Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-04-02
COLUMBIA CONTRIBUTORIAL
BY Jas. WOOD DAVIDSON.
COLUMBIA, SOUTH OARoL1HA soTH MARCH, 1883,
At the University.

the first part of Goethe's Faust He shed light
and beauty around the nebulous mysticism Of that
wonderful drama The Lecture was not merely
pleasing, but instructive, learned, and suggestive.
The next Lecture will be on Thursday of this
week, by the same Lecturer, upon the Second Part
of Faust. We venture that not one auditor who
heard the Lecture upon the First Part, will miss
that upon the Second. as. .. ..-o.
The Negro's Friends. la...:f.s q.
A week or two ago we mentioned the fact that
the Committee of negroes that had gone on to con-
fer with their Radical friends in Washington, came
back with the information that it was not desirable
for negroes to be elected to Congress And we
asked then-purely for information-f, notwith-
standing all that, the negro were not "a man and
a brother"
Since then, during the impeachment tragedy in
Washington, the gallery of the Senate has seen
not one negro admitted to it, although the tickets
of admission are distributed by the members Of
Congress to whomsoever they please The mem
bers of Congress do not choose to admit the negro
even to look at their proceedings, although they
proclaim him to be '.man and brother"
Old Debts. ..... ........,.. -. s.
The juries in the Court at Edge6eld, some weeks
ago. gave verdcts in cases of old debts that SAVIOR Of
reasonable relief The rule observed in the deci-
sions is thus stated by the advertiser:
I'm cases of negro debts, twenty-five cents in the
dollar upon the hire of negroes from the date OF
purchase until the end Of the war. In cases Of
debts for all other considerations, twenty-five cents
in the dollar upon the combined principal and inter
est.
This is reasonable, humane, and right Had
such course been inaugurated two years ago, and
become the rule of practice, it would have saved
hundreds from bankruptcy; but creditors have
killed their geese by opposing such expedients Of
abatement. RI
Ladies' Fashions. IN. ::
The Montgomery Adustser gives the following
refreshing items of fashionable intelligence, Which
it says house maid wrote to herfiend
Gas for 10 necs, the loer lis the more fashuna-
bill w air; and the less c!oz y ware the more s.
silk oy hern, and I cuts its nee on, and sSusn
Simmons cut off hern, and we attrax great eal5of
attenshun to our necs, sprommodin IN the streets
lyke uther hdys, and holding gup our cioz. No
body isn't nothing now which doesn't bold up her
coz, and the hier yu holds them the more you Is
noticed. 1" - .. 80.
We,do not see that anything can be added to
this, unless we mention fact that has struck ls
that whenever ladies' dresses became extremely
short above, they always make up the deficiency BY
bssing them enormously long at the. opposite ex:
tremity This is following Nature animals that
have short ears, as the squirrel, make up the de-
cency in caudal length; and the rabbit isjust the
other way. -., ... ,af.a.
Literary. .st. .-i.. .,la...
We have just examined the new edition Of
Shaw's English Literature, edited by DR.. William
Smith and Il. T. Tuckerman, and published du-
ring the past year. Ten years ago We knew the
work as the very best of its class but this new e
dtion carries it so ahead of all competition that
it may with justice, be spoken of as the manual OF
English Literature: The three chapters on Amer
lean Literature, added by Mr.. Tuckerman, contain
all that is poor in the volume. Tuckerman is a
Bostonian and consequently writes whole pages
about some Yankee rhymster, while Edgar Poe, q
Southern poet, is mentioned only incidentally as
the author of some tales, and one who indulged
in occasional dalIiance with the MUSES." Batting
this fault lt-and upon the main subject it is unim.
portant - the book deserves all that we have said
of it. It sells at 1926. But be sure to get't the
neao edition.
The Mass-Meeting.
The Democratic Mass Meeting, on last Thursday,
was well attended, and the ultra party prevailed.
This party holds that the Negro should be disre'
garded and cut off from all party af6liation with
the Democracy. Personally, we think this grand
mistake and we hold that the true patriot and
proper friend of the State be he white or black,
should be encouraged, accepted, and protected by
this party ,...
Weare no friend to negro domination because
we Believe it to be the domination of ignorance.
~e are in favor of giving the right Of suffrage
to the negro, equally with the white man, under
exactly the same limitations is that no man
vote,who cannot read and write. The ignorant
white man has no more right to vote than child
ten years old ; and neither should be allowed to
vote. Nor should an ignorant negro; but the ne
gro who can read and write has Alright to vote /;
and whoever, under the new regime, endeavors
to deprive him of that right, is fighting against
destiny and his own interest.
These may not be pleasant truths to some.
Truth rarely is pleasant to everybody.
We have ventured to say this much upon this
matter, just here, because we wish to do so; and
not because we are possessed Of the idea that it
matters button to either party-Democrats or
Nearocrats we believe Besides, we are
not ''in the line of promotion" with either party,
and not likely to get so.
New Books. ......
1-One of the Fdmilu, a novel, by the Author
of Carlyon's Year, is No. 3Os of Harpers Library
of select Novels 1t is story of English ilfe the
scene being principally among the Chamberland
hills Some Of the leading characters have had to
do with residence in India; and are noted for dark
skins, bad ivers, and caustic style Of speech. The
love-element is an afairs between children who
grow up under the tender influences while the
tragic feature arises from the risk Of property and
name through bogus parsonage, giving mystery
enough to satisfy the large class of readers who
need that. The character of the book, after we
remember that it is intensely English, is the bill
ious wit and absence Of love among kin-foks Duf-
|fe & Chapman have the book-a paper cover-on
sale at rs cents.
er with illustrations, is alsoto be had at Dufe u
Chapman's for half dollar. This book is of finer
material than the preceding; and the pictures are
superior to the ordinary novel pictures. The story
is in the autobiogaphical style, and the narrator
is a woman-a woman who knew wealth, poverty
work and love who passed among scenes of intense
trial. temptation, jealousy, madness, despair guilt
and mystery-a woman who tells her story well |;
and the story itself has as intense an interest IS
that of Desdemona's jealous lord. The scene is
laid in New England. The Iago of this novel is
a,Tllain of the first water.
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