Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-10-12
Sftaps aud gatts.

of sugar this year will not exceed II, 600
hogshead--against 100000 in 1860.
- The Sheperdstown Register says q
Michigan soldier, who was arrested for
stsaling arebel's goose, said he found the
bird Kissing at the American flag, and ar
rested it for treason.
Arrangements are making, says the
Baltimore 4merscaa, for grand national
reanion Of the Masonic fraternity at an
early day at either Baltimore or Richmond; !;
and call fora General National Conven.
ton with delegates from all parts of the
United States will soon be issued.
The Boston Journal says: In Loui-
siana, families who before the war rolled in
wealth and Injuries, having horses and
!. carriages and plenty Of servants, now ride
about in carts drawn by mules. The ladies
do their own work spin, weave and cook
and are better for it, no doubt.
-- Cholera notwithstanding its reported
backward movement, was creating great
haYocin France. The Mayor of Marseilles
had summoned the physicians together to
eonsnlts what was best to be done, and the
inhabitants were fleeing from the city pan
ic.stricken. @,.sr sSe ass
z Governor Brownlow, in recent let
ter to the Knoxville Whig, expressed the
opinion that idleness, starvation and disease
will remove from the sphere Of mortal exis-
tence the majority Of negroes of this gen.
Grafton, and that the race will ultimately
become extinct like the Indians.
= S-- General Fremont and others have
taken out patent for expelling sap that
produces rot in wood, and insert sulphate
Of iron and other substances that render it
imcorruptible. The object is to apply, the
patent to railroad ties, wharf and ship tim
ber, 60.
Mr.. W. b. Trescot, of Charleston,
has been appointed by his Excellency Gov
ernor Perry, to represent the State and the
interests of the people of the State at
Washington, in accordance with a resolu.
ton Of the Convention, requiring an ap-
pointment to be made to that efect-Co-
uns5ia Phenia, Oct. l., ..s
There has been reduction in the
prices of cotton goods in New York among
the jobbers, ranging from ten to twenty per
cent. The manufacturers are astonished at
the state of things. "Heavy brown sheet
ings have fallen six to seven cents; fine
bleached shirtings, tsp to fifteen cents, and
prints, FIVE to six cents. Perhaps the ex.
treme of decline has been touched.
ss- Andrew jackson Donelson has writ
ten q letter, in which he says that on his.
plantation, in Mississippi, affairs are. 'sin
the; best possible condition." that ssthere is
better discipline thanthere has ever been,"
that there is nno grumbling, no disobe.
dience, no disorder among the negroes, and
as good a crop as could have been expected
after 30 great an overflow"
- The editor of the New York Citizep
has had visits from Major. General John W.
Turner, commanding Richmond, and Major
General j. 81. Wilson, commanding Geor-
.eia-I-both of whom unite in declaring the
South to be thoroughly paci6ed, and that
but small military force will hereafter be-
required at certain. prominent points. The
receipts from internal revenue on the 25th
ultimo amounted to 81, 900, 1908.
From April 18th, 1861, to April
30sh, 1865, Pennsylvania furnished in all,
from three months to three years service,
381 ,939 men, exclusive of sailors and ma
rriines, and of one $50 called" California
regiment and one ssso-csiled" West Virgin.
ia regiment. Negroes enlisted 2,500.-
Grand total, negroes, sailors, marines, $50.
called" and all, 479,4Ss. Pretty good
force that.
The Alexandria Gazette, says:-
"After the adjournment of the Annual
Council of the Episcopal Church of Vir-
ginia, on the evening Of the 2lst ultimO, a
memorial to the President, for the pardoA.
of Jefferson Davis, was presented to the
clergy in attendance by N. r. Meaye, Esq,
the lay member from Winchester, for their
signatures, and of the sixty olergymen
present on the occasion, ffty.two signed the
paper, though Bishop Johns, in speech,
opposed the measure"
- A traveller in Palestine says not far
from the probable site where the Sermon
on the Mount was delivered, our guide
pluoksd two flowers supposed to be of that
species to which, our Lord alluded, when he
ssid, Consider the lilies Of the field The
calyx of this giant lily ,resembled crimson
velvet, and the gorgeous flower was of
white and lilac, and truly no earthly mon
arch could have been 'arrayed more glo.
riously than one of these Such is the tes-
timony of nature to words spoken by. our
Lord. 49, 49,. /:
.Ahighly speculative individual, in
Petersburg, Va, is buying negroes upon
the chance>tRat the United States Govern
ment will hereafter pay for all the slaves
aemancipated By the result of the late war:
BE offers $40 in gold for the right of prop
erty in each negro, and the Petersburg In
Ger learns that in some cases where he had
effected purchases he had actually paid the
money. The Richmond Times hopes the
gentleman has large amount of gold, and
that he will not copfne his operations to
Petersburg.
- A correanondent nf the Roston Trny