Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-10-19
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A frequenter Of our sanctum says he
has grown so desperate that he will have
money if he has to work for it. :
Ths citizens Of Sullivan county, In
diana, have had meeting for the purpose
Of devising means to keep negroes out OF
the county. The people of Perry county IN
the same State have passed resolutions that
negroes shall not come there to stay
49, The total expenditure of the Navy
Department during the four years of war,
was about $S50, 100000, and that of the
War Department about 81, $50, 100000, Of
which the Qusrtermssters Department
alone expended about 81, ,4OO,ooo,eOO.
The Charleston Courier Of Monday,
9th instant, is happy to learn, from high
authority, that the lands. on Edisto and the
other islands on the coast are shortly to &c
given to their owners, in conformity with
an order from Washington, 5.
Two National Banks have failed
The first National Bank Of Attica, New
York, and the American National Bank Of
Hallowell have gone by the board. The
capital Of both these defunct institutions
foot upan aggregate Of one hundred thou
sand dollars. .f-'f - =: -,.v -. (.
- Recent accounts from Texas would
indicate that the military department ofthe
Government thereis under much better and
more judicious management than in most
parts of the South. There seems to be no
interference with the civil authority as ex-
ercised by the appointees Of Governor Ham
ilton. whose administration of affairs is lat
teily giving much satisfaction.
-- The term Fenian is derived from the
Gaelic word Fiann. In the antiquated
Gaelic it is written Fiand. It was name
given to an order or class of professional
soldiers among the Pagan Irish, long before
the Christian era. In ordinary times the
Fiann consisted of three legions; in each
legion were three hundred men, but in war
there were usually seven legions.
Collectors of Customs appointed for
the Southern ports have filed their bonds
and entered upon the discharge of their
duties, trusting to Congress to legislate for
their payment. Veryfew efthe appointees,
however, have taken the oath of allegiance,
except that portion which declares that they
win bear true and faithful loyalty hereafter
to the Government Wassingtoa Star.
During the month of September,
four hundred and fifty postofices were re-
opened in the South, and service ordered
on fifty post.routes. This number would
have been largely increased, but the depart
ment has found good deal of difficulty in
finding persons to act as postmasters who
can take the required oath of allegiance to
the United states. This oath requires them
to declare that they have never participated
in, nor sympathized with the rebellion.
--- The Commissioner of Internal Reve-
nue., in reply to letter of the Collector of
Charleston District, says: !: sThat where
rents, interest, salaries, profits, orincome of
any kind in 1864 was received in Confed.
arate currency, the market oolue of;such
currency estimated in Government ourren.
cy, at the time and place of receipt should
be returned as income fsny part of such
income received in Confederate currency
was disposed of during 1854 for merchan.
die or property Of any kind, and such prop
erty,was sold at profit before the close Of
that year, such profit should also be return
ed as income"
At recent meeting of the Louis.
vile (Ky) Board Of Trade, it was stated
that Mr.. Speed, Collector of Internal
Revenue, had seized upon the receipt books
Of the Jefenonville Railroad, stating that
the merchants of Louisville had laid them
selves liable 70 heavy damages by signing
receipts on the receipt books without afix-
ing theanecessary stamp Mr.. Speed said
that he would not prosecute the parties, for
the reason that he did not believe that it
was the intention to defraud the govern
ment The President of the Railroad COM
promised the matter with the government,
so far as the road was concerned, by paying
into the Treasury, the sum of 300.
-Advices from Washington, dated
October IL, state that Alex. H. Stephens,
Viee-President of the late Confederacy; !;
Trenholm, the late rebel Secretary of the
Treasury; John A. Campbell, Confederate
Assistant Secretary of War, and Ex-Gov-
ernor Clark, of Mississippi, having applied
to the President for pardons, he has ordered
that they be released from close confinement
on their respective paroles, to appear at such
time and place as he may designate, to an
sWer such charges as he may direct to be
preferred against them. 1t is further stip.
ulated that the parties are to remain in their
respective States until further orders. Par
dons have also been signed by the Presi.
dent in behalf of the members of the South
Carolina seeding convention, and forwarded
to Governor Perry for distribution.
In Mississippi, the negro comes to
the surface as elsewhere, but the people are
more anxious to make him work than to give
him the right of voting. The planters fear
an emigration of their colored laborers to
the large towns, where more lucrative employ,
msnt can be had, and on failing in this EN-.
& ployment they anticipate that the negro will
become vagrant and rely upon the State
for support. Accordingly they urge that
an act of Congress should be passed to per-