The banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1844-1847, 1846-10-07

cratic candidate for the Legislature of
this State, addressing the people in one
ofthe upper parishes, was very particu-
lar in impressing upon them his great
love for poor folks. When he had fin
ished, his Wing opponent rising to reply,
said that the Democrat had taken all his
: thunder from hlm-that he was emphat-
ically the poor mans friend couldn't
be otherwise-that he came from the
poorest State in the Union, North Caro-.
lina-that he came from the poorest
county in that State Buncornbe, and
from the poorest part of that county
that he was the poorest man in that
county, except his father, who was too
poor to have grandfather-that he was
so poor that even that county was not
poor enough for him, and that he obtain
ed the poorest horse in that poor county,
and started to find a poorer county; and
fellow citizens, said he, have travelled
until arrived here, and you will all ad-
NIT that this IS the poorest parish, in
the State, and here shall remain until
hear of a poorer.-N q. I&opic
The CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE DIS
covERED.-The Cincinnati Atlas states
that it has received German Journal,
published by Professor Schumacher an
nouncing that DR.. Maedler, director of
the Dorpat Observatory, Russia, has
made the extraordinary discovery of the
grand central Star or Sun, about which
the universe of stars is revolving. This
discovery he annouces in the following
language:-
6 therefore pronounce the Pleiades
to be the central group of that mass OF
fixed stars limited by stratum composing
the Milky Way, and Aleyene as the
individual star of this group which
among all others combines the greatest
probability Of being the true Central
Sun"
By train of reasoning which shall
not attempt to explain, he finds the pro-
able parralax of this great central star
to be six thousands of one second of an
arc. and its distance to be thirty-four
millions of times the distance of the sun,
or so remote that light, with a velocity
of twelve millions of miles per minute,
requires period of five hundred and
thirty-seven years, to pass from the
great centre to our sun.
The Pawnee Indians have robbed the
St. Louis Fur Company of 14O packs of
robes, being one half of the entire pro.
duce oftheir labors for the present year.
A DEAD ScENE.-A correspondent
of the Newark Advertiser, writing
from Bergan Hill, says :-"The
argument of the Attorney General,
in the case of Spencer has this
moment been suspended by a me-
lancholy scene in the Court Room.
Smith Scudder, Esq, Of Elizabeth
town, and an old and honorable
member of the New Jersey Bar,
<the father of the District Attorney
now engaged in the trial Of Spen-
cer) took his seat Immediately be-
hind the clerks table. and his head
was soon after noticed to hang
back, his wig falling off, and a
mist apparently covered his eyes.
He was Immediately stretched out
upon the floor, when Dr. Il. B.
Gautier, of Jersey city, pronounced
him dead from congestion Of the
brain within five minutes from the
time he was first noticed"
The deepest Artesian we'll in
Europe, is in the Duchy of Luxem-
berg. Its present depth is 1886
feet, nearly 964 feet more than
that of la Grenelle, near Paris.
It is said that this immense work
has been undertaken for working
a large stratum of rock salt.
MALLEABLE GLAss.-A foreign
paper speaks of a marvellous in