Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-12-20
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EaVe 10 DorroW money 70 90 IL WIFI.
Miss Wilkins told her ma she wanted
to 60 to Newport to look for something very
particular for her dear pa. When asked
what it was, she replied Ga son. .in-law."
- Since the close of the war, three of
the old Confederate naval officers have died.
Commodores Rosseau, Lynch and Forrest
all brave and gallant men. ...... ...
The Memphis Chamber of Commerce
has voted to employ Reverdy johnson to
test the constitutionality of the three per
cent. cotton tax. .....
The Washington correspondent of
the Cincinnati Gazette says: "The feeling
is strengthening daily in diplomatic circles,
that the administration is bent upon forcing
its policy upon the country through for
eign war" .... ..
- Butler is said to ssbave an eye to the
Presidential chair" Unfortunately for the
Doctor, nature so arranged the features on
his "mug" that it is utterly impossible for
him to devote more than one eye at time
to that very interesting object. ..
- The new depot of the South Carroll.
ma Railroad, at Columbia, will be 29S feet
in length and fifty feet in breadth, and at
the lower end will be covered platform
100 feet in length, for the accommodation
of freight. The building is now ready to
receive the roof.-Soalth Carolinian.
The Provincial Parliament of Canada
has passed an Act requiring the proprietors
of churches, halls, theatres, or other build
ings used for public resort, to have the doors
of such buildings SO hinged as to open free.
ly outwards, to facilitate the egress of the
people in case of alarm from fire or other
cause. ..
1t is rumored, and apparently on
good authority, that Hon. Ben. Wood,
State Senator, in trial of skill with Con-
gresham elect Hon. John Morrissey, at the
scientific game of faro, on Wednesday night
last, realized the handsome winnings of
$4,000. The contest took place at the
headquarters of Congressman Morrissey, on
Twenty.fourth street, Washington.
- About five hundred wagons crossed
into Arkansas at Memphis last month. At
one ferry an average of twenty negroes
day crossed the river, and the number was
increasing daily The largest part of these
emigrants were from North eastern Georgia,
East Tennessee, Northern Alabama and
South Carolina. Almost all these movers
were bound for Northern Texas.
Artemus Ward says in "His Book:
GA female woman is one of the greatest in.
stitootions of which the land can boste.-
She is good iu sickness-good in wsllness
good all the time. Oh! Woman, woman,
you are angel when you behave yourself;
but when you take off your proper appairal
and (metiforically speaking) get into pant
aloons, and undertake to do the man, you
play the devil, and are an emfatic noos-
ance."
"A bill has passed one branch of the
Georgia Legislature, to exempt from levy
and sale, certain property of every debtor
in the State. The bill exempts 16O acres
of land, or four acres in a city, town or vii
lage, provided the same is not worth more
than $4,000 It exempts two horses or
mules, two COWS and calves, one cart and
yoke of oxen, together with years supply
Of corn, bacon or pork. Also, professional
books, agricultural implements, &C., &c.
At regular meeting of the N. Y.
Chamber of Commerce, Thursday afternoon,
a memorial was read praying Congress to
abolish the export duty on cotton A reso
luton was adopted petitioning Government
to employ squadron of naval vessels to
make the necessary sea soundiDgs for new
cable, to connect the United States with
France and Southern Europe. 1t was
thought that such line might be laid from
Cape Cod to Montauk Point, at cost of
s6,OOO,0O0.
- The Committee on Reconstruction in
Congress have before them bill to author
ize Chief Justice Chase to appoint ProVis
ional Governors for the Southern States
The Bill also provides for a complete ma
chinery to carry on a territorial government
in the South. Mr.. Spalding offered res
olution in the House, to admit any of the
States lately in rebellion on the adoption of
the Constitutional Amendment and estab-
fishing republican form of government.
- The Bill authorizing the public sale
by the Treasury of two millions of gold eve
ry Monday morning in the city of New
York, will be adopted by the Committee to
which it was referred, at an early day. The
report, it is considered, will be equivalent
to the passage of the measure, though it
may undergo amendment in one or both Of
the Houses The sales are to have promi-
nent notice in one newspaper in each of
the twelve principal cities, and the proceeds
tberefrom are to be invested in the interest.
bearing bonds of the United States.
- Brigadier. General Elephalet Whit
tesey, Assistant Commissioner of the Freed
mems Bureau in North Carolina, was tried
recently at Raleigh, on the charge of hav-
ing been pecuniarily interested in the cul-
tivation of a plantation upon which freed
men were employed, and thus using the
position of his Office for his private emolu-
ment. He was found guilty; but in con-
sideration of previous services, was senten-
oe5 70 ha ranr;m,ndad hu his commandino