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MERE.MENTION.

The Senate of Connecticut has passed 8
resolution in favor of the immediate admis
sion of Tennessee into the Union, and Of
her representation in Congress '.''''.''Fran'
cis E. Spinner, United States Treasurer,
has decided to resign bis Government posi-
ton, to accept the presidency of an insur'
snce company in New York City. '''''''''
The army rolls show that Tennessee fur.
nisbed 2,12s negro troops for the Federal
service during the war. ar.'''''''''The wife Of
Albert Sidney johnson is teaching school
in California to support herselfand children
She wishes piece of land owned by the
General in Texas sold for their benefit
.........Cuba has been almost without rain
for seven months, and the poor are starving
.........B. F. Butler has been elected Ma,
jor General of the Militia by the Massa
chusetts State Senate. .........Now my little
boys and girls" said teacher, 1 want you
to be very still, so still, that you can hear
pin drop. "For minute, all was still
when little boy shrieked, "let her drop!
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pounds can be raised with more ease aud
certainty. The summer is so long there
that cotton comes to maturity and yields its
full crop every year; while here frost comes
while cotton is in Its full vigor and always
kills about half the possible yield. In view
of the probably high prices that cotton will
command for the next ten years, the pros.
pect for the grower is very encouraging
Next 10 importance appears to be coffee.
This crop is easily made, and the sale for it
is certain. The profits of this culture in
general may, under present circumstances,
be little below those of cotton but for a
regular business, it promises to be largely
lucrative, and iu every respect desirable
one.
Sugar is also grown with great ease aud
in immense abundance. The caue from
which it is made is easily cultivated, and
the yield large.
These three-cotton, coffee and sugar
are all important staples, and such as the
world will always need aud will always pay
for.
Labor can be had in Brazil in the same
way that it can here. 1t must be hired ;
and, in consequence, the employers tenure
upon his laborer's work is not beyond some
degree of contingency. A strike is pos
sibility wherever hired labor is employed.
But we would advise everybody who has
the matter in contemplation to wait for DR..
Gastou's book; and, having read that, to
come to their conclusions deliberately, and
take their course accordingly.
We do not feel warranted in .adotstng
our friends upon the matter at all yet.
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Surgeons Report of Mr.. Davis Health

Surgeons Report of Mr.. Davis Health.
The following report of the Surgeon hav.
ing charge of Mr. Davis, has been filed
with the President
FORTRESS MONROE, Va, May s, 1866.
Adjutant General United States Army,
Washington, d. c.:
SIR-In compliance with directions from
the President of the United States to me,
given through the Office of the Adjutant
General, have made special examination
of State prisoner Jefferson Davis, now in
confinement at this post, and report the fol-
lowing to be the result of said examination /:
He is considerably emaciated fatty
tissue having almost disappeared, leaving
his skin much shriveled. His muscles are
small, facid and very soft, and he has but
little muscular strength He is quite weak
and debilitated, consequently his gait is
becoming uneven and Irregular His d.
gestive organs, a. present, are in compara-
lively good condition, beceme quickly de.
ranged under anything but the most care
fully prepared food With diet disagree.
ing with him, dyspeptic symptoms promptly
make their appearance, soon followed by
vertigo and severe facial and crania neu
ralgia aud erysipelas, Inflammation Of the
posterior scalp and right side of nose,
which quickly affects the right eye, the
only sound one he now has, and extends
through the nasal duct into the interior
nose His nervous system is greatly de
ranged, being much prostrated and exces
sively irritable. Slight noises, which are
scarcely perceptible to man in robust
health, cause him much pain. The descrip
tion of the sensation being as of one
faged, and having every sensitive nerve
exposed to the waves of sound Want of
sleep has been great and the principal
cause of his nervous excitability. This
has been produced by the tramp of the
creakiDg boots of the sentinels on post
around the prison room, and the relief of the
guard at the expiration of every two hours,
winch almost invariably aWaKens MIN
Mr. Davis states that he has scarcely
enjoyed over two hours of sleep unbroken
at one time since his confinement Means
have been taken by placing mating on the
floors for the sentinel to walk on, to allevi
ptc this kind of disturbance, but with only
partial success His vial condition is low,
aud he has but little recuperative force.
Should he be attacked by any of the severe
forms of disease to which the tide. water
region of Virginia is subject: | with reason,
fear for the result.
A copy of this report have furnished
to the headquarters of the military district
of Fort Monroe, in compliance with orders
from the Major. General commanding.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
GEORGE f. COOPER,
Surgeon u S. a.
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flnantial 4 Commercial.

~ II will be remembered by readers that the prices
quoted below are in currency grcenbackS, unless 9th
cTwisc specially stated.
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Gen. Buell. would rank mighty high,
and"-
! "What would you do with General
! Sherman 2"
"Sorry you mentioned him. We'd have
to bire him, reckon. as a camp fdler,
and make him sing "HnH Columbia" by
fire light, as a warnin to the boys how
mean it is 20 burn cities and towns, and
make war upon defenceless women and
children No, sir, our boys wouldn't fight
under 70 such"
At this time the man with the memoran-
dun put down some more garbed ex'
tracts.
"Do you think, Mr. Arp, that if the
South should ever hold the balance of
power, they would demand pay for their
negroes"
II cant say, sir. But, don't think
the South has lost anything that way.
We got their labor before the war for their
vittels and clothes and doctors bills, and
we get it now for about the same. It's all
settled down that way, and your Bureau
couldeDt help it. The only difference is in
the distribution Some of US don't own as
many as We used to, but everybody has got
nigger or two now, and they'll all vote
em or turn em off, A uigger that wouldent
vote as l told him, shoudept black my
boots
At this time the Committee looked at
one another, seemin to be bothered and
astonished Garbed extracts were put
down with vim.
Mr. Boutwell, says he, "Mr Chairman,
think, sir, we are about through with the
witness | think, sir, his testimony settles
the question as to what we ought to do with
Southern traitors"
The chairman give me Republican nod
and remarked, eyes, sir, think We do.
The scoundrels burnt my iron works"
Whereupon l retired, having given gen.
eral satisfaction.
Yours truly, BILL ARP.
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May 81
STATE g. DISTRICT TAXES.

TAX PAYERS are hereby notified that will be at
yorkville from the 18TH OF JUNE TO THE 2ND OF
JULY, for the purpose Of RECEIVING RETURNS AND
TANES After the date last mentioned, no RETURNS
will he received, but all DEFAULTERS will be DOUBLE
TAXED. Persons earnestly requested not TO delay
until the last days, for if they do il will he physically
impossible 10 receive the returns.
All persons who made RETURNS to Inc previous 10 the
10TH OF APRIL, notified that owing 10 n miscon-
sruction Of instructions, ii is necessary that they make
another return.
large number of FREEDMEN having failed to make
RETURNS, persons who have FREEDMEN HIRED OR
UNDER THEIR CONTROL, requested to notify them
OF their liability
Commissioners of Roads and Bridges and Overseers of
Roads requested make reports of all persons In their
division, white and cOl0red, liable 10 taxation.
ANDREW JACKSON, Tax Collector.
May 81
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AUCTION AND COMMISSION BUSHES!
w. III. M'CORKLE

RESPECTFULLY informs the citizens of Y YORKVILLE
and the PUBLIC generally that he has commenced The
AUCTION AND DCOMMlSSION BUSINESS in Yorkvile
for purpose of disposing of all ARTICLES consigned
10 him. at either PUBLIC or PRIVATE SALE.
Persons having GOODS Of any description for sale, and
who desire adopt this mode of dsposing Of them will
please send them before TUESDAY Of each week
in order TO give an opportunity Of ADVERTISING la the
"Yorkvillc Enquirer"
For further particulars enquire Of
w. II. McCORKLE.
November l6 81 If
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pmB Y0RKvILbB BNQUIR R.

alteration leo bales of cotton changing hands nj ~ 10
~ cents pcr pound for Low Middling Mddng On Sat
urday there was improved inquiry principally from
Northern BUYERS, who ready purchasers Of most Of
the offered a improved rates, the staple advancing
in most cases during the day to cent per pound, the
sales amounting TO some 300 baes basis of 80 cents
per pound for Strict Mding Cotton. On Monday prices
became very irregular but advancing with saes Of 100
bales but the rates paid too unsettled for quotations
10 be given. On Tuesday the news per steamship Cuba
published but its character did not retard the advance
of the market and Strict Middling Cotton up Sc
cents pcr pound with sales Of 100 bales On "Wednesday
go bales disposed of, Strict Midding Cotton selling
for 81 cents pcr pound Yesterday there Still. up
ward tendency the market, about 200 bales changing
hands, We quote: Ordinary TO Good Ordinary, % 81
Low Mlddling 10 Middlng, 50 10 8 Strict Mddng SIC.
per pound
Corn-Although the receipts continue large there Is n
pood demand and priccs have been maintained with con-
siderable rmness throughout the week. We informed
of the sale of loo bushels white at 81 90 measure bags
ncued 1000 bushels white at 81 % 81 % per bushel,
bags included; 1000 bushels yellow at Sl06 per bushel
measure without bags 1900 bushels white Maryand in
bulk at 81 10 per bushcl, weight There Is steady and
good demand for the interior
F1our.-Tle receipts continue llmcd hut sufficient
for the demand We learn Of sales Of Super at 50 per
barrel.
Bacon-The receipts continue fair, but the advance in
other markets has put up the price here and quote
Shoulders N l5T TO IGN cents per pound and Ribbed
Sides NJ l8T 10 10 cents per pound. The market is firm,
with holders in some cases asking an advance.
San-The only demand Is In 4 retail way, nj Sl.N 10
SLIGO per sack. Stock ample
FINANCIAL.
Charleston, May 24.,-Gold Is in active demand,
and brokers are buying at 80 and selling at 40.
Charlotte, May 2s.--God, 33H TO Is premium.
New York, May 26.--Gold, 3s&.
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NOTICE.--PERSONS INDEBT-
~ ED to the Estate of F. II. SIMRIL deceased, vii
by calling agent j. A. BROWN, in York
vile, and making payment
7. c. NEAL, ! a,;;,.,o,
Nav 81 81
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LAMPS! LAMPS!!L LAMPs!!.

A NEW stock of fine KEROSENE OIL LAMPS, COM
prising Chamber, Hand and Paror Lamps, with EXTRA
WICKs SCREW CAPS, BURNERS, CEIIMNEYS,
SHADE CLASPS, SHADES and GLOBES.
SUPERIOR YEAST POWDERS, put up In Glass Bot
ties.
GRADUATED PRESCRIPTION Walls The auen-
ton of Practlcng Physicians Is respectfully called TO this
new, elegant and indispensable article.
MOTHERS AND HOUSEKEEPERS informed that
have hand THE CHEMICALS USED In making
CRAIGN'S CHEMICAL COLD WATER SOAP, by which
washing Is made easy. AT the York Drug Store:
DR.. JOHN MAY.
April 10 So
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May 81

$500 PER "A 81 Ms
Ing Machines Three kinds, Under and upper feed.
Sent trial. Warranted five years Above salary or large
commissions paid The machines sold In the United
States for less than $40 which fully licensed by fore,
Whccicr 4 lpilson, Grorcr y Baker, Singer Cos and
Bacheder. .7H other cheap machines infringenents
and the seller are Ece 10 arrest. fine and imis
onncnt. illustrated circulars free Address, or call
upon Shaw Clark al Biddcord Maine, or Chicago, ILL.,
May 81 6 ly
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WAR VS., CREDIT.

ALL persons indebted TO McCAFFREY & JONES, fo
WORK done In their line, or for GOODS purchased ON
CREDIT, will come forward and make payment between
this date and the lst OF JULY NEXT otherwise thei
accounts, indiscrimnatcy, will be placed in the hands
an officer for collection.
McCAFFREY JONES, JeWellers.
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READ THIS. LADIES.

lam the Agent for York District sell the right
CRAIGNS CHEMICAL COLD WATER SOAP, an ar
ticc desirable that any lady can do the Washing for the
Family without BOILING OR RUBBING, saving in the
process half the time, half the SOAP and all the wood.
All kinds Of Clothes washed WITHOUT INJURY TO
TEXTURE OR COLOR. Cost of Chemicals required will
not exceed FIVE DOLLARS per annum and any lady can
make up the COMPOUND In few minutes. Now Is the
time ccOnomise. Come and buy, and save time, labor
and money. AT the York Drug Store. DR.. JOHN MAY.
March 90 d9
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YORKVILLE PRICES CURRENT.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, lS6G.


CotOn.-Our market continues unchanged and iirm n
p ranging from 6 10 81 for gold and - 10 2sS for
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TAKE NOTICE.

PERSONS having business matters 10 he attended to- in
the offices Of COMMISSIONER IN EQUITY AND OR
DINARY, will please rememberthat REVENUE STAMPS
are required various papers, which by law, put
file in said Offices. Many papers already file viz those
filed since Isl October, 1862 and not stamped must
have STAMPS AFFlNED TO give them validity.
w. b. METTS, C. Z. Y. u.
J. A. BROWN, o. Y. n.
Nav a 81
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1866-02-10

GEs. WEIrzEL AND THE French PAPERS
The French papers are publishing the
correspondence between Generals Mejia,
Weitzel and CLIQUE, and one Of the Gov
ernment organs, g lie Pays" says:
"On the whole, General Weitzel is 6
most essentially impolite fellow. This is
for the form. As to the substance, bis
letter to General Mejia is model Of IL
manners, and that officer may certainly
be set down as one Of the most brutal
uDrefned Yankee On record"
We deeply regret to see this acrimo,
nous feeling springing mp between the
two nations
We have known Gen. Weitzel when,
as lieutencnt of engineers under the
orders of major, since Gen. Beauregard,
be was in charge of the works Of defense
on Lake Borgne, and he was then gene
rally noted for his courteous and gentle
manly manners. We further remember
his honorable conduct towards the few
Contederates who fell into his hands after
the battle Of Lafourcbe, and to whom he
expressed his admiration of the unsur-
passed heroism of the little band which,
under the lamented Gen. Mouton, so gal
lantly opposed his advance and finally
effected their retreat before his forces,
which exceeded theirs fully ten to one.
There it was that fell the chiyalric
McPheeters, Colonel of the Crescent re-
giment, and there was also greatly dis
tinguished, at the head of his battery, our
young towpsman, Capt. semms, the son
of the glorious old Admiral, now sought
10 be made a victim to the petty rancors
of Secretary Wells. Throughout his La.
fourche campaign, Gen. Weitzel greatly
smoothed off, by lis generous condnct,
the asperities Of war, and although very
curt, bis correspondence with tue two
generals of the Imperial forces in Mexico
do not deserve the severe condemnation
of the French official press.-NobiSe
Macs.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1866-02-10

ADMIRAL. SEMMEs dispatch from
Washington to the Cincinnati Enquirer,
dated JAN 26th, says:
There is apparently some bitch in the
Semmes case. Semmes writes a letter
to Grant, claiming that the conditions Of
his parole had been violated, and it is sup
posed that this has suspended the pro-
ceedings.
( Mr Winslow, who was ordered here as
a witness, returned three. days ago to the
gulf. The officers who assembled to form
the Court, have formed themselves into
board to draft bill increasing the pay OF
naval officers, for the consideration OF
Congress.
tits probable that Semmes will not be
tried at all
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1866-02-10

CoNrIscArED CoMMUNIoN PLarE.-Rev.
G. g. Pickney, of Charleston, South Car
alma, writes that the capture of Colum-.
bia. by Sherman, the communion service
Of his church was carried off 1t had
been sent there. for safety. Each piece
was engrved q Grace Church, Charles
TOM The record book, one hundred years
old, is also lost, and was last seen going
North He asks that friends who hear
Of them may notify him. The comtf,l-
MON plate Of St Michaeps Charleston,
the gilt af Queen Anne, and that Of irln.-
ty Church, Columbia were also captured,
or else was destroyed in the fire Of that
occasion. Boston 1'raveller.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1866-02-10
SENATOR WILsos's GEoGRArHY.-Th'

SENATOR WLsos's GEoGRArHY.-The
Worlds Washington correspondent
seems to think Senator Wilson's geo
graphical education has been neglected.
We quote:
1t was refreshing, too, to hear Wilson's
denuciation Of the Democratic party. That
party he predicts will never be in power
again. But when he declares, as be did
today, that Waterloo was one Of Wei
lington's g four great battles in Spain
his knowledge Of the past is altogethe.
too slight to make bis prediction in regard
to the future at all oracular.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1866-02-10

Lewis Fisher, fresco painter, fell a
distance of twenty-five feet in a church at
Chelsea, Mass, while at work few
weeks ago, and received injuries which
have disabled him for life. The trustees
Of the church lately sent him bill for
seven dollars and sixty cents for damage
sustained by the pews On which he fell .
So says the Springfield Republican.
Alas ! for the rarity Of Christian char
ity.
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1866-02-10

A fashionable, but ignorant lady, was
desirous Of purchasing watch. The
ieweller showed her, among Others, 9
very beautiful one, remarking, at the
same time, that it went thirty-six hours.
- In one day !! y she asked.
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THE SOUTHERN COLONY IN MEX.
ICO.

Sterling Price, late rebel general, thus
writes, under date of Cordova, Mexico,
December Is, as follows
| write in camp, and without shelter,
but upon my own six hundred and forty
acres, near the town Of Cordova, aud the
railroad leading from Vera Cruz to the
city Of Mexico The lands in this vicini-
ty are not surpassed by any of the Platte
lands in fertility of soil and in the finest
climate | ever saw, the thermometer nev-
ess aboye ninety degrees or below seven
ty, aud iu full view of mountains covered
with perpetual snow am gratifed to
be able to say, that when the survey was
completed, the thirty Coufederates now
here unanimously rendered me choice of
sections. think have made jndicious
selection. I have donated to the colon
lists twenty-four acres for town site on
rushing stream of water and by large
spring of excellent water We have laid
off the ground into towns and lots, and
named it Cariotta, after the Empress,
and we are all upon our lots, clearing
away the brush to erect our houses. /
write to my family to-day to join me here
as soon as they can raise the means to do
so. | cannot think of returning to the
States and be required to ask pardon for
the action ! took in the struggle. | am
entirely satisfied with the part | took. |
would do the same under similar circum-
stances. | did all that my talents ena-
bied me to do to avert the calamity Of
war. / was not secessionist but when
the struggle came did not hesitate to
take the side OF the South
pray to God that my fears for the fu-
ture Of the South may never be realised !;
but when the right is given to the negro
to bring suit, testify before courts; and
vote in elections, you had better all be in
Mexico.
There is no doubt of the stability of
this Government French troops are ar
irving evrey week, and the maranding
bands that have infested the country for
ages past are fast being exterminated j;
no quarter given.
When the character of our land is well
understood, immigration will be a fixed
fact under any circumstances, and the tn-
est lands that Can now be procured at
low rates, will command large prices. |
have never known the cultivation of lands
to yield such large profits. My peighbor,
Dir. Fink, "a man of science, cultiyates
eighty acres in coffee with ten hands, and
sold his last years crop for $1,000. His
coffee field, shaded with every variety OF
fruit trees, in full bearing, and the walks
fringed with the pineapple, is the most
beautiful sight have ever seen.
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$50 poor Miss Prim is dead at last,
Miss Singleton z"
"Oh, yes, poor critter she couldn't
bear how Squibbs was siding up to wild
ow W mpole; so she just filled with gr'sf,
and sunk under it."
Poor, unfortunate creetur /" said the
old maid. "How does my new cap
look ?"
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Coon CgoPPIsG-Two industrious white
men, without any assistance from outside,
white or black. have raised this year, near
the river bank, Z hogsheads Of sugar,
barrels of molasses, 40 carottes Of Per
ique tobacco, $3.50 pounds) 800 barrels Of
corn, besides large supply of sweet po-
tatoes, peas, pumpkins, etc. The 7 hogs
heads Of sugar, Of 100 pounds each.
make TOO pounds aud, sold at Is CENTS
brought s1155 140 earrottes Perique at
sS each, $1l20; s barrels molasses, 800
gallons, at IS cents, s240 800 barrels
corn at 81, $500, making altogether. $33-
Is, Independent Of full supply of pota-
toes, peas, pumpkins, etc.
This fact will appear incredible to the
farmers of the sterile hills of New Eng
land, or even the fertile prairies of the
West. But such is the fertility of the
soil Of Louisiana along the shores OF the
Mississippi that emigrants from Europe
aud the North will find that, with half
the tell and economy necessary to get
along with in their native land, they can
achieve competency and independence.
AS to the salubrity Of climate, Illinois
and Indiana cannot compete with Louisi-
ana.-N. 0. Pic.
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An Arkansas Butternut advertises that
Any gal what has got a coffee-pot and
skillet, and who knows how to take care
of children" can hear OF situation by
applying to the undersigned"
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1866-02-10

GoISG ON.-Seeing q great crowd
gathered in the street, gensteman meet
ing boy said to him.,
a Is there anything going on {"
Eyes, sir" was the ready reply
There's two things goin' on you're goin'
on, and I'm goin' on"
Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1866-02-10

A SMART CHMD.-A father was winding
up lns watch, when he piayfally said to
bis little daughter, " Let me wind up
your nose"
No." said the child II don't want
my nose wound up for don't want it to
run all day.