The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1849-08-08
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The following paper, issued by the
American Minister in London, Mr..
Bancroft, is worthy the patriotic pen of
the Great American Historian.
PDEATII OF Mn. Pork. The Ameri.
can Minister to our Court has notified
this event to his fellow-citiaens resident
IN this country in the following terms:
observation-disclosures has been receiv-
efat this legation that James Knox
Polk, so lately President Of tho United
States, expired on the 18th day of Juno
last. Unlike his predecessors, he has
enled life before theeyening of old age;
butSnot before completing an illustrious
and memorable career. Tho Judgment
ofShis countrymen ever marked him out
for high services. Raised succossively
to the first places in the state-chair-
man Of the most important Congression-
al committee; head of the House of Re-
presentatives of the whole American
people; supreme magistrate in his own
Commonwealth; President of the Fedc-
raj Republic-he ever approved his fit
nessfor the highest trusts; exceling not
more in station than in laboriousncss,
prudence, temperance, and fortitude.
He defined, established, and extended
the boundaries of his country. He
planted the laws Of the American Union
on the shores of the Pacific. His in
fiucnce and his counsels tended to or
ganize the national treasury on the
principles of the constitution, and to an
ply the rule of freedom to navigation.
trade, and industry. Most beloved
where best known, he lived happily,
ndsdied in the midst Of his unexamplcd
prosperity, which his own measures had
contributed to establish.
s invite the consuls and vicc-consuls
ofthe United States, and all others ofmy
fellow:citizens now in the United King
dom, to share the sorrow of his family
and his country. His memory as IL
public man lives in honour and will en-
dure; Che youth of our country will be
formed to virtue by emulating the puri.
atyiof his private life.
$sGEoRGE BANCROFT.
tsUnited States Legation,
London, July II, 1s49."
sgf Gov. DANA, OF MAINE, AND TIE
LEGTsLATURE.-Itwillbc remembered
that Gov. Dana, on the subject of slave
ry,in his inaugural, some months since,
adopted the doctrines of Mr.. Cass.
The Legislature soon after passed a Sc
ries of resolutions instructing their
members in Congress to lose no oppor-
tunity Of pressing the Proviso iuto anv
formo of government to DO provided for
the new territories, and directing the
Governor to sign and transmit them to
the Governors of the several States OF
this Union.
I'VE learn fromtae Portland INQUIRER,
fhat onEthc 17th, a message was rccciv-
ed from the Governor, in which he re-
fases to sign the resolutions. Hc SAYS
that he would have been willing to
transmit the resolutions to "the Govern
ors of the several States of the Union,"
ifthey had been presented to him in the
sssrtlinary manner, but as they had been
semitic him by the Senate for his ar
proyaland signature, the message from
that body was evidently intended to re-
quest him to subscribe to opinions :sdia-
metrically opposed to those he had off
cially expressed" The message was
ordered to be printed. Thus there is
aconfiict between these TWO branches
of the government.
OWNERS OF CATTLE Bound TO
KEEP THEM OFF THE RAILRoAD.--N.
u Supreme Court, July Teym.--Van-
dergrift VS.. Rediker. This was an ac
ton Of trespass brought against the en-.
ginccr Of a locomotive for running
against and killing the plaintiffs COW.
The COW was at large, and had strayed
upon an unenciosed part of the G. and
A.Railroad, near Bordentown, lust as
train, at its usual speed, was approach
ing. The Railroad, at tho place Of the
accident, runs along the public highway,
and the view, along the track, is unob.
structcd for quarter of a mile each
way. The bell was tapped, and the en-
ginc reversed, a few seconds before the
collision, but not in time to stop the
cars. The engineer was proved to be
q agenerally careful man in his business.
The opinion Of the Court was delivered
at the present (July) term, by Mr..
Justice Carpenter. thc result of vl;cl