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

chosen, but he was not we'll established in
it before he was attacked-Which, by cap
turing videt, was in some measure bysur-
prise six miles further on, l came to the
ground where General Gates and Lord Corn
wallis had their engagement, which termi-
mated SO unfavorably for the former. As
this was night meeting of both armies on
their march, and altogether unexpected,
each formed on the ground they met, with
out any advantage in it on either side, it
being level and open. Had General Gates
been half mile further advanced, an i'm
penetrable swamp would have prevented
the attack which was made on him by the
British army, and afforded him time to have
formed his own plans but having no infor-
nation of Lord Corvallis designs, and
perhaps not appriZed of this advantage, 1t
was not seized by him. Camden is small
place, with appearances OF some new bulid-
ings. 1t was much injured by the British
whilst in their possession.
"After halting at one SuttOn's, fourteen
miles from Camden, / lodged ut James In
grams twelve miles further.
Friday, 9th. Left Ingram's about 1
O'Clock, and breakf,sting at one Barr's, eigh-
teen miles distant, lodged at Major Craw-
fOrds eight miles further. About two miles
from this place came to the Corner, where
| the North Carolina line comes to the road,
| from whence the road is the boundary for
twelve miles more. At Major Crawford's |
was met by some of the Chiefs of the Cataw-
ba nation, who seemed to be under the ap-
prehenSiOn that some attempts were max
ing, or would be made to deprive them Of
part of the III, 600 acres which was secured to
them by treaty, and which is bounded by
this road" ...
Losing says, in a note at the end OF the
Diary: ''Thc President reached Mount Yer
non on the 18th June, having made most
satisfactory journey of more than seven
teen hundred miles in siXty-siX days, with
the same team Of horses"
"My return to this place is sooner than /
expected" Washington wrote to Hamilton,
Sowing to the uninterruptedness of my
journey by sickness, bad weather, or acci-
dents Of any kind whatsoever" for which
he had made an allowance of eight days.
Traditions OF this tour still linger IN
places along his path. The bowl out OF
which he took his milk at that "breakfast
at one Barr's" is still identified. The little
girl who took the bowl from the President,
long preserved the hdf Of Il siIrer dOlhr
which he dropped into it, and few years
ago Mr. Andrew Mayer, Of Lancaster, pre-
sented it to the museum of WOffOrd Col
lege. ,.
THE FUTURE OF THE NEGRO IN THIS
COUNTRY.-We must again ask the ques-
ton, What, from this standpoint, will
the upshOt be when the blacks numerically
will so far exceed the whites as to overcome
the vantage that the superior wealth and
intelligence OF the latter now give them?
The outlook here is no less serious. What
,;,,;, if>-f n have
it is now in the germ; whatever govern
ing aptitude the race may possess, it is at
present dormant. In the history OF nations
it has nowhere, as vet, been exhibited. II
this race in the United States, is improving,
its improvement, as was to have been eN-
pected, is slow and in every political vir-
tue it will still be vastly below the whites,
when in voting strength its tecundity will
have put it vastly beyond them-so far be-
yOnd as to overcome every counter ln1iu-
ence, and give the political reins entirely
into its hands.
Who can doubt that, when this day comes
the blacks will obey race instinct when
all their surroundings will have powerfully
tended to develop, and vote blacks alone
into office? Thus have they done where
ever the power existed. Kept, as they are,
distinct and alien race, no other issue
is reasonably conceivable. And who can
doubt that, under this state OF affairs-an
inferior and incompetent race completely
dominating, by mere numbers, a. superior
0ne-the worst disorders would ensue?
The white people of the country would
not submit, and a violent and disastrous
conflict of races must follow. The whites
would hold O that, while America is a
nation governed by majOrities, yet by those
who framed the Constitution it was never
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an inferior race once kept distinct by this
very inferiority, should, merely through a
superior fecundity, become politically su-
preme, and lord it over the land. They
would hold (2) that this political lordship
would be ruinOus to every interest; that
for short period subsequent to the close of
the war it had partially prevailed, and with
the unhappiest results; and that, should
this lordshfp become distinctively fastened
upon large section of the Union, the in
competency Of the negro to provide, legls-
latively, for the manifold and complex in
terest of an advanced civilization, would
arrest it's activities, paralyZe its trade, and
spread a decline throughout the entire
country.
These are real and gigantic evils gradu-
ally looming up, and they merit the inlme-
diaate and best attention of American states
men.-FIO,n "IHe L1fricm m the JnHpd
Yofes," by PROF. +. w. GILLIAN, Popular
Science Monthly for February.
Is THE TRADE DOLLAR A FRAUD =
Somebody writes to the independent, instead
of the United States Senate: ga few days
ago one of the ladies of my family offered
Il trade dollar at the ticket office of the flud-
son River railroad, in the Grand Central
depot, in payment of a ticket. She was in
f,rmed that the company did not receive
trade dollars. She then applied at the news
stand, in the same building, for change; but
was there refused. A gentleman present,
hearing her say that all the money she had
with her was in trade dollars, kindly gave
her the change for one of them. This lady
has lived in foreign country all her life
until few weeks since, and very innocent
ly supposed that a coin bearing the impress
of the Udited States Government, with the
words in God we trust,' representing itself
| to be worth one dollar, was actually worth
one dollar. Is the United States Govern
ment fraud, that it allows the trade dollar
to remain in circulation, or am l labOring
under delusiOn ,"
OLDEST TREE IN THE WORLD.-The
oldest tree in the world, says huowletlge, so
far as any one knows, is the Bo tree of the
sacred city of AmarapOOra, in Burmah. 1t
was planted in 2SS b. c., and is therefore
now PHO years old. Sir James Emerson
Tennet gives reasons for believing that the
tree is really of this wonderful age, and re-
fers to historic documents in which it is
mentioned ut different dates, rs 1S2, A. d.,
223 a. d., and so on to the present day.
even dedicated their dominions, in testi-
| nopv nf ha1inf that if is q branch of the