Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-06-20


the old spirit of seventy-six is not dead
yet. There is plenty more of such stock
in the State, and when the hour Of bat
tie is raging, their heroism will tell its
own tale.-Rschmond Dispatch.
Dixie Land.
A correspondent of the New Orleans
Delta gives the following as the origin
of the popular song of Dixie. Be this
as it may, however, we imagine Dixie
has taken too fast a hold on the afec-
tions of our people to be easily given
up. Albert Pike has written some
pretty words to the air. Noticing these
the writer in the Delta says:
sNow, I do not wish to spoil a pretty
illusion, but the real truth is that Dixie
is an indigenous Northern negro refrain,
as common to the writer hereof as the
lamp posts in New York city seventy
five years ago. 1t was one of the every
day illusions of boys, at that time, in
all of their out door sports. And no one
ever heard of Dixie's land being other
than that of Manhattan Island until
recently, when it has been enormously
supposed to refer to the South, from its
connection with pathetic negro allegory.
"When slavery existedin New York,
one 'Dixy' owned large tract of land
on Manhattan Island, and large num-
ber of slaves. The increase Of the
slaves and the increase of the abolition
sentiment caused an emigration of the
slaves to more thorough and secure
slave sections, and the negroes who
were sent off (many being born there
naturally looked back to their old
homes, where they had lived in clover,
with feelings of regret, as they could not
imagine any place like Dixy's. Hence
it became synonymous with an ideal
locality, combining ease, comfort and
material happiness of every description.
In those days negro singing and min
strelsy were in their infancy, and any
subject that could be wrought into a
ballad was eagerly picked up; this was
the case with Dixie 1t originated in
New York, and assumed the proportions
of song there. In its travels, it has
heen enlarged, and has gathered moss; ;
il has picked up note here and there :;
!, chorus has been added to it, andf from
In iudi>fic, chant of two or three
notes il llas become an elaborate melo-
ily l.lt ;he TACT that it is not a south
:..yll snns cannot b. rubbed out, the fall
,.,cv = Q popular to the contrary that
t.:". ,hus been at pains to state the
raj origin of it,
WHAT TIE PRESIDENT HAS DONE
SINCE HIS ARRIVAL IN RICHMoND.-We e
doubt if there has been buster brain IN
Virginia than that upon the shoulders
of the Chief Magistrate of the Conicd-
crate States. Hardly had the dust of
travel been brushed from his clothes be-
fore he was at work. Order books were
examined, plans were scrutinized, sug-
gestions offered, and improvements
made. Within week new reconnois-
sances have been ordered, engineers set
to work at various points before un-
thought of, Notifications commenced,
armies moved, and troops set in motion
to the remotest limits of the Confedera-
CIV. New life has been infused into eve
Try department; confidence inspired in
every heart; the slow coaches of State
Government have been replaced by the
locomotive policy of the chief, and as
regards both men and measures, the
preparations for war have been advan'
ced at least six months. Notwithstand'
ing this pressure of public business, the
President has found time to make
speeches, review troops, receive the con-
eratulations of his admirers, super,
t wise the transfer of the Government
> from Montgomery to Richmond, and
enjoy the pleasures of social life. This
is real energy. 1t shows that I'VE have
Governments" and that in Jefferson
: Davis we have man fully equal to tho
emergencies of the time and require
/, ments of his position.-Rlchmond DIS
patch.
BL1sTERED FEET.-A Remee}y.-]
: had for several years two sons at schoo
at Geneva, Switzerland. In vacation:
they in company with their tutor, made
excursions through Switzerland, Italy
: Germany, etc., on foot, bearing theil
knapsacks containing their necessary
Il wants for month. They were provi
7 ded with small bar of common browl
, soap, and before putting on their stock
ings. turned them inside out, and rub
bed the soap well into the threads o
G them, consequently they never becam
l lioot-so~e, or had hlistcred feet. lie
il lvu2 .o'uheers try it, and my word fo
III. ,.rv wort complain Of sore or bills
:i,4c.t ivyl Those boys of mine are il
::r', ,;",@n:r Regiment, and made tn
; a.";.:5. 5.,2:a Annapolis to Washington
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