Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-06-10

may be we'll dressed and create a favorable
impression at first sight-are you both hon.
est and industrious9 You may apply for a
good situation--are you sure that your
friends, teachers, acquaintauces, can recon-
mend you for these qualities? O, how would
you feel your character not being thus es-
tablished, on hearing the word "can't employ
you" Nothing else would make up for the
lack of these qualities. No readiness or
aptness for business will do it. You must
be honest and industrious-must work and
labor. $780,. nss =.
CHARACTER OF SENATOR EVANS.
We learn that among our national legisla-
tors the death of Senator Evans is univer-
sally deplored. He was man of quiet, re-
tired habits and of q reflective mind. A
stranger entering the Senate chamber, and
seeking to locate men by their physioguomy
and general bearing, would not have select
ed Mr.. Evans as representative ofthe South,
last Of all, South Carolina. He would be
looking fora man of oimpetuosity Of Hayne,
the eager resoluteness Of Hamilton, or the
fiery "forth.puttiDgs" Of McDuf6e. Quite
different was the late Senator from all these.
Ofbroad and short bodily structure, he sat
very calmly in his senatorial chair, with q
dignity and patience derived probably from
the Bench, which he adorned many years.
He presented strong contrast to bis col
league, Butler, who was impulsive and rest.
less, but there was much congeniakty be:
tween them. Few would have taken Judge
E. to be over 60 years of age, while he was
over 70. His longevity may be attributed
to the equanimity Of his temper, and the reg.
ularity Of his habits. Few members grow
old on the parliamentary soil. Mr.. Giddings
has the most years among the House mem.
bers, but he would not be regarded as avery
old man amid the hills of Berkshire, or. the
valleys of Hampshire. And even be seems
ready to faint and 60 into syncope at every
sudden political excitement ID the House.
We hope he will not fall martyr to so poor
cause as political abolition.
1t was to the midland charitable Evans,
that an abolition leader made the confession
that his party did not care particularly fol
the negroes, out they were resolved on OBJ
tanning political power. He thus felt assur-
ed that it was ambition, not benevolence,
which prompted their preternatural- efforts
on the political arena. Judge Evans seldom
mingled in debate, never for the purpose oi
displaying himself. His speeches were on
matters of business, and these short, as is the
South Carolina custom. Senators had great
con6depcei in his judgment, for they knew
that to thejudicial faculty, be added thorough
investigation of the case before him. Hence
the strong votes he carried for bis revolution
ary halfpay bill in the face of the prejudice
against pensions. he succeeded in disinter-
ing contract from a burial of almost fore.
score years, and proving to the Senate it had
life. 1t was the governmental act of 1880,
which promised half.pay for life to the off.
GERS who should serve to the end of the. war.
1t was afterwards commuted to full pay fol
FIVE years, but the military creditors were
paid of, or rather put off, with nearly worth.
less certificates. Mr.. Evans was resolved
that this injustice should no longer be nurs'
ed by the Government, if be. could prevent
it. He accordingly prepared bill, and car
ried it handsomely through the Senate
BY press of business, it was smothered in
the House, but he expected to see this act
of justice pass both Houses this session and
his long labor thus crowned with success
But death suddenly came, and cut off all
these expectations. His patriotic labors are
done, and the best tribute his eo-legislators
can render to the memory of the departed
statesman, is to give full and final passage
to that bill of justice and gratitude, on the
consummation of which he was so intent
By such an event as this sudden death, states.
men are reminded not only that they are
mortal, but that they must do quickly 70,
the country's good what they intend to do,
for in an unexpected moment they may be
called to give an account of their steward
ship.
The South Carolina procession has passed
off the stage before the eyes of a generation
not yet old. Lowndes, Piuckney, Huger,
Lagare, Grimke, Gadsden, Hayne, Calhoun,
McDufie, Miller, Butler, and now Evans,
constitute a line OF intellectual men, which
any State may be as proud to hold in her
bosom as she must be sad to lose from her
grasp. Perhaps this discipline of sore af'
Fiction which that gallant State has borne,
has been blessed to the publication Of her
heart, and the promotion of her sense Of de-
pendence on superior Power. Possibly in
"the day Of adversity," she has resolved to
"consider." Some other States might with
propriety do the same, and so might the ma
tion, for it is in fact national death that has
occurred, and may occur again before the
close of the session. All appear to reverence
the memory of the recently departed. May
all conduct each bis share of the public buis-
ness with equal dignity and prosperity
Then will the people respect the National
Council, and prosperity will be the portion
ofall.-Nev York Journal Of Commerce.
The POPULATION OF THE UNITED
STATEs.-The Railroad Record has an able
article on the physical developement of the