Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-08-30
COlJTRIBUTORIAL

The Ladies' Southern Florist.
Mrs. Rion's work on fower-culture is, after
some mechanical delays, out and fairly in the
market. We have already told you, readers,
how highly We estimate this book. 1t is worth
ten times the price-sepentyy fire cents, not a dol
lar as was stated before-to many a foricult.
At length we find in this author the wonder Of
an educated and refined woman, who can write
sensibly of flowers and Horticulture, in a South
ern cline too, without the rigmarole, moonshine,
and wish-wash of the poets.
Common Truths
Not commonly admitted.
16-Bossuet was right when he said :-Eoery
error is a truth abused. Cousin says:-Error is
always partial truth.
17-Bailey was right when he id:-THere Is
no passion evil in itself.
lS-Whoever said-Perseverantia omni vinc,t,
enunciated q principle very largely untrue and
one that has made many o block-head devote his
life to Blackstone when nature intended him
to be q newer Of wood and a drawer of water.
Much, indeed, but not omnid.
19-Whoever said-Quand on ma pas ce que
ron aime IL faut aimer ce que ron a, uttered a
beautiful truth.
Mrs. Quincy.
Last year the gossip world was RECALLED with
the facts of this woman's unfortunate course.
Just now, again. the scandal is revived by a
Letter of vindication which Mrs. Quincy has
written to a friend. The letter has been pub
lished by her friends, and has gone the rounds
of newspaperdom both in England and in the
North.
Mrs. Quincy is the wife Of a member of the
English Parliament. They are second cousins.
Their union WAS q marriage de convenance. They
had a family of one or two children. They got
on together only $3.50.
Mrs. Quincy thought it her duty to endure
thought it better to
Bear those Ills we have,
Than fly to others that we know not of !"
and she bore them for some years.
At length the beau real of her inbound ideal
presented itself to her in the person Of William
Tayler. After months of struggling with the
'fate,' she told the fact to her husband. He
treated her as a'lunatic, and would send her on
a health tour.
Mrs. Quincy would not be treated as a ~lunatic,
and declined to be sent on a health-tour.
She came to the conclusion that to remain the
wife of John Henry Quincy was on offence be-
fore high heaven.
She, farther, came to the conclusion that to
seek her "afinity" was obedience to some of the
"higher ~laws"-perhaps Stewards.
Mrs. Quincy, accordingly, eloped with Will
liam Tayler; went to Paris; and may be there
yet.
William Tayler was groom-not a BRIDE
groom, but Il horse groom.
Tout e monde was scandalized, of course. The
newspapers had a high time overit. Mrs. Grun-
dy enjoyed it vastly perhaps Mrs. Quincy did
also.
In January Mrs. Quincy wrote the Letter Of
vindication to which we referred above. 1t is
dated, Paris. In that letter she goes over the
whole grounds, and attempts an elaborate vim.
dicatlon of her course.
Her cause is bad enough and she accomplish
es but little by her Letter. 1t may teach US len
iency in our condemnation of the erring; but
the erring are not justified by it. We pity.
Mrs. Quincy has own into the face of society
and its conventions with an high hand" She
has done a high wrong; but that wrong seems to
have come legitimately from the antecedent and
greater wrong of her marriage.
Our Northern newspapers, and chief among
them is the Tribune of New York-have pro-
nounced the Letter very bad. Still, they reprint
it; comment upon it; preach over it get up q
vast food of "virtuous Indignation :" and play
the Phraisee largely. Each one of them is will
ling to cast the first stone-all eager indeed to
get q timely fling at her. 1t is n glorious op-
portunity for the tmmaculates to buster, in or
der to show how outrageously ~virtuous they are.
We have mentioned the matter ct all, mainly
because of this surplus indignation that our
northern press have gotten up upon the occasion.
The circumstance has q moral use, we opine, in
directing attention to certain evils existing in o
social system that demands such marriages; but
not such remedies.
The Eclipse Expedition.
Now that the government commission to Lab.
rador has returned and reported, we may give q
few items again t%hereupon.
Prof. Alexander of Princeton, N. j., was chief
of the expedition. He was assisted by Profess
sor Barnard of the University of Mississippi;
and a number of other scientific gentlemen,
among whom are Prof. Venable IA Boston paper
has it Hannibal and Mr.. Lieber from South Ca
rolina.
Profs. Alexander and Barnard on their return
made report. speeches before The Scientific Asso-
citation then in session at Newport, R. I.
Among the phenomena observed, worthy q
special mention as being mainly new, is the blu
ish light along the edge of the moon during the
eclipse. This blush light has been observed
before, but never caught by the photograph so
that hitherto it was not certainly light of that
color, but might be only in the observers eye
an optical ~allusion. This is now q point for sci
entifc investigation. Some important discovery
may hang upon it.
The eclipse at the locality where they were
Cape Chidleigh, on the coast Of Labrador-wss
total. The totalness lasted about three minutes.