The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1855-03-28


& Co, Wells & Fargo, Robertson g. Co,
and Wright's Miners Depot. Wells &
Fargo would resume payment on the
26th, but it was feared Adams g. Co. could
not resume under GO days. Page & Ba-
con would probably resume in few
days. Their assets were large.
A bill is nov before the legislature of
Pennsylvania !or the protection Of land
lords. II declares that persons becoming
guests at hotels, without means to pay
their bills, nccruing from any time not
longer than week, and not giving no.
tice Of any such inability, are yugrants,
and as such shall be subject to conviction
before an, alderman or justice OF the peace
for any period not longer than thirty
days, and authorizes the proprietor TO de-
tain such delinquent until the proper Of
ticer be obtained The bill also gives to
hotel keepers lien upon the baggage Of
guests for accrued debt for q period OF
not longer than one week.
The following Sth,es. Maine, Massach-
usct,s, Rhode Island, Vermont, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Connecticut aud Indiana have
enacted laws entirely prohibiting the
sale OF Intoxicating drinks for beverage.
1t is stated that twelve hundred mur.
dcrs have been pcrpctrated within the
past four years, within the Judicial Dis
trict in which San Francisco is situated .
Out OF this vast number only one con.
vict!on.
Professor Stafford, the State Gcclogisl
of Tennessee according to the Nashville
| Banner, is Of opinion that the amount OF
copper in the mines in Polk county of Ila,
State is enormous, and its value incalcu-
| liable. A test shaft lla, been sunk to the
depth of on hundred and forty feet, in
| the ncighhnrhoud OF the "Tcnnes .cc"
mine, and 1t had cut ''thc richest yellow
and native copper TO be found anywhere
| We learn from Nova Scotia tia, the
British Government are about to esnbudv,
on liberal and tempting terms, a foreign
legion ut llallti'X, as we'll as several rcri :
mcnts of British born subjects
1t is stated in Diplomatic circles IN
! Washington that private dispatch had
reached lha, city, saying that Victoria was
fast going the way Of her anccstors-,hat
is, becoming dcranged, the symptoms
| l,,,,, .,t, l. u.
cent illness.
We learn from The North Carolina pa
pers that Rev. Drury Lacy, ID. d., has
s'gn'fied his acceptance OF the Presidency v
of Davidson CaIiegc, North Carolina.
Know N"tIingism is below par in Ar
kansas. The Democratic Legislature OF
that Stale had passed resolutions dcnoun
cling the order by 81 TO &.
The price Of license Tor selling liquor
at Wilmington. N. e., has been fixed at
$500 per ;.nnum. There is also, accord
ing to The new revenue lew, State tax
of , per cent. THIS looks like tcinr
in earnest.
The Star says that not the slightcs,
doubt OF the correctness OF the repnr, of
the Cars death is entertained by The
Pres ident, Cabinet, or foreign otfic cials.
1t is stated that two of the Oldest COL
leTcs in The u. 5. Ya'e anl Dartmouth.
are IN STRAIT ned circumstances, and re-
qnne 100000 each to meet speci.
| al wants.
The Post O.licc Department, this
year. cost the government Sl,7lG,739; the
Treasury Department. ,675,l2O; III"
M'n', S5il.30D; the Light Houses, ST..
073,6S4; the Coas, Survey, Sll5,OoO; the
Judiciary S22G,906.
The number Of hogs driven through
Cumberland Gnp this season was l2,OtD
against 100 last season and 33,l64 the
season previous The falling off in
weight this season from 20 t" 26 per cent.
II The UnAcd States has BEEN given the
place Gof honor, in The distribution of
| pave w VIC IIeIltN eSiliOItIOn. Oil en-
icring the building by the grand entrance
the vsi'or at once advances into the Am
crIcan part OF the exhibition; to the right is
| that dcvo!ed To Great Britain; oppos tie
Great Britain lies the French space, wuh
the great hall between.
The Ell DORADO ArFAIR.-Thc WASH.
ington correspondent of thc New York
Tunes says:
"lie friends Of the Administration here
assert that The President has ordered that
extreme measures be taken, ii necessary,
to exact instant rcpara,on at Havana Tor
the late outrage upon the steamer El Do
rato.
The IIillsboro Recorder says that on
Wednesday of last week the house Of Mrs
Margaret Woods, On Little River, abou,