Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-01-15
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wife s bill for hoops at the dry goods store OF
milliner's.
He that boasts of his ancestors con-
fesses he has no virtue of his own. No 9TH
er person has lived for our honor: nor ought
that to be reputed ours which was long be-
fore we had being; for what advantage
can it be to blind man that his parent had
good eyes?
The New Orleans Chief of Police has
adopted the plan of afixing placards upon
the breast and back of notorious thieves,
buglars and pick-pockets, on which is print
ed, in large letters, the nature of the offence
for which they have been convicted. They
are then marched through the streets, and
made a public exhibition.
=-T The Treasurer of the United States
represents the joint Indebtedness Of the sew
eral States as reaching sl90,0oO,0oo, and
that of the General Government as $780,
.o00, 900, makes total of 1920, 100000.
The figures appear large, but when compar-
ed with the Indebtedness of Great Britain,
they are quite Insignificant. Indeed, our
total debt, State and National, is not equal
to one years interest of the national debt of
the United Kingdom, computing it at our
rate of interest, six per cent This exhibits
a big difference in the pecuniary liabilities
Of thet two countries
The Memphis Appeal of the 24th
inst. says: awe had a visit yesterday from
Col, II. T. Titus, late of Kansas. He was
on his way to Nicaragua, accompanied by
12e men, who played prominent part in
the recent troubles in that Territory. They
we're under the immediate command of Capt.
Moon. Col. Titus distinguished himself as a
friend of the pro-slavery party in Kansas,
and, as be says, having done what he could
for our domestic institutions there, he goes
to plant it deep-rooted in Nicaragua. Judg-
ing from his personal appearance, we would
consider it no risk to predict for him gallant
things in the rising Republic"
Even the South Carolina delegation
in the late Commercial Convention at Savan-
nah we're startled at the development of an
ultra State Rights scntimentamong the Geor-
gians. They were not only against the tar
iff as an evil, but were in favor of direct tax
alton as positive good, and the only way
perhaps by which one set of interests in the
Union could be prevented from riding on the
backs of others. This sentiment, we learn,
is becoming cbrystalized into regular par
ty in North Georgia, and we learn from the
Montgomery Mail that Convention Of its
members will be held at Atlanta during the
coming summer.
- From letter published in the West
ford (Missouri) Republican, it appear that
Col. Buford, who led the march in Kansas,
has lost upwards of ten thousand dollars in
that enterprise. Col. Buford, has acted no.
bly, and is the more to be admired for the
reason that patriotism is generally its own
and only reward, but if the efforts made for
Kansas had taken the shape of FIVE thousand
slaves to be sold there, at about $500 a piece
they would have been more entirely efficient.
There is not an emissary of the Emigration
Aid Society in Kansas who would not have
given three hundred dollars for the privilege
Of being the strongest pro,slavery man alive.
Five thousand negroes, more certainly than
FIVE thousand white men, would take that
country.
OF the stars, thousands are visible to
the naked eye, and millions are discovered
blythe telescope. Sir John Herschell calcu-
lates that about FIVE and half millions of
stars are visible enough to be distinctly count
ed in twenty feet reflector in both hemis
pheres, and thinks that the actual number
is much greater. His illustrious father esti-
mated, on one occasion, that one hundred
and twenty-five thousand stars passed through
the field of his forty feet reflector in quar-
ter of an hour. This would give twelve
millions for the entire circuit of the heavens
in single tele copic zone; and this estimate
was made under the assumption that the
nebua were masses of luminous matter, not
yet condensed suns. But with the increase
of Instrumental power, especially under the
mighty grasp of Lord Roses gigantic re-
fector and the great rehectors at Pulkova
and Cambridge, the most irresolvable of these
nebule have given way; and the better
opinion now is that every one of them is a
galaxy, like our own milky way, composed of
millions of suns.
- WASHINGTON, January 4. Ashock-
ing accident occurred here last night; the
wife of Judge Daniels of the Supreme Court
having been burnt to death. Mrs. Daniels
had repaired to her sleeping room and COM
menced disrobing preparatory to retiring for
the night, when, being very near-sighted,
she did not perceive candle that was stand
ing on the hearth, or the flames which COM
municated to her clothes, until they COM
pletely enveloped her. She then ran from
the room shrieking assistance. Her motion,
of course, only added to the flames and be-
fore any efectual assistance could be render
ed.she was SO shockingly burnt that she died
after eight hours of suffering. She was an
estimable lady, about thirty-fve years of age,
daughter of the late DR.. Harris, of Phila-
delphia, Chief of the Bureau Of Medicine
and Surgeryin the Navy, and leaves two chill
dren, the youngest about six months old.
Her terrible death has caused much regret
among large circle of friends and the COM
munity at large, and much sympathy is felt
on all hands for the Judge at this bereavs-