Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-06-18
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DIR. W. c. Ravenel has been appoint
ed Port Physician of Charleston.

larger yield than for several years past, 25o,-
900 to 100000 hogsheads, against only 49,
600 last year.
- The Salt Lake mail passed at Leaven-
worth on the 29th of May, 25O wagons and
1000 emigrants, seceders from the Mormons,
on their way to the States. About ], 900 of
them are going to California.
-According tothe published list Of tax
payers in Baltimore, there is not one million
aire in the whole city. The wealthiest in
habitant in it is rated at only 3O,OO0;
while the next to him in wealth is the pos
SCISSOR of but s4SO,O00.
DIR. David Dale Owen, of Indiana,
has been appointed by Governor Conway to
make geological survey of Arkansas, and
will enter upon the discharge of his duties
about the middle of October, by which time
he will have completed the survey of Ken
lucky.
- Counterfeit new cent pieces are in cir
culation, intended no doubt, to mix with the
genuine in large quantities; they will easily
deceive persons at casual glance, but being
of pewter, like all that kind of coin, have
greasy feel and a slumpy sound that any
body will recognize.
P. B. Manchester, noted banker
who committed forgeries and robberies in Gin
cinnati, about two and half years ago, to
the amount of $500, 900, was arrested at the
Michigan Central Depot, on Thursday last,
through the instrumentality of Cincinnati
merchant, who had been heeced by him.
There is block of granite on Boon
Island, about IA feet in extreme, length, 10
feet wide, and from 5to 6 feet in height,
which was lifted from its bed in the ledge,
and carried up an inclined plane of from II
to Is degrees, to distance of near 90 feet.
This occurred during northeastsnow storm,
in 1852.
The Secretary of the Treasury is Of
the opinion that the close of the present fs-
cal year will find surplus of twenty-five
millions of dollars in the Treasury. The
late reduction of the tariff, he thinks, will
result in an increase of revenue from increa-
sed importations; and he has already deter
mined to recommend another large extension
of the free list.
Judge Morgan, of New Orleans, rem
dered decision few days ago, in which
he refused to declare void the decision of the
Supreme Court of that city, ordering the will
of Daniel Clark to be probated. The Delta
says, this is an additional and all but final
step towards the attainment by Mrs. Gaines
of the rights for which she has been so long
oontending.
Brigham Young is said to have with
in his jurisdiction $1,000 fighting men, arm
ed and equipped, who are bound to fight for
the Mormon Church till the last man has
expired. The population of Utah is esti-
mated at 100000; besides which there are
200, 1000 adherents of Mormonism in adjoin-
ing States and Territories, according to
Judge Hammond.
We exported from Key West last
year, says the Key West of the Gulf, about
100000 worth of spouges; and the exports
of this year, stimulated by the advanced
price will probably reach 100000, or about
one hundred and fifty thousand pounds Of
sponge. About forty boats and two hundred
men are engaged in the business, who catch
the sponge in the shallow waters of South
Florida, as far west as Cedar Keys.
The enormous increase in the manu-
facture of whiskey in the West, within the
past few years, is attracting considerable at
tention at present, on account Of the purpo-
ses to which the product is applied. Much
the large portion of it is manufactured into
alcohol, the shipments of which to France
have been enormous. A Cincinnati paper
states that only few days ago 10000 bar
rels of alcohol was sold to one house in New
Orleans, intended for shipment to France.
1t is said to have been demonstrated,
as the result of scientific commission de-
tailed for Investigation upon the coast of Nor
way, that the "Maelstroom," or whirlpool,
has no existence; at least it is not to be
found at the point designatedupou the maps
1t seems, then, that not only large ships and
whales, but Edgar A. Poe and all the rest
of us have been 'ssucked in" by it. What
an opening for the credulity and wonder ot
youth has thus been corked up!
-E1-President Fillmore and e1-Presi
dent Pierce have both accepted invitations
to attend the Bunker Hill celebration in
Boston. It. Gen. Scott, another invited
guest, will be escorted to Boston by the Ma
tional Guards, of New York, and on arriving
at the former city will be escorted to his
quarters by the National Lancers. Ex-Pre
sident Tyler has also been invited by both
branches of the Massachusetts, Legislature
and the Bunker Hill Society to participate
in the celebration.
- The Minnesota Republican, published
at St. Anthony, says that men are now held
as slaves, as property, in Minnesota. Every
year men who come from the South bring
their slaves as body servants to the hotels
and take them away again. And it has posi-
tive information that southerner is nov
holding his slaves at Saltwater, and declares
that under the Dred Scott decision he de6es
the authorities to interfere. He intended te
remain in the territory, and thus to render
slavery permanent institution.
Mr. Tieher oives in his renort the