Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-02-01

instructions from home, before asking "ex-
plantations" from our Government I think
news of the re.occupation of Bagdad by the
French may be looked for within week.
MERE-MENTION.
Hon. A. r. STEVENS declines to make
any public address on the state of the coun-
try under present circumstances. He ad-
heres to his determination not to allow his
name to be used 10 connection with the nom
ination for U. s. Senator. '...'.Three dol
lar notes are to be issued to the national
banks. There are said to be no Irish
among the Mormons. "Paddy" will not
polygamate. ........Lieut. Gen. HARDEE
has returned to Savannah from trip to Mo.
bile and New Orleans. While in Mobile
be was treated to supper by Federal off,
GERS .........The Barnwell e. CO. Sentinel
states that the planters of that District have
secured laborers for the present year, and
have commenced work in good earnest. .......
An old gentleman remarked the other day,
that in 1776 we went to war on account of
the stamp act, and got the negro; while in
1861 We went to war about the negro and
got the stamp act '...'."'The Lancaster
IS. CO. Ledger mentions that the business
of making contracts between the whites and
freedmen has been very brisk in that Dis.
trict for the last week. ....."..A ship cap.
tain was recently discharged from his COM
mission, in Liverpool, for being drunk one
hundred and ten consecutive days .'.......
Mr. CHARLES CARR, Of Mariaville, N. H.,
last week killed hog, fourteen months old,
weighing 6S6 pounds. His feed, after he
was.four months old, was raw potatoes and
dry COIN. ........
The New York newspaper men are again
purchasing printing paper in Belgium. ''".'
Among the funds in the hands of the cor.
poration of London is the sum Of two hun
dred pounds year, left in trust "to burn
heretics." .".........The public printing last
year amounted to $1,700,0 900; this year it
will reach $4,000, 0,000........"Commodore
W1NsLow, the principal witness against
SEMMEs, has arrived in Washington from
New Orleans, and the trial will take place
as soon as the necessary detail of oficets
for the court martial can be assigned. .......
A horse is being exhibited in Berlin, which
has attained the patriarchal period of eigh-
ty..........The expense of collecting di.
rect tax for the Uuited States Government
has been illustrated I'M #psida, where s44,-
900 have been collsssH at 9 cost of $47,-
925. ".Ths "Tuscumbia North Ala-
bamiam says; "First class hands, withou.
incumbrance, are hiring for two hundred
dollars per year, with rations, quarters and
wood, the negro to clothe himself and pay
his doctors bills. The negroes we're very
quiet during the holidays. Uoless labor is
brought from abroad, three fourths Of the
farming lands in this valley will remain nm.
cultivated this year" r".........Camels hair
shawls, at cost of $4,000 each, are the
rage in New York. .............Iron for the
relayiug of the trach on the Greenville and
Columbia Rail Road has been purchased.
.........JuDAH P. BENJAMIN has entered
his pame for admission to the English bar.
Petitions, asking that the troops be not
Withdrawn, are being sent to the President
from Alabama. During the war over
1000, 900 bales of cotton were run out of
the Confederacy. ......... Among the patents
issued last week was one to VIM. TAPER,
of New York, fora bed-bug trap. .'........
Forty millions Of letters pass through the
Chicago Postofice annually. ..........It is
reported that combination exists in Loui-
siana to persuade the freedmen not to labor,
in order to compel the planters to sell their
lands at a sacrifice. .......'..The Supreme
Court of Tennessee has decided that "Con-
federate money" is not money, yet the
Commissioners of Internal Revenue require
every man in the "so.called Confederate
States" whose income in 1864 was in
"Confederate money to estimate that in
come at what the "Confederate money"
was worth or estimated at in United States
currency. .........There are thirty thousand
blind persons in Great Britain, nearly
tenth part of the number being in London.
The great majority of these thirty thous-
and persons are in state Of destitution.
The reports from Northern Mississippi
are quite favorable. The negroes are labor
ing and the planters are in good spirits.
.........Seven daily newspapers are printed
in Nashville. ......... Brigham Youpgis is said
to have 1876 wives ......"All the funds of
the Fenians are said to have been turned
over to Gen. Sweeny, with the understand
ing that be shall expend the same for the
purchase of arms. s.........'The Columbus
(Ga } Enquirer, of the 18th ultimo, says:
"The alacrity with which planters have
made contracts with the negroes willing to
hire-engaging to give them comfortable
quarters, subsistence and fair wages-is the
best answer that would be made to the rad
ical charge that hatred towards the negro is
the prevalent feeling at the South"
WHAT DOES IT MEAN N?-The New York
Citizen (edited by private Miles ORiley)
has an article lauds.ory of the Fenians, and
urging Irishmen and Americans to contrib
ute to the Fenian funds. We quote sin
gle ominous passage:
awe tell the American public-and they
have heretofore found ussspeetty accurate
prophets 10 everything relative to the Fe-
nian cause-ttat before ten weeks there s