Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-03-08

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said she, "Pm carrying it by the handle "
--Speaking Of the 'sundeveloped wealth
of the country" loafer said that was ex'
actly his position; he possessed vast resour-
ces-was very rich-but his wealth was un'
developed. :.
"A contemporary, announcing the
marriage of an editor, says he was always Of
the opirion that editors had just as good a
right to starue some man's daughter as any
one else.
An editor in Australia has in his Of
foe a tablet Informing visitors that he can
not be spoken to unless paid for his valuable
time. he charges ten shiilings for an hour,
six shilliugs for half an hour, and so on
down to one shilling for five minutes.
- There are $4,000 bales of cotton
still in the hands of planters in the interior
of Alabama, waiting to come to market
The owners of it, anticipating short crop
this year, are holding for rise in the mar
kst. So says the Montgomery Nash
The Chicago Tribune (RadicaD has
made the discovery that Fred Douglass is
the superior of President johnson in about
everything except in the official position he
occupies. Why not, then, run him as the
Republican candidate for President for
1858?
The white laborers in California are
in danger of being run out of the State by
Chinese workmen. Several railroad com.
papies have discharged their white laborers,
and are employing these people, who work
very cheap There are now 60,OoO, and
they are pouring into the country in great
numbers.
-One of the signs of warm work in
Mexico is that the London Times is going
to send out DR.. Mackey as correspondent.
Beverly Tucker has already gone for the
London herald and other leading English
newspapers are preparing to send out repre-
sentatives.
"A down-east editor, in compliment
tary notice of vigilaut general, was made
by the omission Of a single letter to call him
q battle-scared veteran. The poor man
fastened to make amends in his next issue
by stating that it was his intention to have
denominated the hero bottle-scarred vete-
ran.
"A contagious disease, known as the
spotted fever, has lately broken out in one
of the asylums of Washington city, and is
creating quite panic in the peighborhood
adjacent. Washington people are especial
ly nervous just now in anticipation of Wis
itation of the Asiatic cholera ; the appear
ance of this new epidemic therefore causes
very general apprehension.
We understand that General N. B.
Forrest was arrested on Saturday last, by
u. s. Marshal Rider, on q warrant issued
from the U. S. District Court in March
last, on an indictment for treason. Gene
raj Forrest entered his personal recogni-
zance for his appearance at the ensuing
March term of said Court.-Memphis CON-
n,ercial 10th ultimo.
The peace proclamation is delayed
BY the unsettled condition cf affairs in
Texas. She alone, of all the States, occu-
pies an anomalous position-ln other words
has not been ereconstructed"- the
President will therefore have to speak of
her as at peace, without civil government,
should he issue his proclamation, as is ru-
mored, during the present week.
The Keowee rs. CO. Courier men.
tions: owe learn that seventy or eighty
bales of cotton, stored at Pendleton, have
been seized by the Federal authorities
Much of it is sea island, valued at from one
tv TWO dollars per pound! The Federals
claim that it is Confederate cotton, while
those who we're in possession maintain that
it is private property"
-On the 22d of February the Hon
Alexander H. Stephens delivered lengthy
address to the Georgia Legislature. e
takes hopeful view of the national affairs,
and feels confident that all will end well.
He recommends prudence and patience on
the part of the people, and calls upon pa
triots everywhere to rally to the support of
him who bears the standard with "Consti-
tutional Union" emblazoned on its folds.
An act has been passed by the lower
house of the Kentucky legislature, author
iziug the intermarriage of negroes and mu
lattoes, and legalizing the relation of those
who have heretofore, or do now live to-
gether as husband and wife. The same act
makes it criminal offence, punishable by
confinement in the Penitentiary not less
than FIVE years, for any white person 20
marry q negro or mulatto.
The New Orleans correspondent of
Cairo Democrat says that on Friday even
ing week Mr. John Overall was about to
give lecture on the Life and Character of
the late Gen. Stonewall Jackson. There
was large attendance, as the proceeds were
for the benefit of Mrs. jackson and children.
About the time it was to commence an Of
fcer ranking as Captain stepped up and
told him he could not deliver the address
without some severe restrictions in reference
to the Generals campaigns. Mr.. Overall
declined delivering it at all, and asked the
Captain to mount the stand and make his
statement to the audience. This he declin-
ed doing, and the matter was compromised,
that the Captain should take seat and Fe-
port anything Objectionable, which he did.
The address was delivered.