Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-06-12
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ALL mankind are happier for having
been happy; so that if you make them hap
py now, you make them happy many years
hence by the memory of it.
THAT man only is truly brave who
fears nothing so much as committing mean
action, and undauntedly fulils his duty,
whatever be the dangers which impede his
way.
"Did you know" said a cunning Yam
kee to Jew, "that they hang Jews and
jackasses together in Portland !'' "Indeed !!
then it is we'll that you and I are not there"
returned the Jew.
The Hon. John NJ. Niles, formerly
Senator in Congress from Connecticut, and
Postmaster General under President Van
Buren, died at New Haven on Sunday in
the sizty-ninth year of his age.
- Florence Nightingale has been gazet-
ted as directress general of all hospitals in
the British dominions. No nurses can for
the future be appointed in any public hospi-
tai without her sanction.
WASHINGTON, June IA meeting
in ratification of the nomination of Mr..
Buchanan for the Presidency, was held
here this evening aud speeches were made
by Messrs Cass, Stephens and Douglas.
"A little boy, while writhing under
the tortures of an ague, was told by his
mother to rise up and take powder she
had prepared for him. "Powder POWDER
said he, raising himself on one elbow, and
putting on smile, 'mother, I ain'ta gun"
Boston, June 6.-The citizens of
Boston have presented testimonial to Mr..
Sumner, valued at 81, 500, who express their
unqualified appreciation Of his speech
Among the subscribers to the testimonial are
Edward Everett, Joseph Quincy and Pro-
fessor Longfellow.
The Washington Star says it is satis-
fed that the reports of Summers severe in
juries are greatly exaggerated. 1t under
stood that the physician first called in to
dress his wound has said that Mr.. Sumner
could have gone out Of his room the next
day if he had chosen. We had suspected as
much all along.
Some of the citizens of Augusta,
Georgia, upon hearing of the arrival of Mr..
and Mrs Brooks, the parents of the Hon. P.
S. Brooks, at the Augusta Hotel, on Tues
daylight last, complimented them with aser-
enade The affair was got up at short notice,
but choice gems of music were artisticaliy
executed, on dozen instruments or more,
and the serenade closed with three hearty
cheers "for the Hon. Preston S. Brooks, of
South Carolina"
"Ot the rapidity which some portions
of the machinery employed in the manufac-
ture of cotton operate, We may form an idea
from the fact that the very finest thread
which is used in making lace is passed |
through the strong fame of a lamp, which !
burns off the fbres without burning the
thread itself. The velocity with which the
thread moves is so great that We cannot per-
ceive any motion at ALL The line of thread,
passing off wheel through the fame, looks
as if it were perfectly at rest, and it appears
miracle that it is not burned"
CINcINNTI, June 5.-Last night
shocking affair occurred in front of the Bur
net House. Geo. P. Buell., editor of the
Democratic Review, at Washington, made a
speech in front of the hotel denouncing the
Know Nothings and Abolitionists, when he
was interrupted by an individual in the
crowd and finally they came to blows; in
the melee Buell. was stabbed in the back
with knife, which penetrating to his lungs
inflicted a dangerous wound. His condi-
tion this morning is critical-bleeding in
ternally.
- Mr.. Brooks has been burned in effgy
at Cambridge, Massachusetts,. The Connec-
ticut Legislature has adopted resolutions cal
ling for the expulsion of Mr.. B. from the
House of Representatives. In the Mas
sachusetts House of Representatives, on
the 26th ult., resolution was introduced
instructing the Adjutant General of State
to furnish each of their Senators and Rep
resentatives in Congress two of Colts six
barrel revolvers If, instead of revolvers,
says the Baltimore Sun, they were furnished
with broad national views, and good common
sense, unmixed with fanaticism and narrow
mined bigotry, it would be far better for
themselves, and rebound to the honor of the
State of Massachusetts,.
j. Watson Webb, Esq. Editor of the
New York Courier and Enquirer, writing
from Washington, asks: care there not
among us-can there not be found in the
great North, men of qualifications for both
the Senate and the House of Representa-
tives, who possess also the necessary moral
daring and physical courage to meet and put
down this disgusting bullying, either with
pistol or with bludgeon, as circumstances
may require? If there be such, let them be
sent here as your Representatives, until the
South are taught after their own fashion,
that there not only is North, but tina:
it is unalterably determined to assert all
its rights and to maintain all its privileges,
at the same time tina. it will in good faith,
at all times and in all places, promptly
discharge all its duties to the Union,
and hold sacred the rights of any section
of country (whether sectional, local, or
national, y under the Constitution, to which
the allegiance of all is equally due"