Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-02-23
EDITORIAL INKLINGS,

- Rev. II. Fl. DURANT has been appointed
by the South Carolina Conference, as agent to
act in raising an endowment fund Of $500, 900
for the Wofford College. In series of warm
and eloquent articles to the Christian AdUocate
he suggests al plan to raise this fund, that q
donation of S25, 900 connect the name of an in
dividual donor, or the family name of body Of
donors with particular professorships, which
will hand them down in enviable association,
all covered over with glory and honor, to the Ia
test generation. This may be done by iudvidu-
al donors, by families or by any number OF per-
sons combined We infer that in all cases the
donors will be allowed to name the professor
ship.
- Says the Washington States and Union ::
"a Virginia member of the House of Represen-
tatives, who numbers amongst his constituents
some who have never seen or tasted the delicious
bivalves, purchased a can of picked oysters
the package holding, perhaps, about gallon
and having en- carefully enveloped and direct
ed, appended his frank in one corner, and the
package was conveyed to the Post-Ofice to start
on its voyage to the mountains of Western Vir-
ginia." A fine illustration, really, Of the frank
ing privilege.
- The postal Bill embracing clause for
the abolshmeat of the franking privilege, some
time ago passed the Senate and went to the
House. The House passed the bill, after rescind-
ing the franking clause; whereupon the bill re-
turned to the Senate. On Wednesday of last
week, the Senate receded from its amen lment,
abolishing the franking privilege, and passed the
bill by nearly IN unanimous vote. The President
has since signed the bill, and it is now law.
After the passage of the postage bill, the Sen
ate took up o bill for the abolition of the frank
ing privilege, which passed with the opposition
of only two Senators. The bill cuts off all frank
ing after the first of April, except to those to
whom it is granted by name.
VIC copy the following paragraph from
the seventh annual Report of the State Super.
;utendent of Common Schools of North Carolina,
Mr.. C. H. WILEY. This system of popular edu-
cation has been adopted seven years, by our
neighboring State Mr.. WILEY is almost enthu-
sastic in its praise:
"The Common School system, though COM
mon interest, is of special Importance to those
in moderate circumstances, and to mechanics
and other honorable laborers who may be con
tinually called from place to place and no State
institution is therefore, so necessary to such as
system of schools which offers to them the means
of educating their children wherever their inter-
ests may call them. Such On institution we
have in our Common School system; and by
guarding it with Jealous care, and using all prop
er means to promote its efficiency, the great and
good State of North Carolina says to oil the
vast variety of true men of every rank and class
necessary to constitute q prosperous and power
full Commonwealth, "that you are welcome here,
and your wants appreciated: behold the schools
erected for your children by my provident care,
in every part of my wide domain where you may
choose to dwell in peace, under the authority of
my equal laws y
No question in free governments is more diff
cult than that of educating the people rightly.
1t must be done, however, in order to the pres
ervation of liberty; and the experience of one
State may we'll become part and parcel of the
wisdom of another in all such cases.
Ill., the entertaing author OF Midnight
Musings for the children in the Due West Tels-
scope, takes for his last text the subject,
The Dog will bite
The Thief at night
We have often enjoyed his droll, resistless
humor in the Lecture room; for he is one of the
professors of the college there. The following
paragraph on 'the Dogs shows one of his veins {:
"Some dogs are valuable for one thing and
some for another, and a goodly number arc
good for nothing but to suck eggs and stick their
nose into every pot and dish as soon as the cook
turns her back, and to set up dolorous howl
when kicked or scolded for their misdemeanors.
Some dogs could be very we'll spared, as the
NANCY hound, the sheep-killing mastif, and the
dirty, ugly, woody little pug or lap:dog that the
ladies in the upper tendon circles are SO fond Of
nursing and entertaining with baby talk %