Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-03-25

lieu, who declared that the 'pen was might
Ter than the sword" ought to have spoken
a good word in favor of the "scissors"
~ resident of Hume, Allegheny country,
O., by the name of Victor Mix, under the
directions of the spirits, has set four weeks
on a couple dozen eggs, for the purpose of
Matching them.
- The New York Tribune has ~"private
and confidential advices from Washington
which fully justify our conviction that the
Lecompton fraud cannot pass the House Of
Representatives.. 1t will either be laid on
the table of the House, or so amended that
its own fathers will disown it."
1t is said the famous chair, made from
pieces of the old "Charter Oak" for the city
of Hartford, and which the Common Council
refused to accept and pay for, on the ground
that the bill (s575) was an extravngant one,
has been purchased by Col. Sam. Colt. The
price paid was $500.
- There are four graduates of Dart
mouth College living, whose united ages
exceed 400 years-Rev, John Sawyer, D.
D., of Bangor, 102 years 4 months; Rev.
Lahan Ainsworth, ofSaffery, 100 years seven
months; Rev. Zachariah Greene, of Hem
stead, l.. l., SO years l month. Total, 400
years and 6 months.
"A fire occurred in Newport, R. l.,
recently, at which the hose hurst, and there
was a cry for something to bina it. Alady
who was near promptly offered one Of her
skirts, and the stream of water was soon do
ing effective service again. That lady should
have been an honorary member of the fire
department.
1t will be seen, BY referring to the
commercial column, that nearly seventy-fve
thousand bales of Cotton have been sold in
our market this week, the largest business
of the season. Had it not been for the ad-
verse influence of declining Exchanges and
advancing Freights, prices would uudouC:-
eddy have advanced.-N O. Delta, 18Th.
- The following laconic prayer was de-
livered in the Iowa House of Representa-
tives, the other morning by the Rev. Mr..
Shine: "Great God !! Bless the young and
growing State OF Iowa, her Senators and
Representatives, her Governor and State
officers! give us a sound currency, pure
water, and unde6led religion, for Christ's
sake. Amen"
There is a little stream which empties
into Shasta Valley, California, about twenty
miles west ofthe great butte, which possesses
the singular property Of incrustiug every
thing which falls into its waters with com
plete coat of stone. Flowers, leaves, grass,
pine buds, and things of that sort will be-
com completely euamelled in the course of
a week or SO, retaining in the process their
natural form.
- Congreve rockets were invented in
1903, by Sir William Congreve. On acertain
occasion, when visiting Westminster Abbey,
in company with the ladies, his attention
was directed by one of the party to the inscrip-
ton on the great composer, Purcell's monu-
ment: "He has gone to that place where
only his music can be excelled." "There,
Sir William" said the young lady, "substi-
tute fireworks for music, and that epitaph
will answer for yourself"
- The New York Erpress says that on
ly al oat one in ten of the passengers on the
Underground Railroad, reported by the abo-
l~itionist papers, are in reality fugitive slaves.
Cunning negroes, under this pretence, now
thus travel about, with " free rides" 'free
board" and without work. If "the Under
ground" did the twentieth part of the real
work it reports itself doing, Canada would
be so full of negroes that there would be no
room for the white man.
- The Turkish admiral and suite arrived
at Washington on Tuesday. The States
of Wednesday says soon after the Turkish
party had sat down to dinner, at Wizards
Hotel, a servant sent to one of their bed
rooms with a cot, found a chair placed a
gainst the door inside. Pushing the door
open, the servant entered the room, and saw
= strange man making his exit. A large
double trunk was open, and the contents of
one-half of it were strewed around on the
floor. Instantly suspecting that all was not
right, the servant gave the alarm, but the
thief made his escape, unseen by the vigilant
officer always on duty below stairs. The
rogue gained no booty before he was discov-
cred !; but in the other undisturbed half of
the trunk were the jewelled decorations of
honor of the Pacha, and two thousand dollars
in gold.
-Spurgeon, the popular pulpit orator,
who on the occasion of the recent national
fast, preached to a congregation of twenty
four thousand persons, in the Cryztal Palace,
London, thus defines the Gospel: "IfaDy
man here should be 10 doubt on account of
ignorance, let me, as plainly as l can, state
the Gospel. I believe it to be wrapped up
in one word Substitution. l have always
considered, with Luther and Calvin, that the
sum and substance of the Gospel lies in that
word substitution, Christ standing IN the
stead of man. If I understand the Gospel,
it is this 1 deserve to be lost and ruined;
the only reason why | should not be damned
is this, that Christ was punished in my stead,
and there is no need to execute sentence twtce
for sin. Christ took the cup in both his
hands, and
cat one tremendous draught of love,