some contemptuous remark on the style of dress adopted by the wifa of tne of U appears that the ludy had adopted ft costume which la mode de in far that ic covered her person up to the whereas die fashion the Madrid damsels is to ex- hibit as of the graces conferred upon them by nature as como within the hounds of Our government has been formed upon n The remark of the Duke firm and sure The civil code and code Mary of Mr. of practice of Louisiana has been adopted on hearing the for the rule of decision in our and as the with whom be was and the civil law of tbe We arrived at up duLc informed him Cape Lucas on Nov. S. On unf and this the of tho 9th, the Mexican cutter Or with a Great Geneva cruised off the Our and Mr. ance was to formidable she deemed prudence took away the the better of heeled to and gave addressed a challenge to us the In the evening our troops again the which not yet been for where the tho duke it convenient to contemplated establishing the scat resent the whole aRii r as if of government for the if tho dress of the Minister's wife was not strictly in William T. A. John Captain of first Second the liy U. of president Ohio the cable oi The New leans and Ohi Louis it mi Orleans and rij h tve tuore of religion and a member of thu the eize of two plough furrows A two weeks A a hula older than and succeeded in this since we in some dis- the also into the pi on levol into due uf tlic large mounds on Soon after these children were installed h Iowa Farmer and of believed to have been their new the boy criminal of a ami probably con- conduct on purt of new mother which our com- to the little and it I in behalf of die proceeded to a further exploration of era the and whipping him at inter- the mound on a level with the first two till the blood ran on the back action It needed New Hampshire potash to unite the oil and water to form the soap of the present it has put a clean face on public while whiggery has been drowned in the Friend JOHNSON is blowing his Bugle at the democrats with commendable hope he may be successful in bis to have tba western portion of the State fully represented on the 9th of at Iowa have na doubt the democrats there are anxious to bo but the Unco is to that it ia almost like to Just think of nearly whole nnm i At nn had taken place nt ber of languages spoken in the world amount i to 3.UI54: vii 937 in but the the topic of iTum and in The nml the that inhabitants of our profess more than Wlls The number of men is about to the number of laid the preset than all about and to 1-y to ens ol the she in- tem co of hamun life w about 33 12. the in th. United States combine of about a denied to the i those who that age enjoy a felicity re- composed ot different Catholic human To bearing banners with appropriate only one reaches 100 excitement and of to 100 ooh six reach tho after the when tbe uf CO. by was are on the earth of his Mime stepped for- and uf these die and cigars into their ami every every every pushed the CO or one every bun for the These losses are about balanced by an on the number of The married ure longer the of M lived than the above all those who O'Connor a Inter from M observe a sober and industrious that been Tall men longer than short was about violated iaen have more chances of life in their by the firing of a ami vor previous to being 50 years of age than asking tbe to The Bishop but fewer replied that he bad no of The number of marriages is in proportion Mich which would Iw made of 175 to every riage are more frequent after the equinoxes eil in in he recognized during the months of June and the right of tbe movement for tho Those born in the spring are Ambassador of the head of the generally moro robust than Births and him of anil deaths are more frequent by night than gainst disorderly Tne Nuncio by Tho number of men capable of is still working or bearing ia calculated at YORK 14. the j Despatches from say that difficulty occurred between PROTECTING TREES FROM MICK AND and Secretary writer in a former number of the 1S apprehended will result m a recommends wrapping paper around KEW D U- the bodies of young fruit 0 prevent p v the depredations of mice and In- I A h fa proclaimed for ttn stead have used British the transmission of and prevent does not commence with tha It begins with a mother's with a father's nod of or asign of a gentle pressure of the or a brother's noble act of for- with handfuls of Dowers in green nnd daisy bird's ad- mired but not creeping and almost imperceptible humming birds and glass pleasant walks in shady with the thought directed in sweet and kindly and words to mature the acts of to deeds of and sense of all to God The Boston Transcript says that a plan for enlarging the by annexing all the towns within five miles and thus make it equal in size and population to the third city in the United will be presented for the early consideration of the next Legislature of Mass. The consolidated city would he entitled to one hundred 300 Late advices from tbe island of Mauritius announced that the sugar crop had been found to reach the unprecedented amount of 90.000 one ton for every A new copper mine has discovered at the but nothing is said concerning its or In the at the bottom of the was a flat stone of about twenty by heroism and of martyrdom will have p inches in This there were when mothers cease to instil holy precepts As of the papers three in and under the last were char into the minds of their infant a statement tbat Emperor coal and i Tbe man anil woman who martyred this an- i gel child are now in the penitentiary at A man presented himself at the to which they were sentenced for ville penitentiary on and asked to in and be put to he owed tate five years Da was convicted at The extensive improvements which hare a recent term of tho Circuit htld at been in progress at the White House fer of and veral are now nearly On afterwards broke A been the first of offered for his bathe baffled all Iy decorated a He presented himself tho first to fill tbe sentence of the gular instance Dem. is anxious for the introduction of re- ligious books and papers into the that he has given orders that henceforward shall be charged upon or Protestant religious tracts or or other An exchange says that down in New A the first of it is the j leans it requires three persons to start a for his bathe baffled all Iy decorated apartments will be opened to dis irith the yellow one to get killed in a and the third to wind up the gular instance Dan. The local Editor of the Cincinnati gravely remarks that the Siamese The Middletown aays that u The postal treaty lately made with Twins appear to be as much to community has been visited by a extend sufficiently a second or third en is now extended so aa to embrace each other as disease which baffles the medical ia that of appearing to bo 12... The postage on letters from the United States any part of tbo Austrian dominions The man who was charged with whole families becoming afflicted will be 15 ty has been I with it
