Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-12-15
MERE-MENTION.

Attention is directed to the advertisement OF
Pocket Book lost, in another column. .'''''''''
The 23d of April is the time appointed by the
National Democratic Executive Committee, for
the assembling of the Charleston Convention. ''''''
Fernando Wood has been elected Mayor Of New
York, by majority of about II, 900 votes. ''''''
The notorious Daniel E. Sickles, of New York,
appeared in Congress on Monday last, and took
his seat ...'...From private advices and an exam
ination of the judicial records, it appears that
Stevens, the Harper's Ferry insurgent, will not
be tried by the United States Court. His trial
will take place at the next term of the Jefferson
County Court. '.''..."Capt. ]. ]. Lucas, OF the
"Palmetto Guard" Charleston, has been elected
Major of the second battalion of the 18th Regi-
ment, S. C. M.'....."On the morning Of Decem-
Der 8, an efigy of John Brown was found hanging
to tree, in front of the barracks at the Military
Academy at West Point. On the night of Decem-
ber 8, the stude nts at Princeton burnt the ehgies
of Seward and Beecher. The Faculty endeavored
to stop it, but failed. .'''"""Tom Moore said to
Peel, on looking OF thepicture Of an Irish orator:
s.You can see the very quiuer Of his lips" eyes"
said Peel sand the 'arrRs' coming out of it. "''''
On Friday of last week, Gov. Wise was hung in
efigy at Natick and Woburn, Mass. As setof
to such folly, "Old Brown" received similar treat
ment at the first named town. ...'''"'Snow fell at
Oswego, N. Y, on Saturday of last week, to the
depth of eight inches. .'..."A vessel has recently
arrived in England from Sebastopol with cargo
of 237 tons of human bones. .''''""The entire Re-
publican State ticket, in Kansas, is elected by q
majority of over 5000 votes. '''.'"'The Demo-
cratic State Convention of Georgia, met at Mil
ledgeville on Friday last, and recommended Hon.
Howell Cobb as candidate for the Presidency
Their proceedings were inharmonious, many Of
the delegates having withdrawn from the Conven-
tion The reason urged by them for this course
was that the call for the meeting of the Conven-
ton was unauthorized. '...'."Eighty parishes in
Louisiana show decrease of II, 900 hogsheadS
of sugar compared with last year. The accounts
of the Cuba sugar crops are very promising. '''''
Ice made its appearance in Charleston, on Thurs
day last, three quarters Of an inch in thickness.
....."There are in the United States forty eight
Catholic Arctbishops and Bishops, two mitred
Abbots, and two thousand two hundred and twen-
ty.three secular and regular Priests '''''''''The
amount due the "census-taker" of York District,
for services the past summer, is S4O9 80.
A Vigilance Committee consisting of seventeen
persons, was organized in Lancaster on Saturday
last. ......"The editor of the Carolinidn has re-
ceived from ]. Fl. Besemfelder, several samples
of powder, manufactured near Pickens, in this
State, ut the mills of John Bowen &Co. "The Rifle
powder is of fine quality, we'll granulated, and
presenting much more dry and glossy appear
apce than most of the varieties brought into mar
ket The blasting powder is Of an excellent quail