Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-07-12
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..... A negro boy, Daniel, blacksmith
belonging to the estate of Joel Granger
was sold at auction yesterday for $780,
Marion Star, Sd.
...... Hon. James Guthrie, of Kentucky
has pronounced both the Democratic tick
cts as sectional, and unworthy of Nationa
Democrats.
......At the Prentiss house, Vicksburg
there was female not more than twenty
five years of age who was the mother OF ter
children-with a difference Of not ovel
twelve months in the respective age of eacf
child.
1.-THE Secretary of the American LIE
CATION to China has arrived in Washington
direct from the Emperor, bearing the rati
fed treaty with this Government, and ar
autograph letter from his Highness to the
President of the United States.
...... Charles Goodyear, the inventor oi
the art of vulcanizing India rubber, died
in New York at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
Sunday, after an illness of four weeks
Mr.. Goodyear was born in New Haven, De-
cember 29, 1900.
......The Opposition party of Alabama,
in Convention assembled, at Montgomery,
on the I'd instant, repudiated the pomina'
sions of Bell and Everett, and declared
their purpose to support the nominations OF
Breckenridge and Lane.
l..".. Joshua NJ. Craig, of Chicot County,
Arkansas, recently sold to Judge Francis
Griffin, of Washington County, Mississippi,
his plantation and negroes, known as the
Leland Plantation, for the handsome sum
of s4O0,0OO-s1, 100000 cash, and the
residue in seven equal annual payments,
with per cent interest.
...... The total strength of the United
States army on the 1st of July was as fol-
lows: 16,667-apportioned thus: two reg
iments of cavalry, 10 companies each; two
of dragons, 10 companies each; 4 regi-
ments of artillery, 12 companies each, and
10 regiments of infantry, 10 companies
each, beside $50 cavalry dragons, averag-
ing l officer to every 13 men.
......W We are informed, by telegraph, of
the receipt of the first bale of the Cotton
crop of 1seO-6l, at New Orleans, Thurs
day from Texas. Last year, the first bale
was received July 2Sth, and the year before,
July 25th-all from Texas. By this indi-
cation, the coming crop will be very early
one in the Southwest - Charleston Nercury
7th inst.
COCA facetious correspondent sends us
query: Which is the most industrious
writer, Dickens, Bulwer Lytton, or Mr..
Warren? to which he answers Dickens; for
he writes All the Year Round, while Bull
wer has written Night and Morning, and
Warren, Now and Then. In justice to the
latter gentleman, our friend should have
remembered that when he was merely wri-
ing novels, Mr. Warren wrote Ten Thousand
a Year.
...'" The following table, compiled from
the latest returns, shows the number OF
enginesin use by twelve of the prominent
roads of the country: Baltimore and Ohio
235; New York and Erie 2l9 PenusylVan-
ia 21S; New York Central 2ll; Grand
Trunk 203; Philadelphia and Reading,
coal road, 149; Illinois Central ll3; Mich
igan Central 9S; Pittsburg, Fort Wayne
and Chicago 96; Michigan Southern 81 ;
Great Western, Canada, 81; Western, Mas
sachusetts, II. Total 1871.
..'."The public examination in the
South Carolina Institution for the Deaf
and Dumb and Blind, will take place on
the 25th of this month, commencing at
10 o'clock A. NJ, and continuing with a
recess of one hour from one o'clock until
q o'clock P NJ Pupils in the Department
for the Blind, will occupy the morning, and
those in the Department for the Deaf and
Dumb, the afternoon. Atnight, there will
be public Concert, commencing at 8 o.
clock -Sp@rtanbu1y Express.
...... The new self,ruling stamped envel-
ope, which was placed on sale during the
last year by way of experiment, has been
permanently adopted by the Post Office De-
partment It will hereafter be supplied
to postmasters on request, and will be sold
at the following rates: For single pack
age, the same prices as the old when more
than one package is taken an advance of
two cents per hundred envelopes upon the
rates of the DID, The second edition will
be decided Improvement upon the first,
and will be the most beautiful letter envel-
eopes in the market.
...... The Austrian artillery has been ma
king experiments with rifed cannon load
ed with gun-cotton. Although the twist is
very considerable, the pieces can be loaded
at the muzzle At the last account, they
had succeeded in throwing a six pound
ball three miles with six ounces of gun
cotton These guns are very light, and
this, with the small quantity of ammunition
required, renders them particularly applica-
Bile to mountain warfare, especially as it is
possible to fire for considerable time be-
fore the enemy learn whence the shots are
coming, since gun-cotton makes no smoke.
...... The Ed ge6eld A'rertjScr tells a.
bout the following "shoching affair" which
recently occurred in that District: Early on
the morning of the 9th ult., large negro
man entered a field in this District where
the laborers belonging to the place were
quietly at work he was armed with wea.
non LONGER and sharper than the bowie.