Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-05-21
Seraps aud fatts.

The last slave of Rhode Island was buried in
that State on April 26th. The deceased, had OF
course been freed long ago. but had lived tor many
years as faithful friend and inmate of the family
of the master.
A young lady with blue CATERS, blue dress,
bue sack, blue lace collar, blue hat, blue feather,
blue parasol, blue fan, blue kid gloves blue stock
ings, blue eyes and turquoise bracelets, necklace
and earrings, attracted attention day or two
ago on one of the New York ferry boats.
Mr.. Halpine, in letter to the New York
Citizen. saws NMr. Chase, in private, makes no
concealment of his opinion that politically, impeach,
ment is the worst blunder of the Radicals while
legally, to use the expressive vernacular, 1t has
not a leg to stand upon.
-"XL Congress- is the heading placed over
its proceedings by sundry exchanges. An irreyer,
ent friend, noticing one yesterday, remarked that
the "XL' is suggestive of the present origin OF
the present Congress. He is a Henglishman and
reads it ''ex-hell."
A bill has been introduced into the English
House of Commons to protect the property OF mar
ried women. 1t proposes that woman, after her
marriage, shall retain complete control over hel
fortune and over her earnings, with liberty to sue
and be sued as if she were single.
The national flag, printed at the top Of the
Conservative ticket in Georgia, took the eye OF an
old darkey, who said Fore God, dey's not con-
offerin' us ticket wild the picture OBJ de cotton
patch ut the top"
in 1850, each individual owed two dollars
and sixty cents of the public debt; in 1868 each
owes about $50. In $780, the expenses of the
government were sixty-two Millions in 1867 the
Treasurer estimated them at two hundred and
twenty-five millions independent of the interest or
the debt, both being periods Of peace.
while Lincoln was President, Gen. Logan
one of the impeachment managers, gave to Mrs
Lincoln q MAGNIFICENT diamond of fabulous value
When Mrs. Lincoln tried to sell her surplus ward
robe and the iewelry she no longer needed, this
princely present, from the soldier-statesman, was
discovered to be paste and worth only $lS
The approach of storms is to be announced
by the Western Union Telegraph Company, in all
those towns that will communicate the intelligence
to the neighboring farmers by means of signal guns
fired according to q preconcerted system Ihe
plan will thus be thoroughly tested during the en-.
suing season.
AN exchange says that hen has the capac-
ity of laying six hundred eggs and no more. Usu-
ally they Law few the first year; from three hun
dred and twenty to three hundred and seventy in
the next three years. and the rest from the fifth to
the ninth year inclusive. The true economy,
therefore, is not to keep hens after their fourth
year.
1t is related by Western paper that a gen
tleman who was owing another one hundred dol
lars borrowed from the same creditor an equal sum,
promising to settle for both in few weeks. He
then used the loan for the purpose of going through
bankruptcy, and wrote to his con6ding friend that
he had redeemed his promise. The poor creditor
got not cent of either debt.
The case of John 81. Surratt, charged with
completely in the murder of President Lincoln, was
called up for trial at the Criminal Court in Wash
ington, on Wednesday Of last week. At the sug-
gestion of the Counsel for the Defence the case
was postponed until the next term. On applica-
ton, Judge Cartier refused bail on the ground that
the prosecution was ready for trial.
In the trial of Gen. Cole for the murder Of
Hiscock, at Albany, on the ground of adultery Of
his wife, the counsel for the accused makes the
remarkable statement, that within the last 200
years no man has been punished by any court
of justice, either in this country in England, fol
shooting the seducer of his wife, his daughter or
his sister, when that motive, and that alone, has
prompted the fatal blow. "
Nodoway, Missouri, reports a curious natu-
raj phenomenon in that town. 1t is spring, the
LIQUID of which flows from between two rocks, and
looks like highly colored brandy, but it tastes and
smells like pure whiskey, and has the same intoxi-
eating effect. The man on whose farm it has been
discovered is now boring for flowing well of lemon
juice.
a Clarksville, Virginia, paper furnishes the
following "cat-story": Mr.. L. +. Humphreys,
of this town, has cat who brought forth a lot Of
kittens few days ago. The kittens all died, and
the old pussy has adopted" a young mouse, who
LII. - fba he
were its mother, sleeping with her, sucking, &c.
This fact can be attested by reliable eye.wtnesses
and we publish it as most remarkable coinci-
dence."
Speaking for the Southern Democracy, the
Macon (Ga.) Journal says if it knows aught of
their temper or purposes, they will vote in the
New York Convention for the man, be he civilian
or Federal general, who can win-whose strength
before the country is such as to insure success and
the consequent deliverance of the South from the
hands of the oppressor They will neither ask nor
care to know what he said or what he did during
the war"
The New York San gives a brief statement
why the income tax is unconstitutional 1t says
the constitution provides that all direct taxes shall
be levied upon the States in proportion to their
population. Congress has no power to levy any
direct tax upon individual citizens, and must i'm
pose such taxes upon the States and upon them
only. The income tax is direct tax it is levied
not upon the States but upon individuals, and
therefore it is unconstitutional, and cannot right
fully be collected of any man.
The Catholic Church in the United States
has shown remarkable progress It not yet eigh-
ty years since the first Catholic Bishop came to
this country, and sixty years ago the entire Union
formed but one diocese. To-day there are fifty
nine bishops and Wears apostolic, and about thirty
three hundred priests. 1t is estimated that the
Catholic population now numbers from seven mil
lion to nine million in this country Since 1851
the number of churches has nearly tripled, anc
within the last seven years the clergy and laity
have increased fifty per cent.
Sergeant Bates has been asked to undertake
trip through New England, which, however, he
promptly declined on grounds of being extremely
hazardous to life and property. The proposition
is that the Sergeant shall undertake trip through
all the New England States Except Connecticut)
carrying the flag, and to start on the journey with
out money, and in all other respects the same as bs
did in his late tour through the South. The SCI
dier gives the following reasons why such an un
dertaking would be great risk: First-To under
take Journey through the New England State
without money is equivalent to starvation. Sec
ond-To travel throug that region with money h
ran great risk of being robbed on the way.
"A Washington correspondent says that tn,
contest between Wade and Colfax for the Vic'
Presidential nomination, at Chicago, is becoming
very warm and bitter. He thinks Senator Wilson
will throw them both. Of the two, Wade seems
to be ahead. He says: "Wades friends have
copies of the Blue Book at hand, and, if you car