Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-03-26
NIERE-NrENTION.

The order of Court for the Extra Term, in July,
was not given to us in time for the last issue. 1t
appears this week. '....'".The Commissioner ad-
vertises SALE ........The opening number of Rus
sells Magd,ne for April, instead of March as at
first designed, is nearly through the printers
hands, and will soon be issued. ....."Gcn. Scott,
at the instance of Secretary Floyd, from whom
he received kind and cordial letter, has made
Washington his headquarters. The best rela-
tious subsist between the new Secretary and the
Lieut.. General. '.'.'".R Recent heavy rains at the
West have caused the Arkansas river to overflow
its banks, breaking away the leercs at the various
villages, inundatng the whole lower country, and
destroying stock and plantation property to the
amount of $50, 900 or 500, 900. '....In the Mas
sachusctts House. n resolve has been passed ap-
propriating, conditionaly, 100000 to the aid of
the free State settlers of Kansas-the means to
be raised by the sale Of 1000 shares of the inter-
est Of the State in the Western railroad. .....Tbe
Toronto Canada, Globe, publishes n list Of the
killed and injured by the recent railroad accident
Fifty six dead bodies that have been recovered,
the names of eight persons severely injured, and
Of fifteen who escaped only slightly hurt or en-
tirely unharmed, making total of seventy-nine
persons on the train accounted for. The number
on the train is supposed to be larger...'''".The
corner stone of the Clay Monument will be laid at
Lexington on the 4th of July next. The oration
will be delivered by the Rev. Robert J. Brecken-
ridge, not BY Edward Everett, rs reported
Late dispatches state that Geary's resignation has
been accepted, and the appointment offered to
Southern man-Gen. McMullen, of Virginia, prob
ably. ....'..Mrs. II. B. St"na is now living in
Paris retired. She is said !, Re engaged in trans
latng into English, with the view Of publishing
in the United States, L!4moWr tune IHarrioge,
Love in Wedlock) 1t is also said that she is
preparing n work on the poorer classes in Europe
n sort of Uncle Tom in white society. ..'.."The
New York Herald sounds the first bugle blast
half wind. hnlf fury-thus: The Black Republi-
cans MI over the free States are already prepar-
ing their platforms Cor the great and terrible fight
which is sure to cume in 1860. Instead of the re-
suit Of the late contest being n settlement of the
question that agiaed the country, it scarcely de-
veloped it. That was only the first gun of Sec
tional contest which is now about to plunge us in
to a campaign of four years duration, and al
though the fight will be between the niger wor-
shippers and the niggrr drivers, North and South
yet, singularly enough, Mr.. Buchanan's admins
tration will escape almost untouched by the fight
The advertiser says that Joseph Williams was
tried, last week, in Elge6eld, for the murder Of
Richmond, slave of Col Simkins, and found
Guilty of Manslaughtcr.." Sentence-six months
Imprisonment and fine of five hundred dollars,
the full extent of the law. .'''''" Brigadier Gen.
eral f. B. C. Cash. was. on the 4th inst, elected
Major General Of the Fourth Division, S. C. NJ,
without opposition. .''.'""Tuesday the 18th, the
students Of The s. C. College celebrated the an
niversary Of Calhoun's brth-d day. The address
was delivered in the Chapel by Mr.. T. W. Dinkins,
of Sumter. The Times says: ave learn that the
oration was one Of great merit, and worthy of the
character and worthy of the character and virtues
of the illustrious deceased-certainy the highest
compliment that could be bestowed. ".'''''.ln-
tense excitement pervades all classes in Newfound-
land, in consequence of the intelligence that the
English government had entered into convention
with France to transfer to that power the proper
ty in the Newfoundan'. fisheries. general meet
ing was called, when it was determined that the
wrong should not be perpetrated The legisla-
ture and commercial classes sent petitions to the
Queen; and, meantime, every sort of demonstra-
ton was made-the British flag placed at half
mast, and in some instances black flag hoisted
in its stead. real storm appears to be gather