The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-07-25
Correspondence OF tho Phenix.
YoI,KvILLE, s. c., July %, 1872.

write critique on the relations of State
and General Government, or moral
effusion on the evils of free love, or.
finally, to pursue the ring" If We
succeed in embodying intelligibly few
passing thoughts, our end will have been
accomplished.
Our summer term Of the Circuit Court
for the present year closed on last Satur
day. We learn that the docket was not
cleared, and that more than half the
cases are continued. There was not an
unusual number pending. The lack Of
despatch WAS owing to Judge Thomas
being quite indisposed during tho week,
and to the enervating influence OF the
warm weather. There was no case of
special public interest disposed of.
This is his Honor's last visit to York
| vile. He sits ut Lancaster and Chester,
and then he lays aside the ermine. Or
course, he has not graced it as did some
of our ante JeNum Judges. We take it
that he is on the sunny side of forty
years, and that up to the time of his
promotion, his experience in the prac-
tice Of the law WAS rather limited. But
Thomns is better man than Mackey,
and we doubt if there is one in the cir
cult who is not fearful Of change for
| the worse.
We know very little of Judge Mackey's
antecedents, except what he told the
people here, in set speech, some weeks
since. He is of honorable(Y connexions,
fought for the State in two wars, and
cleaves(?) to her now in her hour OF
greatest peril. We presume. too, that
he is gentleman of considerable acu-
men in politics, and quite learned as
]urist having served several months in
Charleston in the capacity of Trial JUS
tice. But we must not anticipate him.
Thomas, Beckett, when raised by King
Henry to the Archbishopric of Canter-
berry, deserted the royal standard, and
devoted his time and talents to the
church. Who knows but that Thos. J.
Mackey will do likewise?
It was stated by Union correspond
ent last spring that Judge Thomas was
al aspirant for Congressional honors,
and that he intended presenting himself
to the people as an independent candi-
| date. Mackey has superseded him in
one branch of public service, but he will
not find it so easy to oust the honorable
| Mr.. A. S. Wallace from his seat "Tricd
in the balance and found wanting" he
would naturally be preferred to one who.
| by his conservative principles, might e.
feet great deal of good as member
from this district. A good Republican
| (RadicaD before, the present incumbent
| plighted his faith anew to the party dur
ing the Merrill -Corbin- Wallace inquisi-
| ton of the Ku Klux in our County. He
made long and frequent visits in the
fall and winter of last year to COL Mer-
rill, our military autocrat, and exercised
| his every faculty to wreak ont the VEN
geance of an insulted, ostracised and
lnjured(f) dignitary on the honest and
out spoken people of the community.
Mr.. Wallace does not roar; he cannot,
consequently, be styled lion, although
in every other respect he calls to mind
| him who ''goes about seeking whom he
may devour." Neither is he like the
Irishman's hea-he eludes your grasp.
but he ia slippery fellow, and il get
ting out Of the way he reminds one more
forcibly of an eel than flea. Apropos
to the honorable member and the court,
Major Jas. W. Barry was fined 500 for
his butter milk assault on the aforesaid
gentleman.
Notwithstanding the great number
| That lett the county last fall-sOme 2OO
or 300-we are glad to inform you that
the agricultural interest has not been ne
elected. The seasons have been fine,
and the laborers have worked very faith
fully. The planters have very little to
fear now, except that tho fall elections
may elicit the interest of the colored man
to such degree as to make him grow
negligent about harvesting. The mer.
camille interest suffered more immedisAe-
ly after the suspension of the habeas cor
pus Act than now; only two houses have
been permanently closed in town. We
are also pleased to state that the female
college and the Kings Mountain Militia.
ry School are in fourishing condition.
The Rev. James Douglas. of the South
Carolina Synod, has an efficient corps Of
instructors. and under his auspices the
Yorkville Female College has bright
future. Col. A. Coward, the surviving
partner of Jenkins & Coward. is well
, known throughout the State as a poli3hed
gentleman, a brave soldier, and fine
scholar and disciplinarian. While he
merely claims for his school that it is o
preparatory one, it fits young man for
the Junior year in college, and one Of