The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1855-02-07

Leaving the nett income Of 5S2,627 70
From which deduct first dvi.
dend of l65.4IS so
1881, 100 II
Balance carried to Surplus Income and
applied to property accounts and reduct ion
Of Indebtedness.
1t is positively affirmed that President
Pierce has dismissed Lieut.. Hunter from
The Navy.
Dudley Mann, is spoken of as Minister
10 France.
On Thursday last the Grand Division of
the Sons of Temperance Of this State as.
scmblcd in Camden. The meeting was
presided over by Grand Worthy Patriarch,
Major B. ID. Townsend, of Marlborough
district. I'm the evening an address was
delivered in the Baptist Church by the
Grand Chaplain. Rev. Alex. Gregg.
Both branches Of the Wisconsin, !cgisIa-
ture, by unanimous votes, have instructed
the senators and representatives in Con.
gress from that State to oppose any change
in the naturalization laws.
The Free Suffrage Bill. which has Just
passed the Senate Of N. Carolina, amends
the Constitution of the State 80 that eve
ry tree white man Of tie age of twenty
one years, being 4 native Or naturaized
citizen Of the United States, and who has
heen an inhabtant Of the State for twelve
months Immediately preceding The day Of
any election, and shall have paid public
taxes, shall be entitled to vote for mem.
her Of the Senate for the district in which
he resides.
The u. s. Senate on Saturday lust
passed the Naval Retired List Bill. 1t
gives retired captains $500; commanders
Sl2n0; lieutcnants $50, per annuul.
The House discussed the Army Ap.
preparation Bill.
The latest news from Texas is that 4
new Pacific railroad Company has been
organized. Of which Hon. Robt. J. Walk.
cr has been chosen President.
The Jersey City Telegraph says there
is no doubt that Robt. Schuyler is, and
has been ever since he absconded in the
town OF Bergen, Passaic county N. ].
A hog is on exhibition at Buffalo rnoas.
uring, it is said 3 feet 10 inches in height,
7 feet 10 inches around, ii feet IN length
and weighing l,46o pounds.
Dispatch from Cincinnati, bearing
date January 30th says: In this county
about fifty women attacked and dcmul.
ished large quantity of liquor belong,
ing TO tavern.kcepcr, and dragged the
owner through it where it was six inches
deep. Warrants have been sworn out for
about twenty Of the female rioters, but
the police returned this afternoon and re.
ported their inability TO arrest them
They will make another attempt to.nigh,
with sufficient rcinforcements to insure
success.
We see it stated in an exchange that, at
Chicago January 29lI, they had .'ano,her
fierce storm of snow and wind. The
train on the Chicago and Mississippi rail-
road, with large number of passengers
and several members Of the Legislature,
were flozcn up on tho prairie, in snow
some eight feet deep. The passengers
burned the cars, and by robbng tho cars
Of consignment, preserved themselves
from starvation. BY last accounts they
were still there. Relief however, had
been sent to them on Saturday night"
The Boston Chronicle learns from
private correspondence, dated Stockholm,
Sweden, December 18Th, that Madame
Jenny Lind Goldschmidt was in that city
attending 10 her property. She was unac
companied by her husband, the laws Of
Sweden forbidding the presence Of the
Jew. The correspondent adds that jenny
had SO changed in appearance, and grown
SO old in looks, that her oldcs, and most
intimate friends did not recognise her.
In Paris there are annually consumed
100000 kid and lamb skins, for fabrica.
ton into gloves; in Brussels 100000; in
Grenoble 100000; and in Annonay 3,200.,
600. making total, within four cities, Of
6,400,000. To work this into gloves re-.
quires just double the number of eggs
l2,e0O, ,0O0-at an annual expense Of 620,.
OOOf.