Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-10-11
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no "policy."
- Several of tue railroads in New Eng
land refuse to carry the mails without an
increase of pay, and consequently the mails
are carried by pony express, which is gen.
orally behind time.
What is the most striking instance on
record of the evil Of iutemperance in dietI
That of our first parents, Adam and Eve,
who ate themselves out of house and
home.
An Irishman being in church where
the collection apparatus resembled an elec-
tion boz, on its being handed to him, whiS-
pered in the carriers ear that he was not
naturalized and could not vote.
Mine hundred and forty applications
have been received from negroes in Geor-
gia, Tennessee, and Virginia, by the Amer
ican Colonization Society, for transportation
to Liberia. They will depart November l.
- Brownlow says he would rather 60 to
hell with negro than white man. But
what will the negro say? We have too
much respect for the colored race to sup
pose there are many who will be willing to
accept his company.
An American correspondent, writing
from London, thinks that the Reform agi.
tation, the Fenian troubles, the terrible
famine in India, and the consequences of
the Jamaica revolt, will tend to hasten
revolution in England.
- The New York Times says Private let
ters from prominent North Caroliniaus state
that there are forty thousand voters in that
State in favor OF the constitutional amend
ment, and that an effort will be made by the
Union members of the next Legislature to
secure its ratification.
An expansive safety bridge, to be used
on railroad cars, to enable passengers to pass
in safety from one car to another-a recent
Yankee invention-is being adopted on all
the New England roads 1t adapts itself
to all the motions of the cars-expanding
when they are apart, and contracting when
they come together.
A meeting of the Federal soldiers who
claimed that they had once been prisoners
of war in the South, was held at Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, recently, and organized into
an association by electiDg A. D. Streight,
of Libby memory, President The object
of the association is 'to collect such inform-
alton as viii be useful in compiling his
tory of rebel prisons" Here goes for an
other "bistory."
- A correspondent of q Cincinnati paper
writes from Fort Abercrombie, Dacotah
Territory, under the impression that he has
found Paradise. He sets forth the charms
of that part of the world as follows: No
income tax; no internal revenue: no spies
to see if you treat friend on Sunday; no
special police i; no dog tax; no poll tax;
school tax or bounty fund. And, to end
with, the Indians and half breeds can't tell
one greenback from another, so all our ones
are tens.
- The Augusta, Me-, Farmer, of Sept.
27, says "On Monday of the present week
just fifty weeks from the day of the
great fire in this city in September, 1865
the workmen in clearing out the ruins of
the Stanley House, found that the bricks at
the bottom of the cellar were so hot as to
render it impossible to handle them. The
coal that was in the cellar was also alive with
heat. Pieces of the latter, and also of the
bricks we're, when brought into our Office,
too hot to be retained in the hands"
- The New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia Ledger writes "There is
authority for stating that Mr.. Seward will
sooa retire from public life, from desire to
obtuin that repose and recreation which his
medical advisers inform him are absolutely
indispensable to the prolougation of his life.
The Secretary thus advises some of his more
intimate personal and political friends here,
and there is no doubt but that as soon as he
recovers from his present iDdisposition be
will lose no time in carrying his resolution
into effect. With this knowledge, the
question as to who is to succeed him in the
Cabinet at so interesting conjuucture, must
soon become one of absorbing interest,""
- Prior to the late civil war the people
of the Northern States were with the utmost
difficulty induced to perform militia service.
They overwhelmed with ridicule every at.
tempt to enforce their State militia laws,
and paid the heaviest fines rather than do
duty in corn-stalk regiments. A wonderful
change, however, has come over the North
ern people since the war, and they now ex
hibit remarkable zeal and readiness in the
organization and equipment of their militia.
This development of military spirit was
stimulated by resolution of Congress which
provided for the distribution among the
Northern States of vast quantities of arms
and munitions of war, but expressly provi-
ded that none should be sent into the South.
ern States The "militia fever" is now ra-
giDg at the North, aud from the rapidity
with which companies, regiments and brig
adcs are being formed, foreigner would
arrive at the conclusion that we were upon
the eve of another great war.
The English papers chronicle the
complete triumph of an American negro, as
an actor at one of the leading theatres of
London. The play in which he achieved