Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-09-18
mERE-NIENTION.

The Chester Standard states that, last week, a
Mr. Mccoy, of that District was shot by Mr..
Drury, under the following circumstances "Dru-
ry had stopped up road leading through his
plantation by telling trees across it. Mccoy had
occasion to pass that way with loaded wagon
and began to remove the distractions, when Mr..
Drury shot Kim, wounding him very seriously in
the breast His situation is critical, tho it is
thought he will rccovar....".A paper is receiving
signatures in Boston, calling upon the Governor
to convene the Legislature of Massachusetts, in Or
der TO render State aid to the FreeState party in
Kansas. ''''.'.'Thc Republican party in Maine has
trumphed by about fifteen thousand majority
Hamln is elected Governor, and Hon. John NJ.
Wood Charles J. Gilman, Esq, Nehemiah Abb
bott, ESQ.,. Hon. fireman H. Morse, Hon. Israel
Washburn, Jr., and Stephen G. Foster, Esq, to
Coneress-all the members. The State Senate is
entirely Republican, and four-ffths of the Repre-
sentatives are also Republican. Up to period
two years ago, Maine was held as the most con-
servative, thoroughly Democratic State in the
North !........It is said that bleeding partially
blind horse in the nose will restore him to sight
So much for the horse: to open mans eyes, you
must bleed him in the pocket. "...."'A talk is be-
ginning to be made about q great celebration Of
the Battle of Hanging Rock, la mode Kings
Mountain correspondent of the Fairfield Herald
says Of it: "Thc scenery about Hanging Rock is
interesting apart from the importance given to the
adjacent lands by their Revolutionary associa-
tions. The Battle field is not quarter of mile
from the District line between Lancaster and Ker-
shaw laying in Kershnw District. These two Dis
tricts design celebrating the next anniversary of
the battle there, and if proper arrangements be
made, the occasion will be one more grand than
that of Kings Mountain, for the place is more ac-
cessible, the country more thickly settled, and
accommodations al hundred fold better. ".....'...
The National MtelLigencer, most respectable old
fashioned Wing paper in Washington, which has
hitherto been con the fence" has at length it is
said, defined its position in the Presidential can
Of the Rnickcr5Ocker, the htelhgsncer's ticket
counts out thuS-"J. C. Buck, Millard Fillmont!"
funny ticket that !.......At the solicitation of
number Of citizens of Charleston, the Hon. A.
G. Magrath, District Judge, he's Consented to run
for Congress to supply the vacancy occasioned by
the resignation of Gov. Aiken. Thus far, Col.
John Cunningham is the only opponent avowedy
in the field ...."A full blown Fremont ticket has
been put in nomination in Virginia, of prominent
men in various sections of the State. Strange
and startling Developments are in the light, in
these latter days !''..."A bloody riot occurred in
Baltimore, Saturday last, originating in Fremont
ism, in which two men John Hare and William
Jones, were killed. and five others mortally wound
ed Firearms and stones were freely used. '..'..
We advertise, this week, the sale of the estate of
James NJ. Spratt decd, near Fort Mill; and, also,
the sale of the negroes and other valuable proper
ty of J. W. Ford, in North Carolina.