Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-10-31

torequest the reduction of the cotton tax 1.-The
Red Sea is to be drained to recover the valuabes
lost with Pharoah's host The Darlington
.So,ahamer contains four column advertisement
from the Sheriff of that District, of property levi
ed on for taxes. The President has appoint
ed Thursday, the 18th of November, as day Of
national thanksgiving. .".......According to Blot,
s:the great cookist," coffee or broth should never
be allowed to boil, In coffee the aroma escapes
with the steam, and with broth the essence Of the
meat escapes The Mrcuy says the indebt-
ness Of the city of Charleston is FIVE millions Of dol
lars, which, divided among population Of twen-
ty thousand white persons, exhibits an indebted
ness of $3.50 per head. ....,,..s, .,s..-:. to.
| EDITORIAL INKLINGs. :'.. I'd
Bolts Down Again. - .."s.faa- >.-' 'r'-
The news from Virginia is not cheering but
there is one item which affords some consolation.
John Minor Bolts, the notorious hanger on to all
parties in turn, was the Radical candidate for Cul
pepper County, and was defeated by 62 votes. 1t
is said he received the votes Of seven white men
only, six of whom were foreigners, and the seventh
was probably Bolts himself. 1t is we'll he was de-
feated for the Convention will be sickly enough,
without having the ''bots..'' -.'..'
Sheridan Kissed.
During the reception of Gen., Sheridan at
Boston, he was publicly kissed by two young ladies:
This fattering welcome was not entirely mark OF
the esteem which the fair ladies felt for Sheridan.
There was bet involved, and the ladies gained it,
as well as the gratifying consciousness of having
kissed live general But it is to be feared there
was some sweetness wasted; for if he is not great
ly belied, Sheridan would rather smack glass Of
whiskey than all the girls in Boston. ~.
A Congressional Committee in Charleston.
"A committee of stray Congressman made
their appearance in Charleston last week. Their
avowed business was to investigate the condition
of certain Southern railroads, which are indebted
to the q. s. government But if their proceed
ings are any test of their object, these gentlemen
are out on an eectioneerng tour for the benefit Of
the Radical party. They appear to have had a
very good time in the, city, as they visited Fort
Sumter and other forti6cations in the harbor, d.
ned with Gen. Candy, and held political meet
ing, at which they gave vent to their superabun-
dant loyalty" in series of spread-eage speech
es. The government doubtless secured an i'm
mense amount Of RAILROAD Indebtedness by paying
the expenses of this committee to Charleston, for
the purpose of explaining to crowd of negroes,
why Pennsylvania and Ohio voted against the
Radicals
Where the Spoils Went. ...
"A few days ago, picture representing two
children feeding horse, which had found its way
to the Dead Letter Office at Washington, was
claimed by and restored to parties at Columbia s.
c., The claimants stated that it was the only ex-
isting portrait of two deceased children, and had
been captured" by some of Sherman bummers,
during the sack of Columbia These statements
led to an investigation of the Dead Letter Office
records; when it appeared that the q. s. mails
were regularly used as means of conveying the
trophies Of Shernan's army to the North. The
use of the express was forbidden to the heroes by
military orders, and they used the mail as the only
available substitute.
It may afford some comfort to the rightful own
ers to learn that many of these stolen articles were
| lost to the thieves The mails were SO overbur-
dened that many of the trophies were dropped in
the dead letter Office. There they accumulated
until they filed dozen large boxes, and the in
yentory of the articles covered over hundred
pages of foolscap. These boxes were transferred
to the Freedmen's Bureau, and their contents were
sold at auction. The proceeds we suppose, we e
either pocketed by officials or turned over to the
Bureau as contribution of Northern benevolence
to the sufferings of the ''poor African"
Mr.. Davis' Trial.
"A late Washington dispatch says:
| "Chief Justice Chase has written to Judge Un-
derwood, that he viii be present at the opening
of the Court in Richmond in November. He re-
fers to the fact that Mr. Davis bail bond expires
on the 4th Monday in November, and says if MIR.
Davis is willing, he will take up the case before
that time but will not remain in Richmond after
the Supreme Court meets in December.
Louis Napoleon's Title.
The N. Y. Home Journal says the Emperor
Louis Napoleon, became Napoleon the Third
through the error Of telegraph clerk, and gives
the following account ofit
'In the course of its preparations for constitu.
ting the empire, the Home Office wished the coun-
try to take up word which should be an interme,
diate between President and Emperor, SO the Min.
lister determined to order that France should sud;
denly burst into the cry Of "yave Nqpoleon!' and
d ordre soft rirs Napoleon Il" The clerk mistook
the notes of admiration for Roman numerals, and
in few hours the forty thousand communes oi
France had cried out so obediently for Napoleon
ILL.,, that the government was obliged to adopt the
clerks blunder; and Louis Napoleon, with ready
audacty, hit upon the device Of calling Bonaparte'
son Napoleon II.
Decrease of the Negro Race.
! The Raleigh Sentinel says: lit is stated, ir
our to-day's telegraph dispatches from Washing
ton, that General Howard Chief of the Freed
t mems Bureau, who certainly has the amplest op
portunities of information, announces that the ne
gro population Of the South has decreased over
million and quarter since their emancipation
, This is most astounding revelation, and we are
inclined to think that the mortality Is much exag
gerated, although there can be no doubt that j
has been very great. Is there not lesson in thu
: for the black man? Will he not realize the disas
trous consequences to his race Of pursuing lives O.
indoence and thriftlessness, and Of cutting them
selves off from reliance upon, and the sympathie'
Of those who are their best friends, and their nat
ural protectors? At any such an approximate
rate of decrease, how long will it be before the color
{ ed race becomes more Insignificant remnant thar
even the aboriginal population Of the country
What will then be the condition OF the negroes z
a feeble people, who have alienated the greater
and best part Of the whites by inso!ent claims t.
political power and supremacy, and BY course O