Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-09-10
INTERVENTION.

patriotic enterprise.
MERE-MENTION.
Read the article on the outside in regard to
Kansas written by Gen. GADRERRY Of Union. ''.'''
Millions of money have been disbursed in Rich
mond during the past fifteen months for negroes,
who have, during that time, commanded more
e1orbitant prices than ever before '''''"An Irish
woman, who had been convicted Of illegally SELL
ing spirits, on receiving sentence, ferventy clasp
ed her hands and prayed that his " Honor might
never live to see his wife poor widow, and OBJ
liged to sell rum to support the childer "''''''''
The number of printing Offices in Switzerland is
156 or one to every $4,000 of the population.
........A camp meeting of Mormons, to last three
days, is now being held ut Hornerstown, N. ''''
Cannon were fired and mass celebrated on the lst
inst, in New Orleans, in memory of LOPEZ, the
Cnba flibuster. ........Letters received at Wash
;ppton, state that Gov. WALKER is preparing
yindication of his course in Kansas, for circula-
ton in the Southern States, and particularly in
Mississippi. Alderman MONAGHAN and Nc
CoyyELL, and Councilman VAN TYNE, of New
York, part of the committee on the award of Gen.
JAcEsoys gold box, have appointed themselves n
committee to 90 to Tennessee, and get the box
from ANDREW JACKSON, Esq. .''''''"The London
Morning Chronicle, referring to the RIGHTEOUSNESS
of portion of the English press: 'The liberty
of unlicensed printing, for which our ancestry
fought so galanly, has degenerated into pri-
vilege of unlimited lying"
STEWART the Democratic candidate for Cover
nor of Missouri has been elected by majority of
334 votes, over ROLLINS the eEmancipationist can
did, te ......"Portable steam engines are employ
ed in Philadelphia, to hoist brick and mortar in
the erection of buildings. Three men arc employed
to each machine, and the labor of six men is saved
| ...".The Southern Pacific Railroad is being gra-
ded at the rate If two millions per week. More
than FIVE hundred hands are employed on the work.
The cost of printing each note on the Bank
of England is FIVE pence. '''''''To kill bed bugs
tie them by the hind legs and then make mouths
at them until you get them into oonvulsions, after
which crawl around on the blind side and stone
them to death. 1900" The Russian Senate have
Just issued the ukase ordering general census Of
the Russian empire, which will he the tenth since
the reign Of Peter the Great. '''''''The journey
men tailo,s of Philadelphia held = mass meeting
at Franklin Hall, Monday, to take measures to
further their demands for an increase of wages.
..."..A Vigilance Committee has been formed in
Copiah County, Miss, and three citizens, REUBEN
SEAsrRuyK, SAMUEL SEAsrRUSK, and STEPHEN
MORGAN, suspected of tampering with slaves or
dcred to leave the county in fifteen days.
On the completion Of the Atlantic telegraph,
"Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace,
good will towards men, was the first message, to
be transmitted, from Queen VlCToRn to Mr..
Brcu,y.Y. Shortly after the news announcing
the breaking of the cable, the Boston Post, suggest
ed the following change: ''President: On earth,
peace-over board, another piece. "''''''"'A sloop
of thirty tons has been built and launched ut the
Penetentiary, in Wetumpka, A'a She is called
, the Cosuctte, and is intended to he sold for
fishing smack in Mobile. She was designed and
bnilt by two or three nautical convictS. Her
draft is two feet and half ....'.'"'The first bale
of new cotton was received at Columbia on the I'd
inst. from the plantation of Mr.. HENRY MEETzE,
Lexington District. 1t weighed four hundred
pounds, and brought 1Gs cents quality fair. '''''''
The Secretary of the Interior has instructed the
marshal of Minnesota to take the census OF the
territory whenever he be informed that it is the
wish of the people to form constitution and
state government preparatory to admission into
the Union. ......."Upwafds of 500, 900 bushels of
wheat were received ut Augusta, Ga, during the
month of August. ''.'.'"Mr. ALFRED HARGRAvE,
the station agent Mt Lexington N. c. informs the
Greensboro Patriot and Flag that during the
month of August, 81 900 bushels of wheat were
cont from that station on the North Carolina rail-
road. .......The majority in North Carolina for
Free Suffrage is over S0,OOO. '""""The city Of
New York alone sells three times as many squire
imported brandes," and four times as many ''pure
imported Wines" annually, as Nil the wine and
brandy y-producing countries export Somebody
it is clear, drinks spurious article '''''''A lot
of molasses, IS barrels, from Chinese sugar cane,
WINS received in New Orleans, on Saturday Inst,
being considerable ahead of the usual time for re-
cciving the first consignment Of that article ''''''
Twenty three weekly papers are now published
in Kansas ..'....The Times states that lately
New York merchant received remittance from
one of his correspondents in the shape of draft
on the Ohio Life and Trust Company for $4,000,
on the very day on which that institution closed
its doors. He Immediately telegraphed the fact
10 his debtor, who sent him another draft on
| JOHN THOMPSON, which arrived the day after the
failure of that broker the merchant again tele-
praphed the failure, and received in few days
another draft on Atwood & Co., just as that firm
suspended ........The Boston Courier mentions,
as singular circumstance, that gentleman re-
siding in that city, has lost member of his
family every Fourth of July for the last four
years. His two sons and daughters have died on
that day in successive years, and on last Fourth
his little daughter aged FIVE years, was seized
with convulsive fits in the second Of which she
died. ...'.."'A gentleman was speaking the other
day of the kindness of his friends in visiting him.
One old aunt in particular, visited him twice a
year, and stayed six months each time. '''''''The
standing army of the United States, as now or