Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-02-04
,yERE.oIENTION.

Er late adyicps from Kansas, we learn that the
Lower House Of the Legislature has passed Dill
to abolish sllvery ......"Alcxnnder Dumas re-
ceives twenty cents line for his romances
The Democrats of Lincoln and Anson Counties, n.
! G.. in primary mee,ing-, have nominated Judge
ELLIS "a n Candidate for Governor OF hat STATE.
....."The Win states that there is an effort be-
inc made in Charlotte, to establish a Military
Sch~o'. .......The Albany N. i.l Transcript nom
nrtes Com HIRAM PArLDISG fnr the "tllcr OF
President of the United Statc'. .''''''A little noy'
spmc five or six years Of age, s5n ot STARTLING
YEARwOoD, of TTabersham county, Gcorglh, man.
aged to get hold of bottle containing whlskey'
on the 10th ult, and drank such quantity that
he died in short time thereafter r''''''' RICHARD
SoSpLEY, ESQ.,, for the last thirty years merch-
ant of Columbia, died in that city on Friday last
.......It is estimated that the expense OF launch
ing the English Steamship Leriathan will be SoOo,-
900. An unsuccessful attempt has been
made upon the life of tn. Emperor NAroLEAN.-
AS he was entering the opera house, an internal
machine exploded near him. Three persons were
killed, and sixty were wounded. The Emperor's
hat was pierced by n prcjcctilc The consplrators
were Italians. ''....."Thc Tuscumbia North AM-
bamiaa notices the killing of il hogs in that vi
cinity that weighed. in the aggregate, e,546 lbs
The average was 400. The heaviest weighed S3O
.....""The Grand Jury in New Orleans have re-
fused to find true bill against Gen. WALKER.
Two pedestrians are now walking plank at
Boston, on wager, the conditions of which are
that he is the loser WHO first sleeps, sits down, or
falls Of the plank from sheer exhaustion. ''''''''
The canse of the extraordinary warmness of the
season IS said to Lc that the Gulf Stream has ap-
proached nearer to our coast by forty to sixty
miles than was ever known before. '''''."Some OF
tie Kansas administration papers are already call
ing on the President to remove Gov. DENVER. ''''''
II. has been very warm all winter: peach trees
are in full bloom. and all kinds of trees are out
like May. People Grc very busy gardening" "......
A correspondent Of the Philadelphia Inquirer,
writing of the visit of the United States steamer
San Jacinto to Japan last year, says the japanese
fired salute Of twenty-one guns on Washington's
birth day, and on the fourth of July. y....... The
Louisville Democrat gives an account Of a fast wo-
man who lives in Christianburg, Ky. She WAS
married, lost her father, mother, sister and hus.
band gave birth to child and married again
within a eriod of two months 1.-THE receipts
of hogs at Cincinnati for the season this year. has
been Sss, 900 against S4+ 900 for the correspond,
ing period of last year.
4 private letter received in Charleston on Fri
day last, from Fort Brooke, Tampa Fla, dated
January 90, states that the delegation of the Sem
inoles and Greeks from the West, had arrived al
that place, with view to induce the Florida In
dians to emigratc. ''''''"Dr. a. G. MAcKEY, oi
Charleston, Grand Lecturer Of the Order Of An
cient Free Masons, passed through Mobile last
week en- route for New Orleans.