The Banner, 1846-07-01

1?? \.v^n iiiu vsti2*i/iuii aim ui?iv. iw ouiis, j On the other side the Ceolera broke out ! unexpectedly at Orenburg, in the mines | of the Ural mountains; it crossed the Volga, and set its loot in Kurope. at Casan, only 2,001) kilometers from rft. Petersburg. Li' the accounts wo have received arc exact, it has taken a most irregular direction. It has advanced from west to north, and does not seem to have followed the banks of the river, as in 1828 and 1832. From the Rio Grande, June 1 si. The editor has not room for much either of preface or apology for his prosent enterprise. To chroniclc Camp anecdotes and ribald jests or fill his little sheet with odd advertisements ior pecuniary profit, would be an uncongenial task. He had a higher aim, which speaks for itself in his leading article of to-day's paper. The avocation is new to him, and was prompted only by a desire to promote the mutual interests of the two countries, now so needlessly warring in unequal combat. His first nKlirrnt!Ano ??ro /Ino t/\ lnc n?if I

parimenis mis year, oniy leit a surplus of seven hundred seventy-six thousand of which seven hundred thousand was received from China. The Paris paper La Presse, of Monday, reached our oflice last night, which announces that orders had been sent by the Minister of Marine to Urest, and the other military harbors, to despatch a number of ships to the Gulf of Mexico, lu reinforce the squadron stationed there, in cousequcnce of the war between the United States and Mexico. The Overland mail of May 1st reached London yesterday. It possesses no political, anil little commercial interest The seeds of another contest in the Sikh country were sown at the termination of the late war. Portugal has been the scene of another attempt at revolution, consequent ; upon a change of the ministry It ap- I pears that for the Portuguese it would ' have been a more than ordinary euergo- j *!/? n I

race that bases freedom upon knowledge j ?that breaks down the barriers of rank i and privilege, and elevates the whole mass of its pe?>j>le in the moral and physical scale, with the lever of universal intelligence. It is a rare spectacle in the world's long history, to a nation, forced into war by continued aggressions, by repeated and systematic spoliation upon the pro perty and rights of her citizens, and in contemptuous disregard of national cour! tesy, 'every species of insult publicly, j heaped upon her Minister; and at the! | same time the actual hostilities preceded ! by tiie brutal murder of peaceable fanii- j [ lies?their wives and daughters first vio- j latcd before their eyes, and then butch- : ered in one common pile?it is rare, we repeat, to find examples in history, i \vhpvr> ni\'?vr?<rntums so nirruMmia hsur#* '

viiaujju aim iici ill ici aiivu wiui jji trjiu I iitiou. Can this people ever be subdued by a foreign power? Millions ol hearts uniting in one great America, respond ?millions of hands point to the stars and stripes and proclaim with more power than words, " they shall float there forever!" America stands alone upon the Globe, the greatest, the most liberal, the most magnanimous of nations? Her noble institutions are the pride and the glory of her people?her strength is in the sinews of freeman whose allegiance is love. Whatever of discontent, whatever of local discord or political strife arise in times of peace, the first footfali of the invader is the signal fur general and indivisible union. The native born and the exile, the believers in all creeds, the members of all parties, forgetting alike birth, prejudice and preference, fly to

to the other?the shouts of victory that went up from our little army on tha9th of May, have been responded to in every valley, on every mountain top in the ocean-bound Republic. Millions of voices have echoed the electric word, and millions of strong arms are uplifted to perpetuate it. Are there croakers among us who would detract i rom our joy and hush, our voices by pointing towards the white cliffs of Albion the trembling finger of tear??let them rise up from out the ignominy of coward selfishness, and take a bird:s eye view of the scene which is before them. Look abroad over the land! Look at Louisiana, at Alabama, at Missouri, and at Kentucky, Mississippi, Texas, Georgia, Virginia, the Carolinas. Ohio, Maryland, New York, and to the far eastern border. Look at our own old Keystone! and behold city. ...n i i ,i?. ?i: :*!,

v^mw WV.>1U1. II lull ?l 31JUI1IUU spectacle does this ??rent Union present ;it the present crisis! What a glorious tableau for the eyes of our brother patriots in the old world! A nation of merchants, of artisans, of agriculturists, of men of peace and industrial habits, has been transformed into a nation of warriors at the signal of war. The heart of the American leaps at the sight. The soul expands with high and holy aspirations at the thought. The sneers and menaces of kings full alike before the uprising of a free and determined people. Wherever we turn, the most gratifying assurances of patriotic love of country meet our view. From the Rio Grande to the waters of the Aroostook we behold the same exhibition of devotion to our country. Cannon answers cannon 'rom one extreme of the Union

battle! Need I exhort you to fight the good fight, to fight tor your wives and children 'I My Iriends, 1 might urge you to fight by tho gulling memories of the British wrongs. Walton?I might tell you of your father butchered on the plains of Trenton ; I might picture his grey hairs dabbled in blood; I might ring his death shriek in your cars Shelmirc? I might tell you of a butchcd mother, and a sister outraged ; the lonely farmhouse, the night assault, the roof in flames, the shouts of the troopers as they despatched their victims, the cries for mercy and the pleadings of innocence for pity, I might paint this all again, in 1 the vivid colors of the terrible reality, if I thought your courage needed such wild excitement. But I know you are strong in the might of the Lord. You will march

It .71111111 LI I I Willi II IC I l ilt UUVfl^ill Vj M. (ju.zo!, in which the culm philosophy of the lirst .Minister was more than a match lor the fiery little historian of the Consulate. j The commercial treaty between Prus- ! sia and Turkey, which has been so j long >n preparation, was signed on the; :JUth of April. Tiie Ghoi.kha.?We have already i stated that the Cholera had made its ap- | pearance in some of tiio provinces of! Persia, carrying deatli into the principal j towns. It has spread from Bukhara to i I lerat and Mesliio. and has now taken) the direction from the Caspian Sea to Teheran and Ispahan. Late accounts from Odessa state that it had crossed the Russian territory and iipj^fcjed sudden- ' ly at Till is, taking a nortl^^ly direction iwtt ?lw\ i.m.?-.%! ~ '