Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-04-09
Straps aud fatts.

The entire Republican State ticket, in Ar
kansas, has been elected by 5000 majority.
-Brownlow says the measure of his ambition
is filed and all he desires is to depart in peace.
Let him DO so.
merchant and an alderman Of Charleston, died in
that city, on Wednesdy last.
The Arlington estate, in Virginia, opposite
Washington, formerly the residence Of General
Lee, is to be cut up into five and ten acre lots, and
let out for cultivation to the colored people.
Brownlow has pardoned out rascal just
sent to prison for attempting rape upon his moth
er-in-law, and commissioned him captain Of COM
pany of negroes in his loyal militia.
The steamship Vile de Paris recently ac-
complished the distance between New York and
Hayre in eight days and sixteen hours, being the
quickest trip on record.
-Heretofore no colored persons received
tickets of admission to the impeachment trial, but
it is now stated that Senator Sumner has issued
tickets for the admission of one colored gentleman
and two colored ladies.
Mr.. Stanton has now been enduring self
Imprisonment in the war Office for over one month,
and still continues to hold out in his determination
to remain till the Senate has disposed of the Pres-
dent.
The bankrupt law has now been in opera
ton about nine months, and during that period
there have been fled in New York two thousand
petitions; in Massachusetts eight hundred and
twenty-five; and in Pennsylvania over twelve hun
dred.
"A Washington correspondent who admlres
General Grant, writes: General Grants face is a
study to me always, wearing its look Of pain, as If
an invisible world pressed him down from above
He always walks as if steadying himself under this
load"
-During q recent session of the Conference
of the New England Methodist Church, in Bos-
ton, the Committee on the state of the country,
through Rev. Gilbert Haven, reported resolutions
endorsing impeachment and eulogizing Grant and
Stanton. They were unanimously adopted.
"A physician in Germany announces case
where child was born with smallpox, the mother
herself not being affected at ALL She had accident
ally come into communication with o severe case
of small. pox, about six weeks before the birth Of
the infant.
The Rev. Stephen II. Tying, Jr., an Episco-
paian, recently reprimanded for preaching in
Methodist church, preached sermon ON Sunday
evening in DR.. j. H. Weston's Baptist church,
Madison avenue, New York, to congregation of
over two thousand persons, while half as many
more failed to get into the building
Gen. Schofeld has appointed Gen. H. W. =
Wells, of Alexandria, Governor of Virginia, ribe
Governor Pierpont's term expired. Wells has
been residing in Virginia since 1862; is from Mich
igan, was Brevet Brigadier- General in the Uni
ted States army. He enters upon the duties of
his Office at once.
The House committee on coins and coinage
have agreed to report bill to provide for more
uniformity in coinage of two, three and five cent
pieces, to be composed Of nickel and copper, the
two cent pieces to be Of particular size described
in the bill, the three cent pieces to be size larger,
and the FIVE cent coin to be larger than the three
cent, thus regulating the size proportionatey to
the value of the different coins.
One of the managers of impeachment was a
strong supporter of the President two years ago,
advised the veto of the Freedmen's Bureau and
Civil Rights bills, and regarded that policy as alto
gether lovely. But he couldn't get Mr. johnson
to approve a cotton claim of S90,00O in which he
had contingent fee of $780, 600, and thereupon it
became his duty to impeach the Executive who
wouldn't do dirty work for his friends.
Chicago is getting most questionable rep
utation.' 4 contemporary says that man who
left his wife in New York and went to Chicago,
narrates that as soon as he reached the city, and
before he was fairly out of the depot, he was
attacked by score of small boys who pressed upon
him the cards Of various lawyers, and assaulted
him with shouts of ''Want divorce, mister?''
'Here you are; divorce you in fifteen minutes"
and such like astounding cries
The steam man that has made so much talk
is now denounced by Newark man, who seems to
understand the case, as an unmitigated humbug.
1t never has walked step since it was made 1t
was carried from the shop where it was made to an
NO pad fhaf
its feet did not touch the ground and set agoing.
Its legs swung back and forth in the empty air,
but that was ALL
- Senator Hendricks, of Indiana, stated in
Congress the other day, that at present the ex-
pense annually of each soldier in the army was two
thousand dollars, and nearly two million dollars for
each regiment; the total cost being about one hun
dred million dollars year for an army of fifty
thousand men. The senator urged that, with
proper management the army expense could be
cut down forty millions year, and in this matter
the taxpayers are deeply interested, and should
urge rigid economy.
Governor Brownlow has published, under
his own name, in the Knoxville Wig, an article in
which he denounces the Kuklux Klan, and advises
Union Leagues to arm and exterminate the men,
bers oft: The editor of the .IIdette, in Sumner
County, Tennessee was notified on Saturday that
the Unionists were about ito clean out the Ku-
kux Klan in that county. a call was Immediately
issued urging the citizens toraly and repe the inva
ders. A collision is seriously apprehended in that
section.
"A venerable old lady recently died in Win
slow, Me-, who had not heard of the late war, be-
cause, being so deaf that it was necessary to con-
verse with her by writing, none of the family wish
ed to assume the task Of keeping her posted
When two of her grandsons enlisted she saw them
in their uniforms, as she had in childhood seen
the soldiers of the first revolution, and inquired
what it meant. When told it twas the fashion,
all the young men were wearing them," she re-
piled with animation: "Just as they used to do
when was little girl, and told them they would
come in fashion again.
The New Orleans Bee says that the late
Judge Taney refused to receive greenbacks in pay
ment of his salary on the ground that the Con-
''the Judges both Of the Supreme and Inferior
sll.e;.
continuance in office" This, according to Judge
Taney, inhibited the Treasurer from paying him in
anything else than gold or silver coin, or its equiv
alent. Mr.. Chase was then Secretary of the Treas
ury, and he refused to pay the Judges salary ex-
cepting in greenbacks But, adds the Bee, and
upon information from a high and responsible
source, 1T is a fact that since Mr.. Chase became
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the Judges
have been paid their salaries in gold"
"A Washington dispatch says that ''the diff
Guilty between Gen. Butler and Gen. Grant has
been at last amicably arranged. The friends of
both parties have been engaged for some time past