Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-07-08
The jews Return to Palestine.

tory, there are few current subjects Of more
absorbing interest, or Of deeper Significance,
than the events now almost daily trauspir.
ing which point to the repossessiou by the
Jews of their own land. The tide of pro.
gress, after lapse of centuries, may be
said to have fairly turned in that direction,
and the prayer long offered by the chosen,
but now scattered people, ethat Judah may
be saved, and Israel dwell securely, and
that the Redeemer may come to Zion, is
undoubtedly fastening to ful6lment. The
Sultan Of Turkey is encouraging Jewish
emigration to Palestine, and is offering to
sell them as much land as they choose to
buy, and, it is said, bas even expressed q
willingness to dispose Of the Mosque Of
Omar to them, which, it is recollected,
stands upon the very site ofthe Jewish
Temple on Mount Moria... This mosque
is one Of the Mohammedan's most celebra.
ted shrines, being scarcely inferior, in ma
tional Importance, to Mecca or Medina.---
Politicians and statesmen look upon these
indications as legitimate consequence OF
the liberalizing influence of the Mahomme-
dan intercourse with Christians, and so
they may be.
But to the reader of the yet unfulGlled
pages Of Revelation, they also point to what,
as it respects the Jewish nation, aprophets
aud kings" have long waited for, ."but
died without the sight" That the Mosque
of Omar should be in fair way of passing
into the haudstof the people to whose faith
ers the site upon which it stands was once
given in an everlasting covenant, is what
no reader of secular history, fifty years ago,
could even have dreamed would ever have
come to pass. Some of the hills around
Jerusalem have already become Jewish
property, and it is by no means improba-
bio that some of the present generation will
see the entire city of Jerusalem again in
/ the hands of its ancient owners. That
mighty revolution will follow in the wake
Of such an event is probably as certain as
that the Jews will return at all. At all
events, affairs in that immediate region Of
the East must ere long become an engros-
sing theme among the nations of the earth,
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LIABILITY OF ALIEN RESIDENTS TO
Observation-Disclosures DECISION OF
JUDGE MAaRATH.-In the Confederate
Court, yesterday, Judge Magrath delivered
his opinion in the cases argued before him
last week to test the liability Of alien resi-,
dents to CONSUMPTION.
In these cases the parties had filed their
petition, praying for a Writ Of Habeas Cor.
pus, in order that they might be dischar-
ged from the military service of the Con.
federate States. It appeared tbatthey had
been members of the German Artillery
Company, and had participated in, the bat
tie of Port Royal, They alleged that it
had been represented to them that if they
did not enlist for twelve months they would
be drafted, and acting upon that informa-
tion, they had enlisted for that period. -
By the operation of the Copscription Act,
they are now held beyond the period for
which they enlisted, aud for the var
They moreover alleged that they are sub
jects Of Hanover and came to this country
years since for the purpose Of making a Wis.
sit and seeing their relations. They never
contemplated citizenship, either iu The U.
nited States or in the Confederate States,
but had always determined to remain sub
jects of Hanover. They claim that their
residence in the United States, and after
wards in the Confederate States, was but
transient; that they had never established
in either domicil; that their allegiance
was still due to the country from which
they had come, and that there was no ground
upon which they could be held to military
service in the Confederate States
Judge Magrath, in long and elaborate
opinion, sustained the Conscription Act,
and held that alien resident, were effected
with all of the liabilities it imposed.
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