Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-10-25
Gontr1butortal.
BYJAS. WOOD DAVIDSON.
COLUMBIA. s. c.. 22D OCT, 1855.
Idle Negroes.

The New York Tribune recommends its
Northern readers to come to the assistance
of the thirty six thousand (36, ,O0O idle me-
groes said to be in Washington City.
The Abolitionists have made idols of the
negroes so long, that it is no wonder that
Cufee becomes idle himself, is it?
Fashion.
The last novelty in the gay world is new
dance called the KISS. Cotillion. The name
comes from the kiss which every dancer
gives (and receives, We suppose) every time
he turns his partner We have not heard
where this novelty is danced After dill
gent investigation we are prepared to say,
they don't dance it in Columbia.
Penitentiary.
The commission appointed by the Legis.
lature to locate the Penitentiary, have de.
cided upon place. 1t is fourteen acre
tract, upon the Cougaree River, just below
the juction of the Saluda and Broad, with.
in the corporate limits of Columbia, and
on the site of the Confederate Powder
Works. The canal runs through the
grounds, affording water-power Of almost nm.
limited extent.
Negro Emigration.
The corresponding Secretary of the Lii
IBERIA Emigration Movement gives notice,
that all emigrants who have applied for
transportation to Liberia, will present them
selves (ready to go) in Columbia, on the
3Oth October Cars to Charleston will be
ready to carry them free of charge.
We presume that any negro who desires
to go to Liberia, can now apply and get
transportation on this vessel that leaves a.
bout the first of November.
Circus.
We are to have Circus again. Dan Cas-.
tello is coming. All little.nigger-dom is ex.
cited. Prodigious things are to be perform,
ed Lion is to be turned loose in the
streets All sorts of riding! Ponies ad-
mirably educated !! Clowns inexpressibly
striped Man going 10 fly over herd Of
horses Acrobatic impossibilities perform
ed by the dozen! Bands of sublimated
seraphic music Ladies Che ones) in regal
robes! Horses with "all the blood of all
the Howards p Circassian steeds Mules !!
Asses
All these things, and a million more
things, are "goiDg to coue," on the twenty
seventh.
Falling Stars.
Astronomers tell US to be on the look out
for shower of meteoric stars on the night
of the 18th of November; or at farthest,
the night of the 14th-possibly both nights.
Whoever is going to get scared about it,
had better do all their praying before hand,
so as to have good chance to see the beau.
tiful pyrotechnic display.
For our own individual part, we have
been seeing stars so constantly for the last
FIVE years, that it will be no novelty to us.
The best thing to read about this affair
is Asa Hartz, on Seeing Stars, written in
1864
Re- Building of Columbia.
Above the State House on Main street,
two hundred and forty-nine (249) houses
were destroyed by Sherman. Of these, 6f-
ty eight (5S) have been rebuilt, and are
used in business not built as they were be-
fore, but still in use for trade, arts, or dwell
ling. Some of the houses, eight or ten,
are built in style superior to the original
build
Besides these, there are twentY'on (2l)
in process of rebuilding, in various stages,
from just beginning to nearly finished.
These leave hundred and seventy (l70)
vet in their ashes Largely, more than half
the houses on Main Street have not yet
been touched. In some instances, the bricks
have been piled to preserve them; but no
work towards rebuilding.
The Crescent Monthly.
This leader of the Southern Monthly
Magazines, for November, comes to us with
fine table of contents. We find two ar
tioles from South Carolinians in it. One,
an intensepoem of the passion, memory style,
entitled The Last Night, by Miss Dargan,
who is taking fine position among the po.
cts of our day The other is an essay on
The Modern Essay, by Mr.. Hutson,