Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-11-15
Snraps anti fatts.

- SluCo tuO ClOoO VI Wv WA
have increased at the rate of 55 per cent,
The total of National Bank circula.
t;on ;ssued to date is s295, 1854, S54.
"A New Orleans physician is trying to
nroye that mosquitoes are blessing, not
curse. He says their bite is healthy.
- Memphis consumes about 5000 box.
es of cheese weekly, and an Illinoisian is
about to start cheese factory there.
"A subscription has been started IN
Missouri for the relief of Sterling Prices
destitute family.
An impudent writer Classics Amerl'
can brides as sentimental, speculative,
anxious, accommodating, unreslsting and
inquisitive."
The Supreme Court of Indiana has
decided the article in the Indiana Constltu'
ton prohibiting negroes from coming into
the State, to be null and void.
Mot long since, an Amsterdam mer-
chant, after lavishing fortune on furniture
and paintings, caused the floor OF one his
meuts to be laid with Spanish dollars
set on edge. =,
1t is stated as singular fact that
the counterfeiting of the United States cur
repcy has reached such perfection that the
counterfeit currency is regularly redeemed
at the Treasury, cancelled and destroyed
with the rest of the mutilated currency.
The Raleigh, N. c., papers profess
to have knowledge of secret and well or,
panizcd society in the South, composed of
ioyal Union men, and known as "ked
Svines." There are said to be ten thou
sand of them in North Carolina
Cato being scurrilously treated BY a
low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him ::
ga contest between us is very unequal, tor
thou canst bear i'll language with ease, and
return it with pleasure; and to me it is un.
usual to hear and disagreeable to speak It,
- The jealous PERSONS inquiries are
the most successful when they discover
nothing. His pleasure arises from his dis
anpointments. His life is spent in pursuit
of secret, which, if he finds it, makes him
miserable.
AS an instance of the hard times In
Georgia, it is said by an exchange, that a
plaptation in that State that will yield a
bale of cotton to the acre, under favorable
circumstances, and which has always been
valued at s25, 900, is now offered for $4,000,
but cannot find purchaser.
-The Griffin, Ca, Star, of the I'd
SAYS that several large trains have passed
through Griffin recently, on their way West
We saw q train last week, from Union Dis
trict, S. c., on its way to Louisiana, accom-
panied by dozen or more able-bodled,
we'll. clad, and apparently happy freedmen.
- The resting places of the Union Ool-
d:ers, who died during the war, are to be
mark ed hereafter with cast iron head blocks
instead of the wooden ones, as at present IN
the various national cemeteries. The name,
number, &c., of each soldier are to be cast
in raised letters.
The Government received 81, ,ll5,-
442 from Internal Revenue last week, ma
king the total income from this source since
July l., 1866, $780, 9,O9O,752; or equal to an
average of more than seven millions week,
which would give yearly aggregate OF over
1865, 100000.
- In 1860 Massachusetts had l57,
Rhode Island 133, New York 81 and Penn
sylvania 81 inhabitants to the square mile,
which rates applied to the United States
would give 472 ,40O,246 inhabitants. Were
the United States as densely populated as
England, we should have 924, 600, 600 peo-
pie.
- In pursuance of a joint resolution
adopted by both Houses of the Legislature
of Mississippi, the Governor has appointed
Hon. Giles NJ. Hillyer, of Natchez, and
Hon. Robert Lowry, Of Brandon, Commls'
sioners on the part of the State, to visit
Washington and see the President, with a
view of obtaining the release of MIR. Davis
on bail or parole.
Maximilian has given up his Mezl-
can Empire. He left the City of Mexico
on October 22d, for Vera Cruz, verbally
resigning in favor of Marshal Bazaine, and
will proceed to Europe in an Austrian Ves-
sell, which was expected at Vera Cruz
Gen. Castelnau, the new French Envoy, has
taken possession of the Mexican capital, and
temporarily rules what is left of the En-
pire.
"a poor little girl in the employ of
the Wisconsin Paper Company, in picking
over a lot of rags few days ago, found, in
an old knapsack, the sum of 81 ,O5o in sew
ep.tbirty bonds and greenbacks Ofcourse,
the child of want and labor was delighted
with her good fortune. But upon discovery
of the fact, the Company with characters
tic meanness took it from her to approprl-
ate to its own benefit.
- The Comptroller Of the Currency an
nounces from Washington that bonds have
been received for deposit with the Treasu'
rer Of the United States to an amount suth'
ciept to secure the entire three hundred
millions of circulation of the National Banks
authorized by law, and no more can be re-
ceiyed after this date. The limit has been
reached, and hereafter it will be useless to
forward bonds, or to apply for increase OF
capital, or for the organization of new banks,