Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-03-01
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National government in the late war.
Several planters in Kinds and Madi-
son counties, Mississippi, have white labor
ers on their plantations; Irish and German
pFinoipally-who are performing their work
satisfactorily.
An analyzing dame reports that 'sshe
heard of but one old woman who kissed her
COW; but she knows of many thousands of
young ones who have kissed very great
calves"
- Here is the pithiest sermon ever
preached: "Our ingress in life is naked and
bare; our progress through life is trouble
and care; our egress out of it we know not
where; but doing we'll here, we shall do
well there; could not tell more by preach
ing year."
- DR.. Charles Robin, an eminent scien-
tiic writer, has just been elected to va
cancy in the French Academy of Sciences.
NJ. Robin, is at present engaged in inVesti.
eating the subject of the transmissibility Of
cholera. He has already made considerable
progress, being able to affect dogs with the
disease at will.
- The use of a comma is ingeniously
illustrated by Orpheus G. Kerr. By mis-
placing a comma he completely changed the
sense of the Scriptural passage: "The
wicked flee when no one pursuetb, bat the
righteous is bold as lion," making it read,
seThe wicked flea, when no one pursueth
but the righteous, is bold as lion" Can
anything be more ridiculous?
1t appears by the records in the Trea-
sury Department, that the revenue received
from the Southern. States from April, 1865,
to the first day of this month, amounts to
nearly s29,0O0,OOO, principally derived
from abandoned lands and internal revenue.
Louisiana has paid over ss,000,000 of this,
while from Virginia less than 81 ,000, 900
has been received.
- Whatever action Congress may see
fit to take in regard to the future condition
of freedmen, beyond the simple act of en-
forcing their rights as citizens, their best
protectors in the end will be found to be
the States in which they live Congress
may do them infinite mischief by teaching
them to look to the Government for sup.
port, and not to themselves, but it will do
them little good, which the States will not !
do in more effective manner.
Neao York Post.
An exchange says the great Cincin.
natl bridge, about to be suspended across
the Ohio River, will,be the longest in the
world, being over two thousand feet longer
than the Suspension Bridge over the Mag.
ara River, and five hundred and forty feet
longer than the Menai Bridge in England.
Its total span will be ten hundred and fifty.
seven yards. The massive stone piers tower
one hundred and ten.feet over the floor of
the bridge, and two hundred feet above
their foundations. One year is the period
allowed for building it.
- The Knoxville (Tenn.) Commercial
states that We have just met with a gentle
man who has been on trip through Ten.
nessee and Georgia, from whom we gather
some very interesting items. He informs
us that through Georgia, Alabama and Ar
kansas, there will be but little corn planted
this Spring that the attention of all planters
Is directed to cotton growing, as they are
under the impression it will be the most
remunerative crop. In many localities there
will not be corn enough grown to meet
home consumption, and not any to sell.
- It. Col. Beadle, superintendent of
the "Freedmen's Bureau" for Wilmington
District, has determined that all parties who
come under the vagrant law of the State
shall be turned over to the. sheriff at Viii.
mipgton, who shall keep then in con6ue.
ment when not engaged in some work pre-
scribed by the Mayor of that town. The
Wilmington Dispatch says, in regard to
this, that "some of the freedmen who have
hitherto shown such an aversion to labor,
will now have an opportunity of being
forced to work for very moderate compen-
sation. There are few white men, too, in
this community that ought to be placed
alongside of the negroes"
- General Grants position upon the
admission of the Southern Lenders, as ex-
pressed in late conversation is, that those
who are loyal, and who are elected by loyal
constituents, and can take test oath, should
be received This, he said, would admit
six, and possibly, seven in all. On being
told that there were eight from Tennessee,
be at once replied that some from that State
should not be received. He heartily ap-
proves of the Freedmen's Bureau bill, ex-
cept that he thinks that only army officers
should be employed by the Bureau, in Or
der to save expenses. He is in favor of
trying the editors of the Richmond Ecama-
aner for treason. He is firm in his opposi-
ton to the Withdrawal of troops.
- The Charlottesville (Va) Chronicle
illustrates the present political status of the
South, by this humorous and striking fig |
ure: "It seems to US as hard to get in the
Union as it is to get out. The South re.
spectfully asks to move one way or the 9th
er. We are like the fellow who was forced |
to 60 to the show, and then not allowed to
60 any further than where he had paid for
his ticket. We have been dragged into the
doorway of the Federal tent, and are not al
lowed to see any of the performance except
to settle with the tax collectors We.can
hear the animals growing inside, and hear