Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-01-08

do more beneficial deed than the founding
of hospital or the opening of a soup kitchen.
And it is charity which will pay-not the
priceless rewards which are reserved for the
next life, but the sordid dividends which fol-
low good business speculation in this"
The Successor of Sickles.
- The appointment of. Hon. Caleb Cush-
ing to be the successor of General Sickles us
Minister to Spain meets with favor through
out the country. Gen. Gushing will be re-
membered us having, at his own expense,
equipped regiment for service in the Mcxi-
can war, after his native State, by net Of the
legislature, refused to furnish her quota Of SOL
diers for that struggle. lie was born in Sal
isbury, Massachusetts, in Ben Buffers county
of Essex, on january 17Lh, 1900 He grad
uated at Harvard subsequently became
tutor there studied law and settled to prac-
tice that profession at Newburyport in 1922;
served in the State Legislature in 1855 and
in 1929 visited Europe, on his return publish
ing "Reminiscences of Spain," and "a Re-
view of the Revolution of France ;" WAS again
in the Legislature in 1874 was in Congress
from 1885 to 1913; went us commissioner to
China in the Mexican war was Brigadier-
General in 1850 WIS elected to the Legisla-
ture fifth time in 1851 was made Justice
of the Supreme Court. Mr.. Gushing re.cn-
tered the arena Of national politics as Presi-
dent Pierccs Attorney General. He presided
at the famous Democratic Convention at
Charleston in 1860. In 1866, under appoint
ment of the President, he, with two other COM
missioners colifed the laws of the United
States He afterwards served as the Mexican
agent in the settlement of claims with this
Government. Resigning this trust, he became
one of the counsel Of the United States be-
fore the Geneva tribunal Of arbitration in the
settlement of the Alabama and other claims.
The work of this tribunal was claborately re-
viewed by Mr.. Gushing some months ago in
book which created sensation in England
by its structures on Lord Chief Justice Cock
burn, the British arbitrator
Regarding the line of policy which this
Government will adopt in its relations with
Spain, it is stated that Minister Cushing will
give his attention to political aud adminstra-
tive reform in Cuba, as the best method cal
cuated to restore peace to that island and
promote its prosperity; and among these re-
forms is included the abolition of slavery in
the Antilles These views have repeatedly
been enforced, both in the Presidents annual
messages and the official correspondence Of
Secretary Fish, and which have been often
communicated to the Spanish Cabinet. 1t
will be recolccted that several years ago, our
Government rendered its good offices to Spain,
in the hope of Cuban pacifcation, but which
were respectfully declined, on the basis sug-
gestcd. 1t is not improbable that similar
tender will again be made by the new Minis
ter, as the Administration will resort to every
proper expedient for the purpose of restoring
peace and protecting American interests i'll
Cuba and the adjacent waters and there can
be no doubt that an effort will be made to
conclude q new commercial treaty with
Spain-the only one ever made with that
power being that of 1895, of friendship limits
and navigation.