Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-05-27
Straps aud fafts.

-Ofice-seekersS4 are alarmed at. the report
that Grants family has been increased by the mar
rage of his sister. :, ,.,, -: .!--f,:.
= The Charlotte and South Carolina Rail Road
Company has declared Stock Dividend OF twenty
five per cent on the capital stock of the Company,
payable op and after the 25th instant, in the Stock
of tho Columbia and Augusta Rail Road Company.
Eorney has been writing about Kepnesaw
Mountain, which he says was held BY our forces
against fearful odds" A captions critic reminds
Ferney that it was the Confederates that held it,
and sour forces that formed the Fearful odds.
Poor women in Portland, Me-, make clothing
for New York houses for 25 cents apiece tor wool
en- sack coats, l22 to Is cents for pantaoons, tor
ordinary overcoats 40 cents, and for the heaviest
and best made go to IS cents:
The General Assemblies of the Old and the
New School Presbyterian Churches met IN New
York last week. The chief business before them
was the consideration Of the subject of reunion,
the-two bodies having been divided ever since the
year 1885,
The Lancaster Ledger says Judge Thomas
has countermanded the order, published in its last
issue, suspending the June Term Of the Court tor
that county TIE June Term will be held at the
regular time fixed by law, which is the trst Mon
day in June. go. ..,e.- e. t.-- -. -
Gas is used by the San Francisco Courier as
the motive power to run the engine attached to
their press 1t is French invention, and has been
in use in Paris for several years 1t is predicted
that it will come into general use tor the driving OF
alrthe lighter class Of machinery.
The JEFF. and Joe Davis plantation, thirty
miles below Vicksburg, is leased by au old negro
at $40 600 a year. He hires $50 hands to work It,
Not white man is to be seen about the place.
The whole plantation of several thousand acres Is
planted in cotton, which appears very promising.
Lieut.. Gov Dunn, negro, Of Louisiana, hav-
ing sent word by colored friend, during bis re-; :
cent visit to New York city. to have Mayer hall
call ON him, atthe Metropolitan Hotel, the Alayor
ordered that if Dunn should call on him, otherwise
than on official business a policeman should put
him out of the building. ..-. ,.....
There are two great proverbs, one among the
Turks and the other among the Spaniards, both Of
which contain much which is true: "A busy man
is troubled with but one devil; but the idle man IS
troubled with thousand. " "Men are usually
tempted by the devil but the idle man positively
tempts the devil ...-.
About six years ago, two ssters-ln-laW, In
Detroit, got into dispute over baking they were
engaged 10, and vowed never to speak to each
other again. Though they have both lived to-
pether in the same house since then eating at the
same table, and engaged at work side by side, they
have never once addressed remark to each other,
or in any way recognized each other IS presence.
Habitual drupkards in Illinois, by recent act
OF the Legislature are hereafter to be subjected to
q very stringent course of treatment. They are
classified with INDECENT, idiotic and insane persons
and are to be placed under the ofguardlans or
of the everseers of the poor. A similar provision
exists in Pennsylvania, but the regulations are more
strict in Illinois, since in the latter State when
person has once been declared ahabitual drunkard,
the guardianship over him must continue tor an
entire year. ~ i.''
"A government officer stationed at Richmond,
Va writes that negro labor is at discount In that
portion of Virginia The extensive sales OF land IN
small portions to white Immigrants, who are euitl-
waiting the land themselves renders it necessary for
coored laborers to 20 further South in order to seek
employment. Over three hundred colored people
have gone South by rail from Virginia in the last
month. Indications are that the number during
the present mouth will be greatly in excess Of last
The Wilmington IN. c. Journal has made
up and published an elaborate statement Of the in
creased representation to which the South is en-.
titled under the new order of things, basing its
calculation on the population as furnished by the
census 1860 According this the representative
strength of the South will be increased as follows:
MARYLAND 9. Virginia s. North Carolina 4, South
Carolina S, Georgia g. Florida 2, Alabama 5, Mis-:
kansas l, Tennessee 3, Kentucky 3-equal to an In!
crease of so in the lower house of Congress. =.
- Michigan papers state that young man
in that State, dreamed, on the night Of March
18th, that he was deaf and dumb, and on awaking
was Mortified to find that he could neither speak
nor hear. From that time till the 4th of May, So
DAYS, he remained totally deaf and dumb. On the
evening of that day, while returning from the field
where he had been at work, an odd feeling came
over him and he was obliged to lean against the
fence for support Presently he heard bird sing,
and he found also that his voice had returned to
him. During this suspension of voice and hearing,
he had enjoyed uncommonly good health.
"A new cab act, passed by the Legislature Of
New York, provides that passengers shall be
charged but thirty cents for any distance not eS.
ceeding mile, forty cents being the charge for
two persons the same distance; the same rate for
greater distances, fraction Of mile always count
ing as mile For any time not exceeding an
hour seventy-6ve cents; for two persons, one dol
lar; and for any time additional, for each hour OF
fraction of an hour, at the same rate. The law
requires that cabs shall be stationed at any hour
of the day or night upon such streets of the city of
New York and Brooklyn as may be assigned them
by the Mayor Of either city, and no cabdriver will
be allowed to leave his cab at depots or steamboat
landings until be is engaged by the passenger.
The New York Times takes just and sem
sble view of the condition of affairs in the South,
and has already been blackguarded by the Tribune
for daring to tell the truth. The Times says:
I'VE do not believe these tales of wholesale muir
der and oppression, nor do we give credence to the
allegation that "loyaists' are systematically per-
secuted and hunted down. There was tune, un-
doubtedy, when in some localities hostile spirit
ran high, and when the assertion of Republican
opinion involved more or less peril; but trustwor
thy evidence seems to show that this state things
no longer exists So far as We can judge, life and
property are quite as secure at the South as at the
North. Taking population into account, we are
convinced that the per centage ofcrme is no great
er anywhere in the South, and certainly not in
murder committed there, We will undertake to find
verifcation, in Georgia, we will trace parallel
outrage in Indiana or New York Nay, we are
persuaded that, all things considered, there is less
crime in Virginia, in South Carolina, in Alabama,
and even in Georgia. than in this State or in other
parts Of the North. This city could easily supply
a chapter of horrors, Of recent date. which, by
parity of reasoning Southern observers might cite
as proofs of savagery and decentralization. Such an
application of facts would be unwarranted but it
would not be lesslegtimate than the endeavor of the
Anti-Slavery Society fanatics to arragn the whole
South for the acts of its criminal class 1t is alb
surd to look for @greater average Of virtue, or
greater immunity from crime, than we are content
ed with here. What Georgia and its neighbors
may fairly plead is, that in respect of offences
against person and property, they have nothing to