Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-10-19


man, and was left by his masters will to
help to support his three daughters. This
duty he discharged faithfully and honestly.
His death occurred about four miles from
Pomaris, in Lexington District"
Oh the outside, we publish a para
graph with reference to difficulty between
the Mayor Of Tallahassee, Florida, and
General Foster. A correspondent Of the
Philadelphia Ledger, writing from Wash
ington on the subject says:
understand that the President will sus-
tain the position of the Mayor of Tallahas'
see in his construction of the proclamation
announcing the restoration of civil law in
all the States lately in rebellion. General
Foster, it is understood, has appealed to the
War Department for instructions.
- The following letter from Hon.
REvERDY JOHNSON, Senator from Mary
land, and perhaps the most eminent consti-
tutional lawyer in the land, possesses more
than ordinary interest at the present juno
ture. 1t is in reply to letter of Hon.
CHARLES I. SCOTT, of Wilcox County,
Alabama, containing these iuterrogatories ::
In your opinion, is the Act of Congress
imposing three cents tax on cotton consti-
tutiona? And would the Supreme Court
of the United States so decide in the event
the question was carried before it for adju.
dication?
NEW YORK, September 20, 1866.
DEAR IR:-Your note of the Sd, is
received here. The question you have put
to me I have heretofore considered. My
opinion is that the tax of three cents, i'm.
posed by the Act of Congress you refer to,
is unconstitutional, and I believe the Court
will so decide.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
REVERDY JOHNSON.
We learn from the Wilcox (Camden)
Times, that cotton planters of that County
are concerting measures to have the question
tested in the Supreme Court.
An exchange has the following para
graph as to the necessity for more care in
packing cotton. Farmers should think of
the matter, and see if what is worth doing
at all, is not worth doing we'll.
The press is calling the attention of plan
ters to the necessity of more care in pack.
ing cotton. Bagging weighs two and one.
fourth pounds per yard, and sells on the
bale at the price of cotton. Bagging costs
forty-6ve cents per yard, and, therefore,
sells on the bale at about sixty. eight cents.
What folly, then, in planters, to stint the
use of baggiug in properly protecting the
bale of cotton And yet, for the want of
such protection, the cotton in this market
is actually suffering in classification and
price. We call the attention of planters
and packers to this subject, and, without
further words, trust they will see the neces-
sity of such liberal use of bagging as will
protect the fibre from dirt and stain.
- The New York Tribune of late
date, in its "Money Article" presents the
following gloomy picture of our financial
condition and prospects:
The commercial and financial horoscope
Of our country presages serious trouble
These are its leading features:
l. A plethora of what is with question.
able propriety) called Money, and (still
more inaccurately) Capital.
2. Loans on call at short time 20 beg.
gipg and are to be obtained at low interest
con call" or short time on almost any sort
of collaterals.
g. Stocks of all kinds selling at enormous
prices, and generally rising in market value.
4. The premium on Gold advancing, and
nearly up to so per cent.
S. Gold flowing hitbes from Europe,
though our imports of goods enormously ex-
ceed our exports of products-the gold,
with the accruing commercial balance a.
gainst us, being invested in stocks and
bonds, mainly those of the Government
In other words; We are drawing bills against
the industry of our children and grandchil-
dren, selling them at rs per cent discount,
and spending the proceeds in wines, silks
and other luxuries which "perish in the
using"
6. High prices for labor, for products,
for almost everything, rendering ours the
best market in the world to sell in and the
worst 70 buy in, an increase aud diffusion
of sumptuous taste and luxurious habits, all
seem to foreshadow a grand crash, which
no skill in finauciering can long postpone,
if there be not radical change in our f.
nancial and commercial policy.
- The Richmond Times has an excel
lent Foreign Correspondent, who is just
now sketching things in England. In his
last letter he draws the following picture of
the Englishman at home, with some of his
peculiarites.
If there is one thing an Euglisman breads
more than another, (except poverty it is to
come in contact with those below him in
the social scale, and the whole system of
English life, extending to railway and hotel