Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-12-20

| passed Its hrst reading 10 tne lenhessee
Legislature the other day. y.''..'.'"A West
eru man, speaking of the Pacific Railroad,
says it is some Of the funniest coincidentS
in the world, that almost every alternate
section of land on each side of the road ba'
longs to some member of Congress
s@- Horace Greeley, for the gruff part''
san bear that be is when bis blood is up, is
capable of saying some good things and Of
feeling some kindly sentiments. See here
how he rejoices over the condition of the
South, and picks the silken strands of hope
out of the tangled web of its SORROWS:
BROTHERS TRUE.-Our Southern ex
changes bring US the most cheering intelli-
gence. Leading Virgiuiaus are euthusiss.
tic in organizing State Agricultural Socie
ty. A call is made for meeting of all
concerned at Richmond, on the 10th instant.
Railroads return members free 10 North
Carolina, State Agricultural Society is to
be organized at Raleigh oD the 9th instant
At New Orleans great Mechanics and
Agricultural Fair CONT mmences on the 10Th
aud continues to the 29th. All steamers
return passengers aud goods free, even as
far North as Cairo and st. Louis; also, as
many as twelve railroads, some of which
are in Iowa, New York and Vermont
On another and kindred subject the South
| :: .l;.o ,Iot 10 70 q, ,nnro 20 arad indnstrv
They propose to cheat the Government out
of the tax 90 Cotton by having it manufac-
tured at houe This tax shall be a blessing
in disguise They can afford to bid high
for the labor of factory girls from New Eng.
land, aud they say that these girls will be
the Sabine women whose children will con
quer the world They see that when they
begin to manufacture, emigration will flow
in, and not before No longer will they
look to the Democrats or the President to
save them. They will save themselves
Instead Of trying to reform the North, they
will reform the South.
These ideas appear in all the leading
Southern papers. There is another subject
on which they dwell. They say the day of
large farms is past There can be no sue
cessful farming if the owner is not his own
periutendent, if he does not stay IN TIE
field frou morning till night, and if he does
not have as much practical knowledge as
any hand. Forty acres will be as much as
any one can manage When farms are of
this size, population will be dense. Then
there can be schools aud high state of civ.
ilzation. The New Orleans Commercial
says: "Right or wrong, moral or immoral,
lust or unjust possible or impossible, We
must help yourselves &" These are the bright.
est days the South ever saw. Give US your
hand.
WILL FLOUR BE LOWER ?-The notion
prevalent iu certain quarters that the price
of -four and grain is to become very high
during the winter is not borne out by the
statements of the quantity of grain in the
country On the contrary, there appears
to be every reason for lower prices than
those which now obtain, both as regards the
present and the future. A letter from our
Chicago correspondent contains some very
interesting statistics bearing upon the sub
icct, a portion of which We produce in this
connection. The following table shows the
quantity of grain received at Chicago from
the first of January to the first of December,
as compared with that received during the
corresponding months last year:
1866 1865.
Flour barrels .l,7lO,31O 1,l2O,7O2
Wheat, bushels. IL ,493, 1875 9,O2O,9Sl
Corn, bushels. .32, ,S99,794 2l,36S,972
Oats .......9,9s4, ,lsl 1891, 1913
Rye. 1,643,600 l,l6S,97O
Barley ......1, 1,469,89S 1,42O,6S7
1t will be noticed that, with the exception
of oats, the receipts of grain this year ex.
ceed those of last year. Allowing five
bushels of wheat to barrel of -four the
number of bushels of wheat received at
Chicago for eleven months in 1865 and 1866,
was respectively II, ,O24, ,49l and 90, ,O45, ,O45,
and comparison of the two shows an in
crease this year of 81 per cent. Such facts
as these are arguments in themselves, and
clearly show that no good reason exists for
the present high price of -four, or for ap
pretending that it will be still higher
Estimating FIVE bushels of wheat to the
barrel, as before, it is ascertained that the
total quantity of grain and grain in -four
received at Chicago during the months
specified iu 1865 and 1868, was respectively
54,577,SO3 and 65,95l, ,9l3 bushels, the
increase this year being nearly 20 per cent