Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-09-10
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-Grasshoppers have done serious injury
to the cotton plant, on few plantations in
the vicinity of Aberdeen, Mississippi.

the vicinity of Aberdeen, Mississippi.
The AbbeyiNe Banner informs US
that Hon. J. F. Marshall, of that District
has, at his own expense erected monument
over the grave Of 1t. F. W. Selleck of the
Palmetto Regiment, who was the first to
plant the American colors on the city walls
after the battle of Garcia de Belen.
- The English papers state the vener-
able John Hickling, the last of the race of
Methodist preachers sent into the work by
Mr.. John Wesley, and who isnow in the
69th year of his ministry and the 92d of his
age, preached in Liverpool at the recent ses-
sion of the Wesleyan Conference in that city.
Atelegraphic despatch from Washing
ton to Forney's Press says the work of the
Kansas Constitutional Convention will be
quickly done. 1t will probably be submitted
to the people on the day that Legislature
is elected, and the chances are that the Con-
stitution will be in Washington, with
member of Congress and two Senators to
back it, by the 1st of December.
The mother of Gen. Rusk is living at
this time, within two miles of the Village Of
Walhalla, Pickens District, South Carolina,
is in the seventy eighth year of her age, and
retains all the faculties of her mind perfect.
We are in possession of the fact that Gen.
Rusk provided her with the comforts of life,
up to the very latest period of his life
WalhaNa Banner.
a watch was left with Mr.. Oldham,
of the Bank of Ireland, and locked up in his
strong box, when its owner went into the
country, about twenty-five years ago, and
the watch goes we'll still. 1t tells the day of
the week, the hours, minutes, seconds,
months, and years, and how far you walk in
day. 1t cost 9500, and was made by a
Frenchman in Paris.
The Convention at Cleveland, called
to devise scheme for the emancipation Of
slaves on the compensation principle, ad-
iourned finally on the 9th. The result Of
the labors of the Convention appears to be
simply the adoption of plan whereby the
General and State Governments shall pur-
chase the slaves at the rate of 1925 each,
and the organization of an association to
carry on the movement.
The whole number of cigars exported
from Havana, up to the 18th inst, the pre-
sent year, was "a ,9S5, 900 of which 29,6S1,-
900 were cleared for this country; l6,3O0,-
900 to Great Britain; l7,73s,00 to Ham
burg and Bremen; 9,62s,000 to France,
and S,l3O,OOO 10 Spain. The exports of to-
bacco amounted to 1,1SO,345 pounds, of
which 1856 pounds were cleared for this
country.
The people of London wrote and sent
by post 32,000,000 more letters during the
last ten years than the people of the entire
U. States, while the population of London
is less than 100000, and that of the Uni
ted States more than 25,000,O00. And of
those 100000, 900 letters posted in London,
more than 400, 100000 of them were for To-
cal circulation within the bounds of London
The entire number of "local' or "drop" let
tcrs in the United States, in 1851, was off,
cially reported at 715, ,42s, or less than three
quarters of million.
An aged negro woman, who arrived
in Washington Sunday morning, gives the
following account of herself: She was born
in this country, but was the child of the
sister of Gas she states) the present Queen of
Morocco. She was reared by a Quaker fami-
ly in Newbern or Edenton, North Carolina,
and was set free by them. Having great
desire to see her royal relative, at the age of
nearly ninety she starts on foot for N. York,
where gentleman has offered to procure
her passage to Morocco. Most of the way
from North Carolina she has travelled on
foot, carrying bundle weighing not less
than so pounds.
The Washington correspondent of the
Pennsylvania Inquirer says that it seems to
be now generally understood that Messrs.
Houston, of Ala, and Phelps, of Mo. will
contest the Speakership of the next House
of Representatives, with COL Orr, of S. C.
The writer thinks that Mr.. Orr will be found
too strong for them, and it is pretty certain
that he would Eli the post with more dig
nifty and ability than either. There is little
opposition worth mentioning to the claims of
Mr.. Allen, ofIllinois, to the Clerkship, who
will 60 out of the usual caucus with, I pre-.
sumo, the unanimous vote of the Democratic
delegation. In all that I have said respect
ing the differences in the Democratic party,
do not apprehend that they will affect the
speedy organization of the House, but will
make their appearance soon afterwards.
Captain Hudson, commanding the U.
States steamer Niagara, in communicating
to the Navy Department the particulars in
regard to the accident to the telegraph ca
Bile, says he has every reason to believe, from
what has thus far been experienced in wire
laying, that, under ordinary circumstances
of weather, and with machinery adapted to
the purpose-for such as they had on board
requires altering and improving-the cable
may be laid in safety on the track marked
for it in the Atlantic ocean. He says that
at the time the cable parted the Company's
chief engineer, Charles T. Bright, and his
men, were attending their brakes to lessen
the speed of the cable until it was finally
carried away, which made all hands through
out the day like household or family which
had lost their dearest friend, for the officers