Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-06-21

inc the mutual congratulations that succeeded
the recognition, after SO long and adventurous o
separation
- Perhaps no man at the South is just now
receiving so much mingled praise and blame at
the hands of his countrymen as Hon. William L.
Yancey Of Alabama. The appended pen-portrait
of him, from the Montgomery Mail, will, there
fore, doubtless be read with interest:
"There III Mr.. Yancey. standing at the corner
of Market and Perry streets, and standing, too,
very erect, but swaying himself round and back,
every few seconds. He is of medium height,
and of compact, muscular form, but with no ten
dency to obesity. He has rather large face,
squarisb, with fair skin, light eyes, .good.sized
mouth, and massive, semi-Napoleonic chin
His smile is very frank and cordial, but his face
in repose is very expressive of fresoluteness. He
looks about forty, despite neuralgia, but is really
forty-sevep. He is quick in his speech, earnest,
courteous. If he is enforcing q constitutional
point, and his hearers do not appear to Ego with
him" fast enough, he calculates ''Dont y see
don't y see" rapidly and nervously. or course
he knows everybody in town, and everybody
knows him and as he passes along the pavement
he mods Familiarity to this one, half shouts to
another, at some distance, show are you" and
sternly mutters good morning between his teeth,
to some special one who is passing.
His dress is never remarkable, in any respect ;
generally, Ne believe, he affects plain black
clothes, and his servant, we presume, is more
likely to remember than he, about the brushing.
In fact, we don't think he gives much thought to
the great question, ,'.wherewithal shall ye be
clothed?" Perhaps he was more particular in his
younger days-we don't remember-but he nev:
or certainly was dressy. Indeed, to look at him
on our streets, one would suppose that he was
only an intelligent, well-bred. professional gen.
tleman, knowing and liking his fellow-citizens,
enjoying an occasional dish Of gossip, relishing
a joke or sharp word, but generally yfrank, friend
ly, genial" -.
"A correspondent of the Edgefsld 4dOsr
aser, speaking ofthe young men. Of South Gar
olina, gives 0. striking reason for a part Of th'
emigration to the,Western States. He says:
1t seems that the day of South Carolna's grea
men is over. Che was at one time represented
by her Calhoun, Luwndes, Cheyes, McDofie ane
Williams, and none have appeared to take theil
places. The policy. of this State in the promo
ton of her young mon has been the cause OF al
this, for ours is repressive system-wlth US Il
is esteemed almost crime to be young man
and promotion is unprecedented, except to NIL the
places of those who have fingered to eat tht
crumbs of applause, when they ceased to be ettec
tive in the discharge Of the duties Of their office
were removed by death. The distinguished Ham
mond rightly entered with reluctance upon thu
duties of Senator, when his promotion was de-
ferred until The evening Of his life. And thu
gallant Bonbam should have been fifteen year,
ago where be is now. Ifths policy Of our people
is not changed we will continue to see the bes
spirits among our young men, becoming the lead
ing stars of the Western States.
- "Ike" Fowler, ex-post-msster Of New
York, has beer called "good fellow" from Main
to Texas. A New. York correspondent of tn
Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch, gives the following
extravagant facts which will in some measur
account for this singular spotheosis of dishon
esty, injustice, ostentation and Villainy: Speak
ing of Fowler, he says:
His great ambition seemed to be to enjoy th
universal good opinion, to- weld authority ant
influence, to live en- prince, and see his associ
ates made happy through his instrume entality
For several years his rooms at the New Yorl
Hotel have been the focus of political sentiment
for they were open to all, and champagne ant
cigars were as abundant as at q banquet. Nomat
ter who you were, if you dabbled in politics, 20,
had only to choose between the green seaP ant
the golden seal for q beverage, and the Hayan
as were unimpeachable. His weekly bill at th'
hotel must have been enormous. Then, again
he was Grand Sachem at Tammany; and, as h
was always lavish in his contributions, he wa
at the head, besides being the soul and twothird
Of the body, Of many other political organiza
tions. In this manner he squandered money
without the first idea of its real value and it doe
not demand long period, with such wide-gap
ing sources of exodus, for the most capable o
resources to exhaust itself.
Fowler's father was President of the Highlant
Bank. He was a similarly dashing, gay, and ex
uberant gentleman. He became the victim of
defalcation to heavy amount, and committet
suicide in his modification. His con inherited
his SIRE love OF brilliant existence, and spen
patrimony of sixty thousand dollars in his frs
dash of social experience. He next spent hun
dred thousand for bis mother, when she wisel
cut off his supplies. His third application wa
through the funds of the postofice, and his de6ci
there will reach one hundred and eighty thou
sand. Besides this, he expended much none,
that he WAS constantly making in successful Specu
lations, and lost much in host of unfortunat
ones, for he was ever dabbling in enterprises o
the dazzling and desperate kind. He made fft
thousand dollars in three days, in the purchas
and sale of lots on Staten Island, but it did no
last him over o week; and had he been favoret
with million month, he could have squander
ed it all, with the greatest ease, elegance, ant
nonchaiance lima ginable. This spirit of careles
profusion necessarily won Fowler many friends
Everybody liked him, and hence everybody pitie
his misfortune.
"A timely outcry has been raised by tn
Portsmouth Transcript, against the unhallowe'
and disgraceful custom of de6ling our churche
With so much. tobacco juice. We copy the las
paragraph of the article:
sit is contrary to common etiquette to expec
torate in o parsor. Why not in church? w
have seen pious pew holder praising God an
rolling his quid in the most delighted manne
maginable-spitting great jets of AMBER An
groaning 'tAmen" in the next breath, and sing
ing half line Of hymn and splitting and grunt
ing the other. The vestibules frequently suffer
and stains arc everywhere visible. How muc
of the poetic beauty that shines along the path
way of Religion and invests it with charr
which causes even the infdel to respect it, vii
remain, if the filthy customs of perverted tast
are tolerated in its temples Why should beau
tiful house be consecrated to God, if it is to
desecrated by ipdecency? We should rs soc
see o man carry his bottle with him, and drin
in full view of all, as to see him sit and squirt
or claudestinely dribble his disgusting expecto
rations amidst the pews and'aisles of the sanctu
ary. The deed would be more decent, at leas
would not de6le, as we'll as insult, the House Q
God"
- Some people are opposed to the eagle O
the emblematic bird of our Country. They viii
probably, be glad to see. the following from th
New York Herald, and would be gladder to Sc
the suggestion carried out. 1t is picture:
ave see by the papers that a "chicken di:
pute," on an extended scale, has been arrange
at Washington between o pair of beligerent fowls
the property ofVice President Breckenridge an