Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-09-22
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at Berlin, has bought the library left by
Alexander Won Humboldt.
- The proprietor of the Great Eastern
realized over $4,000 from admission fees
during the time the ship was open to yisi-
tors.
Dan, who lately poisoned an unfor-
tunate young girl in Lancaster District, the
object of his criminal commerce, to which
allusion was made last week, has been tried,
and sentenced to be hung on the first Fri
day in November next.
A great debate, it is said, will shortly
take place in Quincy, Illinois, between Mr..
Joseph Baker, the renowned infdel debater,
and DR.. Warren, learned divine of Quin-
oy on the question "Has the Bible exert
ed beneficial influence" ?"
THE amount of money remitted home
by Irishmen resident in America, the last
year, for the purpose of assisting their friends
to emig-ate, was s2,S60,OOO. The ten pre-
ceding years the amount remitted was s49,-
0s0,000
Blondin crossed Niagara again on the
9Th instant, with willow baskets on his feet,
and upon reaching the centre, took cham
pagne and cake from table which he car
ried with him. After the performance, he
promised the crowd that next June he would
cross the rope ON stills.
The Newark (N.J) Mercury says
that Mr.. Fisher, of Paterson, has construct
ed steam carriage, which was tried on the
common road to .Acquackanock, few days
ago, when it went on the level Is miles an
hour, with II passengers. One mile was
run in three minutes. e.
"A telegraphic despatch was forwarded
from Washington, Thursday, to Atchison,
Kansas, ,-going by express distance Of ten
miles from Kansas city-and an answer re-
turned in theunexampled space of four hours.
When it is considered that the message had
to change from several lines, added to the
expressing of it ten miles, this time, for the
distance, is the most rapid on record.
The upper class of East India ladies
are making violent resistance to the intro
duction of English gowns among the lower
class of female coolies, as the gown enables
the poor woman to cover the breast, and that
is a privilege hitherto belonging to women
Of rank only. This has occasioned so fierce
a jealousy of classes that the government
has been obliged to interfere, which it has
done BY passing law permitting all women
to dress as they please!
"A letter from Portsmouth, Ohio, writ
ten by lady to her husband in this city,
makes mention of an extraordinary circum-
stance. A short time ago young lady was
bitten by dog. Hydrophobia manifested
itself on her, and while confined by the dis
ease she bit her sister, who was waiting on
her. The sister was soon attacked by the
same disease and bit the mother All three
were alive at the last accounts, but were all
raying mad, and there was no prospect of
their reeoRery.-Lontsvt17c Journal. --
The mail from Illinois brings most
Aattering accounts of the success of an in
vention which is likely to prove to certain
parts of the West, what the cotton gin was
to the South. We refer to Fawkes' steam
plough, the experiments with which at the
State Fair at Freeport, have demonstrated
that tits capable of ploughing 40 acres per
day The benefit which must accrue to the
prairie lands of the West; especially those
of Illinois, from such monster labor saving
machine, cannot be easily over-estimated.
We have received from DR.. Friedman
a specimen of quartz gold, which, he informs
us, was obtained latelyby his brother, some
where west of Austin. His brother has but
recently come to Texas, having been for
some years engaged as an Assistant Geolo-
gist in making survey of South Carolina,
and the published report of that State speaks
in the highest terms of the services and SCI
enti6c attachments of Mr.. Friedman The
specimen before us admits of no doubt of
its sbeingsthe genuine gold bearing quartz.
We shall probably have more definite infor-
nation on the subject before long.-Galres-
ton Ne,us, 6ths
THE city government of Portland,
Maine, have made special arrangements to do
honor to thesarrival of the Great Eastern.
The programme includes public dinner,
ball, general illumination of the city, ring
ing Of bells, salutes of artillery, excursions
in the harbor, military displays, and other
manifestations of public rejoicing. A COM
mittee of the city government has also voted
toextend invitations to President Buchanan
and his Cabinet, to General Scott, to the Gov
ernor of Canada, to General Williams, COM
mander of the British forces in North Anne
RIGA, to the Governors of several States, and
to the Executives of Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick, to visit Portland during the WIS.,
it of the Great Eastern.
The report finds currency in many
Journals that Mr.. John Mitchell, late editor
Of the Southern Citizen, has gone to Africa
for slaves. This is, of course, incorrect and
preposterous. Hepossesses none of the quail
ficatiops for the trade. A rumor prevails, in
we'll Informed circles here, with more Of
plausibility to sustain it, that his real object
in going to France is at the instigation of
leading members of the slave trade party,
to induce the Emperor Napoleon III. to re-
lax bis oppositition to the trade under the