Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-12-07
M'alrsiae Gtathesiitgs.

They are building cars IN SeH io5As
for street railway in Calcutta.
- An artesian we'll in Chicago has been
sunk to the depth Of 695 feet
1.- Il is proposed to build steel factory to.
employ 1000 mechanics, at Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania. =
- The trade is very lively now between.
New York and New Orleans. The business
is immense <.
-aBridal chambers" in sleeping cars are
the last thing out on the New York Central
Railroad. - -
They chain.gang idle negroes in Co
lumbus, Ga, and set them TO work ieveling
forti6cations for their victuals.
The New York Tribune has an article
denouncing those people at the North who
are crying out for the hanging OF Jefferson
Davis. 3
80 Ex-Governor A. G.. Magrath, of this
State, who for many months past has been
confined in Fort Pulaski, has been released
on parole.
= The cabin passengers of the steamer
Atlanta have heen allowed to come up to
the city Of New York, They are all in good
health No new cases Of cholera have oc.
cured on board the Atlanta
- TIE Richmond Whsg advises the Rep
resentatiyes elected from that State not to
show themselves in Washington until they
are sent for, and warns those inclined to
take the test.oath that they had better nev.
er have been born than to adopt sach .
course. .si
Large numbers of Germans, .Swedes,
and Danes are pouring into Virginia, but
the supply is not equal to the demand,
The prices fixed for their services, as farm
hands or iaborers, is $3.50 per year, with
food and lodging, for men between twenty
and fifty years old, and sl00 for women. :.
- The Republican ticket is probably cleo
ted in Minnesota, but their majority has
been reduced six thousand since last year,
and negro suffrage has been badly beaten.
The Supporters of Mr., Rice for Governor
strongly endorse the Presidents policy, but
the republicans repudiate it
They kill pigs by steam in Chicago. A
great iron claw, with five fingers, hooks out
the pigs which are quarreling 10 the pen
below, and lifts the porkers to q gibbet near
by, and .pluDges them into soalding water.
By this machine Fifty porcines are killed,
scalded, cleaned, split and hung in rows
ready for sailing within an hour.
"A Norfolk hotel proprietor, a few days
since, hearing Of the whereabouts of a guest
who had deosmped without going through
the usual formality Of paying his bill, sent
him note :aMr. -, Dear Sir Will
you send amount of your bill, and oblige,"
etc. TO which the delinquent made an.
swer: "The amount is $80.75. Yours
respectfully"
- 1t has been observed, says the National
Intelligencer, that in re6tting the two CHAM
bers for the National Legislature about to
assemble In the Capitol, the desks made
vacant during The past four years, by the
absence of Southern members, and which
we're removed during that time from the
floors of both Houses, are restored to the
floors of the halls respectively.
The Secretary of the Interior has deci-.
ded that all pensions granted prior to the
commencement of the late rebellion, ceased.
to accrue from and after the date Of the
Presidents proclamation declaring the
State or district in which the pensioner was
domiciled to be In insurreetion, and that
the payment Of such pensions can only be
resumed from and after the completion Of
the proof of the pensioners right to be re-
stored to the rolls. sa.s. s.'
We learn from Washington that Secre.
tary McCpllpph Is engaged in completing
the annual report of the Treasury Depart.
meut. It ir believed he will strongly urge
the reduction of the currency by cautious
measures, and continue, as fast as possible,
his plans for the reduction Of general debt.
He is not in favor of a permanent sinking
fund for redemption of debt, but prefers
the utmost increase Of the revenues Of the
Government.
Alta meeting of the Board Of Direct.
ors of the Richmond and Danville Railroad
Company, a few days ago, it was resolved
to substitute white for negro Labor, wherever,
employed, upon that road. This resolution
was the result of the unfortunate experience
of the company in relying upon negro labor
which has become so uncertain as to be en-
tirely impracticable: The transition will
be as gradual as the circumstances. will
permit.
= Brigham Young has had new "reve-
lation." He says it is "the will of God
that the sisters should make their own bon
nets and hats for themselves and their fami
lies, from the straw and other material
raised in Utah mountains" The next "rev.
alation" will probably dictate the style in
which they are to be made and worn. 1t is
said that Brigham Young has large lot of
rye straw "for sale in lots to suit purchas.
ers," which perhaps accounts for the straw
hat revelation.
- It is said that the Buena Vista Vine
yard, in Sonora county, California, is the
largest in the world. Itconaists Of 5000
acres, with 272, 900 vines planted previous
to 1855, 100000 planted this year. Last
year the yield was $4,000 gallons of still
wine, 10000 bottles Of sparkling wine, and
$4,000 gallons of brandy. One hundred
men are constantly employed, and double