Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-10-11

remedy Tor the death wounds OF the coun-
try when a vile faction has been permitted
to give them Have we no Cassandra whose
winning voice can save our Hum from the
flames? If we have not, then we fear that
thcro.sis no "pioue Enoue' to carry our
Penates safely over the stormy sea to found
in their presence, in foreign lands, great
and glorious empire, where the virtues of
the past shall be renewed and the promises
of future renown fulfilled. A "Grecian
Horse" has been admitted into our walls,
and when struck, we hear not only the
sound of arms, but the oaths and blasphemy
of radical traitors.
SOUTHERN NMANUFAcTURINa.- The Lou.
isville Courier says:
We hail with pleasure the present pro-
clivity of Southern capital toward mauufac-
turing enterprises. The policy of inordi-
nately high protective tariffs, which seems
to be saddled upon the country for an iude6-
mite period, will compel the South and West,
in self-defence, to embark largely in manu-
features. As the Government seems de-
termined to give American manufactures a
monopoly of the home markets, that monop-
oily will become great and crying evil,
rendering all sections and all other indus.
trial pursuits grievously tributary to the
immense corporations of the New England
States, unless the other sections make some
effort to break up the monopoly and divide
the spoil by starting rival establishments
Let the effort be made. Let joint stock
companies be formed wherever there are
natural facilities to justify the enterprise.
If they do not declare large dividends at
first, they ought still to be perseVered in
from patriotic motives; and if they shall
be, English capital and skill will eventually
begin to seek the South and West to renew
that competition with Yankee companies
from which the tariff would otherwise ex-
clude them.
The experiment thus far of freedmen's
labor on cotton plantations is, to say the
least, discouraging. The gregarious nature
of the negro impels him continually towards
the cities and towns, and it may be, II the
race is destined to remain among US, that
there will be no way left TO utilize that ele
ment of our population save by finding
them employment in large factories.
The NEW BREEoH LOADER AND CUI.
RAss. "A Paris correspondent of the Lon.
don Times, under date of September 9th,
says
We hear great deal about the new
Chassepot breech-loader, which some say is
as superior to the Prussian neede-gun as
the latter is to Minnie rifle, but this is
likely to be an exaggeration. In very
short time, the Patrie announces one hun.
dred regiments of the line will be armed
with it. The statement of that semi official
journal, that not only the arms, but all the
questions relative to the organizations of the
French army, as regards both personnel
and n,ateriez, are to be made the subject Of
thorough study, has attracted attention
here, and it is interpreted by some as an
admission that the French army is not in a
state, at present, to contend successfully
with that OF Prussia; perhaps, also, as a
hint to have patience, and to wait till the
new guns are ready and all the improve
ments made l hear that the new cuirass
is being worked at with the intention Of Civ.
ing it to the troops. 1t is the invention of
needy young Italian who came to Paris
eager to dispose of it to the best bidder,
and who found means of access to French
General, high in Office. The General ex-
amined this new kind of armor, which is
described as flexible metal shirt, weighing
only four and half pounds, hung it up, took
a revolver and fred four or five shots at it.
The bullet fell to the ground, leaving but
a slight mark upon the ball proof tissue
The invention was clearly of sufficient i'm.
portance to be submitted to the Emperor,
who, after witnessing trial, bade the in-
ventor communicate bis secret to no one,
and said he would purchase it Of him. You
have heard of the new plan suggested Of
large bucklers, to be carried by the front.
rank men, who kneeling, protect those be,
hind them, who fire through loop-holes in
the shields, which thus serves as rests for
the guns. Modern Improvements in the art
of slaughter seem taking us back, in many
respects, to the defences of the Middle Ages.
SINGULAR LEGAL OPINION. Mem
pbis lawyer relates, if we may rely upon the
statement of the Memphis Bulletin, that
while in Carroll County last week, he had
attended the preliminary trial of a man be-