Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-05-03
CONTRIBUTORIAL.

May Party.
To day-Thursday the May-Party day
with US. The same in Winnboro.
The College Exhibition.
On next Thursday, the 10th instant, the May
Exhibition of the Senior Class will commence.
The May celebration in that venerable seat Of
learning has something not entirely local in it
something worth the attention of visitors-not
Columbian, that is to say, but Carolinian rather.
The dignity of the Board of Trustees, the learn
ing of the officers of the College, theliterary aud
intellectual character Of the eIercises-these
things impart sufficient gravity to the occasion,
to satisfy the graver sort Of folks. The several
attractions of the locality, the beauty of Colum-
bias daughters and of the daughters of her Wis
itors, the smiles "from eoncious beauty won"-
these things contribute attractions for DREAMER
youth and romantic individuals generally. A
great time for flowers and hirtations, they say
The flowers, at least are dressy in the extreme;
and, take our word for it,
"The virgins are soft az the roses they twine;"
and, to our eyes, vast deal more beautiful
But, coue and see. The Exhibition is to be held
we are advised, in the Chapsl-inside the Cam
pus. -.. r.. 3.
Music. ...s
The following is going the rounds. 1t is as
good thing of its kind as we know of anywhere.
The author, who leaves his name untold, calls
his poem "The Power Of Music" We commend
it to our sentimental and poetical friends.
"Supper was over-the boy went out;
He passed through the yard and over the stile:
The big dog barked as he went along by, .
And followed him nearly mile.
And he sat him down on hickory log,
And whistled lively tune, this boy,
Which took the ear of this barking dog,
And he wagged his tail for joy.
The beetle stopped from pinching the fly,
The toad in his hole stood still,
And the tom tit heard, with tear in his eye,
And fishing worm in his BILL;
And the grasshopper said: Il know that air, 1
But cannot whistle it So .e 4
The tune of the man with no hair on his head,
Where hair ever ought to grow" .
About Books. 81
Miss Annie R. Blount's book is to make its
appearance this week. 1t is volume of poems.
She is the "Jenny Woodbine" of our ephemeral
literature. We will have q word Of the "Po-
ems" when it appears.
The last copy Of Beulah we have seen is one
Of the fifteenth edition. That is q brilliant sue
cess, and is fully deserved. g
The ninth volume of Appleton's Nep american
Cyclopedia is out. x.
We have just read ''Spiritualism Tested, by
DR.. Samson, President of the Columbian College
in Washington, D. C. 1t has very little that re-
pays reading. All that he claims to show is
that spiritualism, as we have it now, is no new
thing, but has existed and been practised in all
the past ages of the world. That does not add
jot towards testing the matter; besides, his
argument is very easily applicable to the mira
cles of the Bible. The author is Doctor Of
Divinity; but we believe his argument is more
against the Bible miracles than against spiritua-
lism. 1t is not strong book in any way.
About Newspapers.
The Southern Field and Rreside will shortly
enter upon the second year of its existence.
Jno R. Thompson, Editor Of the Southern Lit
erary Messenger becomes Editor of the F. & +. at
the commencement of its second year. He will
make the paper what it should be, we believe.
He can We have hitherto said but little about
the F. and F. (the name is bunging long one)
because we thought it decidedly SLOW. Mr.
Thompson we feel sure will impart life and char
acter to it. In this belief we cordially commend
it to our friends. 1t is published in Augusta;
is literary, agricultural and horticultural-all
three in one; is Southern is de-o Uolsnte per-
manent; is to be written for by such men as
Simms, Longstreet, Cooke, Kennedy, Hayne, and
Ingraham, such women as Mary E. Bryan,
Annie R. Blount, "Louise Mannheim" and 9TH
ers; is worth "two dollars per annum always In
Humboldt and Albert.
The Man about To,on, who knows Dutch and
Hottentot both, we believe, suggests to rs that
our papers are very unfair in ridiculing the great
philosopher for objecting to Prince Alberts en-
ployiug the word "star-tsrrace," instead Of