Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-05-22
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Beecher In the South. .. .

- The noted Brooklyn pastor delivered
lecture in Memphis, Tenn, on Wednesday
of last week. He was greeted by an audience
of four thousand people, at his lecture in Ex'
position Building. He was presented to the
meeting by Mr.. Heating, Of the Appeal and
his lecture was frequently interrupted by ap-
plause. At its close, Mr.. Beecher presented
Mr.. Keating with check for $3.50, to be hy
him distributed between the orphan asyluns
of Memphis. The Chattanooga and Atlanta
engagements have been cancelled, and Mr..
Beecher will return to Brooklyn on account
of physical inability to fulfill them. While
in Memphis, Mr.. Beecher was treated with
the utmost respect, and his coming was the
occasion of excursion trains being put on all
the roads leading into Memphis. All We're
crowded with people from West Tennessee,
North Mississippi, North Alabama and Ar
kansas. r.
The Chisholm Murderers. ..a
- Congressman Mooney, of Mississippi,
in recent speech in the House of Represen'
tatives, made the following statement as to
the present status of the indictment against
the murderers of Chisholm, in that State, two
years ago, which will be remembered not OIL
ly as deed of unparalleled atrocity, but al
so by the brave conduct of Chisholm's daugh.
ter, who was also brutally killed in the de-
fence of her father:
In the October term, 1877, the first term
of the Circuit Court held after the murder of
Mr.. Chisholm, the grand jury, after investi-
eating the Chisholm case, found six indict-
ments for the murder, and twenty for the
crime of being accessory to the murder. LIN
the March term which succeeded, the District
Attorney having charge of the prosecution,
moved q continuance, for the reason that wit
nesses material to the case of the prosecution
were absent. Those material witnesses were
the widow and son of the murdered man. In
the September term which followed, the yel'
low fever prevailed all over the State of Mis-
sissippi, and the courts were pretermitted, not
only in that county, but in all the counties in
my district, and believe in every district in
that State, except, perhaps, the First district
When the Judge, in view Of the public anx.
iety for the trial of those men for the murder
| of Mr. Chisholm, went, despite the preva-
lence of the fever, to hold his court in De.
Kalb county, he was petitioned by the Board
of Health of the county, and the petition was
signed by every member of the bar in the
district, to adjourn the court until the next
regular term. He did SO in response to this
petition When the next term of court came,
in March, 1879, the prosecution again moved
for a continuance, averring that witnesses
material in the prosecution, Mrs. Chisholm
and H. G. Chisholm, were absent. There
have been two continuances-both OF them
at the request of the prosecution. These are
the simple facts in that case.
An Important Decision.
- Judge Hughes, of the United States
Circuit Court of Virginia, has just rendered
an important decision concerning miscegena'
ton in the South. Edmund Kinney, color
ed, and Mary Hull, white, after going to
Washington city to get married, returned to
Virginia to live. They were tried in the
State court for violating the statute prohibit
ing intermarriage of races, and sentenced to
five years in the penitentiary. They were
brought before Judge Hughes on a writ OF
habeas corpus. The writ was refused, on the
ground that the United States courts have no
Jurisdiction over questions Of marriage. The
opinion holds that the laws of marriage are at
the sovereign control and will Of each State,
unaffected by any provision of any article of
the constitution of the United States; that
the absolute and entire power over these laws
is necessarily left all over the world, and in
this union of States, to the government Of To-
cal society; that the law under which the
parties were convicted was with the unre-
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