Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-06-07
aWapside Gatheriuas.

- Gen. Joseph E. Johnston has accepted
the Presidency of the Alabama and Tennes.
see Railroad Company.
49, The Tennessee Senate has rejected res
olutions for the erection of East Tennessee
into separate State.
The cotton, corn and sugar crops in
Fast Florida are looking we'll and promis'
ing.
George Shea, one of ex.President d.
vis' counsel, is on visit to him at Fortress
Monroe.
A negro was wilfully murdered at
Beaufort, South Carolina, recently, by a
man from New jersey.
There are two ways of being rich, raise
your revenue to the level of your desires
or lower you desires to the level of your
revenue.
Mrs. Partington, in illustration of the
proverb, GA soft answer turneth away
WRATH" says that, ''it is better to speak par.
agorically of person than to be all the
time finging epitaphs at him"
"Tilly," said mother to her daughter,
who had seen but five summers, "what
should you do without your mother ?'' 81
should put on every day just such dress
as I wanted" was the prompt reply.
- Keep out of debt Pay as you 60.
Buy nothing except the money is in your
pocket. Have no accoun. current at the
grocers or butchers. Give your note of
hand to nobody. Eschew credit. Pay for
your newspaper. Deal for cash only.
- General Butler mas got himself ap.
pointed President of the National Asylum
for disabled soldiers. Nobody knows why
unless it be that his geueralship disabled
more soldiers than any other general in the
army.
He that gives good advice, builds with
one hand; he that give good advice, coun-
sci and example, builds with both; but he
that give good admonition and bad example,
builds with one hand and pulls down with
the other.
An old picture represents king sitting
in state, with label, 81 govern ALA
bishop with legend, 81 pray for all''-a
soldier with a motto, al fight for all"-and
farmer, drawing forth reluctantly purse,
with the superscription, ri pay for ALL"
- The New York Herazd's money article
of Thursday says the United States Treas
ury has utterly failed in its attempt to con-
troll the gold market, and not only has done
harm, but has lost between twenty and thir
ty millions of coin at low figure.
- The Cincinnati Enquirer says: The
Southern people, just now under the action
of the agents of the Freedman'S Bureau,
are like Swink and the bed bugs: "Dou't
care much about the bugs" said SwiDk;
"but the truth is, I've not got the blood to
spare"
- When General Saxton left the Depart
ment of South Carolina he took away all the
records, so that there is not scrap of paper,
showing the acts of his subordinates, by
which Generals Steedman and Fullerton
can investigate the corruption, ect., of that
department.
In 1860 Illinois produced only six bales
of cotton The total yield in 1865 is esti.
mated at 10000 bales-twice as much as
was exported annually from the whole coun
try at the beginning of the century twice
as much as was grown by Kentucky, and
nearly as much as Virginia, in 1860.
- Honesty and integrity are the true cri-
terions of nobility. 1t matters not whether
our ancestors came down the stream of time
on lumber craft or we're shaken out of
sycamore tree in hurricane, so that our
own impulses and actions are just and hon.
orable.-Doao, Jr.
Josh Billings says: 81 never could fud
the meaning of the word collide in Wor.
cester or Webster; but riding the other day
on the New York Central Railroad saw it
all. 1t is the attempt of two trains to pass
each other on single track. If remem-
ber correctly it was most miserable fail
ure"
- 1t is estimated that the cotton crop of
Louisiana will be about one.third that Of
the crop of 1861. That of East Louisiana
is estimated at thirds, and that of
North and Middle Louisiana about one
fifth. In the Red river districts and other
overfowed districts scarcely any cotton will
be made.
- The correspondent of the New York
Times, who is going around with Steedman
and Fullerton, speaking of South Carolina,
says: 1t is stated on good authority that
nine out of every ten cases of outrage
committed on the blacks in this department
have been perpetrated by our own Omitted
States) soldiers
- One of the Massachusetts, State con
stables, named Captain Fl. II. Johns, is
reported to have absconded, having been
charged with black, mailing liquor sellers
and discharged from his Office. He had
been clergyman and temperance lectu-
rer, and had just been mustered out as an
officer in Massachusetts regiment from
Berkshire county.
"A Tennesseean, in London, being ask
ed about the fertility of the soil of his State,
declared that they "ralsed corn enough
there to make whiskey for all the world, be-