Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-04-19

by "Msny Friends" for o seat in the next Legis-
lature, accepts the nomination in the following
style:
"Many friends, it seems, would desire that
should become candidate. They are honor
able men, Many on the other hand might say,
This is grievious fault But they are envious
Cascas that would stab Caesar. Who cares .
Get thee behind me, Satan. would not do
many friends wrong, nor the Cascas wrong; but
I would write what do know. Canvassing dis
trict for the Legislature; shaking hands with
every citizen; hunting up men that you care
nothing about to fool into vote; treating fel-
lows that drink your liquor and curse you be.
hind your back riding through wind and rain,
for an uncertainty, is no easy job. But in con-
sideration that business will be dull during the
summer, having nothing to do, and even if had
it, unwilling to do it, have resolved to launch
my bark on the political ocean, unfurl every sail,
and steer for the borne from whence no honest man
ever returns--'the legislative halls Friends,
countrymen, and citizens adopted, shall expect
you to come up to the reseuel did not bring
myself out. am no orator, but you know me
ala plain, up-country editor, poor as the DEVIL
and that loves his friends. have neither wit,
nor words nor worth, action, money, utterance,
nor the power of speech to stir mems blood
but shall speak right out. will tell you that
which yourselves do know, that the Blue Ridge
Railroard must be built; that the present mill
tia system is totally inefficient; that politics are
nuisance, and politicians, in general, hum
bug. With one eye on the safety Of the ship Of
State, and the other wide awake omy own inter-
est, hope to sail into port safe and sound,
making it q good and profitable voyage" .
- The Concord New Hampshire) Standard
has the following comparison between free labor
at the North and slave, labor at the South:
"Mauy tender hearted, fanatical Abolitionists,
who have travelled South, have been shocked or
pretend to be, at the sight of female slaves work
ing very lazily in the corn and cotton fields Of
that section Of the Union. They think nothing
at all of white females laboring in the fields in
the North. In fact they never take notice OF
such scenes. But we have seen them often
During the past summer we have witnessed the
following scenes in New Hampshire, and in one
of its wealthiest and most enlightened counties.
We have seen white mother holding helpless
nfant in her arms while she was loading load
Of hay, her husband pitching the hay on the
cart, and'the woman, with the child in her arms,
trampling it down. Next we saw an aged white
man, very near seventyyears old, bent over with
infrmity and decrepitude, with one arm amputa-
ted to the very shoulder, pitching bundles Of
wheat on the cart, catch bundles, placing them
properly and trampling them down. We never
saw o scene 80 touching among the slaves
There, such old, decrepid people among the
slaves are relieved from labor or put to light and
easy tasks. The truth is, poor humanity has o
sad destiny everywhere, and the white mans
destiny is fully as hard as that of the black
man.
-Alock of HORACE GREELEY's hair has made
its way into Georgia. The Atlanta Confsaeracy
comments thus on the circumstance:
A gentleman recently from New York, pre-
sented our friend Seals Of the Locomotive with q
lock Of hair from the classic head of our vener-
able fanatic friend, Horace Greeley. 1t is said to
be as white as wool, and in texture as fine as
silk. This lock Of hair would make the fortune
of our friend. should he be disposed to enter into
q speculation with the abolitionists of New Eng.
land. We have heard that Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe, before starting on her recent tour to Eu.
rope, was presented with a lock of Greeley's ca
pillary substance, which she sold to the female
beau monde Of Exeter Hall, for the sum Of three
hundred pounds per hair. Pretty smart specu-
lation that. Who; wants to buy hair Of the
Philosopher, in Georgia! Don't all speak at
once.
- The British Workman, speaking of the
secret Of England's greatness, says:
e. It was noble and beautiful answer Of our
Queen, that she gave to an African Prince, who
sent an embassage, with costly presents, and
asked her in return to tell him the secret Of
Englsnd's greatness and England's glory and
our beloved Queen sent him not the number Of
her feet, nor the number of her armies, not the
account of her boundless merchandise, not the
details of her inexhaustible wealth. She did
not, like Hezekiah, in an evil hour, show the en-
bassador her diamonds and her rich ornaments,
but handing him beautifully bound copy of the
Bible, she said, "Tell the Prince that this is the
secret of England's greatness"
- tPHAcT,' the New Orleans correspondent,
of the Charleston Mercury, says of Gen. BrcK-
LEY and the Z. G. C. movement:
Whether the mysterious and gallant General
Buckley be, as he alleges, Virginia planter, or,
as others allege, Cincinnati drug clerk, it must
be admitted that he has shown no inconsiderable
degree of administrative tact in banding together
the thousands who in the various Southern States
have inscribed their names upon the roll books
of the K. G. C. And, perhaps, it is but fair to
accord him, for the present. the suspension of
opinion which he asks. In the meantime, the
Knights are disconsolate and chop fallen. One
of the leaders stated to me yesterday, in very
detected tone, that the departure would have to
be postponed" But the star of Juarez seems
in the ascendant, and if the Knights delay much
longer he may not thank them for their assis-
tance. For my own part, every day strengthens
my conviction that the whole K. C. C. enterprise
will end in smoke-aud not the smoke of battle,
either.
- The Richmond (Va.) Dispatch, speaking
of Mrs. CHEssUT, the mother of our Senator,
Col. JAMES CHEsNUT, says:
Mrs Mary. Chesnut mother of the Senator
from South Carolina, has been appointed Vice
Regent of the Mount Vernon Association of that
State. She is IS years of age, and had a per
sonal acquaintance with General Washington.
In the spring Of 1889, Washington visited Tren-
ton, and was received with the most enthusiastic
by the people, especially by the
ladies. A striumphal arch was erected on the
bridge over the Assanpinck Creek, at the en-
trance of which the young girls strewed flowers
before him and sang song of welcome. One Of
those girls is now Mrs. Chestnut. And she who
in the dawn of life sang the song Of triumph well
come to The Hero now, in its wane, joins those
who are endeavoring to pay the noblest tribute
to that hero's memory. .-
- The Rev. THEODORE PARKER, in one Of
his letters from Europe, published il the L6e-
rator, gives the following statictics Of drunken
ness on that continent:
SIN Europe, you see many things which seem
strange to an American. Take the use Of wine
If I am right, the European consume about
{, 500, 900, 600 gallons of wine. In France, leave
out Of account the pasture land which is, not
plowed, and the forests, Of the actual arabic
land, one. third is devoted to the culture of the
grape. Yet there are immense districts where
no wine can be raised at all see it stated
that the Government returns make it appear
that the people of France drink 85O 900, ,00C gal
Ions Of wine, and the calculation is that the
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