Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-06-07
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..... The interest in one half of ths
Charleston Hotel, owned by the late Thos
Gates, has been purchased by Otis Mills
Esq, for the sum of 100000.
......The Old School Presbyterian As
sembly voted at Rochester, on Tuesday
that on the question Of temperance ane
slavery, no further action is necessary.
;;.+..' Newspapers on the line of the Mis-
sissippi river give currency to reports res
pecting the presence of yellow fever in New
Orleans. The disease, however. is said tc
be sconfned to the Charity Hospital.
-...:.The Hon. G. G. Clay, Jun, Repre-
sentative in Congress from Alabama, has
addressed long letter to the National In
telligencer in which he approves of the Sc
cession of the eight Cotton States from the
Charleston Convention.
ea....Ths Illinois Republican contains the
following obituary notice of once popular
animal: Died at Charleston, S. c., on the
3d'inst., the old and well known horse
Democracy. The above named horse was
sired BY Thomas Jefferson and dam( Jed
by S. A. Douglas.
s".:The Boston Trauezler advertises
that it viii pay S25 each for sermons suit
able for publication. Erequires, however,
that they shall be "divested of all unpro-
voked and ungenerous sarcasm, and per-
vaded by a tone of Christian Charity"
..ssThose who were most sanguine for
the adjourning of Congress on the 18th Of
June, are now satisfied that it cannot be
done earlier than the first or middle Of
July, which will be earlier by three weeks
than the Thirty.fourth Congress adjourned,
when an equally prolonged contest was had
for Speaker.
...'..A despatch from Jackson, Mississip-
pi, says that the Democratic State Conven-
ton held there was the largest ever known
in that State The delegates are unaui-
mously in favor of sustaining the course Of
the Mississippi delegates to the Charleston
Convention, and also in favor of fully ac-
crediting delegates to both the Richmond
and Baltimore Convention.
....... The cattle disease now raging in
Massachusetts, prevailed in England from
1744 to s1755. In Nottinghamshire, 49,
900 head Of cattle died in six months; in
Cheshire $4,000. During the third year
of the disease el35,000 were paid out of
the public treasury as recorpense for
slaughtered cattle. In 1857, in forty three
villages in Holland, $4,000 head of cattle
died or we're killed.
s~.... It is stated that the pistol which the
friends Of Mr.. Fowler, late Postmaster at
New York, found under bis pillow the night
previous to his flight, was the same weapon
which was presented to him by Hon. Robert
J.sWalker, and with which Fowler aeci-
dentally wounded Samuel F. Butterworth.
Fowler, at the same time, made present
of the pistol to the injured party, which
was one of the weapons used by Daniel E.
Sickles in shooting Barton Key in Butter
worth's presence.
,:.... The fisheries of the Eastern Shore Of
Virginia have been remarkably successful
this season, such quantities, having been
taken that it has been found impossible to
preserve them The consequence is that
large quantities have been carted up on the
adjacent farms as manure. At one haul
last week two thousand bushels of trout
we're pulled up. The seine stopped at six
foot water, and it being impossible to land
such an immense quantity, the seine bad
to be opened that portion might escape
One.half were accordingly let out, and one
thousand bushels pulled ashore. This occur
red in Northanpton.-NortoAD Day, Books
......A fact was revealed in the Court at
New Madrid, Missouri, last week, which
is not little startling in a scientific point
of view, as tending to show that the Mis-
sissippi of to-day is not the stream it was
half a century ago. One of the oldestin-r
habitants Of New Madrid stated on oath
that he had known the river more than if
ty years and that when he first knew it, it
was much smaller and shallower stream
.thanit is now-so shallow, indeed, that he
had waded and forded it often Several
old residents of New Madrid confirmed this
statement, and declared that the river at
that point, now more than mile wide, was
!. not formidable half century ago.
...... The Cincinnati Gazette reports -
A relic, in the shape of an infants shoe,
that is now two hundred years old, is in
the possession of lady residing in our
city The lady is about sixty years of age,
and the shoe was worn by the grandfather
of her great-grapdfather, in crossing the
ocean when an infant, in the year 1860
There is piece of parchment ATTACHED to
the shoe, giving its complete history, which
is very explicit and authentic. The wearer
of this shoe was the progenitor of some Of
the most daring, as we'll as most noted pat,
riots of the Revolution, of whom Daniel
Morgan, the hero of the Cowpens, stands
foremost. This relic should be put in some
public receptacle for preservation.
..... An interesting trial with new sub
marine lantern of peculiar construction has
recently been made at the Portsmouth On
H. navy yard, aud the result elected high
commendation The lantern was first lower
ed down to the bottom of the river, ther
separate tests were made as to the exact
distance rays of light could be seen from
the surface. Also, the distance light coule
be thrown, so as to distinguish accurately
aistinnt oh;ants An nar. lowered to tht