Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-05-24
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passed law pronlDluog tne manumlSslon
of slaves by deed or will.
...... Denman l. Co.'s extensive carriage
manufactory, at Railway, N. j., was burnt
last Monday night; loss $4,000; insured
for $4,000.
...... Charles Sumner has prepared a
speech on the great question of the day,
which he will soon deliver in the Senate
His backbone is doing well.
......T The La Grange true Issue is of the
opinion that the federal census, to be ta-
ken this year, will show for Texas popula-
ton of 550, 900 including 100000 slaves.
..:.. Gen. Santa Anna, Ex-President of
Mexico, with his family and suite, passed
through this city yesterday, en- route from
New Orleans to New York.-Lynch6ury
Erginian.
...."There is at present an excessive
drought throughout New England, causing
great trouble to the farmers. In some parts
Of New Hampshire they have to drive the
cattle many miles for water. o..
;ss:s,' "The English scandal mongers say
that the young Prince Of Wales is coming
to Canada to escape the consequences Of in
judicious promises made to lady c. v.
She is about to commence suit against
him, it is said.
s..".sHolland consumes about forty mil
lions Of pounds of tobacco annually. As
the population numbers about three mil
lions, every man, woman and child can
have on this allowance little more than
thirteen pounds a year. About sixteen
millions of pounds 60 from this country to
her shores.
500. The Rochester Union of the 9th
instant states that a train of cars, bound
westward, had just passed through that
city. II is claimed to be the longest train
that has ever passed over the read. 1t con-
sisted of one hundred and twenty-five
freight cars and Eve locomotives, and was
nearly mile in length.
,..... The Prarirte Farmer has an occount
of the working of a new steam plow, which
the editor has seen in operation in MiDooka,
dH fahdy County. 1t turns over six fur
rowe, 6inssf feet in width, at the same time !;
ana6n twenty Two minutes, including stops,
it plewed Father more than two acres and
half. Theghdle cost of running the ma
chine issestimatsd at nine dollars.
49,: Two young fellows got to banteriug
each other the other day. Finally, one Of
them exclaimed: "Well, there's one thing
you can't<do!'' "Wbat is itY" "You
can'tput your head into an empty barrel"
"Oh, nonsense" exclaimed the other,
sswhy can't n" "Because, dryly rejoined
the first, it is an impossibiity to put
hogshead into barrel ~
..~,. In a cemetery at Dunkirk, N. Y,
q stone is erected over the "ashes" of de-
ceased old lady, on which her survivors in
tended to write the epitaph, "Let her rest
in peace The space gave out at the end
of the word fther," 30 that only the initial
letters ofSthe remainder could be inserted
Thus the dear old lady was commended to
the mound With the somewhat slapgy in
scription-s'Let her rip"
....'. eThe longer 1 live," says Sir T. F.
Buxton, the more I am certain that the
great difference between men-between
feeble and powerful, great and insigui6-
cant-is energy, inyincible determination,
purpose once fixed on, and then death or
victory That quality will do anything, that
can besdone in the world and no talents,
noScircumstances, NO opportunities, will
makea two legged creature man without
it::'' ss,ssssss s& X
.'....5Some years since Warwick Martin,
Louisiana planter, placed 100000 in the
handssor brother-in-law, named Brooks,
of Beloit, Wis, to invest in lands, and sub.
sequently received back the principal un-
der the pretence, by Brooks, that the in
vestments were failures, and that Martin
might consider himself lucky in getting
out SO well. Martin having found that
Brooks made and pocketed two or three
hundred thousand by the operation, brought
suit7in the US. Court, and on Monday
last got verdict for the full amount.
...... There has been a singular coinci-
dence of fate attending the Statues of
Messrs. Calhoun, Webster and Clay Mr..
Calhoun's statue, ordered for Charleston,
was lost in shipwreck off Fire Island, but
finally recovered with an arm broken,
which was subsequently replaced by Mr..
Powers, the sculptor. The bronze statue
of Mr.. Webster3was lost at sea, and never
recovered; but second was cast from the
same model, and is now in the State House
yard at Boston. The first model for the
Statue of Mr.. Clay was also lost at sea. The
coincidence is certainly remarkable. Pc
,tersJurg Express.
= $50" On Friday last, the citizens of
Waynesboro and vicinity met without dis
tinction, of party, and in cool deliberation,
without dissenting voice, they proceeded
to hang in efHgy the ten Georgia delegates !
who would not withdraw from the Charles
ton National Convention. They were hung
in the public streets, with the inscription ,
labelled on them, Georgia Traitors and j
while swung upthey were stoned and brick Z
bracketed by the little darkies; their re-
mains were then taken out to the parade I
ground and hung up to the liberty pole and
burnt to ashes-the cannon was fired one '
time, with the mouth turned to the ground
as token of submission on the part of the
delegates. Old Burke is as true as steel, and G
Southern Rights to the cOre.-Independent I
South. ~