Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-03-15
CONTRIBUTORIAL.
Photographs.

We drop in once in while to.see the pictures
at Wearn s. Hi1's gallery. They are just now
executing an order for likeness of all the Facul-
ty of the South Carolina College. We saw siz
of the number few days ago. The set is to be
completed soon. The style is plain photograph,
the likenesses being separate. They are admi-
rable. Wearn and Hi1 do things in that style.
Those who, as we did, knew these fathers Of
learning in the past will feel an interest in see
ing these shadows. The gallery is open to the
public.
Disunion Gums.
We have not been around to examine those
non intercourse guns at KRAPFT's, but the Man
about To,cn has been there. The Man about
T0rn goes everywhere, it seems to us. He as
sures us that the newly patented gun meets, in
an admirable way, the present want 1t is made
on magnetic principles, so adjusted to the mag
neto. electric currents that it will shoot only due
north. The intention is-and the Man about
Town told US in ON undertone, with iDjunctions
of secresy-the intention, of the gun is (the Man
about Town used the word aina-the aim isl to
be used in the event of a dissolution; used by
the South, without possibility of its being
turned against US should it ever fall into the
hands of the enemy.
vernal.
The promise-buds of Spring are like gentle
young hearts ready to swell with the first warm
breath of kindness. Hearts thus respond some
times The untimely frosts of April nip the open
ed flower Hearts too may have April frosts
when they have responded prematurely to a
deceptive sympathy have laid bear in blooming
candor their inner odor- -founts Of sweet feeling.
Then heart frosts Of April came. Botany tells
US that the nipped bud will never revive.
But we love these premonitory fowers-this
prelude to the sweet floral anthem that is to
greet us in few weeks.
Beneath our balmy skies, these balmy days.
The bleak winds Of March
Made her tremble and shiver
is perfectly uniutelligible. While Bulwer's
Sweet the jasmlne's buds Of snow,
| In mornings soft with May
gushes into the memory without an effort. But
who knows ?-our friends may read this by o
winter fire, after all.
Russell's.
The triennial existence Of this Charleston
monthly hos just terminated. March is it's last
issue. Russelrs Magazine is dead. We that
stood with prophetic benedctions at its cradle,
three years ago, feel melancholy interest in its
obseouies. We have no sermon to preach to the
South about it. Let those sermonize who re-
fused to extend oil material aid to it while alive
who wonder why Southern magazines all fail,
and never take one--who rant about abolition pub
lications, and subscribe to the Atlantic Nonthty.
This final number of Russelps is fair. The
leader-a review of Judge O'Nealrs Bench and
Bars essentially the prime feature of the num-
ber. The review is discriminating, and is eVl-
IDENTIFY from the pen of an able and ready writer.
Il does ample Justice to the work, commenting
its spirit, its plan, and its noble theme; aud
adds warm and earnest words of personal tribute
to several of the great dead enshrined therein
The reviewer manifests wide range of informa-
ton on legal topics; and concludes his notice
with q sketch of sour author himself-the pres
ept Chief Justice. The sketch is brief but hand
some.
The several serials in RusssHs-whlch we
neper read-are wound up. An earnest article
in favor of militia reform marks this number
The Editors Table is characteristic.
Books.
Among the recent contributions to English
philology the most important in many respects is
Lectures on the English Languages by George +.
Marsh. The lectures are those delivered last
year to the Postgraduate class of the Colum-
bia College in the city of New York. They are
designed to be popular, and yet presuppose
some advance of education. The volume is a