Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-03-01
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- Gen. Frank Cheatham has joined the
Episcopal Church.
- Maximillian has raised his own salary
to 81, 900 per day.
There are s3O,OOO,OOO of the fraction
al currency in circulation.
- 1t is rumored in Washington that Mr..
Bancroft is to be the next Secretary of
State.
Five hundred postof6ces have been re-
opened in the Southern States during the
past fortnight.
- Where is paper money first mentioned
in the Bible? When the dove brought the
green back to Noah.
- To select nutmegs, pick them with a
pin. If they are good, the oil will instant.
ly spread around the puncture.
- The Heralds Paris correspondence
states that feeling of hostility towards the
United States government prevails in that
City.
- The Commissioner of Pensions has de-.
cided that persons who served in the rebel
army forfeited all rights to pensions and
bounty lands
- The Directors of the Selma and Me-
ridian railroad have elected General W. j.
Hardee, President. They showed their sense
and dignity.
-Phe opinion is that fifth of the en-
tire colored race in the South has perished
during the war. In ten years another two
6fths will have disappeared.
- An Office has been established by the
Freedmen's Bureau for the gratuitous COL
lection of the claims of colored soldiers who
served during the war.
"A reporter of the Chicago Tribume,
disguised as female, learned from pro-
fessional astrologist Of that city, that he was
a widow, shortly to be married to middle.
aged gentleman, and to take a bridal trip
to Europe.
The Alexandria Gazette says it is said
by gentlemen from Virginia, who have late.
ly held private conversations with the Pres.
ident, that at least three members of the
present Cabinet will be dismissed during
the present month.
Brigham Young says he has men, mus.
kets, pistols, cannon and ammunition enough
and men to use them, and that be will use
them if the Gentlles come to Utah to inter,
fere with polygamy. He denouuces the
government, and declares that he will be
the Governor of Utah forever.
The Richmond Times says :-"We
deem it our duty to inform our readers that
a case of genuine Asiatic cholera has deVel'
oped itself on Broad d.street. 1t therefore
behooves all who have regard for life, to
see that their premises, as well as their per-
sons, be kept in as pure and cleanly coudi
tion as possible"
- The Charleston Courier says that
S125,000 have been subscribed in that city
for the purpose of securing white laborers
for South Carolina. A letter has been re-.
ceived from a gentleman of influence ID
Germany who declares that he can persuade
thousands of the people of that country to
emigrate.
"A couple who we're engaged So years
ago had falling out, and the young man
subsequently married and lost three wives,
while the lady married and lived with her
husband SO years, raising large family
The original couple revived their first love,
were married, and are now living happily
at Lynn, SusquehaDnah county, Pa.
- Governor Patton, of Alabama, has is.
sued proclamation granting amnesty aud
pardon to all persons liable to be indicted
or prosecuted for offences against the laws
of the States, (the crimes of rape and murder
excepted J between the commencement of
hostiites and the restoration of the civil
Government
- The Senate of the United States passed
a bill on Thursday last to punish kipnap.
ping by fine of from $500 to $4,000, or
Imprisonment not exceeding five years, or
both. A vessel transporting kidnapped
persons is forfeited. This bill is based upon
information that slave trade has sprung up
between certain Southern ports and Cuba.
A Washington correspondent says that
the National Express Company, of which
Gen. Joe Johnston is President, have in-
stituted a suit against the Virginia Central
Railroad and other roads, who have for ST.
100000 sold to Adams Express Company
the exclusive right to carry express matter
over their respective roads for period Of
four years, unless other companies pay an
equal amount, which, of course, no other
company can do.
"A Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore San says that General Robert E.
Lee, now in Washington city, at the Me.
tropolitan Hotel, studously avoids the gaze
of the curious, who, in large numbers, ever
since the entry of his name on the hotel
register, have availed themselves of every
opportunity to see him. He is accompa
MED by a gentleman named Moore On
visiting the Capitol on Saturday, in obedi-
ence to the summons of the reconstruction
committee of Congress, he walked down
the avenue, and was followed and observed
by many people. By the time he returned
to his quarters quite an assemblage had ga