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

IL IS runored that tho President is
about TO issue proclamation warning the
Kinney Expedition against any infraction
Of the neutrality laws by an armed occupa.
ton OF any part Of Central America.
youth, by the name of John Costin,
residing in Wilmington, accidentally shot
himself with an old rusty pistol, which he
supposed To be unIoadcd. The Whining
mington Herald is informed that the
wound inflicted will prove fatal
The New Orleans pcayune ofIVedne
day the 3lst January contains tn, subjon'
ctl paragraph:
MISS JULIA DEAN MARRIEp-Wo learn
from the officers OF the Steam Ship
Morgan. which arrived lat night, that
Miss Julia Dean was married to DR..
llaync, at Galveston, at = p. M. on Sa,ur-
day Inst. DR. Ilaync is a son of the
great orator and statesman, the late
Robert Y. llayne formerly of the U. S.
Senate.
Miss Julia Dean, on the evening of her
marriage, played her part in the "Hunch.
back" at Galveston, Tcxas-hcr engage.
mon, 10 this effect, having been made
before the occurrence Of ,ha, important
ceremony.
The Washington Sentinel Of the Goth
ut., says: "From an intimate acQuaint
ancc and political association with Judge
Douglas, we feel justified III stating that
he neither desires nor would receive the
nomination for the next Presidential term"
The trial Of Charles Griffith for the
murder of young TooIc, during the last
session, came up before the Superior Court
at savannah on Saturday the 9th ut :,
the jury brought in verdict of guilt, ai.
ter an absence Of but fifteen minutes.
y young nm, named Calvin Lewis,
has been arrested in Augusta, Ga, on
The charge of having been an accom-
pllcc in the recent robbery at the Rail.
road Depot. He made considerable re-
sslancc, and discharged eight balls fron,
two rcro'"crs among the party who made
the arrest. no one WIS seriously injured.
The Columbia papers say that corn is
wanted i'll that city 1T the present time
and that provisions Of all kinds will meet
with ready sale.
~ tie sale Of The late Mr. Picker
!ng's collection of manuscripts and auto
graph letters, by Mc$srs. So,!cby & vii.
kinson, in Wellington street, London.
we're some highly interesting relics Of
| the poet Burns, iich realized eXtraurdin
arIIy high 8cs. The greatest attraction
was l'.t -. being the celebrated "Scots
! wha hac w" n!acc blcd," written in a
i'lfT ho'" ,if the suhjrr, Ind ,n7pr-
ed The very hat l-wrilinG of the bard
rms sold zoo 1870, and was purchased for
America. The original document signed
and sealed, appointing the poet M excise.
man, produced E5 lbs. 81. Th, 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 GI2 l6s Cd; and Jo.
scph Ri,Son's Bbli4sraphiu !Scotin, with
All autograph note 10 George Chnlnlers,
requesting him to deliver it in to the hands
Of Waller Scott. GlO los.
The number OF Christian Jews in the
world is estimated by one Of their number
! pt ,pI rs,
cral hundred are in the United States
many OF them occupying highly rcspccta-
bic positions, as merchants, c'crgymcn and
physicians.
The Transcript, in speaking Of the un-
just snsrcions which sometimes attach 10
officers o! banking institutions, states that
within Il few months, the specie on hand
al one 0i the banks in State street, repor-
ted 10 be SjOil0 short. Some twenty days
was spent III an invest gator. and it turned
out, after all, that the gold was right but
mistake IN the figures lad caused those
anxious days and nights which had heen
! passed hy the clerks in whose dcpartmcnt
I
or case a check for 1000 was missing, and
! II was the cause Of great uneaslncs amonp
the bank officers, till it was discovered
| pinned between two bank bills which had
been sent to another institution for relemp
ton. Within few days, a mystery was
CLEARED up i'll bank where it was discov-
cred that two bills for $500 dnlars each
had been taken by nice and nibbled so as
to almost destroy the Identity; but the re-
moval OF the furniture to anol er building
revealed who had been the thieves.
i a contemporary says that 'too much
has lately been said by many persons and
Journals concerning ladies' running their
husbands by extravaganza, in buying silk
dresses and such other expensive articles ,
lie says that not once has The use of