Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-03-22

Small Pox.
This contagion is abating in our city
though there still remain on hand several
maybe dozen-cases. The efficiency
of the city medical functionaries seems tc
keep the disease under control, and very
thoroughly separates it from the conrnu
nifty.
The people appear indifferent to the mat.
ter. Very little vaccination is applied =
The proper authorities are ready with it
but very little thought is given to it by tbe
people at large.
TO Mexico.
Immigrants to Mexico are. allowed six
hundred and forty (640) acres of land to
each man with family, and half that quan-
tity to a single man.
The Imperial Commissioner Of Colouiza.
ton, M. F. MAURY, has been authorized
to dispose of 10S,459 acres of land to i'm.
migrants. This land is situated in the State
of Tamaulipas pronounced tam o.lee:pas,
with the accent on the zee] which lies on
the Gulf coast between Vera Cruz and the
Rio Grande. 1t is iu twenty-five degrees
of north latitude, as fertile as Eden. and
as healthy as a climate can be. Settlers
are exempt from conscriptiop for Eve years
after settling there, unless-they have a
revolution
What to eat. .
Now, that the spring is coming on with
its genial and balmy temperature, we must
look to our diet, five would escape the Ian.
guors, the feebleness, the colds, and the
diarbeas I'VE are speaking to the practi-
cal, ] of this season. The last mentioned
disease. is often produced by the same. cause
as colds too sudden check to cutaneoas
(skin) action. Over-heating should be
avoided as much aa possible, as from this of
course comes the too sudden check Of per
spiration.
We should use less oleaginous food, such
as butter, gravy and meats, because these
increase the heat of the system, and derauge
the bowels. The cold of winter required
more animal food, to supply heat to the
body; but now, when the weather is warm,
it is not only useless but injurious. We
should use vegetables principally for food
bread, potatoes, ripe fruits and. vegeta-
bles generally. We should take no Violent
exercise; and should, in general, auoid er.
trenaes, and keep cool IN aca'ma a0eather.
-Potters Field -.
Among the many changes wrought by
war and its atteadsntills upon our city, We
venture to mention that in Potter's Field:
Always q a'dreaFy;' lonely spot, it is'now
doubly desolate: The soldiers, the ,itiner.
ant pauper, the poor negro, and the shiVer-
ing pauper who lives adjacent-all have
clipped and cut at it untifit lie almosta bald
field. Before, there was dreary grove of
melancholy pines in whose boughs the winds
made dirgefuf music. But now, almost all
Of that has passed away.
There may be some who do not know
that Potter's Field is the name applied to
the common burying ground Of our city
as it is also applied to the samein many
other cities.
- 1t is the common designation of the com.
mon cemetery of cities in America; and We
.E>,. .i,o - .Tn GLAND
The Potter's Field, mention ed by Mat
thew, as the Field of Bloed, was the origi.
nal It was designed "to bury strangers
iu"
Our Potter's Field is the same. 1t is to
bury strangers in. Here sleeps the wander
ing stranger; hut not he alone. We crowd
him with strange-bedfellows. Here lie the
trieudless of all classes-whoever is with
out home, without friends, and without
money-the negro, the criminal, the con-
vict, the vagabond, the outlaw, the cyprian,
aud the pimp-the outcasts of society, the
sous and daughters of shame, the graveless
mendicant, the unknown, the uncared.f for,
the hopeless, the Goddess.
These are all piled in there, without
much order.
The gallows up on the hill, yonder among
the pines, has borne some fruit,-It was all
planted here, We believe.
The soil is sandy and thin. The pines
now stand at long reaches from each other.
The graves are mostly stoneless and name
lessj many are sunkeu. Generally they
show no signs Of care [who is to care for
thenss1 or tending-no wreaths, faded
though recent, to show that some one heart
at least beats to the memory of former
love. Once in awhile, however, there is an
exception to this. Loving hearts have been
at few graves and loving hands have
twined wreaths for those few to decorate
their dreariness.
This, in that stretch of bald desolation,
makes the common neglect but more appal-
ing.
1t is said of the ,heartless Nero, that even
his grave was not utterly forsaken. One
girl-we believe it was slave-brought
daily as long as she lived, flower to lay
upon bis grave. Our heart swelled with
emotion when We first learned this story
and we thought of Nero's grave few days
ago as We stro]led through the Potter's Field
of Columbia.
VERY CAUTIoUs.-It would seem from |