Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-02-04
COLUMBIA CONTRIBUTORIAL
BY JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON.
SOUTH CAROLINA, lsT FEBRUARY, 1859
A Man and q Brother.
Menard, in New Orleans.

Progress.
Henry Ward Beecher rides velocipede.
President Grant.
The Radicals are already beginning to howl at
Grants style of doing things; and well they may,
for he is not going to run the mersheen' exactly
as he finds it. We believe, and have believed
since last August, that the South has much good
to expect from the bulldog obstinacy of President
Grant.
Fast.
At public bail given in New York, at the Aca-
DENY of Music, on the 21st of January, the ia.
nous land infamous) Ca,,-can was danced. The
Cancan is the most gay and festive of all the demi
monde dances of Paris. In it, toes and noses fire.
quently pass in proximity; and both danseurs and
danseuss exhibit feats Of agility and execute move
ments of person that are never seen las an Irish
man might express it) except in the dark.
The World Moves.
In the Pacific Railroad there is now gap OF
about two hundred miles; and that will be filled in
before midsummer. So that one can ride on the
cars from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific without
interruption, probably by the fourth of July.
The Suez canal will be opened for general navi-
CATION on the lst Of October of this year. 1t is
1923 feet wide at the waser-ine, and 26 feet deep.
There were 2l3,6S9 immigrants landed at New
York in 1868.
There is decrease of children in Maine amount
ing 10 about 5000 every year. -
The Grand Rabbi in France has been made a
Senator to represent the interests Of his people in
the Corps Leraaaif
They say that the quickest way to learn to ride
a velocipede is to practice with lean hog.
The Legislature of South Carolina called the
ayes and noes over fifty times in one debate, the
other day,
Some English Books.
Among the noticeable books recently issued in
England, we see volume on Phrenology; and its
Application to Education, Insanity, and Ffason
Discipline, by James P. Browne, M. D. 1t is
said to be attracting good deal Of attention.
Rev. n. P. Liddon, whose University Lectures
last summer. were so favorably received both in
England and America, has just gotten out another
volume of lectures on the Divinity Of Christ, which
is said to be mastery work. There has also ap-
peared small volume, entitled History Of the
Hebre,o Nation and its Literature. Alp, Molecu-
lar and Microscopic Science, by the venerable Mrs.
Somervile, who is now past eighty-two years of
age, and still writing. Also, Essays IN Defence OF
Women, kind Of reply to the Saturday Rerte'o ;
Realities of Irish Life; a Hand Book of Heratary.
New Southern Books.
Three novels from Southern writers have recent
ly appeared. These are, CaUanaura, Rhat /
know about Ben Eccles, and As By Fire
Calzansura is the production Of a lady Of Louis
lana, and appears with the name Of Julia Pleas
ants on the title-page. This nom de plume repre-.
sents poetess already favoraby known to South
ern readers. The novel just out, to the ordinary
reader, is story of rival interests and affections,
swaying constantly under the power Of strong
willed woman's unfinchiDg fxedness of purpose.
To the more careful reader, Callamura furnishes a
suggestive aegory, pertinent to the times and IL
Illustrative of the great issues of the country.
What IAa,ou Aboa Ben Eccles is from the pen
of Col. John s. Holt, Of ofNatchez, Mississippi; and
is the second work from his pen since the war,
portraying Southern life as it was before the war.
The first was, abraham Page, Esquire, which was
so well done that it betrayed literary weekly into
criticzing it as genuine biography. This second
book is perhaps equal-in some points it certainly
is superior to-the first
As BIZ Fire we mentioned few weeks ago. It
is by Miss Nelly Marshall of Kentucky, and is a
story of that region, mainly. say that it is one
of vivid interest and attractive style, would convey
no idea of the magic of passionate energy and dra
matte power that make it the gem Of. its day. Il
is from the press of George s. Wilcox, successor
to Blelock & Co., Of New York.