Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-02-03
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MIR. Jas. McMahon, one Of the most
respected and beloved citizens Of Columbia,
died on Sunday night last, ofapoplexy. ,
Hon. John A. Orr, brother of the
present Speaker of the House of Represen-
tatives, is spoken of in the Mississippi pa
pers as the Democratic candidate for Cover
nor at the approaching election.
THE President has prepared Especial
Message to Congress, showing that an In
crease of revenue is needed, and that twenty
millions of dollars will be required to meet
the deficit Of the present fiscal year.
- The distinguished Historian, William
Hickliug Prescott, died in Boston on Friday
last, in the 62d year of his age. He was
graduated at Harvard in 1911. His History
Of the "Reigns of Ferdinand and Isabella"
and his 'Conquest in Mexico" earned tor
him fame and position of no ordinary rank.
The Hon. j. P. Benjamin, of Lousi
ana, was reelected by the Legislature of the
State, on the 24th uit., Senator in Congress.
for six years from the 4th Of March next,
when his present term will expire. There
had been protracted contest in caucus for
the nomination, and when the result Of the
election reached N. Orleans the public graft
fcations was manifested by the firing Of one
hundred guns.
Lincon got off a good one on the day
of the Illinois Senatorial election. AS soon
as the ballot was announced, prominent
Republican approached, him inthe law libra
ry, and asked him chow he felt" "Well,"
said Abe, ri feel a good deal like the boy did
when he stubbed his toe against root;
grabbing his foot in both hands he ezclalm-
ed DIN too much of a man to cry, and am
too,d-d badly hurt to laugh"
"A billh been introduced in the
Missouri Legislature which provides that no
slave, shall hereafter be emancipated in that
State, unless the master shall provide for his
transportation from the State; that any free
negro over twenty one years Of age, who may
be in the State on the first day of January,
1860, shall be transported therefrom at the
expense of the county, where he may be
found, unless he have sufficient property of
his own to pay for the same; and for the
confscation of the property Of free negroes.
DIR. Hines, so well and extensively
known for his peniteutiary experience, is
once, more in the city. He arrived on Satur-
day, and was Hospitality received and enter
tained by the Chief of Police; that officer
having such excessive affection for him, as
not to allow him to depart without leaving
keepsake in the shape of photograph, to
add to his gallery of portraits of illustrious
strangers. The Doctor maintained bis res
pectabilityand dignity, as of yore, and says
he is travelling correspondent of paper in
South Carolina.--N o. Picayune.
THE Nashville Union has resolved to
adopt the cash system for subscriptions in
future, and says, "the most powerful argu-
ment which has urged them to this position
is found in their account books, wherein is
recorded debt due them of over sixty thou
sand dollars, accumulated since the 18th of
May, 1858, and for subscriptions alone of
more than forty thousand dollars" This
looks astonishing, but is a history of every
newspaper in the land that is published on
the credit system. How long will publish
ers continue to pursue that ruinous policy?
1t is obliged to end in begsary, try it who
viii, and yet nine-tenths of the newspapers
of the United States are wilfully travelling
the dangerous road.
-T The Mobile Tribune relates that gen.
tleman, long a resident of the South, but now
a citizen of Philadelphia, was induced while
he resided South to purchase an old negro
woman, who was so much attached to him
that she would not leave him, even at the
urgent solicitation of the agents of the under
ground railroads. On one occasion, after be-
ing much importuned to leave her master
and 90 to Canada, she is reported to have
addressed them to the effect, that if they
would give her one thousand dollars in cash,
and a handsome white husband, she would
go. They excused her.
- We have received, from Messrs. walk
er, Evans and Co., two volumes of Lectures
on the Epistles to the Romans and the He
brews, by Rev. W. G. Davis, issued from
their press for the General Convention Of the
Independent Presbyterian Church. We have
NO. read the volumes, as they treat of sub
iects whereof we do not consider ourselves
competent critics. But the Typography of
the volumes merits our commendation as
specimens of neatness, clearness and legibili-
ty. No better volumes of their class are
published anywhere, and we hail the appear
ance of these as gratifying evidence of the
capability of this excellent Charleston pub
fishing house.-Charleston Mercury.
"A bill has been introduced in the Le-
gislature of Arkansas whose object is to rid
the State of free negroes 1t provides, In sub
stance, that all free negroes now in the State
may become slaves, by choosing their own
masters or own mistresses, who shall never
sell them to third parties, and that they shall
not be liable to seizure for the debts Of their
masters or mistresses thus chosen; that all
free negroes found in the State after Janu-
ary l, 1860, shall be indicted by the Grand
jury of the respective counties, and may be
convicted of a high mlsdemeanor Gin being
50 found in the State) and sentenced to the
niail and penitentiary house" for a year, and