Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-06-05
MERE-MENTION.

Occ Lue auNcTLleCuCuO VI NAt' oonh A'ASo
Cauts, offering twenty dollars reward for his
negro boy, Stephen. He is supposed to be
lurking about the village. ''''''''' 'Chancel-
lor Wardlaw died in Columbia, on Wednes.
day of last week. Daniel Mixer, Esq ,
for many years the accommodating host of
the Charleston Hotel, died on Monday NOR
ping of last week, at Columbus, Ga. His
disease was cholera morbus. .........It is
stated that the linen trade of the North of
Ireland is ruinously prostrated owing to the
absence of orders from America, and that
great distress exists among the weavera in
and around Belfast in consequence. .'.......
A permanent observatory is to be erected
on Mount Ararat, where Noah had his first
lookout The Russian Gear has given
S24 900 in aid of the work. 1.-The
first privateer fitted out in the South-the
Calhoun, at New Orleans-is commanded
by a Yankee from Portland, Maine !...'.'
A company of doctors has been enlisted at
the North. They probably intend to pill
lage the South. '......"It is mentioned by
the Richmond Whfg, as throwing light on
the policy Of Seward, that within the last
fortnight, Northern man visited that city
for the purpose of buying tobacco. He
professed to have written permit from the
Government to the effect that he might
send and load vessels in Richmond with to-
bacco, if those vessels came empty. He
was very anxious to inaugurate trade on
this one-sided basis; but he met with very
Door success. The drum now in use
by Captain Haunah's company, of Polk
County, says the Cleveland (Tenn.) Ban
ner, is relic of the Revolutionary war-it
was beat at the charge on Yorktown. By
good luck, it has been preserved through a
period of eighty years, and the Polk boy,
say it shall be beat again at the charge on
Washington. '.....'..The Nashville Union,
in its money article of the 25th ultimo,
says: There has been no movement Of
note in money matters during the week,
except that South Carolina, Georgia and
Alabama currency has further rimproved and
is now taken at par.
Gen. Butler says that few days will put
him in Richmond. Possibly. If he ven.
lures too far from Fortress Monroe, he may
get there sooner than he wants to. ....."..
The merchants of Mobile close their places
of business every evening at o'clock, for
the purpose of drilling themselves, and also
to allow their clerks to do so .....'."A
Boston paper advises Lincoln to offer re-
ward for Davis head. When old AIDE sees
Davis head it will come in on charger
like John the Baptist-but then it will
have the body attached to it..'''"'.Tbe
Wilmington Journal, alluding to the phil.
anthropist, Miss Dix, having volunteered
her services as nurse to Lincoln's troops,
remarks that she always was friendly to the
insane .........The convicts in the Virgin.
ia penitentiary are employed in making
gun carriages, wagons, axes, picks, flannel
shirts, cloth for uniforms, army shoes, tents,
wheelbarrows, and litters for the wounded
All these articles are being fabricated 70,
the "Army of Virginia" as fast as busy
hands and the most approved machinery
will enable men to do the work. ........Gen
Beauregard left Richmond on Saturday
morning for Manassas Junction. The
Board of Aldermen of Louisville, KY.
have refused to tender the hospitalities Of
that city to Major Anderson when he arrive:
there.
The Cincinnati papers state that whisky
is selling in that market at ten cents pei
gallon, and the sales are very slow even al
this ruinous figure. ...'..."The Coroner o1
St. Louis states as the result of his expe.
rience, at the late inquests that WOUND
from Minnie rifle ball, in the feshy par
of the person, is sure in almost every in
stance to result fatally. y.......... Henry
Ward Beecber has been hung in efhgy al
Brooklyn, N. Y. Attached to the efigy
was card, and on it written, "Hcnry Ward
Beecher, the man who has done most to
cause our present troubles" In one hand
the figure had copy of the Tribune. The
police quietly cut it down and burned it.