The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1848-12-13

4 Chain6er, this 2niorninSt advanced TO Mr. But.
ter and offered hs hand, which was cordially
accepted. II presume .lis was done through,
pFetconcerI AT all events it restores the
iorIher personal relations of the parties;
q ihere Is a prospect of; happy termination
of The slavery question, as-to The territories;
at this session. think :lle northern and
southern democratic Senators will be able TO
agree upon compromise. which has already
been brought forward. & The project ia one
which suggested some DAYS apo, to wit to
admit California at once, as a State, into the
| Union. 90, - i''''e : ''o
Mr.. Douglass, as the chairman of the com.
mittee on territoris, gave notice OF The hill to-
uay. California. will come intothe Union at
the next session. if. the prelimnaries Should
all 6o settled at this session. She will, no
doubt IN the course OF three or four mouths,
have one or two hundred thousand entcrprs
ing and intelligent free white American citi-
Zens. MIR. Calhoun has not arrived, but il is
believed that lie will assent to this mode of
a Justing the question.
AIR Galhnnn's alternative to snme adjust.
Sment will he Southern Coryentinl, to pro.
Pose Tor Withdrawal ofihe Southern States.
~ a body, from the Cnion, upon the passage
ofany lazy restricting slavery in tlle tJpo6'
AZ to New hiexico. there will he no trou-
pie, hecuse The terms on which Texas was
admitted will be extended TO her. ION.
Cass' official majority over Taylor in Ohio,
IS i,o2, exclusive OF Po,towatom.c county.
winch gave Taylor 4S3 najor,y. The vote
ior Van Blren was I.lO1.
Il. Islegraphed. .tor the Baltimore Sun.
New YoRK, De-. 4-i D. m.
AsToR Housg on F1RE-Qu,cx p,s-
Saga fire broke ont a. 5 o'c;oak this
morning IN the third story OF the As,or
tfosiac. The ROOT and sou h en.l OF the build.
ing were IN Times and considerable tIain,ue
done before the fire cou'd be eytppu:shej
Ihe hoardors were mach alarm ID, and many
ot them ran into thc street
The GOLD REGION .--Leitcr from ID
bashmorean--Fe give some cSlcntIoJ
extracts IN our columns to-day, relative II,
The gold region of CuItnrnin, whi.I, ii
attracting grpnt attention ,hronahnu, ,heS
country. We have also been favored
with the pcrusul ofn letter from young
Rn','morcan, dated San Francisco, Sept.
I'd. Hrsnys:
'.fhe gold fever is still raging here
with oil lis violence, and 10 som- purpose
fiow It would nslonish you To srs the i'm.
mcnse quantities that have been brought
10 This place from ll,c Sacramento by The |
minors have seen it wasted by The |
I've and ten dollars worth in wciaI,ipn--
they don't seem 10 know the value off.
II can be bongh, far eigh, dollars per |
ounce, which is worth seventeen doIiurs |
in the Sn,cs, Star, all the Young men
from Baltimore thu, ure. unempiovJ.
he sD mo fpStoe MO r. >
vnl OF MIR. Wrlhcred, of Ralmor,, will
a large stock ofgoods, on which he wns
making immense profits. [Bal1. Sun.
COMPETITION IN RICE PLANTING. MIR.
Walsh, writing from pnr,s to I.i,lcll's Liy.
adequate capital the delta. in less than len
my age. thus speaks Of lhe cultivation of
lice nj the Delta Of the Rhonr:
"An interesting pamphlcl, with anihen.
tic details, hns Just been issued on he
of the 'Iel,n ofihe Rhone, ex.
tending from Tnrascon to,he .Med,erra-
uean SEA, and embracing surface of
moro than hundred thousand hectares.
4 .hcclarn' is about Il hundred acres !
lhls year thousand ,hcctarcs' have
yielded tonr millions pounds OF rice and
occupied fifteen hundred laborers. The
pamphlet says, that ifihe proprie,ors had
years, would have fifty thousand hec.
ares in rice, yielding Two Hundred mill.
ons pounds; and, with the aid Of the GOV.
'rnmcnt would supply enough 10 feed
welve hundred and fifty thousand indi.
'idua's. The government is peiiloncd 10
appropriate five millions Of francs 10 tho
'bl'cf. The Carolina planters have some
ifion Ga = |