Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-08-06
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Ste2mer AWerIca, iol CuioPe'
We learn from the Greenville papers
that there was a freshet in Saluda River
early last week.
- The Columbia papers announce the
sudden death, from paralysis, of John l.
Walter, an old and much respected citizen
of that city.
One dollar bills on the Wadesboro
N. C. Bank, are in circulation. These bills
are of course, counterfeit as the Wadesboro
Bank issues no bill of less denomination
than SO.
- Forty shaving expeditions have been
fitted out from Cuba since the first of Janu-
ary last, while it is estimated that during the
present year the number of slaves landed on
the island is less than $4,000.
The Louisville Courier states that the
proprietors of one of the largest Touring
mills in that city have closed contracts tor
upwards of $4,000 bushels of wheat at one
dollar per bushel.
We learn from the..Charleston Courier
that one of its editors, charged with the re-
mo7al of the remains of the lamented Le-
care to the soil of his native State, was to
leave that city yesterday for Boston. Mr.
Yeaden deserves the thanks of the State for
his efforts in so sacred cause.
THE Louisville (Ky.) Courier says: !:
1.-The harvest is now nearly or quite over
throughout Kentucky, and in yield of grain
is the finest, largest, heaviest, and best ever
known in this State. The yield is not only
extraordinarily large, but the quantity of
ground cultivated was far beyond any pre-
yious season."
1t is said that Concha, Captain Gen.
eral of Cuba, in the last year sent home to
Spain 81 100000 as surplus eff the Islands
revenue, and that the present year will prob
ly yield still larger surplus. 1t is further
stated that he has remitted on his private
account, the sum of 100000 as the pro-
ceeds of successful speculations in stocks.
The crops in Ohio are estimated this
season as follows: oats twenty millions bush
els; rye, one million; barley, FIVE hundred
thousand potatoes, six million FIVE hundred
thousand-making an aggregate of twenty
eight million bushels, and being an average
of 40 per cent. increase on the crop of 1850.
The hay crop, it is estimated, is three times
that of 1850.
We received from the estimable lady
of Col. B. H. Brown, of this place, on Mon
day last, very fair article of the Syrup
manufactured from the Chinese Sugar Cane.
1t was grown in the village and for sweetness
and fine favor fully equals much Of that re-
tailed from the stores, at an enormous price,
and said to be of excellent quality.-Barn-
weN Sentinel, lst
Among the most disgusting things in
this life is to see man-a member of the
church-who has good sense, walk up to the
bar in a grocery, call for liquor, treat his
friends, bragof being independent, slap some
old drunken wretch on the shoulder, call
him by his name, tell him he is his best
friend, praise his wife, crack low obscene
jokes, brag about how much money he has
got, and in order to show it, pulls out his
pocket book, pours out all that's in it-ma-
king out he is trying to find a particular
piece-makes the bar-keep change the lar
gest he has, shake hands with the crowd,
and goes home affirming that he ''is going to
enjoy himself while he lives"
The quarterly returns of the General
Post. Office Department, for the quarter end
ing March 3lst, 1857, have been examined,
and exhibit the following results: "The
gross revenue for letter postage for the quar-
ter was s254, ,367.94; from newspapers and
pamphlets, s1e7,735.16; from registered
letters, SIC, ,345.2O; from stamps sold, ST.
425,64l.12; and from emoluments, $780,
101.4S. These figures give total revenue
of S1,S78, 1865. The amount of compen-
sation to Postmastors was 1896 ,269.60 the
amount of ship, steamboat and way letters,
s4,009.2S; and the Incidental expenses of
the Office, 1854, ,5lO.27. This leaves a net
revenue to the Department of 81, ,026, 1885,
o."
- The Petersburg Va. lntelligencer of
the 29th ult., understands that a sale was
made in that city Tuesday, privately, of fifty
three negroes, at the very high average of
eight hundred and fifty dollars each. They
were composed of men, women and children,
tventy-six of them being under twelve years
of age. This is perhaps as high sale as was
ever made of such property in the State. We
understand that eighteen or twenty of the
number were likely, strong, healthy young
men and women, and three others very val
liable mechanics-such as are now selling
from $500 to $4,000 each. A gentleman in
forms us that in 1887, negroes of the kind
above mentioned, were frequently sold in
lots at $1,000 round.
Within a very short time two young
ladies have been burnt to death, owing to
their light muslin dresses catching fire from
lucifer match-one in London, the other
at Colchester. 1t oughtto be generally known
that all ladies' light dresses may be made
fire proof at mere nominal cost, by sleeping
them, or the linnen or cotton used in making
them, in diluted solution of chloride of
zinc. We have seen the very finest cambria
so prepared held in the fame of a candle,
and charred to dust, without the least fame ;
and we have been informed since Clara Web