Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-09-13
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Philadelphia, no less than eleven hundred
and sixty pounds dead weight.
1.-THE State election in Vermont re
suited in the triumph of the Republican
ticket by twenty thousand majority.
..""sThere have arrived at New York thi
season, from foreign ports, sixty-eight tn BUS
and seven hundred and fifty emigrants, a
gainsta total of ~ffty-one thousand four hun
dred and forty for the corresponding perioe
of 1859.
On Tuesday last a general arrest o
Migrants throughout the city of New York
took place, when no less than 1856 were ia
ken into custody. Some of the parties ar
rested were by no means paupers, anc
threaten to sue for damages.
....E. Myers, of Salisbury, N. c., ha:
entered a libel suit againt the Banner Of
that place, because the editor, in an article
on "treating" asa means of procuring votes,
said that "Myer's strychntne would be used
pretty freely" Mr.. NJ. lays his damages
at $4,000.
,.....From the statistics of DR.. Forbes
Winslow, we learn there are 10000 child
rem systematically educated to crime in
London. There are 5000 houses dealing
solely in stolen goods. Besides these, there
are over $4,000 gamblers, $4,000 beggars,
$50, 600 vicious and drunkards, and $780,
900 women who live a life of prostitution.
$500. Much ado has been made over a
promised subscription in Hayti to the John
Brown fund. At last the amount of the
sum subscribed has t%rauspired. 1t amounts
to just cone hundred and eigty-four dollars
and fifty confines, Haytien currency, and
ten piasters more" The Haytien dollar
is equal to six cents of our currency, so that
this fund is equal to a little over eleven dol
lars.
"... The Millerites commenced their re-
ligious services in Massachusetts, on Mon
day. The sect now numbers about fifty
thousand in the United States and Canadas,
and they gather in camp meeting from all
parts of the country. A portion of the
brethren look for the Millennium before the
last of March, 1861; others are confident
that the world will last ten years and two
months longer, while others still predict a
universal overthrow in about sixteen weeks.
1.-The Irish military organizations of
Philadelphia will refuse to unite in any
demonstration of respect to the Prince of
Wales. The Montgomery Guards have, at
a meeting, approved of resolutions adopted
by the Montgomery Guards of St. Louis,
refusing to take part in any act of interna-
tional courtsey. "Becsu,e," say the Guards,
elf the Irish citizen soldiers should turn
out to give the prospective King of Eng
land public reception, it would beendors.
ing the many wrongs and cruelties inflicted
by highlands rulers upon our forefathers."
......The Cuban Messenger of a recent
date gives some interesting statistics of
the largest sugar estates in Cuba, showing
their size, production and the number of
slaves employed. The largest estate has
II, 290 acres, the crop is $4,000 boxes Of
sugar, employing S66 slaves. None of the
tw~enty-three estates have less than 5000
acres of land. The smallest number of
slaves on any one estate is 800. The aver
age crop is % boxes of sugar, or 10000
pounds per negro. There are about 1000
g estates on the Island, and the mum.
Der is constantly increasing. The first su-
gar estate there was established in 1885.
$500. We will not neglect to notice, just
here, the pleasure we derived at forming
the acquaintance of Mr.. j. Wood David
SOD, the accomplished Professor of Greek
in the Carolina High School, Columbia.-
He is, as he informed US, Willing away the
fag end Of a summer vacation in the noun
tains, and appears 70 be ruralizirg in the
most agreeable manner. We shall look
for many racy items under the 'Contrbuto-
rial of the Yorkvillc Enquirer, during Mr.
Davidson's stay in the mountains. Besides
the plea of searching for health, pleasure,
fine air and water, We suppose that he will
not discontinue the pleasant bushes of look
ing after the author of 'Rutledge,' or the
more agreeable occupation of finding a con-
genial spirit. In all these different pur.
suits he has our warmest ptshes for his sue
cess.-GreenviM Enterprise.
...... W. have learned, from what we have
been informed is good authority, that a
most strange and suspicious circumstance
has trapspired on Pocataligo, about four or
FIVE miles from this place. As detailed
to US, the circumstances are as follows: A
discovery was made, a few days since, on
the eastern margin of Pocataligo Swamp,
(by whom our informant did not know Of
something which presented the appearance
of a newly-made grave of medium size. Its
location, its fresh appearance, together with
the fact that no one was known to have been
buried there, aroused suspicion or curiosity
in the mind of the discoverer as to the facts
involved. By inserting a cane or rod, he
struck what was believed to be a box, not
very far below the surface. This i~ncreas'
ed the anxiety to know the contents, and
he left, with the purpose of bringing assis'
lance and making an investigation. Upon
returning, (after the lapse of what length
of time we did not learn it was found thai
the box, or whatever had been there buried
had been removed Sumter Watchman.
...... The Tampico papers, of the 10TH
ult., bring the particulars of a great bat