The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1853-08-23
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SIsTERs or CHARIrsY, Dear. e IIsf 0 },
Sisters of Charity liavss recently fallen.
victims TO the prevailing epidemicsin3
New Orleans. The last Mas sister
|sPerglina, aged only twenty-five, who.
died in the Charity Hospital Oh the
night Of the ID inst, q On the4tll nm.
other Of the Sisters was; sick and not
expected to recover. \, II
New-O Orleans, August 10. !.
2lointermcnts took place lin New
Orleans on Thursday, Of which nun
bur 197 had died Of yellow fever -Four
hundred cannons We're discharged on.
Friday night, and a large 1uantityiof
tar burned for the purpose Of fpurify-
ing the atmosphere.
The New. York Eoeniny Post, thus
explains the origin Of new land war.
rant, called Virginia Scrip" which
is about being issued:
"a new job, .perpetratcd in Con-
gress last winter, has just come
to light. Manp years ago, the State Of
Virginia set apart some public lands for
the benefit of the revolutionary SOL
ders, for which land warrants were
issued. It appears chat large num-
Der of these warrants were never loca-
ted, the lands assigned not'proying val
liable. These warrants have been
sought out and bought up for d.
triflc, but number of spectators,
who contrivcd last year to get II
bill passed through Congress, making
them available for purchases Of Con-
grcss lands any where, and ,hat without
the necessity Of paying the $3.50 per
acre which ordinary land warrants are
liable for, on being registered. These
Virginia land warrants are now offer
Ing for sale i'll the market
The PHYSICAL CoNDlTloN OF BLACKS
NoKrn AND SOUTH The Richmond
Examiner publishes IN interesting sta
tistical article, contrasting the physical
condition of the free blacks Of the
North and the slaves of,hc South. The
Examiner says:
I'm Mninc, there are 1856 free
blacks, OF whom 81 are insane--one 10
fourteen! In Louisiana, there we're
is insane ont of 1913, i91 slaves lone
in every four thousand three hundred
ana 'en. l'l MASSACHUSETTS s. y the ra'io OF
insanity among thc ,ree, negroes was
one 70 every 10, IN Nirs'h,a one
70 l,s9o. III missouri: one 10 oia. IN
iliinols, i,, one 70 -: nc census.
OF lSoo sli""eu maj ID tliero WAS one on
oi!nd pefsoh,'o every s'a2 whites, VIII one NN
ollhd 70 every 5'o4o saves sNifn .whiSe 2, u
ln"hs tfc .ls, itee ceioiea persons l OF tne
larau'se i,l, OF .lie tiooil,'ohlsts ut tne
worm tilere Is one pltd no % every eght
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TIE ROYAL FAMILY OF Russia.
The following amiable family picture
may berintcrcS,ing at this time, when
RUSSIA is thrnsting her ursine nose in
to the politics OF Europe:
Peter l., the founder, MS he may be
called, oi the present imperial family
was the murderer of the two daush-
tors and the son OF; his, brother Ivan,
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