The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1849-05-16

lstaaiilsbSS LOOK thes escnipfQIprn " e5cape pain.
land mover recoyered from it's influence. VI
Two DrrfIcUL TIES, There arc two d;ffi-S
Icalsies IN; life: men are disposed I 10 spend
more he e and 20 indulge
more that they can endure, 8
Pleasure should be- intermediate between
lfrugality and festiyity /; or be like Venus piac.
ed between Ceres and Bacciius. ss. ss5i Ss
a bold robbery was psrlpetrated III the
| MERCHANTS Bank, In the city of New York,
| on Friday the 4th inst, by the abstraction Of
three thousand seven hundred dollars from
1 the counter.
lMMrGRATIoN,.-Thec current of Immigration
from Europe appears to suffer no ebb--
York during the month Of April. l,i90 ar.
rived OH Tuesday last.
GT The Royal Mail steam. packet Euro.
pa, took her departure from New YORK for
Liverpool, at the usual hour, on "Wednesday
last, She has on board a hundred and fwef.
/ iy-hve passengers, among whom are Bsr.
Hannegan, u g. Minister to Prussia, and
his secretary, Mr.. Cot.
Gr Ex- Governor William. r. ..
Delaware, died suddenly on the 27th April.
Ur$ The New York Tribune slearns that
)r.yI. ID. Foose, Editor Of the Buffalo Con-
iHercial Advertiser has dacided 10 accept the
mission mi n of Charge to Bogota.
% Upwards of 1000 persons from The
United States for California were at Rio de
Janeiro 25th March. The u. s. brig Per-
ry and U. 8. revenue schooner Ewing, sail
Ga from Rio for California previous 70 that
VI The U: 8. flag ship Raritan, Captain
6en. Page, bearing the broad pennant Of
Commodore +. "A. Parker sailed from New
York on Tuesday, for. the West Indies.
INGEnIous FBAUD-Sorne oil cakes finn
Holland were examined recently at the Lon.
! don Custom House, which proved to BIZ. sra,sF:
as there were sixty tons, and as the duty On
snuffis now SIX shillings sterling per pound.
the government would have been deffa,,dni
to the amount of Gao, 900.
The Flood of Immigrants continues. and
Baltimore is already coming in for her share.
6U0 having arrived on Thursday. There
were .5l square rugged vessels arrived al
New-York on Thursday, and son board Of
them were 1887 passengers from E,ropean
ports. More than 23,O0O alien passengers
have arrived ut Boston during the mast eioht
days, and about 80, 600 at New York sisce
April I'd. Stt,l
The Pnssian government has forbidden its
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large quantities, unless the medical men pre-
scribing notice the fact, aud certify to its me
cessIty The new Pharn,acopeia DC Prussia
prescrbes what arc called maximum, doses.
One Master Stafford. IL Ros.
ton, in his 18th year, an,nses his, laisnre
hours by computing the elliptic elements Of
comets IN which he is astcnshingly accurate.
The Charleston Mercury says. HEaar
the Olympic and Burton's Theatres New
York, died in that city on Thursday afternoon
last ey \, sSE
We understand that John Bishop, tho
connterfeiter, who escaped from the Sheriff
OF p.ckens, at the time VIM. Young was ar
rested, has succeeded in getting out Of the
District After wandering about for several
days he made his ways TO the Keowee river,
near the mountains, and there stole horse
and fed to the upper edge of GreenyilIe Dis
trct- Although closely pursued he managed
to keep those that followed him at a distance,
BY exhibiting occasionally his pistols. The
stolen horse was found near theTesidence.s
one t;haney Stroud in The upper edge M
Greenville, from which place no trace Of
Bishop could afterwards be discovered. &;
a. Peadieton Messenger
In The Court of Oyer and 5Termi,,er, in
New York, on Saturday last, Alexander
Jones, anegro who had been found guilty.
ofsetiing fire to a adwelling house in The
night, twas sentenced to be hung on: The
22d Of June next.
CHLoRo he Cincinnati Gazette
contradicis the statemen; of the Atlas that
q young man named George, hud died in
that city while undergoing an operation
under the influence of chloroforrm. No
ch,oroiorm was used in the case.
The STEAMER UNITED ,STArEs, recent
ly purchased by the Prussian government,
will soon be ready for sea. The employ.
ment Of the United States naval construc.
tors in fitting her fora war vessel, caused
asemonstrance a 70 be made by the Ger.
man States with whom Prussia is al war.
and the work was emporarily suspended.
Private citizens, the Sun says, now have
charge ofthe work, and The alienation
will be completed within Two weeks.-N
Y. Express.
PLANK RoADs.--M. ID. Coddinp, of
Rochester, has made an improvement in
the construction Of plank roads which
appears 10 ba worthy of consideration.
II is arranged so that the wheels run
lenglhwise Of tho timber, which renders
i much easier for the team, while The
horse track il crosswise. 'Fhe horse track
will be worn sooner Than the wheel track,
and can be renewed without A. anrbing
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