Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-11-01
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...... It is said there is such a tremen
dous crop of oats in Cumberland county,
Illinois, that that they are selling for ten
cents per bushel.
...... 1t is feared that Gerrit Smith is 60
ing insane again, because he has divided
5000, 900 among five of his relatives. The
relatives, we guess, would call him rational.
500. James S. Wadsworth, of Genesee,
N. Y, has bet $4,000 with Dean Rich
moud that New York will give 10000 ma
jority for Lincoln in November.
I'VE learn that a party of sixteen free
negroes, from Newberry District, passed
through this place on yesterday for Balti-
more, whence they will sail for Liberia
South Caro1inian, 18th uh.
800. Two boys were about to fight a duel
with pistols at Petersburg, Va, on Wed
nesday, about a girl. All the arrange
ments were made for the meeting, but their
parents interfered, and gave each a sound
thrashing.
..... The Chicago Zouave Cadets have re-
solved to form a whole regiment of this
style of military, to consist of eight COM
panies, Col. Ellsworth to be the chief officer.
The old company will be company A, and
the rest B, G, &c., in the order of their or
ganization.
..... The Old Dominion is evidently pre-
pairing for the coming conflict. Not only
is her Governor taking steps to arm the
militia of the State, but through the prop
er authorities an order has been given to
Col. Rice, of Philadelphia, for a quantity
of his newly-invented explosive bumshells,
represented as the most destructive agent
of its kind known.
...... There is a young man, named Mark
Ralfe, at Bent's Fort, who was recently
stabbed in three places, and shotthree times,
scalped, and left for dead by the Kiowa In
dams, but who afterwards regained his con-
seriousness and walked thirty-6ve miles to a
place of safety and succor. He has now
nearly recovered, but has only two locks of
hair left upon his head, as all the rest was
taken with the scalp.
......A cave, FIVE feet wide and from six
to eight feet high, which is Enthusiastically
artificial, has been discovered in the side
of Lookout Mountain, Ga, and explored for
the distance of It's feet. Stone pestles,
small pieces of iron, Ratchet handles, and
nameless Indian relics, are found scattered
all the way, and it is thought to have been
! a secret refuge for the Indians in times Of
= trouble.
..... If the consumption of printing pa
per be an evidence of the intelligence of
a people, those of the United States should
be the best Informed in the world. In
France, the yearly production averages
about four pounds of paper per head; In
Is England, the average is four and three
quarter pounds; and in the United States,
it is quite thirteen and a half pounds per
head.
.....A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Ledger says: Il have seen a letter from
Gov. Letcher, stating, substantially, that in
view of imminent danger of secession at
the extreme South, which result he de-
plores, he is putting Virginia in a state of
preparation to prevent anything like force
being brought to bear against seeding
States, by marching Government troops
through Virginia, &c.
At the ball given to Lord Renfrew
at the New York Academy of Music, the
Prince opened the dance with the lady Of
Gov. Morgan. She was an exeuplar of A
merican life, progress, industry. ln her
youth she was a poor girl, earning her livli'
hood as a milliner's apprentice. Her up
/ ward growth is but a common specimen Of
the strange but goodly incidents Of repub'
ican life.
..... The fabulous unicorn has been
found by a traveller. He says it exists in
the interior of Thibet, in India, where it is
well known to the inhabitants. 1t is the
same as the unicorn of the Scriptures, and
is mentioned by ancient writer's. 1t is
said to be about the size Of the horse and
extremely wild. 1t is seldom if ever caught
They have a horn projecting out from theil
forehead. They 60 in herds, and are to be
met with on the borders of the Great Des
ert.
......The San Francisco Pony Express
has arrived, with dates from Oregon to the
10th instant. The Senatorial election tool
place on the I'd. Nesmyth, a Douglas Dem
ocrat and Baker, a Republican, were elect
ed. These gentlemen were the candidate
of the non-intervention Republican fusior
party. An emigraut train of 46 persons wa
massacred by the Snake Indians. But
single member of the party survives. TIL
majority of the emigrants were women an
children.
500. We see from our exchanges tina
the organization of "Minute-Men" is rap
idly extending. A meeting was held il
Abbeville, on the 18th instant, at whicI
it was resolved to form eight companies O
minute men, each selecting its W officers
and that so soon as they have been formed
each with sixty men, they organize as
regiment. 1t was further resolved tina
they arm, drill and prepare thoroughly fo
active service. The movement is seconde
by the most prominent men of Abbeville.
......An agent privately sent from tn
South reports to the President that ALI
bama and Georgia will certainly secede i