Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-12-10
Straps 4 fatts.
-Sewannee, in Tennessee, is the chosen
site of the Southern Episcopal University.


has just received from the agency of the New
England Mutual Life Insurance Company, of
Boston, five thousand dollars on policy
signed only year since.
The Columbia Times, of the 18th in
slant, says that Ga member of our Legisla-
ture who is now in our city, received letter
yesterday from Senator Hammond, wherein
he expresses his grateful acknowledgements
for the high honor recently conferred upon
him, by his election to the United States
Senate. He also intimates that as his elec-
ton was by him so unexpected, he will not
be able to leave his home, where his private
affairs demand his attention, until the mid
die of January next, when he goes to Wash
ington City"
Some inquiry having been made by
business men here, as to the probable num-
ber of hogs for the Southern markets, which
would pass through the upper part of North
Carolina this season, Mr.. j. B. Swayer, of
Asheville, N. c., in aletter addressed to this
Office, has furnished the desired information.
He says that so far, from 25 to $4,000 head
of hogs have passed through the toll-gate ten
miles south of the Tennessee line, and that
90 to DC, 900 boad in addition will pass
through during the balance of the season.
The supply is principally from Tennessee,
though some from Kentucky are on the
way.-Columbia Times.
Governor Winston, of Alabama, in his
message to the Legislature, states that the
greater portion of an enormous debt has been
liquidated; advocates repeal, or at least
modification, of the usury law; opposes the
legalization of lotteries; urges the suppress
sion of lynch law; endorses the proposition
to exempt slaves from sale under execution,
to limited extent; acknowledges the un-
soundness of general system of banking,
conceives it to be the duty of the Legislature
to require resumption of specie payments
by the banks at an early period-not later
than May, 1858; and urges the necessity Of
prohibiting the issue by banks of the State,
of bills of less denomination than five dol
lars.
In addition to the vast advantage to
our country of the Chinese Sugar Cane as
source ofsupply for excellent syrup at very
little cost, it has been our decided opinion,
that an advantage of almost equal import
tance to the South will be derived from the
seed, as an abundant, nutritive, and every
way excellent food. Whether for horses,
cattle, hogs, or poultry-what can be better?
And then the ease with which it can be pro-
duced-two or three fold the quantity that
can be raised of corn or oats upon the same
ground-and this after taking the stocks for
the manufacture of syrup! With design
doubtless, to spoil this beautiful theory, some
wiseacre reported in the Western papers-out
near the "sugarlands" ofLouisiana and Texas
that the seed of the Chinese cans is poison
Gus, aud that its use would be destructive to
stock We wholly discredited the report at
the time Since that We have tested its bene-
fetal effects upon poultry. In a vast
many places, North and South, similar re-
suits have followed when fed to cattle and
horses, they at once delighting in it, and fat
tening upon it. And now we have the full
refutation of the said slanderous report in
the chemical experiments of Prof. Jackson,
of Boston, who declares it wholly destitute Of
poisonous qualities. We trust, therefore,
that our agricultural population will pre-
pare to plant it large the coming SPRING
No other way that they can plant will so
richly remunerate their toll.
Carolina Spartan
- An important bill is now before the
Alabama Legislature, introduced by Mr..
Jones, of Mobile,) which-or one substan-
TALLY like 1.-THE Montgomery Mail says,
will doubtless pass during the present ses-
sion. The bill provides 1st. That no bank
located out of the State shall do any banking
business whatever, either by agents or other
wise in Alabama I'd. That no person shall
act as agent of any such bank, and that all
persons borrowing notes of credit for such
bank, and using them in the State, shall be
deemed agents of the bank. 3. That any
such agent shall be deemed guarantor for
the payment of any and all notes of such
bank or company, which may at any time
come to the possession of any citizen of the
State, and that the amount may be recover
ed in the proper courts. 4th. That every
agent, contrary to the provisions of this act,
shall be deemed guilty Of misdemeanor, SUBJ
ject to the penalty of not less than two thou
sand dollars, together with a fee of three
hundred dollars to the State Solicitor, to be
paid by the person convicted. 5th. That the
Judges of the Criminal Court, shall make
this act subject of special charge to the
Grand Juries, whose special duty it shall be
to present all violations. 9th. That every
note, bill, or other contract, contrary to the
provisions of this act, shall be null and void ;
and, 7th. That all previous legislation in
conflict with this act be repealed.
The Russian line.of-battle ship Le-
forte, which lately capsized in broad noon
day, in the Bay of Finlad, when closely sur
rounded by numerous vessels of the fleet on
their way frem Revel to Crcnstadt, has since
been examined by English divers at the or
der of the Russian Government. 1t will
probably be still in the recollection of our
readers that the vessel had, in addition to
abou. 800 troops and crew, full 400 passen-
e.ara ON hoard chiefly xamen and children.