Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-02-19
nIERE.MENTION.


MERE-MENTION.
Our Publisher has inserted on the outside, q
"thriling story" about Indians, Knives and Tom
hawks. Deyour it. ........We arc indebted to Hon.
Mr.. Clingman for copy of his speech on "Brit-
ish Policy IN Central America and Cuba" deliv
cred in. the House of Representatives, on the 9Th
instant. .....".The U. s. Senate repaired to the
House, on the 11th the votes for President and
Vice President wero counted out, aud the election
of James Buchanan and John G. Breckenridge
was declared with an due form and ceremony
Il question arose in regard to the vote of Wiscon
sin which was not counted because the Electors
of that State had met on the 4th instead of the
Sd December; whereupon debate was continued
in both Houses until the adjournment. '..''''"The
Charleston Nsrcmy says: 1--WE are gratifed to
learn from one of the editors of Russelrs Maga-
zine, that the endcavor to secure o permanent
Southern Periodical of Southern literature, has
met with great success 80 far May it continue
to do so.......Rev. Daniel Baker has resigned
the Presidency of Austin College, Texas, and eS-
Governor SWAIN of n. c., has been elected in his
stead ....."Capt T. s. Byrd, wealthy planter
and highly respected citizen of Abhevie District,
died near Greenwood, on the 9th. ''''::"A letter
from Washington communicates the anticipated
intelligence that the Dallas Clarendon treaty has
been rejected by large vote, or, in other words,
re committed to the Committee on Foreign Rela.
tions, which sends the document back to its origi
majors for amendment. Several intimate friends
of Mr. Dallas say he will at once resign his posi-
tion .....The truth in regarl to the short cropis
beginning to be more manifest. In Memphis, the
cotton factors express the opinion TINT the re-
ceipts ut that point, from the 1st instant, will not
exceed $4,000 bales; and the Mobile Register
states that not over 800 bnles are now in all the
depots on the road running to that city.
We copy elsewhere statement Of the proceed
I ings in Congress, in aid Of the Submarine Tele-
graph. This magnificent enterprise will be. at
tempted and, judging from experiments, we can
not doubt rs to its final success. The idea is in
faitcly beyond the reach hitherto of human ef
fort, and the consummation will work great revo
luton in more than one particular. Think of it.
In the event of war, take the supposable case of
the surrender of London, in the afternoon the
dispatch in our morning papers of the same day,
will read prophetcally, thus: "The great Baby
lon will have fallen before the onward march OF
the American forces this afternoon at 2 o'clock"
Verify, another tense must be added to our gram
matical stock, to suit the Progress Of the age
Like the East Indian, who "Jmnt' his finger on
block of ice, we have no terms to comprehend the
idea !......A doubtful question of law has arisen
in spartauburg District. The Express states that,
last week, boy belonging to Mr.. Wilson, of
Polk county, N. c., was murdered by q negro of
Mr. Robert Jackson, of Spartanburg. The blow
was given in this State. and the negro died in N.
Carolina; and no legal proceedings have yet been
instituted in consequence of the uncertainty MS to
the jurisdiction in which the murder was commit
ted. We believe, the question has never been sat-
isfactory determined. .......The Cassvillc, Geo.,
Standard publishes IN Incredible item of neYs.-
1t is stated that a man named T. D. Butler went
to Savannah, recently, to sell timber: was taken
sick and apparently died. His remains were de-
posted in coffin and sent home by boat. After
its arrival, the coffin was opened, when the dead
man was observed to smile, and, after medical as
sistance, began Immediately to recover. He was
in the coffin two days and nights. ''''''The House
Committee, in Congress, have again reported
against Whitfelds right to a seat. That body re-
fused to lay the resolution on the table, by ma
| MI naok ~, Apcnp ~
N. c., known as "Carona Female College," has
been changed to Ansonyille. ...'."The North Car
| olinians ore making preparations On grand scale
to celebrate the slst anniversary of the Battle of
Moore's Creek" on the 9th instant. Joshua G.
Wright, ESQ.,, of Wilmington, is the Orator ''''''''
The Washington Star, of the 9th, pays hand
some compliment to our State, in this style -
'The committee from the congressional district of
the late Hon. Preston s. Brooks, who have come
to Washington to accompany the remains to their
final resting place in South Carolina, consists of
some twenty five gentlemen, most of them young.
We never saw O body of the same number, appa-
rently more intelligent and substantial men.
look at them explains why is that their State ne
yer fails to respect herself and to guard her rights
with jealous care in connection with public Of
fairs. ."...Kansas letters soy that the joint COM
mittee of both houses of the Legislature have re-
ported in favor of taking the census preparatory
to the election of the convention for the formation
of the State constitution. ..'"..The price Of ne
'groes throughout the Southern States is yet ris-
ing; and has already reached figure beyond pre-
cedent Negroes in Montgomery, on Monday be-
fore the last, brought enormous prices. Men ran
ped from fourteen to sixteen hundred dollars Wo-
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