Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-28
EDITORIAL INKLINGs.

The correspondent OF the Charleston MercuT5
states that there are but two places of amusement
in that amusement-seeking city, which can claim
Responsibility for their entertainments. Ladies
who have not yet lost the habit Of bushing are
learning to spend their spare evenings at the art
galleries, and in private entertainments, where
their modesty is not constantly in danger of being
shocked.
This is melancholy illustration of the down.
ward tendency of morals in the present progressive
age If decent entertainment poid the managers
of theatres &C., it would certainly be furnished.
The inference is plain that the large majority Of
those who visit these places in New York, do not
want amusement, unless it is favored by indecency
both in costume and dialogue.
The House Journal announces new sensa.
ton as arranged to take place at the mansion of
fashionable gentleman of New York. This is te
be grand ball, at which the German will be
danced, in costumes marking the various changes
in dress, during the interval between the twelfth
and eighteenth centuries. Some Of the costumes
are to come from Paris As the present tendency
of New York taste is towards extreme simplicity
in Dress the originator of this novel idea should &C
little further back To be complete, the array
of costumes should begin with the evening "ful
dress" of Adam and Eve, which do not vary ma.
terialy from the universally admired "Black
Crook" style. 1t should also include some Of the
prominent fashions INDUCED in by Noah and his
unfortunate cotemporaries. Of course, the guests
will wish to be instructed, as well as amused, and
the researches of their host ought to be conducted
with view to their edi6cation in both respects.
"A Washington letter writer states that A.
| T. Stewart, the dry-goods millionaire, has beer
for several days in that city, attempting to defea
the bankrupt BILL His reason for fighting thi!
measure is, that he has more than million owing
to him in the South which he will lose, if the bill
becomes law AS this gentleman is worth fifty
millions, he might afford to lose one, for the bene
fit of a people whose custom helped so largely tc
build up his extensive fortune. But if he finds il
impossible to exist on fortynine millions, he ought
to 90 to work and make the odd million, which he
can easily do in few weeks. The debt which the
South owes him may be very properly classed az
desperate" Whether the bill becomes law Of
not his prospect for getting that million is rathe,
hopeless unless he consents to take Confederate cur
rency. The South is virtually bankrupt, though
Congress may refuse its gracious consent to admit
the fact, and it will require real genius to gel
money where none exists. The carcase has been
pretty well picked by the Buffers, Shermans and
other vultures Of war; and the crows whom Stew,
art represents are very likely to lose their share Of
the feast.
-J John H. Surratt arrived at Washington on
the 9th instant, and was escorted to the city jail
by three carriage loads Of guards A large crowd
of spectators had been gathered together by Gu
riosity to look upon person now famous as State
prisoner The falsehood and perjury of the wit
nesses, whose evidence murdered his mother, has
been made plain enough to convince the most skep-
tcal, of her innocence of completely in the crime
laid to her charge But the idea has taken a firm
hold on the Northern mind that j. Wilkes Booth
was the tool or leader in conspiracy to kill Mr..
Lincoln. On this supposition, it is desirable to
slay as many victims as possible, to appease that
injured ghost Therefore, Surrattis tobe executed,
if evidence of any sort can be tortured intoconvc
ton of guilt on his part that is, if there is time
to do this before the threatened crash of our gov
ernment. A thirst for blood is characteristic Of
such revolutions as the one now in progress in this
country, and the feversh anxiety for some new hor-
ror, which betrays itself in Radical papers, meas
ures and speeches, BODIES no good to the new pris-
oner. All accounts unite in describing Surratt as
dignifed, composed and firm in his bearing, given
to few words, and non-committal in what he says.
He continues to wear the uniform Of the Papal
Zouaves, in which organization he was serving at
the time of his arrest, or as it may more properly
be called, his capture. He is now confined in an
iron-clad cell of the Washington Jail, where we will
leave him for the present.
MIR. Jacob Waddell, a aschool-teacher of Lin
coin Co., Georgia, furnshesthe Augusta Chronicle
with an account of visit which he lately received
from United States Commissioner of the Bureau
of Education. Mr. W. was hearing the recitation
of the first arithmetic class, at the time his dis
tinguished visitor entered. After the ceremonies
of self.introduction had been performed, the Cap
tain was offered the cass-book to give him an op-
portunty of testing the proficiency of the scholars,
in arithmetic. This he declined, preferring to ex-
ercise them by problems of his own invention, and
he began with the following question:
"a regiment is composed as follows three
VI GllC NClLlaho Ino-uIlAo al Y
Irish, one-tenth Canadians, and two hundred and
forty are Americans What is the strength of the
regiment p
The head of the Glass; Curtis Lamar, formerly
one of Stonewall Jackson's boys, replied, 'That
depends upon the man who leads them" Mr..
Waddel ordered Lamar to his seat and passed the
question to the next in order, who happened to be
a young scion of Emerald Isle'' stock, fourteen
years of age, and rejoicing in the name of Michael
O'Reilly Mikes answer was prompt; "4S0."-
How do you make it?'' asked the Captain, 81
can't see it. - II only count the Irish" replied
Mike This response awakened the indignation Of
the Educational gentleman, who made his exit,
threatening to report Mr.. W. to the Bureau, as a
teacher of treason and it is to be presumed that he
will be careful about entering the treasontainted
atmosphere of Southern school-rooms, for the fu-
ture.
Southern boys usually have as much poiteness
as any boys in the world but they detest humbug,
and are, withal very quick to detect it In this
instance, the Educational Inquisitor was more anx-
ious to display his own importance as military
character, than to ascertain the boys knowledge
of arithmetic; and he received two answers which