Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-01-25

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their own share Of the immense patronage
of the Executive. -. ,s,a
The projectof the Secretary of the Treas.
/ ury for funding the entire floating debt Of
!, 1.-THE United States has been laid before the
Finance COMMITTEES It provides for the
conversion Of seyenty:thirties, compound
interest notes, legal tenders and certificates
into bonds running forty years, payable in
gold, principal and interest LEO.
Important Order from Gen. Grant. !
WASHINGTON, Jam. 12-Gen. Grant
has Issued an order 10 protect loyal persons
against improper suits and penalties in the
late rebelIious States. It provides that
military division and department command
Esrs, whose commands embrace, or are COM
posed of any of the late rebelIions States,
and who have not already done SO, will at
once. issue and enforce orders protecting
from prosecution or snits in the State or
municipal courts of such States, all officers
and soldiers of the United States, and all
persons thereto attached, or in. any wise
thereto belonging, subject to military a1-
thority, charged with offences for acts done
in their military capacity, or pursuant 60
orders from proper military authority, and
ia. protect fromrsuit or persecution all loyal
citizens or persons charged with offences
done against the rebel forces directly: or
indirectly, during the existence ofethe re-
bellion, aud all persons, their agents and en-
ployees, charged with the occupancy Of
abandoned lands or plantations, or the pos.
session or custody Of any kind of property
whstever, who occupied, used or possessed
the same, pursuant to the order Of the
President, in, any of Che civil or military
departments of the government, and to pro.
tect them from any penalty or damages that
may have been, or may be, pronounced or
sadjHdged in said courts ia any Of sneh ca.
ses, and also protecting colorsd personsfrom
prosecutions in any Of said States, charged
With offences for which white persons are
not prosecuted or punished in the same de-
gree. - $50,
THE SEVERE CoLD,-0nr Northern ex-
changes devote considerable space to ac..
counts of the extremely Geld weather and
its effects on persons aud things. The
thermometer in New York city, on the 9Th
instant, touched fifteen degrees below zero,
and at the Brooklyn Navy Yard twenty.
three degrees below. In more Northerp
latitndes, the thermometer indicated thirty,
i've degrees below The cold continued
till the night Of the 9th, when the weather
commenced gradually to moderate The
effect of the cold in New York city vas to
materially impede business, especially that,
Of an outside nature, as people we're timid
about venturiug on the street for fear of
being frost bitten. As it was, seven cases
of freezing to death and DumberIess IN
stances of frozen ears and limbs were re-
ported By the authorities a driver on one.
of the stages was taken of his box by 4
policeman, in a speechless and senseless-
condition, A poor Woman in an uptown
district was discovered dead, with an infant
embodied in her 10y embrace. So rigid we're
her arms that 1t took the united forae Of
sbree-na 70 ssIoak thsn ,Parsens walk. ]
ing on Broadway were infornsd by the pas.
sing travellers that their ears or noses were
frozen. All over the city people were
complaining of bursted water. pipes. Some
of The streets we're covered with a solid
sheet of ice formed from the water escaping
from the mains: Gas pipes were also frozen,
In consequence of which some sections Of
the city we're wholly deprived Of light. -
The ferry boats had much dif6cnlty in
crossing the rivers, and the sseamers arriy.
ing from various points were completely en-.
yeloped in ice. Such cold had not been
experienced before for years.