Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-12-20
Gontr1butorial.
BYJAs. WOOD DAVIDSON.
COLUMBIA. 8. c.. 18th DEC, 1865.
Fashions.

latest Partisan style OF ladies' dresses Is
something about midway between Mazepps
and the French spy"
A Fire. ..... a
We had a small fire and large scare
early last week. The Fire Companies and
their engines we're all knocked into pie by
Sherman; and very naturally ever since
Columbia is like the proverbial burnt child,
she breads fire.
Huge. ..-. -., .. a-
The Legislature last week passed "Bill
to Incorporate the Supreme Council of Sow
ereigu Grand Inspectors General Of the
Thirty.Third Degree for the Southern Ju-
risdiction of the United States"
Goodness alive a. E..
The Rural Southerner. u
This Agricultural, Horticultural, Ltera-
ry aud Mechanical weekly, has completed
its arrangements, and will commence regular
issue upon Thursday, the 3rd of January,
1867. The management will be duly an.
nounced before that date. All subscrip-
tious received will date from the Sd of Jan.
uary. The publication is suspended until
that date R. M. Stokes & Co., are the
parties to address in relation to the South.
erner, and to whom subscriptions should be
sent. .. ..... .a
Negro Movements.
We are advised that General Ely of
Freedmen's Bureau fame, is again among Us
engaged in the philanthropic work of en-.
gaging negroes to 60, and providing trans.
portation for them, (for consideration } to
Florida, with the view of getting the eighty.
acre land grant made by the United States
Congress. Our informant states that more
than FIVE hundred freedmen have "put
down their names to co." from this city;
and others from the adjacent country.
Some of the freedmen look with suspicion
upon all such movements, whenever they
emapate from the latitude from which Gen.
Ely halls. They have had too much north.
ern assistance already.
The Fair.
The fair for the relief of the destitute
about Columbia, is said to have been suc.
cess. 1t lasted four or five nights and was
orowdedly attended The Tableaux gotten
up by the young ladies we're very fine The
most decided hit among these was one that
appeared upon the haudbills as The Fouer
Girl, and which was naturally expected to
present a fancifully dressed young lady,
suitably charactered, having the inevitable
basket of flowers. Au contraire there ap
peared fair young damsel arrayed in kitch-
eu-maid attire, with -four all scattered and
strewn about! 1t was charming sell The
Man about Town asked us con6dentially
why the reporter in speaking of that tab
leau, persisted in calling the fower.g girl q
"damsel )" but we had not the faintest idea.
We have not learned how much money
the Fair yielded. ....E
Mexico. .. .. ... .- .a
Poor Macmillan, it appears, must give
up bis Empire after all bis labors and trials.
He has fairly won the contempt of the
world, and appears to have received it. He
goes back to Europe, and to bis demented
wife, without having made single friend
iu America He has been used as cats.
pew, and got badly singed. He represents
the finest specimen of failure thatthe world
has witnessed-since the collapse of the
Confederacy. He has achieved failure
so sublime that even Punch has hardly the
heart to twit him upon it. The majesty OF
his Ridiculous is so sublime that the world
feels embarrassed about laughing at it.
Poor Max
Santa Annals day.star seems to be rising
again. He is seen walking on Broadway
almost daily, bedecked in all the glory of
his many stars and decorations of honor
Every dog is said to have bis day; Santa
Anna, however, has had several already and
is likely to have another. If he get foot
hold in Mexico again, We presume that
Santa. Anna rchy will be the government!
Poor old foot ball of Fortune
Juarez just now has the floor in Mexico.
We scarcely know whether to wish him suc'
cess or not. 1t does not appear that it
would make much difference whether he
succeed or not. He must yield, everybody
expects, in few years, or maybe moDths.
Poor Juarez
Poorest. ofall old Mexico
Woman's Rights.
One of the most significant signs of the
times, is the spirit manifested upon the
question of woman suffrage, in the United
States Congress. In the Bill to extend the
ris ht of suffrage to the negro in the District
of Columbia, recently passed, there were
several grave arguments elaborately made
in favor of extending that right to all wo-
men.
Senators Wade of Ohio, Wilson of Mas,
sachusetts, Yates of Illinois, Anthony of
Rhode Island, and several others, declared
in its favor.
The Bill passed for the negro, but not for
woman-universal male suffrage is to be the
law in the District of Columbia.
Woman must wait awhile longer.
The advocacy of this womau.vote meas
ure Is not new. For twenty years the Yam.
KEGS have been hammering at it. Women
(so called) of the Yankee persuasion, have