Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-04-09
COLUMBIA CONTRIBUTORIAL
BY JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON.
CoLuMp1A. SOUTH oARoL1NA. eTH ApR11, 1883.
Literary.

COLUMBIA. SOUTH CAROLINA. 9Th APRIL, 1858.
Literary.
We have several times made mention of the
Home Monthly, published in Nashville, Tennessee.
The March number has just reached us. 1t con.
tains several papers of unusual interest A notice
of "Good English, by f. 8. Could" written by
Prof Dickson, of Mobile is capital exhibit Of New
England pretension to learning, combined with ig
norance and effrontery. We enjoyed the pape,
vastly. So also we did an article on Cousin and
his philosophy of the True, the Beautiful and the
Good; and the Hymns of Nature by the Editor.
Health.
A large class of diseases can be either cured OF
prevented by the skilful use of cold water. We
refer to fevers, dyspepsia, liver complaint, colds
diarrhea, headache, inAamations of all kinds,
local pains, and almost every disease from which
man suffers. The main forms of this treatment
are bathing and wet clothes. The system is called
Hydropathy, or Water Cure. With good hand
book of Water Cure any intelligent head of q
family can save many a doctors bill, with very
little trouble and no expense. We have personal
ly tried the mode of cure, and speak what we
think to be true about it.
Periodicals.
We have been favored, though the day is some.
what late, with copy of the January number Of
the Neao Eclectic published by Turnbull & Muir:
doch, 4s Lexington Street, Baltimore, at 81 year
1t is monthly, contains 12S pages; and is taken
mainly but not exclusively from European sources
1t is well managed and is cheap at the price. The
volume begins with the year.
The Christian Neighbor presented its first mum
ber on the I'd instant, under the editorial conduct
of Rev. Sidi H. Browne, of this city. The char.
acter of the paper lies in its advocacy Of the Chris
tian doctrine of Peace-Pcace as opposed to wal
and to religious wrangling and to dscord in gene
ral-and in this differs toto coelo from polenic or.
gans as they have usually been conducted Mr..
Browne is Methodist, but does not prop-se to
make his paper sectarian organ. Personally we
agree with him in his opposition to war and po-
lemics and commend his paper, as it is here pre-
sented to us, to our friends-to fighting christians
and ALL 1t is weekly, at 80 a year.
Tableaux.
Twice, recently, Columbia audiences have en-,
joyed series of the most successful Id5eaur ".
rants that we have ever seen in the city. The
last exhibition was Tuesday of last week; and was
given in the interests of the Memorial Association.
The scenes we're: king John, Act 8, Scene
l;2-Iphigeneia; 3-Winters Tale, Act S, Scene
g; 4-Morte d Arthur; 5-A Virginia Breakfast
"a Dream of Fair Women; Vision Of Queen
Katherine, from Henry VIII; S-Corolanus be,
fore the Gates of Rome; 9-Guido painting the
Last Portrait of Beatrice Cenci 10-Scene from
Comus.
The Virginia Breakfast was very successful
piece. There were three scenes in it. The first
was the Blessing; where, ranged round the table,
the family and some Confederate soldiers are pre-.
sented. The second represents the meal in pro,
gress, the ladies waiting on the guests The third
represents the soldiers as rushing out in response
to bugle-call that sounds battle, and cuts short
the pleasant breakfast.
But the whole affair, from King John to Comus,
was brilliantly successful. Perhaps Guido Paint,
ing Beatrice Cenci was the best considered as a
work of art.
Politics.
The Radicals held huge Mass Meeting in the
street on Wednesday night oflast week.
T. J. Robertson presided over the affair.
The Meeting was addressed by Chamberlain, Q
Northern man; Allen, Yankee resident in Green
vile; Col. Pardee, Connecticut white; Major
Corbin, who is U. s. District Attorney for this
State; DeIarge, Yankee negro; and +. j. Mo-
ses, jr., the man that was once proud of having
written the order to open fire upon Fort Sumter;
There was nothing to be remarked, especially
except that everything was ultra-negro-radica be.
yond the fact that Allen lost his temper and swag
gered with little honor to himself or his cause, and
banded bilingsgate and blackguardism with the
rabble.
On Thursday night the Democratic State Con.
vention met at Gregg's Hail. Gov. Perry became
from the outset one of the leading spirits and VIC
all know his principles. He is Roman, pure, and
out-and-out Democratic. He has cut loose from
that dastardy virtue called prudence" and is as
uncompromising as Reguluseve was. The speech
of President Burt declares that the matter before
them is the interest of two races but many Others
seem to think that protection of the whites against
the blacks is the main thing Gov. Perry is Of
this way of thinking
The proceedings Of the Convention will be found
elsewhere.