Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-03-20
OUR EXCHANGES.


only number we have seen for month-came to
us with the name of our young friend HENRY D.
KENNEDY, Esq, at the masthead, and devolves
upon us, even at late hour, the pleasing duty Of
extending the courtesy which welcomes the new
made editor into the ranks of the press-gang. The
Southron has already made itself known as GAL
liant, spirited sheet, and it has now at the helm
pilot whose skill and cleverness will permit it to
suffer no detriment. We regret the absence of
the missing numbers, as We now confess to some
thing more than the usual interest in the Of
the Southron. Will our friend be careful to re-
member us hereafter?
We have received several copies Of the Tri-peek-
" Mirror, on underlin9 of the weekly Mirror pub
lshed at Newberry C. H. Not only for the fire.
quency of its visits, but in appearance style and
contents, it is most decided improvement. Very
neatly printed, ably edited, and with corps Of
talented home-contributors, it deserves to rank
with the foremost of the country press. Success,
say we, to all such we'll conducted enterprises.
A word to our cotemporary the Charleston Mer-
cury. We have attentively examined our "fles"
to ascertain if reason of our own seeking exists,
why we should not receive at least the wonted
share of editorial courtesy ut your hands; but we
find none. We are therefore at loss to know why
. regular exchange with the ENQUIRER has been
discontinued, md m occasional copy of the Daily
Mercury substituted. Such favors are of no value
to u.s. and if they are at all expensive we beg that
they be intermitted Meantime, if it be necessary,
in order to procure regular file Of the Mercury,
with other subscribers, We shall cheerfuly submit
to the conditions.
The Febrary number of the Erskiae Collegiate
Recorder is on our table. As usual there are some
good things in it, and some things not 80 good
that is to say, wretched. For instance those
undignifed m-literary, Sophomore, ebullitions
about love and courtship, evening parties, rabbit
chases, and such-like. Come, young gentlemen
editors, all such stuff is childish-not fit to be
seen inside the covers of Magazine!
An article entitled " Due-West, Past and Pre-
sent" appears under the head of " Editorial Mu-
seum," which will be interesting to portion Of
our readers. Wecopyit.
Due-west Corner takes its name from Dewett's
Corner e name Of q small Indian trading-post,
which .vrmerly stood on or near the spot on which
the present village of fDue-West now stands. How
or why the change of name from Dewett's to Due
West was made, is, We believe somewhat a mat
ter of Speculation AT any rate it is a point about
Il, lo.,n - ..,Pzs.
Those of our readers whose privilege it was to
be present ut our Lite "Annual Festival of Letters"
will remember the beautiful md appropriate alll-
sion of the Anniversary Orator to certain tragic
scenes connected with the early history Of Due
West. To others brief sketch Of them here might
not be uninteresting.
The part which South Carolina had to act in the
Revolutionary drama was perhaps more difficult
than that of her sister States. On the coast the
British fleet menaccd and captured her metropolis.
Within her own bosom were many, disaffected to-
wards the cause of liberty, aranklng wound in the
heart Of the Stnte, serving greatly to cripple her
energies. While on the frontier British emissa-
ries were employed in exciting the Indians to as
sassination and plunder. Thus while the British
feet under Sir Peter Parker was preparing for the
attack on Fort Sullivan, agents were actively en-
ployed among the Cherokees in arranging stimuli
taneous attack on the frontier. The victory of
Fort Sullivan, afterwards called Fort Moultrie in
honor of its distinguished commander, was gained
OH the twenty eighth of June, and on the first of
July the blood-thirsty Cherokees poured down up
on the defenseless border settlement The stroke
fell with greatest severity upon the settlers in the
vicinity Of Dewett's Corner. Among others the
house of Capt. Aaron Smith at Little River was
attacked, and himself, his wife, FIVE children and
five slaves murdered in cold blood His two sur
viving sons. one of them sadly mutilated, escaped