Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-03-08
Gputribntprial.
BYJAS. WOOD DAVID SON.
COLUMBIA. SC. MARCH 5. 1855.
Rebuilding Columbia.

There are now about thirty fronts on Main
Street, doing business of some kind.
The University. 'r'.-' ..
There are thirty.slx students in this in-
stitutiou.
Hoop-skirts.
The incoming styles are large. A lady
friend, who is an tait of all such matters,
informs us that sac yards in circumference
is now fashionable size. This gives a
diameter Of about sic teet-"ample room
and verge enough" we fancy, for all ordi'
nary purposes, and possibly in some cases a
little to spare.
How to live long.
A learned German has recently died at
the age of 100 years. He says that the Sc.
cret of his long life is the fact that be al
ways slept with his head towards the north,
this position being favorable to the opera.
ton of certain important laws of life
His name is Dr. JULIUS Won DEM FIscH-
WELLER.
Fix your beds.
Poems. -.,.. .....
We have been favored with copy of
HMosses from Rolling Stone; or, Idle
Moments of q Busy Wonsan, by Tenella--
MARY BAYARD CLARKE. 1t is nice little
volume of poems by an accomplished lady
of North Carolina. 1t is published by
VIM. B. SMITH, & Co., in Raleigh.
The book is full Of imagination and senti.
ment, and reflects honor upon the Old
North State Mrs. CLARKE Is widely known
as contributor to the periodical literature
Of the South for several years.
The volume is handsomely gotten up, and
sells at one dollar copy
The Circus.
We have had the circus among as the
first since the war We may now be con
sidered, Bill ARP would say, as 10 fair
way to be reconstructed-bauiug seen cir
Gus again.
1t remained two days; bat appeared to
have been rather poor affair.
The company styled itself European !;
and carefully avoided everything thatsmacks
of the United States-bad no Stars and
Stripes, and played no Yankee Deodles.
This appeared to be bid for popularity.
The patronage they received was large,
and largely oolored.; though the negroes
felt hurt at being partisioned off from white
folks, just like they we're before their free
dom.
It's hard to please everybody.
Emigration.
Those disposed to leave our country, and
to seek better fortunes under other skies,
have now two chances of doing so. The
two points are Venezuela and Mexico. We
take them separately.
Kenezuela-Col. CAMPBELL R. BRYCE
of this city is Director in the Venezuelan
Emigration and Land Company for the
State of South Carolina. 1t appears that q
grant of lands, in the province of Guyana
upon the Orinoco river in the south eastern
part of Venezuela, has been made to Dr.
PRICE of Virginia. DR.. PRICE has organ.
lied Company whose prime object is to
people that grant; and Col BRYCE is the
representative Of the Company for this
State. They offer twelve hundred and
eighty (12sO) acres Of land to any immi-
grant who will pay sixty dollars, for passage
and Office fees to the Company. An emf.
grant steamship will sail from Norfolk, Va,
early in April, for this grant Col. BRYCE
is ready to give any further information on
this subject in bis possession. either in per-
son or by letter; but all letters to him re-
quiring answer must contain four postage
stamps We presume the Office fees are but
a nominal sum for the papers. We have
been advised that several young men of this
city have concluded to embrace this oppor.
tunity during the present year. The in-
ducements for farmers are very great, the
soil being as fertile as any iD the globe
probably. What the disadvantages are we
are not advised.
Mcrico.-Hon. NJ. F. MAURY formerly
of Virginia is now Imperial Commissioner
of colonization 10 Mexico He has recent:
ly published a report made to him by Gov.
HARRIS, Gen. PRICE, and Judge PERKINS
all we'll known in and identified with our
Confederate struggle-who we're appointed
to examine the public lands in the District
of Cordova in the State of Vera Cruz,
Mexico These gentlemen represent the
climate as all that man could desire in the
way of health and comfort, the soil fabu.
lously productive, and the general advau-
tages as very great. Cordova is a garden
spot of the earth. The Railroad connect.
ing, or after awhile to connect, the cities OF
Vera Cruz and Mexico, will run through
this District; and the farthest portion being
within twenty miles of the road, and about
seventy miles from the city of Vera Cruz.
The District is plateau Of considerable
elevation (2850 feet above the sea- and is
cooler than South Carolina, though in a
lower latitude. The soil is extremely fer
tile, producing easily two crops year. 1t
produces corn, barley, rice, tobacco, sugar,
coffee, and (uear the coast) cotton. The
cultivation of the coffee crop (says this off,
cial reporD is simple, easy and cheap pro-
ducing annually from thousand to fifteen
hundred pounds per acre.
We incline decidedly to Mexico.