Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-06-21
Cleanliness and Goodness.

give weight to the maxim that "Cleanliness
is next to Goodness" by calling it Scrip.
ture The good St. Ambrose is the author
of it, St. Ambrose was good catholic
too. .'fS' ~ E-" sfa@-!aI95@ Z - cE@a <.
English Grammar S,a.! s'1 "a. ''"
e. Men of education who seem to have COM
mon sense in other matters, do not always
apply it to their language. We constantly
hear such expressions as, 81 will try and
do it." evidently meaning, ,2'I will try to do
it," and "you must come and see me, |"
meaning "you must come TO see me-" 'i''s
This csrelessness in phraseology, results
from the fact that most men do not think
at all, and use whatever language they hear
others use; just as the cockatoo does-al-
ways has authority for what he says. ='7.E
Stealing. '.'''.S .----' '''..'''.' '..''
There is great, deal of stealing on q
small scale going on in Columbia. The
idlers among the freedmen are to be found
everywhere, and whatever is left about loose
they appropriate at once. - y. 80. o..lat
These idlers are the curse of all small
towns. They are fatally iincorrigible. =.
They can never get out Of it You need
not advise them that it is better to work
than to suffer for the necessaries Of life,
because they knov to the CONTRARY; They
know that work is the worst thing 10 the
world, and that suffering aud starvation
are minor ills-ills to be avoided BY cum;
ming or crime, by stealing or begging, BY
anything except that leviathan of earthly
ills, work! Anything but that! Poor
cuffee. He is no visionary theorizer-he
practises what he thinks. He viii loaf,
steal, beg, rob,-anything aoork
Hence it is that our police are constantly
busy with cases of petty theft: Great
crimes may be done BY others. Cufee does %
not like SO much exertionn. ~ h;r, roy
The Military Situation. .brars ,lt mv.
In the military way, ,gthea goVernmeutof
our portion of territory has been changed.
The Statesof North and South Carolina now
constitute one Department, commanded by
Maior-Genera Daniel E Sickles, of New
York. The Head Quarters were fixed BY
orders, and are now technically, at Colum-
bia; but it is understood that Gen. Sickles
prefers Charleston and will remain there .g
The. Department Of the Carolinas is di-
vided into two Districts The Districtof
South Cardinal u.s. under command Of BreVet
Major General Scott, with Head Quarters
at Charleston. Gen. Scott, iwho-is civil
ian from Ohio, has. heretofore been chief rof
the Freedman's Bureau in this State, .aHdsis
regarded very faVorably by all who have
had business relations with him g; is found
to be conservative, liberal in bis views, just,
and an excellent administrator. The new
system, Incorporating the Freedmau's Blu
reau with the military administration proper,
seems to work we'll, under General Seett's
management 1t has hitherto been a kind
of unclassifed monster, half civil and half
military, with not-suHioiently defined pow
ers, and an administration that the negro
feared and the white man despised. 81 %.
Our Superintendent, General Ralph Ely,
against whom the Generals Steedmau and
Fullerton found fault because of sundry
complications growing out of bis drumming"
plantations ON private account, has been de-
posed--goes by the board with the old
regime :: and Is succeeded by BreVet Brig.
General Mansfield, of the regular army
The hopes entertained of General Mans
fields administration are favorable.
The inevitable and irrepressibe Military
Commission, whose obituary we hoped we
had written several weeks ago, is still 'ex-
listing amongst us. 1t dies hard. Our
readers are aware that recently an old man
named Eagan, Of Lexington District. who
was last winter convicted of murder, and
sentenced to imprisonment for life in the
Albany Peniteptiary, was released BY writ
Of .Habeas Corpus, by order Of Judge Mel.
son of the Supreme. Court. In his decree,
in this case, Judge Nelson pronounced a.
gainst Military Commissions in an elaborate
and conclusive constitutional argument.
This decree has been very generally pub
Gshed as favorable symptom in the great
disease that affects US and we presume it
has'been read by all our readers. The old
man, Eagan, had scarcely reached his home,
when be was again arrested by order, it is
said, of Gen. Sickles, apparently in def
ance of the civil authority. He has been
carried under guard to Charleston, and is
now there in Jail. Does such q fact need
any comment? "'''- -, - -. 80 - : -
The 25th Ohio veteran volunteer IDfan:
try Regiment, which during the past year
has been on duty in Columbia and adjacent
localities, has been mustered out Of service
1t left Charleston for the Buckeye State
last week. The troops Of this command
were unpopular with the negroes, aud par
consequent were kindly regarded by the
whites, though they were little wilder
than the regulars who succeeded them. A
circumstance Of interest, and with q point
to it, occurred in connection with the de-
parture of the 25th o. w. L. from Char
lesion. Whilst campaigning, in 1866, on
our coast, COL Haughton Of this Regiment,
came into possession of fine grey charger,
which the other day accompanied the 25th,.
en- route for Ohio. As they we're passing
through Charleston, o Doctor from the