Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-01-22
MERE.NIENTION.


has passed the n. C. Commons, to allow the Banks
to issue 10 per cent of their capital in small bills
........Bonds to the amount of 100000, on the
Spartanburg and Union Railroad, have been sub
scribcd for, and arrangements will be made forth
with to procure iron to complete the road to un>
ionville So says the Spartan. ''''.''A bill is be-
fore the Arkansas Legislature to compel all free
negroes at once to leave the State, under the pen
atty of immediate sale into slavery for life. 1t
might be we'll for South Carolina to consider such
n policy ....'.."Hon. Mr.. Viiers has declined the
appointment of Minister to Washington. Lord
Elgin will probably be selected ''''''"The Rich
mond Enquirer has learned that President Pierce
completes Southern tour, at the close of his adj
ministration. Let him come; and n right tri-
umphal carer will be given him! '''''''''The pa
pers west ofus speak g'owingly Of the prospect Of
the Greenville and French Broad Railroad enter
prise, to connect Grccnrille or Spartanburg in
this State with Greenrille. Tennessee, and thence
with the network of roads concentrating at Knox
vile. The charters are all complete; and the
work will ere long be actively commemorative
completion of which must confer great benefit up
on the entire South. 1t will and can be built by
individual enterprise; and thus will supersede the
necessity and demonstrate the humbuggery of the
stupendous Blue Ridge fraud. So may it. '''''''''
Remember, the meeting of the State Temperance
Society will be held in Chester on Tuesday the
2lst Of July and the Grand Division, in lorkville,
on the 22d. '.''''"The application for charter OF
the Greenville and Danvie Railroad Company
has been refused by the n. G. Legislature, by q
large majority. This was the only lnk wanted to
complete the chain OF travel, North and South,
through Columbia aud Charlotte. The company
demanded no extra priviliges-no appropriation
and the refusalis simply bare act Of iliberality
and cxclusiyeness, for which the old North State
ought to be heartily ashamed. '''""At late
meeting of the Scottish Curative Mesmerc Asso-
citation. held in Edinburgh, Mr.. A. ]. Ellis an
nounce1 to the audience that if they wished to
avoid sleepless nights they should lie with their
heads TO the north not on any account to lie with
heads to the west. Southern politicians are OF
course exempted from the operation Of this law /!
......."In the column of Scraps and Facts" we
mention the death of the distinguished Geelogist
and writer, Hugh Miller. His death is heavy
loss to science and literature. But few such men
live to ajorn the worlds annals. '..'Scarlet fe-
vor is raging in New York and Boston. % deaths
occurred in the former city last week '''''"Hach-
ariah Chandler has been chosen by the Michigan
Legislature, Senator in place of Gen. Cass. He
is merchant of Detroit, and strict Black Re-
publican. .'.."The investigation of the charge of
corruption, in the case Of the Minnesota Land
Bill promises to be rich in Developments. There
is but little doubt that the House Of Representa-
tivcs is the most corrupt body of men in the coun-
try; and the inquisition may reasonably expected
to unveil much of the rottenness and "dead mems
bones of which it is made up. The Committee,
appointed by the Speaker, are Messrs. Kelsey, OF
y. Y, Rtche, of Penn, Davis, of Maryland, War
rcn, of Georgia and Orr, of South Carolina. These
are said to be able and independent men, and
they will do the job faithfully. .''.'''Col. John W.
Forncy has been beatenin Pennsylvania for I. 8.
Senator, BY Simon Cameron, thorough going
Black Republican! Forney was Mr.. Buchanan's
right hand man in the recent contest and received
his nomination through the Intervention of the
President elect His defeat, therefore, is to be
set down ns an unfavorable omen. But, after all
it may be ascribed to Forney's personal unpopu'
larity which might have been sufficient to neutral
ize the doubtful strength Of the Keystone Democra-
cy. .."'""By special arrangement, all the preach
ers in Charleston delivered sermons in their re-
spective pupts against duelling, on Sunday last.
.....".A battle was fought at Puget's Sound, Ore
gon, in November, between the United States
steamer .Hassacauseits and the Indians Twenty
seven Indians were killed, twenty-one wounded,
and the remainder surrendered. ....'.'..In several
sections in the South, Col. F. ". Pickens, of this
State, has been favorably presented for Cabinet
appointment ........A bill "to amend an act enti-
tied An Act to promote the efficiency of the Ma
W." has passed both Houses of Congress, prorid-
ing for the reinstatement of many of the worthy
officers dropped last year by the decision of the
naval board. This will blot from the record rhe
work of as fcul an inquisition as even sat upon
the characters Of honest men. We rejoice that an
act Of simple justice, so imperatively demanded,
has been done.
The National Agricultural Society, in session
in Washington, appointed q committee to ascer-
tain on what terms the Mount Vernon estate could
be procured, with the REV Of establishing there a
National Agricultural Institute. The Lext annual
meeting will be held in Louisville, Ky. ......"Tbe
latest dates from Pilatka, Florida informs us that
General Harney had Withdrawn the white flag and
been ordered into the field, and the most active
operations were Immediately to take place.
The impotcnt and cowardy Sumner has been
unanimously reelected to the United States Sena-
ate, by the Massachusetts, Legislature. lie is still
too nervous and ''indisposed"-to return to Wash
| ington ......A terrific hurricane blew over Vera
Cruz, on the Goth ult., wrecking ten vessels
among them the Mexican steamers Iurbide and
.Noate-uma-and destroying at least two hundred
lives ''''.JohnL L. Miller, Esq, has been appoint
ed by the State Agricultural Society, Agent to
solicit subscriptions for membership, in this
Districts and Coils \. D. Springs, Vim. Wright
and ]. W. Rawlinson, members from this Distric,
of committee ''to solicit plowstock most com.
monty used therein, together with specimens ol
every kind of plow, to be brought for exhibition to
the next fair" The gentlemen will take notice and
20 to work accordingly.