Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-02-07

this year has Indicated ~ deg. below zero.
A young man named Kirk Anderson
, has been arrested in St. Louis, No., for wear
ing "a shawl, on the ground that it was not ths
apparel of his sex. The case came up on Fri
day, and Anderson was fined $50. 1t has ere
: ated, intense excitement among the shaw
wearing gentry of St. Louis.
Z - The cold weather (says the Richmond
Enquirer) has proved quite fatal to birds O
every kind. 1t is stated that at least FIVE hun
dred dead birds have been found on section
of the railroad embracing distance of nine
miles, below Charlottesville; and patridges
and other birds have perished in considerable
numbers.
At the sale of the negroes of F. Stegal
deceased, in Halifax county, Va, few days
since, among other enormous high prices, one
negro man brought 81, 40, and another 81, ,452
both of whom were re-sold, privately, the same
s day, at an advance of $50 EACH They were
not considered No, l, in any respect, and were
ordinary field hands. A negro woman and two
small children brought over $1,000.
THE Vicksburg Sentinel of the 18th jan
nary, says: "Fhe river opposite our city was
full Of floating ice yesterday. This has not
been the case during any winter for many years
past, and it gives evidence of the extreme cold
weather which has had the effect of closing all
the upper rivers. Noboats have passed down
within the last few days from any point above
Cairo, and the prospect is not encouraging for
the opening of navigation for some time hence
- Dr. Rainey, of St. Thomas Hospital,
London, has written an article to the Lancet,
detailing the effects of creosote applied to warts
He applied it freely to an obstinate warty ex.
cresence on the finger, then covered it over
with piece of sticking plaster. This course
he pursued every three days for two weeks,
when the wart was found to have disappeared,
leaving the part beneath it quite healthy
This is certainly remedy which can be easily
applied by any person.
The Emperor Napoleon has again taken
the idea Of assuming actual command of an
army, and the report goes that he has stated
to General Bosquet, he should accompany him
to Finland in the spring. Rumor goes furth-
er, and says that the government will be ad-
ministered in his Emperors] absence, by a
Commission, composed Of Marshals Magran,
Valiant, Gen. Canrobert: Prince Napoleon,
and Court Walewski The British govern
ment is much opposed to these intentions.
"A correspondent of the Charleston Couri-
er, writing from New York, says: An ag-
gregate of S25, 900 is said to have been trink-
eted in to the daughter of ex-Mayor Nickel,
on her marriage to son of ex-Mayor Law
rance. saw, only this morning, at Ball,
Black & Co.'S an $500 diamond necklace,
just mounted as a brides present; also, a
brooch, at Tiffany & Co.'s costing 1000, in
tended as present to another bride. This is
about up to the Babylonian mark.
- Cincinnati, Jan. 2S.-A general stam-
pede of slaves from the border countries of
Kentucky, took place last night. The where
abouts of several having been discovered in
this city, posse of officers proceeded to-day,
about noon, to make arrests. They were ap-
preaching one house where several were Sc
creted, when the latter fired, wounding some
two or three spectators, but not seriously. One
slave woman finding escape impossible, cut the
throat of one her children, killing it instatly,
and severly wounded two others in attempt to
kill them. Eight, it is said, made their es-
cape entirely.
"A strange suicide was committed in the
city of Leeds, England, recently, by man in
the prime of life, whose appearance betokened
poverty and misery. He went into an inn,
took pipe, and after sitting moodily by the
fire for ten minutes, put the end of poker in
to the stove. When it became red hot he took
it out, and deliberately put the hot end down
throat The persons present caught hold Of
him and seized the poker, but not until he had
burned his throat and mouth so badly as to
cause his subsequent death.
In the recent European war Russia has
had large share Of American sympathies, but
we are shocked at the accounts Of its inhu-
manities. The recent arrival informs us that
the Emperor Alexander II, has ordered a
special court to be formed at Kieff for trying
captured Poles aud Hungarians. The form
er are to be punished with death, the latter de-
livered to the Austrians for execution. So
many Polish and Hungarian prisoners are TAX
en- in irons to Kieff, that no fewer than four
Judges, ten secretaries, and executioners innu-
merable, are continually employed in their con-
demnation. The blood of these men will a
rise like that of martyrs, and sit heavy upon
the head, heart and arm of the Russian EN-
peror!
- The editor of the Winnsboro Register,
writing to his paper from Charleston, says:-
owe have heard of nothing in the literary
world, save the fact that Mr. Grayson has now
in manuscript, a poem, to be published this
spripc, considered by competent judges the
most beautiful and really poetic eausion that
has appeared for years on either side OF the Wa
tiers. Mr.. Grayson will be readily remember,
cd As the author of The Hireling and Slave
a. little volume of which there have already