Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-06-14
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-- The population of London has been
estimated by the Registrar General at g.
054, $40 on the 9th of April, 1867, FIVE
years from the date of the last census.
ITS is stated that the last autograph
General Scott ever wrote is in the possession
of the proprietor of Cozzen's hotel at West
Pcint--an order for bottle of brandy.
:-- The New York Herald asserts that
the Government has lately lost from twenty
to thirty millions of dollars to keep down
the price Of gold, but the effect was disas.
trous. Speculation is rampant.
-, Gen. Bee, writing from Havana, ap-
peals to shs people Of Texas for pecuniary
aid in behalf of Gen. Magruder, lately de.
posed from Office by Maximillian. He rep
resents Gen. M, as very poor.
AN entire Jewish habitation, dating
two centuries back of the Christian Era, is
said to have been excayated in Syria. The
disooysrers claim to have discovered in the
dwelling, the five books of Moses, the
Psalms of David, and other Hebrew books.
- Prentice says chap sometimes en-.
ters his Office and sets an hour without tel
ling one word of truth during the whole
time. The editor of the Chicago Journal
thinks he must be one of the telegraphic re.
porters of the Associated Press. .....
Most of the Southern States are Ia
king steps to establish orphan associations
for the care and education of those made
orphans BY the disasters of the late war.
They are gotten up by private charity. In
Mississippi they are to have one at Lauder
dale Springs; in Tennessee, at Clarksviile.
The Cleveland Herald states that the
STEAMBOATS, on Lake Erie use fish for fuel.
Surgeons weighing sixty pounds are
thrown into the furnaces, and the oil as
sists the combustion of the wood, twenty
surgeons being estimated as equal toa
cord of wood in the generation of heat.
- The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue has issued an order correcting certain
instructions to assessors, concerning assess
msnts Of incomes for the year 1866, by
which il appears guardian residing abroad
should return the income of his ward in the
district where the ward resides.
--T The Secretary of the Treasury, in
answer to an inquiry of the House in rela-
ton to the sales of gold, reports that the
Assistant Treasurer at New York sold gold
amounting to the sum of $S5, 40,OOO du-
ring the month of May at the rates, 1903,
1901, 1904, 131 and 1913
"A call is published in Perry county,
Alabama, and signed by A. B. Moore, ex-
Governor Of the State; j. L. M. Curry, ex-
Congressman, and others, requesting
meeting of the citizens to devise some meth
cd of properly encouraging education among
the negroes.
80 The Chief Engineer of the New York
Fire Department says the burning of the
Academy of Music was undoubtedly the
work of incendiaries. Fires were kindled
not only under the parquette, but in the Sc
cond and third circles. 1t is reported that
Maretzek says Bennett set fire to the build
ing because the Managers did not advertise
in the ReraM.
a private count of Congress on
Wednesday disclosed the fact that six Sen.
ators and ffty-four Representatives were
absent from the city. An adjournment
about the middle of July is regarded as
certain, although some are opposed to any
adjournment, desiring to have succession
of short recesses, in order that the President
may not remove any officers.
- The Edgefeld Advertiser in speaking
of the Columbia and Hamburg Railroad,
says "thsre are at present from $50 to 400
hands at work on this road, which force will
be shortly increased to 500. The contract
for the bridge over the Congaree at Colum'
bia has been taken. The laying Of the iron
upon the track will be commenced about
the LIST Of November next" The road is
estimated to cost 50, 100000.
A majority of the Supreme Court of
Alabama have decided the first and eighth
sections of the stay law, postpouipg judg-
ment on suits for twelve months to be con-
stitutionaI. The second, third and fourth
sections which stay collection Of judgment
already rendered before the passage of the
law was, also decided unconstitutional and
void. The sixth section relating to sales
under mortgages is also declared void.
In the North Carolina State Conven-
ton on Wednesday, report was received
from the special committee in reference to
the repeal of certain acts concerning the
rights of persons of color. The report re-
commends the unrestricted admission of
negro testimony in the courtsin cases where
negroes are parties to suits, their free mi
grafton, their right to bear arms, and the
making Of the law to punish negroes with
death for an attempt of rape on white wo-
men applicable to white men.
The Montgomery Mail informs us.
that Gen. Rosser, whose intelligent and gal
liant service for the South reflected such hon.
or upon our arms, will take charge of the
division of the National Express Company
from the Rio Grande to Montgomery. Gen.
Rosser will make his headquarters at New
Orleans. We learn from him that Gen.
Joseph E. Johnston will remain President
of tho EYnress. having deelined the Presi.