Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-04-23
EDITORIAL lNKLINGS.

10 the Ne,os from Chester and gives the following
version of the affair:
'There was no gathering of the colored popula'
| ton to welcome him, and not the slightest symp
tom of any attempt to get up public meeting.
His excited Imagination and known propensity
of his brotherhood for martyrdom, must have
suggested the material for your paragraph. 1t is
true that upon his landing from the cars, an indi
vidual of very pronounced opinions informed hin,
that he was very dirty scoundrcl, and perhaps
even used stronger language; but this was merely
private conference, and as Neagle made no reply
to this assertion, it. is taken for granted that its
truth was admitted. G, 4 ..--. .r.a ..-
The editor of the Neos, with reference to the
paragraph says ....-..
''The information which prompted the pennine
of the paragraph referred to. was sent to the city
by Neagle himself, and probably for no other
reason than to create alarm and secure degree OF
newspaper notoriety, which he could not acquire
by what passes for brains. ~ -
Sergeant Bates at Washington.
Sergeant Bates, "the man with the flag
arrived in Washington, on Tuesday of last week.
The telegraph gives the following account Of his
reception: ....
sergeant Bates crossed the Long Bridge this
forenoon, and was welcomed to the capital by MIR.
Eldridge, member of Congress from Wisconsin.
Though the weather was unfavorable there was on
immense gathering. Sergeant Bates wore the
jacket and pants presented him in South Carolina,
and is in excellent health. He was escorted to the
White House, where the President met him at the
threshold, saying "Al that I want to do is to
welcome you and your flag" After being enter.
tanned at the White House he proceeded to the
Metropolitan Hotel, where quarters had been
Gapitoi where he he failed | to gain admission. Ieay
ing the Capitol he went to the Washington monu'
ment, where Mr.. Perrin, of Tennessee, made 6
speech, saying that had Bates carried negro on
his shoulders from Vicksburg Congress would
have allowed him to place the negro above the
Goddess of Liberty which surmounts the done Of
the Capitol.
The authorities at the capitol are shifting the
responsibility of having denied admission to Bates
Ashley, the Impeacher, in Charleston.
j. NJ. Ashley, member of Congress, from
Ohio, but better known as the impeacher of the
President, has recently visited this State for the
purpose of making speeches in the interest Of the
Radical party. The Charleston Ne,cs furnishes
the following incident in connection with his visit
ITO Charleston:
Won Monday evening, after the speech-makine
at the Clubhouse, Ashley and Mackey, finding
that the mountain lin the shape Of white men.
would not come to Mahomet, determined that Ma
homet would go the mountain. They accordingly
made descent upon party of our German c!ti
zeps. who, in the most private manner, were with
their wives and sweethearts enjoying the pleasures
of Terpschore at select ball in their Turnvereir
Hall, on King-street Greatly astonished at this
rude invasion, and perhaps perplexed at the lack
of courtesy which led party Of men to break un'
bidden into their entertainment, one of the Ger
mans inquired what they wanted. Ashley said be
wanted to make speech on the political issues oi
the day and intimated that he was very fond oi
Germans and death on Bologna sausages.
One of the managers Of the ball intimated back
that the ambrosal impeacher had evidently got
into the wrong hotel, and they didn't want nc
sich." Mr. Ashley was further informed that the
Germans of Charleston were white men, and moi
in the habit of being intruded upon in their private
entertainments by peregrinating, politicians Ihe
managers then turned their backs upon the party
and I left them to their own reflections.
On receiving this very emphatic snub, it is stated
that the iustrious NJ. c. looked as if he had been
"bottled" up and wanted air, which he speedily
found by putting himself vehemently down stairs:
Mr.. Ashley is truly unfortunate. A few months
| ago he loemed up like lighthouse. The newspa.
pers advertised him free of charge all over the
country Then the Washington corresponding
began to skin him alive, and didn't leave enough
of his corporosity politically, to make respecta;
bic funeral. The impeaching process began and
he was left out in the cold. When the lovely But
Ter took his place, Ashley took to the stump. He
turns up IN South Carolina The whites won
hear him the colored people only applaud whe1
he makes faces, and his audiences ''grow small by
degrees and beautifully less. He intrudes on q
German ball to make speech, and is told infer
entialy that although he may be the immorta
Jeems Marshall Ashley, a Virginian so-called
named after one of our big rivers, very polite
sort of member of Congress and all that they
nevertheless prefer to select their company and il