Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-02-21
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ems Butler, for Vice President.
To enjoy life, you should be little
miserable occasionally. Trouble, like cay
enne, is not very agreeable in itself but 1t
gives zest to other things.
The New Orleans True Delta says,
there is now on exhibition in that city a
horse, twenty-one hands high, and weighing
two thousand and sixty pounds.
The once we'll known Father Math.
ew, of Temperance notoriety, is now one OF
the missionaries of the Church of Rome in
the Feeje Islands.
The Petersburg Iutelligencer states
that the small pox is at present raging to
fearful extent at Richmond. 1t is said that
there are at present more than fifty cases IN
the hospital.
g Washington, February l5.-A car
for the Orange and Alexander Railroad is
now being transported on the ice to Alexan-
dria. 1t is drawn by five horses, and weighs
nine tons.
< Providence Feb. ll.-Ah engine be-
longing to the Hartford and Providence
railroad exploded this morning in the Lo-
comotive house, killing John Vaug han the
engineer, and partially demolishingt the build
ing.
- Intelligence has been received by the
St. Louis that the Sloop-of- War John Adams
had burnt five of the largest towns in the
Feejee Islands, in consequence of the in
habitants having plundered several Ameri-
can ships. A treaty ofpeaee was afterwards
signed.
We see it stated in an exchange paper
that ex-senator Westcott, (of Florida orig
inally, we belive, of Pennsylvania, is the po-
litical editor Of the N Y. Herald. Mr.. Ry-
an, an Irishman, is the general editor, and
Mr.. Hudson is the comptroller of the whole,
or representative of Benefits self.
The President of the Spartanburg aud
Union Rail Road has advertised for propo-
sails, until the 5th of March, for the laying
of the track-and performing all manner of
work connected therewith-from Shelter or
the crossing of Broad river, to Spartanburg,
q distance of near fifty miles.
At funeral service held recently in
Norfolk in respect to the memory Of the
husbands, wives and children of those who
had fallen by the pestilence, it was observed
that one of the bereaved husbands was list
ening every complacently to the eulogies of
his deceased wife, while her successor, his
second 'help-mate,' was sitting close to him.
a Washington correspondent Of one
of the New York papers writes that an active
correspondence has taken place on slavery,
between Lord Carlisle and Chas. Sumner.
The league between the aristocracy of Eng
land and the abolition traitors ofthis country
seems to be perfect
a series of fimpertinent anti-slavery re-
solutions, adopted by the Legislature of Yer
mont, having been transmitted by the Gov
ernor of Alabama, to the Legislature; that
body, on Tuesday, referred them to select
committee, with the following resolution Of
ferred by Mr.. Davis, of Benton: Resolved,
That the Governor be requested to place in
the hands of his negro boy Russell, the re-
solutions received from the Governor of Yer
mont, as relates to his message on Kansas,
and that the negro boy Russell be instructed
to return them with his utter contempt, of
the course pursued by the Vermont Legis-
lature, and that he, the said negro boy, will
not condescend to notice Vermont, or its
Governor any more, on the ground that the
Vermont Legislature has made him equal,
if not superior, to the white race in that
State.
The National Democratic Review,
which has just been commenced in Boston by
Geo. P. Buel, Esq, contains an elaborate
article on the one term principle as applica-
BILE to the Presidency. The writer contends
that the trainers of the Constitution commit
ted great error in allowing the President
to be eligible for second term, and he ap-
peals to the Democracy throughout the coun-
try to select delegates to the Cincinnati Con-
vention with the special view of 'the formal
adoption OF the single term principle as
portion Of the Democratic creed The wri-
ter in the Review Quotes liberaly from the
philosophical French writer, NJ. de Toe
queville, and relies upou the enumeration of
the evils, Of permitting President to be
reelected.
Rev. Philip w Taylor, native of
Caroline county, Va, soldier of the Revo-
lution, and one of the early pioneers of Ken
lucky, died on the 24th ult., in Shelby coun-
ty, KY. He was present at the surrender of
Cornwsllis, soldier in COL Mathews regi-
ment. In 1881 he came to Kentucky. On
his way down the river, his boat was attack
ed by the Indians twenty miles above Louis
Vile, and several Of his companions killed
and wounded, himself among the latter -
He knew personally Boone, Kenton, Todd,
Harlan, and indeed all the pioneer heroes
who settled the State He was for many
years Justice of the Peace in the county Of
Shelby, for two years its High Sheriff, and
for sixty years minister of the gospel.
Congress, it is expected will do some
thing this session towards the adoption Of a
uniform system of weights and measures,
similar to that which forms The basis Of cur
coinage. Other countries are mo'lhgi in the
same direction, and it is quite probable that,
in few years, all the commercial and civil
lied countries will have adopted q similar