Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-01-23
COLUMBIA CONTRIBUTORIAL
BY JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON.
At the University.

The regular weekly Lecture at the University
before the public for last Thursday, was delivere
by Professe: Ialley of the Medical Department
His subject was the hnpeain,ents to the Rogres
of Medical Science The performance was able
finished, replete with learning and research, an
eminently well-put The auditory was good. not
understanding the muddy and dark streets; and tn
audience was highly fattering to the Lecturer.
The next Lecture will be delivered by Professo
John LeConte on the Activities in the Stellar UNI
verse. There will hardly be better lecture in tn
course than this promises to be, Dr. LeConte bein
one of the best lecturers in the South.
Personals.
The degree of LII D. was conferred by the U
nversity Of S. G., at its last meeting on Professo
Charles 8. Venable, formerly of the South Carroll
na College, but now Professor Of Mathematics il
the University of Virginia.
Hon. James Farow, of the Confederate Con
gress, from South Carolina, was recently marriet
to Miss Sue Savage of Richmond, Virginia.
The name that General Grant received at bap
tism is Hiram Ulysses Grant but the Congress
men that recommended him to West Point forgo
his name and mentioned him as Ulysses s. Grant
the students called him Uncle Sam Grant; ant
thus it is that his name became Ulysses Samue
Grant We once heard Major General of tn
Confederate Army speak of him as Old Sam
Grant.
Belle Boyd has recently been divorced by th'
Court of New York.
The Annie Thomas-a non de platn,e-tha
writes such charming novels, is Mrs. Fender Cud
lip.
Beverly Nash thinks Governor Orr is like .
flying squirrel-shifts from tree to tree with grea
agility.
A Mr.. Whipper-negro-thinks that Beverly
Nash is like Governor Orr, only more so.
We think that Whipper-negro-came out O.
that joke the best of the three.
Ariel and the Negro.
The discussions upon the status of the negro, o
pened by Ariel and kept up by number o.
clerical gentlemen, have created good deal of in
terest.
Ariel undertakes to prove from the Bible and
concurrent history, that the negro is beast
beast with reason and speech to be sure, but with
out soul. He maintains his proposition with 0
great deal of ingenuity and some degree of plaus
ibility When one has read through Ariers argu
ment he is apt to be in singular muddle be does
not agree with Ariel, but cannot answer the argu.
ment.
In this state of mind the reader is prepared to
enjoy the foundering of those who have written OF
preached Replies to Ariel.
These Replies have, in general, been singularly
unfortunate. They appear to have been written
by clergyman, and partake largely Of the arrogance
and il-temper too often found in polemic litera.
ture or else they are fippant and rhetorical.
A western divine, named Young wrote Reply
to Ariel that was flimsey, sophomorica, and feeble
to painful degree-painful to any man honestly
in search Of truth and expecting to find it in such
a medley of wish-washy and bluster. That so poor
a thing could be written in reply to Ariel is the
in Ariels favor that we remem,
ber to have seen. He sets out with flourish Of
trumpets to prove that Ariel is fool, and one is
likely to reach the end of his rigmarole with sus-
picion that there are two fools in the case and may