Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-05-03
MERE-MENTION.


The dwelling. house, kitchen and other
buildings, at Charlotte. belonging to Colonel
WILLIAM JOHNSTON, President of the
Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad, were
destroyed by fire on Friday last The loss
is estimated at S12,000-insured for 49,
900. The origin of the fire is unknown
.........The entire negro force of TUPPER
& THURsToN's Lumber Mill in Char lesion,
struck for higher wages few days ago.
The proprietors declined to give an advance !;
and the consequence is, that they have been
supplied with efficient white labor in every
departmen ent, and Cuffee has been turned
adrift. .........Gen FORREST, who killed q
freedman some weeks ago in personal
rencouuter, has been admitted to bail in
SuDAower county, Mississippi, without
examination, by Judge YBRaER, under
bonds of ten thousand dollars ......."It is
reported that the President will soon issue
a proclamation setting apart the 18th inst,
as day of fasting and prayer, in view of
the anticipated visit to this country of the
cholera The last occasion of this kind was
in 1S49, when Gen. TAYLOR appointed
fast day, also on the account of the cholera.
........ president johnson has subscribed
twenty five dollars towards the Tennesseean,
paper published in Nashville in the inte-
rests of the freedmen. Senator Sumner
subscribed five dollars. .........The Rich
mond papers say that 10000 soldiers were
inferred in that city during the war. .........
Gen GRANT, who has been spending some
days in Richmond, is understood to have
said that the people of the South will ulti-
mately receive their rights, and that Presi-
dent Johnson's general policy will prevail,
but that meanwhile We must practice pa
tience. .....-...The Methodist Conference
have elected four new Bishops, to wit
Rev. DR. WIGHTMAN, OF South Carolina !;
Few. Mr. McCHEYNE, of Louisiana; Rev.
DR.. DoGGETT, of Virginia Rev. NJ. MAR.
Vim, of Missouri-all learned men, and the
choice nearly unanimous. '.'...".General
GRANT and the President are represented
as of one mind upon the subject of geuer-
al amnesty, and to this party Secretary SEW
ARD may be added. The matter is nUw
under advisement.
Rev. S. C. MILLEN, fCrmerly resident of
Yorkville, and now residing at Statesv:lle,
N. c., has been honored with the degree of
D. D. by the University of Indiana, of
which he is a graduate. '.'''''''The N. Y.
Tribune proposes, in future, to try white
people in the South, before black juries, on
the ground that that is the on y way to Sc
cure their conviction. What next ?.'......
Several of the railroad companies and ma
chine works at Richmond, Va, have dis.
charged large pumber of their employees
recently for want of work for them. .'''..'.'
In 1860 there were 436, 900 negroes in Mis-
issippi, and by Judge SANKEY'S statement
before the Reconstruction Committee, more
than 100000 of them must have died. '.''..
Among the enterprises on foot in this State
isl India Ruber Mandatory, under the
auspices of the "Charleston India Rubber
Company. .".....""A Attorney General WAL
LACE, of Tennessee, emphatically declares
that he neither will obey nor respect law
so palpably violative of the rights of each
State, to legislate on all subjects of State
character, as the Civil Rights law.
In Michigan, at the recent local elections,
the colored people voted for the first time,
having recently been admitted to the right
of suffrage ''..''...In all the reports of ip-
terments iu Alabama, the negroes outnumber
the whites in the proportion of one.third.