Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-11-14
BY JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON.
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, llTH nov. 1857
The University.

The University. i.~
Matriculates number no. Dr. Darby having
arrived from Europe, the Faculty is now complete
Cotton is King.
The cotton crop Of 1867 will probably be two ant
half million bales-neary half what the full crol
used to be. ...... ..e, ....... ......... ...-
University Lectures. .....
A new feature of the University is about to bt
inaugurated. A series Of lectures is to be delivered
in the University by the professors, free Of charge
to which the public at large is invited. One lee
ture each week for the ensuing twenty weeks, il
the present arrangement The series, not course
| is to commence on Thursday evening, the 18th in
slant, with the delivery of lecture on the life ant
genius of the late Henry Timrod. This is to b
followed by lectures on science by the lie Contes
and on other appropriate subjects by the other pro
fessors in their turn -...... ...
| We believe all are to take part.
The Conservative Convention.
The meeting of this body in Columbia, on the
9Th and day following, is the great event Of th'
past week. 1t is one of the most respectable
bodies that has met here in many years. 1t il
hoped that good Will come of its action but no
body expects anything immediate in that way
The great thing to be done by this Convention i
to appeal to the sense of justice whatever that isl
the whole country, to avert the calamitous result
of the present Radical rule of the South.
We presume that the proceedings in anothe
column will speak for themselves. The address
adopted speaks solid truths in manly and dispas
sionate style.
All parties, negroes above all, should pray fo
the success of the measures aimed at by this Con
vention. "
We say negroes above all, because, while th'
effect of continued Radical rule is loss, disaster
and financial ruin to the white it is exterminatol
and death 10 the negro. ;:
| The day of terror is near us new and nothlp!
should be left undone that may possibly amelioratt
if not avert it.
Books.
Months ago we had occasion to mention serie
of Southern Readers published by Richardson
Co., of New York, under the supervision Of Prot
Holmes of the University Of Virginia. The who'll
series is called the Southern Pictorial Universit
Series. Messrs Dufie & Chapman, booksellers o
Columbia, have this week laid upon our table tn
Fourth and Fifth volumes of the series. The lite
rary contents is in every respect to be commended
There are now two series of Southern Reader
before the Southern public. We have spoken o
both.
One is Sterling's Southern Readers, which W
have frequently mentioned with favor.
The other is The University Series of Southe7
= Readers, and is the one before us.
Sterling's Series is complete the last of it-th
Speaker having appeared few weeks ago.
The University Series yet wants the Speaker II
complete the set.
The same publishers Richardson & Co., New
York-ar issuing series in Mathematics also I'm
der the patronage of tile University. Professo
Venable, formerly a Professor in the South Carroll
ma College, standssponsor for these books Messrs
Dufie & Chapman have put into our hands two o
this series 1ena5le's First Lessons IN Numbers
and Tenable's Mental arithmetic. These work
are fully illustrated, and are prepared upon tn
Pestalozzian method which is now universally &C
knowledged to be the best. The system is Undue
? tive and objective. The boy is led on from frs
principles by means of familiar objects presented
to the senses, up to the highest principles Of tn
science. Both these Arithmetics strike us as yer.
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