The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1847-09-08
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appearance of the potato disease in that
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REPEAL ASSOCIATIONS usual week.
ymeetlng of this body took place on Mon
lay: MIR: saml Murray. the defeated
candidate for Drogheda, presided. He eu-
logised the late Mr.. OConneal, and express
cd his determination to present petition
against the return Of Sir VIM. Somerville.
Yhe meeting was addressed by MIR. Rey
nolds, the Repeal member for Dublin, who
declared himself the representivc of all
classes. MIR. John O'Connell, in the course
OF his Speech stated that the Repeal cause.
had done we'll at the Irish clec,Ions;;stbey
b had five important commercial 4eitiess " re-
present repeal. Hc declaredslthat he had
used oil influence to ropsts Mr.. She'll from
/ Dungarvon ;Sand ~alfuding to his own re-
turn for Limerick and Kilkenny, implored
his friends In each place to meet, and de-
eide which of the towns he should sit for.
he rentWas announced 10 be EGO.
MONUMENT TO O'CoNNELL.-There was
ameeting in Dublin on Friday, at which
the Lord Mayor presided, the purpose of
which was to commemorate, by a suitable
monument or other testimonial, the services
and memory of Mr.: O'Conncll A commit
lee was appointed and arrangements made
tocommence and carry out scheme; and
it was detcrminedto organize simultaneous
subscriptions, on the plan and according to
the machinery of the collections made for
the O'Conneil Tribute. The contribution
ofindividuals is limited to f5, but parties
wishing to contribute more are invited to
do so, either in the names of members of
their families or in their own, as second,
third, &c. subscriptions. A considerable
5 amount was contributed at the meeting, and
vigorous steps are being taken to prepare
for the general national contribution. tits
expected that the amount realized will be
from $4,000 TO e5O,O0O. The nature of
the testimonials is not decided
FRANCE.
There has lately been discovered near
Sceaux, in the Loirct, large stone jar of
rude workmanship, containing 600 Roman
coins. The jar is about l6 in height and
inches in diameter. 1t was found in
y species of chamber, about two yards square,
the walls of which were coated with a &C.
ment of extraordinary polish. 1t was at the
same time enclosed in a niche which had
only one opening of sufficient size to admit
mans hand to drop in the com. isbe-
Iieved to have been the secret treasure of
some economical GaiIi-Roman.
The Moniteur Industriel states that the
losses by railway speculations on the Paris
Bourse, between the month of October,
Is45, and the end of July, l847, amounted
to the enormous sum of 485,OO0,O00f
RUSSIA. 5@;ss
The Cholera is making such ravages in
the Russian army in the Caucasus that
nearly third Of the soldiers are said to be
sick in the hospitals, and some regiments
quartered in the lowlands have lost from
fifty 10 hundred men IN q single day.
The Circassians ara said to have cut off
the ears Of Russian General whom they
had taken prisoner, and. to have sent them
aprcscnt to Count Woronzow, the Russian
Commander-in-C Chief
RUMoRED Coup D'ETAr AT ST.. PETERS
BURG.-A letter from Warsaw, in the Co.
logne Gazette of the 9th says: @Some,hing
extraordinary in its preparation at ST. Pc
terburg-perhaps it is a coup detat. AL
though the foreign journals make us laugh
when they talk Of the abdication of an illus
trlous parsonage, it is certain that all the
Russian diplomatists abroad: of the highest
rank, are ordered to come to ST. Petersburg
inthe course Of the next month,-and this
certainly merits some attention. A Vice
Royalty for the Grand Duke Michael or
Constantine is much talked of, but this is
mere rumor. The best informed persons
holdsout that it is in contemplation to incor-
4 porate Poland with Russia, and this appears
to be highly probable In fact, the pure
Russian party, which hates the very name
I OF POLAND, and has at its head the Minister
s Iaschkou, has now the direction of affairs.
s$ The German party has no longer any influ-
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sgs We have time and again battled against