Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-06-21
Wapsiae Gatheriuas.

Oxford, numbers at present 200 students.
Seventy steamers left New York city
Saturday for foreign and seaboard cities.
An editor out West, who has served
on jury, says that he is so full of law that
it is hard to keep from cheating somebody.
Why cannot the Emperor of the
French insure his life? Because no one
can be found to make ont his policy.
- Mr.. Davis main points Of defence will
be based on the prerogative granted every
citizen, to sustain the official action of his
respective State.
1t is stated that piokpookets relieved
General Grant of his watch and Speaker
Colfax of his purse, at General Scotps fune-
raj.
- 1t is thirty-four years since the Asiatic
cholera appeared in Paris. During its
prevalence one in thirty.three of the popu'
lation died. In the whole of France 229.-
534 were attacked, and 94,665 died.
General j. s. Alcorn, United States
Senator elect from Mississippi, has made
application to Gen. Fiske Of the Freedman's
Bureau, for leadership in freedmau's
school at Freas' Point, Miss.
- The court.martisl which has been try.
ing Major Gee, at Raleigh, N. c., has ad-
journed for short period. Up to this time
the expenses of the trial have been $780,
900, snd no evidence eliminating the pris-
oner has been adduced yet.
The editor of the Raleigh Sentinel
says, on the authority Of letter from Gen.
Lee to himself, that the General desires to
write history of the war, but has not thus
far made satisfactory progress, because of
the loss of his papers.
"A party of tweuty,four gentlemen in
Caldwell County, North Carolina, hav just
returned from great squirrel hlnt. Half
the number exhibited 1900 soaps, and the
others exhibited 1885. The largest mum
Der killed by one man was S27.
Leading cotton manufactures have re-
ported to the committee of Ways and Means
in the United State Congress, that it is
probable, by next September, 80 great will
be the scarcity of cotton suitable for Ameri-
can consumption, that We may have to i'm
port.
- At Navasoto, Texas, there was recently
hail storm of uncommon severity. The
hail.stones averaged, it is stated, half
pound in weight, and many were picked up
the size of mans two fists The roo6ngs
of houses were broken through and the
growing crop of cotton entirely destroyed.
- The New York Times says of General
Scott "He was more jealous of bis litera-
ry than of his military fame. He would
endure criticism in reference to his battles
with equanimity, but in matters of taste in
literature or even Ct punctuation, be could
not brook contradiction.
- The Hartford Courant says the monu.
ment to Colonel Samuel Colt, the revolver
man, about to be placed in Cedar Hill
Cemetery, in that city, will cost about
twenty-five thousand dollars. 1t is of
Scotch granite, forty feet high, and sur.
mounted by beautiful 6gure-"The An
gel of Resurrection.
The Shenandoah (Va.) Herald, speak
ing of the mills and barns burnt throughout
the Valley by Sheridan, under Grants or
der to lay waste aDd devastate, says: "In
this neighborhood, we are happy to say, the
rost of the barns have been rebuilt, and
the mills are progressing rapidly, and will
be completed in time for the growing crops" I"
- The Mobile Tribune announces that
the "Bank of Mobile" and the ssSouthern
Bank" commenced redeeming their oircu.
lation at par in United States Treasury
notes on the lst of June, instant. These
are the only State banks in the South, that
went through the war, whioE have been a.
bic (so far as we know to make so good a
showing.
- The following gives list of the Bish-
ops of the "Episcopal Methodist Church, |"
with their salaries Bishop Soule, $500 !;
Bishop Pierce, $4,000; Bishop Early,
S25OO; Bishop Kavanaugh, s2500; Bishop
Andrew, $500; Bishop Paine, $4,000 !;
Bishop WightmaD, $4,000; Bishop Marvin,
$4,000; Bishop McTyeire, $4,000; Bishop
Doggett, $4,000.
- The Department of State has been in
formed by the United States Consul at St.
Croix, West Indies, that the crop of sugar
this year will probably reach $4,000 hhds.,
with corresponding quantity of molasses
and rum, say from 5000 to 5000 hbds. of
molasses, 5000 of rum. This will be fifty
per cent more than the crop of 1865, and
fully double that of the preceding year.
- In consideration of the fact that no
legal payment can be made to any Southern
officer of the Treasury who has not sub
scribed to the test oath, the Secretary of
the Treasury has notified all such that their
designations will be accepted. he has also
made request that Congress provide for
the payment of those who have been per-
forming the duties of the department for
the time during which they have been SO
engaged.
- The ladies of the Hebrew faith in
R;obmond have formed q Memorial Associ