Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-03-04
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assisting to erect. He leaves a wife and
children to mourn the sad calamity.
-The Virginia State Senate passed a bill
on the 18th ult., prohibiting the emission of
notes of a less denomination than ten dollars
after the LIST of August, 1858, and aless de-
nomination than twenty dollars after the lt
of August, 1859.
President Buchanan had better not
throw away powder and shot upon the Nor
mons. Let him send them fashion books.
The necessity of criuolinc will destroy po-
lygamy. 1t will render Brigham Young him.
self unable to support more wives than one
"A Paris correspondent of the Courier
dcs Etats tm$ says that there are already
four butcher-sh in Vienna, in which horse
flesh is sold; that there is already one of the
sort in Dublin, and another in 1nzerdortf, and
that the whole of Germany will soon follow
suit.
One day, not quite three weeks ago,
O lady of this vicinity, says the Johnston
(Pa.) Echo. attended the funeral of hermoth-
or at 8 o'clock p. NJ, was led to the altar a
blushing bride I'VE presume she blushed, if
she didn't she ought at 6 o'clock, just three
hours afterward, and now is making an ap-
plication for a divorce.
-The Charleston Co~ri"r of 25th inst,
says-Mr. w. J. Dufic, of Newberry, S. G.,
who for some time has had before the pub
lie a prospectus for the reprint of DR.. David
Ramsay's history, has completed arrangement
for the printing with Walker, Evans, u Go.
8 Broad Street, who will proceed with the
work Immediately, and will of course execute
it in a style worthy of the text, and of the
established reputation of their imprint.
In consequence of the establishment
of an opposition line from New York to Cali
fornia. the old mail line, via. Panama have
made a large reduction in their rates OF pas
sage. The old rate for the first cabin was
$500, and the new rate has not yet been fix
ed, but the price of tickets for the second
cabin has been reduced from 5000, to SlOO,
and in the stcerage from $50 to $50. This
includes the S25 charged each passenger for
the transit of the Isthmus.
- On the evening of the 22d ultimo,
Ephraim Mitchell was committed to the jail
of Chester, on the serious charge OF attempt
ing to steal a negro belonging to MIR. James
Scaife, of this district. Also, at the same
time, was committed a negro man belonging
to Mr.. Valentine Atkinson, as being pdftt-
ceps criminals in the matter. 1t Is said that
other persons are deeply involved in ths
case. As the whole affair will undergoa
judicial investigation, We make no COM
mcnts.-CHcSter Standard.
"A Virginia editor describes the fol-
lowing scene, which he asserts as strictly true.
We don, think it could have occurred in any
other State. He says the he "saw 4 team of
four animals-a horse, a poney, 4 mule and
u bull. The horse had the heaves, the poncy
was blind, the mule was lame, and the bull
had no provision for fy.time. In the wagon
there was a white man, a crippled niger,
and a tame skunk frailly bound with a wiSp
of straw. The white man held the lines,
the team held its own, and the niger held
the skunk, and they all moved forward"
-The number of hogs packed at Cincin-
natl this season is estimated at 450, 900 head,
against 345,512 last season. The Cincinnati
Price Current has returns from LOG packing
places in the west, including Cincinnati, and
makes the whole number packed !, 769,292,
against l,49l,255 last year. The whole num-
Der of places reported last year was one hun
bred and ninety. There is an increase in
weight Of from three to twenty pounds per
hoe, at nearly all the places heard from, and
as a general thing the yield of lard has been
over that oflast year. There can be no doubt
that there is an increase in weight, as COM
pared with last year, of not less than 4 per
cent.
THE telegraph informs US (says the
.Souh CorpLnio",) that Il cargo Of negroes
has been landed and sold in Louisiana. We
regret to hear that, while there exists a law
of the Confederacy against it, it should be
conuivcd at Off it be the fact in the South.
The South has ever been j law-abidirg peO-
pie, and We are panied to see, in the face Of
law, any violation of our propriety. We will
defend to the last existing rights ofthe South
and her present claims, but we believe the
renewal Of the slaves trade injurious to her
best interests, and likely to cause serious d.
vision in her now numerous ranks. We trust
there is some mistake. in the telegraph re-
port.
- The Paris correspondent of the New
York Times, speaking Of the late attempted
assassination of Louis Napoleon, says: at
is reported that one of the prisoners, Rudio,
has turned States evidence, and that, in his
confession, he has revealed a plot that does
not ofera very smiling prospective for the
Emperor. According to Rudio's confession,
the conspirators we're five hundred in num-
Der. They are bound to their work by a
terrible oath, and their object is the assassina-
ton Of Louis Napoleon. Each year, or often
or, if circumstances shall warrant attempt,
the whole band shall draw lots from a box in
which there will be five winning numbers.
The five members drawing these arc held to
put in Immediate execution an attempt upon
the Emperor's life, which shall be approved