Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-09-12

upon purchase OF lands, made Dy company OF
Germans from Charleston, in 1850; and is inhab-
tied almost entirely by thatindustous, thrifty and
conservative people. The town is about mile in
length, but is very thinly ,peopled. The Blue
Ridge Bail Road stopstwo miles short of the town,
and the intervening space must be done by om-
nibus '.' = +..' ...
"A considerable trade has sprung up here during
the last year, in roots and drugs, gathered by the
country people and bought by merchants in town,
who send them to the New York market Though
only one year old, and the place not an extensive
one, the present year will export thousand or ff
teen hundred dollars worth of these drugs. The
principal articles thus dealt in are: Ginseng, Sene
ca Snake Root, Ladies' Slipper. Pink Root, Puc-
coon Root, May Apple, Liver Wort, Sumac, Vel
low Dock, Blackberry, Wormwood, Spikenard,
Black Snake Root, Button Snake Root Samson
Snake Root, White Snake Root, Sarsaparilla, Silk
Weed, Queens Delight, Queen of the Meadow,
Solomon Seal, Colts Foot, Devils Bit Indian
Turnip, Columbo, Butterfly Root, Rattleweed Root,
Poke Berry and Root, Slippery Elm Bark, Noun
tain Birch Bark, Sassafras Pith, and Golden bod
y We mention these items Of industry to show the
thrift of this people and to indicate to other por-
tions of the State a means of making money and
Of getting along in the world, hardly dreamed OF
by thousands all over our State, around whom are
growing some of all these roots, barks and berries
with hundreds Of others that are equally available
for market. taA - = 9Ha ."
The Registration has closed here. There is some
apathy on the part of some whites, and in this way
all the whites have not registered but still the re-
turns show that the whites will be in majority OF
something like FIVE to three; and this ratio may
embrace the whole District Of Pickens. But we
cannot, of course, tell certainly, in advance OF the
full returns .s13aa .-1ss' s-s %. s.'.."3- >
General Hampton Letter is well received by
our mountain people. Its manly tone commends
it to their favor, in advance of the consideration Of
its logic Our whole State, it may be, is now well
nigh ready to adopt his advice-now, that Elk -Gov.
Perry, on the one hand, and Armstrong, Nash,
and Solons Of that ik, on the other, have finished
the work of complete alienation between the whites
and blacks-now, that the war of races IS lneVita-
Bile and even inaugurated- we say, when TINS
state of the parties Is existing, General Hampton
Letter 1als with much fitness and great favor upon
the attention of our people. Three months ago,
there was danger of exciting hostility between the
races by advocating such course To-day there
is no such danger for the hostility is an establish
ed fact The doom of the negro is now sealed /;
-and the temperate men among US have to give up
their cherished hope of saving the negro from the
wiles of his Northern friend" :; and we may as
well save one little shred of honor if yet possible
and vote against convention, thus letting the
poor negro go to his Yankees and to his Ruin:
The answer to Gen Hampton's Letter by Arm
strong. is pitiable effort of mediocrty to appear
wen-mformed and respectable, by means Of q few
phrases of political rant and party can't in sphere
where it is utterly at loss. The writer has no
idea-nor any faculties to get an idea-of what
Gen. Hampton has said.
We have been favored by the publishers with
monthly part of Burke's Weekly for Boys and
Girls, an illustrated folio newspaper, of eight pages
weekly, published by j. w. Burke & Co., Of Ma
con, Georgia. at 50 q year. This is an attempt,
and not without some success to rival the North
ern Juvenile Magazines that have 80 long been our
reading in that line 1t is not above the capacities
of youth and in this is rather an exception. The
typography and illustrations are generally talr,
without being fine Among the contributors we
note Rev. +. r. Goulding whose Young Maroon
es,qseverai years ago, was the deGghtof our young
friends
Everybody looks upon the removal Of General
Sickles as favorable step, mainly upon the con-
viction that it is impossible to put worse man IN
his place Some of our personal friends who know
General Candy, speak Of him in very favorable
terms-in the highest terms, in fact-and we augur
well from the change. Besides, there is chance
of a decent row in Washington about it.
We like decent rows. J. W. D.