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

upon the face, but Mr.. Davidson takes the whole
man. Like Agassiz, who, from q single scale,
decphers out the whole fish, its size, its color,
its habits, &C., Mr.. Davidson argued that from
finger nail the man might be read; holding that
the nail was the index to the finger, the finger to
the hand, the hand to the arm, the arm to the
body, and the body to the soul. We know
that this is rather far-fetched philosophy, but
it is based upon multitude of facts. Who ever
saw the clenched fist, the swelled muscles of the
uplifted arm, the menacing attitude of the body.
the dark frown, the defiant eye, and was at q
loss to know what passion had thus transferred
the beautiful image of his Maker. That the e1-
ternal appearance of the body is the true index
Of the soul, is q theory too mystical for the COM
mon mind, but that does not change its truth.
Mr.. Davidson held that beauty and goodness
were synonymous terms, and also ugliness and
badness. Andis this not so?
Why is it that that beautiful creature darts
into some secret closet at the approach Of him to
whom she had but yesterday plighted her maid
en- vows? Passion had entered her soul and mar
red her pearl of greatest price-her beauty-and
instinctiyely she ed conscious Of the fact, with.
out having seen her distorted features.
There was one passage in this lecture that
was superlatiyeiy sublime. It was in illustra-
ton of some point that he remarked that the
conclusion of the atmosphere produced by slap
ping the hands together continued to vibrate for
ever-that all the actions of men were cotlnually
ascending upward-that an outburst Of Joy, an
exclamation of anguish or the simple prayer of
little child ascended forever to the throne Of God.
But We must stop. We feel that we should do
Mr.. Davidson injustice to say more.
As q speaker Mr.. Davidson is pleasing, easy,
commanding and eloquent, and with little
cultivation of his voice, which is rather feeble,
he would always command attention.-Chera'0
Gazette.
- Read this, and ify you have any spare cat
tie, shanghais, turkeys, eggs butter &c., &c., let'
EN- went:'
"The people of Charleston expect to make
their individual if not political, fortunes out Of
the Democratic National Convention. The mini
mum hotel charge (for sleeping on the roof or
the tables in the kitchen) will be SIS the day
the maximum, anything that can be extorted.
Dwellings are hired for the accommodation OF
cliques, at price nearly sufficient to have
bought them q year ago. The price paid for
the hall of the Convention is $3.50 per diem. II
is said that nothing is now left for rent about
the suburbs except q mule shed, about fourmiles
from town. The Mills House will pack in 1900,
the Charleston Hotel $500, and other public
houses in proportion. Many of the delegates
from the Atlantic seaboard States will 60 in
chartered steamers and live aboard"
-Bya treaty, in 1854, between the United
States and Great Britain the coasting trade Of
our country was granted exclusively to the Uni
ted States. England now claims that trade be-
tween New York and California, either by Pana.
ma or Cape Horn is no more coasting trade than
that between New York and Liverpool; and con-
tends that she has right to participate in it.
General CAss says British ships are prohibited
from this trade by the articles Of our Constitu'
ton. The subject is now before the English
Parliament.
- Palmetto, the Washington correspondent
Of the Columbia Carolinian says, that the Presi-
dent is said to be in favor of Gen. JOE LANE;
that DOUGLAS is gaining strength that SEWARD
has the inside track for the Chicago nomination
that the Southern Matron," Miss CUNNINGHAM,
is in Washington that Mr.. PUGH, of Ohio, who
is succeeded by SAMUEL CHASE, aboitionist, in
the Senate, is descended from Quaker family,
who removed from Newberry, s. c. to Ohio
and that the Senate is gradually filling up with
Republicans.