Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-08-07


of Consecrated Dead-A Forestry Exhibition
Scotch Political Procession-Thc People Painting
for Liberty-1he Extremes of Poverty and Wealth.
Scotch Character and Ihrifttness.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LONDON, July 17.-For the last tifteer
days, have been so constantly on the move
and so much engaged in sightseeing, that
have had not moment left to write sin
gle line. If you will place before you maj
Of the British Isles, you will see the town o
Belfast, at the head of Belfast Lough. Now
if you will draw a line across the NORTH
Channel, thence up the Firth OF Clyde, uI
the Clyde river to Glasgow, thence to Oban
thence up Loeb Linnhe, thence up the Cal
edonian Canal and Loch Ness, to Inverness
on Moray Firth, thenceto Edinburgh, thence
to London, and you will have an idea of my
journey. You will see that Scotland has
been crossed in the Highland region, and
then traversed longitudinally; and England
seen from North to South. All that dare
undertake, at present, to say, is, that the
journey from Glasgow to Inverness was
charming.
The scenery is wild and romantic, and the
whole region full of monuments of the stir
ring events of the past. In this region the
clans often met in deadly conflict. Ben
Nevis, with his bald head covered with
snow, rises above any mountain in the three
Isles. A few miles from Inverness is Cullo'
den field, on which the mobiles of Scotland
fell and the last of the Stewarts was defeat
ed. But must not pass over these things
hastily. I will reserve them for some fu.
ture time and sketch the whole in detail
I think I have collected material sufficient
for large volume. Such being the case,
will contne this letter to things which may
be regarded of temporary and local char.
acter.
I arrived in Edinburgh on Friday NOR.
ming, the 18th of July. The night previous
I spent in Stirling. Here Ebenezer Erskine
died, and here his mortal body was buried
Over his grave I shed tear and departed
feeling that I was paid for all my toll.
have seen what never expected to see-the
Henderson and Adam Gill-the former in
Stirling, and the latter two in the old Grey
friars' church-yard in Edinburgh. No one
can tell what the world owes Alexander
Henderson, Thomas Boston and Ebenezer
Erskine. On account of their noble deeds,
their memories will be cherished by all
those who love civil liberty and pure reli-
gion, until time is merged into eternity.
Edinburgh is grand old city-a city OF
halloWed memories. Especially is it dear
to Presbyterians. In it's Castle, James the
Sixth of Scotland and First of England, was
born; and in Edinburgh John Knox lived
and died and is buried. It.Was here in st.
Giles Church that the great Scotch Reform
er preached, and it was in st. Giles Church
that Jean Geddes hurled her stool at the
deans head for attempting to say mass in
her lug. This act banished, for the time,
prelacy from Scotland. But more of this
again.
The time of my arrival at Edinburgh was
particularly favorable for getting an insight
of the Scotch people and their great city,
which, by way of eminence, is known all
over Scotland as "Auld Reeky," that is, old
smoky. The Forestry Exhibition had been
opened but few days previous to my arri-
val, and every preparation had been made
to render the affair a success.
The ostensible object of the Forestry EX-
hibition is to put on exhibition specimens OF
the industries of the world, but especially
of the British dominions. In America the
thing would be called an Exposition. In the
Forestry Exhibition, blocks of timber and
stone, together with an endless variety OF
agricultural and mechanical implements,
were on exhibition. Bamboos a foot in di-
ameter and forty or fifty feet long were to
be seen. Old logs petrifed, and canoes used
by the aboriginal inhabitants, the carcases
Of birds and beasts of various kinds, and
the rare and wonderful things of the British
Isles and British colonies were neatly ar
ranged to be gazed at by visitors. saw
potbipr from, tho TIpifa5 Stotac aynapt co,nn
redwood from California. 1t struck me
that there was something selfish in this.
On the whole, cannot say that I was car
ried away with the Forestry Exhibition.
The specimens of wood were not equal to
what can be collected in any part of the
Southern States, and the agricultural imple-
ments were clumsy affairs, better calculated
to kill horses than to till the soil. OF the
steam engines I cannot speak. Connected
with the Forestry Exhibition, there is a
band of musicians who toot their brass
horns and beat their large drums to the dis
gust of every mortal who desires OCCASION
ally to hear something that is said by some
one else. A brass band in house is like a
On battle field a brass band is very good
thing, but it does not possess the martial
stirring power of a fife and drum.
In small chambers adjoining the promen-
AIDES of the Exhibition walls, refreshments
are served to the visitors who may become
weary and tired in body. In all these re-
freshment stalls drinks of various kinds are
furnished. 1t is notorious fact that the
Scotch have, from time immemorial been
fond of something stronger than water, but
the temperance wave is passing over the
British Isles, and it is to behoped thata bet
ter day, in respect to temperance, is not far
distant.
The great event which took place during
my stay in Edinburgh, was political meet
ing on Saturday, July 18th. The occasion of
this meeting was the fact that the House of
Lords had refused to pass certain bill, ex-
tending the franchise to large number OF
persons now not enjoying that privilege.
That the import of this bill may be under
stood, it may be remarked that the privi-
lege of voting is confined or restricted in the
British Isles to property holders. The
Franchise Bill contemplated the extending
of this privilege to householders, or nearly
to that. Property in the British Isles is of
more importance than it is in our United
States. In our free country, every man not
convicted of felony or an idiot, is permitted
to 60 the polls and cast his vote for any Of
in some sections, the women are clamoring
loudly for the privilege of voting. In the
United States, in the court house and at the
polls, one man is as good as any other man.
The only exception to this is the poor In
dian, who is hunted like a wild beast and
slaughtered only because he desires to be
free. Southern negroes always were nearly
as free as the poor Scotch and Irish are to-
day.
On Saturday, the 18th Of July, the inhab-
itants of Edinburgh and of the surrounding
country, assembled to give expression to
their disapprobation of the course pursued
by the House of Lords. 1t was grand af-
fiir-one that is rarely witnessed in any
country, and never, l suppose, in the United