Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-04-12
Waysiae Gatheriuas.

| - Hon. Alexander II. Stevens ls IN Wash.
ington.
Gen. N B Forrest Is reported to be
sick with the smallpox.
- Much trouble is expected in Missouri
from guerillas and outlaws.
-Salutes were fred in Bangor, Me-, and
New Haven, Conn.,, in honor of the veto.
- Hon. John P. Kennedy, the author of
"Horseshoe Robinson" is 10 Charleston, on
o visit.
- Major-General Howard, the Chief of
the Freedmen's Bureau, has joined the
Sons of Temperance.
The Raleigh Daily Progress records
favorable reports from the country concern.
ing coming crops.
- 1t is estimated that eighteen thousand
elephants are killed every year to supply
Sheffield England alone, with their ivory.
- The Imperial officers on the Rio
Grande says tue French troops will not be
Withdrawn from Mexico until the Empire
is fully established.
- The New York Tribune declares that
the Veto Message renders it absolutely ne
cessary that the blacks should be protected
by giving them the right of suffrage.
At a revival meeting in Louisville, a
watch was stolen from the pocket of cler-
gyman while he was walking up and down
the aisle asking sinners to repent.
- The receipts from Internal Revenue for
March 30, amount to 81, 1903, 154, SO; the
gross receipts since the lst day of July
mount to s242, ,999, 5O2, 86.
"A company of Northern capitalists are
said to be on the point of purchasing ten
thousand acres of land in North Carolina,
on which they will settle English emigrants.
Major Gee, now on trial at Raleigh for
alleged cruel treatment of prisoners at Sails
bury, N G. is said to have sold all his prop
erty in Florida, to pay the expenses of his
trial.
- In the Capitol at Washington are ten
and one half acres of halls, galleries, ro-
tundas, libraries, ante chambers and corri.
dors. The man who walks through each
one, from end to end, will have travelled
some miles.
"A Washington despatch mentious
ruuor that Attorney General Speed, has
made report to the President upon the case
of Capt. Raphael J. Semmes, in which he
argues that he is not included in the gen.
eral parole granted to officers of Gen. john
ston's army.
- As four or five darkies were passing an
agriculture implement store on Broad street,
yesterday, one of them, pointing to cult
vator, said: ga man kin jist set on that
thing and ride while he's plowin !'-
"Golly," replied another, "the d-n ras-
Gals was too sharp to tink O. dat fore de
niggers was free !"-NashviWe Bonner
The expiration of the Reciprocity Trea.
ty is likely to lead to some unpleasant events
on the upper coast. A rumor says that ma.
tonal vessels are fitting out for the protec:
ton of American fishermen and the Lon.
don Times announces the approaching de-
parture from England of a war vessel for
the coast of British North America.
- American farmers may learn from Rus
sian serfs how to store their corn in safety.
In Russia pit is dug in the round in a
we'll drained place, and the sides hardened
by long exposure to fire, Before the grain
is introduced straw is ignited in the pit to
purify and dry the air. 1t is said to have
been preserved in this way 10 years, with
out deterioration
Some months ago Bowles, Milligan
aud Horsey, civilians, we're tried by Mill.
tary Commission on charge of conspiracy,
and convicted. They we're sentenced to be
hung, but President johnson commuted
their sentence to Imprisonment for life
The case has been brought up before the
United States States Supreme Court, which
tribunal has decided that they ought to be
discharged from custody, and that Mill,
tary Commission had no legal jurisdiction
to try them.
The Columbus, (Ga,) San estimates
that the next cotton crop will yield from
100000 to $4,000, 900 bales. De Bows
Review, the editor of which has recently
made an extended tour through the South.
ern States, also calculates the crop at l,500,-
O0O bales. The chief cotton factories in
New Orleans estimate it from 10000 to
100000 bales, and the New York Meacs
100000 bales. On the other hand, va.
rious letters received by the Secretary of
the Treasury, from Southern planters, an.
nounce that the crop will barely exceed
100000 bales.
- The New York Herald, on the author
ty of Mercantile Circular published in
that city, gives the number Of bales of cot
ton taken from the Southern States since
the close of the war ut 100000 to which
it adds 100000 bales not accounted for in
published estimates. No doubt can be en-.
tertaiued of the influence which all this a.
mount of cotton has had over the money and
other markets, and it gives US an idea of
what will be accomplished in the way of
clearing the public debt, reducing the prem
iun on gold, and regulating and strength.
ening the commercial interests of the coun-
try, should measures be taken to place the