Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, July 22, 1858, Image 2
Scraps & Jfarts.
The celebrated English minister, Spurgeon,
is coming to America.
It has been discovered that" Yankee
Doodle" is identical, note for note, with
Dame Esparta, an old Spanish tune.
Arkansas is a queer county. If you
go there with a five dollar gold piece, they |
tar and feather you for being a rich man.? ,
If yon are poor, they give you fever and ague, ,
and let it kill you. Carious country. ,
A model young lady just graduated
from a certain distant academy, remarked,
the other day, ? I cannot deceive how the
voting gentleman of the Panola can drink ,
tb such a recess, when they know it so con- ,
jurious to their institution " ?Panola Star. ^
Dr. Bouchelle, of Pleasant Ridge, i
Alabama, has in bis possessions specimen of
rock, containing in its centre a globule of
water moveable and visible. This water is, if
there be any troth in Geology, one of the
oldest drops of water in the universe.
Liberal Railroad Company.? ,
The Grand Trunk Railway Company, of j
Canda has furnished the clergy of all de- (
nominations with permanent tickets, enabling
them to travel in any direction on the Grand
Trunk line for half price.
Two centuries ago not one iu a hundred ,
wore stockings. Fifty years ago, not one (
boy in a thousand was allowed to run at large
night or day. Fifty years ago not one girl ,
in a thousand made her mammy wait on her 1
as a hired servant. Wonderful improvements ,
in these latter days. ]
A letter from Boston says : Very lit- <
tie is done here on the credit system at pres- 1
ent, but the Southern merchants appear to 1
get far more indulgence and accommodation (
than any other class. I understand that 1
they meet their payments more punctually J
than the same class from other quarters. (
An eastern friend of Senator Sumner
wiahefl ns to rmblish a statement that he re.
cently submitted quietly, ? without a word
or a win oe," to have his back seared by his
physioian with a red-hot iron. A general
complaint against the Senator is that he has
submitted to operations upon his back too
quietly.?Louisville Journal.
The signature of Shakspeare was sold
in London on the 14th nit., for 300 guineas,
about $1500. This is more than the poet
could have raised upon his name during his
life. The signature was affixed to a mortgage
deed of a house in Black-friars. The
bidding for the treasure commenced at 5P
guineas and went up to 300.
There is said to be an old lady now
livining in the town of Blooming Grove,
Orange county, N. Y., by the name of Diana
Brooks. She is one hundred and fourteen
years old, and yet is intelligent and active,
and walks half a mile to church every Sabbath.
She was thirty-two years of age when
the Deolaration of Independence was made.
?j? Many testify to the efficaoy of the following
remedy in all cases of flux, dysentery
or cholera morbus : Take two heapiug tea,
spoonsful of flour of slippery elm, and one
teaspoonful of Henry's Calcined magnesia
(or three teaspoonsful of common calcined
magnesia), and mix them in water till they
together assume the consistency of "clabber,"
and drink three times a day.? Watchman.
It is asserted that a man marrying
now-a-days marries a great deal more than
he bargained for. He not only weds himself
to a woman, but a laboratory of prepared
chalk, a quintal of whalebone, eight coffee
bags, four baskets of novels, one poodle dog,
and a system of weak nerves that will keep
four servants and three doctors around your :
house most of the time. j
Col. Wm. AldermaD, of this county, I
has politely left at this office a rare and beau- i
tiful specimen of corn from his plantation. :
It consists of thirty-nine distinct ears of corn <
on one stalk. They are small, in a cluster, i
at the head of the stalk, where the tassel 1
usually appears, and surrounded by a rich
silk, nearly 2 feet long, there beine probably <
sis times as much of this silk as is common 1
on a stalk.?Fayetteville (iV. C.) Observer. 1
They are tanning au elephant's hide 1
at Cincinnati. It was purchased by a furrier 1
in Wisconsin where the animal, whioh be- 1
longed to a menagerie, died. The freight 1
to Cincinnati cost $15. It is an immense 1
hide, so bulky that the tanners handle it ]
with the greatest difficulty. It is nearly two
inches thick, and full a year and a half will be {
required to tan it throughly. It will be a
curiosity when thoroughly tanned and seasoned.
California, like Missouri, will soon !
rival Ohio in the produce of native wine.?
There is one firm in San Francisco which
produced last year two hundred thousand
bottles of champagne from their own vineyard
in Los Angelos. This is but one of
many instances of California enterprise in
wine-growing. Almost every State in the
Union now adds its quota?small in many
cases, but always increasing?to the annual
product.
Boston had at its celebration, on the
5th, a novelty, and as might be anticipated
it was connected with Music. All the bands
gave a morning concert on the Common, and
the Light Artillery Company kept time to
the music in the firing of cannon. The
landyard (string by which the priming tube
is exploded) was in the hands of gentlemen
skilled in music, and was pulled at the precise
instant indicated, in the Music score, by the
arranger of the music.
Vk , /* .1 T *11 T 1
rrentice, ox me Jjouisvuic journal, 1
objects to the five minute rule in New York ^
prayer meetings. He says, " Imagine, for i
instance, old Bennett, of the Herald, confessing
his sins, in the ridiculous space of five
minutes: It is not the fashion in New York, i
to confess their sins in detail. Bennett could 1
say, in five minutes, that he is the greatest
old reprobate in New York, which would include
every imaginable villainy; and without
loss of time, the congregation would respond
?-.4men ! New York is a fast city.
?- The various orders of the Druids in
England, America, and Australia, seeing the
advantages of a member finding himself, as
it were, at home wherever his order chances
to have a lodge, they have. determined, if
possible, to reunite them into one grand order,
so that the above advantages may extend
to every part of the world where Druids are
to be found. Their privileges not only include
the Masonic principle of philanthrophy, but
also embrace the advantages of friendly societies,
and extend to paying and receiving
money for each other, and also to watching
over the necessities and oonduct of members
when from under the serveillance of their
own lodgeB.
\t ffarfiMlk ^lujuirtr.
EDITED BT
SAM'Ij W. MBIiTON.
YORKVILLE, S. C.
THTJESDAY MOENING, JULY 22, 1858.
Personal Communications, when admissible
: communications of limited or individual in
taresc, or recommendations of Candidates for offices
of honor, pro6t or trust, will be charged
fb- at from 2* to 10 cents per line.
NEGRO TRIAL.
Nelson, a slave of Capt. William Mitchell,
of this District, was tried for his life, Wednesday
last, on a charge of Burglary, before Esquire Smith
Sanders. J. Felix Walker, Esq., conducted the
prosecucution; and 8am'l W. Melton, the de
Fence. The jury returned a verdict of acquittal.
TO THE POINT.
A communication in the Carolinian, of the 18th,
commences with the following meaning sentence:
"It has been said, and well said, by one who
was a close observer of men and things, that, "an
inspection of the grave-yard was all he required to
make himself acquainted with the prominent characteristics
of any community
OODBV'8 BOOK.
The Lady's Book, for August, has come to as
promptly, as usual: and is replete with the evidences
of Godey's undiminished care for the wants
of the ladies.
Godey is guilty of but one error. While every
page of the Book is adorned by some happy
thought, beautiful or useful, which challenges the
patronage and good will of every woman in the
?... , j _ l.l.lf
Ibnd, we bave failed to una one wora in oeuiui ui
the much a-bused doctrines of "Woman's Rights."
Sodey is ambitious; and surely he knows that if
the women were allowed to vote, he would be elect
ad President of these United States by an overwhelming
majority; and yet he forbears ! To do
justioe to the occasion, we must quote two lines
?f good poetry:
"All thou hast been reflects less fame on thee,
Far less than all thou hast forborne to be."
Price of the Enquirer and the "Book," $4.
THE YORKVILLE ENQUIRER.
We think it would have been but justice in the
Above named journal, when it published the reply
3f a ootemporary to an article in the Guardian to
bave also published the article itself. This, we
believe, is but ordinary courtesy among journals.
We know our friend of the Enquirer is not deficient
in that respect and hope he will supply the
emission.?Columbia Guardian.
We were under the impression, and we yet think,
that the reply to which the Guardian alludes quoted
in full the article upon which comment was
made. If this be true, the Guardian would not
bave us to publish the article twice, in the same
column'! If we mistake, our friend will do us a
kindness by sending a copy of the Guardian containing
the article so that we can make the amende.
3urs has been mislaid.
OF.V. WALLACE,
We are gratified to learn, from a gentleman recently
from Jonesville, that the health of Gen.
Wallace is gradually improving. He has recovered
the nse of his limbs, and with little difficulty
Accompanied our informant "over the crops."?
But bis tongue remains almost completely paraysed,
depriving the General of hie most faithful
"riend?the power of speech. Hopes are entertained,
however, that by careful nursing the organ
can be restored to wonted health.
Thoueh his afflictions have been exceedingly
severe?enough to try the patience and break the
ivill of any man?we are pleased to be informed
hat the General has gone through the trial with
:he fortitude and the uncomplaining resignation
jbaracteristic of the truly Christian gentleman.?
We trust the sympathy and earnest well-wishes of
)ur community may avail to render the burden
ighter still.
DEATH OF GEN. QUITMAN.
Wo have received, with deep regret, the painful
ntelligence of the death of the distinguished
Southron, Gen. John A. Quitman. He died on
Saturday last, at his home near Natchez, Mississppi.
His disease was contracted more than a
fear ago, at the National Hotel, Washington. Af:er
a lingering decline his firm constitution gave
vay to the ravages of the epidemic, the origin of
which is yet shrouded in singular mystery.
The death of Gen. Quitman is a serious loss to
the South. Although he was born and reared on
Northern soil, his political creed and all the initincts
of his noble soul, were directed to the wellseing
of his Southern home ; and his career has
aeen marked by a devotion to principle and a fidelity
to Southern interests, which challenge com
parison with the record of any man "to the manner
born." As an intrepid leader of the advance
ruard of the South, and especially as the brave
Seneral whose deeds are interwoven with the
'plendid achievements of our own Regiment, Gen.
Quitman has commanded the confidence, the ad
miration, the love, of the people of South Catolitin.;
and his name and his fame will be cherished
while a proud memory remains to the Palmetto
3tate.
THE TRUE POSITION.
The Edgefield Advertiser, commenting upon the
anion of the Mercury and Standard?which, by
the way, seems to be regarded by the press as
quite an event?indicates its own position in reference
to the Democratic party, while defining the
policy adopted by the Mercury. Of course, the
meaning ascribed to the Mercury is the trne one,
and we are surprieed that any intelligent journal
should mistake it, by charging upon the Mercury
any degree of apostasy from its ancient faith, or
upon the Democratic party in the State any want
of devotion to Southern interests. But we shall
aot argue the point. We merely desire to copy
?nd approve the Advertiser's paragraph:
"To the indicated measure of its policy we yield
t hearty acquiescence, with the very essenia! proviso,
however, that the 'being with the Democratic
party and the Admini>tration' extends only to
our earnest co operatiou with these influences so
far as they are guided by the Constitution, and so
far as Southern counsels may decide such co opera
'ions to be right and proper, in view of our duty first
'o ourselves and next to our whole country. Of
course, such is the Mercury's meaning on this
point; we only express that meaning, to prevent
the inference that an unreserved committal to the
Democracy and the Administration is intended to
be made for the first time in South Carolina.
"If this be the Mercury's meaning, we are with
it, mind and soul, aud shall look with high expectation
to the influence of a united State, with a
united press, upon the destinies of the South and
of the-Union."
. MEXICO.
The condition of our uuhappily distracted neighbor
becomes, every day, more hopeless. Every
State is in arms against the others?supporting !
the claims of its own designing and reckless as- j
pirant. Pronunciamentos are made and unmade,
with an inconstancy and fickleness of numose
I
which" is startling. The Treasury of the Republic
is empty, with no legitimate source of revenue;
trade is stagnaut; public and private confidence!
and national credit are alike in wreck; and ephe- '
meral governments, one after another, are forced j
to subsist by robbery and rapiue unparallelled j
amongst civilized peoples. A fearful madness 1
rules the hours in Mexico?madness without the
hope of an interval.
It can be easily seen that our relations with
such a power must be of a delicate character;
and recent events have added greatly to their com- |
plication. A while ago, the Zuloaga Government. I
utterly bankrupt, determined to make a forced
levy; and decreed that foreign residents who refused
to contribute the onerons tax should be
compelled to leave the country. English and
French residents paid the contribution under protest
; but onr Minister, Mr. Forsyth, refused to
! accede to the Unjust demand, withdrew from the
government, and now awaits the opinion and instructions
of our government; on the ground,
specially, that according to subsisting treaties,
the property of American citizens should be exexempt
from all taxes save those imposed in the
usual forms for legitimate purposes.
The question has received the diligent attention
of Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet; and we are gratified
to learn that a special messenger was sent, on
Friday last, bearing despatches to Minister For
?.. Kia nnsltinn and ordering the
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legation home. It is impossible to know what
will be the result of this policy. It may amount
to nothing more than a merely temporary suspension
of diplomatic relatious ; on the other hand,
there are many causes of quarrel already existing,
to render the misunderstanding difficult of adjustment.
In nny event, wo have the utmost confidence
in Mr. Buchanan's diplomacy.
THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.
We have been anxiously awaiting intelligence
of the progress of the fleet engaged in laying the
Atlantic cable; but thus far no satisfactory statement
has reached as. A despatch from Boston,
dated July 16, states that a vessel from Liverpool
spoke the Niagara on the 27th of June?which
vessel, having made two unsuccessful attempts
with the cable, was awaiting the arrival of the
Agamemnon. The fleet bad labored under stress
of very stormy weather, and those engaged immediately
in the enterprise are said to be in good
spirits and hopeful of success. We fear that that
despatch from Queen Victoria will never come.
Since the above was written, news has reached
us that the cable again parted, 1,000 miles from
the coast of Ireland, after 142 miles had been laid.
It is probable that the enterprise will be abandoned,
for the present.
MERE-MENTION.
Prof. R. W. Barnwell, of the South Carolina
College, hara been elected President of William and
Mary College, Virginia. To one so young in years,
this is certainly ^ distinguished oompliment, We
indulge the hope, however, that Prof. Barnwell
will "let well enough alone." The Enterprise
chronicles the formation of two flourishing Divisions
in Greenville District; and says that temperance
principles are spreading in that field. Keep
the ball moving, brother!.? The Spartanburg
papers announce the sudden death of W. Tiicrlow
Caston, of Camden, at the residence of bis
brother-in-law, Prof. Carlisle, in Spartanburg,
last week. ' Mr. Caston occupied the position of
a prominent lawyer, and was, besides, distin
guished by his earnest devotion to the work of re
form in onr State. His death will be felt as a
"heavy loss. The same journals also chronicle
the death ofMr. James T. Flemino, formerly
proprietor of the American Hotel, Columbia. He
died at Chicks Springs, after a short ilness. He has
left many warm friends to mourn for him. Counterfeit
twenties on the Bank of Hamburg are in
circulation. They are good imitations?dated Oc
teber 6, 185G. The Montgomery Mail says
that the first "Southern League" has been formed
at Bethel Church, Alabama. Five or six hundred
persons were present; among them, Hon. W. L.
Yanct, the leaderrand Gen. Walker. We are
in the dark, '<3%r in this corner. Can some one
enliehten us?
W. B. McCbeight, Esq., has issued the prospectus
of a new paper, to be published in Winnsboro',
and styled the "Liberty Oak." Advices
from the Western army say that the forces wiU
be received peaceably by the Mormons. The army,
however, was kept in readiness to repel any
treacherous demonstrations. A proclamation had
been issued to the people by General Johnston, hi
which he tells them the army is as ready now to
afford them assistance and protection as it was to
oppose them when in rebellion against the Government.
It was thought this guarantee would
cause many Mormons to evade the despotism of
Young, who has sedulously inculcated the belief
that the army was particularly hostile to them.
"The troops were in fine condition and glad to be
released from inaction." Madame the Prin
cess Mubat, of Tallahassee, Florida, has been appointed
Vice-Regent of the Mount Vernon Association,
of that State. It is said that Madame Mubat
is the grand neice of Washington, and by her
marriage with Achille Murat, she became the
neice of Napoleon Bonapabte. Who wouldn't be
a young Mubat; with the blood of Washington
und Napoleon, the greatest men of earth, coursing
the veins &c ! Think of it! At a meeting of
the Republican General Committee, of Albany,
New York, it was resolved that "the Republican
party of this county invite the co-operation of the
American party" to defeat the policy of the Administration.
So the wires are pulled, for the
next election. The last arrival from Mexico
reports that theurdcrs, for the expulsion of foreigners
refusing to pay the forced loan, bad been
countermanded.
A friend who lately passed through North Carolina,
informs the Charleston Courier, that a burial
case, which was on board the ill-fated Central
America, has been thrown ashore near Beaufort,
N. C. The bell on a Baptist church in Nan
-no fnllorl nn Mnnrlotr mnrnincr of lnof week
to expres3 the church's disapprobation of the sins
of the nation. The Judges of the English
Court of Common Pleas hare decided that railway
travellers are not bound to take care of any portion
of their baggage, the Company being legally
responsible for its safety. The report is contradicted
that a Yankee had invented a machine
to take the noise out of thunder. The J/rrcury
says there are at this time in the Charleston
Orphan House 327 little inmates ; of whom 203
are boys, and 124 girls. Col. J. D. Wilson,
of Darlington, is nominated for Governor in the
Orangeburg Southron. A fine shower fell in
Washington on the 12th instant. The first rain
for forty ttco (lays. The citizens of Aberdeen'
Mississippi, resolved a few days since to raise ten
thousand dollars to assist Gen. Walker to recover
possession of Nicaragua. Briqham Yovng
says, "if our enemies were to come here in a proper
spirit, they would in one month embrace cur
religion." "More likely your wives, old fellow,"
puts in Prentice. The Christian Register says
that the clergy cost the United States six millions
of dollars annually, the criminals nineteen, the
lawyers thirty-five, tobacco forty and rum one
hundred millions. The Boston, Ma a., Jov.rnal
says: "The Boston and Lowell Kail Road
has been in operation twenty three years longer
than any other road (throughout its whole length)
in the country ; and yet not one passenger has ever
been killed on it." James A. Hoyt has purchased
a part of the Anderson Gazette. The
Paris correspondent of the Boston Traveller, under
date of June 25th, says: Complaints are
made from every part of France that the wells and
springs are drying up, and it is said that wine
will be cheaper than water this year. The wine
crop, it is said, promises to be the largest ever
seen; old wiue casks cannot be had now for love
j-i .. i ?i.:?
or money, ana mo poiiers m-u nuny wutwug uug.c
jars like the oil jars of the Arabian Nights for the
superabundant grapes.
It is calculated that a fluent speaker utters between
seven thousand and seven thousand five hundred
words in the course of an hour's uninterrupted
speaking. Many orators, of more than usually
rapid utterance, will reach eight thousand, and
even nine thousand. But one hundred and twenty-five
words a minute, or even seven thousand
five hundred an hour, is a fair average. Rev. W.
G. Browslow, LL. D., of the Knotfville (Tenn.)
Whig, and Rev. A. Prynjc, of the Reformer, McGranville,
Courtlandf, New York, will meet in
public discussion of the questions at issue between
the North nnd South, in Philadelphia, on Tuesday,
7th Sept. prox. A vocalist says he could
sing "way down on the oil !Tar River," if he
could only get the pitch. 'Homestead exemption
!" exclaimed Mrs. Partington, throwing
down the paper, "it's come to a pretty pass, indeed,
th it men are going to exempt th mselvesfrom
home jnst when they please, without any proviso
for cold nights." Prussia is the largest exporter
of wheat to England, next Russia, and
third the United States.
For the Yorkville Enquirer.
BROAD RIVER DIVISION.
3fr. Editor:?I take great pleasure in correoting
a mistake I committed in reporting the peculiarities
of the above Division. It was stated, there
was not a church-member among them. On enquiring
more particularly, I find there are among
tho members several, who belong to the Assooiate
Reformed church. I must confess, the knowledge
of this fact gavo me muoh pleasure. There is in
the neighborhood of the Division a Methodist Society.
If this denomination do not shortly furnish
its quota of Sons, a strange thing will happen under
the sun. The Methodist generally seem not
to be afraid of total abstinence. B.
For the Yorkville Enqnirer.
NOMINATION.
Mr. Editor:?The friends of Johj^'G. Enloe,
1 Esq.. resDectfullv nominate him as a candidate
for the office of Ordinary for York District. In
making this nomination, we deem it useless to
speak of his fitness for the office, or his business
capacities, as he is so well known to the voters of
the District. His attentive habits to business
heretofore, is the best evidence that if elected, he
would discharge the duties of the office to the entire
satisfaction of all EASTERN YORK.
Fort Mill, July 16,1858. It*
*** We are requested to state that the above
nomination is signed by over 20 votere.?Pub.
[advertisement.]
TO THE PUBLIC.
Mr. Editor:?In your paper of the 17th ultimo,
I find the following nomination:
Legislative Nomination.?We respectfully
nominate J. N. McElwre, Sr., for a seat in the
Legislature of this State, as one of the representatives
from York District. He has heretofore
served as a representative, and discharged his
duty faithfully and honestly. Identified in feeling
and interest with the agricultural portion of
our people, by them he should be supported, as a
fair exponent of their wishes. * Conservative in his
views, sound and orthodox in his political opinions,
of age and experience, and unquestioned honesty
if purpose, we believe no better representative
conld be selected for our people, and earnestly
hope he will miffer his friends to announoe him as
willing to serve. Many Farmers.
Since that time, I have received solicitations(
from numerous friends, urging me to be a Candi
date for said office, and I have yielded to their
wishes. If elected, I will serve the good people
of this District to the best of my ability, and endeavor,
by an honest and faithful discharge of my
duty, to deserve their confidence.
In taking a seat in the Legislature, I will have
no purpose or object in view, but simply to serve
the people. I aspire to no higher position, and
look forward to no higher office. You will, therefore,
please announce me as willing to serve as
one of the Representatives from York District, in
the next Legislature, and oblige,
Yours Respectfully,
J. N. McELWEE.
July 20th, 1858.
CHARLESTON CORRESPONDENCE.
Charleston, July 19.
I have the pleasure of announcing myself "at
home" again, and armed and equipped with that
"mighty instrument of little men," and prepared
to issue my ukcue, and give you another bugle
blast from head-quarters. I have lately added an
atom to the "circulating medium" of humanity,
though I did not operate altogether upon a "specie
basis." The main object of my recent migratory
excursions into the interior was to ascertain
from ocular demonstration whether there was any
territory in South Carolina beyond the oity boundaries
where an industrious, sensible, civilised
man could live, move and have his being, and
supply all the necessaries and some of the luxuries
of nature by the sweat of his brow, and my travels
have convinced me of this geographical fact that
Charleston is in the State of South Carolina, and
not the State of South Carolina in Charleston.
My route carried me through portions of the
districts of Darlington, Chesterfield and Marlboro',
where I saw some as beautiful country, fine lands
And promising crops as the heart of man could
wish. The sight of the shady groves, waving
fields And limpid streams was refreshing indeed,
and brought back to my mind the long cherished
remembrance of my own "mountain homo" where
genial climes, generous hearts and social joys
made a rural paradise that the hollow-hearted
devotees of city etiquette and city fashions can
never know.
The weather continues excessively warm, and
the gay birds of passage are llocking in crowds to
the fashionable watering places at the North.?
There were over four hundred persons left in the
three steamers for New York and Philadelphia
which sailed on Saturday last, and the rush is so
great that large numbers have engaged their passage
for the next trip. This drain upon our population
is somen hat alarming when it is remembered
that almost as many go by railroad as by the
steamerB. And the amount of money they will
leave north of Mason and Dikon's Line is still
more alarming to Southern pockets. But this is
a free country where free trade and sailor's rights
are recognized, and no one can dispute the right
of the people to spend their money when and
where they please.
What is generally termed the sickly season, is
now near at hand, but the city is exceedingly
healthy, as the weekly bills of mortality will
show. There is perhaps no city on the Atlantic
coast that can boast an equal exemption from diseases
of all kinds, especially those more fatal to
human life. Wc find deaths from old age recorded
in almost every bill of mortality.
The Court of Common Please adjourned on Saturday
last after a protracted and laborious session
of more than two months. Cases had been
accumulating on the docket for years, being postponed
from Court to Conrt, but through the assidu
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ity and untiring inuusiry 01 duage hawlaw, an
the old scores are very nearly wiped out, and the
books cleared of the legal rubish which has so
long encumbered them. In consideration of his
laborious services and courteous and gentlemanly
bearing through all the scenes and difficulties
which try the temper and patience, the gentlemen
of the Charleston Bar tendered him a complimentary
dinner, which the pressing demands upon
his time compelled him to decline.
Our market is crowded with fruit of all kinds,
which is being sold at accommodating prices.?
The steamer Columbia took out over two thousand
boxes of peaches, which are being sold in the
New York market at prices ranging from four to
I nine dollars a box. Col. Gregg and Richard
Yeadon, Esq., are coining money out of the products
of their fine orchards near Aiken. This is
perhaps as fine a fruit season throughout the State
as has been known for many years.
It is said that two splendid new steamers will
soon be added to Cromwell's propeller line between
this city and New York, thus enabling them
to make two trips a week. I am glad to see this,
as competition is the life of travel as well as of
1 trade. Their influeuce has already brought down
j the price of freight and fare to something like
reasonable rates. The sidewheel line had the mon,
opoly for a longtime, but they have at last waked
I up a competitor that is in eveiy way worthy of
i their most solicitous regard ana attention, me
! fare on the propellers is fifteen dollars, while that
. of the side-wheels is twenty, late twenty five.
The Hops at the Moultrie House are all the
rage just now, and are extensively patronized by
; the fashionable and elite of the "home delegation,"
who would rather spend th?-ir time and money
among their friends at home than their enemies at
i the North. I am glad to seo that this pleasant and
; fashionable sea side resort, is likely to be more
: extensively patronized this season than formerly,
and that mostly b> our o^vn people. The House
is kept ia a style equal to any at the North, and
Mr. Mixer as an experienced caterer and accommodating
landlord, oannot be excelled in any latitude.
The wjlttamstox'fl Spring# in Anderson, on the
Greenville and Columbia Railroad, are coming into
notice, and rapidly winning a reputation. The
largest Hotel in the State has just been completed
there, and arrangements have been made to accomodate
any number of persons in a style and on
a scale unequalled in the up country. The Grand
Division of the Sons of Temperance meets there
on the 28th inst., and some of ns will have a
chance to test the qualities of this fasbionahlelnland
watering place by the reliable and satisfactory
process of tangible experiment and ocular demon-QiratiAn
Palmate Piviainn ovnMtU tA hft Woll
represented, and she would be pleased to meet
ne many of her brethren from York as could make
it convenient to attend. I am pleased to learn
that a large turn out 19 expected. "Maonolia"
will be there taking notes, and you may print
them. MAGNOLIA.
- NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
New York, July 14, 1856.
The genius of dullness has tnken up his abode
amongst us, and holds on with the tenacity of the
deatl^grip. The fashionable wofld has gone tor
the watering places in search of fun, flirtations
and follies; the men, to play at cards and drink ;
the women, to advertise silks and themselves, always
hafing an eye to the main chance of an English
Lord, a Spanish Count or French Captain.
The middle class occupies the time in lamentations
over misfortunes and in annoying uppertendom.
For the lower class and poor devils in general,
there isbut the amusement of working or hogging.
Newspapers are hard up for some kind of excitement
to make their columns readable; with tbem
politics and plagiarisms are the order of the day.
The Seventh Regiment of National Guards, the
elite of the city troops, returned home on Sunday
! --It* 1? WA?* A KosaSva^
moruiug IJUiic CUIIJ, JL uuj nciv a vvvxvv* >?. ?
joyous demonstrations by their companions in
arms who turned out to welcome them home.?
During the trip they lost one of their number, who
was drowned in James River, below Richmond,
no one says how. It is supposed that he fell overboard
in a fit, being subject to epilepsy. He was
the last male descendant of Alexander Hamilton ;
bis death east a gloom over the regiment. A delegation
of Virginian troops brought his remains
home, and his companions attended the services of
his burial at Trinity Church, where his great ancestor
rests,- on yesterday afternoon.
The now famous hero of the Crimean War, Capt.
Revise, after escaping many dangers and surmounting
many difficulties, has at last beat an
inglorious retreat, leaving the field of battle, bis
arms and baggage in possession of the enemy.?
Having been brought up on a coril to produce
Miss Blount, whom he was supposed to hold in
durance vile, he failed to answer, and gave security
for future appearance. He no sooner had his
security in his stead, than he saw the absurdity
of appearing in person, his bondsman answering
every purpose. He gavo bis security the slip, together
with the pleasure of paying the obligation
of a thousand dollars, and thenceforward he was
and is invisible. The whereabouts of the gallant
husband of another woman and his present ladylove
ir not known ; both have gone, effacing their
I tracks as thev fled. In the meantime, the Sheriff has
taken possession of the hero's arms and baggage'
in satisfaction of a debt from the Sonth. The
hotel keeper, who espoused bis canae so warmly,
concluded that he was out a few hundred dollars
with no present prospect of a return.
As a result of the great revival amongst the sinners
of this city, there is (be unusual spectacle of
two stage actors turned into preachers. Perhaps,
like the chosen apostle of Fifth Avenue, they may
find their acting on the new stage more appreciated
and more profitable than their efforts on the
"boards." The other side of the picture shows
two young ladies led astray by the leaders in the
revival. Both sides show the devil to be as clever
as the Frenchman.
The Italian burglar and murder, Cancemi, who
has had so many trials is at last denied a new trial
and sentenced to be hanged. But his lawyer
appeals to the Supreme Court, the last resort but
the Governor, and therefore he is not yet much
nearer his end. Indeed, be may expect to hang
only when his money gives out.
A body of engineers, mechanies and laborers
started to the Isthmus of Tehuantepee, yesterday,
for the purpose of laying out and opening the
Transit route for transmission of the Government
mails according to contract. The Tehnantepeo
Company is going to work with a will, and they
deserve the rewards which they expect to reap.
There is no news from the Atlantic Telegraph
Fleet up to this day. It iB thought that the reason
no news has arrived is because the fleet experienced
unfavorable weather, which prevented
them from beginning to lay the cable. Its success
is considered very doubtful.
SETH.
For the Yorkville Enquirer.
A DANCE,
Mr. EditorFromthe production of "Comus,"
contained in your paper of July 14, on "Dancing,"
as his reply to mine of July 1st on "A Dance," I
note the following. "Comus" in substance says:
"parents have sufficient guarantee for the correct
gaidanoe, and good protection of their sons and
aanguiers wneu prcscuk m ?Kuui>ubv >? u,?uV,Ug
part/, in the parents giving their own pergonal attendance
there; or, in that some persons are always
in attendance there, "whose age and experience
entitle them to be proper supervisors of
youth." And that parents may always bioto "what
will be the oharacter of the company [at dances]
with which their [sons and] daughters will meet
on snch occasions, by the jiames of the Managers
of snch companies, who [he says] are responsible
names." And he says, "those who have the
management of snch places, are just as responsible
in thi* partionlar, as thoso who give entertainments
at their private houses." I answer: These
are matters to be passed upon by the judgments of
parents. Their will iB at once their rule^of right
action here, and their reason for their rule. I am
willing to let "Comus" dance, but I am not willing
to be mado dance myself, When I do not feel like it.
"Comus" says, "They [dancing Christians] only
bring reproach upon themselves [by dances] in
the estimation of those who regard dancing as
sinful; in short, those who arz prejudiced against
it." I answer.' This is qui^p a compliment paid
by "Comus" to non dancing Christians. Perhaps
they are so few in number, so unintelligent, and
unenlightened and so insignificant in society, that
their opinions here are worth but little. Well,
be it so. Their praises and reproaches, perhaps,
are but their prejudices. They know no better.
That is all.
"Comus" has indeed commented at some length,
on the cases of the dappe of the daughter of Herodias
having "cost the bead of John the Baptist."
Mark 6: 22-28; and the saying in Job, that the
"children" of the wicked "dance." Job 21: 11.
And after he has done, I re-nffirm that "the dance
of the daughter of Herodias, did cost [Herod]
the head of John the Baptist." 8he demanded
it as the price of her dancing from Herod, and he
paid it to her. And I re-affirm, that Job says of
the wicked, "their children dance." These are
both historical facts.
"Comus" says, the opponents of dagcing "declaim
against it, on the gronnd that it is liable to
be abused." I answer: Not so. I declaim against
it because it t> abused; that which is diverted
from its use is abased. I know of no ase to which
dances in parties can be applied, but to the glorifying
of the Lord ; when diverted from this use it
is abused, and therefore is sin.
In my communication of July 1st, in answer to
the first of "Comus" on d Dancing Party, I took
tbe ground that "unqualified dancing is sin: and
tbat each dance becomes an experiment" as to the
character of said dance. And there is an utter
want of a fixed standard of the length of time
for the moderate indulgence of a dance as an
amusement." "Comus," in his reply to tbis of
July 14, takes tbe ground, that he "by no meaps
admits that dancing [as an amusement] is sin
and says of this, "that is the rery point of controYcrsy"
between us. He does not admit that "each
dance becomes an experiment" of the morality of
said dance. And his standard for the moderate
indulgence in a dance, is "one to two o'clock" at
night?ihe perception of right, and wrong in the
dancers?the pro?ince of reason [in tbe dancers]
c introl [tbe excess,] and that a dance [like eating]
may "be indulged in until tbe appetite is satisfied."
T ? a# Mffkt ofirl wronrr " and
"reason," to find excess in dancing implies a rule
for action ; and the only rnle he has given here is
a satisfaction of appetite. "So that his position
here is, "Dancing as an amusement is not sin, and
it is lawful to dance in every case until the appetite
for dancing is satisfied."
The trae point to be issued between as is the
morality of the undefined danoe, as a pleasurable
amusement to man. "Comus" affirms the morality
of said dAnce. I deny. Or I affirm the immorality
of said dance, and "Comas" denies.?
"To the law and to the tesmony." The only
standard, or rule of moral action in the sight of
God, with which I am acquainted, and which 1
acknowledge, is the will, and word of God?the
Bible.
"Comas" pleads for the morality of "dancing as
regulated by the judgment, and good taste of an
intelligent, and enlightened community." This is
his standard. I answer: Communities of men,
however intelligent and enlightened, can never
determine by their opinions the morality of a
dance. This is alone the province of God. Besides,
the intelligence, and enlightenment-of communities
of men are comparative things, and are
variously regarded by different persons in the
same communities, and by different communities
fliomanlvpq the one in the relation to another.?
What is held to be moral io one community, it
held to be immoral by another community, proTided
they disagree in one and the same rnle foi
right action. Thns, "Comas" has no fixed standard,
nor can he hare one whilst he leares the morality
of "dancing as regulated by the jadgment,
and good taste of an intelligent and enlightened
community." But I will bear with him a little
while, in order to disposed the dances which he
adduces, in his own way.
"Comns" recognizes as right dances, those
which he says were danced by the Athenians, and
the people of England, France, Germany, Italy,
Spain, Switzerland, and the peasantry thoreof.-?
He has not shown us that these dances were regulated
by "the judgment, and good taste of intelligent
and enlightened communities" among th<
Athenians, and the named countries of Europe;
nor, has he characterized the dances for which he
here pleads, except that the peasants danced
their danoes "in the open air." He has not told
us whether these danced their danoes on a plant
floor, or on the ground; nor, whether these dancers
had on shoes, or danced barefooted. Does h<
think it in "good judgment, and good taste," tc
ho'd dances "in the open air T" Will he defend
such dances here in York?
"Comas" tells us of the Arcadians, whose hospitality
and piety he says, Polybias ascribes tc
their practice of dancing. He speaks favorablj
of the dances which these Arcadians danced, a
which I will speak presently also. He tells us,
that Socrates recommended the dance of his daj
to others, and danced himself when he had be
come very old. He telle 118 of "Luoian, Plato
Aristotle, Atbmoeas, Xenophoo, Plutarch, aoc
others who wrote in praise of dances" as dance<
in their day.
I answer : The Arcadians were not worshipper
of the true God through Jesns Christ) but, wen
heathens; Pagans who never knew the will o:
God as revealed in the Bible, but were iJolators;
their dances, therefore, accorded with their idola<
trous religion, and their "piety" which was so
helped by their dances was idolatrous piety.?
Shall we imitate them? Again. The whole list
of writers named by "Comus," who wrote in
praise of the dances of their day, were all heathen.
These men though wise in some thing?, knew
nothing of the Holy Scriptures. Some of them
thought that this world had never a beginning,
and would never have an end; the immortality of
the soul was not revealed to them; some hoped,
some doubted, some disbelieved a future state ;
all to them was dark and dreary, which is now
revealed to us. They had not the will ot God as
their rule of life and manners. 8ball we be instructed
in the morality of dances by them who
knew not one syllable of christian morals ? Were
they, and' their communities "intelligent and enlightened,"
so as to regulate the dance, and hold
it right, and in good taste ?
I think "Comus" said too much, when he affirmed
that "all classes" in the European countries
named by him above, "practioed dancing" as an
amusement. Since the day when Christianity entered
Enrope, therehas been one elate there, whe
did not arid do not new practice dancing; that
class is the experimental, practical Christian ; the
ballance there are as here, were and are the peopie
of the world ; and seek for and parsne worldly
pleasare regardless of the will of God.
In the Bible history, we find that the dances
were performed among the Israelites, by each sex
seperately, and done as a mode of expression of
their joy, and gratitude to God, and by his sanction.
Thus Jephthah's daughter "came out to
meet him, with timbrels and with dances," after
his conquest of the Ammonites. Judg. 11:84.
"The women came out of all the cities of Israel,
singing and dancing, to meet king Saul with tabrets,
with joy, and with instruments of music,"
when David returned from the slaughter of the
Philistines, (not of Ooliah as "Comas" has it) 1st
Sam. 18:6, (not 28; as "Comus" has it; this
tells about Saul, and the witoh at En dor). The
religious dances of the Israelites, as parts of religious
service to the Lord, are alluded to in 1st
Sam. 21:11, by the servants of Achish ; again in
Exod. lo: 20. 21, in rnaraon's ovejtnrow, ana in
2d Sam. 6:14?16, at the bringing of the Ark
of Qod up from Kirjath-jearim, and again on the
occasion of the yearly feast of the Lord, at 8hiloah,
Judg. 21 :21. See also Psalms 149: 8, 150:
4, Jer. 31:18, Lam. 5:16, Eccles. 3: 4, Jer. 81:
4, Exod. 82:19, Ps. 80:11, Mat. 11:17, Luke
7: 32, 15 : 25. In all these cases, the dauces alluded
to were held as parts of service to the LokD,
and by the sexes apart by themselves. Nor is
there any othor form of dance recognized in Scripture
as Moral; and "Cumus" himself, after having
examined some of these dances, arrived at the
conclusion that "dancingper te is no sin;" but
there is no such dance recorded in Scripture, and
if "Comus" will produce "a dance per ee," I will
consider it.
In the New Testament, the dances of our day,
and among ourselves; and those for which "Comus"
pleads, are censured as immoral, under the
names "rioting," "revelings, and such like," by
the Apostles of Jesas Christ. I go not to the precepts
nor practices of heathen; nor, to the allowed
practices of the men of the world to And
what is Christian morality; bat, I go to the Christian
Scriptures, to find rules of right action for
a Christian people, and for all the world.
In St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans 18:18,
and to Gallatians 5: 19?21, I find the popular
dances of our day, characterized by the Creak
words komQit?konoii, kai (a omoia tou
toil; translated "rioting," "revelings, and such
like." The heathen Greeks and Romans bod an
idol God named Komot, and Comui, (from the
Greek word here used) who was esteemed bj
them the god of feoatings, and rereliogs. He was
the same as Chemosh of the Moobites, and Amonites.
And part of the service performed to this
idol by bis votaries, consisted in reveling?, drank*
cnness. obscenity, and imparity. Komait is ased
to signify reveling*, lascivious feastings with songs
and music, lascivious and obscene ballads, drunken
songs, drinking wine, n> d the mnsic of flutes,
harps 4c., with songs, riot wtth revelings. JTomos
signifies revel?a jovial assembly of friends,
- - -7 ? ..
met at an entertainment; or to celebrate a reati al
with music, dancings, and singing hymns and
odes?a band of revelers, who after a feast go
through the streets, and visit their friends, or
mistresses, singing, dancing, and indulging in
wanton, aud boisterous merriment. Komot means
a jovial assembly, or meeting; and the music,
dancing or singing at festive meetings?a drinking
party. The services to this idol Comui, were celebrated
by both sexes together, in their dances,
and with whatever promoted hilarity, and gratification
to the senses. Songs, oblations, and libations
were dedicated to his service.
Of the feasts of Komot, or Comut there were
some practiced in the most simple and least objee'
tionable form, in the best society of the day, and
' place; from these the dances graduated into thoee
' the most lascivious, with songs and taoaio, even
i with lascivious ballads, to the most obscene and
drunken soegs; yet, all were Komoitmeliogs.?
i In St. Panl's day, the feasts of Comut among his
i votaries, consisted in the drinking wins, by both
i sexes together, and musio, songs and dances by
, day and night.
Besides these feasts of Comut among theheathen,
. there were various gradations also of the Dionyria,
as festivals held in honour to their idol god Bae~
ehut, in wbioh both sexes held dances together,
i There were various gradations in these feasts also,
' according to the varying tastes of the people, in
i the societies of the votaries of Bacchus; from
the moat aimnle. and least objectionable form, to
i scenes of lewdness, extravagance in behavior, de>
banchery, and dances in ridiculous postures, ac'
companied with musio. Of these Dionytia, or
Bacchanalian dances were the danoes of the Ar
cadians, so much praised (as (<Gomus" says) by
, Polybius, in promoting the "piety" of the ArcaI
dians. Alas! alas! for piety.
i The festivals of Btcehvt, were celebrated by
i his votaries with the singing of aongSr dances? and
different exhibitions; and often with great liceni
tiousness in beharior. These festirals contributed
t much to the corruption of the morals of the Orei
cian people. Among the Romans also, both sexes
joined in the celebration of these festirals (as did
* the Greekr) in the darkness of night; and the bad
effects of these on the morals of the people, called
) for and receired the interposition of the power of
;' the Senate to snpprees them in toto,
) These are the dances to which the writers (SocI
rates Ac.,) shore allude, as quoted by "Corns,"
I and something like these were the dances danced
c by the Europeans, (England Ac.,) of whom he
* speaks in approbation as civilised nations. It is
> certain, that all these Comic, and Baochanaliaa
> danoes, and "sneh like," are censured by St. Paul
1 in Bom. 13:i8, and Qal. 5:19?21 as sia. If
the dances practiced now in these United States
by the people of the werid,?the rotaries of pleas*
> ure, bo not exactly a factimle to these in all cases,
' sad in all places; yet, I do oontend that they are
f "tueh like" there is here a similitude, a reseai
blapee to them in some particulars.
r The dances for which "Comas" pleads, as I ua*
dorstand him, are performed iahonor to seme per*
? son, erent, or for selfish pleasure, irrespective of
' the glorifying of the Lobd ; and by both sexes to*
I gether, by day or night On all these oooarions,
there is mosic, dancing, eating, drinking wine, or
9 strong drink, continued "until the appetite is sat*
9 isfied." The companies are assemblies of friends,
f met together, to celebrate a feast of pleasure in
> dances Ac. A dancing party among as, is a jorial
' society, or meeting of persons in both sexes; they
hare mosic, dancing, eating, drinking wine, and
whatever promotes hiliarity. From this simple
1 form, many of oar dinoes graduate into lasciviousness,
and songs, and danoings of lascivious sort,
?there is often inebriation, and sometimes open
riot. It is to the feasts of Comut and of Bacchut
with their dances, allusion is made bj St. Peter
when he sajs, "The time past of our lives may
suffice to have wrought the will of the Gentiles"
[Greeks and Romans], "when we walked in las*
civiousness, lust, excess of wine, revelings'' [iomo
it] "banquetings, Ac. Wherein they" [Greeks
and Romans] "think it strange," [as Comut does]
"that ye" [non-dancing christians,] "run not" [to
the dances] "with them" [the dancers] "to the
same exoess" [in revels, as "Comas" asks,]?"one
to two o'clock" at night; and "outil the appetite
is satisfied," [as the votaries of Comut and Bacchut
did.] "of riot" [in drunkenness Ac. Ac.]?
"Speaking evil of you [non-dancers as "Comas"
and danoing Christians do, when they oall you
"prejudiced" Ac.,] 'who shall give account to God"
1st Peter, 4 :8,4.
I contend, that I have known all these grada:
tions in the popular dances of our time, and per*
1 formed in "intelligent, and enlightened oomcnuii*
ties;" as well as with the vulgar ignorant. I contend,
that the immorality of the popular dances
pleaded for by "Comas," is made oat by Scripture
in the plain precept. Here I now stop at present,
for want of space to proceed farther in this dis'
oassion. And if "Comns" speaks tathis production,
I request him to oonfioe himself to themoroJ*
> ity of the dauce for which he pleads; for I will
1 disease this subject in no other aspect..
E. A. CRENSHAW.
For the Yorkville Enquirer.
FATAL ERRORS CORRECTED.
Mr. Editor:?Seeing that Polemon has not replied
to Dr. E. A. Ceesshaw, a regard to important
principles of Divine truth induces me to ask
some space in the E.vquibbb for this communication.
My purpose is not to engage in the Temperance
controversy. My concern is to correct some
positions or principles, promulgated by Dr. Cbevshaw,
which I regard of fatal tendency?fatal to
Bible troth?wrong hi doctrine, and leading to
most injurious practice. Indeed I cannot understand,
how Dr. C., once a Minister of the Gospal,
and now an Elder of the Presbyterian Church,
should so far forget his own faith and churchpractice,
as to put forth such obtious errors.
Hfc says: "There can be no moral right, nor
tcrong, without a rule; and in matters of morale, I
(Dr. Cbsnshaw) acknowledge no other rule than
the Will of Ood?K THUS BAITH THI LORD."
"I (Dr. C.) demand the rule which makes this
my duty in sight of God."
He requires uthe precepts and examples in the
Holy Bible. Duty implies a rule to constitute it
such."
The meaning of Dr. C's principles is then this:
Before he mores in any moral aotion, he requires
an express precept, from the Bible, pointing out in
so many words what he shall do, or what he shall
forbear to do?ila thus saith the Lord"?it is a
"rule," and nothing but an express "rule which
mates duty" for him?it must be a "precept or example
in the Holy Bible"?and "there can be no
moral right, nor wrong, without a rule."
These opinions, when reduced to practioe, are
fatal to nutoh religigu truth?to piety and are
in direst opposition to the sentiment and practioe
of every Christian denomination among us.
hfsy can be no moral-right, norjrroug, without
a rule," says Dr. CUHSBAW??od that rule