Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-04-23
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Wesley Jones has been appointed q.
s. Marshal for the District of North Caro-
lima.
- An Irish drummer, who now and then
INDUCED in noggin of right good poteen,
was accosted by the reviewing general "Pat,
what makes your nose so red ?''-"Plase
your honor" said Pat, ~ always blush when
I spakes to an officer"
Mr.. Buchanan is said to be the old
est man that has ever assumed the Presiden-
tial Office, and that Gen. Cass, now seventy
four years of age, is the oldest man that has
ever filled the Office of Secretary of State.
- The Southern Cultivator says: at is
a solemn fact that not one narriageable girl
in twenty, can make really good cup of
coffee" A fact so serious as this should i'm
mediately engage the attention of all mar
riageable girls. Shouldn't it?
"A shrewd little fellow, who had just
begun to read latin, astoundcd his maiden
instructress, who was fast approaching
"certain age," by the following translation
"Vir, a man; gin, trap; Virgin, man
trap"
After christening at church in
Southwark, while the minister was making
out the certificate, he happened to say, "Let
me see, this is the thirtieth ~ "Thirtieth ~
exclaimed the indignant mother, 'indeed it
is only the eleventh." The minister was al
luding to the day of the month.
- Gen. Harvey, now in Florida, has
been ordered to the command of Fort Leav-
enworth, to which post the 10th infantry
have been ordered from Fort Smelling. Lieut..
Col. johnson, lst cavalry, is ordered to St.
Louis to prepare for the survey of the South
ern boundary of Kansas. Col. Sumner is
to command two squadrons of the lst caval-
ry ordered to move along the line of the Ar
kansas river.
The Lecompton correspondent of the
St. Louis Democrat says that the appoint
ment of Hon. RobertJ. Walker as Govern
or of Kansas gives the greatest dissatisfac-
ton and is regarded as favorable to the form
alton of slave State. That the iDstruc-
tions to carry out the census act arouses in
dignatiou. The same letter also says that
spirit of violent, reckless lawlessness is be-
ginning to be exhibited under the appoint
ment of the new administration.
John Miller, aged twenty eight years,
died at indianapolis on Friday night. The
Journal gives brief history of his sad case.
He was born in Dayton, Ohio-was left an
orphan with large estate, and to his own
guidance fast young man" and
rapidly spent fortune which was counted
by tens of thousands. He kept circle of
dashing young fellows about him until his
money was gone, who then deserted and left
him. He sought indianapolis for home,
and there, in some menial capacity lived, for
time aud died in strange garret, friend
less and alone.
We learn that the Hon. Charles C.
Memminger, an eminent citizen of South
Carolina, is now in Philadelphia, as 4 Com
missioner from that State, for the purpose
Of completing the examination commenced
sometime since Of the common schools of
Philadelphia and New York. The results
of the inquiry which was carried on last year
have been, as we learn, entirely successful.
4 series of common schools have already
been instituted in Charleston and elsewhere,
which are already in efficient operation.-
Philadelphia LcdgH'.
- Profane swearing is abominable. Eul-
gar language is disgusting. Loud laughing
is impolite. Inquisitiveness is offensive
Tattling is mean. Telling lies contemrti-
bic. Slandering in devilish. Ignorance is
disgraceful, and laziness is shameful. Avoid
all the above vices, and aim at usefulness.
This is the road in which to become respec-
table. Walk in it. Never be ashamed of
honest labor. Pride is curse-a hateful
vice. Never act the hypocrite. Keep good
company. Speak the truth at all times
Never be .scouraged, but persevere, and
mountains will become mole-bills. Finally,
pay the printer!
- The impression that the world is to
be at an end on the 18th of June, is so pre-
valent in Gallicia that the peasants are be-
coming somewhat difficult to manage. The
poor ignorant creatures have been confirmed
in the idea that they have but few more
weeks to live by the abolition of the ''pass-
port torture" in Austria, and the reduction
of the passport tax in Russia. According
to Polish correspondent of the Ost Deut-
sche Post, the lower classes express them
selves as follows ,-'sNo one now troubles
himself about the world and its inhabitants.
A man can go where he pleases, as it is now
all the same whether he is here or in Amer
ica."
MIR. S. Louis Shaw, of Eureka, Hum
boldt Bay, California, writes to the Commits
sioner of Patents that he has recently pro.
cured the seed of new kind of wheat from
friend, who told him that it was wild va
riety found in the Sierre Nevada. Mr.. S.
had planted few kernels last year, the
yield of which was very largc-at least FIVE
hundred kernels for each one that he plant
ed He enclosed few bits of the straw of
this wheat, because it was solid instead of
being hollow. From the general appearance
of the specimens thus received, it is sup
posed to be variety named hittcun' polo
nicum, of which numerous experiments were