Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-07-05
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ADJouRNMENT OF CONGRESS.
BRowNLow has called together the Ten
nessee Legislature with a view of having it
to ratify the recent Constitutional Amend
ment. Congress stays its adjournment
until that body is heard from. If the
Legislature ratifes the amendment, the
Tennessee Delegates will be Immediately
admitted into the two Housss-or such Of
them as can take the oath. The radicals
seem especially anxious about this matter.
1t will, if it succeeds, be the only practical
work accomplished during the longest ses.
sion ever held. As it is, they have moth.
ing to point to now but buncombe speeches,
and their constituents are probably men Of
sufficient sense to understand the difference
between words and works. They under.
stand probably, that the South could have
been represented in Congress, at any day
during the session that they would have
permitted it, and upon terms satisfactory TO
the masses of the people. As this has been
looked upoh as one of the prime objects Of
his long debate, they no doubt consider it
dangerous to present themselves before their
constituents again, with the empty results
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CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. '-...
Some of our readers may feel an interest
in the progress of this matter before the
country. The Legislature of New Hamp.
shire has ratified the amendment in one
House, by vote of nesrly two to one. The
Governor of Maine proposes to convene the
Legislature of that State, if other States
do so, to take action in the matter. The
Tennessee Legislature was to have met
yesterday, for the same purpose. The prob.
abilities are that all of the New England
and most of the Western States, will adopt
the amendment. 1t cannot become alaw,
and this fact is we'll understood--as three
fourtbs of the States cannot be Influenced
to sustain it. Tennessee may do so-the
remaining States Of the South certainly will
not, for they have spoken already. E, 81,
NEW PRESIDENTIAL MANSION. 80
Congress seems determined to spend as
much of the peoples hard earned green.
backs, as it can at this session. 1t has de-.
termined upon the erection Of palace in
Washington, as residence for the Presi.
dent, that will probably rival the famed
temples of the East, if the said present
Congress can control the matter until it is
completed. The Senate has instructed the
Commissioners of Public Buildings to Sc.
cure one hundred acres of ground within
the City limits, upon which this edi6ce and
its surroundings are to stand. The wisdom
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object at this time, must have been brought
through strained course of reasoning.
But-"rule or ruin" is the motto.
THE MISSISSIPPI LEvEEs.
A special Senate Committee has agreed
to report bill appropriating 100000,
for temporary repairs of the levees along
the Mississippi. These levees it will be
rem embered wers cut and destroyed in
many places by the United States troops in
their western campaigns. Propertyt to an
almost fabulous amount has been destroyed
by the consequent inundations Of the river.
The present crops in the famous valley,
once the richest portion of the American
continent, have been swept away by the
spring freshets. The people are unable to
reconstruct these river barriers, aud this
appropriation is all that can save this part
of the South from absolute ruin. .-.