The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1849-06-20
News the Mails


81 be steamship isabel, arrived on Mon
day week from sHnfai,a sfte a passage 6f Jtor-S
sty-one hours to Sasannsls. She brought no
3ns:ys of9inlport anse
rllo Sugar Refinery of Harris and
Ocherhaiserat m. Y. was consumed ;on the
night Of the 18th inst. The lossis estimated
at sS5Cl0, OF. which, one half was insured.
Ninety q 'hhoasanfl Land II IFarfaatsih have
been issued 10 soldiers who served in tic
Mesicail siyar giving saWay 10 them us q
bounty u 8, 500 900 & ncres Estimating
the value of5tIiis5 lnnd nj - i ,25 J. an acre,
we have nll ag.g y.s rc:g,alc g of s 7,230, 900.
& The ex ports of ice from Boston last
month !wero a, g 90 fons-- -sinaking SO, $50
tons since January i |, and being nm in,
icrease of ,234 tors on last year. 4
Nnmber'o 'of, crnigf rants arrived d. Boston
week before last / ,295.
sss$' ii ilp sttockts of Massac chusetis stand
higherin London than those Of Newly ork.
@s ,Theresar 3, 500 applicants for plnces
lin the New York custom House &
The NEW-O ORLEANS FoRGERY Case
The examination Of Mle. GaLLoT, alias
Miss ELISE CLEMENT, charged with for
ging the name of Mr.. A. NiicHAUD to a
note of $4,000, the particulars OF which
were published al The time of the discoy-
cry of the fraud, took place nj New. Or.
leans on the 4tf, inst. The lady was
committed for trial before tho First Dis.
trict Court. ss 81 e VI fIs
Successor TO LORI, ELGIN.
Kingston Journal mentions d rnnior that
Sir CHARLES GREY is 10 succeed s Lord
ELGrN in the Government Of Canada, and
be succeeded in Jamaica by Lord IIAR-
RIs, now4of Trinidad.
The Arkansas Intelligencer ofthe 9Th
ult.dells an cxtraordinarySfale concern.
ing q new gold '.placerY in that Slate,
nenr the ARKANSAS river which wass first
discovered some twnnty years ago, and
the extreme richness Of which has but
now been disclosed. Mining parties have
already fitted ouf, full Of hopes of success
the particulars Of which we viii notice
when theproper PROFITS presented.
CossoLAToRY TT he ST. Louis papers
estimates The lossFto their city By the late
fire at million f.dollarrs only, and cIo:n
thatth loss will be a gain, because the
city will he improved in such % ii manner
MS to more fllan overcome this loss BY the; s
incrcased5ralue ofproperty, houses. &c.
HoRRIBLE CHARGE.R Rornell Leathers
has been arrested at Wnrren, N. III. on [.
suspicion OF causing the deaibS OF hiswifc,t
ny burning the house in. which she was
sleeping. She was blind and insane.
TllE Russ PAvEsrBsT, III New. York,
is lo be adopted in 1.-the principal thor
oughfares. Il hns been found 10 be the
most economical as well as The hest meth.
od of street paving now LIN use They
have. several. squaresin Philadelphia paY.;
ed in nearly the same lyle.
SaooKISG ACCIDENT IA boy eight or
nine yenrs old, in the Richmond S(Va.lf5
tfooicn Factory, had his right arm first
crushed 10 The shoulder and then torn en-
tirely from his body, by being drawn into
the machinery by rope he was. nnischiey-
ousiy throwing over n band wheel.
The foreman OF the machine shop of
the Harlem Company has also made
grcnt improvement in Oil Boxes, by
which the cnrs have been run s, 800 miles
during % days, with d consumption Of
only halfa pint Of oil 10 each box.
EAST TENNESSEE AND GEnRGrA r a ~
RoAD.----'Ehe Dalton Eagle, of the sill, in in
stant says: "We are al length authoriis. I
Cd to announce the gratifying fac, that
this Rond will connect wiilliha State Road
at this place, and ihat the ceremony of!
breaking ground within the city limits
will be celebrated b.; the inhabitants and
city authorities, in a manner manifss:irss
the interest felt by the people of Dalton,
in this important measure. IS.
A MILL AT WORK. ON .1Ir Irs owN s1oox.
The partial alarm of fire Yesterday
morning originated near tho CITY Mills.
BY some means during the previous night
in the absence ofthc workmen. the mill
machinery was SET in motion and PLAYED Z
out 'he tide on its own hook. The! fire
was occasioned by friction, and 5was dis.
covered in season 10 prevent any tlamare
OF much Consequences Salem Register.
4th inst. s. ia 7 4
APPEARANCE OF 1.ocUsrs. Tho Pills.
burg Post says that the fourteen wears ID.
Gusts have made their appearance in The
neighborhood in great swarms. Tbev
can be gathered Off the ground, inEthe ga
dens, bytlic handful. %}S.!Si
DEAD.--Wc learn that Stroud and
Taylor, mentioned in our last, The former
as being stabbed and tho latter Shot. have
both since died Of their wounds. Wo
learn TINT Tayior.w shot in Richmond
county, N. C.,5and not in Marlboro. ns
before s'nted. - Chcraw Gazette, l2th inst.