Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-02-22

session Dut III was Only d luOilltHttly otl uS
gle, shaking every nerve with paralyzing
Court room were fixed upon him reading
the hidden deeds of his life, he left the wit
ness stand and walked shrinkingly to the
door ofthe Court room but he was prevent
ed from making his escape by the Sheriff.
The effect can be better imagined than de-
scribed. 1t struck thespectatOrs with silent
awe, changing the whole aspect of the trial
in an instant, OverthrOwing the hypothesis
of the Attorney General, which he was
convinced would send the prisoner to the
galOws, saving an innocent man from the
deathful hands of a bold and Skiltul perju-
rer. The false witness was arrested, = in
dictmcnts were found against him, one for
murder, another for perjury. He was ac-
quilted of murder, but subsequently con-
victed of perjury and sentenced to long
term Of Imprisonment.
A REMOTE NORTHERN SETTLEMENT
Captain Dawson, who is i'll command Of one
of the British circumpOlar expeditions, gives
in Nature, this picture of River and Lake
Athabasca ave reached the Athabasca, il
splendid river, usually half a mile in width,
sometimes more. Its course Is near straight
to the north 50 we often had a view OF some
fifteen miles or so down the valley. AS we
dritted down the river the pines began to
give pl1Cc w PoP!"i, uiS PoPi''i w "tIio"'
the willow to reeds, till at last we saw Lake
Athabasca before us, a rocky coast to the
north, and to the east water as far as tine eye
| could reach A fresh breeze took us across
! the lake in two hours and we received hos
pitable welcome at Fort ChipeWaian, togeth-
er with all sorts OfluXuries that had become
quite strange to us. ... ....... ,...;
This is quite large place; there are about
dozen houses, two churches, two bishops,
a sisterhOOd, and some missionaries. The
country is rocky and most desolate. To the
south and west the great lakestretches away
to the horizon, and the land view is COM
posed of hills Of reddish granite, no soil,
plants growing here and there out of occa-
SiOnal creviceS and few Stunted hrs scat
tered about. There are woods in the valleys,
but the trees are Ofno size. No sound breaks
the stiffness but the Wierd cry OF the loon, a
sort of maniacal laugh that is almost vail;
and the solitude is heightened by the refec-
tion that for ZOO miles north, south, east
and west all is wilderness. Toward the lake
the view is pretty, as thereare many islands
covered with pines.
1t is curious living together without mon
ey, as one does in thiscountry. Everything
is done by barter, the unit of value being
skin; the average value Of the beaver skin
is said to be worth twenty ducks, or forty
whitetish, or twenty plugs of tobacco, so that
for plug of tobacco (abOutan oz.) one can
get duck or two whitetish, a large fish
about two feet long, and very good eating.
This place, like all other habitatiOns in the
northwest, swafms with large wOlf-:ike dogs.
They are used in winter for drawing carri-
Oles, and a team of four dogs will carry 5UO
pounds or more. The Indians use them,
too, in the summer as pack animals"
AN ANCIENT CITY.-It is Il relief to turn
from the haunts of traffic, and let your eyes
rest on the abodes Of men, says Mexican
correspondent of the New Orleans 1ines-
| Democrat, for Mexican dwellings have
character peculiar to themselves, an individ-
uality that distinguishes them from any
thing belonging to America or Europe.
You could hardly call it beauty, for, from
the outside, you see only Hat surfaces, which
would be mOnOtOnOlls were it not for the
innumerable little balconies that project
from beneath each window. And yet like
certain faces which, though hOmely in fea-
ture, exercise kind ofiascinatiOn from their
originality of expression, these long lines
of grey stone mansions grow upon you un-
til you are forced to acknowledge that no
other style would be so appropriate to the
grand type of the place. In the great COM
mercial cities Of the West you have the same
endless stretch of stone front. But what a
ditference There each house bears the UNI
mistakable evidence of being painfully new;
an indefinite something tells as plainly as a
whisper in the ear the place is shOddy. But
here is a rich antiquity in which Hawthorne
would have reveled the spirit of that mys-
| teriOus and wonderful race that enacted up
on this stage one of the saddest tragedies
ever recorded in the history OfnatiOns seems
to have infused itself into everything that
meets the eye; and turn where you Will,
there is Il suggestion of their unhappy fate.
Sunshine and shadow seem to struggle in
the peculiar color of the stone OF which the
houses are constructed, and their square
ness gives an idea of strength and sOlidlty
impossible to describe.
! STRANGE TO an American are the terraced
roof and absence of chimneys, that in our
own land play such a prominent part in
marring the landscape There are no trees
along the street except on the PaSeO, and
vet the want of them is scarcely felt, TOR you
imagine somehow that they would be out
of place beside the massive monuments
that fasten the attention on all sides.
THE AUTHOR OF ''HoME SWEET HOME"
The bones of John Howard Payne, which
have lain in his far away grave at Tunistor
more than thirty years, were taken up the
9Th of January to be sent to this country for
reburial. John W0rthingtOn, our Consul at
Malta, who was the only American present
at the opening of the grave, writes an ac-
count of it to the Chief Clerk of the State
Department. A little company OF twenty
persons, among them two who attended
Payne's funeral, gathered around the grave
at noon, and the coffin, which was badly de-
cayed, was soon laid bare and lifted out.
Little was left within it, save the blackened
skeleton, a few buttons and some gold lace
that had ornamented the C0lOnels uniform
in which Payne was buried. These re-
mains, placed in lead casket inclosed in
hard wood box, rested over night in the
little Protestant church, where simple
service was held, and Payne's once famous
song, which has lived because it appealed
to universal sentiment, was sung.
A dispatch received at the State Depart
ment on the 18th instant, says that the re-
mains of Payne left Marseilles on that day
on board a steamer bound for New York
and are expected to arrive at the latter port
about March -. Mr.. w. W. Corcoran, OF
Washington, has selected the last resting
place of the mortal remains of Payne. 1t is
a triangular spot of ground in the Washing
ton Oak Hill Cemetery, near the Eastern
entrance, on the crest Of a hill slOplng down
into the valley of Rock Creek. n unique
and beautiful black beech tree, from which
the surrounding evergreens will be removed,
will stand in solitary guard over the hallow-
ed plot, where no other body but that of
Payne will ever be buried.