Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-10-25

Guile; but very few persons know what a
strange variety of chemicals are to be found
in cup of tea. It is complete doctors
shop on a small scale. Here are some of
the principal ingredients, as given by a
French chemist:
Volatile oil, chloropbyl, wax, resin, gum,
taunin, theme, extractine, opotheme, albu-
men, sulphur, phosphorus, chloride of p9l
tassium, oxyde of iron, carbonate, sulphate
and phosphate of lime, carbonate of mag.
nesia, manganese and silica. The peculiar
favor of the tea is given by the volatil le OIL,
and high chemical authority has deg dlared
that tea is not only an astringent and dilu.
tent, but also that it possesses buttitive
properties. Both tea and coffee act upon
the nerves and the brain witha quickening
and refreshing influence, but when taken in
excess are prejudicial.
The Fortress Monroe correspondence
Of the New York Herald, referring to the
health of Mr.. Davis, says:
While all most interested in him hope
for the best. the most sanguine express
fear that the sands of his life are rapidly
running out, and that he soon will be be.
yond the reach of earthly tribunals. Mr..
O'Conor spoke of bis growing feebleness
when here. Every day the increasing
weakness of his voice, bis unsteady and
painful walk, the deepening hollow of his
cheeks, his eyes more sunken, his dimming
sight and failing appetite and spirits show
it with palpable and uudoubting certainty.
1 write with no sympathy for Mr.. Davis or
the "lost cause" I write the simple facts
as 1 learn them and become convinced of
their reality. While there may be doubt
as to the time of his trial, and while it may
be doubtful whether be will be tried at all,
there is no doubt as to the present state of
his health. Strangers who see him unite
in this statement His friends, who visit
and see him every day, tell the same story.
Southern editors obtaining interviews with
him unite in the same strain. Meantime
his wife and their youngest child remain
with him. Of food, of medicine, of attend.
dance, he has the best. He has no possible
ground of complaint of his treatment. The
only fault be 6nds is in the delay of his
trial.
- The Sheriff of Calhoun County, Ala
bama, has been compelled to resign his Of
fee for the reason that the people are so
lenient and forbearing towards each other,
that the Office does not 'pay." In card
to his constituents, be says:
"In the first place, when the election was
over, was out of money. l set in on the
prospect of the Office, and have lived on the
prospect ever since; and from that time un-
til now, have not taken in fifty dollars of
cost; my expenses all the time have been
something, and 1 must say a good deal,
which will hereafter be substantiated by
my successors in Office, if things do not
change materially, and they perform the
duties of the Office as have tried to do
Under such unfortunate circumstances 1
have lived for one year, and lived as eco-
nomically as any man could; but in spite
of all my efforts I am duuned for money
every day, and more debts coming due to
be dunned on. | have not a respectable
garment to wear-buying tobacco to chew,
feeding my horse vn hay only, and his feet
tender for want of shoeing, and l not able
to help it, what must l do?
1 have used all my wit and strength to
continue in the Office and not give it up,
but without success. have offered it with
the entire proceeds to men if they would give
me home, so that l could 90 to work and
raise some capital, but they refused. Then
1 have offered men all they could make if
they would ride for me, and 1 be response.
Bile for their acts, so that could get all my
executed, but all to no effect. By
the time they learned the difference between
a capias and writ of dowder, they would
find they we're making nothing, and quit.
When l went into the Office, determin-
ed to make good Sheriff, and give salts
faction, but found it impossible to do so
without money or assistance. And now 1
ask, what else could I do under these cir
cumstances, but quit Sherifing, go to work,
try to make something to pay my debts, and
prepare to marry before it is too late 7"
Among the passengers lost on the
steamship Evening Star, on the 3D. instant,
on her passage from Now York to New Or
leans, was Wylde Hardinge, the man who
resigned from the United States Navy to
marry Belle Boyd. Mrs. Cunningham,
notorious in connection with the Burdell
murder few years since, is also said to
have been lost on this steamer.
Mexican News.
WASHINGTON, October 19.-The State
Department has received communication
from our Consul at Guymas, dated Sep
tember 1lth, stating that the evacuation of