Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-01-12
Straps 4. cfatts.
...... Wood is selling in Norfolk, Virgin.


may yet come when men will be propelled
by steam power, the boilers being placed in
their coat tail pockets" a, g.,
.'.... It is proposed to hold a Democratic
State Convention at Columbia, on the third
Monday in April next, to appoint delegates
to the Charleston National Democratic Con-
vertion, which meets one week thereafter.
."'.. Wendell Phillips says the Constitu-
ton, the bond Of our Union, is compact
with hell and league with the devil
Probably that is the reason that Wendell,
Wade, Webb, sGreely. &C., are so much
opposed to dissolution. ....
49," Hon. Judge Mason, of Iowa, who
made himself so popular with the Inventors
of the country while he held the Office Of
Commissioner of Patents, has, we learn,
associated himself with Mum & Co., at the
Scientific american Office, New York.
i...."A bill has passed the Senate of Ten.
nessee to amend the ursury laws which
fixes the rate of interest at 6 per cent, but
allows the recovery of 10 per cent. for bor'
rowed money where the parties shall have
so agreed, and such agreement be express
ed on the face of the contract.
...... The New York Herald states that
the celebrated firm of Stewart & Co., ex,
tensive dry good merchants, have found ii
necessary to discharge so clerks in coDse'
quence of the falling off of the Southern
trade; and over 100 firms of lesser note have
been compelled to curtail expenses from the
same cause. 49,.
...."A few days since resolution passed
the Missouri Senate, calling upon the Gov
ernor for information or evidence upon
which he issued certain bonds to the Cairo
and Fulton Railroad. The Governor, in
answer, sent to the Senate the following
message: "Because I have the right and
power to do it. -7
2.....sIt is stated that large number Of
mail contractors have informed the De-
partment that unless Congress makes an ap.
preparation early in January for the postal
service they cannot continue to transport
the mails. Over four millions are due con-
tractors for arrearages for the year ending
last June.
......T The Hartford Times says A gen.
tleman called at our Office, on Monday, who
is about to start for the State of Alabama
to start hatter's shop and factory there
The trade from this quarter having been
much injured, he removes from Connecti-
cut and takes away the business and the
hands employed here. In this way Counec-
ticut is made to suffer. -
-" Each Republican member of Con-
gress has received circular, dated Trenton,
N. j., Dec 9, and signed by committee
of twelve gentlemen, appointed by the
friends of VIM. L. Dayton, urging that
gentleman's claims forthe Republican nom-
ination for the Presidency. One argument
employed is Mr.. Dayton could carry the
States of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
...... Twenty thousand tuns of iron require
10 ssssAsss==FassAa ssasg year ON railways, ow-
ing to "wear and tear" andtwenty-six mil
lion wooden sleepers require to be replaced
annually from the same cause. Three hun
dred thousand trees are annually felled to
make good the decay of the s.eepers, and
this number of trees require for their growth,
FIVE thousands acres of forest land
...... The London Herald condemns the
hanging of John Brown. The Philadelphia
Ledger asks if the British Government do
not intend to hang Nena Sahib, in India,
if they catch him. To which we may add,
was hanging John Brown, after fair trial,
worse than blowing scores of Sepoys a day
from the mouth of cannon, without any
trial at all? If it was worse, we will try
to improve upon it the next time, by adopt.
ing towards future John Browns, the British
mode of furnishing insurrectionists.
..'... A negro girl belonging to Mrs. Nail,
was burnt to death in this town, on last
Tuesday, the Sd of January. She was en-
gagged cooking dinner when her dress caught
fire, and having on hoop-skirts, it was i'm
possible to extinguish the flames. Drs. LAM
bert, Morrison and Cornwell, were instant
ly called in, but she was dreadfully burnt
and died in three hours. Mr.. and Mrs.
Nail, and Mrs. Clark, we learn, were all
smartly burnt in attempting to save the girl
Chester Standard.
..,... The State of Arkansas has enacted
very stringent measure against free ne
groes, which goes into effect the lst of
January. All free negroes, found in the
State at that period are to be sold into
slavery. In Mississippi, a law adopted on
the 7th instant, provides that free negroes
shall leave the State on or before the lst
of July, 1860; or, if they prefer to remain,
that they shall be seld into slavery, with
right of choice of masters, at price assess
ed by three disint.rested shareholders, the
proceeds to 60 into the treasury of the
county IN which the provisions of the bill
may require it to be executed.
...... We understand that over one hun
dred hands have recently been discharged
from one of Cur largest manufactures, in
consequence of orders from the South hav-
ing been countermanded. The factory has
been in very successful operation for six or
eight years past, doing very extensive bu-
sinesS, the major portion of which is with
the South. 1t is also very probably some
fifty more will have to be discharged short
ly, if there is not an end to the Slavery agi-
tation now going on, both North and South,