The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1849-01-17
RUSSIAN FIRE DEPARTMENr.-A letter re
ceived in Portland, Me. from Constradt,

RUSSIAN FIRE DEPARTMENT.-A letter re
ceived in Portland, Me. from Constradt,
says:
II saw here what a Georgian would call
smart Saanco for fire, and the way they
managed it may be of service to YOU Port.
LADDERS. Tho fires here aro u,anared .bv.tho
police OK intended to be. In this casa d fires
s,s in ~ a;,ss s,,sSs
slsa:l @ Tic tthr ciI.
nss 10 the FIRE tlio said horses i,e: :,,u o,ij.
city grazing about mile distant By tho
time horses and engines were brought, the
fire had made decent progress, but not SO
much then, but that your fire department
could have cxtinguished it in forty-five min
utes at most. by this time cooked h It's, gold
lace, and all sorts of military gentlemen were
about, all giving orders, and no one to work.
at last saw ono engine worked by seven
Nusslan soldiers, equal to about three Yam
kees. And tho old Portland and Viglant
were in comparison to these, what your first
class engines arc to them. Certainly two of
these stationed before bakers oven, work
ing with all the power possible for poor Rus
SANS to put on, would not be the least impcd-
lment to its heating. The consequence was,
with all the noise, disorder and msmauapc-
ment, tho fire burnt out instead of being nut
out, destroying about forty buildings, when
but one, if that, should have been burned.
The manner i'll which these powerful engines
were supplied, was by horse and cart with
cask, containing about one hundred and
1orty gallons, and it appeared to me one horse
and cart tended each engine, and then wen.
Tor another caskfull, and so on"
A new kind Of Life -Prescrver has been
Drought forward i'll Now York, the invent
ors OF which claim for it the following ad.
vantages:
"A person wearing one of these life pre-
servers can carry from fifty to one hundred
pounds, IN addition to their person, and float
1otlr persons III the water, without sinking,
and can take no position except with the
lead and shoulders entirely above the wa
ter.
"rho entire person, save the face, is en-
closed by an lndia-rubbcr dress, parts of
which are inflated, enabling the wcarcr to
float in an erect, or sleep in reclining pos
tire or with paddles which arc attached,
propel himself at the rate of three miles an
hour. His person is kept entirely dry, and
the heat of his body so retained that he is
warm and comfortable, when floating OH the
water in cold weather"
DEFAMATION OF THE SOUTH. r.
5. Cooke, of New York, lately said that
III ~ cstc'H virginia mere was no bookstore
no Church, and no scliooihousc; that this
territory furnished large numbers Of per.
sons yearly, who cmigratc to the west,
and whose ignorance and impiely arc TO
bear directly upon the whole country.
The Richmond Southerner fixes the
the brand of faschood upon the wholesale
defamer. 1t says:
"ihcre are over three hundred Church.
es in Western Virginia, somo two hun.
dred and fifty Sabbath Schools, two Collie.
gcs, besides Academies and High Schools
The statement that the people of western
Virginia are moving off to tho Western
States in largo numbers is without the
least shadow Of truth. A heavy emigra.
ton is pouring into TINT part Of Virginia
from the North and South. The charge
that there nre no bookstores or school hou.
SOS is a malicious libel on the people of
Western Virginia. This Rev. Mr.. Cooke
must be reckless parson, or he wanted
10 see TO what extent he could gull his
bearers. This paragraph has been going