Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-07-26
Gontr1butorial.
BY JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON.
COLUMBIA, 8. G, 2sd JULY, 1858.

Under these circumstances, We have one
word of advice for all our friends Keep
COOL
The Weather.
They have hotter weather in New York
city than We have in Columbia, according
to the thermometers. Sunstroke there is
very frequent-scores every dsy-while it
is very rare here. We have heard ef but
one case in Columbia thus far; and we pre-
sumo there have been but few.
Negroes in Florida.
We learn from gentleman who has just
come from Florida, that large numbers Of
Negroes have left that State and in some
portions of the State they are disappearing
very rapidly: They have emigrated in va.
rious directions and it is generally known
that some have been carried by Yankees to
the West India Islands and sold into slave
~ there.
The War.
One of the London papers estimates that
in the great battle, or series of battles, in
Bohemia, the entire loss was 50,000-the
sides losing about equally.
This is big job.
Such handsome fighting in midsummer
is known to be very pleasant and divert
ing pastime.
The Prussiaps appear to have the best Of
it, thus far. Tberefore-Hurrah for the
Prussians! They are great men.
Literary.
The second volume Of the Emperor Ma.
poleon's Julius Cesar has just appeared
from the press of the Harpers. Il contains
the Wars of the Gauls; and brings down
the history of the Roman conqueror to the
banks of the Rubicon. Volume third, We
presume, will open with Csesars celebrated
"plunge" into The classic waters of that lit.
tie stream, from which ("pluuge") flowed
such mighty consequences to Caesar, to
Rome, and to the world
Mad Dogs.
DR.. Hall in bis Journal of Health gives
three signs, which be calls "the most indis
putable signs that dog is mad" They
are these
He is sullen.
2-Scratches his ear violently.
3-Paws the corners of bis mouth, a0iat-
out its being permanently open.
DR.. John Hunter, the eminent author of
works, estimated that one per-
son in tweDty.one, who we're bitten by dogs
actually mad, became mad.
The best remedy known to medical SCI
ence probably is to cut out the bitten part
with knife, or burn it severely with cans
tic or hot iron.
To Correspondents.
IsRAFEL.-This is the name of the an
gel whose office will be to sound the
trump of the resurrection. He is the Mo-
hommedaD Gabriel He has "the sweetest
voice of all Gods creatures" The name is
variously written, Israfel, Israfeel, and Is.
rafl. See the Koran, and Poe's Poems,
and the Poetry of the East generally.
Miss "Murray."-Yes, Henry Clay
used poor English, or rather no English at
all, when he said (if he did say 81 had
rather be tight than President" "It is
wrong simply because "had be" is no part
of the verb to be. Henry Clay, if be did
use the above expression, ought to have
said i'd aooula rather be right than Pres.
ideut."
R. NJ. T.-The couplet you refer to is
not found in Buffers Hudibras; but oc.
ours in the first Csuto of McFFngal, poem
by John Trumbull, who died as recently as
1881. The words are:
"But optics sharp 1t needs, ween,
To see what's not to be seen."
Negro Emigration.
Dissatisfied with the prospect Of political
equality in South Carolina, and discouraged
at the business prospects ahead of them,
our negroes are emigrating. Many have
already gone; mainly, We believe, to the
West They have established an Office of
Emigration in Columbia, the aim of which
appears to be to secure concert of move.
ments among them. Those desirous of emf
grating are invited to report their names
to a secretary and to confer with him upon
the ways and means best adapted to carry
out their ends. We have too many of them
too many, for the interests of either race
and the popular feeling seems to be that the
black man would do better to find homes
in the West and Southwest-the Gulf
coast, including thatof Mexico.
From some points of view We would re-
joice to see the entire negro population of
the South settled in among the New Eng.
landers; but our kindly interest in the ne
gro himself is too great to allow Us to wish
him so bad q fate. As the friend of the
Black Man We would advise him to have
as little as possible to do with the Yankee.
Let him emigrate in direction diametri-
cally opposite that of New England. Let
him steer clear as far as in him lies, of the
philaDthropio Neqraphi1es of Yankeedom.
The Yankee climate is unfavorable to Cuf-
ie's system; but Infinitely more disastrous
10 his success in life are Yankee sympathy,
Yankee philanthropy, and Yankee aboli.
lion societies.
We would gladly encourage the emira.
ion Of the negro to a warm climate
Mexico. Central America, and the eauato