Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-10-26
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- The Washington InteNigencer states
that the President does not intend visiting
the South. q - -
Gen. William j. Hardee is living, for
the present, on the plantation OF his wife,
in Alabama. ;i;'l'i .,
The North Carolins Convention has Or
dered an election for Governor, members OF
the General Assembly and Representatives
to Congress, on the second Thursday In
November next. w
= Gen. Humphreys has been elected Gov.
ernor of Mississippi, beating Judge Fisher,
the nominee Of the State Convention. Gen.
Humphreys was an officer in the Confeder.
ate service, but has been pardoned BY the
President.
- Henry ~. of France, was great wit,
and while listening to tae speech of a vii.
lage mayor and common council, was inter,
rupted by the braying Of an ass. The king
with the utmost gravity, exclaimed-"One
at time gentlemea. n, i;fsF.. .ra'''.='.. =
-aMy dear, what shall we name our ba-
by ?" said Mr.. s. to his lady, the other
day. ."Why, I've settled on Peter" "Pe-
ter / Mercy I never knew man with the
simple name of Peter who could earn his
salt" "Well, then, call him SAT- Peter"
The negro Iaborers in Jamaica are on
the verge of starvation, owing to high taxes
and other causes. They blame the Cover
nor and his officers, who, fearing an out
break has dispatched two guuboats to that
locality.
"A speaker at recent Fenian meeting
in Worcester mysteriously intimated that a
-Fenian on board the Great Eastern purpose
ly damaged the cable, because be was deter
mined that informers should not have the use
Of the cable until Irish independence is a.
chieved. .s''
Late news from Mexico says that force
of 200 Mexicans under Cortinas, is march
ing on Matamoras, plundering everything
as they 20. A decisive victory of 900 Mex
leans over $500 imperial troops, in July,
is claimed, with the capture Of. f.prisoners,
arms, and trophies. -,
- Wallace Butler, recent returned Con-
federate soldier, and member Of the Sc.
coud Presbyterian Church at St. Louis, has
been expelled from the church because be
refused to acknowledge that be had sinned
in joining the rebel army. Pretty conduct
for those protesting religion, inst it.
"A letter from Alabama states it to be
the declaration Of nearly all the planters
that aunless some better aeans are adopted
for controlling the negro, his labor cannot
be depended upon for the coming season,
and therefore they viii make no preparation
for planting more than will yield them a
sustenance." = - asa
- Don't say you will become rich till you
have asked your wife. Of all. spendthrifts
that nature ever invented, a thoughtless
woman is the most So. We care not how
much money man may make, if his wife
does not second his endeavors, he is just as
certain of dying poor as if he kept a gro.
Gerry store and trusted everybody.
Arrangements are being made by the
intelligence Office of the Freedmen's Bu-
reau, at Washington, to send q large mum.
Der of freedmen to the North, where they
are called for by the capitalists who wish to
employ them on railroads, and in mines, &c.
From the 1st to the 10th of October forty
persons were furnished with employment
through this Office.
- A writer in the American Medical Ga.
zette gives the following lucid explanation
of the, phenomenon Of a lsdy's blush: aThe
mind communicates with the central gang.
lion; the latter, BY inAe1 action through
the brain and facial nerve, to the organic
nerves in the face, with which its branches
nosculate." The blush loses nothing by the
explanation.
Our contemporaries of the Raleigh Pro.
gress, in referring to our criticism on Jor-
dams attack on Mr.. Davis, state that Us.
paper was prepared in consultation with
General Beauregard., We have the most
conclusive reasons for stating that thisis a
mistake Such course .would be as foreign
to Beauregarfs Is character as it was eongen.
ial to Jordan's.-P Petersburg Aader.
:. Sidney Smith was once looking at
the hot houses of a young lady who was
proud of her flowers, aud used, not very ac-
curately, profusiou of botanical Names
"Madame," said he, "have you the Septen-
ms psoriasis ?" "No." said she, 81 had
it last winter, and I gaveit to the Archbish-
op of Canterbury; it came ont beautiful in
the spring" ,Septemmis psoriasis is the
medical name for the seven years itch.
- Secretary Seward told Alex. Rives,
Esq, Of. this county, that he wished to make
peace between the North and the South j.;
that, as to the test oath, if be had been in
Congress he should not have voted for it ;
but, said he, the oath is law, and any Con-
gressional district in the South ''had better
send an idiot or child to Congress, who can
take it, than to send wise man who can
not" We have this from Mr.. Rives him
self - Charlottesville Chronicle. :. d
The six grand officers of the Grand
Lodge of Free and Accepted Mssons of