Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-01-18

their further detention. :. .saz ! -
The Augusta (Ga.) Constitstsionalist
announces that there is an undelivered tele-
sprarn at the Office in that city which cannot
be, delivered until the lady produces "evi-
saepce that she has taken the oath Of allegi-
sothe United States. I" s;rasss i,.s..
2- Mrs Partihgson says that Ike, hav-
ing become very much enameled of asiren
( of Boston, has led her to the menial altar
He didn't appear the least decomposed -
On the back of his wedding, cards were elittle
scubebs with wings. .
: --A publisher of a newspaper, out
!. West, in the FIRST issue. of his journal, re-
turns thanks to those who loaned him the
ypecnniary means, and gratitude to heaven
that there is no law in that State enforcing
imprisonment for debt.
- Twenty seven years ago the total a.
mount of grain exported from Chicago was
5sesenty.eight bushels--a quantity which
q might be drawn by pair of horses at a
single load In 1865 the shipments reach
ed 10000, 900 bushels, and would have
4, loaded 100000 wagons.
On Wednesday, the Committee on
Agriculture, of the House of Delegates of
q Virginia, reported bill declaring the
4 boundary lines Of all lots and tracts of land
sin counties, The country courts whereof
> shall adopt this measure, to be a-lawful
fence, and providing against trespass by
i domestic qusdrupeds.
Massachusetts, is the first and only
State that has had its claims for volunteers
allowed by the general government. Like
8 the individual who made up forceming late
to his business by going away early, Massa.
aschusetts atones for its delay in putting its
s.mes in the:war, BY being the first to get its
pay therefor from the nation.
'- Bids were opened in Washington on
Tuesday of last week, for two thousand
barrels Of -four for the Commissary Depart
--..v-s-~ e .AA-ermy. Fifteen hundred barrels
were accepted, at $40 uu two:nuudred ana
ffty barrels at sS18 50; and two hundred
and fifty barrels at $l0i50. About five
Thousand barrels were offered, at prices vary
ing from SO % to $40 so.
The air will never be successfully
nasigated in every desired direction SO long
as sthesattsmpt is based on the difference in
the specific gravity of gaseous bodies. The
attempts at flying by means of muscular
power are equally absurd. A man can Ell.
1evate himself by muscular power one foot
in, a second of time, and in that time, by
his lfrst effort, he will fall sixteen feet.
-A young negro slave in Havana was
lately found to possess poetieal ability. A. /
subscription was Immediately started, and
the owner contributed nearly half the mar
kesable value of the poet The rest was soon
made up, and the poet is free. Some of
this upipstructed slaves poetry is said to be
very fine. His name is Ambrosio Eche-
mendia, and he bids fair to rival the famous
scolored bard of Plaeido. !
5z---- AtsSt Cloud, Mimi, afew days ago,
man offered to bet he would eat six dozen
raw eggs in one hour. The bet was taken,
q, and, the egg. eater commenced. The eggs !
were broken first, and measured FIVE quarts.
: He then commsnced,7 and in twenty min
utes actually slowed them all away. This
was after having eaten three hearty meals
that day! He then offered to bet that he
could eat four dozen more eggs, but no one
seemed willing to take the wager.
The Secretary of War has sent to
Congress table showing that 1858, ,062
men were raised in the loyal States and
Territories, under the several calls fortroops,
since the year 1851, of whom 2, l2e, ,04l are
chased as serving three years. New York
furnished, 455,56S men; Pennsylvania,
366,326 Ohio, 81, ,13S; West Virginia,
= 3O,0o3; Maryland, AS, ,730; Massachusetts,
415I;7S5; Missouri, los, ,77a !; Kentucky,
s'7S, $40; '.s- .9s'.. lz-i5s% =. = tsF
49, The foreign crops having been unu-
sually good during toe past season, wheat
is now selling 10 France for less than one
dollar per bushel, and it commands only a.
bout one dollar and nine cents in Great
Britain. The corn crop Of our Western
States hayingals been unusually prolific,
it cannot be proftabiy transported in the
present state of the European markets to
the Atlantic sea- board, and the practice has
again commenced of burning it for fuel.
,Ss: A Georgia editor says its much
more vital question IN the South whether
the whites will work, than whether the
blacks will refuse to labor. The loudest
and noisiest blstherskites about the consti-
tutioDal laziness and persistent Incidence
of the negro, are stout young white men,
who loaf about the corners, with their hands !
in their pockets, chew tobacco, and drink
bad whiskey, while their mothers keep
boarding house to pay family expenses and
keep mp appearances. : a>.-
- The Louisiana papers announce that
the sugar plantations of that State bid fair
to regain their former prosperities in few
;. wears, ALI accounts 90 to show that the
planters generally have an ardent desire to
commence repairing damages at once, where
they have not already commenced, aud
plant cane and corn tothe extent OF their
ability. Confidence is now being restored
= as rapidly as'could be possibly expected
The ides is almost universally adopted that