Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-11-16
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| Naysiae Gathenttga,
= Men take less care Of their consciencet
than their reputation. -, ..Ssss.,,...
= It is understood that Secretary McCul.
looh viii recommend Congress- 20 substitute
q tax on sales forthe income tai.
- Hon, I'm. Z. GurrH lately one Of Che
most talented of the Alabama Congressional
delegation, will soon be ordained as o min.
lister of the Baptist denomination.
- Mrs. Partington says she did not mar
ry her second husband because he was the
size of her first protector, and would wea,
bis clothes ont
= Private letters from Western Texas say
the Confederates who went to Mexico when
the Trans Mississippi army surrendered are
returning, disgusted with the Mexicans.
"A French photographer has made his
arrangements for descending to the bed oi
the ocean in submarine vessel, provided
with the electric light and,making subma'
rine photographs. ~ s.
The Augusta Goastitutionalist, of The
18th, says: Hon. Alexander Fl. Stephens,
arrived at his home, in Crawfordville, yes
terday. he is reported to be looking better
than ever before, though his hair sprin'
kled with grey. ]
Gen. Grant has written letter to Gen.
Kirby Smith, grapting him permission to
return home.on parole, to be placed on the
same footing as other Confederate officers Of
his rank. He is at present sojourning at
Matanzas in Cuba.
A Fortress Monroe correspondent states
that John Mitchell, previous to bidding far
well to his military prison, had short in.
terview with JEFF. Davis, during which the
latterspoke hopefully in regard to his chance
of release from confinement. ..,
The New Haven Register insists upon
it that Gen.. Banks, having been Stonewall
Jackson's Commissary, cannot, if elected to
Congress, take the oath that be has never,
"direcuy or indirectly, given aid or comfort
to the enemies of the Union"
At meeting of bankers, in Frankfort,
Germany, it came out that about $50, ,00O,-
900 of United States bonds were held in
thatycity and peighborhood, nd.that nearly
every bond held on hecontiuent of Europe
was the property Of persons residing in OF
near that city,
- Powdered rhubarb, which was, a few
weeks since, quoted at 1915 per pound,
has advanced to $500. Morphine has
risen $50 on the pound The spectators
who monopoIized these articles and made
the rise, should be compelled to liVea week
on them.-Boston Journal.
= "sir," said pompous parsonage, who
undertook to bully an editor, "do you know
that I take your paper7" ssIv'e no doubt
you take it." replied the man of the qaill,
ssfor several of my honest subscribers have
been complaining lately about their papers
being missed in the morning"
A poor woman called at grocers the
other day, and asked for quart of vinegar.
1t was measured off and put into a. gallon
Jug. She then asked for another quart to
be put into the same vessel. Sand why
not ask for a half q gallon, and done with
it?" .aOch bless you little bitof q soul!''
answered she, dts for two persons
"A Calcutta letter of Augurt I6, speaks
of large prospective decline in the pro-
duction of Indian cotton. In the north.
western provinces not half the area will be
sown, or is being sown, with cotton, which
was covered with it last year. The sudden
drop in.prices last October has destroyed all
that new born confidence which it took three
seasons to create.
- The post Office departments extending
the money order system in the South. In
many cases it sends Northern men South
for the above purpose, they being able to
take the oath The latter class are being
appointed postmasters in North Carolina,
and every county seat will soon have post
master. Mail agencies on railroads will
also be soon supplied. e..
- Government has received from Charles
ton, S. c., quantity of letters written in
the Spring of 1861, by Postmssters of places
south of Charleston, containing money and
postage stamps, but all seized at that city
by the Confederstes. The stamps being
useless to them, were allowed to accumulate
there. Government has also received
.ss, 400 for postage due from Charleston be-
fore the war.
"A letter from New York says: 'There
is a great deal of private charity being
dispensed for the benefit of the South, of
whicb.the world knows nothing know
of one case where SIS, 900 have been sent to
rebuild ain Episcopal Church in Alabama ;
another where 500 have been raised for
destitute families at Raleigh, N. c., and a
third where $500 have been sent for re.
ligious purpose to :Vieksburg"
The Virginia Military Institute is now
heap of ruins. A correspondent of the
New York Nesos says the trustees had made
arrangements to resume the exercise of the
school on the 1st of October, prepared TEN.
porary buildings for the purpose, and filled
with suitable Professors the chairs made
vacant by the fall of Stonewall jackson,
Gen. Rhodes and COL Crutchfeld CORNER.
ly Jackson's Chief of Artillery There