Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, June 07, 1866, Image 2
Jtap mi Jjfacfc.
Generals Steedman and Follerton are
in Augusta, Ga., preparing a report of the
workings of the Freedmen's Bureau in
South Carolina, Florida and the Sea Islands.
The first institution vouchsafed to
our race was the Sabbath ; the next, Marriage.
So give your first thought to heaven,
the next to your wifo.
It is said that the hair, if rolled up
in the New York Tribune, puts on at once
a very crinckly curl, and if one of Steven's
speeches be used, it assumes a crisp instanter.
The famous "Cromwell" sword, believed
to have been used by the great Pro
tector, was taken from the Masonic .Lodge,
at Colombia, S. C , at the time Shermsh occupied
the oity.
?? "Arthur," said a good-natured father
to his hopeful, "I did not know till today
that you had been whipped last week."
"Didn't you, pa," replied hopeful, "I knew
it at the time."
The easiest way to get a living, says
a vagabond poet, is to sit on a gate and wait
for good luck. In case good luck don't come
along, you are no worse off than you were
before.
TheNewnan (Ga.) Herald publishes
an application to the county ordinary for
letters of administration by a oolored man
on the estate of a deoeased friend. This is
the first instance of the kind under the law
passed by the last Georgia Legislature.
It is stated to be a rule of law in the
far western territories that "a town is a place
where whiskey is sold." By means of this
rule, the courts distinguish real towns from
those whioh exists only on the paper plans
of the land speculators
The Piokens Courier 83ys that it
learns from good authority thai as soon as
Congress adjourns, his Excellency Governor
AAII fliA 1 .ortifiln^nvA f Annf nil tk I
\JL L y frill u?u IUC Jucgioiaiui- nivu .
a view of conforming the laws of the State 1
to the action of Congress.
Ex-Secretary Jacob Thompson is in
Paris, and anxious to retnrn to the United
States?expresses himself in favor of the
reconstruction policy of President Johnson,
and of the Southern States accepting the
situation and acting with loyalty and in good
faith.
Mr. Pullman, the projector of the
sleeping-car improvement in railroad travelling,
has devised an arrangement of the
trucks which secures such a steadiness of
motion that writing is as easily done as in a
home library, and tables are provided for
this purpose.
The little tax of one cent upon every
box of matches netted the Government Sl,500,000
last year. According to that estimate,
150,000,000 bunches or boxes of
matches must have been used in this country
during the year, or five bunches?equal
to five hundred matches?for every man,
woman and child.
It is calculated that American fami*
i; . 1 t r L i._ c
nc? cau travel lu rjurupe iur iweuiy-uve pur
cent. less than it costs them to stay at home.
Beef is ODly sixpence sterling a pound in
Bremen. Heretofore rich people have gone
abroad for pleasure, but unless prices moderate,
the poor people may eventually have to
gn for polrn nf
A correspondent of the Christian -4cZ
vocatc states that from 52,000,000 to 52,500,000
worth of tobacco is annually consumed
by the members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in Amerioa. The consumption
of tobacco in the entire country
must be very great if a single religious body
uses so much.
The Charleston Courier remarks that
TT "Hiofvirtf in tKia Anntninn
iu LUIO ciaitj luuiaiu^
more than forty saw mills in operation, a
large cotton factory at Yancluse, one at
Graniteville, a porcelain factory at Kaolin,
a paper mill at Bath, while another cotton
factory is building which will accommodate a
thousand looms. All of these factories are
worked in an area of twelve square miles.
Dr. Andrews, inventor of the so-called
"flying ship," made an ascent with his
balloon and aerial navigation fixtures at New
York on the 25th ultimo. Three gentlemen
went up with him. They report that
they could sail their balloon in any direction
except immediately against the wind. They
will do that "next time." They landed
safely.
A practical joke, which will last a
year, was lately played in Buffalo. The
Republican Mayor being absent, the Democratic
Council elected a Mayor pro ttm.,
which latter gentleman withdrew all the
Mayor's appointments, and made new ones |
from the Democratic ranks. The Council I
confirmed the new appointments ; and the ;
Mayor pro tern, confirmed the proceedings
of the council.
The Courier des Etats Unis declares
itself enabled to inform those of the American
newspapers which "persist in an offen
sive and incomprehensible doubt as to the [
evaouation of Mexico by the French," that :
the Government has signed a treaty with j
the trans-altantio packet company to embark |
and carry back to France the whole Frerch |
expeditionary force in Mexico within the
time agreed upon.
The Chicago Timet justly remarks
that the drunkenness, personalities, indecency
and fanaticism of the present Congress
will make it infamous. All the vices, blackguardism,
treason, inefficiency and dishonesty
of the age seem assembled in the Capitol
at Washington. It is long past the time
thisdigraceful concern should have adjourned.
Let it dissolve, and let the people prepare
to elect those that will represent the
nation.
Prof. Newman says, contrary to the j
generally received opinion, birds prefer to j
fly against the wind. The quails of Europe :
almost invariably start on their passage of j
the Mediterranean with a head wind, and j
if it chops around and blows fresh from the i
southwest, they are drowned by thousands, |
and their dead bodies are washed ashore for
weeks afterwards When the wind is abaft, .
it gets under the bird's feathers in the most,
aggravating manner, and upsets his equilibrium
and equanimity at the same time.
The London Mercantile Gazette, j
speaking of the cotton supply says : The j
crops in Egypt and Turkey have fallen off; I
but we have now pouring iD upon us sup-1
plies from India, America, the Brazils, &c., j
far in excess of all previous calculations. (
It may have been to the interest of many
persons to understate the quantities likely
to come forward in a given period ; but we
have warned our readers that the produce
of the world would presently be in excess
of the demand. How far we have been
correct is demonstrated by the statistical
details of the imports for the present year.
Notwithstanding that 250,260 more bales
have been purchased at Liverpool only for
home consumption since the commencement
of the year, the supply in warehouse?
784,650 bales?is 247,620 bales in excess
of the corresponding period in 1865. The
increase in the import?679,040 bales?
is so large that few houses are now manufacturing
except to order. At the present
time there are about 650,000 bales of cotton
nflnnt. from India. acainst 390.000 last
year; while -the four months importation
from America into Liverpool were equal to
580,000 bales.
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A NEW JOURNAL,.
Nearly every week brings to our exchange
list some new newspaper enterprise, from
this State. We have just received the
first number of the Daily American Patriot,
published in Columbia, S. C., by J.
In his salutatory, the publisher assumes a
broad national platform, proposing to advo
cate the harmony of the States, and "to
promote by all honorable means those
relations of confidence and friendship which |
must exist between all honest supporters of
the Government. The Patriot is a large
ami neatly printed daily, and promises well
to merit the support of the people of this
State. We commend the enterprise to the
reading publio, and wish it a successful
career of usefulness.
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CHOLERA.
This "plague of the East" is reported to
be rapidly increasing in virulence at the N.
York quarantine grounds. A number of
emigrant ships have recently arrived from
Liverpool with the disease on board, and
a heavy per centage of deaths during the
passage. The result is a rapid increase of
the disease on the hospital ships provided
by the city, and an increased probability of
the contagion extending to the shore. Once
there, it will almost inevitably visit the
whole Atlantic seaboard with a desolation
more destructive to human life thau war
itself. The interior cities possessing the
advantages of purer air, and less density of
population may escape lightly. Its ravages
in country towns are never so severe, and
a rural population generally fails to be affected
by it?except to be scared.
OUR FINANCIAL CONDITION.
It is perhaps not the best course for those
whose position requires them to act as sentries
over the public welfare, to create
alarm before the sure approach of daDgcr.
With due regard to this fact, we cannot
perceive an excuse for silence. The results
of the recent great struggle?the hopes
based upon its termination, and their utter j
disappointment; as also the unfortunate re
straining policy pursued towards creditor
and debtor, have operated to place the
country in a financial position anything but,
promising.
The question naturally presenting itself
now, is what can be done to remedy the mis- i
takes of the past. Debts due between individuals,
now that all restraint is removed,
will be forced to an adjustment through the
Courts. The pressure once commenced, will
be of necessity continued to a wide extent.
The exaction of demands against an individual,
will require him to exact of others to
mee tthose demands. In such an extremity,
we would counsel forbearance, as the best
means of placing debtors in a condition to
pay. There is, however, but little likelihood
of such counsels availing anything.
We cannot look to the Legislature for further
restraint. The Constitution has been
interpreted, to forbid tbe restraining of pro- f
oess for the colleotion of debts, and it would c
be useless to attempt it further. i
But there is another course left open to s
the Legislature, which does not violate 1
either the article or spirit of either Consti- f
tution?State or Federal. Let an Aot bo t
passed, allowing the debtor the privilege of t
redeeming his property sacrificed at public
auction, within one, two or three years at |
the price it brought, with interest. Those ]
whose embarrassments might otherwise ren- |
der them houseless and homeless, would i
thus by a harmless and humane legislative <
Act, be in a short time restored to their
property. The plan appears to us proper <
and feasible, and we commend it to the ex- 1
amination of the people whom it will affect. 1
We do not claim its originality, but assume {
the privilege of setting forth herewith a
hearty endorsement of its propriety. i
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THE "SITUATION."
The observance by both Houses of Con- 1
gress, of the honors doe to the remains of 1
Lieot. Gen. Scott, has operated to the suspension
of business for the past few days.
Its proceeding contains but few matters, of
interest to us.
The Senate debate upon the reconstruction
proposition from the Committee of fifteen,
has been making some progress. Before
it was called up in that august body, a
Senatorial radical caucus was convened to
ascertain what the party could do. It soon
became evident that there was one thing
they could not do, and that was to pass the
proposed amendment as reported from the
Committee, with the obnoxious disfranchising
clause. The cauous decided to expunge
this clause and insert the following in its
stead:
Section 3. That no person shall be a 1
Senator or Representative in Congress, or
Elector of President or Vice President, or
hold any office, civil or military, under the
United States or under any State, who having
previously taken an oath as a member
of any State Legislature or as an exeoutive ,
or judicial officer of any State to support ,
the Constitution of the United States that
have engaged in insurrection or rebellion !
against the same, or given aid and comfort 1
to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, ]
by a vote of two-thirds of each House, re- ,
move such disability.
The debate has begun upon the subjcot,
and progressed to a vote rejecting tne tnira
clause, and to another substituting the above
ameudment. Its final adoption by the Senate
in this form is a foregone conclusion.?
But will the legislatures of twenty-five States
ratify it? We cannot pretend to calculate ;
upon the results, but we know there is only ,
paiD and humiliation in them, for the South, ,
whatever they be. The South has long
since ceased to find comfort in the polit- |
ical prospects of the future. It is pain- ,
ful to cut ourselves loose from the props i
that ease the pressure of our despondency;
but the signs of the times give no indication
of relenting or weariness in persecution.
We havo neither confidence in Congress,
nor hope in the good sense of the
Northern people to sustain us. Altogether
we had as well cease to console ourselves
with the prospect of a better future; but
pay our taxes if we can ; keep what we can ;
make what we can, and let politics take
care of themselves They will be none the
better of our watching. Powerless to avert
calamities, we had as well learn to pass
them by, with the best indifference wc can
command.
The following embraces a list of the
principal measures before Congress, in
which the Southern people are interested :
The Constitutional Amendment.
The tax bill, providing for an internal revenue
tax of 5 cents per lb. on cotton, and
an additional export duty of five cents.?
Passed the House.
Tlirt Kill fiAnfinntn/* f Vi r\ T? rftorl m n n'?
J. liU Ulll 1UI tuuuuuiug IIIU I Jl/CUOJJU a
Bureau for two years.
Stevens' confiscation bill; (not likely to
receive much attention )
The new Bankrupt bill, already passed
the II>use.
Bill for the admission of Colorado as a j
State in the Union. Passed both Houses
and vetoed by the President. No action
since had upon it.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The troublesome Fenian organization
seems determined to embroil this country
in a difficulty. Late advices from the j
Canadian frontier, represent a considerable j
force as having crossed into Canada, at a j
point where no troops were stationed to op
pose them. This is a part of the Roberts
faction, which declines to acknowledge the
supremacy of Stephens, as Chief Director
of the organization. Stephens is opposed
to the inauguration of active hostilities at
this time, and advises delay and concert of
action. The Roberts faction aro eager for
immediate action, and refuse to listen to
the wiser counsels of their leader. Trouble
for a brief period will probably be the result.
The trial of Ex-President Davis, ,
before the U. S. Circuit Court at Richmond
announced to take place this month, will no
doubt be deferred until the Fall. There is
a peculiar "bitch" in the manipulation of af- ,
fairs connected with the trial, that the coun- i
try cannot understand. The only solution '
wo can arrive at is that Congress does not '
intend Mr Davis to be tried before a Civil j
Court, as the chances are that he will be ao- |
quitted; that the Executive will not allow i
urther trials by Military Commission in time
if peaoe; and that another party in power
s willing to let him die in prison, as the
afest way of evading questions his trials is
ikely to put before the country. If not
>ut upon trial this month those "who ought
o know," say that ho will be set at liberty
ipon his parole.
The unmasking of the operations of
;be Freedman's Bureau by Generals Steedman
and Fullerton during their inspection
tour, seems to have brought to grief
the dirty officials they have thus exposed,
rhe Riohmond Times says :
"The Northern papers publish the order
of the President to General Howard, directing
him to suspend and order into
arrest, to report to General Ruger, Colonel
E. Whitelsey and a number of other officers
and employees of the Freedmens' Bureau in
North Carolina, whose malfeasance and
corruption were exposed by Generals Steedman
and Fullerton. We are pleased to see
V>of tKo Pot? Mr thfl rkftfriarnh nf the
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Trent River settlement, and the Rev. Horace
James of Massachusetts, are among the
parties ordered into custody."
An European correspondent of a
New York paper in expatiating upon the
atrocities of Spain towards Peru, makes the
following sarcastic hit at reconstruction in
the United States:
"Permit me to offer a suggestion. We
hear a great deal about Southern lands being
wanted to reward Northern soldiers, and,
no doubt, if there is any such want, it will
be a tremendous obstacle iq the way of reconstruction.
Suppose you settle your intestine
differences by admitting the South
to Congress on condition of taking Cuba
and dividing that rioh island amongst the
conquerors? Spain will not give you any
trouble, and the plan I suggest would be an
excellent way of punishing her piracy, and
of healing your civil wounds. Give the suggestion
currenov. let the Deonle accept it,
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and before the Fall, a United States Commission
may be dividing Cuba amongst loyal
claimants. Don't miss such a fine opportunity.
Judge Nelson, Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court of the United States,
residing in New York, has discharged, upon
a writ of hahacs corpus, Mr. James Eaoan,
of Lexington District, South Carolina, confined
for life in the Albany Penitentiary,
under the sentence of a Military Commission,
charging him with murder Judge
Nelson says in his order for the release:
"It appears that said Eagan was tried
without a presentment of a grand jury and
without the verdict of a petit jury, and that
be was not and never has been in the militoi.ii
no nonol oornioo anrt fViaf. if- nmq nnf a
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arising in the land or Daval forces or
io the militia when in actual service in time
of war or public daDger, nor subject to th^jurisdiction
of a Military Commission, I do
hereby decide and adjudge that tbe said
James Eagan is illegally imprisoned, the
said trial having been without jurisdiction,
and I do order that he be discharged from
said imprisonment."
Such a precedent coming from a member
of the Supreme Court Bench, will no doubt
be acted upon to alleviate the horrors these
hateful military trials arc bringing upon
the South. We look to such in hope.
MERE-MENTION.
We cannot censure a man in business
who does not advertise, if he has nothing
worth advertising. The Charleston
Board of Trade has memoralized the Uni
ted States seDate against tne passage or toe
general Bankrupt law which passed the
House a few days since. The long
bridge across the James river at Richmond,
erected in the place of the one destroyed
by fire on the 3d of April, 1865, has been
completed. It is built upon the Howe
truss plan. The bridge is 2838 feet 7
inches long and will cost about $120,000.
Some prophets are debating in the
Maine papers whether the end of the world
is to come in 1869 or 1873 San
Francisco is to be supplied with water from
a lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains,
an aqueduct two hundred miles long
Pennsylvania farmers do not expeot to get
as much wheat from their crops as they
sowed Maj. Gen. Burnside has been
inaugurated Governor of Rhode Island.
The Government received last year
?300,000 from the three-cent tax on pho- j
tographs Steamers for Europe on
the 16th ultimo, took out $5,873,000 in I
opcvio'
A locomotive on the Hartford and New I
Haven Railroad was lately fired with peat, j
found along the line of the road Mr. j
Henry Betts, of Norwalk, Coun., is manu-;
facturing paper from the sedge found along \
the shores of the Sound If your knowl- j
edge is little, let not your words be many.
Governor Sutter, the first discoverer'
of gold in California, is supported by a pen-1
sion from the State. The fudepcndent
says "the next great national agitatiou
is the question of suffrage without distinction .
of sex." The Canton (Ohio) Republican
states that a purse of $100 has been
made up in that city and forwarded by ex- j
press to Gen. Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, j
by his friends there.
The Desolation of Columbia, S. C.
?The correspondent of the New York j
Times, traveling in the South, writes :
Columbia is beyond all doubt the most'
desolate lookiug place JiSouth of Mason and
Dixon's line. The rich green foliage of the
trees which line the streets seems to mock j
the dreary prospect of totteriDg walls and |
smoke-stained ruins over which they wave, j
No one can fully appreciate the utter dea-J
truction of the city without seeing it. 500 |
buildings, not inoluding those of a public
nature, were burned, mostly located in the '
very business heart of the city. At present j
the city preseats a truly heart-sickening j
sight, and when we take into consideration !
the fact that most of the citizens firmly be- i
lieve that Sherman ordered or authorized I
its destruction, it is not hard to acoount for i
:he bitter and deep-seated hatred which '
many of them exhibit toward .Northerners.
LOCAL MATTERS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
J. A. Brown, O. Y. D.?Citation?James M. Kendnck,
Applicant?James E. Cluinn, Deceased.
Dr. John May?Money, Money, Money.
? ?? ? ?jc(. Soda Water.
Carroll, Clark !t Co.?Dry Goods, Groceries &c.
London &. Zimmerman?Corn for Sale. I
F. C. Harris?Candidate for Ordinary. Floyd,
Dobson & Co.?Butter and Eggs Wanted. -c
" " " ?Corn.
" " " ?Beeswax Wanted.
" " " ?Lime.
" " " ?Liverpool Salt.
F. M. Galbraitli?Cotton Tax. Vi
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State and District Taxes. n
The attention of those interested, is j
direoted to the additions made to the adver- a
tisement of Col. Jackson, the District A
Tax Collector.
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A Concert. fi
Wfl Vi arm Knnri ronnoofn^ f.. gfftfa ft i ti
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gentleman of this plaoe, that himself and ?
members of his family, will give a concert ^
on Wednesday or Thursday evening of next |j
week, in aid of the proposed monument to l
the dead soldiers of York. So soon as the y
arrangements are completed, further notice v
of the same will be given by means of hand- ^
bills. (l
Change of Schedule.
Owing to a ohange of schedule on the 1
C. &. S. C. Railroad, we are debarred the
privilege of a through mail connection with (
Columbia the same day. The trains now c
leave the latter place at 4.15, F. M., and 8
do not arrive at Chester until 8 30, P. M, ?
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and the mails, upward, do not reach us
until the following afternoon. We regret i
that such a barrier deprives us of much of t
the interest our Columbia exchanges always '
afford, in the way of early and reliable
news. i
Musical.
On Friday and Saturday nights of last ^
week, Concerts were given in our town by ^
a troupe of musical amateurs, from Charlotte s
N. C. Acoordingto the bills, the proceeds c
were to be applied for the "Benefit (?) of the 1
Stonewall Cemetery." Upon footing up the
expenses, it appears there is "nary" benefit
left?for the object proposed. We have i
been furnished by the agent with the fol- 1
lowing report:
Printing 3 4 50 (
Candles 1 25 t
Posting Bills, &o 2 50 ,
Necessaries for Hall 30 t
Hack hire 15 00 (
Ilotol bill 47 30 t
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S70 85 g
By amount received for tickets 67 10
t
8 &s75
/ Hail Storm.
On Saturday last, a destructive and wide- '
spread storm of wind and hail passed over
the central portion of this District, from i
South-West to Ncrth-East. The injury to '
the growing crop in its track was severe. '
In many places the wheat crops are entirely
destroyed. The damage to the fencing j
is also heavy.
Many persons dependent upon their I
wheat crops for bread for the next few
months, have been placed in a deplo' ible 1
condition. ,
On Tuesday, another terrific tornado passed
over us from the same direction, uprooting
trees and unroofing a number of
houses. A number of old wooden buildings
were blown over, without injury to the i
oocupants, as far as we can learn. The 1
handsome hotel building of Mr W.E.Rose, (
was partially unroofed. The streets and ,
sidewalks of this town are literally covered j
with the deDris or toe storm.
At this writing, we have beard nothing
from our farming friends as to the injury
done them, by this last storm, but from
the evidences of its fury hero, the crops
must have suffered additional heavy injury^
The Soldier Monument.
The proposition to erect in the public
square of this town, a monument to the
memory of the deceased soldiers in the late
war, commends itself to us as a sacred and
christian duty, that no consideration should
allow us to postpone. The political ohanges
that have occurred since the termination
of that struggle, do not alter the conditions
of our duty. They were our defenders:
they went to the field of strife at our bidding,
and our honor and the cause in which
we pledged them, was entrusted to their
keeping. They fulfilled that trust at the
coat of their lives. We oannot consent, if ,
wc would, to let their names be forgotten, j
We who survive the terrible conflict should <
bo the last to dishonor it.
The object appeals to the tenderest syra (
pathies of our hearts. Clustered around s
them in the richest fragrance of affection 1
and love, stand the names of these fallen (
ones; and they were of our own house- j
holds; our fathers, brothers, husbands and (
sons. We cannot forget them, nor would ?
we willingly let their memories be forever t
lost to those who follow us. 1
There is not a family in all the land, that J
has Dot lost some treasured friend by the g
war, whose name they would gladly perpet- i
uate by some suoh fitting record. A few c
pilars from each, will seoure the object. ./
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t&~ Mrs. Robert Toombs, who has re- d
turned to her home in Georgia, says her li
husband's advice to the young men of the h
South is that they remain in the fcouth, li
which he still considers a country much j<
preferable to Brazil, Mexico or Cuba, and, a
by patient endurance and aotive industry, c
rebuild upon the surest of foundations their fi
own shattered fortunes and that of their na- tl
tive land. c
BY JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON.
COLUMBIA. S. C.. 4 JUNE. 1806.
Jdgar Poe.
Recent developments make it appear that
rriswold's story about Poe's dissipation
rhile at the University of Virginia is withut
foundation iD faot?is a lie; a lie that
jay have originated with the reverend
lemoirist himself, at least was endorsed
nd published by him
uina-mated.
Miss Anna Dickinson, as everybody
nows, is the great itinerant woman's-rights,
ree-negro, free-love, and social-reform lecarer
of Yankee-land. In a newspaper
ard recently she oalled the negro, Fred.
)ouglass, her "dear personal friend."
Jpon this the Old Guard, a monthly pub
ished in New York city, lets off the folDwing:?"We
had heard before that such
ras the case, but as she is a white woman
re took it for a piece of scandal; but as the
roman herself admits it, we give her the
iene6t of her public confession."
'The Land We Love."
We have seen the initial number of this
nagazine, although we are not indebted to
he publisher for the sight.
It is gotten out quite in the style of
xeneral D. H. Hill, who has a style of his
iwn, no less with the pen than with the
word. He is thorough, go ahead, ultra,
.nd in general an extremist. Such too is
lis Land We Love.
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the view we take of it. It echoes yet
he war-notes of the camp, aod is extremey
southern. It is less literary than either
he Crescent Monthly or Scott's Monthly
Magazine, but is more belligerent than
>oth of them.
Jervgnts.
In Columbia, house keepers find great
lifficulty in getting, and do less in keeping,
;ood servants. The maohinery of the new
ocial system has not got in good running
irder yet. Servants apply for and get sittations,
and in a few weeks abandon them,
it very short notice. The freedmen are
;iddy, and unfixed in their plans; so that,
sven without intending dishonesty, they are
lot reliable for aoy reasonable length of
ime. They appear to utterly want the
acuity of seeing as far as an inch ahead of
heir noses. If B offer a freedman ten
sents a month more than A is payiDgbim,
hough the prospect is that B's engagement
vill uot last but a few weeks, and the fuure
is wholly unsettled by the chaDge, the
:hances are ten to one that he will make
he change, and trust to luck for the future.
The future is a thing the freedman never
iees.
From this and similar causes, housekeep
jre have an endless round of annoyances.
Something should be done to regulate
,his chaos?something to protect the emjloyers
in the eternal shifting. We suggest
to housekeepers the expediency of givng
"Characters" to good servants who leave
;hem, and let others go without; and then,
et no servant be employed who has not his
'Character" to show who and what be is.
In Europe the rule is imperative; and
;he effect upon the demeanor of this class
s said to be very happy.
In the North there exists the same sys:em,
though less rigidly enforced.
Let our people, in self defence, inaugurate
some similar rule; and house-servant
anoyances will diminish and service be
worth far more.
For the YorkvlJIe Enquirer.
OUR SOLDIER DEAD.
Mr. Editor.?Will you allow me to say,
;hat I do not think anything has appeared
for a long time in the columns of the Enquirer
more interesting than the communication
signed "A," in your last issue,
rhis, I know, is really saying a great deal
'or any single article in a paper so generaly
and deservedly popular?for who does
not read the "Enquirer," and almost
jverything in it, with great interest?
It seems to me if your correspondent,
lfter a most careful analysis of all the
sympathies of the popular heart, had made
t bis special aim to strike the ohord which
would vibrate most responsively, tenderly
ind deenlu to his toneh. he could soarcelv
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^ave been more successful than he was in
sis late article. And it is really very hard
for me to decide whether he deserves more
praise for taking his sword in hand and
;oing forth to battle for his country's imperiled
liberties, or with jealous care for
he honor of his fallen comrades, taking his
pen and calling upon his countrymen to
Dcrpetuate their memory by some suitable
:estimonial. His appeal in behalf of our
toldier dead cun't be in vain. Our soldier
lead ! What a orowd of solemn memories
ioes this phrase awaken in every tboughtul,
generous heart! We think of homes
eft?weariness? perilous watcbings- cheeress,
wasting sicknesses?privations the
nost severe?exhausting toils?innumerible
dangers?battles?carnage?wounds?
leathsand uncoffiocd graves. We think too
)f bright and glorious hopes which died with
hem. Our soldier dead ! Yes, and many
>f the best, bravest and noblest of our land?
ind because they are dead, our cause is dead.
But we will not, we cannot forget they
lied for us. And the very fact, that to human
dew, theirs seems to have been a vain obation,
and hence unappreciated if not
lespised by the outside world, makes it
>nly the more obligatory on us to defend
heir honor and perpetuate the memory of
heir heroism and sublime devotion to
jrinciple. Their good name is 'our peculiar
reasure, and it is our solemn duty, who
ent them forth on their mission of sufferog
and death, to cherish their memory in
tur heart of hearts
"Women of the South, honor your
lead !" Yes, your dead. At your bidling
they went forth to battle. You bucksd
on their armor. Your dead ! For your
onor and welfare they sacrificed their
ives Your dead ! Yes, they were your
3wcls. But I do not conceive that any
ppeal is necessary to arouse my noble
ountrywomeo to asenseof their duty to our
illen heroes. I know if it were possible
bey would gather up their very dust in one
ommon urn, and each would covet the
honor of being made the special guardian of
this sacred treasure, which she would watcfc
and guard with even more than a Vestal's
interest and care. This, however, is impossible.
But we ma; all aid in collecting
their names and inscribing them upon a
plain and durable monument, that will tell
to succeeding ages, that we are not the mean,
ignoble remnant of a great people, but worthy
indeed of the costly sacrifice which has J
beeu made for us, and worthy, too, of a bet- '
ter fate than we have received.
If we do less for the memory of the brave
men of York District, who fell in our late
struggle, than has been proposed in "A's"
communication, the very heathen would
condemn us; for in all ages they have erected
monuments with suitable inscriptions, to
perpetuate the worthy deeds of their noble
men?even too, sometimes when sucoess
did not crown their labors and sacrifices.?
The monument at Thermopylae, is a oase in
nmnt. Cicero makes theaeed Oato sav. that
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be found these monumental inscriptions of
singular service to him, in re-calling to
miod those noble men, long since removed
by death. If we do less than has been proposed,
posterity will consign us to infamy,
and even our late enemies will poor merited
contempt upon us. On the contrary, a becoming
respeot for our martyred dead, will
inspire our recent foes with increased respect
for us. All amongst them, whose
good opinion we value, have attributed to
ns noble sentiments and an unfaltering devotion
to duty and to principle?and it is
worthy of consideration, that just in so far
as we show that we do possess this exalted
character, in the same degree do we give
them evidence that we will, in good faith,
observe the terms we have aooepted at their
hands. YORK.
DEATH OP GEN. SCOTT.
The telegraph announces the death, at
West Point, New York, on the 29th ult.,
of Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott.
The Charleston Neios furnishes the following
sketch of his life :
Geo. Winfield Soott was born Januarv
13, 1786, io Petersburg, Va., and received
bia preparatory education in Richmond High
School and William and Mary College. He
was admitted to the bar in Richmond, and
soon after visited Charleston, S. C., with the
i intention of settling there, and praotioinghis
profession, which plan, however, be subsequently
abandoned.
From his earliest boyhood he showed a
predeliotion for a military career, and fortune
soon interposed to assist him. The attack
of the British frigate Leopard on the
United States frigate Chesapeake, aroused
the indignation of the whole country, and
a large force of volunteers was called out.
Scott hastened to enroll himself in the Petersburg
Troop of Horse as a private. His
soldiery person and evident taste for arms
attracted the attention of influential friends,
and he was commissioned captain of light
artillery May 3, 1808.
He was made Lieutenant-Colonel in the
war of 1812, and ordered to the Niagara
frontier. Before the end of the year he
was elevated to the command of a doable
regiment, and in March, 1814, he was
promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General.
The battle of Chippewa was the first of a
long series of victories associated with his
name.
After the declaration of peace, General
Scott was offered the post of Secretary of
War, by Mr. Madison, whioh, however, he
declined, and proceeded to Earope, in
1815, on a secret mission of the Govern*
ment. On his retnrn to the United States
he was assigned in command of the sea*
board, and fixed his headquarters in New
York city. Here he remained till the
breaking oat of the Black Hawk war in
1832. At the olose of a brief campaign
of a few mouths, he returned to New York,
and in October visited Charleston on a highly
important and delicate mission.
In 1835 bis headquarters were transferred
to Florida. In 1837 he wassent to the
Northern frontier, on the occasion of the
insurrection in Canada. In 1841 he was
made a full Major-General, and appointed
Commander-in-Chief of the whole United
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1846, sailed from New York for the Rio
Grande, to direct the approaching campaign
in Mexico.
His brilliant victories daring the two
years of the Mexican war are too familiar
to all oar readers to warrant any farther
allasion to them in a brief biographical
sketch.
He was nominated for the Presidency at
the Baltimore Whig Convention in 1852.
He was honored by Congress with the rank
of Lieatenant-Gcneral, which grade was revived
in his person as a compliment to his
distinguished services to the nation. He
was retired from the immediate oommand
of the army, at his own request, November
1, 1861. Since then be has been living in
dignified retirement at West Point.
State Elections.?The State elections
in the several States are held as follows :
In New Hampshire, on the first Tuesday
in Marob; in Connecticut, on the first
Monday, and in Rhode Island, on the first
Wednesday of April; in Virginia, on the
fourth Thursday in May; in Oregon, on the
first Monday of June; in Alabama, Arkansas,
Kentucky and Texas, on the first Monday,
in Tennessee, on the first Thursday of
August; in Vermont on the first Tuesday,
in California, on the first Wednesday, and
in Maine, on the second Monday of September;
in Florida and Mississippi, on the
first Monday, in Georgia, on the first Wednesday,
Indiana, Iowa, Ohio and Pennsylvania,
on the second Tuesday, and in West
Virginia, on the fourth Thuredy of October;
in Louisiana, on the first Monday, in Delaware,
Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
Nevada, New Jersey, New York and
Wisconsin, on the first Tuesday, in Colorado,
on the seoond Tuesday, and in South
Carolina, on the third Wednesday in October.
There are no State eleotions held
in the months of January, February, July
and December.
The first practical operation of civil
rights law that has come to light in this
region of country, we learn, occurred in a
neighboring County a week or more ago.?
A negro girl swore her child to a white
man.?Denton (Md.) Union.