Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-09-13
MERE-MENTION.


A difficult matter is described to be "to
ascend ladder leaning against nothing,
and draw it from the ground while at the
p."'........Many Virginia farmers are
boiling watermelon juice into molasses.
.........Gen. Nathaniel G.. Evans, is doing
business in Charleston as Commission
Merchant. 1.-Two hundred johnson
men have been appointed in the New York
Custom House. ........"A mass meeting of
the Union soldiers and sailors was held in
New York on Monday evening, and adopted
resolutions in favor Of the platform of the
Philadelphia Union National Convention,
and the policy of President johnson. ..'...'
A letter from General Kiddoo, Assistant
Commission for Texas, states that Texas
will yield larger cotton crop than any pre-
vious year, not excepting the immense yield
of 1860......".'By the new electoral law Of
Prussia, every Prussian who has completed
his twenty. fifth year is an elector. ........'
The Radicals have carried the entire ticket
in Vermont. 1.-The Southern Presby.
terian Church contains ten Synods, forty
Presbyteries and nearly ninety thousand
COMMITMENTS .........The dinner given at
Delmonico's, in New York, in honor of the
President, is said to have cost twenty-five
thousand dollars. .........."Beast" Butler
has been nominated for Congress, from the
Fifteenth District of Massachusetts,, and has
accepted. ''..'....A synopsis of President
Johnson's speech at Delmonico's, in New
York, of Ats words, was telegraphed to
Reuters European Press Association, by
the Atlantic cable, at an expense of S5,Ol9
in gold.
Major-GeLeral Miles has been relieved
from the command of the District of Fortress
Monroe, ard as custodian of Jefferson Davis,
and ordered to report in person, with all of
his confidential records, to the Adjutant-
General of tie United States Army. Briga.
dier. General S. Fl. Burton, of the 9th Ar.
tillery, succeeds General Miles. ........The
N. Y. Herald says that the enthusiasm
which the tour of the President and his
party through the State has created among
all classes leaves no doubt as to the result
of the political canvass in that State. The
Radicals have shown by their loss of temper
that their case is hopeless. At all points
the reaction has commenced against them
and is making rapid progress. ''.''''''The
total number of deaths in New York, city
and county, from cholera, from its first ap-
pearance Oh the lst of May, is S29... ..'.'...'
The Metropolitan Record says that efforts
are making to get up ticket of Seward and
Orr for the next Presidential contest. .......
1t may be mentioned as an extraordinary
fact that nobody has since the President
left Washington couversed with the Presi.
dent on the subject of Office, or asked him
for place. .........A little boy being asked,
"What is the chief end of man 2" replied:
"The end what's got the head on. ."...".The
Houston Telegraph has good authority for
stating that Gen. Magruder will return to the
United States shortly, and become a good
and loyal citizen therof ...'"Girls in Egypt
are often mothers at thirteen and grand.
mothers at twenty six, and in Persia they are
said to be mothers at eleven, and grand
mothers at twenty-five. ."....''.The Marion
Crescent learns that the Bishop has changed
the time of holding the South Carolina
Conference, at that place, from November 7
to December 10 1.-The Atlantic Cable
is making $4,000 per day....'....Daniel
W. Hanley, of Bridgeport, Conn.,, insured
his life for $4,000, on Saturday last, and the
next day died of Cholera.
The Charlotte Democrat, of Monday last,
hears cheering reports about the crops in
Lincoln and Castor. A few localities in
those counties have suffered little from
drouth, but generally the prospect is fair.
The late rains in this section have done
much good. Governor Orr, has issu.
ed proclamation declaring the Charter of
the "Cotton Planters Loan Association for
the 5th Congressional District" forfeited.
.........It is said that Bonner offered to en-
dow professor sship in Gen. Lees College,
provided the General would write him an
article week for the Ledger. ....''.'''They
had frost on the 24th of August, in Mis-
souri,, which bit the corn. .........ln Georgia
a blac ok woman has sued black man for
breach of promise, the first breach suit Of
that of color ever known in that State. '..'''