Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-08-30
EDITORIAL INKLINaS.

We learn from the Marion Star,
that COL JAMES MONROE was killed at
San Luis Potosi Mexico, on the 10Th of
last June. From letter dated, 10th of
July, detailing the circumstances, of his
death, we make the following extract: 20
nOn the 10th of last month the Mexican
laborers had ball, at which they all got
drunk and commenced fighting among
themselves, when the Colonel, who was
alone, undertook to stop them. They
turned on him, and being drunk, all of
them, they killed him"
Col. MONROE was graduate of the
Kings Mountain Military School, and
we'll known to many of the citizens of
Yorkville. After his graduation he re-
moved to Arkansas, and during the late
war, was the Colonel of q cavalry regiment
from that State. Upon the close of the
war, he went to Mexico and took up hisr
dence in the vicinity Of San Luis Potosi.
"A cable dispatch announces the
arrival in London on the 18th instant, of
the "Red Wbite and Blue," a small vessel
of two or three tons, which left New York
on the 9th Of July. The passage was
made in thirty.eight days. The little craft
was named by two men, accompanied by
dog. 10 .7"'.r.aS '''S" .ho''
From London to New York is, in round
terms $500 miles, and the thirty.eighs
days of their passage would rate their daily
going at go 3-19 miles, or some 8 $40
miles on an average every hour. This ap.
pears slow Remember, however, the
changes and chances Of weather, and that
as a purely sailing vessel the Red, White
and Blue, was exposed to them all, and the
calms and adverse winds, and their progress
Is much faster than most sailing ships of
1,500 tons, and even $500 tons burden,
which seldom are not less than forty-fve
and often more than sixty days en- route.
- Another Atlantic cable enterprise
has been started. Its projectors propose lay
ing the submarine wires from New York
via Bermuda, Cape Charles, the Azores and
thence to Lisbon in Portugal. The slow
success of the one already established, no
doubt offers sufficient inducement to novel;
ty loving spectators to charter. the entire
bottom of the Atlantic for telegraph purpo.
ses We may expect in few years to see
submarine wires connecting every principal
city on the shores of the Atlantic, with in.
ter Oceanic stations in the shape of huge
towers, popping up everywhere in mid.
ocean. -....' .. -
- A correspondent from the Dutch city
of Rotterdam, gives the following delectable
description of the cleanliness of the people.
No one ought to be afraid of eating Dutch
cheese after reading this: {:
"Dutch beds, stables, baruyards, in fact,
everything that have seen in Dutchland,
is clean and fresh. In cow houses, the ami.
mails tails are tied up to hook in the
ceiling, that they may not get soied by con-
tact with the floor; and when they 90 out
to pasture in the spring they have cloth
tied around them, as little boys have bibs,
to keep them nice and clean. Bugs and
spiders stand no possible chance of existence
in Holland. Every week the whole energy
of the inhabitants is devoted to sorubbing
and cleaning, and, indeed, the city retains
damp appearance all the week from the
effects of the terrible drenching which it
gets on Saturday."
The same correspondent eulightenes Us
concerning Dutch funerals as follows:
"In walking about this morning, I saw
several men walking very rapidly, with
enormous three. cornered hats on, short
black coats covered with ribbons, small
clothes and black socks. They carried in
their hands black edged paper, covered With
writing. The hideous hired mournerS of
England are ugly enough, but these out do
them. They were all hat and ribbons, and
[ have just found. out that they were the
death anuouucers, and that it is their cheer.
full business 10 life to continually call upon
the friends of any one deceased, and usher
iu the mourDful tidings, with an invitation
to the funeral"
"A recent dispatch from Washing.
ton says: r... -
"By the instructions from the Secretary of
War Gen. Howard orders that on and after
October LIST, the issue of rations by the
Freedmen's Bureau will be discontinued,
except to the sick in regularly organized
hospitals and to orphan asylums for refu-
gees and freedmen aud that the State Of
foials may be responsible for the care Of
the poor, they will be carefully notified, so
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