Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-05-02
A Mexican Saint.


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A Mexican Saint.
A letter from Guerrero, Mexico, tells
something Of a new Saint, who is crea-
ting a great excitement at Mier, about
ten miles distant from that place. 1t
says:
Clancy man, about sixty years OF
age, very dark and vulgar looking, with
long white beard, reaching half way
to his waist, grey moustache and hair,
with a hat Of the old high crowned,
broad brim Mexican style, black wool,
coat of striped sackcloth, pants of the
same, a dirty white shirt, open down
the bosom, sandals on pair of dirty
feet, tied with strings coming up be-
tween the toes, and you have the person.
mel of man who wields rod of iron
over about ?, 900 human being, and they
following him and kissing his feet and
hands, and firmly believing him to be
the God of Hosts.
81 was with him all day-took sup
per with him, and had some CONVERSE
tion with him. I asked him about the
peace in Mexico and the United States.
He said there never would be peace a.
gain, in either country, until the world
was destroyed. His mode of doctoring
is curious. His medicines are 'aqu ar
diente' and water. He rubs it on the
affected parts whilsthe PATIENT is kneel-
ing. He has performed some astonish-
ing cures, and supports the people who
are with him. He buys beeves, divides
amongst them, gives them clothing, and
supports them entirely. Where the
money comes from l do not know; but
I do knoY that he supports them, and
at enormous expense. This is no hear
say what 1 have said. l have seen,
and unless l had, I could not believe. !"
The RIGHT SpIRIT.-Under this
heading the Mobile Register of the 18th
inst, has the following:
In private conversation with lead
ing merchant of this city, yesterday,
we found that he and number of 9TH
ers, ranking among the most "solid'
men in the community, had determined
to subscribe for the loan to the whole
amount of their Indebtedness to North
ern creditors, upon the principle that
the first fire exchanged between the
Confederate and United States troops
was an inauguration of war, and that
their duty to their own Government
compelled that course. The moment
the independence of the Confederate
States of America was recognized, they
would be prepared to settle the claims
of Northern creditors. They meant to
take no advantage, or shirk liabilities
for which they were amply prepared,
but patriotic impulse guided them to
the very policy which every jurist could
have told them was the policy dictated
by the universally recognized princi-
Piles of international law.
A WINDY ExHoRTATIoN.-A shrewd
Quaker friend arose in meeting, after a
brother had just closed a very discon-
nected and meaningless harangue, and
said-"Friends, my perturbations have
been distressingly great and disquietlng
while the brother was speaking; and [
feel to say, being moved by the power
within me, concerning the exhortation
it thundered and it lig ghtened, it rain
ed and it hailed, it poured in and pour
ed out, it held up and it gave down, and
after it was all over, there was nothing
of it, and the mud was as thick as ever. y
m@ A preacher of rather an adaman-
tine exterior, notoriously known as be-
ing fond of something ardent, undertook
to hold forth in certain village, CIV
ing out the first line of his hymn in a
peculiar whine:
Onease's wings fly.
A wag in the congregation sung out
in tho somn tone.