Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-09-13
CONTRIBUTORIAL
Mrs. Guerney again.
Poor Mrs. Guerney!


Mrs. Guerney again.
Poor Mrs. Guerney!
She has got herself into the newspapers, an
the Lord only knows what is to come of it, o
how it all will end.
All the newspapers know something about Mri
Guerney.
One says she is in America.
Another knows that she is in the United
States somewhere. .
Another AYERS that she is in a dis-un,ted state
with reference to John Henry Guerney; whateve;
be the case with reference to William Tayler
Another has discovered that she is ''living q
one of the fashionable watering places, under
an assumed name"
Another learns that she is worth G5, 900, 00(
~sterling-about S25, ooO, 00o-in her own right
Vive Mrs. Guerney!
Another hears of one of Mrs. Guerney's rela
tives in this country who believes that the great
Letter of vindication is a forgery-all a hoax
and that Mrs. Guerney has already discovered
that William Tayler is not quite
"ALL her fancy painted him !"
that her course may have been
"Too rash, too unadvised, too sudden =
or something of that sort.
We seriously regard the Guerney Letter as 9
largely. significant fact; one that will have its
conseouents and will not soon be forgotten
She has hurled the lie of convention into the very
teeth of convention society; she has dared to
express her motives; and, more than oil, has
secured II large sphere of real sympathy. Hell
Letter, in many points, cannot be answerea.-
Beyond and above tho frailty that seems tt
characterize her case as an individual one, there
reaches us a cry of wrong from outraged hu'
manity. And humanity, we dare to predict
will not be utterly deaf to that cry. Its echoes
will not be hushed for many a day. And We
hope good to come of it. We believe so.
England is older than our country, and wants
reform more; hut her vices are infectious Tor,
hereditary and America is not free from errors
in the social system that need eradication.
The .'Woman's Rights" movement in the
north is but another utterance of that cry Of
wrong. I. shows that wrong exists but We
think does not indicate the true remedy.
We are opposed-toto eoslo opposed to the
Woman's Rights movement as o legitimate meas
ure of reform. We have no sympathy with il
at all. 1t is monstrous. But it is q consequent
1t is a monstrous necessity.
Mrs. Guerney, meanwhile, is in the newspapers
at least.
Common Truths
Not commonly admitted.
2O-Travel is one of the best Of schools, and
is available often where no other is. We know
from observation
"How much a Ounce, that has been sent to roam
Excels Ounce, that has been kept at home"
The couplet is from Cowper's Progress Of Error
Our IMP inqrires-it strikes us, rather imper
tinently-if experience has had anything to do in
moulding our opinion upon the point.
21-Some one has said-''I pity the man
who can travel from Dan to Begrsheba and cry,
at is all barren" So do we. 1t proves tina,
his soul is barren-''dry as summer DUST
For, verify,
"The world IS full of beauty
When the heart is full of love -
But to the desolate hearted, the whole world is
one vast Sahara. To the Respondent, every
voice of nature is q r message of despair. To the
lonely one, the earth is a fearful solitude whose
~loneneSs
"None but himself and his God can know"
and time has for such nought sav,a
Long succession of her lonely morrows."
To the guilty one, every feature of Nature
wears a frown. every voice is accusation, and
every breeze is a hiss of scorn.
On the contrary, it is only the good upon
whom Nature looks kindly; and only upon the
pure and true does she always smile. Pura
puris omnia. "Blessed are the pure in heart
for they shall see God" Aud the pure Of earth.
in their several degrees of purity, shall see Goa
shall see him, not only in the trembling will
derness of Kaiesh, upon a cherub, upon the
wings of the wind, the bowed heavens, the un-
derfoot darkness not only in these things, but
also liz every picturesque landscape, in every
spreading tree, every clambering vine and beau
tiful flower; nay, in every leaf and stone and
turf and clod and hill AMI stream and vale and
proud mountain and wild.heeing clouds and
sombre fog and rapid rain-in EVERYTHING. For
everything is beautiful. Everything is lovely
The Creative Eye looked upon it, and saw that
everything was good; and He that is "aItogsthe'
lovely" Himself has blessed it all.
Will God hold that man g%uiltless who has in
wantonness destroyed a single rose?-or him
who treads a lily into the dust because it yields
no money ?-or him who sneers at the culture o
flowers?
No.
Southern Books.
We see quite a number of Southern books on
nounced as in preparation, nearly ready, or jus
out. Derby & Jackson announce these Wo
men of the South Distinguished in Literature" b.
Mary Forrest; ''Poets and Poetry of the South:
by John Esten Cooke and Jno. R. Thompson
'Jack Hopeton, or the adventures cfa Georgian,
by Vim. W. Turner, of Eatonton, Ga. 18Th
Actress in High Life" republished from RUSSELL
Magazine; "7Ne Household Of Bouuerie," by
Southern Lady; Nemesis" by Marion Harland
We have mentioned some of these before bu'
we desire to call special attention to them.
Personal.
The Empress Eugenie-
The Empress of Russia, also.
The Prince Of Wales fell fat on the floor Will
dancing a waltz the other day in Quebec an
he dragged his partner all over him. He jumped
up in haste, apologized to the lady, and whirleG
on. Smart boy, that.