Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-06-21

tainment suited to o-Sthe acknowledgements,
wholesome, everything fresh and neat and DO
mestic. simplicity genuine and comfortable
is the spirit Of the house. The elevation, above
the Saluda that runs near by, is 2S00 feet. IT
is one of the most charming, breezy and appe-
tizing places we ever saw. The poet may hnd
themes for his holiest ~meditstons on nature ;
and the dyspeptic may find an excellent appe-
tits! The Register is an interesting old book,
too; full of dear familiar names-those who in
other years passed that way. What o. place for
memories-How often does the soul start at
name,is deemed-Pshsw! We are mixing senti-
ment with statistics!
Go to Cesar's Head if you desire quiet ru-
raj retreat. Its landscapes are very fine. Its
elevation the greatest in South Carolina. Ies
wateris the coldest. Its brow the breeziest- -
1t is great place to dream. We've tried it:
We have other places to mention-next week,
maybe. -
Literature. =
/ We hear. that Mr.. Van Buren, Moore, who was
getting up book on Southern Poets, has trans.
ferred his materials to Messrs. Jno. r. .Thomp.
son and John Esten Cooke. These gentlemen
purpose, as we mentioned short time ago
issuing q work covering the same ground. Mex
fall is the time Sc. for the appearance of the
volume. ;.
The novel that is making the greatest nois'
this week, perhaps, is "Aargaret Apnersi8e: tn,
First Love of Aaron Burr" 1t is by Charlie
Burdett, and is eminently sensation book. 1
appeals to a curiosity already existing in tn
public mind Burr's forte, to the minds Of tn
! many, was pe-making-love-maKing in the styl
that forms the staple of a vast range Of work
Of fiction. Many facts Of .Burr's life are Wha
that clsss of readers call spicy. Names differ
. as well as tastes. This novel has fine. fac
simile Of Burr's celebrated cipher letter and ke
the mysterious alphabet Of that language i
which some Of his clandestine correspondents
was carried on: Those wishing the book. ca
get it by ordering from the publishers, Derd
& Jackson, in New York. TheyHill send ii fre
by, mail for dollar and quarter.
The National Quarterly .Rerisw, volume one
number one, has reached u.s. We have spoke
Of it before; and will speak more in detail mex
week, Published in New York. Three dollar
a year, Two hundred and seventy four psge:
Personal. = ..
Madame'LE VERT, ANNA Cora RfroH1E, Az
. GUsrAJ. EVANS, MARION HARIASD,- Mania j
4 McISTosH, Rosa VssTNER JOHNSON, and other
Of our Southern literary ladies, have place "a
mopg the illustrations of Mary Forests ne,
work" Women i6f the. South Distinguished 1
Literature" The portraits re'to ,bo fne' ste.
epgra!ings. The book will be OUT
Dr.. WILLIAM H. HoteoaBB; the. author Of
recent volume of Poems, lives at Waterproo
Louisiana !; not in Richmond; Virginia; as 9Th
STEPHEN MAssEr, whom many of our.readei
, will recognize as the humorist, -"Jeems: Pipes,
and others will remember as u racy and .entel
tanning lecturer upon .miscellauies.. is engaged
writing (as amanuensis) q kind Of Autobiogrsph
or Confessions of Albert Hicks, the pirate an
murderer, whose horrors are creating such,a ser
satiou in ''the papers" just now.
EHnssBuRa has been elected by the Par
> Academy of Sciences as sucesssorto Hnmbold
Among the candidates for the place were Aga
' sz, Murcbison, Liebig, Airy Struve, and Wohie
Ehrenburg was the companion Of Humboldt
5 bis Siberian expedition. Agassiz;, at Harva'
= University, in the United States, is So years
/, age. Murchison is English, is SO years old, an
y at this time Director Of the Museum Of Pract
cal Geology. Liebig is German, 81 years old.
Professor in the University Of Munich Airy
English, SO years old, and holds the Office Of A
tronomer Royal. struve is o Russian astrou
4 mer of the first rank, and is Director of theCe
J., trail Observatory Of Russia, at Pultowa. As
n Wohler, we don't know. s-...
To Correspondents.
q No. Ito the friend who wishes copy
the English Grammar that De use-referring
Jour parsing few weeks ago-we can only 81
the volume is too ponderous for the post,ofi
a transmission; besides, the address is not Civ
J.. with sufficient e1plicitness.
4 No. 2-These are the words:
"Aud he said,-sYou tciH neper find it col
save the ice of death has frozen its current Al
, she said,-'Tme may erase that sentence fro
e your memory, Jut I shall remember it al,rays. ,
# The simile of the frozen stream belongs to 1
e icy latitude-it certainly is not Southern. o.
" streams may freeze oyer; but the current is nev
!, frozen, in streams Of any respectable. size,
!, any rate. j. W. d.
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