Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-07-16

CarOllna, wrote q very Drlet protest 10 tne new
Governor on surrendering the executive office un-
the protest that neither Holden nor those elected
at the time he was, have anylegal authority to the
positions they claim, save the certificate Of ma
jor-general Of the United States army. IA .-
- The valuation of the real and personal prop
ery Of New York city, liable to taxation in 1868,
Is fixed at $90S, 1876, ,32, against 1881 ,669 u3 in
1857, being an increase of SIC, 766, ,5l4 This in.
crease, it is asserted, is due mainly to the rise of
real estate in the upper wards This year the rate
of taxation win be fixed at about So. so per 100;
last year it was e. So.a14 : .-., - !sa; ,fg5, F
The first rhinoceros that has been brought
to this country in twenty years, was landed in
New York last Monday. The animal is but four
years old, and measures nine feet in length, and
four and half in height, weighing over 5000
pounds As his daily food he eats two bushels of
corn, one brshel Of potatoes, and 300 pounds of
hay, drinking fifteen to twenty buckets of water
- The sales Of breadstuEs, the product of
wheat, in this country, are estimated to exceed
three thousand millions of dollars every year. This
calculation allows for six sales or exchanges of the
entire product of the country before actual con.
sumption, estimated at 200, ,000, 900 bushels, and
includes the additional value of labor in milling and
transporting. Ofeorn, 1000, 900 bushels are pro-
duced. y, ..,. +. ...-.-..,.:: .l..... ......
The new Tammany Hall, in New York, was
formally, dedicated on Saturday morning, before
the assembling of the National Convention by the
sachems and brethren of the Society ofSt. Tam
many, who formed in procession at the temporary
wigwam, in Thirteenth street, and marched to the
new building. The Declaration Of Independence
was read by Judge Cardozo, after which Grand
Sachem John T. Hoffman pronounced the dedica-
tory address, the ceremonies terminated and the
hall was thrown open to the National Convention.
.-A An association of colored men, known as the
CHASED tract Of land near Mount Pleasant, oppo.
site to Charleston. We learn, by the National
Savings Bank Journal that they have planted this
year one hundred acres Of cotton, ffytwo acres of
corn, ten of peas, ten of melons, two and half Of
tomatoes, three of beans, ten of sweet and six o.
Irish potatoes This crop is represented as doing
well, and as the company is quite large the labor
is comparatively light
- At Hallowen (Me. granite quarry, recent
", there was split from sheet of granite, solid
block one hundred feet long, averaging in width
eight and half feet, and in thickness five feet.
The block contains no less than four thousand two
hundred and fifty cubic feet, and consequently
would weigh about three hundred and half tons.
1t is asserted that more ponderous and symmet-
rical mass of granite was never before quarried in
the country.
"A steam traction engine has recently been
tried in Brazil, on the macadamized road which
Petropolis, to the borders of the district Minas
Geres The engine, it is stated ran up the steep
road, dragging large omnibus with ease and
speed, and dashed rapidly over the level road from
Petropolis to Juiz da Fora, at speed of more
than the ten miles an hour at which the passenger
stages make the trip. The trial was considered to
be successful n:
1t is announced that, in consequence of the
success of the recent British explorations about
Jerusalem, similar enterprise for Mount Sinai
had been planned by the Rev. Pierce Butler. We
regret to learn, by recent advices from England,
that this gentleman, said to have been we'll quail
fed to superintend the labour, had died just as he
was about sailing for his field Of operations The
other auspices, and it is hoped with interesting re-
suits.
Large farms seems to be attracting the at
sing gentlemen of Harrison County, Ohio, have
purchased township six miles square, in Me-
braska, of government land, and propose to convert
the whole into one grand farm Of 23,040 acres.
They intend to enclose it with hedge of the Usage
orange twenty-four miles in extent, and will put
cross hedges twelve miles in length. They will
hire all their labour, and use the most improved
agricultural machinery, intending to put the whole
farm into wheat as fast as possible, 1t will re-
quire about 20,000 bushels for the seed of such o
farm.
The Metrical System of weights, and meas
ures of length, surface and volume, the same as
the French, have been adopted in Germany. A
writer in the Euening Post says: May we initiate
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adapting the dollar to the five franc piece, and may
a single lustrum suffice to find our whole cs- eau.
casian race with one coin, measure, weight, ther
mometer, and one longitude, as it has already one
alphabet, one music, one education high and low,
one dress one era, one numeration, one law of ma
tions, one division of time, one domestic economy,
and the same financial concepts so that the inter-
naturalization of our race may be thorough, with
out, however, the wiping out of the distinct na-
tionalites.
"A very pretty incident is related of canary
bird by Georgia paper The door Of the birds
cage was occasionally left open that he might en-
joy the freedom of the room. One day he hap
pened to light upon the lnantelsheE, where1pon
was mirror. Here was new discovery OF the
most profound interest. He gazed long at him
self, and came to the conclusion that he had a
mate Going back to his cage he selected seed
from its box, and brought it in its bill as an offer
ing to the stranger. In vain the canary exerted
himself to make his new friend partake, and be-
coming weary of that, it tried another tack Step
ping back a few inches from the glsSs he poured
forth his sweetest notes. pausing now and then for
q reply. None came, and moo9y and disgusted
he fed back to his perch, hanging his head in
shame and silence for the rest of the day; and al
though the door was repeatedly left open he re-
fused to come out again.
President johnson, in reply to brief COM
munication addressed to him by long list of dis
tinguished citizens of New York, asking whether
he would consent to become candidate for the
next Presidency before the Democratic Convention,
dispatched on yesterday aetter admirable in tone,
in taste, and as an explanation and defence of his
administration and principles. The President, in
this letter, audes with dignity to the unpreceden-
ted position which he has occupied with reference
to Congress, the Constitution, and the people.
Compelled BY his oath to administer the govern
ment in accordance with the Constitution and the
laws, his efforts have nevertheless been embarrass-
ed by an overpowering opposition from a majority
in the National Legislature, against which he could
act only upon the defensive, or risk the direful
possibility of counter revolution After review
ing aeeOnsiderable length the circumstances which
have controlled his action as an advocate OF the
people rights, the President declares himself to
be, as he always has been in the course of his long
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