Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-10-04
Wapsibe 6atkfrings.
- Slight frosts have been quite general in

An Indiana paper tells of the recent
killing of rattlesnake with ITO rattles
The French navy has the biggest gun
yet cast-a 10000 FOUNDER.
Governor Fentou, of New York, has re.
moved Major-General Sanford, commander
of the militia, for parading in honor of the
President.
-Speculators, operating under the pro-
lection of the Freedmen's Bureau in Vir-
giuia, have been paying off their colored
help in blacking box labels.
There were IS hacks and 1900 on foot
in negro funeral procession in Richmond.
The men were uniformed and carried sa-
bres.
1t is stated that Fred. Douglas will
soon commence the publication in Alex
andria, Virginia, Of paper devoted to uni
versal suffrage.
A calculation in one of the Macon jour-
nails, estimates that it will require fifteen
million bushels of corn to supply the de-
fciency in Georgia the next season.
The Norfolk Day Book says the Pc.
uinsula is overcrowded with negroes who
are on the verge of starvation and pesti.
lence.
Butler, Burnside, Bolts, and Brown
low, are the busy BIS who propose to i'm.
prove the shining hours in the Radical hive
this fall.
At recent meeting held in Spring
field, Massachusetts, Fenian organization
in that city voted to disband. Whatever
funds they have left they donate to one of
the Catholic charitable societies
Before practicing at the English bar,
Mr. Benjamin had to swear allegiance to
Queen Victoria, and to foreswear allegiance
to any other government - particularly
(prcbably) that of "the Confederate States
of America"
Admiral Raphael Semmes, formerly Of
the Confederate navy, has become editor in
chief and part proprietor of the Mobile Ga.
zette, new and sprightly daily. Pendle.
ton Colston, Judge Advocate of the Con-
federate navy during the war, is to be as
sistant editor.
The gold and silver products of the U.
States, for the year 1865, have been estima-
ted at from s82, ,O0O,O0O to S106, 100000
California produced s25,O0O,0O0 Monta
ua, sls,OOO,OOO; Nevada, s16,00O,O0O;
Idaho, l7,0OO,0 900; Oregon, $4,000, 900;
Colorado, sl7,OOO,OOO other sources S.
100000
The Montgomery Advertiser says that
Mr.. H. NJ. Micon, well-kuown busi-
ness man of that city, has recently return
ed from a visit to Europe, and gives it as
his opinion, that England and other foreign
countries are perfectly indifferent to the
amount of cotton raised 10 America, other
cotton growing regious having been largely
developed within the last few years.
A Radical meeting held at Patter-
son, New Jersey, last week, was addressed
by John Minor Bolts, in which he attacked
the policy of the President, favoring bis
impeachment, and advocated the adoption
of the constitutional amendment. He
thought that each State should settle the
question of negro suffrage for itself,
- The laws of Ohio allow intermarrying
between blacks and whites. The laws of
Kentucky prohibit it. A case is to be tried
in Kentuky next month which will decide
whether negro and white person, legally
married in Ohio, can, if they move to Ken
tucky, live together as man and wife, when
the laws of that State prohibit their cohab-
iting together
There are now on exhibition at Louis
vile, Kentucky, several specimens of por-
celain from the Southern Porcelain Com
pauy of Augusta, Ga made at the Kaolin
Pottery in South Carolina, nearly opposite
Augusta These specimens are attracting
attention, and convincing capitalists that
porcelain ware can be manufactured in the
South aud sold to the people for a less price
than that paid for Northern and foreign
ware.
- The Cincinnati Gazette says that at
recent rat hunt in Pickaway County, 49,
GIL rats we're killed, and announces grand
pick. nick to take place at Circleville, Ohio,
at which three premiums will be given to
the township producing the greatest mum
Der of tails of rats slain in each township
of Pickaway County The Premiums a
mounting respectively to $500, $500, and
5000, and will be distributed, of course,
pro rata
\ lady in Lafayette, Indiana, recently,
in preparing her Sunday dinner, put some
beans in pot to bake. In hurry to get
to church, she inadvertently put her
hyun book iu the pot and wrapped piece
of pork in her pocket handkerchief aud took
it to the church with her. Her morti6ca.
ton was intense upon discovering her mis-.
take during service; so was her husbands
at the singular pious composition Of his re-
past.
"A prize fight took place near Massiolon,
Ohio, short time ago. One of the parties
was an engineer, and the other a miner;
one small, the other large man. After
twenty Que rounds the small man was de-
clared victorious. The prize was purse
of SlO0 An interesting part of the per-
Torrance was that taken by the mother of
one of the bullies, who, at the close of each
round, spouged her dutiful son.