Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-12-02
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Governors Message is to be found in another
column-in several other eolumns-of to-
days paper. 1t is>as sef document as
We have lately met and its ability seems
so IS mainly manifest ID The order and
variety ofthe subjects presented. 3
Every mile of the Terra Haute and
Indianapolis Railroad, outside Of the corpor-
ateiimits of TOWNS and cities, is fenced. This
makes accidents FROM stock being on the
track next to impossible. A large portion
afthe Indiana Central Rail Road is also
guarded from intrusion by animals with
feneass al - =. ~ 1-'' : ''F2s .s. - ''''f>
s-Quits d number of cases were tried
before the Circuit Court Of Augusta county,
Va. during the last week for betting on the
slectisnof CLERK last spring. In every case
the.winning party was convicted and fined
toths amount ofthe wager. In two cases
iuswhich the looser was convicted, a fne OF
ten dollars was imposed.
-----There are about ninety-seven thous-
and sdults in the State Of New York, who
can neither read nor write. At the taking
0fshe5 last census, VrgnRsnoweo an 1guof-
amt army of some eighty-seven thousand, and
was regarded as possessing the largest num-
hersof uneducsted adults to befcund in the
sntireU Uuion--a decided mistake.
--The New York News says that Rich
and Smith, a negro preacher Of the Method
Bs persuasion, upon attempting to vote at
New Rochelle, N. Y, was challenged by the
Blsck Republicaus, when it was discovered
tAatshshad voted against their ticket. Smith
directly swore in his vote, remarking that
she did not care to have niggers rule over
hin--white men were good enough. !"
SS-- A. bill has passed the House Of Rep
rsssntatives of Georgia by a vote of ffty-six
10 fifty.two, prohibiting the intermarriage of
frss cousins, under a serve penalty, and cut
ting off the inheritance of issue. The pream.
able to the bin asserts that many deforma-
tions of mind and body are of congenial
ergin from the practice of near kindred IN.
termarrying with each other.
THE Atlanta (Ga. lateHigencer, says,
We have sis from pretty high authority, that
the Hon. Howell Cobb, now Secretary ofthe
Treasury, has accepted the position Of Minis
tsrsto France. What has prompted this
movement, we are not Informed. If the re-
port etrue, this change viii probably re,
snlt ina reorganization Of the Cabinet. Mr.
Cobb is amply endowed with all those quail
fsations which are requisite to constitute an
able rspresehativeof our Government at the
C0uft,of st Cloud ' ,...
~sHon. j. &. Orr, Speaker ofthe House
ofsReprestatives, arrivedin Washington on
Friday, and on Saturday evening vas honor
ed with serenade at his hotel. BE was
called out and made q brief speech and con:
esudsaswis the remark: "I thank you
hssstily for this expression your kind feel,
ings towards me, and permit me, in address
ING you spefhaps, for the last time, to con:
dude with 8 quotation from the great Web
sser: Liberty and Union, now and forever,
enc and insspasable" Loud and long con-
tanned chssFing3s< = a''@-'SNS
s.sz- Tie Great Western Railway of Can
sda isabou5 to place sleeping cars. upon the
line between Windsor and Niagara Falls
The berths are fitted with spring mattresses
md pillows, both covered with damask and
quilts. Means for washing are also provi,
ded, and servant will be in attendance to- |
wait on the travellers, clean boots, &c. The
sharge.. FOR this accommodation will be halfa
dollar IN addition to the ordinary fare. EaSh
carcan accommodate thirty.six persons.
::--- BY law of Prussia every child is
required to 60 to school between the ageS Of
seven and fourteen, and to learn, at east,
to read and write. In lS45, there were on
y two persons in every hundred who gould
neither read nor write. In the standing
army of 10000 men, but two soldiers are
unable to read; and of 100000 children
between the ages of seven and fourteen at
the last census, 2,S2S,C GOO were actually at
Tending the schools. It would be difficult for
any State in this boasted land of universal
education, to make such an exhibit.
The Key West (Fla.) Key Of. the
Gulf says-Dr. Barron, Lighthouse Keeper
at Cape Florida, now on visit to this city,
states that eighty Seminole Indians have
visited the Miami since the first appearance
there of Tiger Tail and party, within two
months. DR.. Barron is of the opinion that
there are at least one hundred and thirty In
dams now in Florida, and says they are in
command of the eastern coast, and are like
ly to become set of pirates should vessel
be stranded on the coast away from the as.
sistance of the whites.
"A foot-race for a prize of $500 took
place at the Franklin trotting course, North
Chelsea, Mass, last Thursday. The dis
lance to be rum was fifteen miles, for which
Louis Bennett "a Cattaraugus Indian, Albert
Smith, of the Tonawanda tribe, and two
white men, James Griffin, of Boston, and
the Reading Mass. champion started. One
Of the white men gave in on the first mile,
and the other on the fifth, but the two Indians
had very sharp contest for the money,
which was won by Bennett, who accomplish
ed the fifteen miles in one hour, twenty-nine
minutes and fifty seconds.
Sergeant Berney has just returned
from a Southern tour, where he has been
making arrangements to break up the lottery
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