Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-14

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ment has already been obtained. The bill also re-
stores the jurisdiction of magistrates to 800 and
under, but stays magistrates judgment to twelve
instead of six months. IF this bill can stand the
ordeal of the Supreme Court, North Carolina will
become emphaticaIy the debtors Paradise. But
this is extremely doubtful, as Supreme Courts In
general are much given to the up-setting Of stay
laws of every description, as unconstitutional expe-
dents
= Insurance companies are falling below par in
the North. Within the last twelve months, seven
6rst-class companies in New York and nine or ten
in New England hive collapsed, while those which
are still afoat admit, by their annual statements,
that they have sustained heavy losses. The great
number of disastrous fires and shipwrecks during
last year has shaken many of the most substantial
companies 100000, 900 of their capital has been
sunk by these accidents, and the rascality Of en-
ployees has also contributed to injure them. The
smashing of those companies which have already
failed, has affected the credit of the survivors, so
that the commercial world is beginning to lose faith
in insurance as remedy for accidental loss If the
evil stops here, it will not prove serious But
many look upon the failures mentioned as but the
beginning of the great financial crash, which is
foreshadowed by other signs than these, and which
threatens to sweep away the present business in,
terest of the country. The declines in sales, the
falling off of the revenue, the use Of currency
based upon an unstable government and the in
capacity of Congress to legislate for commerce, all
point to sudden and universal bankruptcy. As
our section is already bankrupt, we cannot be seri-
ousy hurt. But some fine houses in Boston and
New York, which now rest upon shaky founda-
ton of greenbacks, will tumble, and great will be
the fall thereof"
"A Washington telegram to the New York
Herald announces the momentous fact, that Gen.
Grant has called all the general officers of the army
together at Washington This item of news is put
in flaming capitals, as 'highy important" Spec
ulation is rife, as to the object Of collecting in one
assemblage so many victorious heroes; and among
other suggestions, the idea thrown out that they
are to consult upon the propriety Of keeping up
garrisons in the South This ominious gathering
of the birds Of prey that made such havoc in our
defenceless land, has excited alarm in the breasts
of some persons, who are, alas, too familiar with
the habits and instincts of the aforesaid 'birds
But in our opinion, the whole thing may be ration
ally accounted for, on the supposition that they
are only desirous of enjoying a social "drunk. -
Whiskey is plentiful in Washington, notwithstand-
ing the heavy drain upon the article for the use Of
Congress, and Of course, when the heroes who have
shed such undying lustre upon the American name,
want some, it will be furnished them at the public
expense. Nothing then, is more natural, than
that they should flock to where the cornjuice flows
so freely.
AS many of our readers are doubtless con-
tempatng the propriety Of entering the holy bonds
of wedlock, some Of whom may be deferred from
the venture solely by want of the wherewith to
pay the preacher, we take from an exchange, the
following anecdote, which suggests an easy es-
cape from their difficulties. We have no doubt
that the amiabe gentlemen, whose profession it is
to tie the delicate knot, could in consideration Of
the hard times be induced to take beans in lieu Of
more portable fees. Indeed, eow-peas, fodder, or
shucks might be used as not unacceptable substi-
tute. Only think, young man, Of getting better
half for bundle of shucks Too good, isn't it?
A WEDDING FEE-'Many and many year
ago." how many, deponent saith not, a youthful
couple appeared at the gateway Of a parsonage OF
a town not hundred miles off. Mounted on a
sober nag, they also claimed companionship with
a bag, evidently filed with some valuable commod-
i ity Dismounting, the gallant youth left his Lady
and the bag, and proceeded up the avenue Of elms
leading tothe pastors door,. and entered the man
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the waiting damsel, at the same time calling, in
stentorian tones, Come along, he says he will take
beans" Guiding the steed to the door, the lady
was received by her would -be-lord, and soon "the
twain were made one flesh, /" and the minister was
left in possession Of goodly supply Of beans.
I'm ful6lment of our promise in last weeks
issue, we publish the annexed account Of the tria
of steam-plow, which took place at the fail
grounds of the Mechanics and Agricultural Asso
ciation, of New Orleans MI. Max Eyth, late en-
gineer in chief to the Pacha of Egypt, exhibited
the machine, maneuvring it after the manner Of
the Egyptians, and clearly proved the utter inabl
ity of freedman to turn up mud at all, in compar-
ison with this wonderful invention. The planters
present at the trial are said to be ''enraptured'
with the steam-plow so that we may expect to
hear of speedy decline in the price Of mules and
the wages of freedmen, in that section Says the
Crescent:
''The plow moves between two engines with such
ease and ceerty, guided by one man, that the work
of forty ordinary plows, with all the necessary
hands and accompaniments, can be performed In
twenty-four hours, and every moment Of favorable
weather may be improved with such promptitude
and certainty that no time is lost in preparing the
soil for whatever crop may be designed. Ihe ad-
vantages of this wonderful improvement need only
to be seen to satisfy all who are interested in agri-
culture, of its adaptabty to our SOIL and the econ
omy and prachcability of its working on large or
small scale. 1t is such an enterprise as should In,
terest every planter and merchant in the State and
promises yet to revoutionize the system OF South
en agriculture We can i'll afford to let planters
of Egypt, who have tested this machine, surpass
us in enterprise in the culture Of our great staple
and with the advantages Of the steam-piow, we
may vie with the world in wealth and productive
ness.
The New York Erpress is responsible tor
the following statement, which is interesting and
important, if true. ,
''The Jews in Bombay have been greatly excited
by the publication of pamphlet by their pontlttf
entitled THE Voice of the Egilant. The object Of
the pamphlet is to persuade the Jews that it is
useless to wait any longer for the promised Messiah,
as it was Jesus Christ himself, who was made known
in the New Testament"
The New York World says that the night
workers of New York city, number in the various
trades and caIlngs nearly sixty-fve thousand: