Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-06-18


- The democratic victory in Oregon
grows more decisive and significant as the re-
turns come in and now, from all that can be
gathered, the entire Democratic State and
Congressional ticket is elected by over one
thousand majority.
-- Five children at birth This was
successfully accomplished recently by Mrs. j.
Winthrope, of Howard City, Michigan. Three
of the youngest are intended to wear pants,
and two of them petticoats. "Great Heaven"
exclaimed the father on viewing this addition
to his family, "and business so dull"
General Buffers bill, which provides
that every female citizen of the United States,
otherwise found duly qualified, shall be ad-
mitted to practice as attorney and counselor
a. law in the several Courts of the United
States, passed, to be engrossed, in the House
of Representative on Mondays last, by vote
of 95 to 66.
-- Louisiana is afflicted beyond all prece-
dent. Drought is visiting those portions of
the State that are out Of the reach of the
floods. So that the country presents the pain
ful anomaly of being dried up where it has
not been drowned out. 1t is evident that
the demand for aid is most imperative and
heartrending.
SENATOR Brownlow, of Tennessee, has
written second letter on the Civil Rights bill,
in which he reiterates the objections to it which
he mentioned in his former letter to the Col
ored Mems Convention. He calls the Sec
ton providing for mixed schools can oppressive
and abominable usurpation." >
-- Among the items of the contingent &C.
count of the Department of Justice, are one
copy each of the poetical works of Burns,
Moore, Scott, Milton, Byron, Hope, Tennyson,
Whittier, Longfellow, Browning, Lowell and
Bryant. The Tribune argues that these
purchases indicate q purpose to make it the
department ofpoetic justice.
- The Tennessee lawyer who resorted to
the insanity dodge in behalf cf his negro eli
ent, and expatiated at some length upon the
absolute idiocy of the poor fellow, met with
some opposition from the darkey himself, who
exclaimed "You can hang me, or send me
to the penitenchry, or say Use rascal, but
Mister, please don't say Use fool again"
We have the New York Suns assur-
ance that "no French or English woman of
cultivation, nowadays, wears her garters be-
low her knees. The principal vein Of the
leg sinks there beneath the muscle, and vari-
cose veins, cold feet and even palpitation of
the heart may be brought on by tight gar.
ter in the wrong place. When it is fastened
above the knee, all this pain and deformity
may be avoided"
- A Macon negro philosopher, discussing
the relations Of the races, said: "You know
de turkey, he roost on de fence, and de goose
he roost on de ground. You pull de turkey
off de fence, and he will git up again. You
crop his wings, but somehow or nudder, he's
gwine to get back on de fence. Now, you
put de goose on de fence, an he will fall off !;
he don't belong dar. De turkey am de white
man he's down now, but is gwne to get up
again. De niger is de goose; he better stay
whar he belongs"
"A very good story is circulating in
Washington at the expense of Mr.. Morrill,, Of
Maine It seems that the Senator was out for
walk Sunday evening. In passing lead
ing colored church, he was so pleased with
the singing that he went in. He had been
seated but few minutes, when a colored dig
nitary approached him, and said in substance
that the church was for colored people, and
they preferred to be left undisturbed by
white people during their services Mr.. Nor
rill Immediately retired. A few days before,
he had been earnestly working forthe passage
Of the Civil Rights Bill.
As an illustration of the admirable or
ganization of the English post-ofice, CORES
pondent writes to the London Times saying
that, with a view to test the powers Of the
post-ofice clerks he wrote post card to a
friend, and wrote both the contents and
address in short hand. Within three hours
of posting, the gentleman to whom it was ad-
dressed received the card, the address hav-
ing been translated in red ink. Another
time he wrote letter, and, after having sealed
the envelope, addressed it in shorthand to
himself By return of post he received his
letter in perfect safety, the envelope had not
been opened, and more still, there was no
mark of any kind on the envelope except the
usual post-mark and the shorthand writing.
This involved, of course, a knowledge ofshort-
hand not only by the sorting clerks, but also
by the letter-carrier.
At the ceremony of presenting diplomas
to the successful cadets of the Naval Acade-
nv, on the 3Oth of last month, Rev. Mr..
Kown, one of the Board of Visitors. delivered
an address which made quite sensation, and
is one of the many signs Of the times demon
strative of amazing changes in public opinion
at the North. After complimenting Admi-
rails Porter and Worden, as shining examplers
for the naval cadet, Mr.. Kown, in the pres
ence of most brilliant assemblage, declared
he should be untrue to every soldierly and
Christian instinct if he did not pause to hon
or the memory Of brave and daring oppo-
nent, of the Confederate navy, the lately de-
ceased Captain Franklin Buchanan, native
of Maryland, who founded the United States
Naval Academy, in 1S45, and who COM
manded the Confederate ram Merrimac in
the action with the United States monitor,
commanded by Rear-Admiral Worden.'
--Mormonism has received severe blow
in the passage of the House bill relating to
Utah affairs. This bill is simply an attempt
to exclude Mormons polygamists from juries
and from all administration of civil or crimi-
nal law in the Territory of Utah. Heretofore
it has been impossible to procure convictions
for the alleged crime of polygamy in Utah,
so long as men who practiced it were in the
iury-box. The statute against plurality Of
wives has been imperative. The bill which
passed the House last Tuesday by vote OF
one hundred and ffty-fve to ffty-nine is a
bold stroke at the whole system. 1t virtually
denudes the Mormon of several of the chlet