Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-01-10

Hannibal Hamhn has been presented Dy some OF LIE
friends with an elegant set of silver. The Iuscar
loosa Observer thinksi likely that Butler contribu
ted the spoons '''''''''The only person now alive
who witnessed the surrender Of CORVALLIS is gen.
uine Guinea negro, named Tom, now living at Ham,
ilton, Ohio His age probably one hundred.
EDITORIAL INKLINGs.
ON last Friday morning, the railroad officials
had pleasant little reunion at Kngsville. Three
locomotives ran off the track, and two more COLI
ded. 1t was quite a refreshing sight to witness
five iron horses reposng from their abors, in vari
GUS degrees of collapse. The passengers were Of
too philosophical a class to manifest any impa-
tience, particularly when there was nobody hurt.
Those of them who were on their way through
Columbia, were thus enabled to stop in that un'
fortunate city and view. .''Sherman's sentinels,
sight which did not seem to soothe the somewhat
rued spirits of the fairer portion Of the delaying
travellers Indeed, some Of them were heard to
express wishes for the entire Yankee nation, which
were far from complimentary.
We speak by the card, for we were thar"
Hon. Reverdy johnson recently took occa,
sion in his place in Congress, to protest against
the farther detention of Ex-President Davis In
prison, without trial He characterizes his long
confinement as an act of extreme cruelty and
blot on American civilization. IF the prisoner
in his delicate state of health, dies, MIR. johnson
holds that the nation will be responsible for his
death.
1t is pleasant to see the cause of our Still honored
chief upheld in the Halls of Congress. MIR. Davis
is the great representative of the South, and has
been made the chief sufferer for the lost cause
Any voice, therefore, lifted in his behalf will cal
forth the gratitude of our whole people. But it is
more than doubtful whether any appeal to the
Justice or magnanimity of Congress will result II
any advantage to him. If that body is his only
chance for Justice the grave alone will release him
from captivity.
Mexico appears to be getting no better fast
in the way of subsiding into a settled government
MAxIMLIANd disappearsfrom the surface torawhile
only to come up again in new place, sanguine al
to the future prospects of his empire. He once at
tempted to abdicate, but his friend Marshall BA
zA1NE would not consent to his giving it up So
MAX, therefore, withdrew his abdication on the
ground that the interests of Mexico demanded his
continuance in power. At last accounts, the I'm
perial party were very sanguine of success, proVi
ded they have no United States troops to contend
against The Liberals have advanced astrong line
to within eight miles of the city of Mexico. A u
s. gunboat sailed on the Sd instant for Vera Cruz
and Tampico to watch the progress of events be-
tween these points
1t is almost impossible to form any clear idea ot
the state of affairs in that distracted country The
only consolation for the Mexicans in their frequent
changes of government, is that they have beer
used to revolutions for at least fifty years. As they
have now fully tested democracy, monarchy and an
archy, it is to be hoped for their own sakes, thai
they will make selection of some kind Of govern
ment before long. and abide by it.
The. following is list Of the persons belong
ing to York District, disabled in the late war, and
reported by COL jackson, the Tax Collector to the
Governor, and by the latter, to the Legislature
LEGS LosT.-J. H. Culp, lost left Leg four in
ches above the ance; Michael Dour, lost left Leg
above the knee; James f. Hart, right leg neal
knee; A. F. Lindsay, right leg, below knee Herod
Neal, lost right leg; Green Parker, right Leg above
knee; J. NJ Shearer, left leg, above knee; William
A. Smith, right leg, near body; James L. Strain
right leg lost
ARMS Losr.-J. A. Bell, left arm, below elbow
II. NJ Grant, lost right hand f. c. Harris, left
arm, near shoulder; Andrew Jackson, left arm
below elbow; John NJ Jackson, right arm, below
elbow; Wylie A. Moss, left arm, near shoulder
William B. Williams, right arm, near shoulder;
OTHERWISE DIsABLED-S. L. Campbell. shot
through head totally blind James Childers three
inches bone taken out of right forearm James F.
Davidson, four inches bone from right arm, above
elbow; J. J. L. Gill, lett arm resected Randolph
A. Hagans, four inches bone from left arm John
Jones' lost three fingers of right hand H. P
Wallace, left knee injured-leg crooked and stiff
Total-Legs lost, 9; arms lost, 7; otherwise dis
abled, 7.
The following sensible advice to the "Youne
Men of the South" is found in an article publish
ed in the Baltimore Transcript:
"The young men of the South have it in theil
power to make new South more prosperous anc
powerful than the old. They have shown their en-
ergy and selfdenial in war; and if they exhibit any
thing like the same qualities in peace they vii
build up their section beyond the powers for mis-
chief of their bitterest enemies The way to dc
this is simply to avoid politics and 60 to work tc
apply their whole souls to the work Of creative in
dustry to work in all it's forms, whether in the
field or in the shop, whether agricultural or me-
chanical. Let them rise above the absurd preju
dices against manual labor. There is no form o.
labor which is degrading, and if they were willing
to perform manual drudgery in the ranks for the
sake of the South in war; let them be willing to DE-
the same in the ranks of peaceful industry and the
salvation of their section is secure.
- "Hermes," the Washington correspondent
of the Charleston Mercury, writing under date O
the I'd instant, in reference to the frmness O.
President Johnson says:
"An interview with parsonage, whose name
am not privileged to divulge, reassures me- in re
gard to the political future of the country. He re
calls the Presidents unwavering 6rmness agains
Overwhelming odds, and the cool, determined man
ner, in which he has, during the present session
when some persons thought he was crushed, carriee
out his measures in the case of Sickles, Schofeld
and others This person is of the opinion, that the
past guarantees the future, and cites the compare
tive harmessness of the civil rights and freedmen
bureau bills, as executed by the President, as am
| pie grounds of confidence in what may come here