Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-08-25
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WIN. Gilmore Simms has control of
the Literary Department of the Charleston
Mercury,
- Half the secrets in the world are dis
closed in order that those who possess them
may let their friends know that they hold
them.
We have generally observed that a
man bitten by dog, no matter whether the
animal is mad or not, is apt to get mad HIM
self.
"A clergyman was lately depicting be-
fore deeply interested audience the alarm
ing increase of intemperance, when he as
founded his hearers by saying: "A young
man in my neighborhood died very sudden
" last Sabbath, while was preaching the
gospel in state of beastly intoxication p
in Marion county, Ca, last week,
slave of B. R. Matthews stole $500. Pursuit
was commenced, and for SO hours the negro
was kept Increasingly on the run; fresh pur-
suers coming up to the chase. Just as the
party gained on him he fell dead in his tracks.
A large bowie-knife was foundi in his clenched
fist.
The Emperor of Russia has autbori-
zed the Jews to raise fund, the interest of
which is to be employed as prizes for the
best literary works in the Hebrew language
which shall be presented to the Academy Of
Science. His Majesty has also founded five
scholarships at the Psychological Institute
in favor of the young Jews.
- The North Carolina Christian Advo-
cate states that five missionaries from the
Southern Methodist Church will sail for ia
pan in November, including Rev. NJ. l..
Wood, of the North Carolina Conference;
Rev. Mr.. Allen, of the Georgia Conference;
Rev. Mr.. Stewart, of the Tennessee Confer
ence, and two. ministers from the Memphis
Conference.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher says that
the "item column" in newspaper, is like a
caravan. 1t stretches along in columns, with
packages and parcels, spices and gems, bits
of fragrance of cunningly wrought metals,
gathered from the Orient and from the whole
world besides. The items of the paper, like
the stuf6ng of a thanksgiving turkey, repre-
sent everything in the house, crusts ofbread,
crackers and all kinds of spices"
- Mistakes are often made by persons,
not business men, in calculating per centage.
If merchant marks his goods, for sale at
retail at so per cent. advance, and 33 1-3
per cent. be afterwards detucted from the
marked price, he sells at cost (because 3S 1-3
per cent of I.50is exactly so cents, the
profit marked on 81. IF he sells goods at
25 per cent. above cost, and deducts five per
cent. from the bill for cash, his profits are
lsa PEI: cent. and not 20 per cent, as some
person at first sight would suppose. Goods
have been sometimes sold at loss through
mistake in per centage.
We learn bya private letter from Can
ton, that on Wednesday last, Hon. Franklin
Smith, the Independent democratic candi-
date for Congress in this district, shot Owen
Van Vacter, Esq, editor of the Common
qcealth, on the street of that town. A con-
troversy arose between them about an article
in the last number of the Commonwealth,
relative to the discussion between Smith and
Singleton, at Raymond, on the 1st inst
The wound of Mr.. Van Vacter is severe,
though not necessarily fatal. At the time
our informant wrote, the matter was under
going investigation, and he therefore express
ed no opinion relative to it. Fchsburg
Whig.
Accounts of the grape crop through
out the country are generally favorable. and
indicate an increased attention to this branch
of culture. The vineyards of Ohio, which
take the first rank as regards their mode of
culture and pecuniary importance, chiefly
through the efforts of Mr.. Longworth and
Mr.. Buchanan, are said to promise better
than since 1858. The same is true so far as
we are enabled to Judge, of the vines in N.
Carolina and Georgia, where they are re-
oeiving increased attention. In West Flori-
da, too the newspapers represent the grape
as being cultivated with the best success for
vinous purposes.
According to the census Of 1850, there
were at that time two millions forty-eight
thousand two hundred and ninety-three slaves
in the cotton States-Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina,
Tennessee, and Texas. 1t is believed that
the number has now increased to two mil
lions five hundred thousand. Of this aggre-
gate, the field hands number one million FIVE
hundred thousand, and about two-thirds Of
them are employed in cultivating the staple.
1t is calculated that the pof 1850, with
good weather, will be four millions bales, to
produce which it is said, an increase of one
hundred thousand field hands will be requir-
ed. The question is, where are they to come
from?
THE following should serve as warn
ing to the ladies. 1t is from the last issue
of the Milton IN. CO. Chronicle: A thun-
der-storm passed over the southern section
of this county on Tuesday of last week, which
blew down trees and corn, and damaged lands
considerably by washing. During the ra-
ging of the storm the lighting struck hoop
skirt, made of brass, that stood suspended
by an open windowir the house of Mr.. John
Webster, melting it and setting the house on
fire, also knocking down one of the female oc-