Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-10-08
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of both parties, and gives to the laborer, who be-
haves himselfIa permanent home and an interest
in the place hs cultivates and avoids the dissats-
faction often attending division ofthe crop."
Judge W: II. Thomas.
- Last week We published a paragraph from
tho Columbia correspondence of the Charleston
Ne,os, in reference to W. NJ. Thomas, recently
elected the Judge for this Circuit, which was BY no
means complimentary to His Honor. Judge Thorn,
as Is resident of Gfeenville, and being willing to
give even the devil his due, print the follow.
ing from the Greenville. Entspr1se, which shows
up oar new Judge in q more favorable light: :
''sWilliam NJ. Thomas, Esquire, of Greenvile,
was last week elected Judge tor the 6th Circuit 10
this State, to fill the place to which G W. WILL
liams, Of York, was elected, and which the latter
declined to accept. Mr. Thomas VIII OF course
have to reside according to the Constitution In the
Circuit for which he has been elected. As ne Will
be a stranger there, it may not be improper 70
state that he is native Of Charleston, was grad
uate with distinction of the South Carolina Col,
lege. Soon after his leaving College, he was IN
yited by the Trustees of the Greenville Male A
cademy, to teach as Principal in that Institution,
which appointment he filled satisfactorily till the
closing of the Academy by its transfer to the Irs-
tees of Furman University. He studied law IN
GreenyiIle; and was admitted to practice in 1854
was elected Commissioner in Equity tor the DIS,
trict before the war. - In 1868 be went into the
Confederate army and served gallanty to the close
of the war. Since The war Mr.. Thomas joined the
Republican party, and has supported the Congres'
sional reconstruction measures. He has, however,
not taken any active or yihdictive course as polI,
tcian., He has talents that may enable him to tll
the Office to which he has been elected with credit
and distinction, and the industry and energy to ap-
Ely Bin. himself diligently to any work that 's'''s
Assassination of Gen. r. C. Hindman.
Gen. T. G. Hindman, was assasinated at bis
home, in Helena, Arkansas, on the night Of the
9th ultimo. A dispatch to the Memphis Aua,
zanche gives the following the circumstances at
tending the foul deed: .,.-........ ,"........-,
General Fl. was shot at ten O'Clock at night,
whilst sitting in the midst of his family smoking.
His left hand, which held his pipe, being carried
AWAY BY q charge of buck-shot, two Of winch en-
tered his neck, inficting the wound from which ne
died eight hours afterward." -. q, ,,- .a.! B.. =.
It is supposed that the deed was procured to be
done through the Loyal League, as since the close
of the war, Gen. Hindman has been an ardent sup
porter of the Democratic party, and a. bitter foe
and deuouncer of Radicals and Radicalism- At
the last accounts no clue had been obtained to
the .perpetrator of the murder. ;, The Louisville
Democrat furnishes the following sketch Of the de-
ceased: , :;..ia., ......., ,..7.,: Is; -; .
!'Genereral Hindman was native Of Tennessee,
and in the fftieth year of his age. He began his
military career which from time to time was marked
with no little brilhancy, in the Mexican war, serv-
ing as Second Lieutenant Of Mississippi veiu99-
teers. After the close of that war General Hind
man settled in Arkansas, where he subsequently
gained prominent position among the Leading
public men of that State. He was a Representa-
tive from Arkansas In the Thirty sixth Congress,
and was reelected 10 the Thirty ty-seventh. At the
breaking out of the late war, he was among the
first to buckle on his armor in the service Of his
adopted State, his military prestige aud his posi-,
q Brigadier- General Subsequently he was com,
missioned as Major-G General, which rank he held
at the cessation Of hostilities. " -
What Gen. Rosecrans Thinks.
Since the publication of the correspondence
between General Rosecrans and General Lee,
and number of other prominent Southerners, the
former has become quite prominent in national
politics. In answer to- an invitation to attend
grand meeting of the Democracy, at indianapolis,
Indiana, recently. in bis letter of reply he says:
I believe our free institutions and highest mate
rial interests are in grave peril SHALL therefore,
perform solemn and responsible duty to my fel-
fow.soldiers and countrymen, who love this nation
more than party, by stating what think the most
vital issues before the public in the approaching
Presidential election. Above all other questions
expenditures, taxation, bonds "greenbacks, or
anything else stands that of restoring the people
of the Southern States tohopeful, cheerfusel gov
ernment Restore them this and as certainly as
DAY follows the sun, our political stability will be
assured our financial prosperity will speedily fol-
low; the value of property in the South will in
crease our public securities will 90 to premium;
our greenbacks will become par; coin and currency
accounts, with all their evils and complications,
will disappear from the books Of our business men,
Not even the prosecution of the war challenged a
more thorough remuneration Of party preferences
and personal dislikes on the altar Of our country
than does the attainment Of this great good. The
desolate and ruined South, the oppressed tax-pay-
ers of the West aud North, generosity, mercy,
love of country, apprehensions of evil to come,
every motive that ought to move the hearts OF
true and noble men, appeal to US to say by our
votes we will stop that hopeless folly of attempting
to govern the Southern States by what call 10y
al blacks" and give the people under just guaran-
tees the right peacefully aud legally, to proceed to
reorganize their own governments within the
Union. With such convictions, I hold the, man
who would not express, andact upon them, traitor
to himself and his county, and despise the partisan
who would find fault with any reasonable steps he
might take to bring about so great good to the
nation. .,.... ......-. .....,-.. ,......
MERE-MENTION. "@"
Hon. A. P. Aldrich having declined the nomi-
nation for Congress from the Second District, a
Convention will be held in Charleston on the 18th