Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-03-06
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Among the curiosities lately placed in
q Museum, is musquito's bladder, contain.
ing the souls of twenty-four misers, and the
fortunes oftwelve editors. 1t is nearly half
full.
Another Arctic expedition is talked
of with the view of searching for the relics
of Franklin and hisparty. On the 26th of
May next, eleven years will have elapsed
since Franklin sailed from Sheerness.
- The Newberry Mirror in its last issue,
advocates the construction of a railroad from
Augusta to Newberry, to connect with the
Greenville road, and thus divert the freight
from Columbia.
-" "Mother how long sit before the 9TH
of July" "About six weeks, my son. -
oI'll be darn'd if wait, give me my crack
ers and I'll fire them off now," replied Young
America.
- The Legislature of Texas, at its late
session, adopted bill donating to Mrs. E.
-lizabeth Crockett one league of land Mrs.
G. is the widow of the hero and martyr of
Texas independence-Davy Crocket.
The New York Express says that
Garrison and other "friends of freedom"
have issued call for convention in that
city, to meet in May next, "to dispute the
divine authority of the Holy Scriptures. -
What next will these fanatics seek to abolish?
New York, February 2S.-The steam
ship Star of the West has arrived from San
Juan, and brings tidings that Col. Walker
had annexed to his government the whole Of
the Mosquito territory. Col. Kinney had
been sent from Nicaragua under guard.
The barque Sam Slick, says the Her
aid, was on Sunday chartered by the United
States government to convey about one hum
.dred troops to Tampa Bay, Florida. These
soldiers are probably destined to operate
against the Seminoles.
- Hope writes the poetry OF boy, but
memory that of a man. Man looks forward
with smiles and backward with sighs. Such
is the wise Providence of God. The cup Of
life is sweetest at the brim, the favor is i'm
paired as we drink deeper, and the dregs are
made bitter, that we may not struggle when
it is taken from our lips.
--Parson Brownlow in the Know Moth
ing Council, offered in debate, to whip any
FIVE of the Ohio delegates, and that FIVE of
the Tennessee delegates would fog the whole
of the Ohio delegation for the amusement
of the Convention and the improvement of
the manners of their northern fellow men,
bera generallyl So say the newspapers.
!. a Kansas meeting was held in OAR
lington on Monday, the 26th inst, to aid
emigration 10 Kansas. Eight hundred dol
lars were Immediately contributed, and a
Committee of FIVE was appointed to canvass
the District for subscriptions. Similar meet
ings have been held or are about to be held
all over the State.
The citizens of New Orleans contem.
plate erecting monument to Washington,
of similar style with that recently raised to
the memory of jackson, in that city. The
Inauguration of the latter was said to have
been the most brilliant pageant ever witness
ed in New Orleans.
- Indian hostilities in Oregon had ceas.
ed for the winter. The news from Nicara-
qua is nnimportant. A decree had been is
sued by the Minister of Foreign Relations,
asserting the title of Nicaragua to the Mos
quito territory, and declaring Kinney guilty
of offending against the integrity of Central
America. The latest accounts state that
Colonel Kinney had left Grenada for New
Orleans.
= At the French Exposition there was
exhibited watch which created much inte-
rest and admiration. 1t tells the name and
day Of the month, the equation Of time; is
repeater, striking the minute as well as
the hour; is i thermometer of tolerable ac-
curacy, aud winds itself up BY the action Of
it's own movement. The price of this most
ingenious piece of workmanship is thirty
thousand francs.
- In the event of collision in Kansas
between the Missouriaus and the free State
party, the following is the available force Of
the United States troops to be brought to the
support of law and order in the territory, to
wit: seven hundred and sixteen dragons at
Fort Leavenworth, under Gen. Sumner, FIVE
hundred and ten dragons and infantry at
Fort Riley, under the command of Lieut..
Col. St. George Crooke, and one hundred and
sixty-three infantry at Fort Kearney, in Will
mette.
The Lower House of the Georgia
Legislature has passed, by vote Of 9S to /,
the bill for changing from biennial to annual
sessions, and limiting them to forty days,
unless protracted by vote Of two-thirds of
the Legislature The House has also pass
ed by vote of II to 80, bill providing
that, upon the happening Of any of the con-
tingencies mentioned in the 4th resolution of
the Georgia Platform, the Governor shall
call Convention of the people to determine
the measure of redress.
We learn from the conductor on the
South Carolina Railroad, that on Wednes-
day the train for Columbia was detained by
amournful occurrence in the negro car