Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-09-21
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General Gusts Lee has been appoint
ed Professor in the Virginia Military Insti-
tuts to fill the chair formerly occupied by
General jackson.
We see by our Atlanta exchanges
fthas the Confederate General Gordon who
figured quite prominently in the Virginia
campaigns, is keeping 8 grocery store In
that city.
Robt. Orrick, a colored man, has re-
ceived the contract to convey the mails be-
tween ,Lsesburg and Winchester, Va, at
S225 per year. He is said to be the first
colorsd man that ever received contract
ofthe kind.
1t is said that q proposition will be,
made at the approaching session of the Ala
bama Legislature, to pension the surviving
married soldiers of that State whose physi-
cal disabilities were incurred during thelate
war. ~
< There is good authority for denying
the statement that General Lee is engaged
10 writingta history Of the war. He has
had numerous offers from publishers on both
sides Of the Atlantic to do 80, but has de.
clined ell of them
The Abolitionists of Perry county,
Indiana, recently held q meeting at Tell
City, in that county, in which they passed
q resolution opposing negro suffrage, and
declaring that negroes must not come to that
county to stay. .....s .-
Secretary Seward, according. to the
Raleigh Progress, has advised Governor
Holden of the good policy of adopting
stringent quarantine regulations throughout
North Carolina, SO as to provide against the
advent Of the Cholera.
THE Richmond Times says the ne
igroes of Hanover have held meeting re-
Gently, and published a characteristic speech
delivered by one of the speakers. Bhe sa-
fble Demosthenes insists that his brethren
Fep,back TO their tsmasters," and work har-
der than they ever did.
THE Franklin (La.) Planters Ban-'
mer of the 10Th ultimo says: "We have not
. the means of reliable information, but We
doubt If there are two hundred acres of SUI
. gar cane growing in this Parish Former
lyfhe produce was thirty Or forty thousand
tacres ysa1iy, Including seed cane. {"
Recently, two boxes were shipped
from Fortress Monroe, one box contained
tools, and the other dead body. The ad-
dress of the boxes got changed, thereby
sending the corpse to the wrong party and
sthe tools to the bersaved, friends of the de-
ceased. A queer mistake.
vsA. large meeting of the oldest plan
,ers of La Fourche, La, was recently held,
when they resolved to quit. trying to raise
sugar. The report of their committee ar
CUES that. cotton cannot be raised with the
present labor force in The State and they
recommend planters to turn their attention
entirely to corn e
THE New York. Commercial says:
We have the best authority for believing
that the amount Of specie essent South, over
land, has for late weeks averaged nearly
nemiifon of;dollars periweek. A portion
of the people there have not yet learned to
esteem greeHbacks, and will sell only for
gold or silver.
The Raleigh Standard, which is
under she control of Governor Holden, is
requested to state that contractors for carry
ing the mails and all other contractors un-
der the late Confederate government, by the
decision of the Attorney General of the
United States, are not considered as officers
5ior agents, and are not required to make
application for pardon.
- Daniel Andrews, late Postmaster at
Glencoe, Missouri, who committed suicide
q short time since, left confession, in
which he acknowledged having murdered
a returned Californian ten years ago, and
robbed the body of one hundred and five
dollars. He also robbed the mails at various
times, was the means of killing two of his
children, and meditated the murder of his
wife. .sss-.
s.g.---- The question whether negroes are
taxable, was tried at Joliet, Illinois, few
days since. "A suit was brought by the
Street Commissioner against colored man
s.sho refused to pay his poll tax. The color.
ED man, whose name is Boone, plead that,
under the laW, he was neither citizen,
person nor resident, and therefore not liable
to pa3a poll tax. The magistrate decided
he was not liable to the tax.
g. The track of the Charlotte & South
Carolina Railroad has been put in running
order.to this place-the cars arriving for
the first time since the passage of Sherman's
army through this section of country, last
evening. We have been advised that the
trains viii now be run daily to and from
Winnsboro; leaving every morning and
arriving in the afternoon Wnmsboro'
q Neacs 18th iass.e - 80 I, -
The Secretary of the Treasury has
decided, in the case Of the recently appoint