Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-07-05
Napsiae Gatherinas.

- Commodore Vanderbilt offers to become
bondsman for JEFF Davis to any amount
The sherifs of spartanburg and New
berry advertise, in their respective districts,
land and personal property for sale.
Dan Rice, the noted circus man, is .
candidate for Congress in the 10Th District
of Pennsylvania
1t is proposed, in Norfolk, TO- send to
the Paris Exhibition, model of the Msrri.
mac, as specimen of the work Of Southern
genius.
- The President, on the 18th, pardoned
Judge Oldham, formerly Confederate Son.
ator from Texas, and, since the war, an
exile at Cordova, Mexico. L
Our citizens will be glad to learn that
the President has commuted the death sen
tence in the case of Messrs. Keys and Stow
ers. The evidence against these gentlemen
was purely circumstantial.
- Bishop Lynch, of Charleston, has been
presented with two Thousand dollars to assist
in rebuilding the Orphan Asylum in that
city, by Committee of war prisoners, rep
resentiug an Association in New York.
1t has transpired that DR.. Craven's &C.
count of Hon. Jefferson Davis in Fortress
Monroe, was not written by the Doctor at
| all, but by that enterprisiug Bohemian, Col.
Halpine, better known as "Private Miles
O'Reilley,"
"A joint resolution has passed Congress,
granting the sum of sl,5O0 to Mrs. Afie
Green, of Richmond, Va, in consideration
of her having been instrumental in effec-
ting the escape of 100 officers and soldiers
of the Federal army. .s.... s
The Constitution of the State of North
Carolina requires property qualification of
81, 500, and residence of five years, to
make person eligible to the Office of Gov.
ernor. A proposition was made in the
Convention recently to modify this provi
sion, but it was lost by decided msjority
"A meeting of negroes was lately held in
Cherokee county, Alabama, where they
bound themselves together not to work for
less than 81 per day during the present har-
vest, under penalty Of receiving fifty lashes
Consequently the white men are gathering
the harvest at so per day.
| "A telegram from Mobile announces that
an Austrian officer has arrived at that city
empowered to offer positions in the Austrian
army to ex Confederates. 1t is thought
that quite number will avail themselves
of the opportunity to plunge again into the
exciting scenes of war.
An important case is in preparation
against General Fitzpatrick, at Washington,
| founded upon charges by Captain Williams,
of the United States Navy. Nothing at
present is known of the merits of the mat
ter, excepting that there is a woman con.
nected With it
- An old man by the name of Hopkins,
living in Adrian, Michigan, has just been
made the happy father of "triplets," all
girls. A young lady, commenting on the
wonderful prosperity of this family, says she
knows many young married men who are
not one third as smart as old Mr.. Hopkins.
- There is a'proposition before Congress
to allow the Secretary of the Treasury to
sell or remove the buildings and other prop
erty of the branch mints at Charlotte, N.
c., sDd Dablonega, Ca, which has been
agreed to by the House, but it will encoun.
ter decided opposition in the Finance Com
mittee of the Senate, to which it has been
referred.
Lafayette McLaws, an ex.General of
the G. 8. A., recently elected Clerk of
the Superior and Inferior Court of Rich
mond county, Ca, has received an order
from General Tilsop, commandant in that
State, forbidding him to hold or exercise any
civil or political Office. The order is simi-
lar to that served on Semmes.
On the occasion of terrible shipwreck,
when all the efforts of the captain and
crew seemed unavailing to avert the com
ing fate, we recollect an old lady going up
to the skipper, exclaimiug: "Oh Captain,
are we really in such danger" "Yes,
ma'am,," answered be; "we must trust in
Providence, now" "Good God," was the
pious rejoinder, ''bas it come to that!
-" "Pa," said little Charming to his pa
ternal ancestor, holding up Sunday school
picture book, "what is that 2" "That, my
sop," gravely replied the father, "is Jacob
wrestling with the angel" "And which
licked, pa?" innocently continued the young
hopeful. Pater familiaS looked at him,
mildly but firmly, for moment, aud then
suggested that be had better 60 and see if
the chickens were not scratching up the
garden.
- The revelations made in the testimony
before the War Committee, show that Gen.
eral Butler is under charge of having
abandoned the attack on Fort Fisher
because friend of bis bad three thousand
bales of cotton in Wilmington, of which
Butler was to get half, if be would con-
trive to "work it through" By the capture
of Wilmington this cotton would have been
lost to the partners. The Baltimore Gazette