Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-10-06
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SlfaRS " gM1s.
- The tobacco crop of the worldi hard
" worth more than 500, 100000 in its raw
state, and yet its various manufactures costs
consumers 81, 100000!
= James Gordon Bennett, Esq, has
taken premium of five dollars for some
punkins' he exhibited at the New York
State Fair, one of which weighed $50
pounds!
- It's stated as an evidence of the i'm
mense size Of the newship, Great Eastern,
that persons occupying her forward berths
are to be charged double price on account of
the advantages they will have.of arriving in
port ahead of their fellow-passengers.
The Masonic Conventions, recently
in session at Chicago, adjourned to meet in
Memphis in 1862. During the sessions a
plan Of .confederacy was adopted, by dele
gates in attendance for the purpose, by
which it is provided that the Grand Lodges
shall meet by representatives trienially, for
various interesting purposes. A banquet of
magnificent proportions was given by the
Masons of Illinois to all the representatives
in attendance, on Friday evening, in Chi
cago, said to have been the best thing of the
sort ever got up in that city. About two
hundred were in attendance.
We learn from the Charleston Mercu-
~, that Mr.. W. W. Walker, jr., Of the Co.
lumbia CoGrdnt the fortunate ,legatee of
"the plum announced few weeks since
by "Nox," in his correspondence to the
Mercury, has received by late steamers, con-
frmatory intelligence of the legacy, which
will net s105, 900 sterling, besides interest,
exchange, etc. Itsvalue is fully s525,oOO
Mr. Walker goes to New York soon to COM
piete: arrangements for its transfer to his
credit-a very agreeable duty. The many
friends of Mr.. Walker in Charleston and
Columbia, and other sections of the State,
will rejoice at this favor of dame Fortune,
who has this time poured her treasures up
on most deserving and worthy recipient
According to the AMERICAN Rail
Road Guide, the first locomotives in the
United States were imported from England,
in the Iof 1929 or spring Of $780,. The
first Stephenson locomotive ever imported
was the tRobeft Fulton" in 1881, for the
Mohawk and Hudson Rail Road. The first
locomotive built in this country. was con-
structed at the West Point Foundry, in 1880,
for the South Carolina Rail Road. The Sc
cond was built for the same road, at the
same place. The thirdwas built by the same
establishmentin the spring of 1881, and
was the first locomotive ever run in the
State Of New York. David Matthew, who
first run this engine, is still living in Phila-
delphia, and is one Of our oldest inventors
andlocomotive engineers. Charleston Cou-
rier. x
An Asylum is being erected at Bing.
hampton, n. Y, for the purpose of reform
ing drunkards. 1t is stated that twenty-eight
hundred applications have been received for
entrance, men and women, among them
olergymeu, lawyers, physicians, &c. A Rus
sian nobleman, gives an account of the man
ner in which he was cured of thirst fol
strong drink. He was sent to celebrated
asylum where the food was prepared with
brandy, his only drinkwa brandy, the bed
ding and walls of tie room were sprinkled
with brandy-in fact everywhere he smelt
brandy and everything had brandy in it,
which so disguised him that he left the asy'
lum cured. That plan may work we'll in
Russia, but Americans, who pride them
selves on never surrendering to an enemy,
would die before disgust could influence
them. Many would gladly undergo the treat
ment in order to get well soaked.
An enthusiastic Irishman named Den
mis- O'Donoyan, has just published, by Dol
man, of London, little volume called
memories of Rome 1t views the Eterna
City from Catholic eminence. The follow
ing is curious: In the Church of ST. Agats
is tomb sacred to an Irishman, for in il
is contained the heart of O'Connell. A mu
raj monument, consisting of two reliefs
marks out the spot where rests this precious
relic of our champion. The epitaph, which
I believe is from the pen Of DIR. Newman
introduces the indignant words in which
the Liberator refused to sign the Declaration
in 1929, and the lower relief represents
him addressing those words to the Hous'
of Commons from its bar. The portrait
which surround him-of Peel, Graham, tn
Earl of Lincoln, and Lord Elliott, on on
side, and of Lords Althorp, Duncannon
Morpeth and Ebrington, on the other-ar
from engravings forwarded from England
and considered by those remembering tn
originals as successful in high degree
The architectural details round the monu
ment are very graceful, and by their gra..
tint happily contrast with the white marbl
of the figures they enclose. Altogether
is work highly creditable to all concerned
in it-more, however, cannot help saying
to the munifcence of Bianconi, whose un
diving fame it commentaries, than to tn
skill of the artist by whom it was executed.