Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-11-30

Tile Washington Chronicle says, that
theexeess of the receipts over the expendi-
lures in the Post Office Department for the
year ending June 80, 1865, is more than
S850,000. Never before was SO favorable
an exhibit made in the Department.
The Germans in Texas are preparing
is plant cotton on an extensive scale the
coming season, and to raise it by their own
sIsbor. They are using their influence to
secure large emigration from Germany
into that State. -
A most disgraceful pugilistic en-
counter occurred yesterday morning at the
corner of Meeting and Broad-streets, the
combatants being white man and negro.
The difficulty arose from some trivial cause,
and ended by. the negro receiving severe
thrashing.- Charleston Nescs. .-
The bonds of the "Irish Republic"
are sspayable six months after the acknowl.
-edement Of the independence of the Irish
nation, with interest at six per cent. from
the time of issue. Confederate Treasury
notes were payable after the ratification of
% treaty Of peace, &c.
- National Banks sre getting rapidly
into fashion in the South. There are thir.
ty Eve already established in eight States,
of which sixteen are in Virginia, seven in
Tennessee, three each in Georgia and Ala
bama, two each in N. Carolina and Louisiana,
and one in Texas. Their aggregate capital
iss4,474, 400.
The French Courier, of New York,
affects to be indignant at the appointment
of General Logan as o. S. Minister to the
Republic Of Mexico, and pronounces it a
nproyocation." Itsdds, in substance, that
the French troops now will not leave Mexi.
60. France is allied with Mexico now,
right or wrong, and will maintain the ALI
ance.
- There is said to be movement on
foot, on the part of the radical Republicans,
to bring out Charles Sumner, of Massachu-
-setts, as their candidate for the Presidency
in. 1868. This movements the result of
soopsictiou on: their part that President
johnson intends to conduct his administra-
ton upon conservative and Democratic prin.
ciples, and that all hopes of winning him
over to their WY of thinking must be aban:
jdoned
- Amongst the property captured by
the Federal forces just before the close of
the war was draft belonging to the Con-
federates, dated January II, 1865, for three
thousand pounds sterling, drawn by the
Confederate Government on the house of
Brown, Shipley & Co., London. A short
time ago this draft wassent to New York
for collection. To-day the Secretary of the
Treasury received official Intelligence that
the draft had been paid, netting the sum
oftsl4,8sa in gold, -..'''..'
-. aI the last meeting OF the British
Association for the promotion of Science,
Prof. Bennett, Of the University Of Edin-
burg, declared that physiology were now
almost agreed, that to man must be ascribed
q sixth sense, which was to be called the
sense of aceight If two little tubes, the one
of lead, the other of wood, were gilded
over sos to look exactly alike, and of the
game temperature, no one of the FIVE senses
usually allotted to. man would indicate
which was lead, which wood 1t was only
by taking them up and feeling their weight
that this could be discovered, and this sense
of weight deserves to be called si1th
sease 4
There is at this time gentleman
from the Southwest stopping at the Charles
ton Hotel, who informs the News that hs
has made an arrangement at the North for
the cultivation of 1000 acres of cotton
land by fifty Swedish lsborers. He says
that this plan is being largely adopted in
Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Ark.
ansas. He also says that Northern capital.
lists are readily advancing capital for the
nnrnnae Of planting planting on shares; that socie
ties are formed that furnish labor for a COM
mission, and that the effect has already
been to advance lands that four months ago
could have been easily bought for $40, to
$50 an acre.
, The Richmond Times says that "nev-
ar since the world began, did agriculture
offer such rich rewards to labor as the agri-
culture of the cotton and tobacco States of
the South does at this time. At the pres
snt price of cotton, every man, be he gen.
tleman or laborer, white or black, by throw
ing off his coat, rolling up bis sleeves, and
going into the fields, can make salary of
at least twenty-five hundred dollars in the
year. At the present price of tobacco,
every man and boy, who is willing to work,
can 90 into the fields and earn by the sweat
of his brow from twelve to eighteen hun
dred dollars year. Never was such state
of things known in this Southern country
of ours before. Never was agriculture so
promising, or its rewards so certain and so
muni6cent as at present"
~ ---The South Carolina Railroad, which
all our citizens are anxiously concerned
about, is making we understand, steady
progress towards completion. 1t is thought
that the Augusta branch will be completed
to Midway, twelve miles beyond Branch
vile, about the FIRST of the coming month
and if no unusual obstacle presents itself,
the entire line will be open to Augusta on
the first of February next, or perhaps soon-
er. The Savannah Railroad Company have
contracted for the rebuilding of their
bridges across the Edisto, Ashepoe and
Congaree Rivers, and this work will be