Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-05-24
THE NEWS.

AT HoME-The presence Of the Japanese il
Washington is an event that looks towards th'
day when the world will become an electric net
work Of commerce and comfy. 1t is highly sig
nifcant in view of the liberal ideas on the sub
ject of free trade, which are beginning to prevail
throughout the civilized world. Their mission
is to establish on firm foundation the treaty O
peace and commerce, lately negotiated and con
cluded by the plenipotentiaries of the two coun
tries This is the first event Of the kind tha
has transpired in Japan for the last thousand
years. Her ports have beer shut; she has beer
an isolation. Those who regard commerce as 8
civiizer-and who does not!-will regard this
event as most auspicious augury of the future
1t will add to the wealth of the world; it will
electrify Japan with new spirit Of enterprise
and prosperity; it will pave the way for those
who bear the torch of the Gospel ito them that
sit in Darkness
The Republican Convention assembled at Chi
cago have adopted their platform and nominees
for the Presidency and Vice. Presidency. The
platform consists of sixteen sections, and is
highly additional. It condemns the restrictions
on naturalization, and the doctrine of "Squatter
Sovereignty; and favors the Homestead Law,
National Improvements, the Pacific Railroad and
Protective Tariff. Hon. ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
of Illinois, is their nominee for the Presidency
Hon. HANNIBAL HANLIN, of Maine, for the Vice
Presidency. Judge LINCOLN is distinguished as
the first propounder of the doctrine of an "Irre-
pressible conflict; and for having canvassed
his State with DOUGLAS, in 1858, for the United
States Senate-the canvass resulting, however,
in his defeat by small minority in the State
Legislature. Mr.. HAMLyN is a second or third
rate abolitionst We regard the nomination as
a strong one. Both nominees being of the milder
sort, they will not be offensive to the most timid
of their party; while The ultras will, of course,
prefer them to Democrat or Opposition. Our
Southern exchanges which favor the Baltimore
Convention and the re construction of the Ma
tional Democratic Party, we notice, think the
nomination will create coldness amoug the
friends of SEWARD and the ultras, which will
defeat the last possibility of LINcoLN's election
No doubt Mr.. SEWARD is going through "a cold
sweat"
Mr.. ISAAC D. FOWLER, Post t-master of New
York City, has proven defaulter to the sum of
one hundred and fifty five thousand dollars Mr..
FOWLER is described as 'good fellow" 'ge
nial companion" "everybody's man ;" which is
accounted for by the fact that he lived beyond
his income of twenty thousand dollars. He
boarded at the New York Hotel, and entertained
his friends-a good many, we presume-in
were, proved insufficient to his ambition. In
an evil hour, he reached forth his hands, and
appropriated the funds Of the government. His
deed Of guilt has created an intense stir in New
York political aud social circles. Hon. JOHN
A. Dix has been appointed successor to Mr..
FOWLER. Mr.. FOWLER has not yet been arrest
ed, and his whereabouts is not known.
The news from Congress is unexciting. Sen.
ator DOUGLAS has made another ''great" speech
on his position. 1t is described as personal not
profound: sectional, not statesmanlike. The
Washington Constitution suggests that if the
Japanese ambassadors could have heard it, they
would have come to the conclusion that the oh.
iect of public men in America is to make Presi-
dents and not to edify and promote the State
Hon. JET. DAVIS, Senator from Mississippi, hns
made, it is said, an able and triumphant reply.
The whole South is splitting up rapidly and
widely into "Natouals" and "Southerns." The
Bulletin compares the two parties in
Tennessee, to two armies contending over an
earthquake. The Nationals" are for the Balti-
more Convention and the Union forever" the
"Southerns" are for the Richmond Convention
and sequal rights in the Union or independence
out of it,"
ABRoAD.-M Movements in Italy tend to the
overthrow of Francis II, of Naples, the smelling
down of the Neapolitan government and the es-
tablishment of an Italian Confederation under
the King-ship of VIcroR EMMANUEL. Such at
least are the designs of CAvouR, MAzzIyI and
kindred spirits. Naples seems to be sitting over
a volcano ; and Sicily is in a state of actual
revolution. 1t is said that GAnIBALDI has gone
there with his staff; MAzz1N1 has advised the
Sicilians to declare for annexation to Sardinia
and n committee has been formed at Milan to
receive subscriptions in aid of the Siclian in.
surrection. Meanwhile annexationist agents are
busy in Venitia to wrest that province from Aus.
trian dominion; the people are congregating in
large numbers in Lombardy and elsewhere and
the "Free States" of Italy are awaiting the des.
tiny of the "Bride of the Sea" with the utmost
anxiety. Austrian finance is in q low condition,
and the Hungariaus are still clamorous for their
ancient rights; (the ancient national dresses