Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-12-08
Straps 4 fafts.

- John Brown was hung in efigy, on
Friday, I'd inst, at Williamson, also at Bel
ton, s. c., as we learn from friend from
Anderson. Charleston Courier.
The term of Gov. Wise expires the
first Monday of January. He has disposed
of his estate in Accomac, and will locate him
self permanently near Richmond.
- At Boston, on Friday, both branches
Of the Massachusetts, Legislature voted down
resolutions to adjourn in consequence of the
execution of old Brown.
- The Charleston Mercury informs US
that colored woman in that city, on Fri
day last, gave birth to three children. On
ly one is living.
We understand that gentleman had
his pocket picked yesterday evening. The
thief made mistake, however, getting only
small case of surgical instruments, instead
of well filled pocket book.-Columbia
Guardian, 9Th inst.
- We learn that the citizens of Orange
burg, on the receipt of the news of the exc
cution of John Brown on Friday last, fred
salute, of thirteen guns as an expression of
their feeling on the Observation-Disclosures
Mercury.
- Mr.. John A. Washington has sent to
Mr.. George W. Riggs, Treasurer Of the La
dies Mount Vernon Association, an order
for s1,22S.25, as his contribution to the
Mount Vernon Fund, being the proceeds of
the Mount Vernon steamboat trips for the
past year, which, though payable to Mr..
Washington, he has generously caused to be
made over to the Association.
"A beautiful and accomplished young
lady passed through this city last week, en-
route for St. Louis, where she was being
sent by express. She was from Paris, and
being unable to speak our "barbarous lin
co." her friends had adopted this method of
sending her to her destination. She was
regularly entered upon the "way BILL" and
freight paid all the way through.-Nortok
Day Book.
- There are nine members of the next
Congress whose seats are contested. Of 237
members elected, lis were members of the
last Congress. The member who has been
consecutively elected for the longest period
of any one in Congress, is W. E. Cobb, of
Alabama. There is only one Smith in Con.
gress, four Davises, three Wasburns, all
brothers, and quite number of instances of
the same name being held by two different
members.
- Several Irish citizens of New York
have received copies of a vile circular, Incl
ting the Irish at the North to burn factories
and granaries in retaliation for incendiarism
at the South. There were received copies
from. Richmond, Virginia, and one from
Montgomery, Alabama 1t is, however,
generally believed that the abolitionists have
printed them at the North, and sent an agent
with them over the South to mail them in
different towns, in order to make them be-
lieve that it emanated from Southern men.
-Nercury.
u 1t is to be hoped that the Legislature
at its next session will pass three measures,
each of which is demanded by the public
security. l. Permitting negroes to testify
against white abolitionists. 2. Forbidding
the sale of vile whiskey, and other poisons
of soul and body, to negroes under any cir
cumstances. 8. Changing the penalty of
running off negroes to death, punishment
which will prevent underground agents from
settling among us, and exciting insurrection,
and doing mischief enerally.-Richmond
Despatch. --
a lady resident of Shockoe Hill start
ed out shopping, yesterday, but before leav-
ing home resolved that if she could not sup
ply her wants of Southern productions she
would make no purchases. Scores of merch-
ants showed her beautiful goods, but all
that had the Yankee imprint upon them
were cast aside, as unworthy to be touched.
Thousands of other ladies are ready and will
ling to follow this example, and if the
sterner sex are but half as patriotic, the
South will soon have her looms busily at
work, and every State will be its own n'sup-
plier.-Rtchmond Dispatch.
AN item from an Eastern paper found
its way, accidentally, into our news columns
o day or two since, setting forth that in con-
sequence of the failure of Mr.. John A.
Washington, the proprietor of Mount Vern.
on, the purchase money already paid for the
estate was likely to be lost, as Mr.. W., be-
ing involved, could not give title. Such
is BY no means the case. The contract, and
all the arrangements between the ladies of
the Mount Vernon Association and Mr..
Washington, are such that neither his fail
ure or any judgments that may result there
from can in any way effect the title to the
Mount Vernon estate. We are glad to learn,
moreover, that very nearly sufficient a
mount to complete the purchase has been
realized; but it is intended to make the fund
sufficient to put the whole estate in repair,
and for this purpose the ladies of the Asso-
citation are now actively prosecuting their
collections, preferring to perfect the whole
plan by their own efforts, rather than to ask,
as they we'll might do, the aid of Congress.
-Philadelphia Press.
- Adopting the words of the Raleigh
Register, we say that, in the event of the
&c tbo T1nion opa of tho 6rct