The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-05-25

in many instances these animals COM
mand as high as $3.50 per head.
SOMETHING lNTEREsTING.--Gen.
Gorgey, the betrayer of Hungary, has
beguilcd his solitary confinement in
the Tyrol by writing an apology for
himself and his actions during tho
revolutionary struggle. The work is
in press and ready for publication.
The title is, "My Life and Acts
in lS48-9." 1t is looked for with
immense interest.
ScoTr ORGAN IN WAsuINoroN.-
American Telegraph has come out for
Gen. Scott for the Presidency. The
editor is very savage upon those wings
who prefer another candidate to Gen.
Scott.
EcoSoM1cAL.-Th heaviest appro-
priation during the late session Of the
Rhode Island Legislature, was $4O0
for payment Of his Exccllcncy, and
5000 for his Hon. VIM. Beach
Lawrence, for their services as
Governor for the past year.
DEATH OF MRs. ADAMs.-NIrs. Ad-
ans, the venerable relict of the late
John Quincy Adams, ex-Prcsident of
the United States, VIC learn, died ut her
residence on + street, in Washington,
on Saturday last.
California is wide awake on the sub
jcct Of Railroads. Among the MINER
GUS bills reported in the Senate, OH the
18th instant, was one granting land for
Il road from San Francisco to San Jose.
DIR. KINKLE.-It is stated that DR..
kinkle has appropriated the revolution
airy funds collected in this country to
the purchase of a Brenery at South
ampton, England.
The Boston Courier suggests that
this article should be called sympathy
Beer and thinks it would have Il
great run at the East, were it not for
the Maine law. 1t adds, however,
that the Doctor might have done much
worse, US many people who have no
stomach for .tfyht have stomach for
drink.
The Newport News, the Wing or
gan ut that place, announces that their
summer visitors can obtain Just as
much liquor as they want, and just as
freely as ever, in spite of the passage
of the Maine Law in Rhode Island.
THE FnENcu notwithstanding to
the Military Almanac. just published,
the French army comprises lS.3O4
officers. 1t is commanded by the
President Of the Republic, having m-
der his orders ) marshas, IS generals
of divisions, and l52 generals Of brig
adc.
C1ERAw RAILRoAD.-Th Darling
ton Flag says that the Chcraw and
! Darlington Railroad has not hcrn
,.',ar 'oncd, and is disposed to believe
1876 : .:nDn!etion. at no distant day,
is cc'tain. The proposed route is 10
commence Mt John James, on the
Wilmington and Manchester Railrond.
and proceed via Darlington and Socic-
ty Hill to Cheraw.
We learn from the Charleston pa
pers that the new work to avoid the
inclined Plane Mt Aiken has been COM
plcted, and is now in operation, the
cars having commenced running upon
it ON Saturday morning last.
THE 'UNIoS' NEWSPAPER Edmund
Burke, Of New Hampshire, formerly
member of Congress, Commissioners
of Patents, and editor Of the Washing
ton Union, it is reported is about to
renew his connection with that paper.
The ST.. LAWRENCE FIsuEnIEs.---Th
government Of Canada is fitting ont
an armed vessel for the protection o
the ST. Lawrence Fisheries. The
reason for tho movement is, that
the American fishermen have been
using the fishing grounds in the Gulf.
The celebrated Alboni, who has had
such brilliant success i'll all the Euro
pcan capitals, is about to undertake an
American tour.
lSCoMBusTIpLE FLooRS.-Juhn 3.
Cornell, Of Now York, has taken meas
ures to secure a patent for useful i'm
pi'NVlilciiI III iloll ioOfS, winch Is also
suitable for roofs Of buildings. The
floor is constructed of two plates, or a
series OF plates of corrugated sheet
iron placed at short distance apart with
the pieces Of their corrugations oppo-
site each other, in other words, ridge
over ridge and turrow above fi,rrow-
the space between the said plates being
filled with mn incombustiblc cement or
a concrete.
REMEDY FOR THE DYsENTERY.-
The Lconardtown Beacon says:
"A gentleman of our acquaintance,
who has satisfactorily tested the mat
ter, informs us that sweet oil and laud
anum is IN almost infallible remedy
for the dysentcry if administered in
the early stages of the disease. The
quantity for grown person is 25
drops OF laudanum to a large table
spoonful of sweet oil. A single dose
will usually effect cure