Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-09-06
place in the discharge of the functions of the
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returning boards of Louisiana and other
States-illegal and fraudulent acts within the
competency of those States respectively to
deal with, but which, in the view taken by
the electoral commission, might have &C.
Cured as illegal and yet beyond the range Of
their jurisdiction to judicially determine.
The third resolution confirms my understand
ing of the scope and intent of the second, as
above expressed, containing as it does re-
cognition of the wisdom of the Presidents
Southern policy, which in turn is an admis-
sion on his part of the soundness of the doc
trines of the Democratic party upon that
subject"
Associate Reformed Presbytery.
- The Southern Home has the following
in reference to the Presbytery of the Asso-
ciate Reformed Church, in session at Char
lotte the latter part of last week and the first
of the present week:
The Presbytery of the A. R. Church is now
in session in this city. Many of the delegates
have arrived and more of them are expected
to-day, when the opening sermon will be
preached by the Rev. DR.. Ross, of York
county, S. c., in the church on College street.
We will give synopsis of the proceedings
during the week in our next issue. The ses.
sion, no doubt, will be harmonious one, for
it is popularity of this denomination not
only to live peaceaby together, but to recon-
cile all their differences, if they have any.
We are acquainted personally with many of
the delegates present, and judging from the
looks of the whole body, we are frank to say
that it is composed of as intelligent and fine
looking men US are to be met with. All the
various pulpits of the city we're supplied on
the Sabbath by the visiting ministers Of the
A. R. Church as follows:
First Presbyterian Church, Rev. R. A.
Ross in the morning and Rev. W. B. Pressly
in the evening; Second Presbyterian, Rev.
R. w. Brice and Rev. D. G.. Caldwell; Try
on Street Methodist, Rev. John Hunter and
Rev. j. E. Pressly; Associate Reformed,
Rev. J. E. Pressy and Rev. j. P. Marion
Lutheran, Rev. W. B. Pressly and Rev. R.
W. Brice; Cavalry Mission, Rev. D. G.
Caldwell in the morning.
The Kelley Motor.
Paragraphs describing the marvellous
powers of the so.called invention of Kelley,
the motor man, are again appearing in the
papers. The public had long since learned
to regard this as humbug, and if we may
Judge by the following sensible remarks Of
the Augusta Chronicle, that paper is of the
same opinion still:
The newspapers lately have had several re.
ports of the recent private exhibitions of the
Keeley motor, and from these it would ap-
pear that the machine not only produces an
astonishing and unprecedented pressure to
the square inch, but that it operates small
engine. In spite of these things, intelligent
persons will continue to regard the whole
thing as all arrant humbug. There are sew
eral reasons why they are entitled to do 80.
In the first place, the so-called motor does
nothing more now than it did three years
ago. If it is fair and honest invention, it
can move locomotive as readily as it can
operate stationary engine, and it would have
proved its value in that manner long ago.
In the next place, the motor does nothing
which could not be done by an electric con-
trivance of some kind, or by an earnest color.
ed man attached to crank in the cellar. In
the last place, it is an established law Of this
universe, a law established by somebody great
er than Mr.. Kelley, that there can be no force
without corresponding expenditure of fuel.
If the Kelley motor is not fraud, 1t tran
scends and defes that law. That it must
therefore be not at all what it processes to be,
is just about absolutely certain.
Death Of Admiral Semmes.
--Admi,ol Gonmes died nc Point Cloar,
Alabama, on the morning of the 3Oth ultimo.
He was born in Maryland, and entered the
United States Navy in 1926. He was rapid.
ly promoted, and in 1856 attained the rank
of commander. When the war between the
States commenced, Admiral Semmes, who was
we'll grounded in politics, and States Rights
and anti consolidation man, earnestly cast his
lot with that of his friends and compatriots of
the South, and the gallant services he rem
dered to the Confederate cause, soon won for
him the admiration of his countrymen, as
we'll as the plaudits of his enemies. As
early in the war as the summer of 1861,
he took command Of the Confederate steamer,
Sumter, which played such havoc with the
merchant marine of the United States. 1t
was as the commander of $780," or, as she
was better known, the Alabama, ship built
in England for the Confederate States, that
he won his highest fame. Bold, fearless and
jealous, his vessel became, for time, abso-
lutte monarch of the seas, inhicting immense
damages upon the mercantile marine of the
enemies of his country.
On the 10Th of June, 1864, the Alabama
was sunk near Cherbourg, France, after a
desperate battle with the Federal war steam
er Kearsage, commanded by Admiral Wins
low, native of Carolina Nine of the crew
of the Alabama we're killed and twenty-one
wounded. Admiral Semmes, after the de-
struction of his vessel, was rescued by the
English yatch Deerhound. Since the war he
has resided in Alabama, among his kindred
and friends, loved and respected by all men
who knew him, leaving volume of admira.
BILE interest concerning his adventures and
services in the Confederate cause.
The Education Of Our Youth.
Under the caption of "A serious mis-
take in the education of our youth" the
Charlotte Southern Home has the following
sensible paragraphs, which we commend tor
the practical truths they contain:
Education, like riches, often proves curse
instead of blessing to the possessor. That
education is the greatest of all worldly acqui-
sitions, no one can deny; but the great mis-
take Of this age and country, consists in not
preparing our youth for some trade or pur-
suit in life. A little learning is dangerous
thing unless that learning is directed to some
end. The most miserable failures we know
of, are men who have been educated with a
smattering knowledge of all things, and
thnrnnah knowledye of none The country