Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-08-06

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Shaking Hands over the Bloody Chasm.
The Fifth Maryland Regiment, which
has been camping at Long Branch, has paid
a visit to the Monmouth battlefield in New
Jersey. A correspondent Of the Baltimore
Gazette, writing from Freehold, says:
Several distinguishing features combine to
render the visit to the Monmouth battlefield
by the Fifth Maryland Regiment of especial
interest and significance. The presence Of a
Southern and Northern Regiment Of State
militia on revolutionary battlefield, clasping
hands across the fgurative "chasn'' OF Mr.
Greeley's creation, is regarded here as
possessing National interest and Importance
Nothing could exceed the kind attentions and
generous hospitality extended the officers and
men of the Fifth by the several thousand cit
izens assembled at Freehold to-day, and e1
pressions of fraternA feeling were openly
manifested on all sides. 1t is quite gala
day at this village, flags flying from the ho
tells and other public buildings, and the streets
thronged with people, who have assembled
from miles around to greet the Southern SOL
diers"
The Last Balloon Voyage.
- Donaldson's last balloon ascension con-
tinues to furnish the New York papers with
interesting Incidents From the altitude
reached by the balloon, Central Park, We
are told, had the appearance of u large lawn
New York looked like city of toy blocks
whilst the Colosseum had the aspect Of a large
sized brown paper collar. This was 1900
feet above the earth. Stopping at the farm
house of Miss Charlotte Thompson, in Rama
po, Rockland county, in the southeastern part
of New York, that lady was induced to take
a trip in the balloon of two miles, and after
she had been safely brought to earth, the voy'
age was continued and was steered directly
over West Point. The drag-rope, $50 feet in
length, performed some remarkable feats in
the course of the journey. Once it got caught
around a chimney, and laid it in ruins before
it got unhitched. We also hear of it bound
ing over the roofs of houses with noise like
thunder, and as pistol shot was heard about
the time the chimney was demolished, it is a
fair inference that the inmates were not uni
formly pleased. Again it caught in the limb
of large tree and nearly capsized the entire
concern. Some men in village in Columbia
tried to grasp it, and succeeded in winding il
once around fence, only to see twenty yards
of fence.rail torn away to no purpose. The
voyagers finally landed after thirteen.hours
voyage over three States and two hundred
and fifty miles.
The New Postal Law.
- The postmaster at Fredericksburg
Virginia, having applied to the First Assis'
tant Postmaster General for instructions un
der the amended post.ofics law, received the
following information, which, coming from
the Postofice Department., may be deemed
reliable. It will be seen that from and after
the 23rd of last June, subscribers residing in
the county where paper is published, are
not required to pay postage on the same, and
after the 1st of next January, publishers are
required to prepay postage on all papers to
subscribers receiving them outside of the
county wherein published. In other words
after the 1st of January next, no subscribers
to newspapers will have to pay postage, as it
is required to be prepaid at the office of mail
ing:
Section seven of the new law provides that
newspapers-one copy to each actual subscri-
Der residing within the county where the same
are printed in whole or in part, and publish
ed-shall go free through the mails This
includes daily, semi.weekly, weekly, monthly,
or quarterly. A subscriber residing in an
adjacent county is required to pay postage on
papers published in county in which he
does not reside, even though he receives that
paper through post-ofice located in the coun-
ty where published. This section went into
force from its passage, June %, 1874.
Section eight provides that all mailable
matter of the third class and books, merchan'
disc, etc., may weigh not exceeding four
pounds for each package thereof, and postage
shall be charged thereon at the rate of one
cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof.
The new law does not permit exchanges to
pass free throug h the malls.
A Female Pedestrian.
- The New York Herald relates that a
beautiful young woman, apparently twenty
years of age, applied for lodging few nights
ago at the Nineteenth Precinct Police Station,
in East Fifty-ninth street. Her dress, al
though we'll worn, was neat and tidy. The
blonde hair of her head hung in curls down a
we'll shaped neck. Her form was delicate
and her speech indicated that her education
had not been neglected. She gave remark
able story of how, sixteen months ago, she
married man named Anthony Briggs, q
carpenter of no mean capacity, residing in
Boston, Massachusetts, where her parents also
lived in comfortable circumstances. The
young couple lived happily together on the
outskirts of Boston until last February, when,
in COMPANY with several other families, they