Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-12-13
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departed modesty.
"A Washington date says Southern
gentlemen are leaving Washington with the
conviction that the President will not issue
new amnesty proclamation at present.
The Radicals of Missouri inserted q
clause in the Constitution that requires tax
to be levied upon every grave in the State,
and in case of failure to pay said tax, the
graves are to be sold at public auction.
"A Congressional Committee will leave
Washington next week for Anderson, S.
Carolina, 20 investigate the facts of the
murder of three United States Soldiers, in
that District, last year.
- 1t is said that some of Morissey's
personal friends urge him, now that he has
satisfied bis ambition by securing an cleo
tion, to resign He declined "acceding to
their request"
Mrs. Elizabeth Caddy Stanton, the
woman's rights candidate for Congress in
the eighth New York District, received
eight votes at the election on Tuesday,
slim show.
- The committee of the North Carroll
ma Legislature to which the "amendment"
was referred, have reported uncouditioually
against its ratification. 1t is expected that
the report will be adopted almost uuani-
mously.
"A special Times dispatch, of the
7th, says that the Legislature of Alabama
has rejected the constitutional amendment
by vote of twenty. seven to two in the Sen
ate, and sixty-nine to eight in the House
"A bill has been introduced in the
Virginia Senate to incorporate the Virginia
Express Company. The capital stock to be
not less than $4,000, nor more than 81
100000, and when $4,000 is subscribed
the company is to be organized.
The public debt of the United States
was reduced, during the last year, nearly
two hundred millions of dollars, the total
revenue receipts from all sources being
1856, ,099,195. Thisrevenue, tits believed,
exceeds in amount that Of any other nation
on the globe for the same period.
"A New Orleans paper says earnest
preparations are making to raise crops Of
cotton and sugar next year, notwithstand-
ing the disappointment of this. Political
opinions and measures are lost sight of, and
few demagogues and habitual politicians
alone keep such subjects alive; the masses
think only of work and improvement
"A dispatch, dated Tallahassee, the
9Th, says that the Florida House of Repre-.
sentatives have taken up the report of the
committee to whom was referred the pro.
posed constitutional amendment, and have,
by unanimous, vote agreed to that report
The report, it will be remembered, recon/
mended the rejection of the amendment
- The constitutional amendment was
brought up in the Virginia State Senate, on
Thursday last, on motion to refer that
part of the Governors message relative
thereto to joint committee. After de.
sultory debate, a motion made to suspend
the rules for immediate action was defeated.
Subsequently the subject was referred to
the Senate Committee on Federal Relations.
- A petition is being circulated in Bos
ton, and is being numerously signed, pray
ing Congress to SO amend the Constitution
that each and every State of this Union
shall determine for itself the ssstatus of citi.
zenship and the qualification for suffrage )"
but in all elections for Federal officers,
any prescription on account of race or color
shall make void and illegal such election.
- Yesterday about fifty.six tons of iron,
from the Charlotte and Columbia Railroad,
which was torn up by the United States
troops during the war, arrived at the Dan
vile depot. Some of the bars were twisted
in every possible shape Around one tree
about twenty rails had beel twisted. An
other arrival at the same depot was the ten
der CT the engine "York," which was burnt
by the raiders on the North Carolina rail.
road at High Point, North Carolina, in
1s65.-Richmaond Dispatch.
- The Virginia Legislature organized
on Tuesday, and the Governors Message
was received. He favors the adoption of
the Constitutional Amendment, and says
that the Southern States ere still under the
ban of the Government, and there is no
dishonor in accepting the terms proposed.
The persons disqualified have no right to
complain, and those who are not disquali
fed cannot get better terms. He speaks
in highly complimentary terms of the radi-
cal Congress.
- Horace Greely says, very sensibly:
"Let us have an end to all controversy con-
cerniDg negroes and their rights, SO as to
be ready to 60 about our business. If ne
groes are idle, they must 60 hungry and
ragged if they steal, they must be pun
ished-not as negroes, but as men. If they
have not yet learned that freedom means
freedom to work, the winter just coming on
will teach them-with good many others
that wholesome lesson"
- In the Alabama Legislature, on Fri
day, Mr.. Brooks, of Lowndes, introduced a
bill proposing to amend the State Constitu-
tion so as to extend the privilege of suffrage
to every male person, twenty one years of
age, who owns two hundred dollars worth
of property, who can write legibly, and read
the State and the United States Constitution,
and who shall have resided in the State one