The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1854-09-27

| "A'iu"y evening Iast, 10 set fire 10 the
Catholic Parsonage there.
The Savannah papers announce the
death Of the Right Rcv. Francis Xavier
Garland. Roman Catholic Bishop of the
Diocese Of Georgia, who died Mt the resi- :
dence of NJ. Pendcrgrast, in that city, on
"Wednesday morning at half.yast ii
o'clock, of yellow fever.
The democrats have carried Arkansas
by large majority. Messrs. Rusk and
Greenwood (democrats) are elected to
Congress, and the Legislature stands on
joint ballot-dcmocrats rs, wings e5.
Attorney General Cushing is preparing
to test the constitutionality Of the Fuoi-
tive Slave law in the Supreme Court of
Wisconsin. which pronounced the law un.
constitutional.
The Gaceta of Costa Rica calculates
the dest ruction of locusts in that country
i'll consequence Of tho measures dictated
ny the Government, at 150, 400, 900 insects.
up to the Oath of July, 5000 sacks of the
insects. weighing each 60 pounds, had
been presented for the purpose of obtain.
ing the bounty offered by the Government
| for their destruction.
The government Of Greece has forward
cd TO Washington block of marble taken
from the Parthenon. in order "tllat it NAV
serve 10 adorn. however humbIy, the
monument destined to perpetuaie the re-
me'nbrancc Of the great founder Of the
American independence"
The Marion Star aavs that the bridge of
the Wilmington and Manchester Rail
Road, over the Pee Dee is in n near state
OF completion. The cylandcrs have been
finished some time, and there remains bu,
one stran of the superstructure to be
completed, which it is expected will be
done by the 18th Of October, and be ready
for the passage of the trains.
Accounts from Boston Of 10Th, state
that the delegates thus far elected to the
Democratic Convention are generally ia.
vorable to the administration.
a State Internal Improvement Conyen-
ton is to be held ut Salisbury, North Car
uiina. Gil the I'd day OF November next,
to devise some general plan for improving
the State by railroads.
The corn crop in ChIckasaw county
Miss, is represented as being the larges,
ever raised there, and is seliin. ut 20 10 25
cents Il bushel.
The Cdrolinian states that Columbia
Was lever in u better condition of entire
health than at this season.
The last Marion Star has one hundred
and eleven tracts of land advertised \,
shcrtf's sale. The advertisement occu-
pes nearly two columns of its pages.
That some persons in Canada beein to
iooI upon lne influx OF fugitive slaves IN
that country as an evil may be inferred
from motion made in the Canadian Leg
islature, that the same captation tax now
imposed OH all strangers entering The
Province, be enacted in future from black
immigrants.
There was sharp frost in some parts
OF New Hampshire and Maine on The llth
inst, which has put a stop, it is stated, to
the growth OF vines, tomatos, and tender
plants generally.
Upwards OF four thousand immigrants
arrived at New York Oh Saturday last.
MIR. John S. Richardson an old and res.
pccted citizen OF Greenvilc District, is
announced i'll the Mountnineer as having
died last week, aged IS years.
The Town Council Of Columbia have
forwarded five hundred dollars to Savannah
for the relief Of The suffering.
At an election held on the 18th inst,
for lntendant and six War :ens, to serve
in.tho Town of marlborough, the follow.
ing was the result;
Imemlam.-Hm. NJ. F.. earn.
Parde"s Carlos Tracy, Esq, Major
Charles Warley. Or. Emanl. Witsell, Co!
l.. II. Witscll, DIR. Thos. Lining, II. b
Jenkins, Esq.
AN ASTOUNDING RECORD FOR A MAINE
LAW ClTy.-The police report of the
Boston Courier of Tuesday appears as
follows
Sixty-fouf simple drunkards, four
common drunkards. seven assauIters< ten
Card-players OH the Lords day, three
rescuers, fourteen rioters, one store
breaker, one hotel and two petty
thieves we're tried in the police court yes
teEday. The entire party figure up one