Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-07-12
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.

EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The South Carolina Attorneyship.
"A Washington dispatch gives ;he; fol-
lowing as the Presidents intentions regarding
the appointment of U. S. District Attorney
for South Carolina: > .........'.. r
R. B. Elliott, the colored exCongressman
from South Carolina, and who was attorney
general of the Chamberlain government, has
made written application to the President for
the office of United States district attorney
for South Carolina. His application was pre-
sented to the President by Frederick Doug.
lass and Mr. Purvis, one of the Freedmen's
Bank commissioners The President inform.
ed them that he would not make any change
in the office at present that Mr.. Stone, who
was acting as United States attorney for
South Carolina, had done his dnty faithfully
and fearessly 10 the EIenton riot cases, and
it would not he right to remove him.
The Presidents Southern Trip. ....r
A Washington dispatch says the President
has not yet made up his mind as to the time
of his proposed Southern tour. 1t has been
suggested to him that at the White Sulphur
Springs he would have the opportunity to
meet greater number of leading men of the
South than by an extended trip through that
section. The President is, however, desirous OF
visiting the Southern country and witnessing
with his own eyes its material condition.
He also wants to see the people themselves as
we'll as their leaders. Should he visit the
White Sulphur the last of this month, he may
continue South from that point, or he may
postpone the trip for several weeks later.
But he has not yet determined anything def
mite on the subject, though he may do 80 at
any time. .
Apropos of the Presidents contemplated
Southern tour, the Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-
Eye says. ave will let him come if you will
promise to so treat him that his friends will
not have to shout at you, Let the President
gow
To which the Augusta Chronicle and Ss''-
t;nel mildly retorts: "The Hawk-Eye man
need have no fear. We will 60 bail that the
President is better treated in the South than
he was recently in Iowa" &C.:
More Fighting With Indians.
- A telegram from Lewiston, Idaho, da-
ted July 4, via Walla Walla, July 6, gives
the following account ofanother conflict with
the Wala Walla Indians:
On the I'd instant, Col. Whipple's COM
mand, with volunteers, under N. B. Randall,
came across Looking Glass band, at Clear
Creek, at o'clock, a. m. The Indians told
Col. Whipple that they were prepared to
fight, and, it is said, opened the affray by
firing the first shot, when the order was given
to the soldiers to fire. The Indians soon
broke for the hills and places of shelter.
1t is not known how many were killed and
wounded, as they scampered off in all direc-
tions. The command captured the Indian
camp, burned all the provisions and plunder,
and took about 1000 head of Indian horses,
which they brought here. No citizens or
soldiers were killed or wounded. The CON-
mand returned last night. Captain Elliott,
of the Idaho Rangers, captured 70 of Chief
Joseph's cattle and 40 horses. They had
skirmish on the Nimnaha. The Captain
says he does not know how many we're killed,
as they had to retreat. The Indians are
mostly between the Snake and Salmon rivers
and are now reported 900 strong and we'll
armed. Capt. Booth will 60 to Walla Walla
with 70 men from the cove. There are, 81
men from Union county, Oregon, now in the
Walla Walla Valley. News has been receiv-
ed at department headquarters here from
Gen. Alfred Sully, commanding at Lewiston,
Idaho, that Col. Perry with thirty men, on
his way to the Cottonwood, was attacked by
hustiles, and Lieut.. Rains, 10 soldiers and 2
citizens killed. Col Whipple has joined Col.
Perry and drove the Indians of.
An Incident Of the War.
The Raleigh Ne,os gives the following
touching war incident, and that paper says
investigation has established the fact that
there is no mistake or deception in the mat.
ter:
In one of the hotly-contested fights in
Virginia, during the war, Federal officer
fell wounded in front ofthe Confederate breast
works. While lying there and crying plte-
ously for water, a Confederate soldier, (James
Moore, of Burke county, N. CO. declared his
intention of supplying him with drink. The
bullets we're flying thick from both sides, and
Moore's friends endeavored to dissuade him
from such hazardous enterprise. Despite
remonstrance and danger, however, Moore
leaped the breastwork, canteen in hand,
reached his wounded enemy, and gave him
drink. The Federal, under sense of graft.
tude for the timely service, took out bis gold
watch and offered it to his benefactor, but it
was refused. The officer then asked the name
of the man who had braved such danger to
succor him the name was given, and Moore
returned unhurt to his position behind the
embankment.
They saw nothing more of each other
Moore was subsequently, wounded and lost a
limb in one of the engagements in Virginia,
and returned to his home in Burke county
A few days ago he received communication
from the Federal soldier whom he had given
the ecu of cold water" on the occasion allu.
ded to, announcing that be had settled on him
the sum of ten thousand dollars, to be paid
in four equal annual instalments of twenty
five hundred dollars each.
Chamberlain's Address.
- In another column we give an extract
from Ex-Governor Chamberlain's address at
Woodstock, Conn.,, on the Fourth AS might
be expected, he is bitter toward the President
and his policy of reconciliation. But his
anathemas will fall harmless at the Presidents
feet The Philadelphia Times gives correct
estimate of the speech in the following we'll
timed remarks:
Mr.. Chamberlains Fourth of July address
may have been intended to thrill the country
like an alarm bell in the night, but the sound
therenf Is more like the melancholy tinkle Of