Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-10-10
Straps aud fafts.

with praise. SO, when fault IS discovered, 1t ls
well to look up virtue to bear it company.
"A man who never pays newspaper to ad-
vertise him into business often has the satisfaction
of seeing the Sheriff pay the paper to advertise
him out.
"A veteran amateur in wine drinking writes
to know if Congress couldn't be induced to pro-
claim thirteenth commandment: '"Thou shall
not commit adulteraton"
A man in Connecticut has cleared his house
of rats BY catching one and dipping him in red
paint. He then let him loose, and the other rats
left, disgusted by his appearance.
- 1t may be comfort to the sick, but we can
not perceive what sort of satisfaction it can be to
the well, that on an average every man has ten
days illness in the course of year. Is
The New Orleans Crescent of the 25th ult,
learns from private letter that out OF 50O citizens
of Lagrange, Texas, as many as twenty-four have
died in two days, of yellow fever. The average
no provisions in the town, not even meal to make
Cruel.
DIR. Hermann Kohn, of Breslau, has exam
ined the eyes of 10, $50 school children and found
that more than one in six were short-sighted.--
There are four times as many shortsighted chill.
dren in the town as in the country, and the evil
increases Just in proportion to the amount Of study
exacted from the children
"A recent Washington dispatch says: 'The
branch mint at Charlotte, n. c., will soon be put
in full operation for assaying purposes only. MIR.
Jones, the assayer, is now here. He represents
that operations have been recommended IN the
mines which were neglected during the war, and
that the receipts are on the increase not only from
General Beauregard visited the city of
Richmond, Va, for the first time in his LITE on the
26th ult., ia rapid passage from one depot to
cepted. He visited the theatre during the evening,
but, although every one appeared anxious to see
him, his personal acquaintance with the citizens
was 80 limited that no demonstration was made
The latest sensation at Barnum's Museum Is
live gorilla, captured in the wilds of Africa, five
feet and half high, and costing. $S,OOO The
gorilla displayed its great muscular strength by
bending double huge wrought iron bar an inch
and three quarters thick 1t has face and eyes
ike human being, and its hand is as delicate as
that of woman. This is the only specimen OF the
gorilla now on exhibition in this country.
The Charleston Courier says: Through
private advices we learn that a lady resident Of
Camden, in this State has raised six bales of cot
ton by her own energy, having no other assistance
than that rendered by the domestics of her house
her husband planting interest. Surely none can
be astonished at this announcement when our
memories revert to the noble achievements of the
gentler sex in the days of the 'so-called."
The Greenfield church, in the Presbytery
of Chiicothe, Ohio, having suspended a member
for joining the masonic order, an appeal was taken
to the Presbytery. This body, by vote of fifteen
to ten, sustained the appeal, and restored the par
ty appealing to the communion of the church. A
resolution was also adopted, that the Presbytery,
in so doing, did not wish to express appreciation OF
the order Of masons, or any other secret society.
- The Raleigh Sentinel says that Col W. F.
Henderson, of Davidson County, n. g., who isl
generally known as "Windy Billy" and is one OF
the shining lights ofthe Radical party in the State
was recently indicted for horse-stealing The
Grand Jury consisted of eleven Radicals, four ne.
grees, and three Conservative citizens 1t is said
that he will also be indicted for perjury, for having
taken the test-oath as Sub Commissioner OF the
Freedmans Bureru.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Tribune says: Positive information has been
received here, that in Alabama and Virginia,
where the lists of registration are being revised,
under the Reconstruction Act, number Of rebels
vino have been pardoned by the Presidents recent
amnesty proclamation, have applied to have their
names registered In Alabama the Boards of
Registration, by order of General Pope, have re-
fused permission, and a,number of these men In
Montgomery, Alabama have taken the matter be-
fore the courts intending to test the constitution
atty of the Reconstruction Act."
--Advices from New Archangel, the capital
of the American possessions recently purchased
from Russia, state that business was active, and
building lots had advanced several hundred dollars
We are further informed that there is coin in cir
culation, but that leather money predOmlnates
The Copper River country is said to be rich in
gold, copper and coal, but the savages are very
hostile and warike. When it is not foggy it rains
at New Archangel, but the reports from there
praise the weather very much and the scanty pop
ulation of Russian Firms and Germans are repre-
sented as very glad to be annexed.
The New York Herald, says that at an elec-
ton in Charleston, not long since, 'the postofce
boxes were found to be filled with ballots deposited
by the negroes, who had beex supplied with them
by Radical agents, but knew not how to dispose of
them better than by dropping into the postofhce.
To such measure of intelligence it is that the af
fairs of the South are entrusted and this the peo-
pie are asked to endorse one of the most efficient
modes of reconstruction, according to the Radical
plan" The point is taken off the story of the
Herald, when the fact is known that no election
had ever been held in Charleston at which negroes
were allowed to vote.
"A correspondent of the Philadelphia Age
has seen Fort Macon and was not fayorably i'm
pressed with the "Second Military District" pris-
on. He says: "The next feature that startled me
was at Fort Macon, North Carolina. That fort is
garrisoned by blacks and is used as place of pun
ishment for convicts Recently saw there ne
gro soldier, driving and ordering eight white men
who were prisoners, while he made them haul a
seine and catch fish for>his black comrades and
himself. Some of them where white soldiers, con-
victed by court martial of petty Offences and some
were citizens of the United States, sent there by
military commissions, without trial by jury, with
out warrant or law, and in the exercise of pure ar
bitrary power.
- Official figures show that, in six years. four
teen billions, five hundred millions of dollars have
passed through the treasury of the nation. By
the census of 1860 it appears that the value of all
the real and personal property in all the United
States and Territories was sixteen billions, one
hundred and fifty nine millions, six hundred and
sixteen thousand and sixty-eight dollars. Thus,
nearly the full amount of all the property North,
West, and South has been expended since the
Radicals came into power. And now although
peace prevails in all parts of the land, the party in
power insists upon increasing the debt and taxa
ton of the country as means Of retaining their
hold on power, place and plumber Will business
men agree TO this PHILADELPHIA Age.
1t seems quite clear, from the revelations of
the European press, that the French military au-
thorities in Mexico forced upon Maximilian the
bloody policy which was afterwards invoked for his
own destruction. General Bazaine is proved to