Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-06-25
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pOpulatlOh VI seventeen milllouS souie.
We regret to learn that Randolph
Withers, Esq, member ofthe Bar at Gaines
vile, Ala, and brother of the Hon. T. j.
Withers, was accidentally drowned on the
10th inst. while on fishing excursion on
the Alabama River.-Carozina Times.
Mexico supplies US with great deal
of mahogany, which is sold by weight, aver
aging about $12 per ton. Under the Revised
Tariff it has been placed on the free list
Last year 6,S04 tons were exported from
single Mexican port, two thirds of which
came to the United States.
An Industrial society of Swiss colon
lists advertise in the Missouri Democrat for
$4,000 acres of land in that State, and that
they have on hand cash capital of $780,
900 to make the purchase with. They de-
sire, to settle upon some navigable stream or
some railroad.
The population of California is esti-
mated at $4,000. This estimate is based
upon the returns of the local assessors Of this
population 2,20S are Americans, $4,000
Indians; 49, 500 Chinese; $4,000 French;
$1,000 Mexicans; 10000 Germans 10000
Irish; 1000 English, and some $4,000 9TH
er Foreigners and 1900 colored persons.
Ladies prepare for an extreme change
in your habits, for Paris correspondent Of
the New York Courier says, "Lank as the
Recamier of 1900, the substitute for the full
blown rose, we now behold, the belle of 1858
will come upon US in appalling, unmitigated
deformity, sans crinoline, sans basque, sans
hustle, sans wad, sans wool, sans cane, sans
steele, sans everything else, &C.
About two hundred sick, the remnant
of Walkers army, had arrived at San Carlos,
on their way home. They are described as
being in most pitiable condition. 1t is sup
posed that the men left in Rivas had gone
to Costa Rica. Nicaragua was tranquil, and
an election was to be held on the 10Th of
June. The republic would be occupied by
the four Central American States until its
government was firmly established.
We learn upon undoubted authority,
that citizen of our district, John Wilkes,
ESQ.,, who was fortunate enough last season
to make corn to spare, has constantly refused
take more than 81 per bushel for his corn,
while it was selling at from 81 rs to 81 30
all around. Nor would he sell to men OF
means, but held his corn for his poor neigh
bors. Such conduct is so praiseworthy, that
we record it for the benefit of those who do
otherwise. Chera,o Gazette.
- The London Art Journal says: cit
will startle many to learn that arrangements
are in progress for covering with glass, or
rather for putting into huge glass case the
house in which Shakespeare was born, at
Stratford -on-Ayon. The houses on both sides
have been taken down, and the monument
now stands alone. The object Of this course
is to protect the house against the effects Of
the weather and the further influence of time.
We question, however, the taste of the ar
rangement and fancy that it will be a step
from the sublime to the ridiculous"
THE London Economist of the 23d
ult., publishes an official tabular statement
of the number of persons arrested for drunk
euness within the jurisdiction of the Metro
politan Police from the year 1881 to 1855
inclusive, which shows that the number of
drunken persons taken into custody in the
first year was 3l,353 and that in the latter
year was only, 9,267, while the population
of the city had increased about 80 per cent.
within the period included in the RETURN
The tables do not embrace the jurisdiction
of the City Police, under the orders of the
Corporation.
- The Marysville Herald says that the
Downleville Tunnel Company, at Centre
vile, have found the largest boulder contain
ing gold perhaps ever struck in California;
Up to last accounts they had extracted ST.
900, and had not yet ascertained its full size.
They estimate the amount of gola it contains
at no less than 100000! This boulder is
fair set-off to one from Australia, which
the English papers have recently mentioned
as being on exhibition in London, and which
weighs, (quartz and gold,) four hundred
pounds, and is valued by some sanguine in
dividuals at $1,000, or 100000.
The city of Mobile, Capt. Marshall,
sailed from Liverpool for New York on the
26th ult., freighted with over 900 passen-
gers. Among these are party of l2O
young women and IA men, members of 1873
different families, the expense of whose i'm
migration are betrayed by public subscrip-
ton from nearly 1000, different persons, the
majority of whom are laborers and several
girls to fund entitled the "Irish Pioneer
Emigration Fund" The object of the In
stitution of this fund is to raise the wages
and otherwise better the condition of poor
families in the poorest districts of Ireland by
the assisted emigration to the United States
or Canada of one member of each family,
specially selected on account of good char
acter an. industrious habits, in the expecta-
ton that the person so assisted will not only
better their own condition, but will accord
ing to the usual generous practice of Irish
emigrants, also send for, or otherwise great
ly help, the rest of the family in Ireland.
The Ministry of the Interior in Rus
sia has recently published a statistical table
which is interesting on more than one ac-
count. The wear and tear of the imperial
armies in the late war may be imagined by