The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1851-06-11

TERRIFIC SToEM.-The Mad River YaI..
Icy (Ohio) Gazette records the particulars
OF great hail storm which swept oYer
that regoin on Saturday last. I4s
Stones fell the size or the common nais5,.5
erai door kno6, somc sphcroidal, others had
the appearance Of Jagged ice Lambs and
poultry were killed wherever exposed.
Tho cattle ran around frantic and believing
Their hides beirsg severely laccrated by The;
bail stones. One hail stone which was
ioun', weighed four and one half ounces! 81,
IHE TURKS IN WAsHiNGToN.--lt is ata.
ted that mantua-m maker in Washing Civ
is engaged in making Turkish, pantaloors
Tor six ladies'. who are TO appear in them
on next Wednesday afternoon at tie Capt-
tol. They will "face the music. 2 tls'a5A
SEVERE JUSTICE OF SuLTAN.-fn tia
city of Aloppo. where the Christians arc
weak in numbers, a Turkish mob Cunkno,sna
to the Government) produced tho death Of
five, the wounding Of six more, and the pill.
!laging of one hundred houses and Ave
churches, The Sultan shot six hundred
iof tho mob, condemned fhren hundred 10
the galleys, and put one hundrsd and Iifsy
more on their trial. He has restored ail
the property he could recover to The Chris.
tans 10 whom it belongeb,, and. recornpen.
sti inc rest Of the sufferers out of his own
purse. 7tss 5ssstis aiii *,
THE GARnoTE.-Es is an iron collar:
used in Spain and Cuba, for stranpiinMi
those condemned 10 death. This collar ID ~ l
put upon the neck Of the condemned, and
tightened by means Of screw, until It,
breaks the neck. For tyrants. it is more
convenient mode of dispatciiing their vic.
Tins than the gallows or the g1fiiiotiac, az
these cannot be employed without giving;
the execution some amount OF p1hlcity-
The garrotier, no Sever, can do his foul
work in his victims cell, and the public
hear or know nothing Of it. The secrecy
with which this punishment is generally
executed, forms its mostterrible and repHI.
sive feature, as mode of execution.
THE WAR AT THE CAPE OF Coon HopE.
by the Canada, from Liverpool, letters
have been received in this city from the
Cape OF Good Hope 10 April 4tha These
letters states that the war IL no nearer. o
close than when il frs, began, and that q
large force from England will be necessary
to suppress the outbreak. II the chiefs in
the back country join The movement. it is
believed tha, Mt least ono hundred thousand
warriors can be brought into the feia
against tho English very formidable
force, and one which England win find
both difficult md expensive to put down.
PuN UPON PUH.-Strange, Moore, and
Wright, the notorious puDsters, were on q
certain occasion dining together, when
Moore observed. aThcre is but one knavs
among Us. and that's Strange "Oh,no'
said Wright, s,hero is one Moore" aAy,'
said Strange, ",hat's Wright ~ ,s.ssss
a LETTER from London Gays the most
stupendous failure Of modern days is the
Thames Tunnel. Built at enormous cost.
It was intended that il should hGcofna
great avenue Of communication between
the two sides of the Thames. Unforeseen
difficulties in tho way of getting heavy
teams up and down at tho entrances pre-
vented this, and now the wonderful TaD.
mel is become n paltry penny exhibition.
with toy stores, grinding organs, and Punch
and Judy shows scattered through it. ~
The United States sounding steamer
Helzell, Lieut. John Rogers commanding,
has been engaged IN efforts to sound ttio
Guit stream. AT abont thirty miles south.
west from Key West, bot,omswas ohtaineS,
at 730 faihoms: but at anothGfg point, the
sounding line, at the depth Of 5000 fathoms.
was cut off, as was supposed, by sword.
fish. The sounding was continued, an.
| successfully, with a line of twine,
General Foote hns accepted The nomina.
ton for Governor of Mississippi. The
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sentcd hin, with pair of high bioodea hor-
ses and an elegant carriage, with which to
make his campaign in behalf OF Unicp pfia.
ciples. l,ss
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Nj, Po'evin, the acronaut of the Hippo.
drome OF Paris. recently ascended on horse.
back from Hasre, TO a height of :. 600 feet.
The water WAS so high in the Upper
| Mississippi and illinois risnrs, en- the 2tlth,
that tho fronts of most Of the towns were