Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-11-20

Fillmores vote, Maryland, 3; IN I'LL -'o. Du'n
anan's majority CO. 1.-THE ball to Col. Orr, at
Williamson, in Anderson District, was IN admira-
BILE affair, says the True Carolinian. Col. Brooks
was present. .......Col. Hiram Pearson, of San
! Francisco, while in Rome lately, was fined one
thousand piasers for seating himself on the throne
of the Pope. Wouldn't be surprised if some stray
Yankee takes possession of that concern yet, be-
| fore it's all over ......"Our New York exchanges
state that Col Fremont will be elected United
States Senator from New York in place OF Hon.
Hamilton Fish, whose term expires on the 4th OF
March next. ''Small favors thankfully receiV-
ed. ".'....".The steamship Lyomas, from New York
to Havana, was run into on her second night out
and sunk-carrying down one hundred and thirty
passengers ......:Walker's army in Nicaragua
numbers 1000 men, who were at latest dates IN
good health and spirits awaiting recruits, and pre-
pairing for an assault upon Massaya. The Amerl-
can minister, CoE Wheeler, has returned home
temporarily, on account of ill health. .'.'.Anoth.
er territory is proposed to be organized by detach
ing the Gadsden Purchase from New Mexico. '''''
An alteration took place, Monday before last In
the streets of Raleigh, between Hon. Kenneth
Rayner and Mr.. Holden of the Standard. "lt
seems that Mr.. Rayner, pending the Presidential
election made speech in Philadelphia, and that
Mr.. Holden had made some very strong restrlc-
tions upon his remarks. 1t wassupposed that Mr.
Rayner was armed, but he showed no weapons,
except his cane, with which he struck Mr.. Holden
several blows By The Intervention Of mutual
friends the parties were finally induced to sepa-
rate. They were afterwards bound over to keep
the peace in a sum of $4,000 ".....". Senator John
NJ. Clayton, of Delaware, died at Dover, on Sun
day the Stb, after long and painful illness, aged
60 years. Thirty years of his life were spent in
public service, in his State Legislature, IN the u
s: Senate, the Cabinet and on foreign missions.
......"Gen. James Bankhead, U. S. Army, died at
Fort McIIenry recently, aged y years. lie had
held commission 40 years. '''''''"A Washington
correspondent of the Herald says of Judge Doug
lass: "He is expected here about the middle OF
next week. Shortly after his arriral--l believe
the day is not yet fxed-he is to be united to the
very embodiment of youth, beauty and accom-
plishment; indeed, she has been considered the
belle of the city for some time. Miss Coutts' for
that is her name, is from one of the oldest families
10 Vipnia The knot is to be tied in this city, in
the holy Catholic church-for she is Catholic
and the highest digniaries of the land will assist
at the gala.
All who design to visit the "Land Of Flowers"
this winter, will consult the advertisement of W..
NJ. Tunno, about the steamer Erergiode. '''''''''
Advices from Kansas TO the 9th say that the fiji
teen State prisoners under trial for murder had
been acquitted but were Immediately rc-arrested
upon the charge of having robbed the post-ofice.
The free State men were taking measures to con-
test the seat of Gen. Whitfield in Congress, on the
ground of the illegaity of the election. ''''''''A
contemporary says: "In our opinion, the result
of long experience and observation, an editor Of
n newspaper may deserve far more credit for what
he keeps out of his paper than for what he puts in
it. ........Two ladies were contending for precc-
dencc in the court of the Emperor Charles "
They appealed to the monarch, who like another
Solomon, awarded "Let the elder 60 first" Such
dispute never took place afterwards ''''''"It is
stated in the Philadelphia American that private
letters, received in that city from the Hon..
George NJ Dallas United States Minister at the
Court of St. James, by his confidential friends,
convey the important intelligence that he has
succeeded in negotiating treaty between the
United States and England, which covers and set
ties all the points in dispute between the two
countries.