Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-10-18
CONVERSATIONAL
Found Dead

says:
"a man, supposed 10 be Mitchell Smith, from
North Carolina, and engaged at work on the
telegraph line now being put up between this
place and Charlotte. was found dead, on yester'
day morning. On Saturday night, he was put
in the Guard House for drunkenness. On Sun
day evening, he went into a room in which there
was a party from the Sand Hills, who, from
what we can learn, were visitors attracted to
our city by their interest in the elections. On
Monday morning, he WAS found dead in his bed
From the examination made, his death was
doubtless caused by intemperance."
The paragraph is remarkable. The fact il
still more so. Citizens Of Columbia all know
what it. all means. Everybody else may moi
know exactly.
Some of our readers may infer that Smith was
lost. No inference could be farther from the
fact. Smith was anything else than lost. Some
friend to the purity of elections-or, somebody
else?-had taken such ample precaution that il
was a moral mot to mention the physical) i'm
possibility for Smith to be lost-to lose himsel
even if he had tried.
Smith, it appears, "Went into a room lmeton'
omy for bull pm in which there was a party
from the Sand Hills [-'party from the Sane
Hills is a very delicate euphemism too fine to
be analyzed], who, from what we can learn
were visitors [ahem attracted to our city BY
their interest in the elections"
This last phrase is one of the finest examples
of lenient paraphrase in our language. There
is no need of our rendering it literal. We thank
the Carolinian for the phrase. But whoever
has witnessed a drunken pack of election vaga'
bonds, too lazy to- work, too stupid to steal
Keeling, damning, and reeking in vile whiskey
and filth, ~prowling around drink.pens and polls,
the nasty utensils for a dirty work, giving a
vote for a drink, still calling themselves free
needs no explanation of what is meant by these
s'~visitors attracted to our city by their interest
in the elections" 1t doth amaze US.
The question ought to be settled by chemical
experiment., how much election liquor the hui
man system can survive and those who admin
lister the same should be forbidden on penalty, to
give more than the maximum in any case. The
jury of inquest in this case conclude that Smith
had been overdosed-his capacity had been e1-
ceeded. The consequence, as any unprecedented
mind can readily see, is loss-loss in three
items, the man, the vote, and the liquor. Of the
man We know nothing; but the vote was we
remember that the man was not entitled to a
vote here, but that is of the least possible conse-
quence in the present case the vote was as
much as any one vote can be and then, lastly,
the LIQUOR. That must have been immense.-
Such economy is perfectly %ruinous.
The National Quarterly.
The second number of this periodical, COM
pletiug volume one, has just reached US. Our
friends will remember our mention of it three
months ago on its debut. 1t is edited by Mr..
Sears-one qualified by scholarship for the task.
The present number contains eight elaborate
articles, and then forty-fve pages of book
notices, besides q large list of books received
The leader on Penimors Cooper is favorable and
full. Hungary is discussed with liberality, with
fair notices of the views of Kossuth, Klapka,
Godkin, Styles, and Teft. Social Life in Amer
ica deals with Dickens, Martineau, Bremen,
Charles, Pulszky, Wortley, and Murray, I'VE are
democratic in respect to t%itles) and others quite
fairly touching on Dickens with infinitely more
charity than we have ever got up for his villain
Gus American Notes. Tdsso, the nearest true
epic poet since Homer, IS noticed at length
The English language is a discursive blu! sug-
gestive article, giving 1--WE thank the writer for
it) Marsh's Lectures, an admirable excoriation.
Seward is the theme of temperate praise. MISS
Exams, the author of Adam Bede, is we'll no.
ticed. Availability is the last article-rather
scattering, it strikes US, and eminentfy political.
Among the Book Notices, we were most pleas
ed with that Of Kirkham's English Grammar
Now we do not hold Kirkham's book to be worse,
more stupid or more tedious-more ungrammati-
cal-than a dozen others We could mention but
it is time to have done with such pitiable twad-
die as we find in the mass of our school gram
mars. 1t is really amazing how much nonsense
can be put into books requiring so much sense.
From Murray down (dopn. with a vengeanceD to
Smith, there is a dreary desert of imbecility
dreadful to the juvenile feet to traverse. 1t is
enough to account for half the profanity of the
age. We thank Mr.. Sears.
The Quarterly is published by Pudney & Rus.
sell, New York, at three (not fve) dollars q year.
miiton's Eve---An Address.
We have been favored with q copy of this ad-
dress, which was delivered before the Female
College, in this city, on the 26th of June last,
by Henry ". billiard, Of Alabama. 1t is priu-
ted in Montgomery. There are in it twelve quo
tations from Paradise Lost, making in all ninety
eight verses; besides snatches from Moore,
Beattie, and Shakespeare. A goodly portion of
the Address, accordingly, has already become
classic. Of the rest, the most noticeable feature
is its extreme youthfulness.
Our thanks are rendered in return for the
copy.
southern Presbyterian Review.
This religious quarterly for October is just