Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-03-04

Committees were appointed to report at the an
nual meeting, in October, on various subjects cal.
cuated to interest and advance the prosperity and
usefulness of the Society. After the election of
officers the society adjourned, to meet on Thurs
day, the 25th of March.
Alaska to be Penal Colony.
The New York Sun calls upon Congress to
pass law, making the territory of Alaska colony
for convicts from the various States. The advan-
tages Of the plan are that the country would be
cleared Of its criminals, and that they, being put in
q place where there is no chance to steal, would
necessarily reform in that respect, at least. The
experiment of colonizng convicts and vagrants has
been successfully tried by England, in the case Of
Botany Bay, and it is found that their morals are
improved by their involuntary exile The San
proposes that the members of the various rings
now engaged in plundering the government, be
sent there for the first installment.
There are, however, two insuperable objections
to this scheme. Alaska is not large enough to
hold all the rascals in the country even half the
plunderers of the government. A second objec-
ton is that fplundering the treasury were penal
offence, Congress itself would have to adjourn to
Alaska, which would thus become the seat of gov
eminent.
Brownlow Turned up Again.
- Governor Brownlow has issued q procama-
ton declaring martial law in nine counties of Ten
nessee, and has ordered troops to those counties
to arrest and punish, without reference to civil
law persons whose conduct may not be satisfactory
to the military. The State is now in more peace
able and orderly condition than at any time since
the war. Brownlows object is supposed to be to
provoke the people to the commission of 'rebel
outrages," by turning loose upon them his IRE
sponsible militia. That is the only object he can
possibly hope to accomplish by this move, unless
indeed he wants to make sure Of still higher place
on the roll of infamy than that to which his past
career entities him.
Having closed his administration thus gloriously,
Brownlow resigned the governorship Of Tennessee
to his successor, and, escorted by guard of twen-
ty men, departed for Washington, to take his seat
as U. S. Senator, in the Forty First Congress- The
telegraph says that man at Charlottesville, Va,
attempted to shoot him, in spite of his guard.
Such are the rewards of virtue in this wicked
world.
Civil Rights Practically Applied.
"A case recently occurred in Virginia, Illus
trating the manner in which the theory Of civil
rights, as laid down by the laws, may be turned
into an instrument for inhicting injustice. The
wife of negro, living in New York, bought a
through ticket to 60 to some point South Of Vir-
ginia When she reached the Fredericksburg &
Richmond Railroad she was refused access to the
ladies' car and put into car assigned to negroes.
Her husband brought suit against the company,
on the ground that she was put in second. class
car after buying 'frst-class ticket. The jury,
under instructions from Underwood, the notorious
desecrator of the bench once occupied by Marshall,
awarded damages, to the amount Of 81 300, to the
plaintiff, on the plea mentioned above.
But it was not proved that the car in which the
woman was put was second-class car. The conf
pany had three passenger cars on the train. The
rearmost car, marked A, was for ladies'; the next,
marked B. was for gentlemen unaocompanied by
ladies'; and the foremost, marked c, was for ne
groes There was nothing in the ticket or train
regulations, which made one car frst-class and an
other second class; the only distinctions made were
for convenience, and in accordance with the sup
posed desire of the classes of passengers mentioned
each being placed by ITSELF The jury, however,
chose to consider the car G seeondclass car, and
found q verdict ample enough to remunerate the
plaintiff for the dreadful insult of being compelled
to ride with persons of her own color; but also
small enough to prevent an appeal, as the Su-
preme Court does not entertain cases in which less
than $1,000 is involved.
The Richmond Enq'urer, commenting on Un-
derwoods blatant support of social equality in this
case, very shrewdly suggests to the negroes the
propriety of testing his sincerity by some three or
four of them dropping in to dine with him on the
following Sunday.
Judicial Jail Delivery in Edgefeld.
The Edgefeld l4dretiser states that Judge
Platt released from Jail, in that county, upon their
own recognizance, two prisoners indicted for muir
der, simply because the jury could not agree upon
q verdict. The Adrcrtiser adds:
"Our community, unaccustomed to this novel,
speedy and iniquitous method of general Jail deliv-
cry, even where offenders were imprisoned for
minor offences, was, as matter of course, shocked
to learn that two stalwart negro fellows, indicted.
imprisoned and arraigned for murder, rendered
hideously heinous by suspicion of rape, had been
turned loose, unwhipt ofjustice, upon their simple
and sole recognizance."