Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-11-22
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- 1t is said that Commodore Wander
bilt intends to retire from active business so
soon as he obtains competence. His es-
tate is now estimated at only fifty millions.
The Legislature of Texas has appro-
priated $4,000, and appointed a committee
to remove the body of General A. S. john
son to the State Cemetery at Austin.
1t is said that Hon. John A. Bing-
ham, who is preparing articles of impeach.
ment against Mr. johnson, will charge him
with aiding and abetting the assassination
of Mr. Lincoln.
The Colonization Society's ship COL
conda will sail from Charleston for Liberia
tomorrow, carrying about 600 freedmen
emigrants nearly 500 of whom, chiefly
from Georgia and South Carolina, have al
ready taken passage.
- The barque Everhard, from Bremen,
with ITO German immigrants, arrived in
Charleston on Wednesday. These immi-
grants intend to settle in South Carolina,
being mostly connected with German fam.
lilies already resident here
"A colony of Poles are about locating
in the Wilderness, famous as the battle
ground between the contending armies of
Lee, Hooker and Grant. Gen. Tochman,
Polish exile in this country, is at the head
of the colony.
"A law exists in Germany to prevent
drinking on the Sabbath during Divine ser.
vice. 1t runs thus: "Auy person drinking
in an ale house during service on Sunday,
or other holiday, may legally depart with.
out paying"
- The Tuskegee (Ala.) Neus cautions
its readers against inducements recently
held out to them to remove to Texas. Men
of good judgment have just returned from
that State, and state that the crops reported
in that quarter are confined to few farms.
The votes which have been thus far
taken in the several annual conferences of
the Southern Methodists, indicate the rati-
fcatiou, by a large majority, of the propo.
sed change of the name of the Church to
Episcopal Methodist Church, aud the pro.
posed introduction of lay representation in
to the General Conferences.
- The consolidation of the Alabama
and Tennessee River Railroad, the Georgia
and Western Atlantic Railroad, and the
Dalton and Jacksonville Railroad Conpar.
les, has been perfected, and the consolida.
ted companies placed under control of the
Alabama and Tennessee River Company,
with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston President.
- Sanford Conover, the witness charged
with perjury in the plot charging Jefferson
Davis with Mr.. Lincoln's assassination, is
yet in Jail. He declares that be is Innocent
He has been unsuccessful 10 getting bail,
and has been presented by the grand jury.
1t is stated also that be has been indicted
for perjury.
- The New York Tribune's Washing,
ton correspondent says that it is understood
that Thad. Stevens, at the opening of Con-
gress, will move the appointment of a joint
committee, charged with the duty of iuves-
tigating the official conduct of President
johnson, and reporting what action, if any,
is required by Congress.
The National Republican (Wash-
ingtop), speaking of the elections, says:
"The President is calm and quiet as sum-
mer's morning. The result of the elections
confirms him more strongly and determin-
edly in bis patriotic purpose and policy.
Our convictions are clear that the final tri-
umph of those high conservative principles
guiding the Administration are pointed out
clear as sunlight by the figures of the State
elections which were held yesterday"
- Somebody ought to tumble the editor
of the Wilcox County News into the Ala.
bama and put a couple of bars of pig metal
on him until he learns to keep cool. He is
indignant at the declaration of Halls Jour-
nal Of Health that husband and wife should
sleep in separate rooms, declaring that DR..
Hall can sleep how, when and where he
pleases, but for himself, he intends to sleep
where he can defend his wife against the
rats and all other nocturnal foes as long as
he has got one to defend.
- 1t is curious coincidence that the
battle of Bull Run and the surrender of Gen.
Lee took place on land owned by Major
William Mclean. A ter.writer who re-
Gently visited Appomatox Court House says:
"Major Mclean is now offering his house
for sale, as be is desirous of returning to his
farm near Manassas, where the first battle
of the late war was fought; and as he only
purchased this place during the war, being
a refugee from his home after the Bull Run
fight"
- Any person who knows the fate of
James Eveleigh, Co. G. 18th S. G. VOL,
will confer lasting obligation by communi-
eating the same to his sorrowing widow and
helpless little ones. On the Ist day of
April, 1865, at Five Forks, Va, he was
wounded, and taken prisoner, since which
time nothing has been heard of him.
He was Mason; and papers through
out the country friendly to the Order, are
earnestly requested to copy this.
Please address Mrs. Hannah Eveleigh,
TimmonsVille, S. c.
- Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken who was ap.
pointed by the Governor, as the State Agent
for the purchase of corn for the poor of
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