The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1851-01-08


ere OF the capacity Of thirty gallons, and
,nith these our informant says. water was
discharged 80 promptly and steadily by the
,asscngers that the aggregate was six
.imcs the quantity sufficient to have sunk
Nhe ship,-BaAinore American.
The FIRST FuGlrIvE SLAVE Law.
Tho Boston Post has tho following bit o
political history:
The Fugitive Slave Bill of 1902 was
drafted by George Cabot, of Massachu-
se'ts, in November, and it was passed by
the Senate on the 18th Of January unani-
mously, fourteen from free, and thirteen
from slave States voting for it. Tho
House committee, Theodore Sedgwick and
Sheer]ashuh Bounc, Of Massachusetts, and
Alexander White, Of Virginia, reported
that bill to the body, which it was passed
on the 9th OF February, without discussion.
Eight Free States were represented by
thIrty-onc votes, six slave State by twenty
!omr votes; tree State majority, seven. The
OIL received forty-eight yeas to seven
nays. Massachusetts gave six yeas 10 ono
nay. This record shows that the free States
passed the first Fugitive Bill"
JAMES AND CooPER.-A London paper
says, faccti0usiv, that Mr.. G. p. Il. James,
nm his arrival in America, backed himself,
for a large sum, to write ten novels in less
title than MIR. Fennimorc Cooper would
take TO write five. At the end of the fret
week, MIR James had completed four, and
had got as far as the two travellers OIL the
fine summers evening, IN the fifth, and was
still, when the counts loft, in wind. At
The same period Mr.. Cooper had finished one
only and but just arrived ut the discovery Of
The hero's lost grandmother, in the tribe Of
Esquimaux, towards the middle of q second;
the severe weight Of the material besides,
was beginning 10 tell, and he showed visible
signs OF punishment
WILD CAT AND THE ARKANSAS SLAVES.
This Seminole Chief having failed to
persuade his wi people TO emigrate with
him to the Rio Grande, induced a large
party OF slaves to run away with a view Of
seeking freedom under his protection
The Greeks and Sc,ninoIcs followed the
hand, fought them with a loss Of one killed
on each side, took their women and chill
drcn to the number Of sixty. and carried
them back. Their masters came forward
and reclaimed their property, by paying
The rewards offered, and disposed Of such
as were considered Improbable stock to
tl'cm. After this piece OF i'll luck Wild
Cat went to the Rio Grandc again.
A Curious CLocx.--An ingenious
towns.nan OF Dudley liz engaged in con-
strnc.ing II very curious clock, which, is
intended for the Great Exhibition Of 1851,
it's chief pccuiiariiy being the length of
tim it runs without winding. The clock
occupies, i'll standing, only eight superb.
cial inches; the motive power is only %
los, and yet the machinery is SO nicely adj
justed hat it will take 426 days to run
down. Consequently, the. secondhand
will make 6l3,44O revolutions, and the
balance l47,225,6O0 vibrations, in the
above time.
CHANGE OF WEArHER.-A descent Of
the temperature Of London thirteen de-
grecs (of the thermonetcT) kills an are
ragesof three hundred people . The s.a:is-
teal account, from which we rather Tho
fact, adds; they mny not all die In tic very
next week tho loss Of warmth takes place,
but the number Of deaths is found to in
crease to that extent, over the previous
average with a short periol after the
change. The fall Of temperature, in feet,
Kills them as certain as a we'll directed
cannon shot. This shows the necessity
of guarding carefully against exposure
to excessive changes Of temperature
Flannel is one of the best projections,
and an additional garment when the
cold increases is another. II matters not
how the weather is, when the body is in
active exercise, but every one should guard
against sitting in Il half-warned room and
feeling a sensation of chilncss. or of going
out into the cold while that feeling re.
manned.