Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-06-19
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3 60 Be careful Of your own before protect
ing that of others.
Col. Thomas H. Benton accepts the
nomination for Governor of Missouri and
is making arrangements to stump che State
The citizens of Col. Brooks Congress
sional Distric. have united to give him a
public dinner at Ninety Six, at such time as
will suit his convenience.
(. - The London papers, received by the
last steamer, mention that monument to
the memory of the Rev. John Wesley is to
be erected in bis native town, Epworth, In
Lincolnshire.
2 = Gen. jackson once said, that over
the doors of each House of Congress, in let
ters Of gold, should be inscribed the words /:
"The slanderer is worse than the murder
er."
( a great Kansas meeting was held
at Worcester, Mass, on the 9Th instant,
when a subscription list was opened and
I. some 81, 500, was collected on the spot
I Numerous volunteers for Kansas offered
themselves.
We learn from our Northern exchan-
ges that Mrs. Stowe is at work on a new
novel shortly to be published, which will il
lustrate the benighted and besotted condi-
tion Of the laboring white population OF the
Southern States.
- The wheat Crop in Michigan, where.
ever the snow laid updisturbed by the winds
during the winter, was never better or more
promising than it now is; but where the
ground was exposed, and the snow swept
away the crop is entirely destroyed. In
number, about one-third of the fields are
said to have been so swept, to the destruc-
ton of about oue-third the extent of those
fields.
The celebrated Mount of Olives, near
Jerusalem, has been purchased by a Madame
Polack, the widow of wealthy banker OF
the Hebrew persuasion at Konigberg. This
lady intends to beautify the place and i'm
prove the whole neighborhood, at her sole
expense. The first thing she had done was
to plant the whole area with grove of olive
trees, and thus to restore it to its original
state from which it derives its name.
Il meeting mas held in Chester G. H.
to approve and adorse the conduct Of Col.
Brooks in his fagelation of Senator Sumner,
when it was resolved that the Senate Cham
ber was degraded by the speech of Mr..
Sumner, and that there was the proper place
for the chastisement; that, regretting the
necessity for such course, it is still proper
to fight Senators who use fighting language,
and that Congress be recommended to en-
force such rules as will relieve our Repre-
sentatives from the necessity of vindicating
the honor of onr institutions.
-S Some feeling is beginning to be ex-
cited in Virginia, upon the subject of the
Kansas movement A meeting was held at
Sussex G. H., on Thursday, the 9th ofJune,
when committees for every magesterial dis
trict in the county, were appointed to solicit
subscriptions to that object, and Col. Thomas
H. Rosser has just returned to Petersburg
from a tour through the adjacent counties,
in which he was able to procure one hundred
young men Of the right stri pc to book for
the excursion, and funds to the amount of
two thousand dollars.
At the Cuyahoga locomotive works,
Cleveland, Ohio, there is an ice nanufactory,
where this article, it is said, is produced in
merchantable quantities by purely artificial
means. By means of steam engine and
sundry condensers ether is driven from re-
tort containing about three hundred and
fifty pounds between double range of iron
plates, through which the water is pumped,
and by the ether is converted into ice. The
arrangement is not yet completed, but even
now ice can be manufactured with the ther-
mometer at 60, at cost of not more than
half cent per pound.
"A Paris letter states that Louis Ma
poleon "iutends to parcel out Africa into
large 6efs and domains, wherewith to rev.
ard and endow his Marshals and Generals.
His uncle parcelled out Europe for this pur
pose, but he had previously subdued it
his will Such gifts will prove source of
embarrassment rather than of wealth to their
recipients. The Emperor is, however, so
intent upon this scheme, that his chief OBJ
ject in going to Algiers in September is to
ascertain whether the objections which his
project has excited are of sufficient impor-
tance to Justify him in abandoning it."
We find in the Pilatka (Fla.) Demo
crat the following brief account of military
movements against the Indians in Florida:
Capt Taylor, of the T. S. army, who is in
command near the Big Cypress, was in our
town few days since. He is of the opinion
that the main body of the Indians arc yet
in the Big Cypress Swamp, and some other
localities in the Indians Territory; we for
get the particular names. He does not be-
ieve that there are many, if any Indians
now in the Gulf Hammock. He says that
the Indians have been hotly pressed, and
that 1t is probable they have not planted
any provision crop this year. That Capt
Sparkman's and one or two other companies
of our State troops have rendered hard SER
vice. He recommends employing in the
service a few good negro track dogs;
that in this way the Indian families could be
pursued and captured-and the war, as the
consequence, expelitiously terminated.