Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-05-01
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"A meeting of the people of Bridge
port, Ct., presided over by the Mayor, was
held on Monday ynight to express their SYM
pathy with P. T. Barnum.
Ex-President Tyler is about to deliv.
sr Lecture at Petersburg on the Dead OF
his Cabinet-Webster, Calhoun, Upshur,
Gilmer, and Legare.
- The editor of the n. Y. Dutchman,
speaking of a drink he once had occasion to
indulge in, said he couldn't tell whether it
was brandy or torch-light procession going
down his throat!
- Oregon is taking measures to be ad-
mitted into the Union. 1t is stated that the
population now amouts to fifty thousand,
with "more wealth than any other commu.
nifty Of fifty thousand people on the globe"
The plenipotentiaries, in signing the
treaty Of peace in Paris, made use of a
silver gilt inkstand specially ordered for
the occasion. The inkstand is decorated in
the style Of the first empire, and cost not
less than II, ,000f.
New Orleans papers state that Maj.
Baford's expedition numbered 400 men
when he left New Orleans. The men were
formed in six companies, under proper Of
6eers, and embarked in two steamers, the
america and the Oceana, on the 18th inst.
-- During the siege of Sebastopol Rus
sian shell buried itself in the side of hill
without the city and opened a spring. \
little fountain bubbled forth where the can
not shot had fallen, and during the remain
der of the siege afforded. to the thirsty troops
who were stationed in that vicinity an abun-
,dant supply of pure cold water.
1t is stated that the advertising COL
ums of the London Times are estimated to
yield the establishment the enormous sum
ofs3, 100000 per anuum. One firm alone
pays the Times as high as sl5O,OO0 year
for advertising, and there are several busi-
ness establishments that pay it over $50, 900
year for advertising alone.
-- Mr.. Henry Griunell, Of New York,
has received letter from lady Franklin, in
which she expresses desire that DR.. Kane
should visit England for the purpose of tax
ing charge of another Arctic expedition
She still hopes that some survivor Of Sir
Johns party may be found living among the
Esquimaux, from whom might be obtained
the particulars of her husbands fate. She
proposes to fit out propeller at her own
expense, and give the command to DR..
Kane
The last steamer brought dispatches
addressed by the Spanish Minister Of For
eign Relations to our Minister at Madrid in
reply to the demands made at different times
by our government, for redress in the mat.
ter Of the firing into and detention of the
steamer Ell Dorado by the Spanish mau-of-
war Ferrolsno. Spain decidedly refuses to
comply with the wishes Of our government,
showing BY series Of arguments that accor-
ding to the Law of nations the commander of
the Ferrolano did nothing more than the pc.
cuGar circumstances at the time existing in
the neighborhood Of Havana justified.
4 Mrs. Sarah Courson eloped recen.
tly from West Milford, Passaic county, with
Ir. David White Of that place, being the
third time she has figured as one of the par
ties Of an elopement. The woman is one
of family of six sisters named Ryerson,
five of whom have left their husbands and
eloped with other meu. All six have been
married, and do notlive with lawful husband
at the present day, FIVE having elOpsd and
the only remaining one d' srting her hus-
band, or refusing to live with him. A case
of equal siugularity cannot probably be found
anywhere in the Union n,--Newark Adrer.
tiser.
Mr.. Elihu Burritt writes to the New
York Herald from New Britain, Connecti-
cut, in relation to his project for line Of
electric telegraph between San Francisco and
St. Petersburg, crossing Behring's Straits.
1t is said that Russia has already six thous-
and miles in operation. Some Of her lines,
doubtless, are reaching eastward towards the
Ural Mountains. At the conclusion of the
war, she will be sure to extend them east
wards still into her Asiatic provinces. She
will have the best skill that American genius
can supply to assist her in these enterprises;
snd she will undoubtedly be ready to meet
the United States half the way, and perhaps
more than half the way, in connecting New
York and St. Petersburg.
"A Paris letter gives the following
curious history, which serves to examplify
the stange ups and downs ofthe lives of men
in France: ain 1881, NJ. de Walewski, up
to the neck in the Polish Revolution, was
delegated from the Poles to the French ma.
tion. He passed by Berlin, where he escaped
narrowly with his liberty and lfo; for, had
be been seized and given over to the Russian
Government, he would have been executed
in reality, as he was shortly afterwards in ef-
6gy. But the chief of Police in Berlin at
that time was N. de Manteufel; and
the archives OF more than one Prussian town
possess to this day document in which it is
BY him recommended to the authorities TO
arrest, By all possible means, Gan adyenturer
styling himself Walewski, and pretending
himself delegated BY the Polish to the French
nation" This was the last transaction in
which were brought into iuxtaposition the
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