Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-07-16

also cooked BROOKS goose, dlIuouSu OeA!e1
was supported by the Conservatives Judge
Mackey thinks that Grant will henceforth
pursue broader policy toward the South.
Judge Mackey believes that by the aid OF
the National Administration, and the labors
of all honest reformers in South Carolina, an
accountable candidate will be nominated for
Governor who will rout Scott, Chamberlain,
Moses, Patterson and Elliott and all the ring,
horse, foot and dragons. We sincerely trust
that he is correct, and we pledge the Conser-
vatives of Fairfield to aid III any genuine re-
form that may be proposed.-FasrfeId Ne'cs,
2ad instant.
TURKISH WoMEN.-There is great deal
Of misconception in this country as to the
status and treatment of women of Turkey.
Most persons imagine that every Turk is more
or less Blue.beard, with four wives at least,
and as many concubines to boot as he can at.
ford, the whole of whom are mere slaves Of
his caprice, jailed by eunuchs, and without
domestic authority of any kind. Nothing
could we'll be farther from the reality. In
stead of this paradisic plurality being the
rule, polygamy, in fact, is fast going out, as of
the present generation of Mussulmans few
have more than two wives, while the great
majority have only one. Odalisques, again,
are the "luxury" of the very rich, and very
rare luxury, too, for in Turkey, as in monon-
gamous lands, wives are jealous of their rights
and-whatever may have been the laxer rule
in the good old times-they nowadays set
their faces stoutly and successfully against IL
legitimate rivals. The klianum is in reality
as much mistress chez ellie as any Christian
wife of the day, and has, if anything, more
than her fair share of authority indoors. In.
stead, therefore, of the harem being prison,
guarded with bolts and bars, it is rather a
sanctuary from which care and trouble are, as
far as humanity possible, excluded. The man
is always the bread-winner; he alone bears
the attendant anxieties Of life, while the
woman passes her days, if not in Arcadian in
nocence and calm, at least free from the friv-
olous and not always innocent amusements
which sometimes make up the existence Of
her Christian sisters. The Turks are, unfor-
tunately, not free from evils, many introduced
from foreign countries, but there is one evil
the social evil-which has no home among
them. The yashmak, feridjie and shalwar,
it is true, still hold their ground, but feminine
coquetry has long since displaced the old
opaque swathing, that hid everything except
the eyes, for the diaphanous gossamer, throug! n
which the hole battery of the wearer;'s
charms now plays as freely as if no single
fold of muslin remained. The bright eyes
fash, and the pearly teeth dazzle beneath the
VEIL which, from the fneness of its texture,
no longer serves to conceal, but rather adds
an additional charm to the natural beauties
of the wearer. The yellow papoosh, too, has
largely yielded to the elastic European boot !;
but the Louis Quatorze abominatiou and its
"graceful Grecian Bend" are as yet foreign to
the precincts of Stamboul.
PROPHECY OF Mr.. CALHOUN Below will
be found all extract from Mr.. Calhoun's ad-
dress to the people of the South, on the part
of the Southern members of Congress, pub
lished in 1S49. This singular prophecy has
been fulfilled to the very letter:
If emancipation ever should be effected, it
will be throug Oh the agency of the Federal
Government, controlled by the dominant
power of the Northern States of the Confed-
eracy, against the resistance and struggle OF
the Southern. 1t can then only be effected by
the prostration Of the white race; and that
would necessarily engender the bitterest feel
ings of hostility between them and the North.
Owing their emancipation to them, they
could regard them as friends, guardians and
patrons, and centre, accordingly, all their
sympathy in them. The people of the North
would not fail to reciprocate and favor them
instead of the whites. Under the influence Of
such feelings, and impelled by fanaticism and
love of power, they would not stop at emanci-
patton. Anotherstep would be taken to raise
them to a political and social equality with
their former owners by giving them the rig int
of voting and holding public Offices under the
Federal Government.
We see the first step toward it in the bill
already alluded TOTO vest the few blacks
and slaves with the right to vote on the ques-
tion of emancipation in this district. But
when once raised to an equality they become
the fast political associates of the North, act
ing and voting with them on all questions,
and by this political union between them,
holding the white race at the South in com
plete subjecton. The blacks and the profit.
gate whites that might unite with them could
become the principal recipients of Federal
offices and patronage, and would in conse-
quence be raised above the whites in the South
in the Political and social scale.
We would in a word change conditions with
them-a degradation greater than has ever
yet fallen to the lot of free and enlightened
people, and one from which we could not es.
cape should emancipation take place (Which
it certainly will if not prevented but by flee:
ing the homes of ourselves and ancestors, and
by abandoning our country to our former
slaves, to become the permanent abode Of dis
order, anarchy and wretchedness.
"GoT MEAL ANYHOW our town
there lived hardware merchant whose wife
was stingy and miserly to the highest degree.
Even the oldest inhabitant Of our town can't
recollect that she ever invited any one to din.
ner or supper, and especially as they them
selves ate we'll and lived in frst-rate style.
Her motto was "selfeating makes fat" and
she acted thereon. One day an old farmer
whom l will name Davis, customer of the
hardware dealer, called on the old lady just
about dinner time. They just had an e extra ;