Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-03-22
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Bill Arp's father was a native of Bos'
ton, hismother of Charleston, South Caro-
lima. f.j:2S- =; p;
1t is said that sober man when drunk
feels the same as drunken man when
sober.
A boy six years old has been arrested
in Brooklyn for an assault, and the case was
sent to the grand jury. ).
A soldier 10 Richmond has had two
noses shot off-his own and an india rubber
one-iu his campaigns.
"A fiue Of steamboats, is being fitted up
for the river trade between Charleston and
Camden, South Carolina.
- Secretary McCutlooh has ordered the
National Bank Note Company of New York
to print $500, 900 in ones aud twos of the
greeuback currency to replace an equal a.
mount multlated and destroyed.
In the British Parliament, on the 9th,
during a debate on the Fenians, several
members asserted that "the Fenian conspi,
racy was of American origin, and that Mr.
Seward was really the head centre"
- The Committee of Ways and Means
have agreed to report in favor of a very
considerable. reduction of the Internal Re,
vepue taxation, audespeciaHy, to.repeat the
tax Of six cents per ton now levied on
freights
Out of the population of five thousand,
Fredericksburg, Va, sent one thousand two
hundred to the rebel army. Over one tenth
of the: number were Killed or died in the
service, and at least ten per cent. more are
disabled.
- Five years ago a nain1in the Ohio State
Penitenriary succeeded in making his escape
A few days since he returned and expressed
desire TO 'serte; ont his term 5Phe only
explanation given is that while ous of pris;
on be got married.
New Orleans now has a population
larger by sixty thousand than sssr5befores;
Galveston and other Texan cities are full DC
over fowing, and the same Is said of Mem
phis, Mobile, Montgomery, Atlanta, Viii.
mington, and other Southern cities.
The N. York Commercial advertiser
Washington correspondent says: The be-
lief is general among the best Informed
members of the bar of the Supreme Court,
that tbectrial'of civilians by military com.
missions viii be prom ounced uoconstitntiehal
in the test case now being argued:
AT a recent meeting of revenue officers
in Atlanta, committee, consisting Of
Messrs Moses, of South Carolina, Bowels,
of Georgia, aud Speed. Of; Kentucky, was
appointed to proceed to Washington, and
urge upon the authorities the necessities Of
modifying the test oath. =
"A minister 10 Connecticut offered up
this prayer las, Sunday: "Not my will,
but thine o Lord, be done: but if it be
consistent eoiM My,holy pleasure, We would
that thou speedily telegraph for President
johnson to come up to heaven" So gays
the Boston Commercial
The Louisville Journal relates an anec
dote of a furious radical who entered the
Union Copvention at Nashville Tennessee,
on the 22d of February, while they we're
reading Gen. Washiugton's Farewell Ad
dress. After listening awhile to the sub.
lime passages 10 that immortal document,
he exclaimed, GA ID rebel document
Just as I expected
- An old colored preacher at Port Gibson,
Mississippi, recently baptised thirty colored
converts and after the ceremony he charged
them dollar piece On the following
Sunday he only succeeded in inducing two
to present themselves. who. were willing to
pay. Becoming indignant at the parsimo.
uy-of the congregation, herefused ts baptise
the two candidates for glory, saying he
ware not gine to slosh hisseff W for no two
dollars
- Recently the authorities of New Bruus-
wick offered bounty of three dollars for
the snout of every bear killed in the colony.
A large number of snouts, were soon
brought in, chiefly by fndians5 but in course
of time it was; discovered that most of the
trophies were limitations only, cuuniugy
manufactured of India rubber and gutta
percha, by clever mauipulaters in the State
Of Maine, who sold them to the Indians at
half dollar each.
The Message to Congress from the
President, transmitting copies of his cor.
respondeuce with Provisional Governors of
States lately iu rebellion, shows that all of
the Governors we're required to take the
oath prescribed by Congress, except Mr.
Holden, of North Carolina, and the omission
in that case was accidental. 1t is stated also
that Mississippi failed to ratify the Cousti
tuticDal amendment, and South Carolina to
repudiate the rebel debt.
In compliance with House resolution,
"a list OF pardons granted by the President
is being made out aud will be submitted in
about ten days. Virginia can boast of about
four thousand, over one half of which fall
under the thirteenth or twenty thousand
dollar exception. The four States having
obtained the largest uumber of pardons are
Alabama, Virginia, Georgia and Mississip.
pi. The entire number of pardoDs granted
will be smaller than the public anticipate