Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-03-08
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.

THE Republican National Committee have
changed the day for their meeting of the Conven-
tion of that party at Chicago, to the 10th of
May. The announcement of the change is made
by EDWIN D. MORGAN, chairman of the Commit
tee, and in accordance with the wishes of the
majority of the members. This will place the
meeting of the Republicans after the Charles
ton Convention, by whose proceedings, probably,
they will in some sort steer their policy, 'as a
butcher does his calf by the tail
- Mr.. EDMUND Rurr1N, of Virginia-styled
'the Nestor of State Rights, the clear-headed,
sound-hearted, patriotic farmer statesman
purchased fifteen of the pixies, which JOHN
BROWN had at Harpers Ferry. This is one for
each slave-hoding State. Mr.. RUrFIN proposes
to send the pixies, one to each Southern State,
labelled thus:
Sample Of the favors designed for us by our
Northern Brethren. Out Of this nettle, Danger,
,re pluck the yfowsr, Safety.
- Mr.. S. H. PARSONS, of Flushing Long,
Island, who for some time eShas been exploring,
under commission, the agriculture, horticulture
and vine-culture of the Old World, has procured
an immense stock of Italian bees to Gull the
wasting sweets of our vast prairies and meadow
lands. He sent dozen hives to the Patent or
fee last Fall; he has since purchased hundred
hives for himself, and placed them under the
care of an experienced Italian bec-keepr. He
and his family returned from Europe in the
Arago, and the last of his bees will follow him
in the Fulton.
Senator Hunter, in the course of some
remarks recently in the Senate, utters the fol.
lowing truths which should be pondered we'll by
every Southerner, and especially by every South
ern laborer:
Nor is it true that the institution of slavery
makes manual labor on the part of the whites
despicable in the sluveholding States There is
no country on earth in which honest labor, as
believe, is moro respected; and of this am Ger.
tain, that every white laborer in slaveholdine
States is more nearly on an equality with every
other man in the community than every white
laborer in the North is on terms Of equality with
every other man in the North
Rev. W. G. Brownlow, of the Knoxville
WAig, speaking of the murder of Recee at Emery
College by his son (which we mentioned last
week. says, that he did the deed in self-defence
He adds of his SON:
| He did not leave until after the physicians
pronounced the deceased in no serious danger
and until my son was arraigned before the Fac.
ulty, and acquitted, and ordered to 60 to his
studies He will return to Abingdon at the
proper time, and surrender himself up to the
proper authorities, and await his trial under the
laws of Virginia. As he is not, and never was,
quarrelsome young man, and in morals will
compare favorably with the better class of young
men at colleges, respectfully suggest to news
paper editors and their correspondents, the great
injustice of visiting upon him the political OF
personal sins of his father, over whom he hos
never exercised any control.
- The New York Journal Of Commerce,
speaking of the military excitement prevalent
throughout the Southern States, say:
The best proof of the depth and earnestness
of Southern feeling on this subject, may be found