The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1854-01-19
News Scraps & Gatherings.

Small Fox, as an epidemic in that city.
IL SIR JonN FRANKLIN is not vet giy
en- over as lost by the British Admiralty
parties are still in search Of him.
" THO Eastern war is still subject
Tor speculation aud surmso The last
nows is of a contradictory character
~ The number of Colleges in the U.
s., according to the last census, is 234; of
teachers therein, 1857; of pupils and un.
dcrgraduates, 81, ,l59. Number Of public
schools, SO,99l, having 3,35t,l73 scholars;
OF academies and scmnaries 6G32.
IL In the Mississippi Legislature, a
Democratic Caucus OH Friy nominated
a. G. BRowN for u. S. Senator by two
majority. FooTE departed the same day
for California by way Of New York.
o. The Democratic Stale Convention
af Ohio adopted, on Saturday, the Balt-
more platform Of 1852, and nominated S.
+: Norris for Judge Of the Supreme Court
of the State.
" The Cincinnati Commercial says
that, on trial before the Police Court, il
was stated that many hundreds Of barrels
OF blood were annually used in that city
Tor making sweet wine,
~ The Supreme Court of the United
States has sustained the validity Of the La
llama and Omega grants derived from the
Spanish government, lying in Louisiana
and Oh the Sabine.
s=N5 Governor BrGLEE, Of Pennsylvan.
Ia, issued proclamation on the 9Th inst,
authorizing the Military, If necessary, to
nrn tIfl,r (t,r l.
Of the property Of the Franklin Cannal Co.,
at Eric. All was quiet, however, at Erie
on Saturday last, the arrest of the two
kILpATKIcKs, DIR. SHERwiyE and JOHN X.
JACK, having had beneficial effect.
~ President piercc's Message is com
lnentcd npon by the London journals,
which publish it, in full. Ii is lavora5y
spoken Of.
c-s9~ 1t is reported, though not on the
best authority, that a challenge has been
sent 10y Col. JEFFERSON DAVIS, Secretary
OF War, to Mr.. TooMDs, u S. Senator for
Georgia, and accepted.
u On The LIST of November 36 vessels
were loading with guano, ut the Chincha
Islands, for the United States.
~" At the election ground, on the OH
instant, ut llaynics box, about four miles
from Anderson, G. H.. ti-h,. a, we learn
from tho Southern Rights Adrocaic, took
place between ROBERT Gray and MILFORD
! TArE, during which the later received
stab from knife used by the former, on
the left breast. The wound is no. as Sc
we're as was ut first thought, and there
scans TO be little doubt hut that Mr.. TATE
vii! recover. Mr.. Gray has hccn commit
ted to jai! 10 await further developments.
i-SY lady was asked the other day,
why she chose to Ivc single live. and
! cravcly rcplcd: ''Bocuuse / anl not able
TO support a husband.
.<7" y 7'hcspian Corps is abou, being
formed in Charleston.
Aon. ], J. Cri,tcnlcn has been elected
United States Senator from Kentucky.
Mr.. Washburn, Wing, has lccn elect.
cd Governor, and Plunkctt, Liculcnau,
Governor. Of Massachu sots
a minister at the North was recently
/ made +" f!ay SCI and COSTS, for marrying a
boy i'll his teens 10 little boarding school
miss under eig h'cen years Of age.
u GEORGE WARREN was elected on
The 9th inst, Sheriff of Colcton District.
AZ The Publisher of The Southern
Rights Advocate at Anderson G.. H., rivcs
notice that Ire will shortly issue his paper
tri-weeky. '
u The Court of Appeals OF New York
has decided thatthc trustees of any Cath.
olic church may assign all their property,
in perpetui,y, to the control Of Dishnp
Hughes and his SUCCESSORS in office, un-
less there is IA special law against H.
~ ALEHI;. TAEpY, one of the oldest
and most esteemed citizens of Mobile, died
on the Atli instnnt in that city, at the age
of eighty years.
~ The lth anniversary Of the birth
day OF THOMAS PAINE is to be celebrated
in Boston on the 3olh instant.
The ciiizcns Of Windham county, Con
nec'Icnt, are about to erect n monument
10 the memory Of tho gallant old General
Putnam.
Col. O. II. THRoor died in Macon Gcor-
gia, III the Sth inst. and Mr.. e. g. WEEP,
one Of The oldest merchants, Of that city.
on the ll!h inst.
SIMON LEBLANC, Esq. died on the Is,
inst, in the Paris! Of lbcrviie, La, aged
scvcnty.six years.
The first really hard frost OF the season
in New Orleans, was experienced last
Sunday night.
Mr.. BUCHANAN, our Minister to Eng,
land. is engaged in negotiating the nur-
chase of an island in the Mediterranean
ser, from tho Porte, to be used as Unit
cd States Naval depot.
Mules in large quantities are leaving
Missouri for the South.
The Senate of Vcrgina has adopted
a resolution proposing to award premium
10 the officers of the best conducted rail-