Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-06-18
Scraps and fatts.

"A photographer in Gloucester, Massachu-
sets, was astonished by q young woman, who came
to ask, meekly and innocently: "How long does it
take to geta Photograph after you leave your mea-
sure ?''
The Texas Reconstruction Convention is still
occupied with preliminary business. 1t has been
ascertained that the State treasury contains $780,
600, and the members are satisfied as to the imam
cial prospect. 50
The New Constitution of Florida contains a
provision requiring educational qualification in all
persons voting for the first time in 1880. This
is step in the right direction. Too much
voting is the curse of the North, as too much ne
gro may be the bane of the South.
AN exchange speaks of one estate in Louisi-
ana, with some three thousand acres of the choicest
land, which recently sold for $3.50 while the
dwelling house and sugar mill alone cost more than
$4,000 The proprietor was Union man, worth
half q million of dollars. He is now penniless
The doctors of Chicago have been examin-
ing precocious Cincinnati infant Of three years,
who has all the developments of a full grown wo:
man. They agree that it is wonderful, and will
send the child woman over to sEurope tor the de-
lectation of the medical savans.
Western journals are urging the necessity OF
planting forest trees as remedy for the hurricanes
that 50 often deyastate the prairie regions. They
are not sure that forests would prove a remedy,
but wish to try the experiment, which would de-
eide the matter In the course of thirty or forty
years ess-ysses
"A number Of leading Republicans in Boston
propose to give public dinner to Senator Fessen-
den, as an endorsement Of fhsintegity and indepen-
dence In voting against the conviction of the Pres
ident Governor Bullock will preside, and james
Russell Lowell, ex-G Governor Washburn, President
Hill, Of Harvard College, and other prominent
Republicans, will be present.
The New York Times continues to oppose
the plan of relieving disabilities Of Southern men
in detail-man at q time-and recommends that
some general enactment be adopted BY which a
sort Of wholesale relief shall be granted, 'as a
means of obIterating some of the remaining traces
of conflict and putting an end to the most plausible
cause of discomfort.
"A few weeks ago, Sumner addressed let
ter to resident Of this State, in reply to an ap-
plication for the removal of political disabilities
IN which he expressed the opinion 'that to make
exceptions to the general policy in individual cases
would be to open the door to innumerable applica-
tons" but adds 'that as soon as the condition OF
the country will permit, he promises to advocate
the removal Of all disabilities
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Tt9,es, writes: 1.-THE statement that the
President will veto no more of the reconstruction
measures of Congress has no further foundation
than this-that he will let them become laws with
out his signature. This simply saves Congress the
trouble of passing them over his veto, or in other
words affords that body net gain of about twenty
four hours in the matter of their becoming laws OF
the land This is the extent of his concession to
Congress on this subject
The Richmond Dispatch, in an account Of
the memorial ceremonies at Ashland, Va. says
that one incident occurred which touched the
feelings of all. The grave of a Federal soldier
was found "Shall we decorate this grave? said
lady. For a moment there was silence, and then,
side by side with our own dead" And the same
fair hands which decorated the graves of the
Southern soldiers, now strewed flowers over the
grave of their enemy sleeping so silently by their
sides.
"A letter from Greenville, Tennessee, says
"About six months since the President purchased
a beautiful plantation, containing about five hun
dred acres, at Henderson's Depot, with two fine
Touring mills on it, and also beautiful building
spot, hundred yards from the depot, command
ing view of the Alleghanies, for fifty miles. The
name of the postofice at that Station has been
changed from Henderson to Home. His old
friends look forward with pleasure to the time, as
they jocularly say, when Andy shall return and
be their honest miller, as in former days ne was
their honest tailor.
The editor of the Staunton Tndicator, who
q few days ago passed over aportion Of the Orange
and Alexandria railroad observed "a very spirited
impetus in improvement since his last visit two
years ago, and learned that, within the past nine
months, the population Immediately along the road
between Alexandria and Culpepper Court House
has increased several thousand from immigration
alone. The towns are being built up, the farms
improved &c. We hail with great pleasure all
such evidence of the dawning of better day for
Virginia. s.-Rchnsond Wing.
"A correspondent of the Winnsboro' Neaes
writes: believing with your numerous cores
pondents that the introduction of immigrants into
our community will solve all the difficulties of the
times, financial and political, will devote l0O0)
one thousand acres of my land, in Fairfield Dis
trct, to bona de settlers, particularly Irish set
tiers feel sure that if immigrants can be indu-
ced to settle among US on these terms, it will en-
hance one hundred per cent. the value of our re-
naming land, and promote the prosperity of our
country.
Gold is used more extensively in the arts
than is generally imagined. 1t is stated that near
ly O,OO0 worth of this metal is consumed every
year in the decoration of chinaware, in England
principally at the Stafordshire potteries. The
total amount used in guiding generally in England
and France is estimated at $500, 900 per annum.
The trades in England, using standard gold, go
regularly to the mint and purchase the clipped
soVereigns by weight In this way the govern
ment saves the expense of re-coinage of the light
pieces, and satisfy legitimate demand of the in
dustrial arts.
The Paymaster General has thrown bomb
shell into the very heart of the radical camp by
demanding an additional appropriation of $25, ,000,
600 to enable him to pay the extra bountes au-
thorized by acts of Congress to be paid between
now and the lst Of December next This demand
and the necessity for an immediate compliance
with it in order to keep faith with the soldiers,
upsets completely all the fine promises of retrench-
ment and reduction of expenses made early in the
session. The Secretary Of War has also made a
demand for $5s5, $40 to supply deficiency in ap-
preparations for carrying out the reconstruction acts
of Congress.
The Neaos learns that whenever the Legisla-
ture assemblies vigorous effort will be made to
adjourn to Charleston, should the session promise
to be long one. The accommodations in Colum-
ba extremely il-adapted to the purposes of the
body and the prevalence of chis and fever is said
to inspire greater terror in the minds of the unac-
climated than the ordinary miasmatc diseases in
cident to the coast 1t is by no means probable.
however, that the first session will be long one.
The first important act of legislation will be the
ratification Of the fourteenth amendment, and the
State will not be fairly back in the Union until
proclamation announcing that ratification is issued
by the President.