Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-05-29
Scraps 4 fatts,
Will, the name of the minister from
Nicaragua, is pronounced Iee-hecI.'

veptlon has declared President Plerce their
first choice for the nomination Of the Cinci-
rati Convention.
- Senor Vaiente, distinguished Gu
ban exile, is at Washington, for the purpose
OF communicating to our government some
important information touching the designs
of England on Cuba
"A delegation from Salt Lake city Is
looked for in Washington in about fifteen
days, bringing State Constitution for Utah,
in which they will ask the admission Of that
State into the Union.
- The citizens of Nashville, Tennessee,
Gen. Walkers birthplace, were to hold q
meeting at the market house last Saturday
evening, to express their sympathy with
Americans in Nicaragua.
Twenty negroes were sold at the Court
House of Shelby county, Alabama, on the
9th instant, and brought an average ofs9OO
.Ieu, common field hands, averaged 81, ,25O,
and one woman, 28 years old, with an infant
child, sold for 81, ,5S1.
BosroN, May 25. An immense meet
ing was held at Faneuil Hall last night, to
deuounce the assault upon Senator Sumner
The most distinguished men of all PARTIES
participated Gov. Gardner presided. I'm
usually warm speeches we're delivered, and
violent resolutions adopted. A similar meet
ing was held at Lowell.
- The Chester Standard states that as
Mr. c. Walker was attempting to cross San
dy river at DeGrafenrieds' Mill, with a
horse and buggy, the planks of the bridge
gave way, and the horse dragging the car
riage after him, fell into the water and was
drowned Mr.. Walker escaped only by
swimming.
- A dispatch from Louisville, KY, da-
ted 2lst inst says that Col. John Allen, of
Cuban and Texan celebrity, bold soldier
full of fire, left this place, this evening, per
steamer Sultana, with $50 sharp. eyed,
strong -limbed Kentuckians en- route for
Nicaragua All were enthusiastic in the
cause of Walker
- To those who take an interest in such
things, we will give puzzle, which, Chow
ever simple it may appear,) taxed our in
genuity and patience for some time: Take
ten pieces Of coin, and place them in row;
take one of them and jump over the two
others next to it, and so on, until you have
diminished the ten pieces to five. Try it.
-On Sunday afternoon last, and night
following, our section was visited by one of
the most disastrous rains, that We have
noticed for several years. Considerable
damage, we understand, was done in the
young crops, and any amount Of fencing has
been washed away. The bridges on Bear
Creek, Gill's Creek and Cane Creek, it is
rnmored, have all been more or less injured.
Lancaster Ledger.
- The Washington Star of 2lst inst
states that the majority of the House Commit
tee of Investigation in Kansas are busily en-
gagged in encouraging by all the means at
their command, resistance, not onl y to the
laws and functionaries created by the terrific
rial legislature, but also to the United States
Court and its immediate officers.
- Hon John P. Kennedy, of Mary
land, has addressed Il letter, on the subject
of Mr. Fillmore's nomination for the Presi-
dency, to a gentleman in New York, and
states that formal letter of acceptance may
be expected from that gentleman at an early
day The New York Erpress states that
Mr.. Fillmore will probably return some time
during next month.
AMHERST, Mass, May 23.-Au in
dignation meeting of the students Of Am
herst college, was held last evening i'll REFER
ence to the recent outrage on the Hon.
Charles Sumner. The meeting was ad-
dressed by President Steerns, Prof Haven,
Mr. Greene, and number of the students.
Resolutions were unanimously adopted, ca
pressing indignation at the insult to Mas
sachusetts, and sympathy with Mr.. Sum-
ner.
- The Cheraw Gazette says that ''the
ladies of Chesterfield village, on Saturday
evening, the 10th inst, melted thereto by
the deleterious effects produced upon sundry
persons by imbibiug an exhilaratiug fluid
sometimes called bald face, waited upon the
seller thereof in body, and emphatically
informed him that he must and should cease
to deal out the liquid fire. They generously
offered to pay him for bis stock, that they
might legally empty it on the ground. He
preferred to remove from the village, which
they consented to, provided he did SO by
last night, or they would wait upon him
again"
We take the following from the Palat-
ka, Fla, Democrat ofthe 22d inst: Welearn
from Brig. Gen. Churchill, Of the Z. s.
army, that while on his way from Tampa
here, he took lodgings for the night on
Wednesday, the 18th inst at the house Of
Whitfield, thirty-six miles from Tampa. Be-
fore he left Whit6eld's 5, he learned that the
Indians approached Capt. Bradley's house,
a few miles distant. Bradley's family had
returned from supper, and the children were
in au open passage of the house, when the
Indians fired a volley which killed a little
girl and mortally wounded a boy fifteen years
old he ran into the house, got gun and
returned to the passage to fire when he fell
dead. The mother, Mrs. Bradley, ran out
and carried her children uto the house.