Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-02-14
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- The New York correspondent Of the
Boston Transcript says: "Some one char.
aeserising society in our cities, the other
night, well remarked that at a strangers
debut in Boston they ask, what does he
know 2 in New York, what is he WORTH
in Philadslphia, Who is he p and in Wash
ington, tIs he agrseable?'"
Sir Thomas Lawrence was accused in
company of paying attentions to ladies with
out meaning anything, and gentleman pre-.
sent said some very hard things Of the male
coquette. A lady, however, defended him,
saying "she really believed the majority Of
women would rather be courted and Tilted,
than not courssd at all"
by endorsements and otherwise, It
seems that Barnum has got himself into SER
ious financial trouble. After bolstering up
the Jerome Clock Company for long time,
he now finds that if compelled to pay all the
paper out with his name upon it, it will re-
quire the sacrifice of nearly one million dol
lars worth OF properly!
One of the heavy Cincinnati steam fire
engines was taken over the Mississippi river
on the ice at St. Louis, on the 2lst ult.-
A bold tsamster Of the city, named Meyer,
undertook, for 800, to haul it across with
team of FIVE horses. He gave bond OF 49,
900 to deliver her safely at the warehouse
of Lyon, Shorb & Co., in St. Louis, and ac-
complished the feat
The Greensboro Patriot says that on
Tuesday week, about 3 o'clock P. NJ, the
last bar of iron was laid on the North Caro-
lima Rail road. Themeeting ofthe two ends
took place some 43 miles west Of Greensboro.
1 The mail and passenger cars made their first
trip through on Wednesday. The schedule
going West is for Is hours 81 minutes from
Goldsboro to Charlotte, and Is hours 4S min
utes from Charlotte to Goldsboro. The time
from Raleigh to Charlotte is thirteen hours.
The Paris correspondent of the New
York Commercialmentions report that the
United States Government had offered Den
mark thirty thousand dollars as compensa-
, ton for her expenses heretofore in keeping
up the navigation of the Sound, and in ad-
dition offers small annual sum for the fu-
ture maintenanceo of signals, light houses, &c.
The same correspondent states that Turkey
has no representative in the council Of war
at Paris.
An exchange says that man who
would systematically and wilfully set about
cheatinga printer, would commit robbery
on a crying baby, and rob it of its ginger
bread-rob church of its counterfeit pen
nies-lick the butter off blind nigger's last
'Aitter"-pawn his grandmother's specs for
a drink of whiskey-steal aoorns from
blind SOW, and take clothes from scare
crow, to make a respectable appearance in
society.
- The bishop of the Episcopal Church
in Maine, states that between the General
Convention of 1S47 and that of 1858 one
hundred and 6fty-fve names disappeared
from the official catalogues of the Episcopal
Clergy in the United States. 1t is stated
that out of one hundred and ffty-fve who
had ceased to be ministers of the church,
fifty had either willingly left the ministry Or
been deposed. .-. ..
Geo. Whitfield, the pro-slavery dele
gate from Kansas, has been permitted to take
his seat in the House of Representatives,
When the clerk, in calling the roll, reached
"Kansas," Messrs. Grow of Pa, and Camp
bell Of Ohio, stated that they would take some
future occasion to show that Mr.. Whitfield
was not entitled to seat waving all present
objections. We look upon this as equiva-
lent to settlement of the matter.
"A romur is going the rounds of the
papers, that Queen Victoria il. s.adopting a lib
erality of belief that gives serious concern
to the Bishop of London. 1t is said that
her opinions are tending towards Unitarian
ism. This indication has been somewhat
oonfrmedby the request of the Queen for the
publication of sermon on the religion of
common life, preached before her by Rev.
Mr.. Caird, Scottish clergyman, who is We
ry "low church" indeed.
1t is noted as remarkable fact that
the election of Mr.. Banks as Speaker Of the
National House of Representatives, completes
the following results: The President of the
United States, the Speaker of the House,
the President Of the Senate, the head of the
Cabinet, and the occupant of our most impor-
tant diplomatic post, the Minister to Eng
land, are all Northern men. General Pierce
and Mr.. Banks are from New England, Mr..
Marcy and Mr.. Buchanan from the Middle
States, and Mr.. Bright FROM Indiana.
AN ingenious down-.aster, who has
invented new kind Of Love letter Ink
which he had been selling as safeguard a.
gainst all actions for breach of promise of
marriage, inaRmuoh as it entirely fades from
the paper in two months after date, was re-
gently 'done brown BY brother down-eas-
ter, who purchased 100 boxes Of the article,
and gave him his note for 80 days. At the
expiration of the time, the Inventor called
for payment, but on unfolding the scrip,
found nothing but piece of black paper
The note had been written with his own
ink.
- The Editor of the Sovereign appeals to
the South to support his paper, which he
has been publishing at loss from the be-