Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-03-15
MERE-MENTTON.

A Northern paper mentions that the Eff
teenth Maine battalion of infantry, on duty
at Chester, S. c., will be mustered out in
March. Several of the members whose
time had expired were at Charleston on the
18th ult, en- route North .........Gen W.
T. Bennett has been relieved at his own
request, of command of the post of Charles
Ton. Major General Deyens, district vvw-
mander, assumes also direct command of
the post. .........The Wilmington and Man.
chester Railroad is being relaid and other.
wise improved. ........Gen. Grants father
has been appointed postmaster at Coving-
ton, Ky.......'..The house iu which Byron
and his mother resided, in Aberdeen, du.
ring portion of his boyhood, is now used
as a printing Office, and printing press
occupies what was once the poets bed
room. ....S S..The Army and Navy Jour-.
nal says that 10000 Confederate soldiers
are buried in Hollywood and Oakland Gem.
eteries, near Richmond, Va..........The
New York Heralds Paris correspondence
states that feeling of hostility towards the
United States Government prevails in that
city ......".Ris Excellency Governor ORR,
arrived in Charleston, on Friday last ..''''
The general talk in Mississippi is that the
planters are all trying to raise cotton to buy
corn and meat with, instead of making the
corn and meat themselves
Gen. JOSEPH E. JOHNSON is in Wash.
ington for the purpose of testifyiug before
the Reconstruction Committee .........Re,
cruiting for the Liberal Army in Mexico,
is going on at New Orleans. '''''.'"General
LoNGsTREET has been elected President Of
the Great Southern and Western Life Insu.
rance Company of New Orleans. .........
Old DR.. JAYNE, of Philadelphia, is dead
.........A patent "ladies' hair parter" is
the latest American invention ........Gov.
JENKINS, of Georgia, vetoed the stay law,
on the ground of uuconstitutionality. The
Senate afterwards passed it over the veto BY
vote of twenty.seven to seven. .........N.
York cotton brokers estimate the cotton in
the United States, on the lst of February
last, at nearly 100000 bales. ......"'A
terrible tornado occurred at Knoxville, Ten.
nessee, on Friday which blew down thirty
buildings, unrooted the depot and machine
shop of the Virginia Central Railroad. and
destroyed large amount of other property.
......"GEoRGE COLE, a "Consistent Union
man." of Robson county, North Carolina,
petitioned the legislature of that State a
few days ago to pay him for two mules and
one horse, seized by Federal troops during
the war. His petition was referred to the
Committee on the Insane Asylum. .'..'....
The Secretary of the Treasury is about is
suing orders to the Treasury agents in the
South to call in their sub.agents and close
their business, which has been losing one
to the Government, it has been alleged
Has it been long business to the agents
.".."..BURToN N HARRISON left Macon
few days ago with Mrs. JEFFERSON DA-
Wis, en- route for Canada, where the chill.
dren of the captive President are at school
.........A little boy was arrested in Macon
few days ago, by the patrol guard, for
wearing grey jacket with brass buttons.
When questioned by the Provost Marshal
upon what grounds they arrested the lad,
they said he looked like bushwhacker
The little fellow was Immediately dis
charged.
M. B. BEACH shot ROBERT P CHAPMAN
in the thigh, in an affray at Charlotte, N.
c. on Tuesday. ...'..The entire Democratic
ticket has been elected at Cairo, Illinois.
'..'.....One of the doorkeepers of the House
of Representatives at Washington was dis,
charged on Thursday, on account of having
expressed his approval of President JOHN.
SONS reconstruction policy. ..........G .Gener-
al TILL1soN, of the Freedmen's Bureau, in
Georgia, has imprisoned several parties who