Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-05-22
nIERE.NIENTION.

Of the "Courtship under Difficulties, on the nrss
pnpe. read the article on Southern Parties from
our excellent cotemporury, the Edgefeld lnf0rm'r'
Besides being well-written column-full, it gives
expression, better than we can, to the motives
which have controlled the course of the ENQUIRER
and contains suggestions which ought to have
weight, now, with every ue-heartei Southron'-
We swallow it all......Mr. Herbert, the member
of Congress who killed Thomas Kcating, one OF
the walters at Willard's Hotel, has been admitted
to bail in the sum of Sl0O '''''''"The AdrerfSrr
chronicles the death of Mrs. Sarah LaBordc, at
Edcefeld Court House, and says: "She had well
nigh counted her four-scor years and had heen
identified with this community in its interest ana
feeling for nearly half century. She was a true
friend and q devoted mother. In her death, an
other link has been broken that connected our past
with our present Thus are the oil folks going
home. Heaven help those who follow, to die, rs
these do "thc death of the righteous" Dr.
Macmillan Laborde, ut present a most cstimahle
Professor in the South Carolina College, was the
eldest son of the deceased "......."The young men
of Spartanburg have set about to organize uni
formed rife company. This is right and our
own young men should follow the ezampc'''''''
The Black Republicans are now talking of Judge
Mclean for President and Fremont for Vice. The
same thing; only the CARTS before the horse-thats
all'....Terre Haute, Indiana, which up to the
time of the fusion movement was the banner city
Al, raooptlu 20 majority
for the old-lne democratic nominee The slavery
question was the issue. Ditto at Cincinnati,
where the Democracy have elected their entire
ticket This, says an exchange, is the common
result of elections in the northwest this spring
Everywhere the same result is achieved. The
people of the northwest have put their brand of
condemnation upon Niggerism in nil quarters ''''
The King of Algiers, the son of France, having
been born, it is limited that hoops will no longer
remain in fashion, in Paris. Whoop-ee, what an
idea
Our Publisher, Mr.. GRIsT, has just finished up
neat edition of q pamphlet containing the address
ses of Gen. Wallace, Col. Wilson and Capt. Jenkins
together with an account of the ceremonies at the
Laying of the Cornerstone of the new Barracks
for the Military School. If possible, get one of
them, to be kept as an item of our town progress
worth preserving g...''..'The last weeks Charlotte
Democrat says "The Convention which met on
Saturday last at Lincolnton, nominated james
H. White, Esq, of CASTOR, as the Democratic can-
didate for the State Senate, in the district COM
posed of the counties of Catawba, CASTOR, and
Lincoln. Mr.. W. is a popular gentleman, and
will make good Senator. '''''..'We note among
our exchanges The Campaign Banner," q ueat
and spirited paper just started at Middletcwn,
Orange County, New York, with the motto, The
Union and the Constitution forever" 1t will do
coed service for the Democracy in the Empire
State, and we hail it as fair omen Of success
in that section ..'....'The London Court Journal
says the new American Minister, Mr. Dallas, fol-
lows the precedent of Mr.. Buchanan-and which
was exacted by President Pierce-of wearing or
binary evening dress while attending the Queens
court .......Maj. R. F. Simpson, of Anderson, has
received the appointment from the Secretary Of
War of Visitor to West Point, to represent South
Carolina at the examination Of the Cadets at the
Military Academy '...''''The correspondent ofthe
Charleston Coueitr, alluding to Gen. Cass's last
effort, speaks of the old hero thus :-"General
Cass is a wonderful man for seventy-four. You
know he was born in lI5o,-n the same year with
Mr. Calhoun and Mr.. Webster,-and still holds
his place as leader of the Senate His language
is fluent distinct, new, correct, and not wanting
in energy and force. Lord Pamerston is only
about seventy and yet his capacity for public af-
fairs is deemed remarkable even in England,
where, as We generally, though perhaps erronc-
ously suppose, the ris cite is longer preserved than
it is here"