The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1847-04-07

self sued for divorce, on the ground of
adultary, and obtained it. The gentlemen
who had promised to marry her, now re-
fused to perform that promise. which had
such an effect on the mind Of the lady
that she Immediately lost her senses, and has
ever since been confined in lunatic assy-
lum. She is now rs years of age, and it is
stated that she has entirely recovered the
use of her reason. A petition was brought
before the Lord Chancellor, on Friday, to
supersede the commission, which was issued
in 1920. Several medical gentlemen tes-
tilted that she was entirely restored to rea-
son. The Lord Chancellor decided that
the petition should stand over and that Lady
Stair should appear before the master by
her solicitor
PERsEvERE.-An eastern paper, in an ar
ticle on the subject of perseverance and in
dustry says:
A few years ago Simon Cameron, Lu-
ther Severance, Horace Greely and James
Harper were bringing water by the pail-ful
to wash type in printing Office; they were
knocked about by the older boys. But they
did not sit down and weep, and declare they
would run away from their employers. No
they stuck to the trade year after year,
. till they became of age. Where are they
now? Cameron is in the u. S. Senate, Sew
erance is in Congress, Greely is editor of
the New York Tribune one Of the leading
political papers of the day, and Harper is
at the head of the largest publishing estab-
lishment in America, and was elected May
or Of the city of New York one year ago by
an overwhelming majority. So much for
energv and industry.
VALUE OF LINE OF MAIL STEAMERS IN
THE GULF OF MEX1co-The British mail
steamer takes letters from Vera Cruz alone
to the amount of six thousand dollars a
month, and the passage from Vera Cruz to
England is $500. The passage to England
would be made by way OF New York and
Boston in about half the time, and for little
more than half the money required by the
British steamers, if we had mail line from
either of these cities to the Gulf A line to
Vera Cruz, touching at Havana, the Balize,
(for coal, etc. and Tampico, will when those
ports are freely and permanently open, sup
plant the British line entirely
CAPT. K1DD's TREASURE FouND!-The
Newark Advertiser says. that letter from
Mr.. J. Bradley at Caldwells Landing on
the North River, announces that the long
continued search with the diving bell, was
renewed last week, about 100 yards south
of the Golfer dam, and that in the course of
two days cup and Id bars of silver, and
box containing antique jewels, set with dia-
monds and other precious stones were fshed
up from the wreck of Kidd's vessel The
whole valued at over $4,000.
SAN JUANDULLoA-The Savannah Re-
publican is specializing on the subject of the
manner in which the Castle at Vera Cruz
is to be. taken, and remarks that the walls
are so far from the shore that the effects
Of ordinary preaching batteries would be
quite euncertaln.-Thc editor, how vcver, very
partly composd of soft porous stone, into
which round shot will sink to consider
able distance without causing the surface to
crumble, the hollow Paixhan shot would
produce decided impression by burying
themselves and then exploding.
After all it IS probable that another me-
thod spoken of by the Republican, that of
escalade from heavy boats, has already been
adopted. Sailors are the best men in the
world at thing of this kind, and we should
not be surprised to hear by our next advices
thatthe castle has been "caried by boarding"
by our intrepid tars.-Char. Eue News.
SHIPMENT OF BREADsTUFFs TO EURorE-
The New York Commercial states that
there have left the port of New York since
January lst, and to the Goth March, for ports
in England, Ireland and Scotland, fifty-five
ships, sixty.three barques, sixty eight briggs
and five sckooners, all freighted with -four,
grain, meal, &c, and from Norfolk, Balti-
more, Philadelphia and Boston, during the
same time, more than one hundred and fifty
square rigged vessels have left with like
cargoes for Europe. There are at the pre-
sent time more than eighty large class YES
sells loading at the latter places with grain,
SC. The London and Liverpool packet
ships are not included in the above state
ment