The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1849-05-09

the death of Silas Warren, reyolutionarv
soldier, aged ,li,ety.fre years. ssFor sereaiu.,
seren scars he had been regular subscriber
orihe Spy! ssS s4s
VIRGINIA "A ELEorloS--T6a wings have
elected but two members in Virginia 10 tlir-.
teen Democrats. Wings are said to have
gained five members of LEGISLATURE. & q
ILLINOIS U. s. SENAToR.-The st. Lou
is Republican says that Gov. French has
come to the conclusion thathe does not nos.
sess under the Constitution the power to ap-
point Senator 10 fill the place to which
General Shields was elected last winter, and
which he did fill for several days before his
inelgibility was determined by the Senate.
II this be So there must necessarily be a
called session of the Legislature.
AMUSING INcIDENr.--On Sunday last,
several ladies in company with gentlemen en-
tered one of the Baltimore churches; as the
heat was excessive, and they were without
fang, gentleman in the choir noticing it,
called the sexton, and giving him couple of
fans, told him to hand them to the gentleman
at The head of tho pow for the ladies, and af-
ter service to bring them up--meaning the
fans Instead of the fans, he sent the stran-
gers up. 4. il s5
AsTosIsHINe..---A lady residing at Harris
burgh, Pa. on the 23d instant, was obliging
enough to give birth to fire boys, all Of whom,
the Philadelphia Ledger says, ..are alive and
doing well" What makes the case singular
or rather plural, is that she produced twins
on ore occasion, and a. trio on another, ma
king altogether, with the last consignment,
fen children ir four years. She certainly de.
serves aPensionfor and we trust her sphere
OF usefulness may not be untimely curtailed.
Perhaps she intends going to settle California
Iii she does not. we would advise her to do
SO with all speed, and as an inducement we
start the proposition of sending the family out
in government yessel--who seconds the
proposition.
The American pontoons are to be used by
the British army in India.
Some heavy forgeries have been committed
IN Baltimore lately, la Monroe Edwards.
Particulars yet unknown.
The House of representatives of Massachu.
setts have reported against incorporating
Catholic college at Worchester. Vire la
iiberte.
Louis Blame has been tried in France, and
sentenced to be transported. Being in Eng
land quite safe, he will give himself no tro1-
BILE about going beyond the seas.
"How do you like General Taylor,, said a
democrat to whig. "He f,trns out much
better than l expected" said the old coon.
This is joke of the Bosten Post.
LARGE AND VALUABLE CARGo.-The
ship America, Captain Dunn. cleared from
Charleston on Wednesday morning for Liver
pool, with cargo of 1854 bales Upland, and
l0O do. Sea Island, valued at S94,494.
The whig Common Council of ALBANY cut
down the salery of the Mayor from $1,000 to
S4oO, in expectation Of the election of a de-
mocrat; but whig was returned, who cannot
raise the thermometer. Served him right!
a fire broke out April Oath in the cooper's
shop attached to tho Jef1ersonville Hndiana)
Penitentiary, which was totally DESTROYED, to.
gether with the large hemp shop and several
other minor buildings. Loss not known.
The VIENNoIsE CoNF1RMEp.-Eleyen of
these sweet little girls, dressed in white, re-
ceved The rite of confirmation at the Lutheran
Church, IN Richmond, (Va.,) on Sunday last.
An immense number of people were present
at tho ceremony.
a Mr.. Coddings, in attempting recently to
deliver an anti-slavery lecture in SheIleburo.
Lafayette county, Wisconsin, was mobbed,
peited with eggs, and driven off Strange,
and that in free soil state! They are get.
ting tired of the humbug.
NAVEL CouRT MAnT1AL--A Naval Gene
RAJ Court Martial will assemble on board the
U. s. ship Pennsylvania on the 7th of Nav,
Tor the trial of Commodore Read, and such
others as may be brought before it. Comnlo-
dore Stewart is to be the President
The landlord of the Agawam House, at
Ipswich, Mass, has posted up notice that ali
loafers would please consider his house a pri
vate dwelling on Sunday. He no doubt will
sell them as much rum as they may want any
other day. How these pious fellows whip
the devil round the post
A United States soldier, named w. r.
Bradford, and two of his comrades, all deser-
ters from Carlisle (Pa.) barracks, broke into
the house of Mrs. Polly Fulton, at Ship
pensburg, (Pa.) few nights ago, and stole
$4,000 and gold watch. Bradford has been
arrested
a REVEREND IIYNcHER.-A certain Rev.
Edw. S,imson, of East Grcenbush, Rensselaer,
county, clergyman of the Methodist Church,
has bound over to keep the peace, in conse
quence OF hiring number of sailors, for the
sum OF S2O, to tar and feather q man against
whom he had rrlIl1e