Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-09-04
Straps 4 fatts,
The best kind of rum for festivals is

"lt is SAID tnaG 1ankee papy WILL
crawl out of his cradle, take survey of it,
invent an improvement, and apply for a
patent before he is six months old.
A wag in New York, seeing a man
driving tack into card, through the let
ter of the word "Boston," printed on it.,
seized the latter and exclaimed: "Why,
what are you about? Don't you know that
laying tar on tea in Boston once raised a
laundering muss there ?"
The Saratoga season being about over,
the Daily Saratogian has been discontinued
The arrivals at the principal hotels during
the season have been: Congress Hall 1914;
United States 3,66S; Union Hall 5,735 !;
Marvin House 1866. The total number is
set down at $4,000.
Capital punishment, which was abol-
ished in Prussia in 1s4S, has been recently
re-established. The mode of execution is
to be the axe, within prison walls, and in
presence of certain number of magistrates
and officials expressly appointed for the pur-
pose.
There are three hundred and fifty
publishers in the United States, two thou
sand booksellers, fifteen thousand printers,
and three thousand FIVE hundred book-bind-
ers. The number of new books issued in
1853, is said to have exceeded one thousand
{ Only one book out every two hundred gets
to a second edition.
- Colonel Jim Lane, the wife deserting,
Free-State hero, was making 4 speech in
'Iowaa few days since and denounced the
Kansas Legislature as bogus. ''Colonel,"
said a man in the crowd, 'let me ask you a
question" "Go on" said Lane. "Well,
Colonel, if that Legislature as bogus, what
made you apply to it for divorce from your
wife ?'' Confused aud "put out" the gal
liant Colonel set down
- 1t is related of Thomas +. Marshall,
that Judge having once fined him thirty
. dollars for contempt of court, he rose and
asked the judge to loan him the money, as
he hadn't it, and there was no friend pres
ent to whom he could so we'll apply as to
his Honor. This was stumper. The judge
looked at Tom and then at the clerk, and
finally said: "Clerk, remit Mr.. Marshalps
fine; the State is better able to lose thirty
dollars than / am"
The Boston Atlas of Saturday says
"Afairs have assumed such an appearance
in Massachusetts, that unless We have at
once union of all Fremont men, it is very
possible that the State may give her electoral
vote for James Buchanan. = We say
plainly, that up to this time there has been
mo union of the Fremont forces in Massa-
chussetts that there has been only folly,
wranglng and discussion that we have lost
all power of exercising any influence upon
our sister States"
- One Mr.. Merriam, known as the Brook
lyn Heights weather-clerk, says the present
year has been remarkable for long contin-
.uance of intense cold in winter, and for the
long continuance of great heat in summer.
Meteorites have been more numerous than
usual this year in many parts of the globe,
but earth .quakes have been far less numer-
Gus than for many years past. There is moth
on our record, for sixty-eight consecutive
years, either in heat or cold, as the inten-
> sity or long duration which equals that of
the year 1856.
- Here is what the London Chronicle,
zone of. Queen Victoria's organs, has to say
in reference to our Presidential struggle -
eve should be sorry to see Mr. Buchanan
elected, because he is in favor of preserving
the obnoxious institutions as they exist, and
the unity of the States. There is no safety
for European Monarchical Government if
the progressive spirit of the Democracy Of
the United States is allowed to succeed
Elect Fremont, and the first blow to the
separation of the United States is effected ~
"A very interesting correspondence
has passed, so it is said, between several
members of the British Parliament and Mr..
Dallas. A letter of congratulation, bearing
the signatures Of some fifty or more members
of Parliament, on the satisfactory settlement
of the enlistment difficulties between Eng
land and the United States, was most unex-
pectedly received by Mr.. Dallas, some short
time before the sailing of The Baltic. He
however, mentions the circumstances in
postscript to private letter, and rejoices at
the probable immediate settlement Of all
understandings between the two countries.
w. T. Porter ESQ, whose name
needs no addition or explanation, will issue,
during the first week of September, week
ly sporting and literary newspaper, to be
called "Porters Spirit of the Times" 1t
will be of the same size and character as the
Spirit of the Times, which has fourished
and become famous under Porter, the found
er and editor, and he has assurances that it
will be contributed to by that brilliant circle
of correspondents and writers who have so
long given to the Spirit its distinguished
position among the literary journals of the
United States.
st. Peters Church, at Rome, covers
about six acres Of ground, and the cost of
construction was estimated at the close of
the seventeenth century at some fifty mil
lions of dollars 1T is undoubtedly the most
magnificent Christian temple ever erected,
and probably no building of ancient or mod
ern times ever eqnalled it in magnitude and
internal symmetry and beauty. According
to Roman Catholic historians, as early as