Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-10-13
mERE-MENTION.

Col. G.. ". HARRIS, of Knoxville, Tennessee,
author of the ''Sut Lovengood" sketches, has been
appointed a conductor on the Nashville and Chat
tanooga Railroad. At the sale of government
arms which took place at Washington on the 14th,
rifles sold at from ST. to 81; muskets 81 to $3.50
cannon So to S12. The harness averaged about
So per set; fnts cent per hundred. ''''''''All
the candidates for the Legislature, in Warren
county, Mississippi have declared themselves for
immediate southern action in case Of the election
of u Black Republican President. .......""Hemr-
hill" is the name of the new county y-seat of S.
bine, Texas. 1t is named in honor Of Senator
HEMpH1LL, q native of Chester District. ''''''''
The Fairfield Register gives the following state
ment of days cotton picking by the hands Of
Mr.. E. P. MoBLEY of that District. Nancy, 439 !;
Joe, 3sS; zeb, 94s; Philis, 347; Simeon, 946 ;
Wade, 3S5; Nerva, BIG; Jack, 3l3; Bet, 3O2
Sam, 200. Total, 3424, giving an average of o
fraction over S42 lbs ........The Charleston pa
pers announce the death Of Gen. SAM'L CRUIK
SHANK, prominent citizen of that city. ''''''''
Hon. EDWARD EvEvErT will attend the Georgia
State Fair, at Atlanta, on Oath instant. ....''.'
Volume seven of APPLEToN's new American En-
cyclopedia is out. 1t finishes subjects commenc-
ing with the letter E, and begins with F, in on
article on France. ........"Pink" the New York
correspondent of the Charleston Courier says that
Convention of Infdels is called to meet on the
29d instant. 1.-THE notice is published in the New
York papers, in which the Committee urge on all
to use every effort to cause the gathering to be ef
fective both in numbers and ability, so that the
proceedings may |be productive of advantage a
our common cause, the diffusion of truth and con.
seauent destruction of error, especially that form
known as superstition"
The Lancaster Ledger says that but .fftyJtour
cases, including writs, processes and acceptances,
have been returned to the next Court for that
District ......."Gen. SAM'L HOUSTON hos been nom.
mated for President, in Texas, with ROBERT C.
WINTHROP, ofMassachussetts, for Vice-President.
......" Among the recent arrivals in town we note
that of Mynheir Johannisvanshisselbidd
covensnauffers. He is stopped at Tronquenms
philipinstrasiamento's ...'..""The number of Sta
dents now in Davidson Collegeis 112, of which 65
are from North Carolina, SO from South Carolina,
from Alabama, 4 from Mississippi, 2 from Ar
kansas, and l each from Georgia, Florida and
Tennessee. So says the Wilmington Journal '..'''
1t is stated that the Masonic fraternity conteu-
plate the raising of fund of 100000, portion
of which is to be devoted to the building of Ma
sonic Temple at the seat of the federal government
and the revenue derived from it to be applied TO
the purpose of establishing house for the sup
port and education of the orphan children of de-
ceased Masons. .....'."A large body of land, 92,-
900 acres, lying in the counties of Highland Ran
dolph and Pendleton, Va, has been sold for $780,
600 to Northern Emigrant Society, who design
settling upon it. ....."Chief Justice Taney, of the
Supreme Court of the United States, is in the SD
year of his age, and all his eight associate jus
tices, except one, are over 10 years. .'......The
Louisiana Baptist says: No one ought to send
q marriage notice to an editor without dollar,
or at least the name of the bridegroom as cash
subscriber. This isa good Presbyterian as well
as Baptist doctrine