The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-10-05

lsHosi INA 'llc Mobile sl'sibafc:
has the fol lc..ying conce efIineg the state
fittings at I1apana:
wv e. learn from ii gentlcman who
came passeDge on the Steamship En-
pire City, that immense excitement
land fear prevailed sat Havana among
all classes, but more particularly
among tile Creoles. Armed soldiers
lsingreatsnumbers Sare continually pas
Trading the streets. Arrests are made
ut every hour Of the day, and no man,
he say opens his store in the morning
with any certainty of escaping tho
Moro or Puenta before night; and if
1.-TWO men are seen standing and talking
lin the street, no matcr}wImt may. be.
! the subject OF, conversation, an armed
| soldier will approach and notify. them.
| to scparate-if Americans, by tho ex.
iibition Of a printed document; ifsa
native by a,premptory order in Span
ish. Every person who enters the
city is closely watched until he leaves,
and every precaution is taken to pre-
! vent any movement on the part Of cit
izcns against the government.
This gentleman was informed by
IN American who resides in Havana,
that q regular Yankee trick VAS played
OFT on one of their steamers short
time since. twas tc.tlle effect that u
large brig with American colors, lying
outside the llarhor, excited suspicious
that she had some smuggling opera
tion i'll view. Under this impression,
the authorities despatched one Of the
steamers after her. She Immediately
set sail, the steamer following in her
wake, running close along reef that
projected out like an elbow. She
turned the pbint and ran ina while so
os to put the steamer in line across
the breakers with her. In a few min.
utes the steamer strucksa a point Of
the reef and sunk. brig then put
out to sen with all her e5lors flying
! No one knew the name Of the brig or
whence she came
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UNION DEMOCRATIC CoNvENr1oS.--.
In several tclcgraphic dispatches
sent forth from Atlanta, the late as
scnblage there convened is termed n
Union Democratic 4Nass Meeting.
lhis is u misrepresentation. That
asscmblagc Was n ''Convcntion,' and
not Mass Meeting. A Convention
embracing among its members pa
full fair and very able representation
OF the Union Democracy. Especially
is this true of the two mountain dis.
tricts, those great strongholds of the
Georgia Democracy, iii which the
i great strength of the Union Demo
cratic wing of the party is to be
found. Nearly every Union Demo.
crat of any distinction living in
the upper portion OF the State was
/ present at Atlanta on Saturday. They
met there not in mass meeting, but in
1 a"Council or Convention?" to dc.
/ ternine, in tho words of the call which
brought them together, what should
be their future course Of policy
raai ing pssagEsRHM! si9i s}SMAassA in the follow
.Wc now appeal to the Union
| Democracy, and those Onion Wings
who arc iur Pierce and King, to
meet together in council, and there
! determine, in the spirit which wc
have sought to invoke, what ought to
be, and shall be, our future course of
policy. W. suggest and propose that
this meeting shall take place at At.
lanta on Saturday, the 18th Of Sep.
tcnber next"
The "Council' thus assembled, hav-
ing determined with singular ap.
proach to unanimity, what ought io
be, and Shall be the future course oi
policy" Of the Union Democracy and
those Union Wings who are in
favor OF Pierce and King" we canno,
. doubt that their determination will be
generally acquiesced in;-thus bring.
ing about that most desirable con
summation Of uniting in one compact
and harmonious body all the sup.
p"rters OF the Democratic nom
inccs.-Sdpannah Georgian.
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DEATH OF TIE DUKE OF WELL1NG
, ToN.-lt will be perceived from our
foreign adviccs, received by the Cana
da, to be found in our telegraphic col
umn this morning, that the great War
rior of Europe, Arthur Wellesley
Duke of Wellington, is no more
Apoplcxy has done that which the bul
lets of tho enemy failed to effect, and
the victor Of u hundred battles, u
;. whom honors were showcrcd with al
unsparing hand, is now content with {
tomb. death alone" as the grea,
Roman Satirist truly observed, "ma
keith appear how small the little bodic.
OF men really arc"
The Duke of " ellington was tn,
fourth son of the SECOND Earl of Morn
iugton, and was born at Dahgrn- Cas- tils
, tie, III ,lhe County of Meath, Ireland
! 4 Fon the lst of May, 1860, consequent,
Mt the time of his death he was in his
S4th year.
In * SupnnnIln1 -, III, ,.,,t o,toto