Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-04-03
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-0f our fourteen Presidents not one
was citizen Of great city!
THE actural strength of the United
States army is 5,725 offcera and men.
"A young lawyer trying to establish
himself in business, is in one respect like q
young physician-he peeds patience.
Every women is, or ought to be, more
or less child of beauty, and her occupations
should not degrade her into drudge.
The woman who was buried ingrief'
is now alive and doing we'll. It was a case
Of premature interment.
- Keep your temperin dispute or quar-.
el. AS your opponent warns, do you cool
down. The cool hammer fashions the red
hot iron into any shape needed.
There is now complete railroad line
through North Carolina, from north to south
and the prosperity of the State in all respects
seems to be onward.
The annual value of poultry in the
United States is estimated at $50, ,OOO,O 600.
The City of New York expeuds yearly ST.
5OO,OOOin the purchase of eggs alone.
"A company in East Tennessee has
been formed for the purpose Of manufactur-
ing saltpetre. Large quantities Of the nu-
tritious earth are to be found in that section
Of the State.
An ugly bachelor saysthat everything
should be in character. Forinstance, search
warrants should be printed on tracing pa.
per- and wedding notices on fools cap
OF course that bachelor is very ugly indeed.
There is a popular and very ancient
saying that every year whose date ends with
SO is one of plenty, and this has been con-
iirmed by statement to the effect that this
hasinvariably been the case, ever since 1856,
in many parts of Europe. 81
The best thingto give your enemy is for
giveness; to your opponent, tolerance; to a
friend, your heart; to your child, a good ex-
ample; to father, Difference; to your moth
er, conduct that will make herproud of you ;
to yourself, respect to all men, charity.
- The ship Sea Serpent, at New York,
brings dates from Hong Kong to January
Sd. The revolutionary party, although de-
feated near Canton, were steadily advanc-
ing in other quarters of the Empire. They
had powerful fleets lying off the coast near
Canton. A great many Chinese had return
ed from California, and emigration was very
much checked by their reports.
THE Chancellor of the British E1che.
quer, in a statement made to Parliament, es-
Inmates the cost of the two years war with
Russia at g43, ,564 900, or about 5000, ,OOO.
600! Add to this sum equal amounts for
France, Russia and Turkey, and we have a
total of SS0O,00O,000. twill take, perhaps
one thousand millions Of dollars to pay all
the expenses Of the war.
"A Paris correspondent of the National
Intelligencer says that Louis Napoleon is
certainly at this moment the arbiter of Eu-
rope. He has, he adds, great talents and in
dustry, and governs with firm and unwaver-
ing hand. The world has never known a
more absolute government. Ministers, leg
islators, generals, civilians and the military
all bow in abject submission to his imperial
will. Everything moves like clock-work.
-Aprinter mot long ago, being flung by
his sweetheart, went to the Office and tried
to commit suicide with the shooting stick
but the thing wouldn't 'go off, The devil
wishing to pacify him, told him to peep into
the sanctum where the editor was writing
duns to delinquent subscribers. He did so,
and the effect was magical. He says that
picture of despair reconciled him to his fate.
Emigration to Kansas seems to be
rapidly augmeutiug, as we'll from the South
as the North On the 10th instant, steam
er left St. Louis with three hundred emi-
grants and eighty cases rifles. Many south
erners are taking their slaves with them
One gentleman from South Carolina recent
ly took with him fifty, another thirty, and
still another twenty; and it is stated that a.
bout FIVE hundred slaves have passed through
St. Louis, for the territory, since the opening
of Observation-Disclosures SIN.
1t is related by DR.. Scudder, that on
his return from his mission in India, after
long absence, he was standing on the deck
of steamer, with his son, a youth, when he
heard a gentleman using loud and profane
language See, FRIEND said the doctor,
accosting the swearer, fhis boy, my son,
born and brought up in heather country,
and land of pagan idolatry; but in all his
life he never heard man blaspheme his
Maker until now The man colored, blur-
ed an apology, and looked not little asham-
ed of himself
- A pious old negro, who lived, in re-
sion where the people were in the habit Of
getting religion every time new minister
came around, and then losing it again before
the next quarterly meeting, was once asked
how be accounted for these facts in accordance
with his belief in the doctrine of the final
salvation of all true believers. Hc replied,
when the people gets religion themselves,
they are mighty apt to lose it as quick as
they get it; but when religion gets them, it
takes hold and holds on, and never lets 'em
90 until it takes em clean up to heaven
- In the Mississippi Legislature, ajoint
resolution was unanimously adopted, which
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