Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-03-05
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hotels in that city, for $59, 900. 1t cost S2O6ooo.
- There are twenty-five thousand unemployed
men in Chicago and nineteen thousand OF them
are recipients Of charity. =--.r-s-.ss-,--..
The Eufaula (Alabama) Neaos says: 'Ihe
result of the re-registration just completed in this
State, shows difference in favor of the whites OF
nearly three to one"
- Advices from Brazil state that general
CONSUMPTION of all men has been ordered to pro-
vide reinforcements for the army. Ho! tor
Brazil-all who are beligerent.
The first number of the Repuaiator has
been issued in St. Louis The object of the pub
ication is to accomplish the reputation Of the ma
tional debt except that portion oft represented
by legal tender notes.
- Elder Hiram B. Clawson has just married
the fourth daughter of Brigham Young. He had
previously married the prophets eldest daughter.
Besides being high dignitary of the church, ne
is lessee and manager of the Salt Lake theatre.
A celebrated lawyer once said that the three
most troublesome clients he never had were
young lady who wanted to be married, married
woman who wanted divorce, and an old maid
who didn't know what she wanted. ...
"A man in. Massachusetts put lot of gun
powder tied in rag around his finger tor the pur-
pose of curing felon, and went to bed. In the
morning he commenced building tre when the
ienited powder exploded, and the flesh on his I'M,
ger was burned off to the bone. He says 1t cured
the felon and he don't ask anything for the recipe
- The new constitution of Louisiana provides
for the education of all children in public schools,
without distinction of race or color; but it adds
that mo separate schools shall be established for
any separate race" In other words, neither
whites nor blacks shall be permitted to provide
separate schools for their children no matter how
much both may desire it.
People in some parts of the United States
build their houses in such way as to admit OF
their being moved about from place to place. thus
it is stated that s'house on runners passed
through Grand Rapids, Michigan, few days
since in which was q stove, a table, a bed, and
other necessary articles of furniture the house af
fording accommodations to a family who were
bound for a point one hundred miles north In the
pine woods region of that State.
"A special dispatch from Philadelphia to the
Washington Erpress says: Outside of stocks and
gold gambling, fears are entertained that the un-
settled state Of the political horizon will act with
damaging effect on the spring trade about to open
The Presidents intention Of testing the constltu-
tionaty of the civil tenure bill in court is under
at the act of the Radicals in Congress IN conVuslng
the country. The reaction, it is thought will be
damaging to not few of the over-ambitious gen
tlemen in the House.
The Democracy of New York city are de-
lighted with the decision of the National Execu-
tive Committee in favor of New York as the place
for holding the National Convention. They will
now 20 to work and push forward to completion
the magnificent new Tamn,any Hall in Fourteenth
street, in order that the convention may hold its
deliberations there. The intend also to erect a
mammoth marquee in Tompkins Square, near by,
for the special accommodation Of the army of out
siders while there is talk of having general illu-
mination on the evening of the day on which the
every hour till midnight, from Union Park to the
Battery
"A Mississippi paper has some very sensible
remarks upon the prevailing disposition among a
portion of our people to throw the whole blame Of
non-production upon the laziness of the negro
1t says: "Men who are ruined unless the negro
works, will never save this country, nor can this
couutry save them,-- They are nohodys. cumhersrs.
drones, dead-woods stand-stilIs for energetic dr-
wing, working men to take glance at to see how
fast they are speeding in the race of reconstruction
and prosperity. The men who are going to make
plenty and to spare are the men who care very
They recognize the fact that they who labor, are
reasonably sure of the rewards of labor, and that
they who don't labor, but are waiting and schem-
ing to get the free negro to labor for them, neither
deserve it's rewards nor often get them-with a
clear conscience" There is more truth than poe
try in all this.
THE proposition brought forward by petition
in the Senate, the other day, by MIR. Sumner, to
abolish the Presidency and commit the Executive
Department of the Government to a Commission
appointed by Congress, is advocated in some jour-
mails in the West 1t is rather a significant, straw
showing the direction of what claims to be the pro-
gressive current of public sentiment. 1t propo-
ses substantially the same kind of Democratic gov
ernment which was adopted during the French
Revolution, when the Directory, appointed by the
Convention, welded the executive power OF the ma
ton 1t is curious though perfectly natural, that
the ultra radicals of the present day find all their
models for an improved government, in the worst
days of the worst government that ever existed.
No progress, it seems, has been made in the mat
ter of government by this country or any other
since the French Reign of Terror.-Ne,c York
Times
The National Democratic Committee held a
meeting in Washington, on Saturday, 22d ultimo.
Hon. August Belmont, of New York, presiding
No distinction whatever was made in the CON-
mittee between members from loyal and so-called
rebel States, and the representatives in the Ma
tional Convention are to consist of twice the num-
Der of Congressional representatives to which each
State is entitled by the last apportionment. lnI
this resolution no alusion is made to excluded
States. Eight States were not represented in the
Convention. viz: California, Georgia, Florida,
North Carolina, Louisiana, Virginia. Rhode Is
land and New Jersey After considerable debate
the committee agreed upon the city of New York
as the place for holding the Presidential Nomina-
ting Convention, and the fourth of July as the
time The only other action taken was an agree
ment to give this announcement, accompanied by
an earnest invitation to all the opponents Of rad
calism to unite in this movement to select anti
radical candidates for the Presidency and Vice
Presidency Of the United States. The proceed
ings were harmonious, and the result, it is under
Stood meets the almost unanimous approval OF the
members of the committee. =.
The recent scenes at the War Department
in Washington are worthy the pen of SylvanusI
Cobb, and would make one Of the most thrilling
dime novels ever written, The grim Stanton,
in the Department, sending out faithful emissary
to lock all the doors in the building, and finally
settling himself in his sleepless chair, with the
pile of keys on table before him; the weary pas
sing Of the hours Of darkness, whose monotony was
relieved only by the tramp of sentinels changing
guard the parting just before daybreak with his
staunch Congressional supporters, who contded
the ex-Secretary to the protecting care of one wa
than tales of the Inqustion Stanton, we learn,
like true warrior, slept on his arms-or keys
occupying lounge in his office, while Thayer nap
ped on another. The monotony of the siege was
varied by the appearance of breakfast, brought hot
n.