Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-06-03
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.

NEW YORK, MAY Z4, 1000.
The British outrsges on American vessels is still
the subject of excitement. The aggregate of these
now amounts to about twenty-five! This we suf-
fer almost under our OWE guns. The gallant PoR-
TER, formerly of the Navy, offers himself as q
leader in an expedition having for its object o
purpose no less than to capture q few of the Brit.
ishers and to bring them into port. Although
Government is moving promptly in the matter, let
PORTER have o letter of marque, and let US show
them that volunteers are ever ready and able to
protect our interests by sea as well as by land
We honor them too much by sending government
vessels to exercise that kind Of Intervention which
consists in "masterly inactivity. Let US call up
on the shade of "Old Hickory and have q WAR;
war that will try our young strength and leave US
more powerful than before it came. Our Navy is
too small, and nothing short Of a war will brighten
legislators into active measures for building up q
marine force worthy of a great nation.
The news from BRIGHAM YOUNG and Utah is
important. That arch-hypocrite and prime leader
in immortality, BRIGHAM YOUNG, will soon earn A.
mother epithet to grace his many honorable titles.
He will be called BRIGHAM the Racer; for, although
the authorities think that he is sending his harem
in advance to safe places, in order to pull off his
coat and fight like o white man, unencumbered by
baggage; he is only preparing for " q tall travel"
by the shortest route, Us soon as the Government
troops appear in sight. He will burn Salt Lake
City, take to his heels, and leave the soldiers q
barren conquest.
At last there is a commotion in the Theatrical
world DAVENPORT has cow-hided CHARLES MAT
THEws for reporting that he (Matthews) paid the
cost of the suit that divorced DAVENPORT and his
wife thus in effect paying $500 for 90 love of o
woman whom he afterwards made 80 duck Of o
wife" DAVENPORT. probably holding the opinion,
current in some portions of North Carolina, that a
woman is worth ga quart of whiskey and q pista-
reen," grew indignant at the value allowed for his
wife, LIZZIE WESTON, and hence the assault. He
published O Card in which he puts his divorced
wife and her present husband, (Matthews) on o
level with the lowest subjects that ever disgraced
the 'school of scandal" Such o card should not
have appeared outside of the immaculate city Of
Boston; it is too shameless in its revelations OF
family secrets for any other than o puritanical
atmosphere, On atmosphere that taints and cor
rupts everything that it touches.
The Mayor of the city, after uprooting many
lottery swindles fourishing here, sent one of his
officers to search into the lottery concern of s.
| SWAN & Co.. 1t seems that that substitution" is
not so exclusively Southern after all; for a broth
err of the former Mayor of New York and some
others, have 80 finger in the pie" But Georgia
legalized lottery swindling, so fllibustering in the
estate of Georgia" in this instance, did not pay
expenses. The pity is that the Mayor could moi
break up the main concern as easily as he demol
ished their ticket Office here. How many poor
devils would have their last desperate dollar te
buy an honestlmeal or to pay an honorable debt!
The Gift Book establishment, so extensively
patronized by the South, aud very we'll known il
certain portions of York District, have keenlI
felt the edge Of the official sword. tits the objec
of the managers of Gift Book concerns, to chea
the ignorant and thoughtless in a very simpl'
manner. In course of time all kinds of light
trashy and unsold printerature (f a word may b
coined to suit the low grade of literature) accu
mulates in great quantity. The worms or f.
must destroy such books, provided ignorance doe
mt come to the rescue, and pay handsomely TO