Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-03-28
MERE.MENTION.

MERE-MENTION.
The Alabama State Convention has adop.
ted an ordinance, providing that the Gene.
raj Assembly of the State of Alabama shall
cede District of ten miles square for a
seat of Government of the Confederate
States. ....Since the 18th of December
last, the sum of $l9 9,32O,455 in specie has
been imported into the United States from
Europe. '.'..."About forty clerks are re.
quired in the respective departments al
Washington, to read and file applications
for office. There are nineteen in the Post
Office Department alone !..''.''''There are
now no cadets at West Point from the Sc.
ceded States. .........Last week, Mrs. Har.
per, daughter of Charles Carroll, of Carroll.
ton, died at Baltimore. She was present
as child when Washington resigned his
commission at Annapolis. Her picture
may be seen as one of the two auburn hair.
ed girls in Col. Trumbull's painting, in the
rotuuda of the National Capitol. ''.'..".We
notice that Charleston and Augusta are des
isuated ports of entry and delivery "unti
other arrangements are made" for goods
imported from the frontiers of the United
States. ......".The decrease in the receipts
of cotton at all the ports to latest dates a.
mounts to 1885 bales This deficiency
is affecting prices in some of the markets.
The stock on hand shows decieas from
that at the same time last year of 437 ,2l6
bales ''.'.''..The Treasury Department has
received Information that the Texas author
tiles have seized the United States vessel
Guthrie, which supplies oil and provisions
to the lighthouses on that coast. .'''''''.
The Cincinnati Enquirer notices the de-
parture from that city, on the 18th inst ,
of splendid pair of dark bay horses, de.
signed as present to Mr.. Yancey, from
Benjamin Robertson, ESQ.,, of Kentucky.
'..'....Two large buildings, embracing
the only hotels in Laureus, was detroyed
by fire last Saturday night. The origin Of
the fire has not transpired. The loss was
about $4,000. No insurance. Only one
of the hotels was in use. ........''Some wri.
ter has suggested that the new Southern
Confederaoy be called "The Pamela Repub
lic." Pamela, he says, is the Indian name
for Cotton, and would be the most appro.
pirate title by which the young Republic
could be designated.
The sugar crop of Louisiana for last year
amounted to 22S,753 hogsheads, at the
ratio of l15O pounds each; the molasses
crop amounted to 18,414,55O gallons
Steam engines are used on 1909 Louisiana
sugar plantations; 283 are operated by
horse power, Samuel Marshall, o
we'll known citizen of Abbeville, died on
Thursday week. .'..'...'.P Prince Alfred, the
second son of Queen Victoria, will visit
Canada this summer, and travel by about
the same route his brother did. He will
arrive in June. .'':',:"The postage stamps
for all the postotices in the United States
are manufactured by firm in Philadelphia
The number furnished by them last year
was 3,Sd7, ,27G, of the value of $685.
80. The increase from year to year is
very large. The Massachusetts Per.
sonal Liberty bill has been revised and
changed so as not to conflict with the Fed
eral Constitution. .'''.''' Attorney General
Wharton, of Mississippi, has given an off,
cial opinion, to the effect that the licenses
of "various foreign insurance companies
cannot be renewed in that State. The rea,
sons assigned are, that the State code re-
quires the agents of such companies to fur
nish satisfactory evidence that each compa.
ny is secured by investments in stocks held
"by citizens of the United States," and
that as "the United States" no longer e1.
ist, the agents cannot renew their licenses.
....''"'The Pennsylvania papers are oppo'
sed to an extra session of Congress, fearing
that the Morrill, Tariff bill would be repeal
ed or modified. ........"General Twiggs has
declined the appointment of Brigadier-Gen-
eral of the Confederate States Army, on
account of feeble health. .'.."';Col. H. P.
Watson, a native of York District, has
been appointed Adjutant General Of the
Staff of Major-General Clemens, of the
regular army of Alabama. ''''''.'. Hinton
Rowan Helper, author of the "Imperding
Crisis" is an applicant for the Consulship
at Manchester, or Southampton, England.
....."..We learn, says the Savannah Ncvs,
that Hon. Henry +. jackson declines the
appointment of Judge Of the District Court
for the District of Georgia, rendered him
by President Qavis.'''',:"Hon. W. Por-
cher Miles, on his return from Moutgome-
ry, brought with him the original flag of
the Confederate States, which he presented
to Mrs. Pickens, with the request that she
have it hoisted over Fort Sumter, '''.''"'A