Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-02-22
Gpntributprial.
BY JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON.
COLUMBIA. s. c.. FEBRUARY 10. 1865.
Asa Hartz.

south. He proposes to lecture in Raleigh,
North Carolina, on the 18th instant. This
is his opening lecture.
He has been before the. newspaper pub
lie as writer of humorous sketches since
1857. Some of those written during the
war were irresistibly funny.
We believe his tour will be frst.rate
success.
The Charlotte R. R.
The Company is said to have in process
of Strengthening and by purchase below,
enough iron to complete the track through
The cross-ties are ready for the whole line
They estimate that the work will be done
by the first of May. Maybe this will be.
They estimate further that the Catawba
Bridge, which is to be handsome iron
structure, will also be ready by May Day.
. If both these estimates be correct, the
through traveller may 60 by rail uninterrupt
edly from Columbia to the North, easily in
May.
We hazard no opinion upon these con-
tingencies.
The Literary.
The PhnntD establishment in Columbis
proposes to issue weekly family newspaper,
to be called the Gleaner-a social and gen
eral news journal. The subscription is fou,
dollars year.
The Crescent Monthly is shortly to ap
pear in New Orleans, under the manage
ment of WILLIAM EVELYN, of that city,
known by the non, de plume of Bohemian
He will make it lively and independent
sheet. Price, five dollars year.
The Weekly Nsitor is issued at Selma,
Alabama 1t is a literary and home news
paper, under the management of Mr..
BURKE, whose name is guarantee of thor.
ough aud we hope successful work.
The University of s. c.
Professor ALEXANDER, recently elected
to the chair of Mathematics, has arrived in
Columbia, and we presume is ready for
work. He is a brother of "P. W. A.
Col. ALEXANDER of Savannah-so widely
and so well known as an army correspond.
ent during the war.
One other chair-that of Modern Ian.
to be filled.
There are about thirty students in the
institution now.
Only few of the tenements have been
yet given up by the United States forces for
the use of the students. The recitation
rooms, except that of the Professor of
Chemistry, as we'll as the greater part of the
other buildings, are still used as barracks
or for some military purposes.
To Mexico.
The inducements held out by the impe-
rial government to Immigrants, make Mex.
leo desirable spot for those who wish to
pursue agriculture. Col. MAURY has writ
ten letter (Which has gone the rounds of
the papers) in which he says lands can be
got on very easy terms, and represents the
yield of corn and grains as immense-four
hundred fold being the maximum yield for
one crop. Three crops year can be raised
on the same land.
As an offset to this glorious news is the
fact (Col. MAURY does not mention this,
however, that Mazimillian has established
q species of conscription, that makes every.
body between lS and 35 liable to six years
of military service. The clergy, tearhers,
and some other classes are exempt. Per-
sons conscripted can commute for four hun
dred dollars.
We are advised that there will before
long be established Offices in New Orleans,
and probably other cities, at
which emigrants to Mexico will be furnish
ed with transportation to that country, at
the expense of the Imperial Government of
Mexico.
The Dead of 1855.
Among the deaths Of last year there is an
unusual number of familiar names.
Yankeedom has lost A. LINCOLN, name
known over the entire earth; EDWARD
EVERETT, "the philosopher, orator, patriot,
'age, and Cicero of America" and so forth
FRANCIS WAYLAND, the Moral Science
nan WORCESTER, the Dictionary maker
Mrs SIaoURNEY, widely known poetess
Bishop POTTER WILLIAM VINCENT WAL.
LACE, the composer, whose songs are on
every music. stand and Tom SAVERS, the
notorious prize,6ghter and opponent Of
HEENAN. ..-....
Great Britain has lost Lord PALMERsToN,
he Premier; CoBDEN, ruling spirit in
1er councils ; Judge HALLIBURTON, the au-
hor of the Sam Slick set of humorous
books; Mrs. GAsKELL, the novelist and
,iographer of CHARLOTTE BRoNTE; Prof
AYToUN, the Scotch Hterateur; CARDINAL
as well known perhaps as the
1uthor of Fabiola, as for being the master
pirit among the Papal clergy of England ;
md the widow of the Poet MOORE
Then there are PRoUDHoN, the radical
noralist of France General LAMoRIcIERE,
whose name was sung by the street-singers
n every by.way in Paris eight years ago
GNoKE, the famous Prussian astronomer
Vho has comet named after him; OLLEN'
'oRFF, whose French, German, and Italian
1rammars have bored many school.boy,
nd girl too JERE CLEMENS, the politician
nd novelist; and the venerable EDMOND
lUFFIN. Two Confederate Generals are
lso included among the dead of 1866
roHN PEGRAM and W. 81. G. WHITING.