Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-07-25
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
isit tn Roan Maintain.

EDITORIAL INKLINGs.
Visit to Roam Mountain.
-- From a letter received from Bakers
vile, N. c., dated the 18th instant, we ex.
tract the following account Of visit by the
writer to Roam Mountain: .,.5..4...s,
On yesterday we visited the Roam Noun
tain, where We spent the night on top, or near
the top, distance of 6,367 feet above the lev.
el Of the sea. Roam Mountain is an uplift in
the heart of the Western North Carolina
mountain system, overlooking the Unakas on
the north, and the Blue Ridge on the south ;
paradise for the artist, the tourist, the bota,
mist, the geologist, the antiquarian and the in
valid-the most beautiful mountain in the
world. The mountain top is beautiful gras-
sy prairie of one thousand acres, dotted over
with red rhododendrons, azslias and noun
tain heather, in clumps from yard to ten
acres in area, set in the beautiful greensward
fringed with rich balsams and spruces, grow
ing from beds of most luxuriant moses. Here
are deep woods, tangled thickets, wild glens
and great cliffs of naked granite hundreds of
feet high, with deep. dense gorges beneath
them, whose stiffness humans football has
rarely broken. The water here is clear and
cold, being only thirteen degrees above freez.
ing point. Beautiful brooks TEEN with moun.
tain trout. The summer temperature is from
As to "a degrees, the air balmly and bracing.
1t is, indeed, a. healthful, pleasant, and beau.
tiful summer resort. Herds of horses, cattle,
sheep and hogs roam over the mountain in
view of the hotel, which was erected by Gen.
Wilder for family resort during summer;
but the mountain being so largely visited by
persons from a. distance, be says be was com.
PEELED to surrender it, and it is now being used
as hotel for the travelling public. l,
Kings Mountain High School. qg aa.a
From letter in the Raleigh Observer,
We extract the following paragraph in refer
ence to the commencement exercises of Kings
Mountain High School, located in Cleveland
county N. c.: ,.....,...... .........
The exercises of the day were opened with
prayer by Rev. H. r. Hudson, of Shelby,
afte. which an anthem was sung: "The earth
is the Lords and the fullness thereof"
which, accompanied by the sweet tones of the
organ, was excellent. The most of the day
was taken up in orations by the young gen.
temen, and essays by the young ladies Of the
school, interspersed with music on the piano
by the music pupils, all of whom acquitted
themselves with great credit. The speeches Of
the young gentlemen were excellent and
showed that much thought and inquiry had
been expended on the subject Of their dis.
courses. The medal was awarded to E. P.
Mendenhall, of York county, S. c., for the
best speech, taking into consideration both
oratory and composition, though the contest
was hardly won w. M. PIaxico, Of York
county, s. c., delivered the Valedictory in q
touching and mastery manner. Most of
them stood splendid examination, many of
them obtaining first distinctions in their stu.
dies In the afternoon, after the school exer-
cises were over, the Rev. Dr. Ross, of South
Carolina, who had been chosen by the Delta
Society of the school to deliver the annual
address on this occasion, did justice even to
himself DR.. Ross is an eminent divine of
the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church,
and his address was worthy of the author.
His remarks we're fine elucidatinn Of the
history of our country from our independence
to the present time, showing that ignorance in
nations as we'll as individuals led them into
error, and that if we would have good, virtu-
Gus aud we'll established governments, their
subjects must be intelligent ones. -,.I
The Liberia Emigrants. -... Il,
we print on the first page of this issue
Mr.. Williams second letter to the News and
Courier, which will be found highly interest
ing. Since that letter first appeared, the Of:
6cers of the Liberian Exodus Association
have received an official report of the voyage
of the Azor from Charleston to Monrovia,
signed by Ex-senator Gaillard and W. j.
Bowen, the agents of the association who
went out with the emigrants. Speaking Of
this report the Ne.0s and Courier says: &.
The report is short, and corroborstes the
statements made by Mr.. Williams in every
material particular. The mortality among
the emigrants is reported to have been 19 up
to the time of reaching Sierra Leone, two in
the port of Free Town, and one on the trip
to Monrovia, making in all % deaths. The
report further states that the provisions and
water ran out, and that it was at the request
of the emigrants themselves that Captain
Holmes put into Sierra Leone. $50: = .':=.
A letter has also been received BY NJ. G.
Camplin, living at 1872 Calhoun street, from
the Rev. Santonio Francis Flegler, the col.
ored missionary who went out with the emf
grants. The letter is dated Monrovia, June
the 18th. The letter places the number of
deaths at twenty-five. and states that they
we're entirely due to the carelessness of the
emigrants themselves. In this connection the
Rev. Flegler says: "None of the cabin pas.
sengers were sick otherwise than $rom sea
sickness Some of the children had the
measles, which disease was the final doom Of
all we lost" He further says: "The. soil
here at Monrovia is the finest that the world
can produce anywhere, and the hills fronting
the ocean are the highest that this crowd have
ever seen. The water here is as good as you
can find anywhere, though it is not very cold,
80 far as l have tasted it. The crops here
grow all the year round" The writer says
nothing of the reception of the emigrants at
Monrovia, and gives no particulars concern.
ing their proposed movements. ......
THE POTTER INVESTIGATION.
The Washington Post gives the following
as summary of the election Investigations
under the Potter resolution: 50 a
The Potter Committee have proven beyond
successfnl rebuttal. things firmly believed to