Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-06-11
Sfraps aud fafts.


pleted and opened for BUSINESS six hundred miles
west from Omaha Sixty miles have been built
this spring. The company have larger force OF
laborers at work than ever before.
"A man lately advertised that on the receipt
of ten cents he would send q splendid steel en-.
craving Of 'sthat noble hero, General jackson y
The splendid steel engraving" proved to be two
cent postage stamp.
The Sugar crop of Louisiana for last year
was 37,647 hogsheads, against about half mil,
lion which was the product in "a state OF slavery.
However the Crescent says the culture is reviving,
and may in few years exceed old results.
The statement is going the rounds that if
the fame Of candle be applied to finger or toe
of supposed corpse, and raises wet blister, life
is not extinct. viii somebody please put candle
to old Ben. Wade's extremities.
The banking and currency committee Of the
House of Representatives have considered and
tabled petition signed by five hundred citizens OF
Montgomery, Pennsylvania, urging that the vign-
cites Of Fessenden and Chase be taken off the ma
tional currency.
Five congressional districts in Virginia have
each from 1900 to S 200 more colored voters than
whites at this time It is evident that in every
one of these districts colored men all voting
together, as they seem to think it duty to do-a
THAT iniuuitious institution, the freedmen s
bureau, with its attendant train of pampered and
insoent officials and hordes of lazy paupers, is to
be fastened on the country for another year. The
leaders of the radical party count on this bureau as
most potent ally in the coming presidential elec-
ton.
One of the sharpest political carricatures is
the ''dying impeachment gladiator, Ben; But
Ter lies PROSTATE in the arena, with his broken
sword and most demoralized countenance- whilst
President johnson is seen retiring with heavy
spoon over his shoulder, with which he has BRAIN
Cd the hero of Big Bethel
The New York Tribune calculates that
Grant and Colfax will have decided majorities in
twenty States, including all the Southern States
but Virginia and Texas. Connecticut, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ohio will,
it says, be stubbornly contested and if the Demo
Gratis lose either of the three largest, or Indiana
with either of the two smaller, the Radicals will
win the game.
There is quite disposition in Maryland to
put forward EI-President Frank Pierce for the
Presidency, and Mr.. Pendleton for the Vice Presi-
dency, as the first choice of the State, and Mr..
Pendleton for the Presidency as the second choice.
But for Mr. Reverdy Johnson's vote on recon-
struction, he would undoubtedly be put forward by
the Conservatives Of Maryland as their candidate
for the Presidency.
A writer in the Memphis avalanche, from
Columbia, Ark, says: The corn crop of this en-
tire region looks elegant, and the prospect is that
there will an abundant yield. Many assert it is
already made, and in some places it is high enough
to hide the mules and plowmen, that are now gen
orally working it for the last time before laying it
by. There IS an immense lot Of land planted in
corn"
We learn from the Mobile (Ala.) Register
that Col. St. Leger Grenfel, who escaped from the
Dry Tortugas some months ago, and was believed
to have been drowned, is now in safety. The
REGISTER says that letter had been received at
Havana from COL Grenfel, in which he sent his
thanks and acknowledgements for kind treatment
to some of the army officers at Tortugas, and said
that he was just about to sail for England.
At the Grant-C -Colfax ratification meeting in
Albany, New York, Dr. Breckinridge made par
tisan speech, in which he alluded to the city Of
New York as containing SO, 900 Roman Catholic
voters, whom he denounced as the cause OF the
Radical defeat and he said the State must be re-
deemed, even if to do so New York had to be
burned to the ground!
1t is at last acknowledged that the ''rebel-
lion' did not originate in the South. The 1i1batne
of Wednesday made the following confession with
reference to the revolt of the Southern States in
1861: 'That rebellion did not begin at the South
hereafter it will be said that our war sprang from
the revolt of the conscience of the North against
the way it used to talk when it was firing the
Northern heart and striving to put it against the
Southern heart.
1t is stated that hardly day passes at
Goldsboro', North Carolina, that outrages are not
perpetrated upon the citizens by negro troops sta
toned there. They enter stores, take what they
want, and leave without paying for it, and it re-
monstrated with, generally assault the storekeeper
Frequently ladies are compelled to yield the whole
sidewalk to them. The Rough Notes says their
lawlessness during the past week will compare
favorably with that of Sherman's noted bummers
in the days of strife and warfare
Persons who have insured their lives under
policies prohibiting residence in the United States
south of thirty degrees of latitude, should be
carefulnot to violate the condition. The Supreme
Court of New York city has recently decided that
such condition in policy is valid, and supported
the company in its refusal to pay the amount in
sured to the representatives Of an English lady who
mouth, Virginia The person insured, in all prob
ability, went South thoughtlessly, and by this in
advertence the benefits of the policy were lost.
- MIS- Harriet Beecher Stowe has lately re-
turned to Hartford from her Florida residence.
She has very pretty place there on the St.
Johns River. Mrs. S. says the Southern peo-
pie are no more inclined to resist the laws or to
foster the spirit of rebellion, than Vermont is
She tested the real feeling of the people in her
somewhat extended journey all over Florida, and
found them so kind that they would even surren-
der their own sleeping accommodations to her.
They desire only peace and the restoration of the
Union.
The Panniers, of the coming of which we
have had several premonitions, have at last made
their appearance in the fashionable world of Paris.
The pannier is described as steel basket which is
worn over each hip, and which is Exactly like the
wicker receptacles in which buffers carefully carry
old Port or Chambertin up to table. Between these
there bulges out hump far behind, and this is only
the under-foundation for puffy silk contrivances
above! With such compact affair as this on, the
trunk trade will fall, as every possible convenience
for travelling can be safely deposited within the hip
baskets" The most prodigious one of these pan
niers that had made its appearance in Paris was
called the Imperatrice.
- Wendell Phillips is even more than usually
emphatic in his denunciation of the Republican
action at Chicago Neither the nominations made,
nor the resolutions adopted at all satisfy or please
him. He brands the whole affair as q cowardly
surrender-both the candidates as unreliable, and
the general attitude of the party as betrayal of
the negro The explanation Of all this, of course,
lies in the unmistakable fact that the extreme
ultraists did not have everything-or indeed any
thing-their own way. They. were opposed to