Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-11-03
Scraps 4 fafts.
Taylors Greek Post Office, York
District, has been re-established.

Taylor's Creek Post Office, York
District, has been re-established.
- Roger A Pryor has been elected to
Congress from the fourth District of Vir-
ginia, by twelve to fifteen hundred majority
The Rev. G. H. Spurgeou has writ.
ten a letter to his friends in America, in
which be declares that, in his belief, INNER
sion is the only Christian baptism; and
and that he believes that members Of all
Christian communities should be admitted
to the Communion.
- The Artesian we'll at Columbus, Ohio,
having reached the depth Of 1889 feet and
and 10 inches-4 feet and 2 inches deeper
than any other we'll in the world-has been
suspended because the appropriation for that
purpose was expended 1t now lacks only
800 feet and inch of being half mile
deep. ass .~.'
"A firm in Boston have just made two
pairs of shoes for slave in one of the
Southern States, which are elephantine in
their proportions. The dimensions of each
shoe is sixteen and quarter inches in length,
six inches across the ball of the foot, and
seventeen inches around the iustep. That
darkie will require one.acre field to tp"
round in.
THE Bainbridge Georg>H is fe.ao'y
informed that number e'tne most lnnu'
entail aud weathiest s;rzens OF Early coun'
tv Ca have suh,shbed the sum of ten thou
sand dolla,s.e more, for the special purpose
Of Assisting 70 fit out vessel to proceed to
tbecoast Of Africa, to procure African ne
eroes for the subscribers. 1t is also thought
that men of wealth in other adjoining coun-
ties have subscribed literally to the same
enterprise. .....
- It is stated on reliable authority that
the slaves of widow lady in Shenandoah
county, Va.,, were furnished with arms BY
the abolitiouists, and a night appointed for
them to start to Harper's Ferry. Instead of
doing so, however, when the time came they
held q consultation, and taking those very
arms, kept guard from dark till dawn around
their mistress's house. In the morning,
they showed her the arms, told her what
they had done, and went to work as usual.
-Rashington Star.
Washington, October 26.-secretary
Floyd left for Charlestown this afternoon,
in obedience to summons from the Court
to appear as a witness on the trial Of the
Harper's Ferry conspirators. He carried
with him all original documents taken from
the insurgents, including their original COM
missions as officers under the Provisional
Constitution. These all bear the signature
of John Brown, Commander.in-C Chief, and
q. Kagi, Secretay-of-War, in their own
handwriting.
- The Cheraw Gazette says, J. c. Ter
rel, who was found guilty of the murder of
Annanias Graham at the late term of Marl-
boro' Court, came very near escaping from
Jail on Monday evening last. The floor of
the cell was of wood, through which he had
succeeded in burning hole large enough
to have passed through. The wife Of the
TAILOR smelt the smoke, and thinking all was
not right sent for the Sheriff, who upon rails
ing Terrels mattress, found the hole. He
was Immediately placed in an iron cell, from
which there is no change of escape.
- The Wilmington Journal says: We
learn that man who had been in George
town, S. c., during good part Of the last
Summer on the plea of health, left last Fri
day, it being intimated to him that it might
save trouble to the community and danger
to himself. He was man of fine personal
appearance, remarkably intelligent, and of
gentlemanly manners and address. Circum-
stances left no doubt of his character as an
emissary of those opposed to the institutions
of the community in which he was a sojourn-
er. The Harper's Ferry affair has aroused
Southern vigilance, and the business Of em-
issaries will be found "extra hazardous"
- The pleadings in the McKenna will
case, upon an appeal from the decree Of the
Ordinary, were made up and the case dock
eted at this Court. There was no effort
from either side to try the case this term
An order was submitted by the appellants,
and granted by his Honor Judge Wi,hers,
to the effect that the Ordinary be required
to deliver up the original will to the Clerk
of this Court, to be attached to a commission
for the examination of the subscribing wit
ness to the will, whenever such commission
shall be properly sued for and issued by the
said Clerk. Thus the great difficulty which
hiudered the progress of the cause in the
Court of Ordinary is removed.-Lancaster
Ledger.
- The Barnwell Sentinel, in reporting
the Court of Sessions for Barnwell District,
says: There were two other capital cases,
one of Elizabeth Howard for the murder
of slave, and the other of James Broxtou,
for killing man named Griffin. This was
a case which shows the imperfection of the
law upon point which our Representatives
should attend to next December. Griffin
was wounded in this State, but was carried
over into Georgia, and there died. j. T. AL
dricb, Esq, the counsel for the prisoner,
objected to the jurisdiction of our Courts in
the matter, and Col. Owens, the counsellor
the State, remarked, that after thorough
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