Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-10-25
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this State. They have offered their services to
His Excellency, Gov. GIsT, and ordered a sup
ply of arms. They will uniform in a dark grey,
homemade tseed, trimmed with green fringe
and cord, with cap of coon skin. They call
themselves "Marion men of the Combahee."
- The SEVENTEEN anniversary Of the Char
lesion Orphan House was commemorated on
Thursday, the 18th instant, by the charity chill.
dren and the people Of the city. We learn from
the Courier that some forty children received
premiums, and many others were distinguish
ed' for good behavior and attention to study
The Institution had its origin in the eloquence
of the great pulpit orator, George Whitfield
and has all the vigor and freshness of youth
about it, though it has now reached its ''three
score years and ten" ,
1t is thought that the extra session of the
Legislature called for next Monday week, to mp
point Electors, will necessarily be prolonged into
the regular session or, at the utmost, a very
sh' TT recess will intervene. The Charleston
Courier says that if the election Of President
turns upon the vote Of Oregon or California
(which is not at all impossible) it may be a week
or longer before the result is known. We hear
tily endorse this sentiment of the Courier: Gun
der any view of the case, it is important that
our legislators should 60 prepared to serve the
State, and to discharge their duties, and they
should arrange their private, and personal, and
professional affairs accordingly"
- One Of our most prominent j~urists, we
learn from the Darlington Flag, has made the
prudent suggestion that it will be well for the
Legislature, which will now soon convene, to
adop: measures for the more speedy trial of
emissaries detected in our midst. He
suggests that the Clerks of District Courts be
empowered to act as Judges, er o%6cio, to call
court, impannel grand and petit jurors, hear
evidence, consider the verdict and pass sentence
in such cases. This suggestion is a good ONE
1t would at once and efectually remove the
present necessity of Judge Lynch's sway and
thus arrest the tendency of outside pressure to
run US into anarchy and mobocracy.
- The annual report of the Sunday School
Society of the NJ. E. Church, South, for this
year, state that there are 400 schools, 10000
and officers, ICE, 900 scholars, 400, 900
volumes in libraries, $4,000 copies of The Sun
day School Visitors taken, and S29, 900 collect
ed and expended for Sunday School purposes"
is an increase of about sir fold in everything
mentioned, over last year! 1t is estimated that
here are half a million children whose parents
upon the ministrations of the church
DR.. Taylor, formerly missionary to China, presides
over this vast and noble association.
- enator Brown, of Mississippi, in a re-
cent speech at Crystal Springs, thus speaks Of
Hannibal Hamlin, the Republican Vice Presi-
lential candidate, of Maine:
"Mr. Hamlin is c man of fair mental endow-
nents. If he is remarkable for anything, it is
for knowing which way the wind is going to
blow, and always getting his sail set so as catch
the first breeze. He took up politics as q young
duck to water, because it was his element. III
owed the devil q genuine Simon Pure Yankee,
and meant tc settle fair, l would send him
Hannibal Hamlin.
- Virginia boasts of having ninety well or
cavalry companies, about 20 Of which
will be inspected at an eucampment to be held
at Richmond on the 9TH November next. This
is said to be the largest force of cavalry that
ever assembled for drill in that State. Col.
author Of the system of tactics now in
use in the United States Army, and Lieutenant
Colonel of Cavalry, has expressed his willing
ness to be present and instruct the companies,
if permission be obtained from the Secretary of
Col. Hardee is the author of the "Skir-
Drip so spiritedly "rendered" by our
gallant Jasper Light Infantry.
AN intense wag of Salem, Ohio, has re-
Gently sold the Douglas Democrats of that vicini-
,y-so say the papers-at an exceedingly low
price. The lafayette Journal thus tells how he
lid it:
ga few days since, an extra train, loaded with
iackasses, WAS transported over the Louisville
and New Albany Railroad. The telegraph ope
at Salem, a boy, getting wind of it, set
a rumor that q large delegation of Demo.
Gratis would pass through at a certain hour
Rumor, increasing S it flew, said that many
eminent speakers were aboard. and that bands
Of music accompanied the expedition. Immense
crowds of enthusiastic Douglas men repaired to
the depot, hats in hand, ready for the expected
cheers. When the train Numbered in, and an
aged and venerable owner of O pair of fabulous
ears stuck his head out of q stock car and gave
vent to a long agonizing hee.haw that fairly
shook the hills around, CONSERVATION seized the
crowd, and in two minutes not a Democrat was
to be seen within a mile of the depot. Com.
has been made to the superintendent
against the operator, and he is in momentary
of a notice to quit.
- The Hartford (Ct.,) Times, of a late date,
an ARRAY among the students of Trinity
College, in which one Of our occasional p~oetical
,ontributors-Preston Davis Sill-was concern
ID. 1t seems that it is a custom of the students
If this as we'll as many other Institutions in the
and, to a greater or less extent, to connect some
but innocent 'initiatory proceedings"
the students admission into his class, or
INTO college. Mr.. SilI's class was ''put through"
Odd Fellows Hall recently; but be and two
,thers refused to take the ''degree." Subse-