Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-10-28
nIERE.NIENTION.

| In q speech rev uayS slDce III Cuera", Hou
JOHN MCQUEEN, the Representative in Congress
from the Pee Dee District, delivered himself in
opposition to South Carolina taking any part in
the National Democratic Convention, which is to
assemble at Charleston next summer The Ga
zette ssys: "He insisted that if we went into the
Convention we would be bound in good faith to n.
bide by its platform and nominations. That by
standing aloof we would occupy far better posi-,
ton. If the platform and nominations were sat.
isfactory, we could give them our support; but il
otherwise, we would be free to oppose them. ."''''
The st. Louis Conference of the Methodist Epis
copal Church, South, on the 18th inst, abolished
by large majority, the rule heretofore prohibit
ing the ministers at that church from buying and
selling slaves Father SAWYER, an aged cler,
gyman of Boston, completed his 1O3 years on the
9th inst. ........The Rev. HENRY A. WISE, Jr., son
of Gov. WISE, was ordained rs minister of the
Episcopal Church, of Richmond Va, on Tuesday
of last week. ....""The State of Virginia taxes
the railroads Of the State one mill per mile for
every passenger carried over their roads '....'''
The Unionvile Journal of Friday last, announces
the completion of the Spartanburg and Union Rail
Road, to that place .....'."The citizens of Rome,
Ga., have determined to clear out the obstructions
in the Coosa river, and make it navigable from
Greensport to Wetumpka. ''''''"'Judge SPRAGuE
in his charge to the Grand Jury at Boston, on the
18th instant, defined the law, which renders it
certain that Captain Townsend, of the slave brig
Echo, will be taken to Key West for trial, that
being the first port the Dolphin touched ut after
the seizure. .......Among the Jews of Cincinnati,
the custom is becoming prevalent of publishing
in the papers announcements of betrothals. ''''''
Tn the town of Crockett, Texas, 1t is said that
there is not marriageable female; but whether
from scarcity of the article or what, it is not
stated. .......A large emigration from North Cnro-
lima to the West is going on A caravan of SO
persons left Lincoln county, N c., last week. A
large number are leaving Davidson and other
counties of the State. '.'.""Eghteen years ago
St. Louis contained, we believe, but 10000 in
habitants. Now it claims population of l6O,'
OOO ......"Ten freight cars have been built at the
Georgia penitentiarY for the use Of the East Ten
nessee and Virginia railroad.
An Iowa paper estimates the quantity Of Chi
nese sugar cane grown in the western part of that
State this year, as sufficient to make million
gallons of syrup ...'."In the fifth Congressional
District of Mississippi, the Hon. JOHN ]. McRAE,
(Democrat) was elected to Congress without op-
position, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the
death of Gen. QUITMAS. .'''''"''Rev. B. NJ. PALM
Err, D. D., of New Orleans, and formerly of Co
lumbia. has had on attack of Yellow Fever, but OF
Inst accounts was reported convalescent ''''''''
The Hon. JOHN C. BREcEENRIDGE, Vice-Presi'
dent of the United States in recent letter to the
State Democratic Central Committee of Illinois,
nrres the re election of Hon. STEPHEN A. DoUG'
1,ss to the Senate of the United States '.'''''''
The name of eMary," by decree of the Fope,
can no longer be given to children, on pain OF e3-
communication. lie reserves it hereafter exclu'
sively for the Virgin of Immaculate conception
/ '''''''''Ihc tl-WeStsTu OOelSty VA N'N''
Orleans has received 81, 900 from man who can
neither read nor write. lie is not O member Of
any church, nor does he live within twenty-five
miles of one .....""W L. BURT advertises IN the
Boston papers that he wants to buy bank char
ter in Maine, New Hampshire or Vermont, 'fol
which reasonable price will be paid '"'''''''The
population of the globe is put down at ,2o3 ooO'
900, in the following order: Europe, 212'ooo'
900; Asia, 10000, 900; America, 200, 100000
Africa 50 900, 900; Australia, 2,OOo,oo '''''''
Snow to the depth of nine inches fell in Ashtabul'
county, Ohio, on Thursday night Of last week
......."Twelve births were reported in HEBER c
K1mnALL's family, at Salt Lake, on the night o.
tbe 12th ultimo. ....."..The Bennettsvllle Son O
TEMPERANCE, says: "Since the summer session o.
our Grand Division, several new Divisions have
been organized in this State, with unusually prom
ising prospects, and old Newberry Division, No
II. has been revived--is now living, growing
and will no doubt soon flourish again.