Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-08-21
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The CheraW and Chester Railroad.

- The Uaion- Herald says: "On the 18th
we'll attended meeting was held in the town
hall at Cheraw, in the interest Of the Cheraw
and Chester Railroad. Ways and means for
furthering the prospects of the road were dis
cussed by Mr.. J. A. Hasseltine, President Of
the road. State Senator T. G.. Dunn, Presi-
dent of the Little River and Cheraw Road, B.
D. Townsend, President of the Cheraw and
Darlington Road, State Senator G.. W. Du-
vail, Representative M. j. Hough and others,
each in turn showing the advantages Of con-
Meeting line with the Atlantic coast line, de-
veloping the resources of the counties along
the several lines, reductions Of freights, etc.
Resolutions were passed calling meeting Of
the citizens of the county on the 3rd Of Sep
tember, for the purpose of applying to the
county commissioners to take steps to submit
the matter of liberal county subscription to
vote of the people, and requiring the munich
pal authorities of Cheraw to call meeting
of the citizens, with the view of subscription
by that town"
Railroad Meeting at Abbeville.
"A railroad convention met in Abbeville
on Wednesday of last week, in which delegates
were present from eight counties Of South
Carolina-viz: Oconee, Pickens, Anderson,
Abbeville, Edge6eld, Aiken, Barnwell and
Beaufort, and representatives were also in at
tendance from Greenville, Tennessee, and
from North Carolina.
Gen. MCGOWAN, of Abbeville, was called to
the chair. He.stated the object of the meet
ing to be the connection by railroad Of Chi
cago, Illinois and theSouth Atlantic seaboard.
A committee having been appointed to pro-
pose business for the convention, two reports
were submitted. The first, by the Chairman,
Hon. J. P. Reid, of Anderson, proposed, after
crossing the Blue Ridge, to run the road by
way of Walhalla, Pendleton, Anderson, Alb
beville and Dorn's Mine, thence to. Augusta
by the proposed Greenwood and Augusta
Road, or via Edgefeld and Aiken to Allen
dale, on the Port Royal Railroad, the route
below Dorn's Mine to be determined by the
material aid offered by the two points. The
other report advocated substantially the same
route, but leaving Augusta out entirely. The
first report was ably sustained by Hon. ]. P.
Reid in behalf of the up-country delegations,
and strenuously opposed by Edgefeld, AIKEN,
Barnwell and Beaufort.
Major w. T. Gary, of Edgefeld, offered an
amendment to the second report, that the road
run by Edgefeld and Aiken, thence to Au-
gusta by the most practicable route, which,
with the report, was adopted.
ssOur Duty in the Future"
- The Newberry Herald Conservative
has long and pungent article upon the duty
of the Conservative party in this State The
Herald urges the people to draw instruction
from the lessons of the past. 1t says:
"The lessons that we derive to-day from the
events of the last few years is this, that it is
our duty, and that we can thus do more SER
vice to the State, to abstain from all partici-
patton in politics, and devote our best efforts
to increasing our material wealth, developing
the resources Of the State, and adding to our
intellectual and moral resources by the cult
vation of art and science and religion. There
is mastery inactivity which husbands its re-
sources, bides its time and waits with the pa
tience that God uses in His dealings with the
world for that moment when the clock OF
doom shall strike. Then the inactivity be-
comes an activity which is irresistible. Such
a future is before US if we are worthy. 1t is
in our power to succeed with lasting success
if we keep steadily before our eyes that goal,
to which the path of industry and virtue al
ways tends. But if, after all, it should turn
out that by his course of "masterly" inactivity
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