Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-08-04
MERE-nIENTION.

The Courier, of the 28th ultimo, says that Ex.
change on Northern cities meets on increased de-
mand, and rates have accordingly been advanced.
The Charleston Banks were selling Sight exchange
on New York, at premium Of one-half Of one
per cent ......It is stated that over $4,000 have
been realized the present season, in Cincinnati
alone, for the sale of blackberries grown in Ken
lucky. ......."There is movement in Pittsburg,
Pa, to form military company on the ZouaTe
plan. ......".The Pacific (Cal.) Sentinel acknowl-
edges having received from a Mr.. SWAIN, large
strawberry, of the Chile variety, which was grown
in his garden at Santa Cruz. 1t measured eight
inches in circumference, and is said by the Ssti-
sel to be the largest strawberry on record.
Gen. Houston, in published letter, expresses the
opinion that the attempt to revive the African
slave trade is an attempt to bring about disunion
and that, if successful in the efforts to reopen the
trade, the South would be overrun by African
barbarans, and our lives, and, what is worse, our
homes and our families, would be subject to their
barbarities, and it would in no possible way ad.
vance our general or national prosperity. .''''''A
Mr.. PRATT, was recently fined $50 in Memphis
Tenn, for whipping his wife. The Judge said,
as salvo to his feelings, that it was t'no great
harm to whip some wives, provided the public
were not disturbed by the operation. .".''.''"What
is society, after all, but mixture of mister-ies
and miss-eries .........A firm of car builders at
Springfield, Mass, have just received IN order
from the Pacha of Egypt for S5o,0OO worth Of
passenger cars, two Of which are te be furnished
in Oriental style for the Pacha himself '.......A
gentleman of Tallahassee, Florida, received let
ter from Jacksonville on Monday last, postmark-
| ed 18th, on the back of which was endorsed so
the Florida coast, near Smyrna. ."'''...".A German
| writer observes that in the United States there
is such scarcity of thieves they are obliged to Of
fer reward for their discovery. .'''"'"It is re-
markable incident that the 18th of August, the
day on which the armistice just concluded is to
terminate, has always been kept as holiday in
France, it being the day upon which the Great
Napoleon was born. ..'''"'There is q large influx
of visitors at the Virginia Springs. Seven hun
dred at the Greenbrier White Sulphur; five hun
dred at the Montgomery White; two hundred at
the Allegheny one hundred and fifty at the Salt
Sulphur; one hundred at the Yellow Sulphur
forty at the Old Sweet: fifteen at the Red Sweet
ninety at the Warm; one hundred at the Hot and
eighty at the Healing .......'A physician in Louis
vile has discovered that by living principally on
butte~milk, human being may pro long existence
to the period of two hunded years 1900" We learn
from the Barnwell Sentinel. that Mr. W. W. GAR
WIN, residing in the neighborhood of King Creek,
in that District, was accidently shot, on Tuesday
oflast week, from the effects of which he died in
short time. No particulars are given. .''''""Our
exchanges state there has been no cases yellow
fever at New Orleans this year, as yet Last year,
st this time, it was beginning slowly to assume an
epidemical character.