Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-02-16

appal the boldest heart" We have not read o
book in years with profounder interest than
this. There was everything to invest it with
interest-the poetess-writer, whose spirit lends
its undeinable charm Of beauty to everything it
nears the subject-Edgar Poe, the boldest and
ablest of Southern critics, the most striking and
earnest poet that ever wrote, the wronged as o
man, the misunderstood, the independent, the
princely and mournful genius that electrified
our whole country by the vigor, brilliancy, and
audacity of his psn-Edgar Poe, who was born in
q Southern city, who dared defend our Southern
literature, and who now "lies in dust" in the city
that gave him birth. All these things made this
little book intensely interesting to US. Besides,
we ourself once wrote something upon the sub
jsct. We commend it to You, friends, heartily
as a noble and beautiful tribute to truth, given
in the genuine spirit Of Christian charity to all
parties, just warm and fresh from one Of the
purest and best Of better human hearts, that we
have ever met. The book is published in ex-
quisite style by Rudd and Carleton Of New York.
1t con be had, postage paid, by sending the price
(seventy-fve cents) 10 the publishers. And Of
course our friend Glass will have it on sale in
Columbia in few days.
The Disinterment.
Last Saturday the Students of the South ca.
rolina College disinterred the body Of Jean P.
Finley in Potter's Field and reburied it in Elm
wood Cemetry. Finley, native Of Abbeville
District, was student in the College, who died
while Senior, in l8l4-forty six years ago.
He was buried then down there in the pine
field and around his lonely grave have gathered
the homeless stranger, the slave, and the out
cast from society," miscellaneous democracy
till the romantic solitude of the lonely student
became vile spot
= "Obscure and lonely, ....s..
Haunted by ILL angels only;" .-.
and it was deemed we'll to remove him. We car
hardly sympathise in the sentiment We fell
that Finley had throne thcre-down there II
the desolate feld-and we felt that his noble
spirit could feel no wrong ut the drawing near
of the death-equalized dust of the homeless
daughters of shame. They had trod paths o.
sin, it may he true; or had been cast off by So
ciety; but it was to o frait one like them tina
ego and sin no more" was once uttered. AND
who Of us should Judge? But it was deemed
we'll to remove him. Mr. ]. W. Wardlaw, astu
dent from Abbevile also, was leader in the mat.
ter. The hearse, containing all that remain:
of Finley-very little-left the campus at hal
past ten, attended by the Faculty, with Presi
dent Longstreet at their head, and the students
in procession. Finley had been at DR.. Waddell''
school half century ago, school.mate Of the
President, who now oficiates at this second dust
to. dust Of his school boy friend. His remarks
were beautifully and touchingly appropriate. -
We have rarely listened to so earnest, go stri
king, and 80 eloquent grave-tribute. But th'
old friends heart was in it. The past lived sgair
in twilight of memory; and in that twilight tn
dew (not the visible. rainy Of tears sweetly diff
fused itself over all-all, the gray hairs, th'
tremulous tone of voice, and the re-awakenini
host Of "reminiscences that had slumbered long.
An earnest brief prayer by Professor Reynold
closed the ceremonies. The grave was filled
and the crowd came back into the city, and lef
Finley to sleep anew in his new bed. y
Our, thought flowed back to the lonely pine
from among which his college-brothers ha
brought him. Still, it does seem better that b
sleep in Elmwood Cemetry.
J. w. D.
COLUMBIA, S. C.