Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-12-02

last, at home, TRANQUILITY on the 18th Of
July,and his remains lie eutombed- near
the city of Natchez, on the left bank of the
Mississippi Faithful, just and kind to our
brothers, while serving as soldiers 10 foreign
land, we honored and loved him living, aud
now let our prayers ascend to the good God
to receive him with appreciation into ever
lasting .habitations.
RAILWAYS. -
Great credit is due to the enterprising
citizens who have prosecuted with energy
and success the construction of new, facill-
ties of transportation of passengers and
produce. 1t is notorious that travel and
trade both increase rapidly in proportion
to improved facilities, and so necessary to
the public do these facilities soon become,
that no railway, is allowed to be discontini.
ued, however, profsless it. may be to its
projectors. Indeed, where the ;proprietors
in the vicinage are stockholders, the road
cannot be said to be pro6tless, even although
it be far from yielding dividend. The cap
ital thus investigated in South Carolina may
be put down at eighteen millions Of dollars,
of which sum the State holds shares amount
ing to 50, 342, 200, and the extent of rail.
way in working order at 900 miles. ~ =,
The Charleston and Savannah Road be.
yond the Edisto; the Union and Spartan:
burg Road beyond Unionyille; the Blue
Ridge Road beyond Pendleton, are allunder
the active agency of their skillful and eff!
ciicut officers in a course of successful con,
struction. I have confidence in every one;
and trust to see, at no distant day, the 6fst
linking our commercial capital with the
Gulf of Mexico and New Orleans, the sec:
ond and third with the Mississippi and
Ohio. -. .,''.", - - go.
The work last mentioned, which ! visited
in September, is progressing through its
barrier of granite with much order, regularl-
ty and certainty Nothing seems to be wan.
ting to its completion in the course of three
years but an ample supply Of meah0. Twen.
ty.two hundred feet Of tunnel had been cut
into the Starap House Mountain (thiry-six
hundred remaining. Since that time the
middle tunnel has been completed so far as
to admit the passage of a, horse aud cart
The masonry at .Twehty:six Mile Creek,
Seneca River, and elsewhere, is advancing
satisfactorily, and soon the cars will be
steaming up to the foot ofthe mountain. =
The change which is goingou in the re-
sion through which it passes, must be wit
messed to be realized. Indeed, it is not
sufficiently realized by the inhabitants of the
viciuagc generally, but the loss to them
would be most sadly realized should the
work, by any possibility, be stopped. I can
not bring myself to think of such posi-
biity to a work in which the pride Of the
State. as we'll as its welfare and the inestima-
bic value of closer and more direct associ-
alton with our ,neighbors of Tennessee, Ken
tucky, Alabama and Mississippi, is concern
ed. So important do l hold this intcrcom-
municatien to US, that 7 believe it will be
the policy of the State, as soon as the route
by the Rabun Gap is completed and in full
operation, to lend her means, with the skill
and energy of her engineers, to pushing for
ward another route of travel to Eastern Ten
nessee, by either the Greenville or the
Spatanburg. Road Bonds for the last ,in-
stalment of the State subscription to the
Blue Ridge Railroad of $500, 900, were
signed by neon the 25th October last.
TuE MILITIA SYSTEM.
The Militia system, though far from be-
ing perfect, and admitting of amendment IN
certain details, We must not be induced to
abandon because of its interference with the
convenience of citizen, or the exaction Of
fines from defaulters oblivious of their public
duties. 1t has produced in the service of
the country some of the best soldiers out
side of the regular army. The days Of sew
cnteen hundred and scventy-six-eighty,
must never become so remote, nor con the
memories of gallant ancestry be so forgot
ten, as 70 permit their postcrity, the men Of
the day, however great the love of ease, to
overlook the fact that their liberties, as we'll
as the public peace, are in their own keep
ing, and depend upon their own vigilance
and ability to protect and defend them. At
any and all moments the citizens is liable to
to be called into the field. How important,
therefore, that he should not only cultivate
steady habits of temperance and obedience
himself, but also encourage them in others; ;
how important, by associatipg at muster with
the men in his beat, to know who will be
reliable in the time of trial, upon whom he
may depend for the confident touch of the
elbow when facing danger, or in combat
This bond of confidence is soon formed a.
mong the members of the volunteer compa-
ny; the same may be realized by person
who has done his regular tour of duty in
the beat company upon the man, whose
study is how to avoid d1ty, all reasoning
will be lost.
Patrol duty is too generally overlooked.
In reviewing the several Regiments in the
State, 1 was gratifed to find the officers gen.
efally, with whom I communicated, iutelli
gent and intent to know their duty, as we'll
as willing and justly proud to discharge it.
TO their number, the graduating classes of
the Citadel Academy annually add officers
already instructed and trained. Among the
Generals of Division and Brigade, | recog-
nized proper estimate of their position, TO-