Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-07-16
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: Let US thank God for what we have.

tale every week.
The duties levied on barrel of -four
at Havana, and at all the ports in Cuba,
amount to S985. The duty on corn is a
fraction over 40 cents per bushel.
John Jacob Astor once observed that
man with s50O,OO0 might begin to feel
comfortable. The son of that millionare
has now an income of $4,000 a day, or ST.
5000 a year; but is not comfortable by
any means, for he has the gout so bad, it is
said, that he has to diet himself on Graham
bread.
BY the late report of the Superinten-
dent of Common Schools in Connecticut, it
appears that there are in the State 1926 dis
tricts, and 1O0,545 children between the
ages of 4 and 16 years. The school fund is
s2,O46,3e7; revenue from it, sl49,4Sl J; a.
mount raised for schools by taxes, rate bills,
&c., over 5000 900; school houses, 490, new
school houses built within the year, 40.
The Leavenworth (Kansas) Herald
states that S. Manchester & Co., have con-
tracted to erect large hotel in that town, to
cost $4,000 to be finished in November
next. The same firm have contracted to
build, for SIC, 900 bridge over the Kansas
river at Tecumseh, by which the distance to
Santa Fe is lessened by about seventy-hve
miles, very important item to travellers
The bridge will be six hundred feet in length
Last week all the old books, papers,
drafts, checks, letters, &C., that had been
preserved on file as vouchers in the long
course of the immense business of the old U.
States Bank, were sold in Philadelphia, and
purchased by paper maker, tobe re-ground
and manufactured into new stock Ihe
whole mass weighed over forty tons. len
tons of this vast amount is of correspondence
autograph letters for the first statesmen,
politicians, and financial men of this and
other countries.
The GreenciNe Patriot says: The
wheat crop has turned out fully one-third
more than an average crop, perhaps we might
saw one half. Never before were such crops
of wheat raised in the country. Never have
we heard of such yield of wheat. Rev.
Mr.. Boyce, made forty-four bushels on one
acre! We understand Col. McNeely sowed
two bushels of wheat in February, and will
make forty from them! The corn crop is
late, but looks we'll and has not suffered yet
from the drought. The cotton will be light
we should have early frosts, very little
will be made. The oats crop looked we'll a
short time since, but has been cut short by
the dry weather.
Our 4th of July orators cannot be too
cautious in the privilege accorded them on
this anniversary. After the Grafton on last
Saturday some of our Sovereigns to the num-
Der of FIVE or six, having their ideas of in
dependence considerably expanded by the
patriotic discourse, to which they had listen
ed-or some other cause, pitched into each
other promiscuously, without knowing or
caring, whether friend or foe were the SUI
ferers. The worst of it was, that it turned
out one man received nearly all the blows,
and that with heavy sticks. 1t was by no
means fair fight though it was undoubted-
ly a free one, any body being at liberty to
"pitch in" who chose, prorided it was on the
strong side.-Pee Dee Herald.
The new rifle muskets, with Maynard's
primer, and an improved "sight," will carry
Minnie ball thousand yards, or over half
a mile, with remarkable accuracy. They
weigh less than the musket in common use,
though in length aud size they are about the
same. In the United States there are but
two militia regiments supplied with this de-
structive arm, namely, the Seventh Regi-
ment, National Guard, and the Seventy-6rst
Regiment, American Guard, of New York
city. Four hundred of the weapons in ques-
tion were delivered at the armory of the lat
ter corps on Tuesday. Thus armed, the re-
giments named at present stand unrivalled
in their capabilities for active service by any
other militia regiments on the continent.
1t is stated that President Buchanan
is greatly annoyed by the receipt of innu-
merable letters addressed him, soliciting
money on all sorts of pretexts, in sums from
$40 to $4,000. He lately received a letter
from young man in Virginia, with the mod
est request for the sum of 5000, stating that
he was very poor, and greatly in love with
young lady to whom he was engaged, and
who he was bound to marry, but that he
could not do so without the assistance of a
loan of 5000, and he appealed to the Presi-
dent as the father of the republic, to assist
him in his distress Many letters of the same
ridiculous character are received, exciting
the mirth of the President, but which of
course receive no notice.
The ladies, nowadays, are using newspa-
pers at % cents hundred for the manutac-
ture of bustles. To manufacture the hustle,
thew take tape and put it between the
leaves of several newspapers, then sgather"
the newspapers at the top and tie the tape
around them. The lower parts of the pa
pers of course are irregular, and when the
skirts and dress are thrown over them, pro-
duce the necessary bulge. The Utica Her
aid and Observer informs the world that it
is in large demand for this purpose, and daily
used. It is an editors business to create
daily hustle in the affairs of men, but We
doubtvery much whether proprietors OF news
papers know that they are creating hustle