Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-11-09
Wapsiae Gattetittgs.

x Ex.Gov. Bonham has received par.
don from the President
The last rsbel prisoner Of war at Elmi-
ra, left on Tuesday, and the post is closed.
The President granted pardous 70 $50
South Carolinianao on Saturday, and among
them was VIM. W. Boyce.
- Old Gen. Cass, once Democratic can
didate for the Presidency, still lives at the
age Of eighty.three.
- Gov. johnson, Of Georgia, requests the
President to retain the military in that State
until the militia are organized.
The Government has received des-
patches confirming the reports Of the shol.
era having broken out at Southampton,
England,
- There are now no naval vessels moored
in the Mississippi, in front Of New Orleans.
Vessels have been stationed there since
New Orleans was captured in 1852, to guard
against an insurrection.
An old lady, praising favorite grand
child, said-ssThe dear creature is 80 very
tender hearted that he cries as if his heart
would break If he has only to go out and
pick up his mother basket Of chips"
= Gen. Saxton writes to New York from
Charleston that 1000 blankets viii be
needed this winter in South Carolina, Geor-
gia and the sea islands for protecting refu.
gees, freedmen, &c.
The Masonic Fraternity of Columbia
have chosen William Gilmore Simms and
Robert Bruins, commissioners to represent
to their Northern brethren the PROSTATE CON.
dition of the Lodges in Columbia.
1T is reported that the Confederate Gen.
eral Kirby Smith has been ordered to re-
port at Washington by the War Depart
ment, and that he is now en- route from New
Orleans for that city.
Remember that self interest is more
likely to warp your judgment than all other
circumstances combined therefore look
we'll to your duty when your own interest is
concerned.
1t is said that proposition will be
made at the approaching session of the
Louisiana Legislature, to pension the sur
siying married soldiers Of that State whose
physical disabilities were incurred during
the late war. =. - 80
of all the specimens Of German Amer
loan photography that ever saw the.light,
that-of Hartford saloon keeper is the most
exorucisting He has. 'painted him a
sign" and it reads "Boshdeyele Nodrushd." +"
Positively no trust y Ts
The Freedmen's Bureau have received
information of the very favorable condition
of the negroes in Texas. But ten are sup
ported at Government expense, iu Calves
ton. At Nashville, Tennessee, the Gov.
ernment has stopped issuing rations to
Freedmen.
If fourteen cats with sixteen legs can
catch fourteen rats with forty two legs,
while woman with two tongues is saying
Jack Robinson, how many legs must eight
rats have to get away from the same number
of cats in two minutes, due allowance being
made for tare and tret2
- There are forty:fpe blocks on Fifth Av-
enue, New York, and three hundred and
forty residences with the exception OF
some cheap and old-fasbioned shanties far
up toward the park, there is not house on
the entire avenue that cost less than S32,.
900.
When Mr.. Jefferson was asked respect.
ing his religion, his memorable answer was
nIt is known to God and myself. Its evi-
dence before the world is 10 be known in
my life; if that has been honest and duti-
ful to society the religion which has regu.
lated it cannot be bad one" >
A good story is told of q country Meth
odist at whose house an itinerant preacher
was passing the night; who, when bedtime
came, and family prayer was suggested, a
searching for Bible, finally produced a
couple of torn leaves of the good book, with
the remark, 81 didn't knew I was so near
out of Bibles"
The national banks now number as high
as fifteen hundred and sixty, but, owing to
Withdrawals and suspensions, of some Of the
organizations, there are but fourteen hun.
dred and ninety five in actual operation at
this time. Duriuglast week but two banks
we're authorized under. the national system,
their aggregate capital being less than three
hundred thousand dollars.
The French "Dead: head" system has
reached perfection. At recent exhibition
BY the Davenports in Paris, eighty free
tickets were distributed A row broke up
the exhibition and the money was returned
at the door. The receipts not holding out
to pay all the audience, it was found at the
end of the entertainment that seventy out
of eighty Of the "dead- heads" bad taken
the ten franks returned money offered at
the door. The American "dead head" sys-
tenn is bad, but it does not reach French
audacity.
Two lawyers in a country.court-oue of
whom had grey hair, and the other, though
just as old man as bis learned friend, had
hair which looked suspiciously black-had
some alteration about question of prac-
tice in which the gentleman with the dark
hair remarked to his opponent: "a per.
son at your time of life, Sir" looking at the
barrister's grey head, sought to have long
enough experience to know what is custom
sry in such cases." eyes, Sir" was the