Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-04-12
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editorial management of the Memphis Ar
gas.
-Gen. Joseph R. Hawley, just elected
Governor of Connecticut, is native of
North Carolina, born near Salisbury, Rowan
county.
There are 5000 Masonic Lodges and
100000 Free and Accepted Masons in
the world. There are lodges in Senegal,
Guinea, Mozambique, China, Java, and
Arabia.
- Letters from some portions of Geor-
giarepreseut the freedmen as doing we'll,
while in others they have almost entirely
abandoned their employers, and are skulk-
ing around the cities and towns.
ia respectable old Irish LADY, in
Montreal, recently withdrew seventy dollars
from the savings baak, in anticipation of
the Fenian invasion, and, wanting to putt
in safe place, she took it to the proprietor
of menagerie, who deposited it for her in
the lions den.
-Itis is not labor that kills men; it is
worry. Work Is healthy; Yon can hardly
put more upon a man than he can bear
Worry is rust upon the blade. 1t is not
the revolution that destroys the machinery,
but the friction. Fear secretes acid; but
love and trust are sweet juices.
- The largest churches in Europe will
contain the following number Of persons
ST. Peters, Rome, $4,000; Cathedral at
Milan, $1,000; st. Paul's Constantinople,
$4,000; Notre Dame de Paris, $1,000;
Cathedral of Pisa, $4,000; St. Marks of
Venice, 1000.
Within the limits of the forty-six
Counties composing this, the fourth revenue
collectors district, says the Atlanta Iptelli-
gencer, there are over 800 distilleries. No
wonder "corn" and "peach" are abundant.
But for the tax imposed upon these articles,
they would be "oheap'as dirt" and, as
friend at our elbow suggests, not any bet
ter.
"A correspondent of the Mobile Id
ycrtiser and Register cautions the cotton
planters throughout the South to test the
seed they use. He says that much of the
seed in the market is worthless, and will
doom many planter to disappointment
when it is too late to repair the mischief,
unless they experiment with the seed they
intend using, and ascertain that its germi-
mating powers are uuimpsired.
1t is currently rumored, says the
Washington Chronicle, in we'll Informed
circles, that Mr.. Jefferson Davis, prisoner
of state at Fortress Monroe, has made ap,
plication for a writ of habeas corpus, his
ground for so doing being the "peace"
proclamation of President johnson. We do
not undertake to vouch for the correctness
of the rumor, but in view of recent develop
ments should scarcely be surprised to find
it true.
-On ths 9th instant the President
transmitted to Congress communication
from the Secretary of the Treasury and the
Postmaster General, suggesting modi6ca-
tion of the test oath This shows the great
importance of such legislation on the oath
in pecuniary and harmouiziug point of
of view, and the President earnestly COM
mends the subject to the early consideration
of Congress 1t was referred to the com.
mittee on the judiciary.
- A letter from Sunfower County,
Mississippi, says negro employed on Gen.
Forests plantation, while assaulting his
(tbe negro's) sick wife, was demonstrated
with by Forrest. The negro drew knife
and attempted to kill Forrest, who, after
receiving wound ir the hand, seized an
axe and killed the negro. Gen. Forrest
then gave himself up to the sheriff. The
negroes on the plantation justify the homi.
eide.
- Attorney General Speed has decided
that the mere fact of having been a mail
contractor or mail carrier under the Con.
federate Government does not bring per-
son within any one of the fourteen excep.
tions of the Presidents amnesty proclama-
tion. Those positions are not considered
Offices; therefore, he thinks those who \oc-
cupied them can take the 'test oaths" and,
also a contract for carrying the United
States mail, provided there be no other oh.
stacle in the way.
- The London Economist, very high
authority in matters of finance and CON-
merce, has in it an elaborate article headed,
"The Sound State of American Banking at
Present." in which our national system is
thoroughly analyzed and exposed for the
people of England, a comparison drawn be.
tween it and their own system, and the
conclusion candidly and uuequivocallY sta.
ted that the banks of the United States
"evince amazing solidity; perhaps no banks
in the world on the same scale show as
much"
Gen. b. P. Watson, a prominent
citizen of Montgomery, Alabama, died in
that city on Sunday morning, the lst inst,
in the 60th year of his age. Gen. Wat
son was native of York District, s. c.,
graduate of West Point, and at the time
of his death occupied the position of Ad-
jutaut and Inspector General of Alabama.
The Montgomery Nail says that Parks
Watson was a gentleman of the old school
kind, genial, frank and big hearted, and
enjoyed an extensive acquaintance and
friendship throughout the United States.
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