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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-05-10
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This standard Journal founded more than half century
since has been re-organzed with able and active corps
of editors reporters, and correspondents II Is OF enlarged
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authentic Of original intelligence In politics,
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and those who represented the extremes OF opinions
which have eliminated in the late war; prove the modcr-
ton and integrity which have ever marked It's course IhS
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NAIL CONTRACTORS AND PosTMAs'
TERs.-Dr. A. Jobe the Special Mail Agent
for North Carolina, has his headquarters in
this city. All letters pertaining to mail
contractors and postmasters should be ad.
dressed to him at this place.
Where there are contractors on mail
routes, there must be postmastels, or mail
matter cannot be left with others.
Any boy over sixteen years of age, or
single lady or a0idow, as we'll as man who
is competent and honest, can take the
"test OATH" and give bond, may be ap-
pointed postmaster or postmi,tress. Raj
eigh Sentinel
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GENERAL LEE AGAIN BEFORE THE he.
CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE tive under
stand" says the Boston "Commercial," "
srbat General Lee will be summoned again
before the Reconstruction Committee, and
the following questions will be proposd to
him."
Is not pitching quoits favorite amuse
ment in .Virginis, and will the people of
Virginia be ready to give it up and take up
the game of base ball instead?
Will the people of Virginia be inclined
to give up the eating of bacon and green's
and to substitute therefor the Yankee dish
es of pork and beans and Goldfish and pota-
toes?
Is there any prejudice in Virginia against
buck-whest cakes and popped corn as Yam
kee dishes? And is that prejudice increas.
ing or decreasing?
In your judgment have secession doc
t.iues been promoted in Virginia by the
drinking of mint juIeps? And is that any
prejudice there against sherry cobblers as a
1NUItucEu OIluh
Do the people of Virginia read the wri.
tings of R. W. Emerson? and if so, do they
understand them?
Would young man in Virginia be dis
inclined to marry Yankee girl who was
young. good looking and rich mans
daughter?
Do you have Thanksgiving Day in Vir-
ginia, and is the shooting of turkeys practi.
ced on that day? Would Virginia marks,
man be unwilling to fire at turkey on that
day, because it was Northern custom?
Do the people of Virginia ever play po-
ker? and if so, would Virginia secession
ist be willing to pay the money won Of him
at that game by Northern man?
Do the people of Virginia regard Wen.
dell Phillips as the greatest of American
orators? and if not, are they likely to come
to that opinion hereafter?
How many people in Virginia look upon
General Butler as great military genius
answer the same question as to General
Banks.
Is there piece of the Pilgrim rock any
where in Virginia and if there is not,
would it not be a judiclous step to send a
piece of it to Richmond?
Have you yourself ever seen chair that
came over in the Mayaower !? and if not,
would you like to see one?
The question that follows You may answer
or not, as you choose. Is Wirt's Life of
Patrick Henry regarded in Virginia as q
historical work, or work of fiction?
Do you believe the story of Capt Smith
and Pocahontas or do you think it was
made up BY Captain Smith many years af-
ter its supposed date?
Do the colored race in Virginia generally
60 in when it rains and if not, why not
Should the coored race addict them.
selves to the study of metaphysics, would
they be likely to become disciples of Sir.
VIM Hamilton or John Stuart Mills ?
Was Hannibal, in your judgment, a
uegro7 Answer the same question as to
Othelo.
Do colored people iu Virginia usually
sleep with their heads under the bed
clothes? and how far will emancipation mod
ify this habit?
What do the people of Virginia think of
the Hoosac Tunnel ? and of the new drill i?
do they think it will work as we'll as the
Freedmen's Bureau Bill?
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rG The following characteristic case of
sristocracy is recorded as having come Of
at Stauntou, Va:
"Oue of the Northern school marms'
who is there employed in teaching the
freedmen told sprightly negro girl that
she must not call the woman with whom
she lived mistress that she was just tas good
as anybody. Pretty soon the girl asked her
teacher what business she followed before
coming South to teach. Il was bonnet-ma-
kerr was the reply. WELL said the girl,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-05-10

D@ Diggs saw q note laying on the
ground, but knew it was counterfeit, and
walked on without picking it up. He told
Smithers the story, when the latter said: Dc
you know, Diggs, you have committed a
very grave offence!' 'Why, what have !
doner You have passed counterfeit bill,
knowing it to be such,' said Smithers.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-05-10

Buffers BUMps.-A New York phre-
nologist has been examing General Buffers
head, and has furnished the public in the
shape of chart of character addressed to
that distinguished officer, with the result of
the inspection of his bumps. The docu.
mept is funny one throughout, but the
following extract is especially entertaining:
You are sure TO make what you touch
pay. You are an excellent judge of the
ualue Of property Are almost skeptical
in matters of religion. Are more radical
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A HAPPY COUPLE The idea that a
man must be so much older than his wife
to make the marriage happy one, &c, is
frequently disproved. Some of the happi-
est matches we have ever seen were where
the woman was considerably older than the
man. The reason so many young men 90
to the dogs, is because they marry silly young
girls who cannot control them. An e1-
change says:
A widow lady of Dauville, Kentucky,
took an orphan boy to raise, and when be
arrived at the age of eighteen she married
him, she then being in her fftieth year.
They lived many years together, happy as
any couple. Ten years ago they took an
orphan girl to raise. Last fall the old lady
died, being ninety-siz years of age, and in
seven weeks after the old man married the
girl they had raised, he being si1ty-four
years of age, and she eighteen.
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A TRIUMPH FOR IRELAND.-The Brit.
ish government have at last determined to
relieve the Irish people of one Of their most
fruitful causes of complaint by abolishing
the Roman Catholic test oath. That oath
practically debarred every conscientious
Catholic from holding any position of honor
or trust under the British government. 1t
not only required Catholic to swear alle'
glance to the Protestant dynasty, but it
likewise compelled him to recognize the
Church of England as the true exponent of
the Christian religion. At the session of
Parliament preceding the present QUE, an
effort was made by the Progressive party to
have the obnoxious oath abolished, but the
movement was defeated by the party repre-
septing the wishes of the government We
can only imagine the cause that has induced
the change now manifested by the latter
party, but it is certain that they now pro.
pose entirely to blot out the Objectionable
restrictions upon Catholics. Upon test
vote in the House of Commons, on the 9th
ult., only FIVE members out of nearly seven
hundred dissented to the abolishment of
the oath. The proposition is now to estab'
lish form of oath that shall have no sec.
tartan feature about it, but which shall re.
quire nothing more from Catholic or
Jew than is required from the most devout
member of the established Church. This
is the most important step in the direction
of liberalism that has been taken by the
British government for many years N.
Y. San.
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gathering up her books, and making for the
door, 1'm not goin to sGciate wid you any
longer; you say I is excl TO my mistress, and
she don't sociate wid bonnet. makers"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-05-10

A CONTRAST The Richmond Eranain
er, describing the fondness of the Yankee
for the ':almigbty dollar" makes the fol-
lowing comparison
"See their representative men. The life
of soldier might be expected to deaden
the love of filthy lucre; but look to the
Federal Generals who cannot resist a Pc
cuniary temptation. Sherman, Grant, and
others of high rank have accepted every
thing offered to them with shameless avid.
ity. Farragut and other naval celebrities
have not been able to reject the beneVo
lences of their fellow. citizens. Were they
SO DOOR that their necessities constrained
If not needy, how dared they take money that
that we're bestowed on the INDECENT families
of dead soldiers? They loved money, like
all their tribe, with q resistless affection.
Grant might conquer Lee, but he could not
overcome his own avarioe. Sherman might
defeat Hood, but cupidity outfanked him.
In what bright contrast to this is the ex.
ample offered by our own men Poor and
needy, yet they have resoutely refused any
material tribute from their admiring coun-
trymen. Who does not recolloct how in-
variably this has been the case? Not one
has degraded himself by taking eleemosy'
nary contributions from any quarter. Thus
they vindicate themselves as patriots, while
those who fought against them confess
themselves mercenaries, soldiers of fortune,
by the readiness with which they receive
gratuities. Like the walters Of hotels, they
take the gift with bow and smirk, and
then look hungrily about to see if there are
not yet others who will treat them after the
same generous fashion Faugh |! it's dis.
gusting."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-05-10

HowA CHURCH DEBT WAS PAID-A
GAME OF BLUFF IN THE PULPIT Not
long since an eminent divine in the State
of Illinois, Git won't do to mention dates,
places, or names) visited distant town for
the purpose of preaching dedicatory ser
mon in new church. Court was in ses
sion, and on Saturday evening the Judge
aud lawyers congregated together in room,
and amused themselves in card playing aud
storytelling, The divine, at the request of
F lawyer, visited the room. Coming
upon them SO suddenly, they we're unable
to hide the cards and wtiskey The divine
looked on awhile, and then, raising his hat,
invited the gentlemen to attend church the
next day and hear him preach. This they
agreed to do, and Sunday found Judge and
lawyers seated in the samen corner
The sermon over, the minister, announ,
ced:
Friends, the citizens of this town have
built fine church. There is still fifteen
hundred dollars due We propose to raise
it by subscription to day; and (eyeing the
judge) go one hundred dollars Who goes
better?'
The Judge, glancing at the lawyers, SLOW
ly responded:
Il see your hundred
Thank you, brother says the divine
will any one raise it p Cooking at law No..
y.
Thelawyer saw be was in for it, and quiet
ly responded:
Il 20 a hundred blind and so on
through the list.
The divine raked down both the bar and
the money, until the scene closed by ashrill
and sharp voice announcing, Il see the last
hundred and call you
Our readers can imagine the astonishment
Of that congregation.
We venture to say, however, that those
lawyers will not soon invite the divine to
witness social game of poker where men
'see' each other, .go it blind and 'calp the
hand.
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I'm EQUITY--YORK DISTRICT.
Mary NJ Webb, Bill for Partition
r. D. Stowe Administrator ct al of Land, &c.


1T appearing TO my satisfaction, that James N. Brown
and Ann his wife, Joseph Webb, the children and neirs
of William Webb the children aud heirs ofThomas webb,
the children and heirs OF Hocket Webb, the children and
heirs of Elizabeth Lusk, the children and heirs Of James
Webb the children and heirs OF Mary Tally and the chill
dren and heirs of Sarah Clark defendants in above stated
case reside yond the limits OF this State Is ordered
on motion of William, Beatty, Complainants Solicitors,
daughters Of VIM. Webb deceased; Thomas Webb, de-
ceased Hocket Webb, deceased; Elizabeth Lusk, de-
ceased james Webb, deceased Mary Tally, deceased
and Sarah Clark, drceased may be married. de- plead,
answer drmur the Bill In this case within three months
from the publication hereof, decree, pro eonsso will
be given against them.
WALTER B. METTS, c.E.Y.D.
February Al 3m'
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than conservative, and if ever inclined to
be conservative, are so from policy.
Can anybody question that phrenology is
a science after this ?-Philadelphia Age.
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A Great Country.


Some years ago an Aisbama paper got
off the following "burst of eloquence;"
There's not the least shadow of doubt
of the matter-ours is emphatically, unde-
nisbly, incontrovertabTy, positively, compa
ratively and superlatively great and glo'
rious country. The annals of time furnish
nothing to compare with it; Greece wasn't
circumstance Rome was no where; Ven
ice couldn't hold us candle, while all mod.
ern nations sink into insigni6cance before
our country. 1t has longer rivers, and more
of them, muddier, deeper and run faster,
and 90 farther, and make more noise, and
rise higher and fall lower, and do more
damage than anybody else's rivers. 1t has
more lakes, and they are bigger and deeper
and clearer than those of any other nation.
1t has more cataracts, and they fall farther
and harder, and roar louder, and look grand.
er than all other cataracts 1t has more
mountains, and higher ones, and more snow
on 'em, and harder to get up, and easier to
fall down, than all other mountains. 1t
has more gold, and it is heavier and brighter,
and it is worth more than the gold Of other
nations Our rail cars are bigger and run
faster, and pitch off the track oftener, and
kill more people than all other cars. Our
steamboats, are longer, and carry bigger
loads, and bile their busters oftener, and
the captains swear harder than in other
countries. Our men are bigger, and high.
er, and can fight harder and faster, and can
drink more whiskey, chew more tobacco,
spit more and further, kick up their heels
higher, and do anything else more, and
better and oftener than men in all other
countries combined. Our ladies are pret.
tier, dress finer, spend more money, break
more hearts, wear bigger hoops, wear shor-
ter dresses, kick up the devil generally to
greater extent than all other ladies. Our
politicians can spout louder, lie harder, make
gas faster, dodge quicker and turn oftener,
make more noise, and do less work than
everybody else's politicians Our niggers
are blacker, work harder, have thicker
skulls, smell louder, and need thrasbiog of.
tener than any other niggers. Our children
squall louder, grow faster, and get too big
for their trowsers quicker than all other
children.
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as to an honorable life hereafter.
WASHINGTON, Madison, Monroe, Harri.
500, Tyler and Taylor, we're Episcopalians
Jefferson, John Adams and John Quincy
Adams, we're Uptarians; Jackson, Polk
and Lincoln, we're Presbyteriaus Van Bu-
rem was of the Dutch Reformed Church.
The surviving Presidents are Fillmore, q
Unitarian Pierce, Trinitarian Congrega.
,ioualist, till recently he has joined the
Episcopal Church Buchanan, an Episco.
paIiau during his term of Office, but is said
to have Joined the Presbyterians this year |;
aud johnson is Presbyterian.
John Mitchell writes to the New York
Daily Neavs 81 can see no escape from
an European wa, and if it breaks out it
will be tremendous. 1t is probable, too,
that America would profit by it, both in
commerce and population. Besides, there
must be several large houses, in the wood.
en- leg business, at Boston. Also, the emf
nent crutch and splint manufacturers of
Connecticut, whose business was unreason-
ably cut short by the too sudden termina-
tion of the American war, just when they
had laid 10 large stocks of seasoned hick-
ory, and had their machinery brought to a
high state of perfection, for turning out
their wares with the utmost puuctuality,
neatness aud dispatch: 1t is to be hoped
that they nave not taken down their ma
chinery, nor chopped up into 6rewood all
that hickory; for now, as 1 seriously be.
lieve, they are going to have fine foreign
market opened to their enterprise. Legs
will be lively, and splints and crutches in
brisk demand"
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