Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-07-14

outrage as tnlS !! he LOlQ tnlS at DuTnaIu,
and man in the crowd said exactly similar
case had happened to country man from too
much liquor there. Now he wanted the far.
mers of Rockinghom to vote prohibition so
that their sons could come to Reidsville and
sell their tobacco without the fear Of get.
ting drunk and losing their money"
-
OUR PROSTATE PRESIDENT.
ITEMS OF INTEREST CONNECTED WITH THE
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.
A general feeling exists that the assault
on the President has come out Of the abuses
of the ofice,grabbing system. If we do not
stop it we shall 60 to anarchy. The fellow who
shot the President got the idea into his head
that because he supported one wing of the
party, he was entitled to an Office, and be
thought the President stood in the way of his
rights; probably because Senator Logan or
somebody else had indorsed his papers for a
consulship. The Interpretation Of his wri.
tings is that by killing the President he
would harmonize the party, and therefore the
offices would 60 as the spoils have gone here
tofore.
- By singular coincidence, the very last
letter written by President Garfield was ad-
dressed to his opponent in the last Presiden-
tial ampaign-Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Han
cock. 1t was dated Friday, and related to an
appointment recently conferred upon Colonel
Mitchell, one of Gen. Hancock's aides de-
camp. 1t was friendly and pleasant in tone,
and could not but have pleased the recipient.
The letter informed Gen. Hancock that Col.
Mitchell had been appointed assistant adju-
tant-general of the army, and after apologize
ing for depriving the generals staff of an ex.
ceIlent officer, concluded: while your staff,
General, loses an ornament, the army gains an
assistant adjutant general of whom it may
we'll feel proud"
- The attempt to assassinate. President Gar.
field was the third event of the kind that has
happened in this country. While President
Jackson was in the Capitol, 30th January,
1885, in attendance on the funeral of Hon.
Warren r. Davis, member of Congress from
South Carolina, Richard Lawrence, painter
residing in Washington, attempted to shoot
him. He snapped two caps at the President
within few feet of him. He was about 35
years old. He was declared on his trial to be
lunatic, and was sent to lunatic asylum,
where he remained thirty years. He consid
cred himself to be the King of Eng land and
America. The assassination of President
Lincoln on the night of the 18th Of April,
1865. in a theatre in Washington, by John
Wilkes Booth, is still fresh in the memory Of
all.
On the 9TH instant, Postmaster General
James received telegram from George Will:
son, Secretary of the New York Chamber Of
Commerce. in which the latter requests the
Postmaster General to say to Mrs. Garfield
that members of the New York Chamber of
Commerce have subscribed two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars to be presented to her,
both as a token Of their sincere esteem and
sympathy, and as a means Of relieving the
mind of the President entirely from anxiety
with regard to the future Of his family. To
this telegram, the Postmaster General replied
as follows: "Your dispatch has been deliver.
ed to Mrs. Garfield. On receipt Of it she re.
marked: There was so much that was touch
ing and beautiful in the sympathy of the peo.
pie the whole country, that she did not dare
to trust herself to think of it,
The New York Herald, Of. Friday, says:
"There should be kindness and appreciation
for our friends of the South for the good and
generous words that come from them in ref
erence to the President 1t is almost ungra.
cious to praise any community for looking
with proper indignation upon the attempt at
assassination. The people Of the South are
noted for their manliness, their chivalry, their
horror of anything that looks like cowardice
or foul play. 1t was expected, therefore, that
they would regard with proper feeling the crime
against Garfield. But political feeling runs
high in the South, and the President has been
credited with unusual sympathy for the party
which is most opposed to the South. If there
should be any resentment for this it all passes
away in the presence Of the sorrow that has
fallen upon the President. lift should please
Heaven to restore the President to his family
and the nation, among the many consoling
memories that await him of affection, hope,
reverence and sympathy, he will have none
so precious as those which come from the old
Confederacy."
The police authorities of Washington de.
cline to make public the statements prepared
by Guiteau. District Attorney Corkhill, who
has them in his possession, produced them
at the White House, where they were read
to members of the Cabinet In addition
to those referred to last week, there is a
letter addressed to Vice President Arthur, in
which Guiteau informs him of the assassina-
ton of President Garfield, and that he Gar
thur was by this act made President of the
United States. Guiteau then proceeds to advise
the Vice President as TO the selection Of his
Cabinet, and recommends Mr.. Coulsburg for
Secretary of State Livi P. Morton for Secre-
tary of the Treasury; Emory A. Storrs of
Chicago, for Attorney. General and John A.
Logan for Secretary of War; He further
states in this letter that Postmaster. General
James is doing so we'll in the Postofice De.
partment that he mis- ght be retained that
the Departments of the Navy and 1nte-
ror are not of much account, and it does not
make much difference whether any change is
made in them or not.
The Louisville Courier Journal prints the
letter addressed to Finley S. Col
Inns, by Jefferson Davis, under date Of the
9th instant II have received yours Of the
9TH instant, and thank you for the kind ex.
pressions it contained. The evil influence to
which you refer as causing the bitterness felt
toward Southern men it may fairly be expect
ed will give way to the sober sense of the people
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