The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1855-02-07
News HdcHnnS.
We learn by the Camden Journal tla
Edwin Barnes, Esq, has been elected
sheriff Of kerslaw District.

sheriff OF kershaw District.
1t is rumored that the President is
about TO issue proclamation warning the
Kinney Expedition against any nfraction
of the neutrality laws by an armed occupa.
ton Of any part Of Central America.
A youth, by the name of John Costin,
residing in Wilmington, accidentally shot
himself with an old rusty pistol, which he
supposed to be unloadcd. The Whining.
mington Herald is informed that the
wound inflicted will prove fatal.
The New Orleans picayunc ofWednes
day the 3lst January contains The subjoin,
cd paragraph:
MISS JULIA DEAN MARRIED-Wo learn
from the officers of the Steam Ship
Morgan. which arrived lat night, that
Allss julia Dean was married to DR..
llaync, at Galveston, at = p. m. on Satur-
day Inst. DR. Ilaync is a son of the
great orator and statesman, the late
Robert Y. Ilaync formerly of the U. S.
Senate.
Miss Julia Dean, on the evening of her
marriage, played her part in the "Hunch.
back" at Galveston, Texas-hcr engage.
ncnt TO this effect, having been made
before the occurrence of that important
ceremony.
The Washington Sentinel of the Goth
ut., says: "From an intimate acQuant
ancc and political association with Judrc
Douglas, we feel justified IN stuting that
he neither desires nor would receive the
nomination for the next Presidential term"
The trial Of Charles Griffith for the
murder OF young Toolc, during the last
session, came up before the Superior Court
ut Savannah on Saturday the 9th uIt /,
The jury brought in a verdict Of guilty al-
ter an absence Of but fifteen minutes.
young man, named Calvin Lewis,
has been arrested in Augusta, Ga, on
the charge of having been an accom-
pllcc i'll the recent robbery at the Rail-
road Depot. He made considerable re-
sistancc, and discharged eight balls from,
two rcvoI"crs among the party who made
the arrest. no one was seriously injured.
The Columbia papers say that corn is
wanted in that city at the present time
and that provisions of all kinds will meet
with ready sale.
AT lie sal" or he late A!-. Picker.
ing's collection of manuscripts and auto
graph letters, by NIcssrs. Snlhehy & vii.
kinson. in Wellington street, London,
we're some highly interesting relics of
the poet l'uruS, " 1ich realized extraordin-
arlly h'gh es. The greatest attraction
was lt.t ~, being the celebrated "Scots
whn bac VIZ .n!!acc blcd," written in
i'ss1 Los" S:''' ''&'if tho subjcc, had rn,pir-
cd The very handwriting of the bard
This sold FOR 1870, and was purchased for
America. The original document, signed
and scaled appointing The poet an excise
man, produced Is l2s. 81. The other
letters and poems, all holograph, sold for
high prices. In the same sale, three au
,ograph letters, addressed by DR.. Johnson
to Ryland, sold for cI2 lGs Cd; and Jo.
scpl Ri,son's Bibliosrnphia .Scotia, with
an autograph note TO George Chalmers,
requesting him to deliver it in TO the hands
of Walter Scott rJO m.
The number oi Christian Jews in the
world is estimated by one Of their number
at fifteen thousand, Of whom, he saws, sew
cral hundred are in the United States
many Of them occupying highly rcspccta-
bic positions, as merchants, cIcrgymcn and
physicians.
The Transcript, in speaking Of the un-
JUS. suspicious which sometimes attach TO
officers OF banking institutions, states that
within Il few months, the specie on hand
al one of the banks in State street, repor-
ted 10 be 5000 short. Some twenty DAYS
was spent in an investigation. and it turned
onf, after all, thai the gold was right but
mistake in the figures had caused those
anxious days and nights which had hcen
passed by the clerks in whose department
The dciicr was supposed to be. In anoti.-
or case a check for 1900 was missing, and
II was the cause Of great uncaslncs among
the bank officers, till it was discovered
pinned between two bank bills which had
been sent to another institution for redemp
ton. Within few days, mystery was
cleared up in a bank where it was discov-
cred that two bills for $500 dollars each
had been taken by nice and nibbIcd so as
to almost destroy the identity; but the re-
moval OF the furniture To anol' er building
revealed who had been the thieves.
A contemporary says that .too much
has late y been said by many persons and
journals concerning ladies running their
husbands by extravaganza, in buying silk
dresses and such other expensive articles >
| Ip ShVs that innt onrn b,S tho u,o or