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"the banner,. A 1> l> IV \ r r T T -11 -? - - ? ' .fv jl> i> iii v i i j I i i'i L. It., ?S. Wednesday, Dee. i22, BSA7. |E|*We are requested to state that tin re will be preaching in t.J?e Methodist Chureh, in this place, on next Sabbath, by the lie v. Mr Gatnewell. "Murder Will Out." We learn that one of the negroes now in prison at this pl:ice, under suspicion of murdering his master, Mr. L. WiJeman, has I r i . .? " curiit-ssuu loinciact. lie says he alone io the guilty one, and that he was unaided. IHccting of tlac Doctors. By reference to a noiice found in this paper. it will be seen that the Doctors contemplate holding a meeting on Sale Day n ;xt at this place, in order to adopt some measures towards elevating the standard of their profession. We regard this as praiseworthy and ii is a step which should have been taken years ago. The requsitior.s in nearly all the Medical Colleges throughout the United States are so trifling, that any man now, educated or uneducated, with but little reading and a smattering of the profession can procure a licen.se to practice. Consequently, the profession has Income crowded, and men have almost ceased to respect not only the profession but the name of Doctor. If there is any class of men who should be learned and most thoroughly acquainted with thoir nrnfixssinn nov? tn J Iiv.iip iU ITIIHICVCIO UJ the Gospel, it is the Doctors of our land. The responsibilities resting upon them are very great; into their hands the sick and aftlicted trust themselves, relying upon their skill for relief. And surely that mar* is not to be envied in feelings, if he has any, who from want of a proper attention to his profession mistakes the disease of his patient, and bv administering a wrono- dos*. <_j O > hasten his death ; and yet we doubt not thai nunureus ui &uuli insltiricos have occurred. Instead of being required to read medicine for two years, six shouid be the shortest time in which any student should be granted a license. Go on Doctors, elevate the standard of your profession ; in this you will be sustained by the general voice of the people. Then may you hope to see the thousand nostrums which arc ruining the constitu- ! tions of our fellows, with quacks and impostors driven from amongst us. Award of fremitim*). We have had described to us a very interesting scene which took place in Greenwood on Friday last at the Female Academy, under the control of the Baptist denomination, conducted with much sUill and success by Professors Nicholas and his Lady. It was on the occasion of a distribution of premiums of considerable value given by the Principal to the first and second best compositions in each of the first two classes. We understand the compositions which were rend to the company were highly creditable to their respective writers The distribution was made by the llev. James M. Oiiiues who addressed the Pupils in a few but happily adapted remarks. YVe are pleased to learn that the prospects of this Academy for the ensuing year are quite nattering. The attention of the public is invited to the advertisement of this school in to-day's paper. Tlic Legislature. Adjourned on Friday last. Nothing; of very great importance has been done by ^ this body this session. The bill asking appropriations for the several Rail Road projects was lost. The Resolution giving Chancellor Harper's family 3,500 was fina1I?v anjf pu,C3CCl. Latest From Mexico. The news from Mexico is interesting and highly important if true. The first rumor is that Santa Anna is in the field again with an army of 18,000 men threatening to dissolve the Congress now in session at Q,ueretaro; and that Gen. Worth wi?h a strong force had been sent to protect .it in its deliberations. This however is not to be relied upon, for it is believed that Santa Anna fea* not at this time m< re than 200 men at Tits command. Oen. Ajiaya was eleetcd President on the 11-th ult, his present term of office extends ml/itoihe 8th of January next. It is said mmBaamamammmmmmmmmmmaKmammmmjmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmamm i lie is in favor of p^aee, also the whole nc'.' ministration. Coiumisdioucis were sent to the city of Mexico to re-op on negotiations with Mr. Trist, hut before their arrival, his powers had been revoked and they were consequently referred by Gen. Scoit to the ' General Government at \Va.-hin?iton. It is stated also, that Gen. Worth, and , Pillow and Lt Col. Duncan hail been arrest- j ed by com.nan 1 of (Jen. Soo't in eou >equ;Mi- j <;e of some I 'tte.s falling into his hand.i re- ; <i : i u'.tuiiy iijiuu liis ciMiacmr. dca. Sliicltl*. This distinguished loader of our Regi-' merit has al lu<t arrived in o:jr State and j met wish a hrarty recepiiuii from our ci:i- j /.ens. I.t Columbia he was the lion of the j day, whilst he remained and o very attention j was paid hiin by tin: yood citr/ensofthat place j Hi; is now in Charleston on hi.? way t> Wa- j shing;on. ^ I'toui We h avc nolhing that would interest our ^ * I. a ' 1 .... .. nit: uiusi important ; item is, the appointment of Committees?, ! those of the Senate are much the same as : .! ! the last Ses?io:i but in the House a conside-' rable change has been made. Wo shall i lo >k for th news from Washington with ; some anxiety as thi.? will l>e an important session. ? / i From the Senate Journal December 10, 1817. ' RECEPTION OF GEN. SHIELDS j IN TIIF. SKN.VTK CIIAMtlKR. At the hour of half-past eleven o'clock, j IIis Excellency, the Governor, attended by i hia suite, and the committee oi arran<?pmet?f<e ^ ? O ~J j was announced at the bar of the House, j Mr. Buchanan, chairman of the committee ; on the part of the Senate, advanced with j Hrigadier-Goneral Shields up the aisle j fronting the President's desk, and addressed j the President as follows : Mr. President?The committee of the ; Senate appointed for *he occasion, have the | honor of introducing to the Senate, the j guesl of the State, Brigadier-Gen. Shields. ! The brave, the gallant, the humane and the ! victorious General?the commander of the i special friend and guardian of South Caro- j lina's own Palmetto Regiment. To which the President responded, as j follows: General?In the natne and on behalf of the body over whose deliberations I have lhf> hnnnr In nroji/la T - -- - j,.v-jhjsi jjicci yim as ilie | guest of the Stale?and respectfully invite ! you, *vnh 1???? F.*rid)eney; to a seat in this I chamber. At the announcement of Gen'l. Shields, the hoaitol theCorolinian "lows with quick, i generous emotion. Thought wings her i way to distant battle-fields, where glory and renown have been won by a gallant army : for a confiding country. The rough inci- : dents, and brilliant f.'U?s of those stirring ' scenes in which you have so largely parti- , oijMted, rise irresistibly and vividly to the j mind. At Cerro (ionlo, where the bold impetuous llarm-y scaled the rocky steep, and carried the heights by storm at Coot re- 1 ras, where was exhibited the rare virtue of! a Brigadier General waiving rank, and ! ctt ?r>or. ?c!t u ?? a U ?. 1,1 ' 1 n .. ..icuj uniri^ tl?'J WCli-lUSa [MUHS Ol his junior?at Churubusco, where the chi- ! valsyofour people, and the prowess of American arms were illustrated in a re- j maskable manner, and where the lamented ; lluiler fell; in thege last engagements?' in the nearer approaches to Mexico?under the walls?within the gates of the city? ' you witnessed the conduct ainJ courage, the j dt;v;?ti'?n an 1 death of the brave and valued i sons of Carolina. You shared with their 1 dmsjor.*, privations and triumphs. Welcome to the hospitalities of their mother country ! Welcome to the Earths ofthose, whose brothers aril friends you have marshalled in War?have defeated j in council! \Velcoino to the grateful hearts j of those, whose son^, brothers arrJ frien Is ; have, under your watchful care,been nu.se.l when wounded and bl- edinj*?been soothed comf.trted when dying?been cherished and solaced when droopinir under influence of disease and hardship, in a foreign lan^, far, far from home! Be one of us! The Senate of South Carolina once more offers you a hearty welcome ! General Shields responded warmly and eloquently to the address expressing hie grateful sense of the honors he had received among the people of South Carolina. General Shields and IIis Excellency, the Governor, then accepted the seats provided ! for llvnm ?!?/> ^ ' 1,L ^ w? .u<.in uiiu me uu.'MiirHs oi me senate was suspended for one hour, during which time the members of the Senate, and the citizens who thronged the Senate Chamber on the occasion, were presented and paid their respects to General Shields. From the House Journal, December 16,1847. IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES. General Shie ds accompanied by His Excellency the Governor, and tho Joint Committee of both House appointed to make arrangements for his reception, entered the Hall of the House, and was introduced by Mr. Jamison Chairman of ih? ?. ...W of this House ; when the Speaker rose and 1 said: r General?I have the honor, in behalf of | this branch of this General Assembly, to , express to you the great gratification we , feel in becoming personally acquainted with one who is already 60 favorably known to 1 us by xeputation, and it now endeared to us I by tin; i inteiestinpf associations. hi their name L tender you a cordial welcome to South Carolina, and by their j authority I invite you to a seat on the floor of this House. To which General Shields replied:? Mr. Speaker?It affords me much pleas are to mulct* the acquaintance of the representatives ot till* ni?n?i!i? nt - i I ' - The association to which you have alluded, sir, are as dear to m<* as they can he to (lii.s honorably body, and I shall ever regard ii as anions the. most fortunate events of my i life, that I have heen brought into fellowship with the citi/ms of a rotate so distinguished as South Carolina. I let 1 nio.-i sensibly the generous manner in which 1 have been received in your (Ja- I pital, and inacccpiing a seat on the floor j ol the House. permit me to return to the body over which you preside, my prolound aclcno\vIe<lg<mo:.t for the compliment best j we J ou From I/in Simt/t Carolinian. \\ e have bc:*n tavored with tho (nlInwirifT " '"o Kxtract froi:i a letter written by an officer in tin; llegul ir service, to a gentleman of this State, which will be read with great interest. ' There were many instances of personal valor and heroism displayed in these bloody j battles, and among your acquaintances I I must mention the name of* ired Simkins, a member ot' the Edge hi id Company. Ho h;is acted nobly throughout and has won the praise of the. Regiment On the evening before the battle of Chapultepec, while the enemy's batteries and ours were at pretty hot work, an order was issued that a storming party, to consist of two hiindr...t and fifty men, should be formed. It was thought thai the fight would he desperate, and lhat death would be the fate of those who were ahead. When the South Carolina Regiment was called on to furnish its men, (which was seven,) there seemed to be some slight commotion in the ranks But it was only momentary; for almost immediately Eld red Simkins stepped forward, followed by R. Watson oft he Abbeville Company, declaring that they were ready to go wherever they were told. The remaining five were not long in following their example. The next morning the firing of our batteries ceased which was the signal for the storming party to advance. Their march wis directed to the batterv at the h:i?n ??' I the hill, and the intervening ground was a plain covered wilh small bushes, the tops of which being cut off, the protection afforded was very slight. They advanced over this plain Air a considerable distance, amid the fire of cannon and musketry, without discharging a single gun. As they drew nearer, the fire became so extremely severe, j and so many were shot down, that the j slightest possible wavering began to be per- j ceplible. It was at this time that the coin- | mander ordered a charge, and, tinning to j the South Carolinians, said?" conic on my j Palmetto boys, it is on yon 1 depend." i With these words, the charge became general, and then it was that all the Palmettos fell except Si in kins. He was in the thick est oi the tight and among the first to scale the walls. When I reached {he Castle, lie was about the tirst man 1 saw. He had a bottle of liquor in one hand, which he said he had taken from a Mexican soldier "and that he was now in search of Dick Watson to <*ive him a drink." Watson had been wounded in the charge. As soon as he had found Dick and give him the liquor, he hurried ofi'to join the Regiment which was then on its march towards the Garita. During the whole of the last fi^ht he was j alwa s where t lie re was the greatest danger, | .lii-i v^;t()i<nn ues^ausure informed ine that, j after the entire Regiment h:?d retired from within the (*arita, he. remained behind at- | tempting to tic up the wounds of Blocker and o-hers belonging to his company. He has since been promoted from the ranks." A Washington letter in the Philadelphia Inquirer s*av^:?The Pn>?i(Un? Anna, ? , -w lit. VIUV3 IlUt recommend, in lih? Message, the establishment of a mission to Rome, but 1 learned that it will hereafter be proposed. Mr. \Viek!iffe has been recalled lrom Turin, and thus, some five Charges are to be aj>poiuted. Mr. Trist will, it is supposed,have either Romt>, Naples or Turin Mr. Waddell, of New York, is, I learn, very strongly recommended for one of the vacanocs. CoNDiTfoN op the Free Blacks in the Northern Cities. The Philadelphia Bulletin makes the following statement:? During the month of November the Coroner held 44 inniiA^? */! ?>'? -n _ ?|?,.v o.iu ?? news, 111 ail 66, anil being an average of over twoday ! Most of these were in the wretched hovels of Moyamensing, occupied by the deprnded blacks who have died of disease generated by their squalid mode of life?from the want of medical attention and proper nourishment, and from intemperance, exposure, and neglect. Th is is the condition of comfort and happiness to which the fanatical philanthropists of the North would elevate the Blacks of the Southern States I A Cuaious SoninTv.? A r*-~ ?. III WIN* cinnati, called the "Last Man," held its anniversary meeting in that city on Wednesday, the 17th ult. It was organised sixteen years ago, and but four of its members now survive, which remoent metMo new member? were taken in after organization, and the Society continues annually to meet as long a? one survive* JFrom the Columbia Com. lie rail. COLUMBIA, DEC. 13. sisrswn:. Mr. Manning submitted a communication from Messrs. A. T. Burnley, Johnson Co., of New-Origins, asking to bo robin (led tho sum of $7 040,33, furnished the 1'almetto Regiment, as an out-lit on their way to Mexico. Messrs. Manning, Buehannan and Manna, were appointed a Committee on tlie part < of the Senate, to join a similar Committee J to be appointed on the part of the House to j ( investigate and report of tho same. The following hill were read the second time to the ! I nse : A hiil to confirm .). S Bird, a naturalized J I citizen, a title to aecrtain lot of land in tho : city of Charleston. A hiil to alter the law in relation to IVla giMrate's Executions, arid the duty ofSher- I ill's as to Executions in their nlTiens A Hill t'> amend tUu charter of the Charleston Insurance and Trust Company, uml also to aint ml <in Art entitled {\m Act to reduce the capital of the Charleston Insur- 1 ance and Trust Company," passe.I 10th day of December 1843. A bill to establish a uniform day throughout the State lor the election of Clerk, ^henil', Ordinary, and Tax Collector. A Bill to incrersc the powers of the Com i naissioners of Cross Roads for (.Charleston I Nock. I A Bill to divide Beat Company No 3 Upper Batallion, 15th Regiment South C. Mi I ilia. I A Rill tn :i iV?o FT Ci i.. - .vu i II v O . k7( UJ jMUtlMSU a piece of land in this State for the erection of u Light House. A Bill to incorporate the Charleston Sugar Refining Company. A Bill to provide tor the election of Electors of President and Vice President of the IJ. S., was read the 3d time and rejected? Yeas 10, Nays 10. The following Bills were also taken up for the '2d reading and rejected : A Bill to amend the sixth Section of an Act entitled and Act for the belter regulation and government of free negroes and persons of color, and for other purposes, ratified'2 Id Dec. 1S2*2. A Bill to require the Sheriffs of the several districts ol" this State to make annual reports of certain prisoners in their cu?toily. A Bill to provide for ilie regsitry ol Marriages, Births and deaths throughout the Slate. iiousk or nr:iMt!:sKNTAT?\ri:s. The tallowing Resolutions wore submitted by Mr. D.iSaussure, froin the Committee on Foreign Resolutions: 1. D e it Itrsolced It// the Senate and House ofR'-p resentatines of the Stale, of Smith Carolina, voir: met and sitting in General Assembly, That the Government of the U. States has no control, (iireetiy or imiirectiy, meuiatelly or immediately, over the control, it transcends the limits of its legitimate iiinctions by destroying the internal organization of the sovereignties who created it. 2. Ile.soi.ced, That ail territory which may be acquired by the arms of the United States or yie.ded by treaty with any foreign power belonging to the several States of the Union as their joint and common property, in whieh each and all have equal rights ; and i that the enactments by the Federal Govern- ] ment of any law, which should directly, or | by its effects, prevent the citizens of any j State from emigrating with their property of whatever description into such territo y, would make a discrimination unwarranted by and in violation of the Constitution, and the right* ol the State, from which such citizens emigrated, and in derogation of that perfect equality that belongs to the several States as members of this Union, and would tend directly to subvert the Union itself. 3. Resolved, That if in disregard alike of the spirit and principle of the Act ofCongress, on the admission of the State of Missouri Compromise, and of every consideration of justice, of constitutional right and of fraternal feeling, the fearful, issue shall be forced upon the country, which must result from the adoption and attempted enforcement of the proviso ^foresaid, as an Act of the General Government, the people of S. Carolina can have no difficulty in choosing I between the only alternative that will then remain, ofabject submission to aggression and outrage on the one hand, or determined resistence on the other, at all hazards, and to the last extremity. 4. Resolved, That this General Assembly holds it to be the duty of every man, in every section of the Confederacy, if the Union is dear to him, to oppose the passage of any 1 C. 1- ? - - iuw, lur wnuiever purpose, Dy which territory to be acquired may be subject to a restriction. 5. Resolved, That the passage of the above mentioned Proviso makes it the duty of every slave-holding State, and of all the citizens thereof, as the value their dearest privileges, their sovereignty, their independence, and their rights of property, to.take firm, united, and conserted action in this emergency. The House proceeded to the special order of the day, which was a Bill givingthe election of Electors of President and Vive President of the United States to the people, and various other measures in relation (here w,?auer aisscussion a JbJill, offered by Mr. Davie to provide for the appointment of Electors of President and Vice Presidentofthe United States, by the people of South Carolina, was read the second time, agreed to, and ordered to the Senate. *Yeas 64, Nays 54. The Bill offered by Mr. Memminffer on ' the same subject was next discussed, and with ull matters relating thereto, was laid upon the table. Ye is 70, Nay? 46. LATEST FROM MEXICO. From the New Orleans Picayune, 13/A inst. Iinporrant News! The sclir. Portia. Cant. \V:ik omn n nr. rived here 011 Sunday afternoon, having sailed from Vera Cruz on ihe 13th inst. The news by this arrival is very important. and first of all, the story about Santa Anna's being at the head of 18,01)0 men, and threatening and overawing Congress, an ! the despatch of Gen. Worth to Querela ro to protect Congress?all turns out to be mere moonshine; no more authentic than (Jen. Scott's famous entry into Mexico in the middle of July last. A gentleman thoroughly conversant with Mexican affairs, who came passenger on the Portia, j assures us from the best information he eon 1.1 obtain, he is satisfied that in place of being in command of eighteen thousand men, Santa Anna has not eighteen hundred, nor even a hundred and eighty followers. Gen. A nay a was elected President of Mexico on the 11th inst. He has once be. fore been Provisional President. I lis pre1 sent term of office extends only to the 8th oi January next. He is known to be in favor of peace. The whole administration is in favor of an honorable peace, and one of iis first acts was to despatch a commission ' to the city of Mexico to re-open negotia! lions with Mr. Trist. It is presumed they j were referred to our Government at Waslii ington. j The next most important intelligence by | this arrival is the reported arrest of Gen. ! Worth, Gen. Pillow and Lieut. Col. Dunj can, by Gen Scott. The verbal report is i that letters written by these gentleman re} fleeting upon the commander in-chief have j fallen into his possession, upon which he | arrested the in. Letters from the city of j Mexico of the 24th November make im mention ol the3c arrests, A resolution of A Senor Zuliata, to crect the city of Mexico into an independent state during the occupation by the American army, which was rejected by the Congress, has made another proposition that the fed! end compactshould be broken and the union destroyed, which was rejected at once. The Governors of the States are still in session at Querelaro, and have proposed two questions to the Government, to which they demand clear and peremptory replies. 1st. In what character they havo been cmIIimI taqesher. and will the Government submit to their decision. 2d. Will the Government make known, Willi clpiirilllCJ ?>W( lV.%r<l?n??? j - i.v.n.- miu uuimiica.^ lilt JJI u^rillllmi> of its policy with regard lo peace or war. The Government bad auswered these two question* by staling that they had been called together solely for the purpose of throwing light upon the subject, that the Ciciieiiil would be able :n eo*ne manner to surrender its powers, and that it was more inclined te open or continue ne* foliations of pcace than to prosecute ?ho> war. There is no news as yet as to the dissolution of Congress. It is suid that President Anaya has written to Gen. Itancon and se| veral other influential persons, requesting them tn repair to Queretaro and confer with them as to what ston^ he should take in the present crisis. : On the Sth iust., thiily-six waggons bej longing to merchants m Mexico and Puebla, lelt the latter place with a lot of tobacco, dry goods and brandy, destined for this city. On reaching San Martin, Gens. Rea and Torrejon, in command of the guerrilla i forces there, made a descent uponjjthc wagj gons, captured them and started off for I Qneretaro via Tlascala. Information was conveyed to Gen. Lane at Puebla, who started after them with a force of infantry and the cavalry command of Capt. Roberts. When thev reached Tlasnnlsi ih^v the enemy there and Capt. R.. who had been sent to the rear of the town, seeing a movement to run off the train, eharged upon the guerrillas, completely routed them, killed seventeen, and taking thirteen officers prisoners. In the meantime a portion of the wagons which had been taken a mile from the city by a party of the enemy,were set on fire and six destroyed, before the infantry came up, who rescued the remainder. ! Santa Anna has assumed the command i* . > ? . i oi tne army in u.tjaca. He avows his determination to oppose any negotiation for peace with the American forces occupyi .g any portion of the Mexican territory. Gen. Patterson's division left Jalapa on the 23th ult. Before leaving he hung, on the 23d, two American teamsters, for having killed a Mexican boy 12 years old, and two Mexican officers, who were taken pri?- oners commanding guerrillas, without hav? ing been exchanged. YET LATER. The steamship Virginia, Capt. Tucker, has just arrived from Vera Crua, having left on the 7th inst. , lk The large train under command of Gen. Dutler has nearlv all left. The number of men accompanying it is estimated at 8,000. Gen. Scott will soon have from 25,000 to 30,000 men. > v The Arco Iris of the 2d inst,, says the Mexican Commissioners retired at once to Qucretaro upon learning that Mr. Trist bad no power to treat. <_ Antidote to Arsenic.?M. Bussy, of the Paris Academy of Sciences, pays that magnesia, slightly calcined, or still beUer in a gelatinous state* in an antidote to ftrsenic. He says that, when administered within a nAl?lA/l ill ^ . -i. ? - ypuilUU ?HC| laHIIIU UI IUU JK)]SOnf H