Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-05-10
MERE-MENTION.


for constable iu Indiana, the radicals de-
uauded that a negro should be allowed to
vote ; whereupon the conservatives and
Democrats elected the negro over the radi'
cal candidate. A good joke. ....'''''A bad
state of affairs exists in Washington county,
Tennessee. Large numbers Of those who
sympathzed with the South during the late
war are receiving orders to leave the county,
being notified that if they do not comply
they will suffer the penalty of death.....'..
Mr.. SUMNER was graciously pleased to'say
in the u. S. Senate, that the mechanics Of
the country contributed almost as much to
the national success in the late war as the
freedmen. ......'..A school-boy's aspiration
-sOb, how I wish I were a fountain, for
then I could always be playing. .''''''.'.The
Tennessee Legislature has expelled mem,
Der because she took his hat and cane, and
left the House without quorum"
Punch says the Pope's Bull has got the
Rinderpest-a disease which contempora,
ry asserts Beast Butler is very much afraid
of, as we'll as hog cholera. ...'''""A new
Express company is to be started in New
York in opposition to Adams, with a capital
of $4,000, OO,OOO......'...General BRAxToN
BRAGG is living on farm in Alabama,
acting as agent for another person. He has
lost all be owned before the war. ........'
There are thirty. seven Protestant Churches
in Paris, with ffty.one pastors. Fifty years
ago there was not one. ......".A Memphis
paper says there were only six persons in
that city in 1861, who voted against seces
sion. Now there are not less than six
hundred persons claiming to be one of the
six. Just the case. in Richmond, says the
Examiner. The Methodist General
Conference. at New Orleans has made
another change in the name of the church
1t is row "Episcopal Methodist Church. "
......'..At meeting of the Stockholders
of the Greenville Railroad, held in Colum-
bia last week, the following persons were
elected as officers Presidential. P
HAMMETT. Directors FAIR
RoBr. STEWART, T. G. PERRIN, j. W
MARSHALL, ALEX. MoBEE, JAS P. BoYoE
B. F. PERRY, JAS. L. ORR, J. P. REED
L G.. CHILDs, n. FARMER, DANIEL
Brown. The National House of Rep
resentatives, has passed bill establishing
the grade of full General in the army, t'
which GRANT will undoubtedly be ap
pointed.
Two white men and dozen negroes have
lately been publicly hogged in Fayetteville
North Carolina, the local court ordering The
punishment, and the United States militia
~ com mander declining to interfere because
the penalty was sanctioned by the statutes
........:The public libraries of the United
States comprise more than 5000, 900 vol
umes. .........The Memphis (Tenn.) Argu
reports that a collie is carrying off the mules
iu that section by thousands. The disease
was at first confined to the low river coun
try, but it now extends to the up land farm:
as we'll, and is attributed by the Argus te
the use of Northern, grown corn. .'''''''''The
hack writer's in Washington now charge
members of Congress trom s25 to SlOO 70,
writing their speeches. Query: Do these
hack writers belong to the worshipful guilc
of Quill. drivers ?,........The annual NOR.
tality of the negro population is eight pei
cent, while that of the white is only two
in Louisville, Kentucky. There is 4
report that Mr. MOTLEY, our Minister a
Vienna, has been instructed to demand his
passports and come home, in case Austria
should persist in allowing recruits for MAX
1MILIAN's armies to be obtained in the Aus
trian Empire. ....'....My frstis what lies al
the door; my second is kind of corn my
third is what nobody can do without, ane
my whole is one of the united states. Mat
tri-mony.
The wife of JEFFERSON DAVIS has beer
permitted to visit him at Fortress Monroe
She was accompanied by her youngest child
.........The Pennsylvania wheat crop is re
ported as very promising. .''.'::.:'''In th
absence of specie, 6uanciers in North Caro-
lima are agitating the question of a real es
tate bank. 1t is proposed that charte
shall be secured from the State Convention
for "Land loan Company" with stool
of from ten to twenty millions of dollars
founded on real estate at gold value. ''''.'
JOHN ROBINSON, Of circus notoriety, sho
by guerilas at Crittenden, KY, April 70
died on the 3Oth. .....'.'.The late New
York Legislature passed bill prohibiting
all railroads 10 that State from issuing free
passes to any persons other than railroad
men, disabled soldiers, and for charitable
purposes. '.'...".Governor PATTON, of Ala
bama, has issued a proclamation declaring
the new penal law of the State in force OF
and after the LIST day of June. The Law
Furnishes horse and mule stealing with death
aS "Quid Nunc," the Washington
correspondent of the Richmond Times
furnishes that paper with the following order
from the War Department explanatory Of
the late proclamation of the President, al
also the clauses of acts referred to in the or
der:
WAR DEPARTMENT.,
ADJUTANT GENERALS OFFICE,
WASHINGTON, May l, 1866
General Orders No. 26: