Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-03-01
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The Hon. B. F. PERRY,

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private letter from Washington, gives the
welcome information that the State Works
in Greenville, and the Gas Works in
Charleston, will be speedily restored to the
proper authorities. This information Mr..
PERRY obtained direct from the President,
.-- Judge ALDR1cH, while holding
Court in Charleston, last week, passed SEN
tauce, in his official character, upon two
white men for larceny. The sentence pre-.
scribed by the law, ia whipping and i'm.
prisonment. Gen. BENNETT, commanding
in the city, upon hearing of the matter,
prohibited the iDAiction of the punishment,
as violation of Gen. SIoKLEs' orders, and
ordered Judge ALDRIcH to revoke the seu-
tence This the Judge refuses to do. The
military authorities refuse to deliver up the
prisoners to the Sheriff, and the probability
is they will go unpublished. Comment is
useless.
-The eulogy of BANCROFT, the
historian, delivered in Washington, on the
life and services of LINCOLN, has failed to
meet the expectations that the fame and
talents of its author warranted in its behalf
The heads of the Foreign Departments who
attended through polIteness, we're compel
led to listen to unfavorable criticisms upon
the political conduct of the nations they
represented, as we'll as discreditable paral.
lels between their own and American States
men. The French and British Embassa-
doris, it is said, "winoed" under the severe
strokes of Mr.. BANcRoFT's caustic logic,
although they retained their seats during
the delivery of the address,
We consider Mr.. BANoRoFT's effort, to
say the least of it, very unfortunate. The
country generally regrets it. 1t has COM
promised the social amity between this and
foreign countries, without necessity or profit.
- The Hon. B. F. PERRY, Sena-
tor elect from South Carolina, now in Wash
iugtop, has written letter to the National
mtelligencer giving his views upon the
state of the country. This argument,
which properly would have been made in
the United States Senate had its author
been admitted to seat there, contains
logical defence of his section from the mis-
representation under which it has suffered,
and a comprehensive view of the affairs of
the nation. As an expose of the party pol
itics of the country it is admirable. The
temper of the letter is not such, however,
as to win for Mr.. PERRY early admission
into the Senate. Such sentiments at this
time will have much weight with the peo-
pie, but are not likely to advance bis pros
poets of favor with the body that is to de-
eide upon the validity of his election.
# The Supreme Court Of the Uni.
ted States has recently rendered an impor-
tant decision which collaterally defines the
status of the Southern States. The ques-
tion arose upon the taking up Of cases dock.
eted in the Federal Courts in the South,
previous to the war, and whether or not the
suits might still proceed to trial The de-
cision, in which all the members of the
Court except Chief Justice CHASE concur
red, affirmed that the seeded States had
only temporarily lost their vitality by the
rebellion, and that they are now as before,
States de jure, forming part of the FEEDER
al Union, and that the Courts might proceed