Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-04-01

WAS guilt the Gordian tie0
Nay, ~shivering near my bosom stay
There love me, love, as 1.
Stone Mountain, Georgia, Juns %, 1857.
-Thirty-6ve years ago, Hon. Edward
Everett was a member of the United States
House of Representatives, and now ofthe
three hundred men in Congress with him, on
ly one occupies a seat at the Capitol-Gen.
Houston then Representative from Tennessee
now a Senator from Texas.
The bill authorizing the importation
into Louisiana of 800 Africans, after pass
ing the House of Representatives of that
State, with little or nc opposition, has been
rejected in the Senate, at the close Of a most
violent and exciting debate, by a majority of
two. The measure is, therefore, for the pre-
sent, essentially defunct.
1t is stated that the largest room that
was ever constructed is that in which the
tobacco stores are kept in the London Docks.
The room is said to cover nearly six acres,
being, of course, under one roof. 1t is a
curious circumstance, that this enormous
apartment should be devoted to an article of
mere luxury.
We '"arn that those persons of the
Yigilant C. lmittee, engaged in the recent
fatal ARRAY at Gainesville, in Darlington Dis
trict, who were tried for murder at the recent
Court of Sessions in that district, have all
been acquitted. We have also learned that
several of the opposite party indicted for
illicit traficing with slaves, have been found
g~uilty.-Cumden Journal.
"A Belfast paper says that emigrants
from Ireland to the United States 10 the
coming season, will probably be much small
err than usual, in consequence of the bad
prospects of commercial affairs and manufac-
lures in this country. In the months end
ing with January, the number of persons re-
turned to Belfast from New York was greater
than the entire number of those emigrating
direct from the former port, in the whole
year of 1857.
We learn from the Salisbury Watch-
man that a case ofsmall pox occurred at Gold
Hill, Rowan County, week before last. The
authorities of Salisbury have taken prompt
measures to pevent the disease reaching that
town, by passing an ordinance f~orbidding
"auy person from Gold Hill or any other
infected region" visiting Salisbury, under
a penalty of $50 fine if a white person, or
thirty.nine lashes if a slave. The Intendant
was authorized to employ guards for the
purpose of preventing persons suspected of
having been where the disease exists from
entering the town.
1t will cheer the friends of our rail-
road to know that our go-a.head townsman,
Maj .Govan Mills, has received the contract
for grading and laying track on the whole
line of the Spartanburg and Union Railroad
yet unfinished. He expects to have the road
completed to U~nionville by the annual meet
ing in August. Col. Young, the President,
is now in Pennsylvania for the purchase of
iron for the whole road. We understand
that information has reached Unionville that
Col Y. had sold 100000 worth of bonds,
and had bought, or made arrangements for,
rails enough to iron the road to Spartanburg.
Another debt is due to the energy of Col.
Young.-Spartan.
"A writer in the Charleston Courier
refers to a happy scheme which we trust
will be matured and carried out, and with
which the name of Col. Gadsden is honorably
associated. Abiding to Wellington College,
instituted to the memory ofthe "lron Duke"
for the education of soldiers orphans, and
which is indeed a noble monument, the wri-
ter suggests to the ladies of the Calhoun
Monument Association, that the funds now
in their keeping be applied to the endowing
of an educational institution of some kind,
which would benefit the living, while at the
same time it would honor the dead. Let not
the good thought perish.-Carolintan.
- Belle Britain, the correspondent of
the New Orleans Piicagune, writing from
Savannah, on the 18th, says: 81 have wit
messed more unkindness, more suffering, more
inbumanity, in the city of New York in one
day, than l have seen in the South in three
months. In fact, l have seen here no suffer-
ing at all no evidences of hunger, or cold,
or destitution, or wretchedness of any descrip-
ton among the blacks. The malignant phi
lanthrophy of the Northern Abolitionist is ut
terly wasted in their d~olorous clamor overthe
smiseries of the poor slave They know
nothing of the practical workings of the sys-
TEN they are so noisily and so michlevously
b~erating. But the rabid abolitionist is not
a whit more contemplate than the opposite
extremist, Ga specimen of whom has been ex-
hibiting his ears in one of the Savannah
papers overthe signature of Cambridge, )who
are so madly intolerannt of free opinions that
they would persecute a man for even private
ly entertaing a theoretical antagonism to
slavery. 1t is a pity that every such Southern
jackass could not be yoked to Northern
abolition jenny, and the twain be made to do
the most mental work Of the niggers, and
take their stripes if they skick in harness"