Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-11-09
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At Nashville, Tennessee, it has been
discoysred that there are FIVE caves under
tha city which have been used as the rem
desyous of thieves, burglars, and counter
faiters. An exploration Of these dens is
now in progress.
z - Among the inventions at the Amer
ican Institute, New York, is an ingenious
arrangement by which buttons may be at.
txched TO any garment without the use OF
needle or thread. Bachelors and women
with irritable husbands should make mem.
MiIisdge L. Bonham, Of South Car
olins, sx.member Of the National Congress,
sex.member Of the rebel Congress, Ex.Gov-
ernor Of South Carolina, and ex-rebel Brig.
adler General, was pardoned by President
johnson on the 24th ultimo.
The Richmond Republic says: cat
the rate the work Of rebuilding in the bnrnt
district Is progressing, scarcely yestige OF
the great conaagration Of the Sd of April
viii be visible year hence. Go where
you wiz, the sound Of the hammer and
-troyel is heard, and the spirit Of improve
mert, backed by energy and industry, is
everywhere manifest. :"
The Washington correspondent of
Philadelphia Ledger says: ssWhat Presi-
dent johnson viii do, hear, is. to throw
the Empire, Louis Napoleon and the
Monroe Doctrine upon Congress, and leave
&c for that body to say whether Max. shall
be politely told to quit, or whether we
shall do as all Europe has done, recognize
him as the constituted authority in that
country"
o,ss-- Old stories of the war are constantly
looming to light. 1t is stated that when
Gen. Bragg was in command at Augusta,
Ga, last winter, JEFF. Davis telegraphed to
him ;sto hold the State at all hazards, stop
szup the roads, destroy thesupplies, and crush
SHERMAN" At the close of the despatch
the rebel President inquired "What is your
available force for this purpose ?" General
Bragg promptly replied, "Five proclsma.
stions and one Brigade"
- The republican government Of Mex
loo has placed upon the New York market,
aloan Of $50, ,0O0, 900, bearing interest in
gold at per cent, and the principal paya-'
bic in twenty years, also in gold. The Be-
curity offered is the faith of the republic
and of the states of Tamaulipas and San
Luis Potosi, and a national mortgage on
100000 acres of agricultural and $780,.
000 acres Of mineral lands in these states.
The first irstallment, Of $4,000, 900, will
be offered at sixty cents on dollar.
The Louisville Journal is entirely
opposed to the importation Of Coolies
It thinks the experiment we have had for
two hundred years with one race of sayages
ought to be sufficient and it is clearly of
the opinion that the Asiatic man is worse
! than the African The Journal fayors a
resort to Europe for new laborers, as such
emigrapts Wauld be hes.,.shy elements in the
body polite. u.eayen save US from another
sas.c ss..c~pressible- conflict to establish the
rights of the Chinese The irrepressible
African is surely enough for this generation,
perhaps for this century.
-sThe friends Of Jefferson Davis are
denying the statements made by the New
York Herald regarding his approaching
r trial, on the ground that the Supreme
Court, before which it was stated the trial
4 would take place, has not original jurisdic-
ton in cases of treason. The Herald in
reply-says, "that the case may be carried
there by the slow process Of appeal through
the various courts, and also that Congress
may, by special act, give the Supreme Court
original jurisdiction in the case" The ar
ticle referred to, from the Herald, may be
found on the outside of to-dsy's paper.
1t is gratifying to know that, now the
country has become entirely blessed with
the maintenance of the noble African, few
philanthropic minds are speculating upon
what it should and can do with him. Among
the latest projects of this kind is one ad-
yanced by reverend gentleman from Flori.
de, who is now in consultation with the
Secretary of the Interior, and in waiting to
see the President, which proposes that the
nineteen millions of acres of public domain
stretching in vast belt through the centre
of the above State, from the coast back to-
wards the northern boundary, shall be sp-
propriated to the colonization of negroes
estimating that four hundred and seventy.
Eve thousand can be furnished with home
steads Of forty acres each by the grant
sought for.
- By the law passed at the last session
. of Congress, the Clerk of the House, hold.
=, ing over from the last Congress, on reading
=. the roll of members qualified to go into the
election of q Speaker, is restricted to "those
only who shall have been regularly elected
under the laws of Congress or the several
States" It is NOW said, upon radical re-
publican authority, that Mr.. Mcpherson,
the Clerk of the last Congress, upon whom
will devolve the initial authority, as its pre-
siding officer, in the organization of the new
House, has declared that he will not place
upon the official list of members, any person
claiming to be elected FROM State that has
been in rebellion against the Government,
+: inasmuch as he regardss6y such person as
not coming withie the pale of the aforesaid
law. If saoh is the decision of Mr.. Mo.
-Pherson, We know where he belongs, and
that he is the radical candidate for a re.elec-
tion.-Nep York Herald, -
- Old regular officers and graduates