Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-04-05
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- An Illinois paper says there ID man
out there so dirty that the assessors put
him down as real estate.
- In q recent speech in Albany John
Van Buren, nominated Andrew johnson for
the next Presidency.
A cotton factory at Macon, Georgia,
is turning out $4,000 yards of sheeting per
month.
- 1t is said that about $4,000 young
men from the South are seeking their for
tunes in New York city.
- There are at present, according to
Mr.. Stanton's official report, more negro
than white troops in the United States army.
They have some sensible negroes in
Lynchburg, Virginia, who are getting up
petition for the abolition of the Fresdmen's
Bureau.
- The total packing of hogs in the
West, it is supposed, will foot up between
100000 and l7o0,O 900, against nearly e.
100000 last year
The cabinet is said to have been near
" equally divided on the veto message
Saaratarias MaCnllnah, Saward and Wsllco
being in favor, and Messrs. Stanton, Speed,
Denuison and Harlan opposed.
"A pretty girl says: "If our Maker
thought it wrong for Adam to live single,
when there was not woman upon earth,
how criminally guilty are the old bachelors,
with the world full of pretty girls?"
The receipts and expenditures of the
Government for the year 1865 were as fol-
lows: Receipts, s475,7S2, 259 So; ex-
penditures, $1,O95, 5,l79,1S7.S7 Showing
a deficiency for the year of s6l9, Al, ,O2S.-
81; which has been met BY loans.
The Reverend Doctor Joseph Cross,
for many years one of the leading ministers
in the Methodist Church, South, was Or
dained Presbyter of the Episcopal Church
at Nashville, Tennessee, on the seventh in
stant.
SENATOR Foote, of Vermont, died in
Washington on Tuesday of last week
Early Wednesday morning the President,
accompanied by Senator Doolittle, waited
upon Mrs Senator Foote to condole with
her on her great bereavement.
"A gentleman in Washington has
sued Major General Terry, commanding in
Richmond, for trespass and injury commit
ted against him and family, while s6journ-
ing last summer on the eastern shore of
Virginia.
-- In his speech before the Democratic
State Convention of Indiana, the Hon. D.
". voorhees, remarked in regard to his ex
pulsion from Congress, that it RENTED him
to the society of gentlemen, and permitted
him to choose his own company.
A correspondent says that Secretary
McCulloch has had conversation with
President johnson in relation to the cotton
and Treasury agent system in the South,
and that the President indicated bis inten
ton to abolish the whole concern.
The Holly Springs (Miss } Gazette
states that not more than one.third of the
open land of Marshall County, in that
State, will be under cultivation this year;
and adds that ssif We succeed in raising
$4,000 bales of cotton this season, We will
do much better than We now anticipate
THE General Conference of the M.
E. Church, South, convened at New
Orleans on Wednesday last, 4th April
The following are the delegates from this
State Wbitefoord Smith, A. NJ. Shipp, W.
A. Gamewell, b. A. c., Walker, A. H.
Browne, r. J. Boyd. James Stacy, W. b.
Fleming and Cbas Belts. RESERVES -
J. ". Kelly, J. R. Pickett and W. P.
Mouzon.
AS an instance of the feeling of the
Secretary of the State towards the Southern
people, it may not be amiss to mention a
speech of his, recently made to gentleman
of high character. "Tbe South" said Mr..
Seward, sis not yet sufficiently humiliated.
The Southern people must get down in the
dirt, Not" added he, "that 1 would have
them eat it when they get there. - Wash.
ington Correspondence Baltimore Gazette.
- The Richmond Times, speaking of
the handsome statute of Henry Clay in the
Capitol Square of that city, says that it is
now dirty and matilated from head to foot.
The thumb and all the fingers of the right
hand have been broken short off the thumb
of the left hand is gone; large part of the
rolling collar, which was originally beauti-
fully delicate, is destroyed, and most of the
buttons are broken.
"A whale, measuring ffty.six feet in
length and seven and half in breadth,
came into the waters of Smithville bay, near
Wilmington, N. c., at high tide, few
days ago, and the waters recediug it conld
not get back over New Inlet Bar, opposite
Fort Fisher, Wilmington, and was conse-
9uenuy caught and "caged." 1t excites
great curiosity in Wilmington. Boats are
advertised to 90 where it is anchored and
see the monster.
- A correspondent asks our opinion as
to whether contract which, by its express
terms, promises payment in gold can be en-
forced? We have to reply, that nothiDgis
less worth business mans attention than
the opinion of laymau on the point of
law. But according the recent decision OF
our Superior Court, as delivered by Judge
Mcneil, such contract cannot be enforced;
and that opinion will stand as law, in that
Ho,-t until rayaread N Y Pooer