Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-08-23
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$3.50. The expense of maintaining the ar.
my and navy of France, for the current year,
is estimated at S207, 400, 000.
.....There is not a single Douglas paper
in Texas. Out of ninety papers in the
State, all but eight or nine support Breck-
enridge and Lane.
The Boston Bee (Rep.,) of Saturday
says: 1t is understood that Mr.. Seward
will retire from the Senate at the close of
the present term, on the 4th of March next:
$500. The steamer VIM. Burton, which
arrived this morning from Fort Adams,
brought down POO bales of cotton, Of which
.2sS were of the new crop.-N O. Pica-
yune, Aug., 9.
Moses s. Beach, who has just re-
tired from the New York Sun, is engaged
in perfecting a steam press, which it is hop
ed will succeed in printing one hundred
thousand sheets an hour.
......A man starving for bread, in New
York city, robbed another of fve cents to
buy a loaf of bread, and Justice Quicken
bush has sent him to Jail in default of $4,000
bail for trial for the heinous offence.
...... The heat of the SUI was so great in
Philadelphia on Tuesday, that the yellow
pine steps to a house in the upper part of
the city were set on fire by the SUMS rays
and nearly destroyed before the fire was
discovered.
The original cost of the Great East
ern was 81, 500, 900. She stands charged
to the present owners at So, 100000. Of
this amount $500, 900 is preferred stock
The best mode of taking stock in her would
be to convert her into a cattle-sh;p.
$50. DR.. F. Newbury Clark, on Saturday
last, extracted a tooth from Robinson &
Co.'s celebrated performing lion, at Buck
hannon, Va. The operation was witnessed
by some thirty or forty persons, and proved
highly satisfactory to his lion highness, as
well as to the spectators.
The returns of the census indicate
> that the inhabitants within the corporate
bounds of the city of Richmond number
nearly 10000, and that its suburbs contain
from 10000 to $4,000 inhabitants, making
the whole population, city and suburban,
more than $4,000 souls.
$50. Stephen A. Douglas is now stump
ing the New England States. He tele-
graphs ahead, and has platforms raised at
every depot, and while the train stops
twenty minutes for him 10 speak, he ex,
presses his pleasure at the surprise of being
called upon to address his fellow-citizens.-
Mobile Mercury.
800. We learn from the Charleston Cou-
rier that a dangerous counterfeit of a tweu-
ty dollar bill on the Planters & Mechanics
Bank, of Savannah, Georgia, is in circula-
ton. It is made payable at Savannah,
Georgia, to B. H. Condit, and the forged
signatures are Augustus Barey, Cashier,
and L. S. Roberts. President.
...... The London Star is informed that
DR.. W. II. Brown formerly one of the lec-
turers at the Panopticon and Polytechnic
has devised a method of transmitting par
cells under water across the channel, with
great.celerity, SO that deliveries of goods
and letters can be effected on both sides,
seveal times in twepty-four hours, and that
a company is being formed to carry it into
effect.
So. Three of the choir of young girls
who dressed in white, greeted Washington
as he entered Trenton in 1889, on his way
to assume the Presidency, and strewed his
pathway with flowers, still survive. One
yet lives in Trenton one is the mother of
Senator Chestnut, of South Carolina and
one Mrs. Sarah Hand, resides in Cape May
county, n. j.
49,. Whoever may be elected President,
it seems to be pretty certain that we are to
have a Southern lady for Presidentess.-
Lincoln, it is said, married a lady of Lex
ington, KY, where Breckenridge was born
and married. Mrs. Bell is also a native
of Kentucky. The first Mrs. Douglas was
a North Carolinian: the second is a native
of Maryland.
,.'.. The Washington States Of Thursday,
refers to rumors prevailing in that city, to
the effect that Breckenridge is about to
withdraw from the canvass. The Wash
ington correspondent of the New York Her.
aid, telegraphs the same news to that pa
per. The wish in both cases is, no doubt,
father to the thought. The Statesis a Doug
las organ, and the Herald has come out
square for Bell and Everett.
So. The Selma (Ala.) Sentinel says it
has received letters from different sections
of the State, suggesting the necessity of the
Governor calling together the Legislature
of the State to devise some plan by which
the people can secure something to live on.
One of the letters from Bib county repre-.
seuts that not enough corn will be made to
bread the people, and unless something is
done, many will be bound to starve.
...... On Thursday, in front of the Court
House, eleven hundred and ninety-three
free negroes will be offered for sale, for a
sufficient time to enable them, by their al.
lowance per diem, to pay their taxes. Some
Of these negroes are indebted as much as
s25 to the city, and as they generally sell
for ten cents a day, their value will no
doubt be made out of them.-Petersburg
(Na.) Erpress.
...... 1t is stated that the Niagara Falls
are receedine at the rate of about one foot