Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-02-17
nIERE-nIENTION.

MERE-MENTlON.
The Columbia Bulletin says that Master JOHN
II. BoArwR1cHT, of dsblmbia, was, on Saturday
last, selected by the Board Of Examiusrs appointed
for this Congressional District by the Hon. ". W.
BoseE to take position as G. Cadet atWsst Point'
and Master F. H. THOMAS, Of Fairfield, to take
position rs student at Annapolis, IN the U. 3
Navy. "..."If the mind is not laid out and culti-
waited like garden, it will. be Overgrown with
weeds. ........The Mayor of Columbus, Ga, has
issued orders for the stationing Of q policeman at
each OF the Churches, whose business is to ar
rest any person chewing tobacco, or smoking and
splitting upon the steps of The Church ''.'''"'The
President of the United States, again and again,
on every possible occasion, disavows with contempt
and ridicule, his supposed aspiratonstor second
term o. office. 1.-TWO old men" he says, "mysclf
and LEWIS CAss, if we live so long will quit this
city on the 9th of March 1861, with much lighter
and less burdehed hearts than we bore with us on
coming. ."'''.'''The notorious DR.. HINES has ar
rived in Augusta, Ga. a..''''."''The Penltentlary
building at Alton, ILL.,, was partially destroyed 6y
fire, on Monday evening of last week. The ire
was the work of an i9cendiary. No prisoners es-
caped. The amount Of the damage has not yet
been ascertained. ........The Whig and opposition
Convention met in Richmond, W., on Thursday
last and nominated for the Governorahip, WILLIAM
L. GoaaEN, in opposition to JOAN LETcHER, Dem
ocratic nominee. e......".We learn from our Colum-
bio exchanges, that'Capt. CoRRIE and three OF
the 'seamen connected with the 'Wtmdersr, have
been arraigned at Savannah, for Piraey-engagIng
in the Slave Trade-and the Grand Jury has found
true bill The Bulletin says: ave learn by
Telegraph, that they have been committed to pris-
on. We think that this is mistake, so far as Capt
'CoRR1E's being imprisoned If ourmemory serves
US, Judge MAeRATH refused the application made
BY the Federal authority in Georgia, for the hody
of Capt. CoRR1E, but held him to bail IN CHARLES
ton. where we think he is now to be found .''''''
There is phrenologist in London who can tell
the contents of barrel by examining it's heads
He makes his examinations with gimlet. '"'''".
Major JOHN NJ. DESAUssURE has been elected a
Representative from Kershaw District, In plane OF
Major A. HAMILTON BoYK1N, elected Senator In
the place of Hon. JAMES CHEsNUT. '''.'''"Tmee
young ladies, of Anderson, (Il.,) were marriedsa
few, DAYS since to three brothers of the name of
Ice. ........The Chinese, in their proclamatons,
style the English and French, ''red-haired foreign
devils. .....There are one thousand two hun
dred gropsbops in New York city, and seven hun
dred in Williamsburg and Brooklyn.
A lawyer at Lowell, having found ninety five
dollars, and returned the money to the owner one
of the papers says the act may be honest and hon
orable, but it is exceedingly unprofessionaf. '''
A young man of the mature age of nineteen years.
who was employed in the Pike House, at Bloom
ington, Ill.,, not long since, elOped with his step
mother. ...."No Tennessee bank, except the State
Bank, is now allowed to issue or pay out any
notes of less denomination than FIVE dollars .'.".
Mr.. FORSYTH has at length resigned his post as
Minister to Mexico. ....... I've risen from the
bar to the BENCH said n lawyer on quitting the
profession, and taking up shoe making, '''''" In
the Rhode Island Legislature, notice has been CIV
en- of an intention to introduce .till abolishing
Imprisonment for debt ....,."N frarking privilege
exists in England. Even the Queen is obliged to
pay her penny postage. 1.-THE mosque Of Omar,
in Constantinople, is highly perfumed with musk,
which was mixed with the mortar in its walls dur
ingthe timeo of their erection years
ago. 49,: Twenty of the Wanderers Africans ar-
rived in Dallas, Texas, on the Goth ult. "'."'Tbe
debt of Spain amounts to ID 900, ,0O9 900 reals, or
about e14O, ,OOO 900. ......What is the difference
between blind man and o Sailor in prison? One
cannot see to 90, and the other cannot go TO sea-
....."..The London correspondent Of the PrGsJy-
terian Banner and Advocate was personally assur-
ed by STURGEON, on the 4th Of JANUARY, that he
was to sail for the United States on the 1st Of
April next 1.-The city of Havana has popula-
ton of 25e, 900 inhabitants. .....A bill prohibi
ting emancipation has been introduced into the
Legislature of Missouri. e.
Mrs. PAnT1NGToN has bought o horse so spir-
ituous that he always goes off in decanter. ''.''
The cost of each letter sent to San Frincisico by
the overland route is sixty-fve dollars '"-''"The
Mitlegeviile Recorder gives list of newspapers in
Georgia showing sixty-one- in all. '.-''".Dogs Of
every kind, settlers, pointers, bulls; Newfound-
lands, mastifs, and terriers, are all lap dogs
when they ore drinking. .''....Iti is stated that
firm in New York have made profit Of $10O. 900
by manufacturing steel hoops for ladies. '."'..
The Superintendent of the Public Printing states,
that the printing of the Pacific Railroad Report,
no in progress, will cost over one million Of dol-
lars !.....''":The Greenvile Enterprise says on
Sunday morning last they had slight spriIkling
of snow, and also gives an accout of another fire
in that place, which is thought to be the work Of
an incendiary. .''.'"The question is asked, is La
ger Beer, which has became recertly in general
use, poisonous and injurious drink. The Rev.
JOHN LONG delivered lecture in Lynchburg, Va,,
on Sunday last against lager beer, and attributed
the decay of the German race to the use Of that
LIQUID. ......."Dr. WM NJ. W1GHrMAN, of Wofford
College, has resolved to accept the call rendered
him to the Presidency of the Southern University
at Greensboro, Ala. .....'.The work on the Monu-
ment to HENRY CLAY, ut Lexington, Kentucky,
has been suspended for the want Of funds. ''.''''
The next Southern Convention is to be held at
Vicksburg, Miss, in May.
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MIR. Cobb and the Protectionists.
we copy from the Washington States, the fol
lowing very just remarks on the detection OF Sec
retary Cobb His annual report bore the impress