Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-01-10
eHE Y0RKYfhhK EMQU1RER

,fter There is no call for aggresAveness on the
part of the President, knowing, as he does, that
bis steady resistance, and the utter folly OF their
measures, will wear the Radicals out in time In
peachment, DECENTRALIZATION, any excessively radl-
,al scheme must fail, for the reason, that both
parties are under bonds, to three thousand million
seriously risk collision. At the most, we of the
South have only to fear oyalist or semi-loyalist
change in our State Governments, and even that
he doubts "You cannot forget" said he, the
President course at New Orleans, during the con-
vention which met for the avowed purpose OF sub,
verting the government, which Mr.. johnson had
authorized the people to form. See, too, how
quietly the 'loyaEsts' went under in Baltimore:
Such views are most encouraging at this time,
and we,can but hope that they may be verified.
Old Thsd. Stevens may consume his New Year 8
day in framing indictments against the President
and Chase, and the Radicals may grit their teeth
with ill-concealed rage, at the appearance OF an
ex- Confederate Congressman Moore of Kentucky,
now lawyer in Alexandria,, and wife at the Pres
ident's reception Of yesterday; but when the time
of actual trial comes in the shape Of impeachment,
somebody will back down. The President has yet
to back down in the first instance"
"A correspondent Of the New Orleans Ptoa-
yune, writing from Cuba, under date Of the l1th
ultmo, furnishes the following paragraph in refer
ence to the sugar crop on that Island:
''The sugar crop promises to be very large one
judging from the yield those plantationsthat have
from 5000 to 10000 hogsheads larger than last
year, caused princi ipay by the introduction oflabor
saving machinery in the planting. A number OF
steam plows are now used on thelarger plantations
and are equivalent to an increase of 5000 field
hands, which is Of the utmost importance to the
planters, as hands are scarce and we have to rely
at present entirely on the Chinese emigants, as no
more negroes are brought from Africa and the cities
absorb all the white element arriving from Spain
or other foreign countries. The cane is not very
large, but the Guarapo ranges from to 10 degrees.
The following are the reasons assigned by the
Legislature of Arkansas, for rejecting the Consa-
tutional amendment ......
lst Arkansas does not know that the amend
ment was adopted by such q Congress as the Con-
stitution provides for onethird Of the States beng
unrepresented nit I'd. Itwas never submitted to
the President for sanction as the Constitution re-
uuires Sd. The enormous power it seeks to give
Congress would virtually abolish all local and do
mestic State laws. 4th. It seeks to force negro
suffrage on the States, as shown in the second sec
ton, while the fifth and third sections disranchlse
the wsest and best citizens of the State, who, hav-
ing performed all the conditions Of surrender and
general amnesty, are entitled to restoration to the
status they held before the war, and there are no
reasons for believing its adoption would secure res
toration. The committee recommend a quiet and
dgnifed course Of endurance, rather than purchase
restoration at sacrifice of the principle Of sefres-
pect.
The editor of the Galveston CUiAan has
from Gen. Longstreet (who pronounces Gen. Lee
"the best man in the world,') the following anec
dote of the great Confederate chieftain:
On one occasion, Gen. Lee called Col. L., one OF
his staff officers, into his tent, and commenced die
tating while Col. L. wrote. COL L. had in his
mouth pipe, and was smoking The General in
hailed the noxious vapor until bis patience became
exhausted, and then said, ''Col. L. you can retire
and send me Col. -; he does not smoke" Col.
L. retired, and in a few moments Col: - enter
ed, to whom the General commenced debating, but
after inhaling the atmosphere Of the tent for
while, he discovered it to be considerably impregr
mated, not with the perfume of roses but the obi.
ous smell Of vainous whiskey, which he could J. not
stand. .'Retire, Col -, and send me an officer
who neither drinks nor smokes; would rather
endure the smoke of tobacco than the smell oi
whiskey."
Stephen Girard, than whom no more shrewd
business man ever lived, gives the following as his
experience:
''I have always considered advertising liberallly
and long to be the great medium Of success IN
business, and the prelude to wealth. And have
made it an invariable rule to advertise in the dull
est times as well as the busiest long experience
having taught me that money thus spent is vel
laid out; as by keeping my business continually
before the public, it has secured me many sale;
that would otherwise have lost"
-"H "Hermes' the Washington correspondent o.
the Charleston Merc1y, says:
''The opinion gains ground that Wade, Foster 4
Co., are touring it in the South for purpose be:
yond that of Christmas froGc. IF the gritty and
cantankerous Wade returns with the report that he
had been mistaken in the feeling of the South, q
fine opening will be made for widening the doors oi
Congress. RECONSTRUCTED" is called for urgently
in Wall street, and here is chance for an excuse
for it.
The United States burial parties report the
number of re-interments of Federal soldiers who
fell in the late war as follows in the several depart
ments:
Eastern, 5,49S; Middle, 16, ,s92; Carohnas, IT,
1856; Washington, los, 2S7 Ohio, IL, 745 Mlssou-
n, lU,0il flaCte, ,oSf aIkauStS1 11,oIS 5ou'
isiana, 81, 500; Texas 1929; Florida ,l78; Ten
nessee, 67,l82; Kentucky, 17,772; Georgia, r.
500; Alabama, l,733 Mississippi, II, 900; Pacific,
100. Total, 341 ,670
An interesting and amusing article in the
November number of Harper's Magazine on news
paper advertisements closes with the following ad'
vice: TO Merchants"
|. Advertise 2. Advertise literally. 8. Ad
vertise courageousy. To the Public at large. l.
Read the advertisements. 2. Study them, and
verify they shall be for your profit.
The New Orleans Pcayale advises the plan
ters to adopt the Yankee plan Of hiring, and make
the following proposals:
"Tll hire you by the month or week at so much,
feed you along so long you stay with me- and dis
charge you whenever you fail to doyour work pay
you cash down at the end of your month"
AN IMPORTANT DECISION.
Abraham Sessel, merchant of Memphis, ten
dered to John League, County Court Clerk Of Shell
by County, 81, ,O77O9, the amount Of his taxes due
the State, in issues of the Bank Of Tennessee,
dated prior to Mayo, 1861. League refused to re-
ceive it, on the ground that the law of 1866 re-
pealed the 18th section of the act chartering the
Bank, which peclared that the issues of the Bank
should be receivable at the Treasury of the State,
and by all tax collectors and other public officers, In