Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-09-19
+wALHAL.IA CORRESPONDENCE.

The further developments of registration in this
portion of the State -Pickeps District show still
heavier majorites for the whites than appeared at
the time of our last writing. The ratio Of whites
to blacks promises to be, in the end, probably
eleven to FIVE. This is, of course, controlling ma
jority; and the whites will play their hands with
very poor skill, if they suffer the blacks to controla
single important issue
Week unto week brings in tidings of still more
abundant crops-corn, grains, cotton Never since
the Creative VIII FIRST spake these mountains into
existence, have they returned to thefarmer more
luxuriant yield of the carealious products After
the past seven years Of famine, it is hoped that
there lie in store for U.s. yet six years OF abundance
ike this. ... ....-..- ...s z..4
While the rains this season have, in the MAN,
been very abundant hereabouts, we have had none
of those incessant, daily -formonths, eternaland-
never-to-end sorts of foods, that have visited Co
lumbia and the midstate IN general. Letters from
Columbia advise us that the same style Of iriga.
ton continues there. Here we have decent rain
once or twice q week, and bask in sunshine and
mountain grandeurs meanshile
Politics claim limited share Of attention.
People here very sensibly feel that there is very
little that is left for them to do and that the time
for such work has not yet come The people re-
gard the Convention as inevitable, but many Of
them will still vote against it, in the spirit of Gen.
Hampton Letter. General Hampton is immense
" popular here Ex-Governor Perry enjoys the
confidence of good many. Gov. Orr has rather
declined than advanced in popularity here, since
his election, when he was beaten three to one by
his opponent.
The German feeling here is distinctly Democrat
ic; and it has gained strength since the recent de-
velopments in the North West show the German
population and votes going heavily in favor Of that
Party. The Lacrosse Democrat is extensively
read here, and Brick Pomeroy is extensively laugh
ed over with hearty, side-shaking, Teutonic hi
lariV.
The cheapness of living here, as compared with
that of Columbia, is worthy of note. Houses in
Walhalla can be rented at from SIS to $40 month;
the highest we have heard Of, being the latter
price. The various articles of provisions can be
bought at low figures For example: Beef Of the
finest quality, can be bought at from three to eight
cents pound; the former being the price when
bought in quantities as large as aquarter at time.
Bacon and Lard sell at from l23 to 20 cents q
pound, varying good deal with the seasons and
with the abundance of other meats. Venison can
be bought almost all the time, at from to 10 cents
pound. Chickens sell at from l23 to Is cents
piece. Eggs are bought in trade at 10 cents doz-
en-, and sold at the same price in money. Butter
ranges from Is to 20 cents pound. Corn is now
selling at lbs bushel-old corn-but no citizen
with whom we have oonversed, expects the new
crop to sell for more than so cents bushel Oats
have been bought at 80 cents bushel Rye is
now $3.50; the rev crop may be 81. Flour sells
at SO barrel Irish Potatoes sell at so to IS
cents bushel; while sweet potatoes never bring
over so cents. Apples, the best from North Car
olina, sell at so cents bushel. Dried fruits are
at correspondingly low figures. J.. w.D.