Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-04-05
sgDapside Gathetin9s.


Legislature assembled there as "Faro's
Host" What can he mean?
The city of Augusta, Ca, has imposed
tax of one thousand dollars per month on
all gift enterprises.
- Three things only are essential to hap
piuess, namely-something to do; some
thing to love; something to hope for.
"A bill before Congress proposes the
coinage of FIVE. cent pieces, composed of cop
per and nickel, to take the place Of the FIVE
cent currency.
The production of gold and silver in
the United States during the fiscal year
1865, amounted to s61,O00,OO0. In
1854 it was S13, 100000 less
- The State department is preparing
statement, for the use of Congress, Of the
damage done to American commerce by
Confederate cruisers.
"Johnny, how many cakes did you have
on Christmas ?'' "Five; first sponge
cake, then an almond cake, then a current
cake, then sweet cake, and then stoma.
cake |"
The New Orleans Times asserts that
there is not sufficient labor or force in the
State of Mississippi to produce three hun.
dred thousand bales of cotton of four hum
dred pounds per bale.
Stay laws are not in much favor south
ofus One passed by the Georgia Legisla.
ture has been vetoed by Gov. jenkins, while
the one passed by the Mississippi Legisla
ture has been declared unconstitutional.
"A sharp grocer, when a customer
who was buying gallon of molasses OBJ
served that good deal remained in the
measure after it was turned, remarked,
stbere was some in the measure before |
drew your gallon"
The following are the largest sales in
New York houses during the last year: H.
B. ClaAiu g. Co., s42, sos, IT'S; A. T. Stew.
art & Co., s39, ,39l, ,6sS; Anthony & Hall,
$40, ,636,71l George Bliss & Co., $40, ,273,-
900; George A. Wicks g. Co., $40, 900, 900
Young men in Lawrence, Kansas, have
to marry to get shelter from the weather !;
landladies there take none but married peo
Pile The unfortunate youths say it sa con-
spiracy between the young ladies and the
boarding house keepers.
= 1t was the request of the late Bishop
Fitzpatrick, of Boston, just before he died,
that, when dead, no flowers should be put
around him. "Devote flowers" he said, "to
the sanctuary and to the young, but do not
miugle their purity with the earth's corrup
ton"
- Business in New Orleans must be pros
perous. The papers publish triple or quad
ruple sheets almost every day; and the last
number of the Times, which has reached
US, had eighteen pages, "the largest ever
published in America as one of the regular
editions Of daily raper."
Lawless men are having high time in
Jones and adjoining couutics, Mississippi
They not only defy law but prevent courts
from being held and juries from being sum-
moned. Measures are being taken to bring
them to condigu They we're known during
the war as deserters and Union men.
- The New York Tribune says that the
taxes in this country are heavier than are or
ever were borne by any other Thirty Mil
lions of people on earth. Adding our State
and Municipal to oar National taxes, and
they amount to not penny less than $40
each per annum for the whole American
People.
We have information from an officer
lately in the service of the Emperor Maxi.
milan, in Mexico, to the effect that in
January his force was, in round numbers,
as follows: French, 10000; Austrian,
Belgian, Egyptian, &C., 10000; Mexican,
5000 making a total effective force of a.
bout 45, 900 men. This force has l20 field
pieces, and includes twelve regimeu's Of
cavalry. Maximilian has on paper ma
tive force of 10000 men, under foreign
officers, but this has proved entirely una.
vailable, for whenever the attempt has been
made to muster them, they desert in such
numbers that it requires the services of all
the reliable troops near the rendezvous to
watch them - Wushinyton Star.
- The highest court in the State of
Mississippi has declared the stay law pass
ed By the Legislature of that State to be
unconstitutional The Columbia Phanir,
in making the above announcement, says
The result is inevitable whenever the ques
tion shall be brought to final test in the
States which have, by similar enactmeuts,
sought to impair the obligations of contracts
and enable their citizens to repudate their
just debts. Certainly the United States
Supreme Court will decide against all these
laws as far as nonresident creditors are
concerned. What folly is it, then, for the
Legislative bodies of Southern States to frit
ter away their time in the discussion of
"bills to prevent the collection of debts, !"
when, after they agree upon partic ular
form, the law will not be worth the paper
it is written upon" 1t is understood that
the constitutioDalty of the stay law of this
State will be argued before the Court of
Appeals, in Columbia, al the setting in
May next.
- The Cincinnati courts have just deci-