Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-01-23
Straps aud fafts.

Messrs. Garfield and Bingham, prominen
Radicals of Ohio, express the deliberate opinion
that the negro must be thrown overheard.
the production of cotton in Brazil, India ant
Egypt, will be larger than ever the present year
- In the coal mines of England and Wales a
bout 5000 men and boys are constantly employ
ed.
SENATOR Sprague, of Rhode Island, thinks
the North has insanely destroyed the cotton mo
nopoly. His firm has lost over million Of dollar:
on cotton. Hence these tears.
"A secret order has been instituted in New
York, known as 'The Brotherhood of the Black
even more disgusting than were those Of the de-
funct Sons of Malta.
Chicago possesses forty distilleries, twenty
five large and fifteen small, makes twenty-five thou
sand barrels of spirituous drinks year, and has
two thousand saloons, or one to every sixty mem
bers of her adult population.
Captain Burgh, at Chicago completed or
New Years day, his feat of walking seventy-fve
miles in twenty-four hours, with soldiers KNAPP
sack and accoutrements The stake was tor 50, 600.
He had forty-three minutes to spare.
"A contemporary devotes its attention to the
the best most of doing it is to cut up the cabbage
and boil it in bag. In this way it is said to be
made more palatable and tender.
Lovers of the sparkling bowl will be pleased
to learn that America manufactures eight hundred
thousand baskets of champagne more than the
champagne districts of France are able to produce.
So with madeira and with port. New York alone
manufactures annually eight hundred thousand
dollars worth of wines without single grape.
THE Newark sheriff gives as his reason for
excluding New York reporters from recent.exe-
cution, that, on previous occasion OF that sort,
when the reporters were admitted before the prep
arations had been made, one of the more enterprl-
sing woke the prisoner from q sound sleep and en-
deavored to get his confession exclusively tor his
paper.
The New York World continues to give
statistics of the number of workmen out of employ
ment. Itrecently stated that sc, O00 wanted work
in New York city, and 10000 in Brooklyn, and
now says that the depression in New England
throws out of work at least l60, 900 peope-lO,O00
in Maine, 10000 in New. Hampshire, $4,000 in
Connecticut and Rhode Island, and 100000 in
Massachusetts,.
- According to the Mercury, one of the white
delegates to the Convention expressed himself to
an outsider thusly: II am in favor of the best
man in the right place, regardless Of party and If
everybody else in the State was Of the same way
of thinking, not one of these delegates would be
here The outsider replied: '"That is true, not
one of you"
"A Convention of Southern Railroad Presi-
dents was held at Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday
last. They issued circular proposing that when
ever twenty roads shall agree to transport lmml-
grants at one cent per mile and two cents per ton
per mile for baggage, or one hundred and fifty
pounds to each immigrant those rates shall 60 in
to effect Immigrants settling on the line of any
road, are to be transported with their effects free
by that road.
"A large number of the leading merchants,
manufacturers and others Of Philadelphia, have
signed memorial to Congress praying that the ex-
istng tax of two and half cents per rpound on cot
ton, of the crop of 1867, be repealed They say
they believe that, by the removal of this tax, it
will at once bring the cotton into market, and there
by relieve not only all classes in the Southern
States, but also all the merchants of our great COM
mercial cities.
The Mercury says that the first effort in the
Convention at viva uoce voting was ludicrous In
the extreme. 1t was in the election of assistant
sergeant-at-arms Peter Miller was the favorite
candidate and the changes rung on his name by
voices of Xarious poHer- IN suoeessseRs-tas't'''
with the occasional contre tenptS OF green mem
Der answering the clerk with sir, was too much for
the visibles of those used to such proceedings
and before the election was concluded, the house
was in an uproar Of laughter.
The Methodist Church, for 1867, reports A.
473 preachers and ], ,0Sl members, an increase
of 1895 preachers and 1877 members during the
year. There are, also, II ,l2l Methodist churches
in the country, valued at S35, 1856 439, an increase
during the year of 25s churches, and Sc, 292, ,435
value. There are Is, S4l Sunday schools, with j.
0Sl ,S9l scholars, and having 2, 7S4 1895 volumes in
their libraries The collections for benevolent pur-
poses during the year were So, 7S4, S95.
The Montgomery Maa of Friday last says:
'Laborers were hiring themselves yesterday at the
Central Bank corner for fifty dollars, and even so
low astwenty-fve dollars for theyear These were
able field hands. Those who got five dol,
lars per month last year hire themselves for food
and clothing. We hear from the country that the
best field hands arc hiring in some sections for for
ty dollars per annunl. n great many decline to
hire until after the election. Such poor deluded
creatures will find themselves without home and
will be put to work by the Government on the pub
lie works with overseers over them. Such are
some of the first fruits of Radicalism.
"A gentleman in Charlotte County, Va, thus
tested the comparative results of white and black
labor. He furnished thirteen negroes with mules
and implements and provisions to raise crop, and
at the same time furnished an outfit to two white
men, The negroes raised "a barrels of corn, 7
stacks oats, and 5000 pounds tobacco. The two
white men, with little negro girl tocook for them
raised 1l24 barrels of corn, 10 stacks of OATS and
5000 pounds of tobacco. The negroes returned the
mules in a poor emaciated condition. The white
men turned theirs overtat and sleek. The negroes
worked four mules; the whites two. The gentle
man referred to will, this year, work white men ex-
clusivcly. To show the improvidence Of the ne
grDes he said the cart and mules were at their ser
vice to haul wood yet they preferred to burn rails
The National InteNtgencer, after discussing
at length the revolutionary unconstitutional bill in
troduced into the House Monday, wiping out the
Executive and Judicial Departments of the Gov
ernment, concludes its article in the following sig
nifcant language: 1T can come to nothing with
out the cooperation of the General of the Army.
1t all rests on him. Whatever his retio,nce, this
is matter in which reticence might be misunder-
stood. At the first overtact, howeverslig ght-were
it but to orally promise to accept the functions Of
fered in it, after such bill had been passed over
a veto-the General of the Army must be cast into
Jail to await his trial for treason to his country un
less the Chief Magistrate of that country is false to
the trust of the people and his oath of Office
1t is q noteworthy fact that all the New York
papers, the Radical journals included, denouncc
the new Reconstruction measure in the bitterest
terms. The Herald closes a long article in the fol-
lowing words: "Let the people of the North re-
feet on the unquestionable fact that the danger in
this matter is to their own liberties, not to those
of the Southern people; for the Southis so beaten