Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-03-01

afterwards better friends and neighbors than
before.
Letter from an Exile.
Gov Harris, of Tennessee, has written a
letter to friend in Georgia, which is pub
lished in the Atlanta Neao Era 1t describes
how the Governor made his way to Mexico,
and gives some interesting details concern
ing other prominent Confederates. The
letter is, dated ssCordova, Nov. IL" We
make the following extracts. Governor
Harris says he called on Maximilian with
Gen. Price and Gov. Polk, of Missouri, and
remarks:
"Our reception upon the part of the Gov.
ernment officials here was all that we could
have expected or desired. We were inVi'
ted to an audience with the Emperor at
the palace, the far famed halls of the Mon.
tezmas At the time fixed We called, aud
we're there most kindly received by the EN-.
peror and Empress, and were assured of
their sympathy iu our misfortunes, and of
their earnest hope that We might find homes
for ourselves and friends in Mexico The
Empress was our interpreter IN the inter
view. She speaks fuently the French,
Spanish, German and English languages
and is in all respects great woman
We overlook at the City of Mexico Gen.
Magruder, Commodore Maury, Gov Allen,
of Louisiana, Judge Perkins, of Louisiana,
Governor Reynolds, of Missouri, aud Gov.
Murrah and Gov Clark, of Texas, with
many other and lesser Confederate lights.
Oo the 9th of September the Emperor pub.
lished decree opening all of Mexico to i'm
migration and colonization, and Commodore
Maury and myself and other CoDfederates,
were requested to prepare regulations to
accompany the decree, which we did, and
which were approved BY the Emperor on
the 9th. The decree and regulations offer
very liberal inducements to immigration, a.
mongst which are a donation of public lands
at the rate of six hundred and forty acres
to each head of family, and three hundred
and twenty to each single man, free pas
sage to the country to suoh as are not able
to pay their expenses, free dom from taxa
ton for one year and from military duty for
Eve years, religious federation, etc.
Commodore Maury las been appointed
Imperial Commissioner of Colonization
which makes his authority in the matter of
colonization second ouly to that of the Em.
peror. Gen. Price, Judge Perkins and my
self we're appointed agents of colonization,
and requested to examine the lands lying
upon and near the line of railroad from the
city of Mexico to Vera Cruz, for the pur-
pose Of determining whether they are suited
to American colonization We are enga.
ged at this time in the discharge of that
duty
/ have selected $40 acres about ten miles
from here, where propose to surround my
self with coffee plantation, in the midst
of which | will nestle down, constantly 10,
haling the odors of the rich tropical fruits
and graudy .colored and fragrant tropical
flowers, in an atmosphere of perpetual
spring yet turning the eye to the north
west you constantly behold the snow.capped
peaks of Orizaba and Pocatapelt, from which
l can draw my ice at all seasons of the year.
There are about thirty Confederates now
here, all of whom will locate their lands and
commence the work of settlement within a
week or ten days.
The place where we begin the first colony
was highly improved and in high state of
cultivation hundred years ago. The ex-
tensive ruins of what were once magnificent
structures show that these haciendeas we're
highly productive and the homes of wealth,
luxury and refinement; butabout fifty years
since slavery was abolished in the State of
Vera Cruz, and the proprietors of these
magnificent estates left the country with the
large fortunes they had amassed. The
Church seized the lands and allowed them
to lie idle and 20 to ruin. The buildings
upon each of these places must have cost
from 800, 600 to S500,000. The Church
held the property until about FIVE years
since, when it was taken by the Govern
ment, and the Government now sells it tc
US for colonization at one dollar per acre il
quantities of six hundred and forty acres tt
each head of family and three hundred
and twenty to each single man on a credit
of one, two, three, four and five years. This
is the beginning of the first Confederate
colony in Mexico Amonst those who pro
pose to settle immediately are General Price
and General Shelby from Missouri, Judge
Perkins of Louisiana, and myself. The re
sources of this country are such as to in
sure fortune to the ensrgy and industry tha
have usually characterized our people. The
wonder is that they have been permitted t
remain undeveloped so long, but this is ths
most indoeut, lazy and worthless population
on earth.
HAIR BRUSHING BY MACHINERY.-St
Marx, the Phaon of Charleston, has jus
received a new arrangement by which ht