Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-01-28
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the invitation to oliver an address before the
Palmetto Association in Columbia, in May.
- You can spit in mans face in Sa-
lem, N. Y, for $50; that being the DANA
ges assessed by the court on person who
made this selection for spittoon.
Some one asks, 'is lit lawful to hang
clothes on Mason and Dixon's line ?" Just
as lawfulas planting beans around the North
Pole.
The total of salaries received by the
British Cabinet Ministers is $3.50, 900 per
aunum; the amount received by the President,
Vice President and Cabinet Ministers of the
United States is ,000-diference $780,
coo per annum.
- Senator Davis of Mississippi thinks
the Utah expedition extravagautly managed
Its costs, up to the present time is eight mil
lions, and the government will incur the
loss of animals on the Plains this winter of u
million and half of dollars.
WASHINGTON, January Sit is
stated that the Mormons intend to adopt the
guerrilla mode of warfare, and that every
able bodied man will be under arms in the
spring. 1t is also stated that Mormon spies
are now in Johnsons camp.
1t is said that Prof. Hedrick, who, it
will be remembered, was removed from his
Professorsbip in the University Of North Ca
rolina on account of his avowed abolitionism,
has been appointed third-rate clerk in the
office of Mayor Tieman, the successor of Wood
in the Mayoralty of the city of New York.
- Lieutenant Beale has made an inte-
resting report of his camel Journey from New
Mexico to California He found an easy
route, many wonderful rivers, and the camels
the most patient and useful of animals. He
says they swan Colorado without difficulty,
though it has been said they cannot swim.
The banks of the city of New Orleans
now hold, in round figures, ten millions of
coin, against three millions sixty days ago.
The declared statement two years since
showed larger amount, but the Picayune
does not think the actual quantity of specie
was so great as now.
The Portsmouth Gazette is publish
ing extracts from the ancient records Of that
town, among which the following occurs -
"September 25, 1862, Ordered that cage
be made or some other means invented by
the selectmen to punish such as sleep or take
tobacco on the Lords day, out of the meet
ing, in the time of the publiquc exercise"
"A correspondent says that he uses
coverings of old newspapers on three beds in
his house, instead of comforts, and finds
them much more comfortable and pleasant
to sleep under. He pastes the edges togeth-
er and spreads them between two light cov-
ers, and he finds that about one pound to a
bed is sufficient.
There has been no commercial panic
in Italy, and even less trouble than in France
and Spain, during all the crash of CONNER
cial houses throughout Germany, Great Brit
ain and the United States. The cause is,
undoubtedly, that the gigantic system oflcng
credits which has been practiced in the iarg-
est commercial communities has been un-
known there.
"A Calcutta letter says: Although
Lucknow has fallen, every spot of ground yet
remains to be conquered in Dude. Imagine
the Russians, ten thousand strong, making
descent upon London and seizing it. Eng
land would then be conquered, every castle,
every mansion would be converted into
place of defence. And yet Dude is largerthan
England Her people though defeated, hate
us with an intensity of hatred scarcely to be
accounted for.
- The following is from the Washington
Correspondence of the Philadelphia Isnn-
wlronian. 1t is now very generally conce-
ded that the Territory of Arizona will be
organized during the present session. | have
referred to. this proposed Territory before,
and the more l have studied the subject,
the more I am convinced of its mineral
wealth, and the fertility of its soil, and its
adaptation for the support of a large and
prosperous population.
The municipal difficulties of Bruns-
wick Ga, which began by the shooting of
Mr.. Moore by Mr.. Styles, seem to not have
reached settlement. Mr. Styles, it may be
remembered, was chosen mayor, few days
ago, as the candidate of the " conservative"
party. Mr.. Houston, his predecessor, refu-
ses to surrender the books, records, and other
property of the city, and the Board of Adler
men elect have resigned. There will prob
ably be another election.
- According to the correspondence of
the Courier d. Enquirer, the Republican
members of Congress, in caucus, last week,
nresolved, upon the advice Of Gov. Seward,
not to agitate the slavery question, but attend
to Legislation" This is very remarkable
resolution, and seems very inconsistent with
the creed of the party by whom it was made.
THE people of Bristol, r. l., we see
it stated, are losing their hair, without any
known cause. The Phoenix says that sever
all have lost all the hair from their heads and
bodies, the whole disappearing within two
weeks, leaving not even an eye-lash. The
doctors cannot account for it.
- During the past year, ffty-nine acci-
dents occurred to vessels on the reefs near
Kew West, of which nine were totally lost.