Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-05-10
Snap& aak faets.

The Court of Nansemond county,
Virginia, has refused to set, because Of the
presence of one of the agents of the Freed
mems Bureau, who are sent to all courts
South to see what justice is accorded to the
blacks.
- The Columbus (Miss.) lnder says
that recently in that city, 'sseveral freedwo-
men, dressed in the fashion, drew up in
their carriage before some of our principal
stores, and called to the clerks to bring out
certain goods for their inspection"
- The New Orleans Pscayane says the
best evidence that reconstruction is rapidly
taking place, is that clergymen are kept
riding day and night marrying young folks.
Affairs and bridals are the order of the day
in those parts.
"A young Prussian officer lately died
whose heart was on his right side, with the
liver on the left, and other internal organs
correspondingly reversed. He had always
enjoyed good health, and died of typhus fe-
YER.
- Major Hastings, of Alabama, whose
first expedition for Brazil proved failure
blythe wreck of his vessel in the Gulf of
Mexico, has just been compelled to return
to Mobile, after second start, by small pox
breaking out among his passengers.
"A Republican in Maine, who had re-
Gently served out his time of thirty days in
the Augusta Jail, was asked when he came
out how he liked it, 81 had bully time,"
said be. "There were seventy-six inmates
of the Jail, and not a ID Democratamongst
the lot"
Daniel Webster penned the follow
ing sentiment: eff we work upon brass,
time will eface it; if We work upon our i'm
mortal minds-if we Undue them with priu.
ciples, with the just fear of God and of our
fellow.men-we engrave on these tablets
something that will brighten to all eternity"
The Presidents message was read in
China forty three days after it was read in
Washington. It was telegrapbed from
Washington to San Francisco, and carried
thence to China by sailing vessel, that
made the remarkably quick passage of for
ty days.
The Cincinnati Gazette announces
that "pure essence of coffee" is now made
in that city out of the dirtest molasses."
This molasses is boiled, cooled, and when
hard is pulverized. Ground rye is then mix
ed with it, and small box of the mixture
labelled "pure essence of Coffee" is sold for
eighty cents.
"A correspondent of the Ploughman
gives his method of curing horse of the
practice of kicking in the stable. he says
his method is to put strap around one of
the hind legs, between the fetlock and the
boof, with small chain, about two feet
long, attached Whenever the horse kicks
tho ehaiu With bit him end he will soon be
cured.
The Petersburg Egpress says a
strong effort is being made to take the case
of one Elliott Gordon, of Massachusetts,, out
of the hands ofthe civil and place it for trial
in those of the military authorities. He
is charged with horse stealing. The ground
taken is that he stole from negro, and
therefore, is not amepable to the civil courts.
Col. Cilley, the chief of the Freed
mems Bureau in this District, was here last
week, and gave orders that all cases, hereaf-
ter, should be turned over to our Mayor for
trial. COL Cilley has shown his good sense
in this matter, and We are confident the in
terests of all will be benefited by restoring
civil Jurisdiction over blacks as we'll as
whites - Charlotte Democrat.
The news from all parts of the State
is that the Sheriffs of the various counties
(by order of the courts have been stripping
the back of rogues, black and white, in
tine old style-from 20 to 80 lashes being
the amount administered. This old.fash-
ioned way of administering justice in North
Carolina will have a good effect. Those
who consider it "barbsrous" may leave the
State if they choose. Charlotte Democrat.
"A few days since Committee ap-
pointed by the Texas Convention formally
delivered copies of the Ordinances passed by
that body to the President, who expressed
hope that Texas, together with all the
other States recently in rebellion, would
soon be restored to their normal condition,
and that their citizens would be admitted
to full participation in the blessings and
protection of Constitutional Government.
ALL persons in the Department of
South Carolina holding real or personal
property, goods, chattels, stocks, bonds,
mortgages notes, bills or assests of any kind,
sequestrs. ted by the late so,called Confed-
crate authority, have been ordered to re-
port the same in writing to headquarters of
that department without delay, specifying
the kind and amount of property seques-
trated, the time and place of sequestra-
ton, and the name of the original owners,
and of any parties through whose hands
such property may have passed since its Sc
questration.
- A bill came from the Senate to the
House yesterday, which was intended to
prohibit the sale of Intoxicating liquors
within two and half miles of certain
academy in West Tennessee but the drawer,
in his anxiety to meet the exigencies of the
case, rather overdid the matter, for he
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