Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-03-17
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- At the East Baltimore Conference held
at Williamsport, Pa, the resolutions from
the Cincinnati Conference, proposing so to
alter the discipline as to make non-slave-
holding test of membership in the NJ. E.
Church, were unanimously non'concurred in
The gardener of the Agri-horticultu-
raj Society of India, gives an instance of
the extraordinary growth of the bamboo
The shoot was planted in July last, and in
four months attained the height of forty-hve
feet and width of twenty two inches. The
plant must have grown the sixth of an inch
an hour, speed nearly, if not quite visible
to careful watcher.
The Fernandina News says:-The
steamer Randolph arrived here few days
since from Savannah, bringing large guam
tity of wire for the Cuba telegraph line. The
work of raising the wires is rapidly approach
ing our State line from Savannah, and will,
We learn, be shortly commenced on the line
of the Florida Railroad from this place to
Cedar Keys.
We saw yesterday white robin,
which had been seen about town for some
days, and was shot just beyond the outskirts
The wings and back were of pale cream
color, the remainder perfectly white. We
have seen it stated that white specimens OF
several kinds of birds and quadrupeds have
been seen this winter. in various parts of the
country, especially in the northern portion
of it.-Chera,o Herald.
- The Metropolitan Catholic Almanac
for 1859, states that in 1903, there were in
theUnited States, 2 bishops, 64 priests and
so churches, j. c., church edifces. Ten
years later there were 10 bishops, 232 priests,
and 230 churches At the close of the next
decade there were II bishops, 432 priests,
947 churches. At the present time there
are As bishops, 21O2 priests, and 1924 chur-
ches. An estimate of 500 members to each
church wesld give 1,s66,2OO as the Catho-
lie populations the United States,
.s--Queen Victoria, who will not be forty
until next May, has become entitled to the
venerable title of "grand mamma" On the
9th of January, precisely year and day
after her marriage with Prince Frederick
William of Prussia, the Princess Royal of
England had become the mother of boy
The news reached Windsor Castle, from Ber-
lin, exactly six minutes after the event.
Had the Atlantic cable been at work, Ameri-
ca would have had the news some four or
FIVE hours before the noted time of its occur
renee in Prussia
- We notice that several of our ex-
changes express some surprise at the failure
of the Court of Errors to appoint persons to
codify the statute laws of this State, accord
ing to the power vested init by the last le-
gislature. We are creditably Informed that
the attention of the Court was turned to this
matter the failure to appoint was owing to
the fact, that 30 competent persons could
be induced to accept the appointment. We
hope their Huuvrs may be more successful i'll
May next such work is very much need
ed at the same time, it had better be as it
is than to entrust its revision to incompetent
pcrsons.-Dar1ingtOn Fcg.
- A number of clergymen and laymen
met at Worcester, Mass, on the lst, to form
new organization on the basis of hostility
to slavery. Among the "principies" adopted
were the following: The duty of one family
or sect of the Christian Church to rebuke
and refuse fellowship to another section of
the visible church that denies the rights of
man and the common brotherhood of hu
manity by defending slavery, and folding to
its bosom slave sellers, slave buyers and
shareholders. The total abolition of the vast
system of American slavery to be accepted
as the providential mission and duty Of the
American clergy and the American churches,
of this generation. DR.. Chever was presently
and made an address. The resolutions pass Y
ed by this meeting are fully up to the most
extreme views of anti-slavery.
"A gentleman of Boston, who is a
practical machinist, is constructing steam
er upon novel plan, by which he proposes
to attain aspccd ofthirty to thirty-ive miles
an hour. lie has made experiments with a
model on small scale, which were very
successful, and he is now building one sixty
feet in length, further to test the practical
bility and value of the invention. lie relies
upon both air and water to obtain his pro-
pcller principle. He proposes to obtain a
speed of twelve miles an hour, which he says
is the highest rate that can be realized from
that agency. In the bow of the vessel, and
worked by the same engines, he placed an
apparatus something like the wings of a
wind mill, which is to make $50 revolutions
minute, and by its action upon the atmos
phcrc will pull the vessel along, he calcu-
latcs, at speed much greater than has been
heretofore attained.
- \ correspondent Of the Augusta Con-
Nitutioaaii<t, writing from Jefferson county,
Georgia, under date of the 4th instant, says:
"There is an alarming rc-appearauce of the
"hog disease" in Glasscock county. A short
time since | was in conversation with Judge
W, of the above named county, and he in
formed me that from the fifteenth of last
December up to that time he had lost over
three hundred head of hogs, worth in the
aggregate, over five hundred dollars, and
there was but little, ifany, abatement in the
disease. The strangest thing relative to the