Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-05-24
THADDEUs STEVENS ANTEcEDENTs. =

The notorious Thaddeus Stevens commen.
ced his political life in 1886, in the Legisl.
ture of Pennsylvania, as an anti. Mason
demagogue. His hobby was then anti. Ma
sonry, as it now is the negro. His first
public act was the establishment of an in
QUESTION to spy out the secrets of Masonry.
1t is thus alluded to by the Pittsburg Post,
which says:
"The object of this inquisition was to ex-
tort from men connected With the institution
of Masonry an exposition of their princi-
Piles, including the secrets of the Order,
which, it is alleged, they had sworn to pre-.
serve inviolate. To this end many of the
most prominent statesmen of the Common.
wealth were dragged before this Star Cham
ber,' and held in durance vile for weeks,
and compelled to submit to every indignity
that malice could invent Had they been
the veriest criminals, they could not have
been subjected to greater iguominy.
"Among those who were thus outraged,
may be mentioned the lamented Governors
Wolf and Skunk, and the Hon. George M.
Dallas; nor did even the sacred desk es-
cape the persecution of this fanatical anti
Mason. The Rev. Mr.. Sprolis, an eminent
divine of the Presbyterian Church, was
dragged by an officer of the House before
the 'modern Juggernaut,' as be appropriate.
ly styled the committee, and put under the
torture, with view of compelling to d.
vulge, under oath, what he knew about this
ancient and respectable institution. But
he, following the example of the distinguish
ed statesmen We have named, spurned the
miserable tyrant who would thus have him
violate his honor These men were only re-
leased from duress by the united votes of
the Democratic members, with few of the
opposition.
"We next find this man, Thaddeus Ste.
vens, in 1888, at the head of a wicked con-
spiracy to overthrow civil government in
our peaceful old Commonwealth, by igno.
ring the clearly expressed will of the peo-
pie at the ballot.box, and but for the indom-
liable courage of the Democratic members
of the Legislature, the hellish plot would
have succeeded, and the election treated as
though it had never been held"
MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISEMENTS "A
gentleman who has received numerous an
swers to matrimonial advertisement, has
written letter to the Birmingham eng
Gazette, in which he says: "I observed
curiously enough that the suitors for my
hand were sharply divided into two classes.
One was made up of women who were
young, or comparatively so, and who could
spell, but had no money. The other class
old, and had money, but could not spell.
There was not among the applicants single
young young woman who had money
There was not single old woman without
money. The facts are curious, but easy of
explanation. A young woman with money
easily gets married-wthout money she is
sometimes reduced to desperation, and an.
swers advertisements as last resource. An
old woman without money is so undesirable
a mate, and her case is generally so hope.
less that she thinks it useless to make any
matrimonial overtures whatever, even
through the medium of an advertisement
If she has money, though, she has some
hope, however infelicitious all her other
circumstances may be-"
CoFFEE.-When extraordiny exertion
and wakefulness are needed for some ener.