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


The British outrages in the Southern seas are
still kept up, much to the annoyance Of our people.
Thirty-two vessels carrying American colors have
been fired into, boarded and ordered to show pa
pers, or, have been only boarded and questioned
against their consent. This state of things will
be suffered to continue until government vessels,
on the way, reach the scene Of the difficulties,
when some corks will be drawn, a few eommodores
and captains will get drunk, and thus will lend the
second war for sailors rights. SAM is q moral
youth, but he has a bad way Of refusing sweet.
ened dram, made by the maturer reflection Of his
mamma. ~
The Democratic Committees or Clubs, seem to
be the only political organization that take any
notice Of the doings of the British on the seas
They have met in c~onclave, and adopted strong
resolutions in favor Of PREPARATION. Mass meetings
were called, but nobody went; the excitement is
past for the present, every one believing that Gov
eminent will permit this insult, as most others, to
pass BY in formalities. Our Government, except
in a commercial point of view, is little respected
abroad; our own people may be learning the les
son of disrespect and Losing faith in its protec-
ton.
PORTER, son Of the old Commodore of the same
name, offers himself and q crew Of tried men, to
90 in search of the British c~ruisers, that have
been so busy with our vessels. All he asks is o
vessel with necessary outfit, which no one supposes
the merchants will be so forgetful Of their own in
terests, as to give him. When the merchants say
war, then, and scarcely before then, We may have
a war.
The friends of the Electric Telegraph Cable are
very %sanpuine of success, now that the time for o
new trial of the experiment of laying the cable
between Europe and America draws near. The
idea Of q Telegraph across the Atlantic is enchaut-
inc. Think how old Neptuns's fairies will scam
per when they first hear a scorching thought hiss
through the great and wondrous serpent. But it
is not quite so clear that the cable can be laid
down without breaking and this accident avoided,
there is still the question of practical utility
Recent experiments in transmission Of dispatches
show q slow rate, and other difficulties of o more
serious character. SO fer, only four words per
minute have been transmitted through $500 miles
Of cable; end in telegraphing these words, some
very curious freaks were played by the letters
forming them. For instance, A started IN ct one
end of the cable and came out at the other as K.
A great deal of noise has been made over this pro-
iect, lauding it to the skies and claiming for it as
the greatest achievement (f it does ~succeed) OF
modern times. It is the subject Of school-boy
declsmations, and the hobby of would-be-great-
men, In their estimation, the success OF the At
lantic Telegraph Cable, is the beginning Of o new
era-untold advantages to the world must follow
without end. Sensible men begin to ask wherein
do these advantages consist? Howis it that a wire
can regenarate the world ? Common sense will de-
eide the question after all.
The Roman Catholic Provincial Council, lately
assembled at Baltimore, contrasts remarkably with
Protestant denominations in their action on the
yexed subject Of slavery. Professionals, especially
at the North, are VIGOROUSLY intolerant, and herce
their frequent wanderings from the paths OF pro-
priety into the mucks of politico-religious fanatl'
cism and bigotry. All denominations have, al
some time or other, soiled themselves With the
miserable dabbling into the merits and dement's Of
slavery. Romanists reject the subject and coun'
sci neutrality, thus showing to the Church which
holds them e~1communicated, g rare example o.
purity from political filth, atlsast on slavery.
gut inst now the Romauists Of this city are al