Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-03-15
Waysiae Gatherings.

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The Notifications on the Charleston
Battery are gradually disappearing. Labor.
ers are employed removing the earth which
constituted the fort on the South east side
Of the Battery.
Gen. Fisk, commissioner of freedmen g
affairs in Tennessee, reports approvingly Of
the condition of the freed people, and says
they are rapidly advancing in education, in,
dustry and good manners.
The Chattanooga Gazette says; owe
learn from parties living in the upper coun-
ties of Georgia, that the late cold snap has
seriously injured the wheat crop in that
section by freezing it out Of the ground"
- The total receipts of cotton since the
close of the war have been about 1,750,000
bales, and there is no reason to doubt that
the further receipts will reach or exceed
350,00O bales, carrying the total up to or
perhaps over 100000.
We regret to hear from gentleman
who passed over the Virginia and Tennes.
see R. R from WytheviIle, yesterday that
the wheat is looking very badly. The un.
precedented cold spells, some weeks back,
have frozen it out, and the prospect for a
full yield is by no means aattering g.-Lynch.
burg Nea0s.
Chang and Eng, the celebrated Siamese
twins, passed through this city yesterday
morning, en- route to their home at Mt
Airy, North Carolina For some time, since
close of the war, they have been engaged iu
exhibiting themselves in different parts Of
the country, but have determined again tc
retire to private life.-Lynchburg News
The endorsements of the Registry Law
in Missouri, which disfranchises those who
aided the rebellion, is likely to be attended
with difficulties and serious collisions. The
ex-CoRfederates are combining to resist its
execution, and it is reported Governor
Fletcher will call upon the Legislature for
authority to reorganize the militia with a
view to be prepared for any emergency.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune states that President
johnson declared, on Tuesday night last, to
person who applied to him for an official
appointment, that he could not have it un
less he consented to sustain the Presidents
policy in all its parts, and this would be
made condition precedent in all future
cases of appointment to Office under his ad-
ministration.
Several freedmen in Galveston, Texas,
undertook to persuade an cd freedgoman, /,
seventy five years of age, to learn to read,
&c. Several white ladies told her it was
useless, as she was too old to derive any
benefit from it. 'Oh,' she replied, sNassa
white teacher says all old culled people
must take two dollars worth of larnin' ,
and so must too A calico dress would
do her far more good, we think.
Some time since VIM. G. Brownlow
and man by the name of Pickeus, obtained
a judgement in the Circuit Court for Knox
county, Tenn, against Col. W. H. Sueed,
and took possession of the Colenels valuable
property in Knoxville. Judge Trigg has
decided against the claim of Brownow and
Pickens, and restored the property to its
owner Brownlow and Pickens pay two
thirds of the COST
- 1t is fact little known to general read.
ers that mental occupations are preventative
of insanity. From the report of the ply.
sicians of the State Luuatic Asylum of
Pennsylvania, for the year 1865, the occu-
pations of the unfortunates are classed as
follows: Farmers, 473; laborers, BIG inn
keepers, 3l6 blacksuiths, 18; miners,
81; shocmakers, %; carpenters, %; mer-
chants, 50; clerks, 80; lawyers, l3 !; cler-
gyneu, s; students, II authors, l.
The propriety of the people of Frank
lin, johnson county, Indiana, is greatly
shocked by the marriage, near that town,
last week, of John Landers, a wel-to-do
farmer and white man with negro wo-
man named Abba Family Landers was
formerly citizen of respectability, but has
for many years been a violent Abolitionist
He has probably acted with more honesty
than most of Abolition brethren, and has
practically demonstrated his faith by his
works. Much excitement prevails in the
neighborhood in regard to the marriage, and
Lapders and his sable bride will probably
find that it is necessary for them to vamose
the ranch in order to save themselves from
serious injury.
The Washington National Mteligencer
states that the statistics at the Treasury
Department show that the commonly re-
ceived opinion that there is balance of
exports over imports in our foreign trade,
is without foundation. The official values
of the exports are currency values the
values of imports are gold values, and
consequently, for the purpose of comparison,
it becomes necessary to equaize them. For
the three years 1868, 81, '65, the imports
amount to S876,0OO,000 in gold while the
exports, valued officially in currency, at
s972,000,000, when reduced to a gold
standard are S662, 900, leaving, instead of
an overplus in our favor of Sl56, 900, 900, a
deficit of sl54, 100000. This is the true
condition of our foreign trade, and probably
explains the great flow of our Government
securities to Europe.
- Captain Travis, of the Pistol Gallery,
states that one of the most remarkable feats