The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1855-05-02

GLIDING ono CHILD, Tor The lurIc sum Of
$lG.979--being an average OF $1,000 each
Jim. aged about 2j. n superior house car.
penter and plumber, brought $3.50.
The last number Of the Wilmington /
Herald says
A distressing rumor comes TO us that
whilst two white women were absorbed in
resisting the encroachmcnts of a fire in
the woods on the line Of the Wilmington
and Weldon Road the other day so rapid
was its progress that they we're complete.
ly surrounded, aud before they discovered
their situation, all means of escape were
cut off, and they persisted in The flames
AT another point, another barely 81 we'd her
life by forcing her way tl'rou: h the flames
into an open field, aud thence into a pond
Of water.
The Providence or. ~ Journal says:
there cX;s's against the State OF Rhode
Island, claims to the amount Of thirty
thousand dollars, for debts contracted du.
ring the rcvoIution.-They remain IA stan.
ding memorial of the bad faith of the
State, as the French claims are a monu-
mcnt Of the !aithlulncss of the naliona!
government.
TIE vast extent Of the United S ats is
illustrated 10y the fact that while The in.
liabitan's ui New Orleans are %lca.linr on
Strawberries. people at The northern OK.
lrcinIty ave snow three feet in depth in
their forests.
The Liverpool Core spondcn, Of the
New York Herald, an hour rcorc the
Nashville left that port, wrote that great
agitation prevailed in consequence o: a
private despatch having bccn received in
London stating that a great b"ttic had
been fought cI"re Eupaloria in which the
Russians were defeated with the loss Of
live thousand men, and Omar Faslla killed.
On the 18Th ult., tic lcanrr Falls Ci.
", from Wheeling Virginia, for ST. Louis
Missouri, "rrivcd at Cincinnati with SIX teen
slaves in the Gu. toby OF their owners.
Crowds oi whites and u grocS, upon hear.
ing The TACT, ga,i,ercd around the boat, and
alnu, 9u'clvck at night II. b. Blackwell,
the abni ZIONIST, arrived on hoard with u
hahcas corpus, 10 take The negroes off.
The owners. however, had taken them
over 10 The Kentucky side q! the river in
4 : ~, yuN-i I,pIs n,,,J Thorn tI,sr n,,,i,, |
until the Falls Csiy lc:t Cincinnati.
A BILL il now before the Pennsylvania
Legislature l". tie establishment, OF IA
Rarl OF Medical Ccnsors, To comsis, of
Three regular physicians, To be appointed
Ivy The governor. before whom all pracli.
TONERS ri medicine in that State, irrcspec.
tive IF age or standing in their profession
shall he annually summoned, in order 10
undergo an examination, no: Only "a. In
their qualifications. but ns to the progress
! lhcy have nadc az relate. tu the devotion
mcn,s and Improvement, in the rcicncc oil
medicine; suhJcctirg them, upon TIC first
fSatHLnaIiuii: " tax OF twenty five dollars.
and tive dollars Tor every Subsequent year.
i ,]!n;"c7.. In the event OF mm.cnnpil.
anCc with this act. the penalty is, mo re-.
course IN law for the collection OF their
bills or mcd,cai services"
The ynn,or that France will intcrlcre
between the United States and Cuba, cy.
cues ne l!llle remark and many journals
"ii oh ~s'rcnuoun'y oppose il'ibusrcri+rn,
md gnantly reject the idea t'at our uuy.
crn;ncnt should relax one ie,a Of It's lust
demands ;,.oinst Spa II through icar Of any
:mpcr,lncnl threats Of The French govern
mcut.
We learn from tho E!scGrM .idrcr-
fiSer that Il religious revival, IN the BAp-
list church OF that village has been in
progress. there for the last three weeks,
the result; has been The addition 10 the
church of ONE eighty persons, nearly
seventy ol whom are whites.
From lfrc Letter 81 the Cuba correspond.
cnt of the Charleston STANDARD ju.. rcceiv'
cd AID published in an c.riru Of yesterday.
we learn that DR.. Charles A.Pcck has been
released and permitted 10 leave the Island
without any cause being assigned for hi.
ar.c-t and removal from Puerto Principe
To Havana. either hy maliun " or justice.
lie was allowed in the final process, Ia
live IN Cuba, If he desired to do so, III any
other place than that where his business
was established, but not feeling assured
That III another week or two II more iatal
mistake might not be made, he wisely dc.
trrunIir:d To return To the United Sa!csr
and his yissyuFls were granted ,l,i'n wlhoul
M"yc, im New Orleans per Black War
rior, on the 18th inst.
From the same source we learn that m
Sunday last there WAS IA great parade oi all