Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-02-02
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...... The Cape Cod bogs, planted with
cranberry bushes, yield so plentifully that
the land is valued at one thousand dollars
per. acre for this culture alone.
:..:.. If Virginia were to sell her entire
slave population, at an average Of s60O
per head, she could buy out every manufao-
turing establishment in all New England,
and have floating capital enough left to
keep them in observation-disclosures Gazette.
....A Chattanooga dispatch says that the
gap in the Mississippi Central Railroad will
be finished on the 2Sth inst, and that the
). connection through to New Orleans will be
made on Sunday, reducing the time from
New York to that city to 81 hours, or
81 days.
*...... General Pomeroy and Judge Army
are at Washington, cooperating with Hon.
NJ. J. Paratt, the delegate from Kansas,
for the speedy admission of Kansas as
aState, with the Wyandott Constitution.
They are candidates for United States
Senatorships under that Constitution.
s..... Rev. r. J. Breckinridge has pub
lished a letter, addressed to his nephew,
the Vice President of the United States,
taking him to task for his late speech in
which he alledged there was possibility of
dissolution of the Union on the slavery
question. The reverend gentleman scouts
such an idea.
......It is stated that the Senate Post Of.
fee Com mittee have under consideration a
plan or system of greater security for the
transmission of money and valuable packets
by mail. The committee have also under
consideration other postal reforms of great
importance, with view of making the de-
partment self sustaining. "
...... The Chattanooga Advertiser of the
9th inst says: I'VE have conyersed with
numerous farmers throughout the county,
and without an exception, they all unite
in representing the present stand Of wheat
as being seriously and hopelessly damaged,
so much so, that acres upon acres, will be
,ploughed up and resown with spring grains.
$3.50. The Committee on Banks and Bank
ing in the Alabama Legislature, have re.
ported bill requiring all banks, corpora
tions, copartnerships and commission houses
that put into circulation in that State, the
. notes of foreign banks, to stamp them and
redeem such notes in specie when presented
at their counter. It also imposes State
tax of one dollar on each hundred dollars
of such notes thus put into circulation.
...... General Robert Butler, Assistant
Adjutant General to General jackson at
the Battle of New Orleans, died at his resi-
dence at Lake jackson, near Tallahassee,
Florida, on the afternoon of January 18th.
Only three of General Jackson's prominent
officers at that battle now survive, viz
Gen. Wm. o. Butler, of Kentucky; Maj.
Chotard, of Mississippi, and Col. A. P.
Hayne, of South Carolina.
s...... At the recent sale of property be-
longing to the estate Of the late Mr.. Joab
Mauldin, negro man, 33 years Of age, sold
for the large sum of $500. Shortly after
the sale, the party who had made the pur-
chase was offered $4,000 for the man, who
was first rate carpenter and very likely.
Assuming the latter price to be his value,
it is the closest instance We know of in
which negro may be said to be worth bis
weight in silver GreenviMe Patriot.
......Of the sixty-uine Bishops of the
Episcopal Church in the United States
since the Revolution, fifteen have been na-
tives of New York, and ten of Massachu-
setts. Pennsylvania, North Carolina and
South Carolina, have furnished FIVE each.
Virginia eight, Connecticut four, New Jer
sey and New Hampshire two each. Bish-
op Hopkins is native of ireland, Bishop
Kemp of Scotland, and Bishops R. Smith,
Eastburn, Uphold and Wainwright were
born in England.
...... An importer of choice wines, resi-
dingin Savannah, wrote to the house in Lon
don with whom he transacts business, to
obtain further supply of Madeira. The
house referred to says, the Republican, is
not only engaged in the wine trade but has
large proprietary interest on the Island.
The following is the reply received under
date of 23d December last 81 have no
more Madeira left, and the accounts from
the Island respecting the wine disease are
worse than ever, as the new wines are at
tackled in the same manner"
...... The japanese Embassy, which will
leave Jeddo on tie 23d of February for the
United States, will consist of seventy per-
sons. The Japenese diplomatists are as
gregarious as our City Councils; when they
travel on public business, they go in hocks.
When they grow little more experienced
in such matters, they will probably curtail
the length of the embassadorial train. This
is the first embassy that ever left the ccun-
try, and special law had to be passed to
allow the members of it to depart.
....'. A Raleigh correspondent Of the Pc
tersburg Express says: IL was present when
Judge Saunders told Mr. Pomeroy, proprie-
tor Of a large book store in this place, to
stop Harper's Weekly ard Monthly Maya
zine on account of the fact that G. w. Cur
tbs, one of the editors, is an abolitionist,
: and that one of the Harpers has been con-
tributing money for the relief of escaped
slaves in Canada. This is a noble example,
and should be promptly followed by every
Southern man and woman.
...."The celebrated astronomer, EDcke,
in recent account of the comet which
: hoars his name 1esio ,ates the fnllnlSlnc