Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-03-20
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
James Wood Davidson, Esq.

James WOVu DufluSOIs LSvs
- This gentleman, formerly Of our State,
who for some time has been employed in the
Treasury Department at Washington, has re,
signed the position heretofore held by him.
Mr.. Davidson is now in New York, on the
editorial staff of the New York Post, in charge
of the literary department of that paper,
which for several years has been under the
control of John R. Thompson, Esq, of Vir-
ginia. The latter is now on health-tour to
Colorado.
The Salaries Of congressman.
- The action of the last Congress, increas,
ing the pay of members s25OO per annum,
and making the law retroactive, by which
each member realized $4,000, meets with un-
qualified censure all over the country. The
Legislatures of Ohio and Illinois have passed
resolutions condemnatory of the act, and, with
few exceptions, it is characterized by the en-
tire press as extraordinary legislation. VI
the supporters of the proposition forty-one
were from the South thirty were from the
West twenty-four from the Middle States ;
and four from the East. 1t would seem that
some of the members are already becoming
alarmed, and Congressman Roberts, of New
York city, in communication addressed to
the Secretary of the Treasury, says he directs
his back pay as member of the Forty-second
Congress to be paid into the Treasury of the
United States. 1t is said that Mr.. Merrick,
of Maryland, also refuses his extra pay, and
that Mr.. Hoar, of Massachusetts, accepted
his and afterwards turned it over to charities.
The question is not without its humors, how
ever, and in this connection the New York
Times says: "Certain impecunious Congress
men, who voted for the increase of salaries,
and whom their constituents neglected to re-
turn, have offered their quota of agricultural
reports and other public documents for sale
at fifty cents per volume, rather than send
them to an ungrateful constituency"
The Game Law.
In another column we publish the act
passed at the recent session of the Legislature
to amend the game law. The effect Of the
amendment made in the first section is to al
low the hunting of deer from the first day of
August to the first day of January, instead of
from the first day of September to the first
day of January, as was formerly provided.
The next amendment allows the hunting of
wild turkey, partridge, dove, woodcock, snipe
and pheasant, from the fifteenth day of Octo-
Der to the fifteenth day of April, instead Of
from the fifteenth day of October to the hf-
teenth day of February. The effect of the
third amendment is to strike out the robin
from the list of birds that are specially pro-
tected by the game law.
1t is illegal to kill or destroy call the species
and varieties of birds represented by the sew
eral families of swallows, bats, whippoorwills,
fy-catchers thrashers, warblers, fnches, larks,
orioles, nut.hatchers, wood-peckers, humming-
birds, blue-birds, red-birds, and all other spe-
cies and varieties of land birds, whether great
or small, of every description, regarded as
harmless in their habits, and whose flesh is
unfit for food, including the turkey buzzard,
but excluding the jackdaw, the crow, the crow
blackbird, and all hawks and owls, which
prey upon other BIRDS" The penalty for a
violation of the law is fine of ten dollars, or
Imprisonment for not less than ten days.
The New Postage Law.
- The Richmond Dispatch publishes the
laws of the Post Office Department as recently
amended. The only change affecting the
public generally, is that in reference to mat
ter which, heretofore, has been transmitted
through the mails free. BY the amendment,
which goes into effect from and after the 3Oth
June, next, no matter will be sent through
the mails free Weekly papers will hereafter
be subject to postage of 20 cents per annum
even in the counties wherein published (and
only 20 cents wherever delivered) Newspa-
per editors will have to pay 20 cents per an
mum on their weekly, 40 on their semi-weekly,
go on their tri-weekly, s1.2O on their daily
exchanges. Nobody can frank letters here
after. Presidents of the United States, ex-
Presidents, their widows, heads of departments,
postmasters, Congressman, and everybody else,
must hereafter pay postage upon their letters,
speeches, documents, &c. But Congress ap-
propriated money to pay postage upon dead
letters to be sent to Washington, and upon