Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-04-08

Charleston fame, and now residing in London,
lately forwarded to Gov. Castor, Of Massa-
chusetts, the battle-Aag Of the Fifty-four
Massachusetts, regiment, captured during the
assault upon Fort Wagner July Is, 1868.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Recent Elections.
- In the Connecticut State and Con-
gressonal election, of the four Congressman,
the Democrats elect three. Iugersoll Demo
crat, is claimed to be reelected Governor.
The Republicans make some gains in the
Legislature but probably not enough to over
come the Democratic majority of last year.
The Democratic majority in the State is esti'
mated from 5000 to 1000. P. r. Barnum
is elected Mayor Of Bridgeport.
In the municipal election of Annapolis,
Ind, the entire Democratic ticket was elected
by S5 majority.
The city election in Cincinnati was very
exciting and the vote polled was the heaviest
ever known. At the date Of the latest dis
patches we have seen, it was believed the
Democratic ticket has been elected.
School. Houses vs.. Forts.
AT services in Plymouth Church, on
Sunday of last week, in asking contributions
for the American Missionary Association, Mr..
Beecher referred to its labors among the
blacks in the South as follows:
There is only one way in which you can
remedy the wrongs of the blacks and amelio-
rate their condition, and that is by instiling
into them knowledge, piety, morality; and
when you have given them that you will have
no more legislation. will need no armies, and
no interference; and to-day one school-house
is worth more than five forts to keep peace in
the South. You will certainly take care of
the emancipated citizen when you build up a
higher manhood in him. You take long-sub-
jected, blubberng, ignorant, stealing, wretch.
ed men and try to legislate them into power
and safety. 1t cannot be DONE 1t is the
school-house and the church that is going to
do it. And this is the great work of the
American Missionary Association"
The Black Hills Excitement.
- The excitement concerning the mineral
discoveries in the Black Hills continues to
increase, and from reports contained in the
newspapers, that entire region will be overrun
by gold.hunters long before the spring fairly
opens. In view of the apprehensions thus en-
tertained, all order has been issued from Gen.
Sheridan's headquarters, accompanied by a
communication from the Department of the
Interior in relation to the Black Hills coun.
try. After referring to the appointment Of a
geologist to explore that region, and to the
desire of the Government to extinguish the
Indian title if gold exists there, the Secretary
says that the Department of the Interior has
recently obtained information leading to the
belief that the trespassers now in the country
will endanger the success of any negotiations.
He therefore requests that the military de-
partment notify those interlopers to leave i'm
mediately, and to inform them that a refusal
to do so will lead to their expulsion by mill
tary force.
1t will be a difficult matter for the United
States troops to dslodge these fortune'seekers,
if the richness of the country is fully estab-
lished. Under the circumstances, the course
of the Secretary of the Interior in endeavoring
to make an amcabe arrangement with the
Indians, on whose rights the white men are
encroaching, will meet with the approval of
all who are interested in seeing the integrity
of the Government treaties with the Indians
preserved.
Mexican Raids.
For several weeks past, the depredations
of organized bands of robbers from Mexico,
operating on the Texan border, have been so
serious as to impel Governor Coke, of Texas,
to ask protection at the hands of the General
Government. In the absence of the Presi-
dent, the Secretary of War advised Governor
Coke that orders will be given to the military
authorities to take immediate steps toward the
protection of the people Of Texas on the Mex
lean frontier.
In the meantime, it is stated in a dispatch
from Washington, that the President will de-
clare as the policy of the Government in dis
posing of these Mexican raids and the loss of
American lives and property, reparaton from
the Mexican Government in the shape of a
moneyed indemnity for the depredations COM
mitted by the subjects Of that Government on
the Texas border. Our Government will in
sist upon this reparation, and in order to en-
force the conclusion it is admitted that the
Secretary of War will, if no other resource is
left, carry out the determination by strength.
enng the American border line by attaching
thereto another stretch of Mexican territory.
It is intimated that Gen. Mckenzie is to be
transferred from Fort SILL and take charge of
the troops on the Texas border. Gen. Nc
Kenzie is much commended for his action
about two years ago in putting an end to the
raids of the Kickapoo Indians into Texas.
He attacked these Indians, and pursued them
into the Mexican country, his action i'll SO
doing creating considerable comment at that
time, it being held that he had exceeded his
orders, as we'll as exercised an unwarranted
assumption of power. The Mexican Govern
ment will shortly be presented with firm de-
mand on the part of our Government for due
reparation, or take the only alternative of war
along the border with the purpose of enforc-
inp our demands