Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-05-17
Wapsiae Gatherinas.

- Slander not others because they have
slandered you. Bite not reptile because
you have been bitten by him: -
-Twenty.dollar bills on the "First Ma.
tional Bank of Portland, Connecticut" are
circulating. There is no such bank.
The aggregate appropriation for the
Freedmen's Bureau for the next fiscal year,
amounts to sl1, $4,000.
- Bishop Andrew, of the Methodist Epis.
copal Church South, has retired from the
Episcopacy. He is over seventy years of
age.
The Baton Rouge Advocate says that
out of four thousand negroes in that town,
the mortality is one hundred per month or
twelve hundred per annum.
Onions, which year ago we're iu de
mand at $3.50 per bushel, are now selling
at Bristol, Rhode Island, for swo cents a
bushel. The highest price that can be got
is ten cents
- The Wetumpka Standard says the
penitentiary is filling up very rapidly. Its
occupants at this time are twenty. four white
men, one hundred and eighteen freedmen
and five freedwomen.
- Mayor Mayo, of Richmond, Va, re.
Gently tried white man, named Nettles,
for abusing a negro woman, fined him $40
and costs. and bound him over for $500 to
keep the peace.
- The United States Marshall at Viii.
mington could not find competent man
in that city who could take the test oath
to act as his deputy All honor to Will
mington.
An exchange says that recently lady,
speaking of the gathering of the lawyers to
dedicate a new courthouse, said she suppos.
ed they had gone to "view the ground where
they must shortly He."
An old author quantity remarks /: GA
void argument with ladies. In spinning
yarns among silks. and satius, man is sure
to be worsted and twisted. Aud when
man is worsted and twisted, he may consid.
er himself wound up"
- The Maine men who skulked over the
border into the Provinces to escape draft
during the war, now have to pay a crown
tax of three dollars each, and become liable
to do military duty against the Feniaus, or
leave the country.
The masons of Richmond are making
active exertions for adopting more general
system of education for the children of de.
ceased and INDECENT members of the Order.
Delegates from the several Lodges in the
city met at the City Hall, on Friday last, to
take the subject into consideration.
"A very respectable lady of Union
City, Ind, who has been very strong
Republican in her feelings, came to the
polls and offered to vote, which, of course
was refused, when she replied, very indig.
nantly, "Just as | thought-uiggers be-
fore women"
- Prof Wheatstone, has ascertained that
the duration of the electric spark does not
exceed the twenty FIVE thousandth part of
second A cannon ball would appear
stationary in its flight if illuminated by
the. spark, and the wing of an insect that
moves ten thousand times second, would
seem at rest.
There is member of Congress from
one of the New England States who is SO
fearful of committing himself, be declines
TO give an opinion upon the most ordinary
topic. The other day he was accosted fam.
iliarly by friend who said inquirin ely,
owe are likely to have pleasant spell of
weatherP' "Why, really" replied the
slow coach, 81 cannot say; you must ask
some older member of Congress than | am"
- The Radicals deny, in the most em.
phatic manner, that Stanton endorses the
Presidents policy. They allege that it is
trick on the part of the President to mis-,
lead the public. A committee, represent
ing both Houses, will call upon him to
know what it means. They cannot believe
that Stanton would stultify himself merely
to retain his position. Should it turn out
that he sustains the President, then look
out for smash up.
In 1859 gentleman by the name of
Talbot Green, of Tennessee, afterwards an
officer in the late rebel army, published
popular work entitled GA Winter in the
Federal City," in which he positively as.
serts that "Andrew Johnson, in spite of
the fates, would be Chief Magistrate of the
United States before the close of the year
1865" that "his administration would be
stormy; that he would labor under extra
ordinary m5arrassments, but would event.
ually make one Of the most popular Presi.
dents that ever ruled in America"
"A correspondent of the Boston Post,
writing from Richmond, begins his letter by
saying: "The inferiority of the black race
is here an established fact, therefore what
would seem to some prejudice against color
is simply the distinction made between the
two races. A visitor will at once notice the
free and unrestrained manner in which the
white children are allowed to associate with
the blacks. A Southern mother allows her
children to play at will and pleasure with
the little Africans who may have belonged
to the family, and are now quartered on the
premises. What Northern lady would coun.
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