Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-12-14
Wagsiae Gatherings.

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- Biele's Comet Il now visible to the
naked eye. :. - ~
ALI the rail roads in Florida are in
comparatively good condition.
Wirz's ghost ia regular attendant at
the spiritual sessionsip New York State. =
Woman Is said TO be a mere delusion,
but It is somtimss pleasant to hug delusioos.
IL is estimated that fifty thousand A.
Emericans have gone to Europe since Janu-
sry, 1865. =
- There's very little sOaist in my house,
as the pretty widow said, when she tight
ened her corsets.
LIN the Supreme Court of the city OF
New York, the jurors, il is said, only re.
osise cne shilling for each case, no matter
how long it may last.
About four thousand applications have
bssn already fled 10 the War Department
for the four hundred and sixty yacsncies
among the Iientenants ofths regular army.
Ills said by Havana correspondence
that the arms and ammunition used By the
Jamaica negroes, 10 the late insurrection,
we're furnished from New England. ~
- Squibbs says he is going to take ont Q
pateut for an improved method of manufac-
turing FIRE arms. he says that with the aid
| Of straw he can rifle . barrel Of any size.
"A new cable has recently been laid 4
cross Cape Fear River, thereby establish.
ing direct telegraFhic communication bc'
tween New York and Mobile.
-A gentleman complaining Of the vari.
| ous imports and taxes, says he cannot put
on his boots in the morning without .
stamp. - - !.
- Adams & Co.'S Express Company has
loaned $4,000, 900 Of its accumulated
capital to several Of the Southern rail roads,
and has thus enabled them TO resume opsr.
ations
Rev. William d. MiIburn, the blind
preacher, received deacnn's orders in the
Protestant Episcopal Church, at Burlins.
ton, Vermont, on Sunday. last. He has
hitherto been Methodist.
"A new wrinkle in natural history.
The reason Why the game cook keeps bis
feathers so smooth, is that be never goes
anywhere without taking his comb with
him.
The Richmond Enquirer says that with
in ten days thirty able .dodisd Germans ap
piled at headquarters for transportation te
Louisiana, because they could not obtain
anything to do in Richmond.
- Il has been stated that the Presiden,
has pardoued John Mitchell This is nm
true. Mitchell did not even apply for par
don when here, but took the oath of allie
! glance at the State Department, which Wal
indispensable in procuring q passport.
| The Louisville Journal attaches some
importance to rumer that an immense
quap tity of powder is being accumulated
at Cairo, and that eommissary's, quarter
msster's and medical stores are gathering
there for a hundred thousand men.
=" Do you admit that. departed spirit,
| walk the earth ?" said Professor Humdruu
to young Tippertwitchet. 81 do" replied
that irreverent youth, Hfor ! have otter
heard the dead march at a military fune
Eral." The Professor smiled superciliously,
and pizzled
- Over twenty-five printing presses are
now employed in Washington in working
of school books for Northern publishers
to enable them to supply the Southern de-
mand. The prices charged IN Washington
for press work are twenty per cent. more
than 10 the Northern cities. Three. fourth'
of this immense number of books going
South is sold to freedmen:
- 1t is proposed by the jackson Miss.
Neos to purchase homestead for Jefferson
Davis in some foreign country, whittier ht
shall retire upon release from lmprison
ment. 1t is suggested that the funds me-
cessary be raised by Confederate soldiers
subscriptions Of one dollar each from the
men, and as much more from the officers as
they please.
- The Mobile Register says that mum.
| Der Of Southerners are about to emigrate Il
Brazil. Major Hastings will sail with hil
colony from that port on the second of De
cember. The Register has information thai
forty Americans, mostly Missourians, had
already arrived at Rio Janeiro, where they
we're furnished with comfortable quarters BY
the Government Of that place at DO cents
day. -
DIR. Vaughn has published in the Brit
tish Quarterly Reoiew record ofa con
yersation' which be had at Washington with
Gen Grant We copy the following from
it: "Say what You WILL" said the General
"this war has been the biggest job Of it,
sort that has been done in this world and il
will be chapter to itself in the history Of
| wars nothing like it has gone before" This
is evidently q high compliment to the va
lor, skill and endurance Of the late Con
federates ;s
- The Freedman's Bureau has informa'
ton that collection Of persons in Mobile
is trying to undsrbid negro labor by agree
ing to furnish German emigrants just of
the ship, at wages lower than negro could
| Tho comppny nronnae In