The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1850-08-07

CorToN-FIRSr OpEN BoLL OF, Trr
SEAsoN.-Our friend Mr.. Edward Byrd.
OF Scriven county, has enclosed to us an
open. boil of Cotton. Of this yeag's growth.
Ii's letter is dated the 26th ut., and he
says:
"lnclosed ! send you an omen boil Of
Cotton, raised by myself, on my plantation
III Scrlveu county, on high pine land and
without any manure. 1t opened about five
days past. have about thrty.fiyc acres
that ls now opening. The boil send YOU
has had ahard rain upon it, which gives It
slight discoloration."-Sa Savannah Rep,.b-
licaH.
SCARCITY OF Observation-Disclosures
standing tho favorable reports received the
first OF the season, Of plenty of mackerel
at the bay Of Chaleur, our fishermen are
having poor luck. Three vessels arrived
here this week. One of them had decent
trip OF poor mackerel, but reports that out
OF twenty vessels which came through the
'ut wlththem, not more than two or three
had iuli fares. Another vessel, which ar
rived yesterday, brought homo short of one
hundred barrels, and gives the same dis.
couragIng accounts. Out Of a fleet of forty
I. vessels which came through the Gut at
g the same time, not more than five had full
rlares, while some had as low as three and
ten barrels Gloucester Telegraph
The Lahore Diamond, known as the
hol-I.noor, or "Mountain of Light" one Of
the prizes OF tho Sikh war, has been brought
10 England, and presented to the Queen.
before twas cut it weighed nearly 300
c;arats, but the unsklfuT lapdary cut it
down to 279'which leaves it still the largest
diamond known. The Pitt Diamond
weighs 100 carats, and tho great Russian
diamond about 200. The value of the
hoh-l-noor is unknown, but two millions
sterling IS mentioned as approxmating to it.
Party Politics in Missouri are RUNNING
AiiGt, and Col. Benton's prospects for re-,
election to the Senate are, according to
the Democratic papers in that State, grow
ing desperate. It is now generally con-
ceded by the press representing both sides
that majority of Wings will be returned
to the next Congress, and that a Whig
United States Senator will succeed Mr..
Benton.
GooD-Thcre is a volume of good sense
n the following brief piece of advice bv
Sydney Smith:
"There is one circumstance would
preach up, morning, noon, and night, to
young persons for the management Of their
understanding. Whatever you are from
nature, keep to it. never desert your own
line OF talent. Ifprovidence only intended
you should write posies for rings, or notices
Tor tweltth-cakes, it is more respectable
than ayilainous epic poem in twelve books.
bc what nature Intended you for, and YOU
VIII succeed; be anything else, and YOU
~ will be ten thousand times worse than moth
ing"
AMUSING Casa few days since sin
guar case was brought up before Justice
I'ordley at Baltimore, to compel man to
furnish an enumeration Of his family to one
oi II me census takers. Onbeing called upon,
hereplied, ."'sSir, you come to do this evil
thing, but will not pctmit it; we hear of
the Alosiac dispensation, when David mum.
6ercd the People and the Lord cut him off.
lWlll have nothing to do with suc!. IN un.
: righteous act" The collector expressed
his Willingness to run the risk of beiingzscut
oelf, but the man was inexorablc, and kRas
-sRn%@e sc fEot & lhc INV will be invoked to remove
ssll: M % ql lstacles 10 o"nnnlberng the people,"
haSesnot YET heard the decision.
liART5topaKE ~ GEoRG1A-We learn
from the Dalton Times that a slight
earthquake was felt at that place on the
night of the Goth inst. It's duration was
about one minute Sar0n. Rep.