Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-08-17

inonu, Virginia, receuIIy Aeio, <Hdfe
been annuiled by the military authori-
ties of Richmond. They don't like the
men elected. .."...,"A proposition hay-
ing been made at Raleigh and other
points to give the returned southern
soldiers a public dinner, the Raleigh
Progress says that Gen. Ruger has is
sued an order prohibiting it. '.''."Col.
Wood, formerly editor of the Vicks-
burg Whg, is in New York, arranging
for an expedition to Brazil. He goes
out on behalf of some five or six hun
dred Mississippi families, to see if he
cannot purchase q tract of country
twelve miles square on the Amazon, for
the purpose Of "a permanent settlement.
The capital subscribed is said to be
one million of dollars. Wood is COM
missioned to procure the Emperor's
consent. t.......".Abraham Lincoln and
Jefferson Davis were born in the same
Congressional district of Kentucky, and
within the same twelvemonth. '"..:'"
1t is said that eighty plantations in Lou
isiana have recently been confscated.
These embrace many of the finest sugar
estates of the Southern country. Mr..
Conway, the government agent, is ma
king arrangements to divide up these
estates into forty y-aere lots for freedmen
and poor whites. ......'..'The total num-
Der Of National Banks now in operation
is 1,494, with total circulation of
$161, ,196,ss0. The amount of cur
rency issued last week was So, ,2S9, 1865.
Anew York paper mentions the ar
rest of a-woman in the streets 'swith
nothing onher person but love-lester
and a daguerreotype. "'.'''''''Patents
have been obtained in France for an
instrument to indicate the existence of
mineral or springs Of water in land !;
for raising ship into the air and steer
ing it there; for applying steam to
children's toys; for heating and light
ing apartments with the same appar-
atus; for mode of lining letter en-
velopes with silk; and for the cane
which can be put in your pocket, and
transformed into seat at will. '..''.:.'
The Governor of Alabama states that
one hundred and twenty-five thousand
Alabamians have been engaged in the
war, of whom seventy thousand are
dead and disabled. .........The Tredegar
Iron Works, at Richmond, have been
leased by the United States to the own
ers, Joseph r. Anderson and his part
ners, who have commenced business a.
gain as iron manufacturers, these
works beingheld by Government agents
as confscable property. .'''''''" General
J. B. Hood has arrived at San Anto-
MO, Texas. ..........A correspondent of
the New York Tribune, says any guam
tity of land can be purchased in Geer-
gia at 50 per acre. One hundred acres
lying four miles from Macon-seventy
five acres cleared, with o log house on
it-were offered at fifty cents per acre.
The young man who received the
first prize for Commencement-day ora
tory, at Rochester University, was nine
years ago a canal driver, parentless,
unable to read, ignorant even of the
time of his birth. .........At Washington,
on the LIST instant, one hundred and
two pardons, all of the twenty thousand
class, were granted by the President.
.....:..General Daniel Sickles, James
7. Brady, John Van Buren and Fer
nando Wood, are mentioned among the
candidates for the next Mayor of New
York. ......:.. Generals J. B. Kershaw
and C. IN. Simonton, lately released
from prison, arrived in Charleston, on
the 9th inst. ...:..''.. John Bratton, Jas.
Fl. Rion, DR.. 7. F. Furman, ". R.
Robertson and James B. McCants have
been nominated as candidates for the
Convention in Fairfield District. F.:
M. Wannamaker has been nominated
in orangeburg. ..'.''''''The story that
Gen. Kirby Smith was taken prisoner,
with his forty companions, by the Mexi-
can Government, turns out to be untrue.
The General arrived safely at Monterey,
and, after resting a fesSdays, pushed on
for the City of Mexico. "
FEDERAL FORCES IN MEXICO.
According to our information, General
Sheridan has under his command an army
Of seventy or eighty thousand men in Tex
as, and it is understood that their station