Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-02-09

D friend indeed and in need, she wrote to her
mother, Mrs Child, requesting her to furnish
? means and send or come after her, and return
' her to her home in Boston. To this petition the
sympathizing Mrs. Child gave no reply; clearly
showing her want of those humane principles
that she has plead SO eloquently for John Brown.
As relief from this hollow -heartedness, take
, the following account Of Texas Heroine -
While Cortinas was at Rio Grande City, he
called upon the lady Of Capt. Il. Clay Davis.
, He informed her that he had orders to kill her
husband on sight, but assured her of his inten-
} ton not to molest herself or family. She re-
, piled with all the heroism Of Spartan woman,
MY husband has gone with company of VOL
unteers to help the people of Brownsville. You
may be able to attack and kill him, but If you
do, you will have to 90 home and tell your folks
you had to fight for it He told me to stsy
here when he left. It is our home and will
stay in it while one brick is on top of another.
The little son Of this heroine coming up at this
moment shouted-'Niua Tjas ymuerna.' .Hur-
rah for Texas and death to Cortina.' The brig
and chief laughed heartily and gave the boy o
two bit piece.
- General DELLA, South American Am
bassador, en- route for Washington, was lately
followed, by Cuban thief, it is thought, from
Havana to Charleston, and robbed Of coins, hon.
orary decorations and jewelry, to the amount of
$17, ,0O0 Pickpockets and thieves seem to be over
running our fair and Hourishing Metropolis
They are the flies that swarm in the summer
time Of growth and prosperity. The Mercury
says: strangers cannot be too CAREFUL
- Washington Irving used to say that he
envied the man who could sleep soundly. 1t is
certainly great luxury to be thus beyond all
sense of suffering. This age Of mechanical in
ventions for the alleviation Of physical pain and
the promotion Of bodily enjoyment, has produ-
ced "a novel luxury in the shape of bed, on
which the soul is prisoned in sweetest Sleep
Who has not seen nights Of bitterness when he
longed for just such resting place? 1t is thus
] described
The latest novelty from Germany is musical
bed which receives the weary body, and imme
diately 1aps it into Elysium.' 1t an inven ton
Of mechanic in Bohemia, and is 80 constructed
that by means Of hidden mechanism q pressure
upon the bed causes soft and gentle air of
Auber to be played, which continues to lull the
most wakeful to sleep. At the head is q clock,
the hand Of which being placed at the hour the
sleeper wishes to rise, when the time arrives the
bed plays march Of Spontoni, with drum and
cymbals, and in short, with noise enough to
rouse the seven sleepers.
AN organization, known by the initials
K. G. C.'-'Knights of the Golden Cross'-has
sprung up in many parts of the country. Their
object is supposed to be the subjugation Of Mex.
leo. Some seven or eight thousand, on last ac-
count, were in New Orleans and several small
parties were on their way South. More than
thirty thousand are enrolled as members through
out the country, and at least half of them are
ready to travel as soon as they can be taken to
their destination. The Stauntou Spectator (Va.
is in possession Of information in regard to the
character and objects Of this flllbuster expedi-
tion.' That paper says that, early in last Octo-
Der, Gen. Buckley, who seems to be the head
and front of the movement, addressed letter
and some documents to gentleman Of Staunton,
who had gone South sometime previously. This
gentlemans former partner in business, suppo-
sing the documents concerned the firm, opened
them, and thus the matter was made known
This revelation reminds US Of the days Of Burr
and Blannerhasset.'
- The Columbia Correspondent of the New
York Herald, 21st ult, after speaking of the
spirit Of retaliation aroused at the South, the
patronage accruing to the Southern markets and
the encouragement pouring in upon home manu-
features, says:
OF all the Southern States, South Carolina,
perhaps, is most interested in the perpetuation
of slavery Cotton and rice her chief sources Of
wealth, cannot be cultivated by any other than
by slave labor. Her other productions, such as
corn, tobacco and wheat, amount to mere moth
| ing in comparison with cotton and rice. Every
man who owns plantation, no matter how
small, devotes himself to the production Of these
staples. Merchants, mechanics and laborers all
live upon the product of cotton and rice; SO that
it is no wonder that the people here should take
bold stand against the attempt made to deprive
them of their greatest sources of wealth. To
abolish slavery in this State would be to entail
ruin and desolation upon now happy and pros
porous people. The idea is absurd upon its very
face, and never can be entertained for q moment
even.
It is not probable that any of the fashionable
watering places of the North will be much fire.
quented by Southerners this summer. The
Springs of Virginia and North Carolina will be
far more attractive and pleasant to the people Of
the South than Saratoga or Newport. The table
ande Of the western part of this State offer rare
inducements to tourists, and nowhere in the Uni
ted States perhaps, can the climate Of the Blue
Ridge region be excelled for salubrity and fitness
for invalids.
These remarks speak for themselves. We can
testify to the praise given to the salubrity and
beauty of the Blue Ridge region-a region un
surpassed perhaps this side of Switzerland. By
travelling back and forth, from the seabord to
the mountains, the interests of the entire State
will become more strongly cemented together.-
The various College commandments, the sweet
Auburns' dotting our picturesque landscape, and
the blue, bold, breezy mountains, offer varied
his steps to Upper Carolina for summer season.
"A difference of opinion has sprung up
between some of the leading men of England in
regard to trial by jury. Lord CAMPBELL, the
present Lord Chancellor, and BENrHAM, the
great law-reformer, are on the side of change
They are in favor of taking the verdict of GER
tain probably a majority-in all except
criminal cases, where the jury cannot agree
They contend that this is the natural, and was,
in the days Of ALFRED or ErHELBERT, the pre-
uailing custom. To require uuanimity in the
verdicts of men who are sworn to decide accord
ing to evidence, they say, is often the cause of
perjury.
BLACKSTONE and Sir JOHN CoLER1DGE are the