Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-11-01
EDITORIAL INKLINGs.

- An earthquake uas feeca''J
Canada, which is said by sailors to have been as
violent in some places, as those experienced
commonly in the East or West Indies. Plaster
WAS shaken from the walls of rooms; and build
ings on land and steamboats, on water ''reeled
and tottered like q drunken man" 1t happened
very early in the morning; and such o panic
seized the people, that many hurried out into
the open air in their sleeping apparel.
According to the late census returns the
population of Columbia is as follows: Whites
Males, 2346, Females, 2129; Slaves, 17l2 Males
1868 Females. Free Persons Of Color, Males
1876; Females, 2oS. Total population of Co.
lumbis, 1850.
Greenville claims to have between 1900 and
5000 Notwithstanding the third city in the
State in point of population. Yorkville, Spar
tanburg, Sumter and Edgefeld are the four next
largest place, we would say, without being al
present either able or inclined to make the Gin
vidious distinction"
"a fugitive slave named "Jim," having
some months ago escaped from Missouri into H.
~linois, was recently arrested under the fugitiv
slave law, and by the decision Of Judge Capror
restored to his owner. A mob thereupon seized
the negro, and forcibly attempted to defeat the
decision of the law. Three of the ringleaders
of the mob were arrested, tried and convicted
nine Republican lawyers having volunteered
without fee Or reward to defend them. The con
| victs were sentenced to small fines, and imprison'
ment for from one to ten days. The amount
of fines and costs, about $1,000, was soon raised
by getting up f~auatical appeals and throwing the
whole community into a fit of excitement. A
a promiscuous meeting of whites and negroes,
of the truly democratic style, the prisoners were
introduced and Prince Of Walesed rs '.martyr
of liberty" The very lowest buffoonery was tn
order of the day.
AN Oregon correspondent of the Charles
ton Mercury relates au eccentric and almost in
credible story of the movements of the Addition
ists-somc of them at least-in that quarter O.
old Abe's vineyard. The intention seems to b
to send on secret emissares to the Palmetto
State, who will represent themselves as ''re
turned Californians," or pass under some other
convenient name az natives "to the manor born.
As soon as things are cooled down after Lincoln's
election, these lurkers, it is stated, think they
can throw off the mask, get commissions under
the Federal Government, and the Northern Pres
will herald it to the world that such and sucl
South Caroliniaus have accepted Office under
Lincoln
This writer says he knows persons in Oregon
who s'declare' it is their intention to act thus
He writes from Salem, September S, and says
sit pas arranged in secret caucus last night il
this city, that James Kilgore, of Jackson county
Gazzle of Douglas county James Fulton AM
W. C. Holeman, of Wasco county, should pro
coed Immediately to Charleston, s. c., and 'wai
for something to turn up" The writer further
intimates that he is a native South Carolinian
The story sounds "ishy" to US ; and is as VI
have said, almost unworthy of belief. Why the,
should hold 'secret' caucuses and then ''declare
their purposes, is beyond our com preheusion
Moreover, how could this wise-acre find out tn
nert day the proceedings of one of these secre
bodies, especially when their business was tt
send treacherous and traitorous plotters agains
society and government into his native State p
We sincerely hope no one has been duping tn
Mercury.
- Dr.. Francis Lieber, formerly a ~professo
in the South Carolina College, now Of Columbi
| College New York, presided at a German Blac
Republican meeting held on the 18th instan
at the Cooper Institute, and made a speech i
which he stated that the day was the anniversa
ry of the battle Of Liepsic, where Germany lii
Grated herself from the yoke of the Elder Ma
poleon, and hoped it would be taken as a favor
able omen, aud would animate every Germa
present to renewed ~exertion Sin the battle c
freedom" These sentiments have created
sudden revulsion Of feeling against him in Co
luUUUld, WucTc Tx OuCe II u SIhNC uOluClb Ill
: while serving the college professed himself
} q warm friend of our institutions and II discip
of Mr.. Calhoun. He even went so far in lSt
as to become a member of a "Southern RICH
Association, 3" then established in the South Ca
DINA College. This course of conduct and b
] supposed worth in other respects-his learnir
2 and unquestioned ability-induced the Euphrad
$ an society of the college to make him an homo
airy member of their body, and to place his pc
trait and bust in their hall. Now, howeve
they have promptly resolved to erase his nan
from their roll Of honorary members relno'
, his bust and portrait and thus shorn of h
honors, to publish his nam in the Columbi
papers.
The Germans of Columbia have held a NEE
ing and passed a Preamble and Resolutions
consonance with those of the Euphradian Soci
ty. What is better, they resolved to have t
proceedings of their meeting published in t
Stats Zeitung-a German paper of New Yo'
q city.
The Chances In New York.
t The New York Herald, which has hithert
been battling hard in behalf of the fusion NOV
meut in that State, now gives up its cause
hopeless. 1t says:
Common Justice to all concerned demands tn
this idea that "something may turn up" to r
deem New York should be abandoned. Ne
York viU rote for lincoln, and By a larger m