Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-03-22
uerative revenues, such az but few farmers
in Virginia or France can boast of.

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some six or eight years ago, in consequence
of revolution, the proprietor died, and It
has not since been restored to cultivation.
It yielded regular annual profit Of no,
less than Sl2D, 600. The dwelling house
| alone cost 100000 This hacienda Is
large enough to accommodate forty or fifty
families with farms of one thousand sores
each II can now be had for less than five
dollars the acre, and after the FIRST pay.
ment, on long time to suit purchasers.
Other haciendas that are open to the
choice and selection of the immigrants are
much larger. ~ ...,, 49,.
| Two, containing. each more than three
thousand square miles, have been offered BY
the proprieters for colonization
know of no country 10 which the land is
held by 50 few, and in such large tracts
This fact has produced marked effects
upon the nation; it appears 20 have de-
pri0ed Mexico entirely Of what other couo
tries consider their 'bone and sinew'-.beir
noble enterprisiug, energetic, hard working
middle classes. ........
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To those who will thus come now, with
their families, and form settlements suff.
cient T.. call into play all the indussrial ap.
pliances, consisting Of machinery, shops and
implements Connected with agriculture, in. its
most improved state, and calculated to serve
as 50 many centres Of agricultural improve.
uent 10 the country, special encouragement
is held out.
They are invited to send forward their
agents, who will receive all the information
that the Office of Colonization can give,
and every facility that it can throw in their
way, as to the most desirable parts Of the
country in which to settle, the choicest To-
calities and the cheapest and best lands, &c.
Having made their own selections, the
government will then, in case they require
II, lend them pecuniary assistance sufficient
to enable them to establish themselves IN
their new homes and get fairly under way.
> NJ. F. MAuRY,
Imperial Commissioner. C
Office of Colonization, No. 13 Caile San
Juan Letran, Mexico, November, lS, 1855.
A Reminiscene Of the Kearsage and
Alabama Fight.
A writer in the CernhiW Magazine, who
has had opportunities Of conversation with
some of Sonmes' old crew, gives the fol-
lowing interesting reminiscence of the fight
between the Alabama and the Kearsage:
i thought you had been in the CoDfede.
rate Navy7' Il was,' said Aleck; Il was
with Semmes everywhere he went. l was
in the naval brigade and blockade running,
and Oh the Alabama all the while he com.
msnded her, But not when she sank, |
suppose P I rejOioed. We'll, was, and
was picked up with him BY the Deerheuud.'
1T was a pretty sharp fight, wasn't it9. I
suggesting!y asked. 1T was that, replied
Aleek but be didn's care about enlarging.
Il suppose it was the eleven inch shells that
did her business?' oh, no. said he, COM
ing to kind of confessional, 'we never had
any chance ; we had no gunners to compare
with the Kearsage's. Our gunners fred
by routine, and when they had the gup
loaded they fred it of blind. They never
changed the elevation Of their guns all the
fight, and the Kearsage was working up to
US all the while, taking advantage of every
sims she was hid by smoke to work little
nearer, and then her gunner took aini for
every shot, Then it isn't true that the
Alabama tried to board the Kearssgs p
No, sir; she did her best to get away fem
her from the time the fight commenced -
We knew we'll that if We got 10 raDga of
her Dahlgreen howitzers she would sink rs
in ten minutes ..........
But | asked, sdon't you believe that
Semmes supposed he would whip the Kear.
sage when he went to fight herf mo;
be. was bullied into it, and took good care
to leave all his valuables on shore, and had
a life preserver on through the fight, / saw
him pnt it on, and thought If. it was wise
in him, it wouldn't be foolish in ma, and 1
put one on too. When semnes saw that
the ship was going down, he told rs all to
swim who could, and was one of the first
to jump into the water, and We all made
for the Deerhound. I was long way ahead
of Semmes, and when l came mp to the
Dserhound's boat they asked me if / was
seumes before they would take me in. I
said I wasn't, and they asked me what 1
was on the Alabama. Said /, 'no matter
what was on the Alabama, l sball be
dead man soon if you don't take me in.'-
They asked me again If 1 was an officer or
a seaman, and wouldn't take me in until l
told them l was an officer But said I,
sdid they actually refuse to pick up com.
mon seamen, and leave them to drown p
They did that replied be wrathfully, and
probably not very correctly; 'and as soon
as they had Semmes on board they made
tracks as fast as they knew how, and left
every body else to drown or be picked up
by the Kearsage,'
Soil THAT NEEDS L1ME.-To ascertain
the soil likely to be benefited by lime, put
a small quantity Of soil in tumbler, and
pour upon it little water, and then good
deal of spirits of salts, or muriatic acid
If this addition nrndncaa q strong eferves-