Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-10-29
Sfraps & fafts.

Of the business of the New York city post
office, which was received atthe Department
in this city in day or two after the close of
the quarter, if stretched out page by page
continuously, would make a string of paper
quite three miles long Ras1imgton Ecen-
lSing Star.
Wehaye in Ohio, says the Journala and
Messenger, a territory Of nearly 10000 square
miles, population of over, 1900, 900, and
an aecumulation of property in the shape of
lands, houses, stock and various improve
ments, estimated to be worth 81, 600, ,000, 900.
Ofthis population not more than one in zen
are professed Christians, and not more than
one in hundred are Baptists.
The Southern Methodist papers are
pretty unanimous inseconding the proposition
of Doctor Myers of the Charleston Advocate,
to change the name of the Methodist Epis-
copaL Church, South. The name Wesleyan
Methodist Episcopal Church or American
Methodist Episcopal Church, will in all
probability be assumed by the Southern Me-
sthodists at their general Conference in May,
Since the crisis came on in New York,
! the eloak .making houses of the city have
discharged about 1850 girls. A little over
two weeks ago, the cloakmakers' association
could hardly supply the demand for labor
The book: binders have discharged about 700,
'thesewing- machine manufacturers about l2O,
the clothiers about $50, and other manufactu-
ring establishments (miscellaneous) about
1900.
General Walker has been visiting the
editors of the New Orleans papers, giving an
account of his successes in enlisting men and
means for a new 6llibustering campaign. he
claims to have enrolled 8, 900 men for his new
army, and collected funds to the amount of
$780, 900. The headquarters of the new
expedition appears in Texas, whence many of
the recruits come. Unsubstantiated BY tan
gible proofs, the story of the men and the
money lackscertainty.
The coinage of the world amounts to
fully three thousand millions Of dollars, and
only hundred and twenty FIVE millions are
necessary to the purchase of the cotton crop.
The coinage now; in the UnitedStates is esti.
mated at two hundred and fifty millions, an
: amount nearly sufficient for their currency ;
but it is locked up and boarded in great
part. In no part of the world, except the
United States, is paper money Of denomina-
tions corresponding with coin tolerated. The
smallest bill of the Bank of England is the
FIVE pound note, or twenty-five dollars, and
Of France twenty dollars, or one hundred
rancs.-Augusta Constitionahst.
The Chess Congress now in session in
New York continues to excite very general
interest. The papers say that grand consul
: tation match will shortly come off between
: the Northern and Southern players. The
following gentlemen will represent each
Z section, and the affair will cause much interest
! and excitement, as the. various champions
are picked men. NorA-Col. Mead, New
York; P. p Montgomery, Esq, Philadel-
phia; Louis Paulsen, Esq, Iowa South
Hon. A. B. Meek, Alabama Paul Morphy,
Esq, New Orleans; DR.. Raphael, Kentucky.
Before the Congress adjourns, Mr. Paulsen
will play FIVE games blindfold simultaneous.
ly.
- The English Government has started
the werd "telegram" for telegraphic des-
patch. A newspaper correspondent discusses
the propriety thereof, and writes: An epi-
gram, a diagram monogram and an ana
gram-but an autograph, lithograph, q
photograph, and telegraph. What is the
principle? When the compound denotes
the character Of the writing, it takes gran, !;
when it denotes the means, it takes graph.
In the case of telegraphic message, the
means of transmission are indicated. There.
fore, the proper word is "a telegraph. Do
not be misled by the government telegram
.-an ILLUSTRATION of the proverb, that little
learning is a dangerous thing.
The Literary Gazette, in a notice of
Mr.. Meals work on Syria, says: "People
who love to live we'll and cheap, should 60
to Antioch. Mr.. Neal tried to be extrava-
giant there, but found it to be impossible
house rent, servants, horses, board, washing,
sand wine included-to spend more than
forty pounds a year. Oh, that Antioch
were London Fancy seven and half
pounds of good mutton for one shilling fat
fowl fortwo pence apiece! seventy pounds of
fish for one shilling and fruits and vege-
tables sufficient for ones household, for
two pence week! If we remember Alright,
the Garden of Eden was somewhere near
this place. Yes, and so was Goldsmith 8
Deserted Village for their is certainly no
other spot on the globe where one could be
passing rich with forty pounds year."
Banks have been connected, says the
Louisville Courier, with the financial crisis
that have swept over the world time out of
mind. Like most commercial institutions,
they originated in Italy, and own their exist
ence to money-lenders. The Jews were wont
to assemble in the market places of the great
cities of Italy, for the purpose of finding
borrowers. They sat upon banco (the Ital-
ian for bench) which is the origin for the
name bank. The first bank ofany moment
ever established was that of Venice, I'LL.
1t was bank of fdeposite, and the money once
placed there could not, during the first year