The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1855-05-16


charged with robbing Il letter from Gal
containing six hundred dollars.
= Fhe celebrated Professor Agassiz has
declined IN offer Of the Profcssorship of
Natural History in the University of Ed
inburg with a salary of ten thousand dol
He prefers to remain at Harvard
from n desire to mould aud dcvc!opc sci
cn'ltic learning in this country.
The cholera has appeared among the
rmigrant passengers on tho Upper Missis'
sippi. On the 43rd ult. The steamer Mon
tauk buried seven of her passengers, vic.
TINS Of the cholera, between Kcokuk and
Dubuque. Il,crc were seventeen cases
ON the Royal Arch, during her upward
trip to st. Pau! last week.
Governor Gardner sent 4 message to
the House OH the lO:h inst, refusing to
remove Judge BORING. The message was
laid on The table without action, and eight
thousand copies ordered to be printed.
The ILon. Jumcs l.. Orr, in lis rcccn,
speech before the South Carolina Institute,
in Charleston, mcnt;ons Il fact worthy of
notice. In speaking Of hc'imponluncc Of
home manilluctor!es lie says:
''I'lr extensive carriage manuiac.ory
at Grernv,l!c ~en,pleys some fifty mcchau-
les, and sells annually not less than sew
cniy-!ivc' thousand dollars wor,h OF ork.
The market wl,ich ii IurniS hes TO The vari-
OTIS branches OF industry in the district.
III lis consumption Of lumber, material,
PROVISIONS. Nc, d.iilscs u prosperity in the
district grca'cr than is done l,y all the
capital expended ~ our friends from the
middle and lower districts, in their sum
ricr excursions and residences in THIS
beautiful mountain town. \ dozen suc!!,
manufactures, employed in making other
articles Of prime necessity now purchased
abroad would make every hill AMI every
valley blossom with plenty, and every
heart swell in Happy content.
The New York Herald, socarinu Of
The know Nothin. organization saws:
1--WE have somewhat sustained this move
mcnl, believing that good must result
from ii, in quasl'ing The corruptions of
ihtS Pierce administration, and in ilcadinr
oil lhc great Northern Seward scheme ul
a renewed anti. slavery agitation, and Il
sectional contest Tor lie SucccSsiou. Let
II be understood, however, That the mo.
meat VIC are assured Of a coalition ior the
Spoils between tie an, i-slaycry men and
the Know No'hin!s of the North, upon
The scditruua platform OF Seward and his
conlr'lcraics, or anything Ike it. hal mo-
mcnt we abandon AND resist the ornan:za-
non as i lrcacllcrous conspiracy, and "a
/" party organized upon false %prctcnccs.
II is rumorcd in Washington tia, The
ricsidcn, vii! appoint J"dgc f.. G.. Loring,
OF H2S'on. tn the vacancy il tho Court Of
Claims. occasioEel iy IuLIc I~.urnpkin's
declining the appointment.
IL reply !" lie iiiusc lie WASHINGTON
Sta remarks 1T is hardly possible thai
The President can tender I" THIS dis,il-
%u',llcd gentleman the position on, the
new cha ms made vacant by Ike dcclrns:on
OF Judge lMLipkin, 81 Georgia. 70 do so,
would be 10 take the whole e t!iis court
'roln the non.slayc!oilinS sAate.-a
stroke of policy which would he likely to
i'jure is s,ar d ng with Congress, and in
the Sn"t!l, ]ilre.ries ably"
Il is also stated that :" Il distinguished
'.r!inian: now IN W%a$h;nntnnr says The
President can decide the Virginia election
~ the removal Of Cay. Isccdcr and the
appointment OF Judge ~l.oring, Of Massa-
chnsctls, III his pace, aud he is strongly
urging the Administered; II to pursue tin;
course
The Washington Iniou learns will,
much pleasure ska, the vacancy IN the
Court q C.alin>, caused by The non-acccp.
tance OF the Hon. J. IL. LlmpHin, o.,
.Gcorgio, has been il'lc,l by the appoint.
ment OF The llol. uoorgc +. s;cauburgh,
tie present ahle Professor OF Mun.cipaI
ANA CONSTITUTIONS Law in the Culierc of
William AMI Mary, AT williamsburg, Vir
ginia.
The Geneva 6 .Zc;tc OF Saturday saws
"Our citizens for two days past have been
considerably Interested, and solue OF them
n grca. deal excited. in reference to \
strange and thus lar iueNp!icahlc phc.
n"mcnon, that las occurred in i!ic waters
OF Seneca Lake nuring The Whole OF
WcdIcsd y and Yesterday the waters
would rise and fall, in a space of time
varying rom ten innnuits to la { an hour.
continuously through those days from five
inches 10 Two feet in height. Just after
shutdown OH Wednesday evening II friend