Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, February 21, 1856, Image 4
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THE FOUR BELONGINGS.
Childhood's dawn, I'm thine!
Here I watch the merry hours
Weave their glowing wreaths of flowers;
Birds on every bough are singing,
All the air with music ringing,
. While the sunbeams flash and quiver
On the eddies of the river.
Ah! they change; the songs are done,
Clouds flit sadly o'er the sun ;
While with mournful step, and slow,
From my childhood's home I goHome
no longer mine.
Hold me, Life, I'm thine!
Far away ft sunny vision
Beckons me to *eids elysian.
Though some clouds are drooping low,
With bright hues thsy shine and glow;
When the Summer rain is o'er
Skies are brighter than before.
Ah! 'tis vain! sad heart, be still,
Th?w? nq nnfl unftrklincr rill:
Stoop and drink, thou weary heart,
-v' Life and I in peace will partlife
no longer mine.
Clasp me, Love, I'm thine, _
Though all other light depart,
8ave this sunshine of the heart;
Yet, while sheltered at thy side;
I am blest, whate'er betide.
Ah! tis rain; the shadows how
O'er my heart?thou too must go!
Love farewell: Life's dream is done!
Mine the shadow, thine the sun.
Till afar from grief and pain,
In the light we meet again?
So forever mino.
Take me, Death, I'm thine,
Only through thy solemn portal,
Can we reach the light immortal,
\ Where the amaranths unfading
Brows of heavenly bloom rre shading:
While within thy darkened porch,
With thv dim inverted torch.
.- ? - Thou dost chant soft holy psalms;
Still wo wait, with folded palms,
Until Time's last triumph won.
Thou shalt find thy labors done?
Take me, Death, I'm thine.
Jjiwsiitg Bering,
A FUNNY SCENE.
A very laughable circumstance is said to
have occurred in Albany, during a session
of the Legislature at the Capitol, several
years ago?of course before the prohibition
of duelling by statute in this State.
It was an exciting political time, and owing
to some "words spokeu in debate" by a
heated member, during the "heated term,"
touching somewhat upon the private character
of a brother member, a challenge was
forthwith despatched to the offending member
by a "friend," as such a messenger is
* called in the language of the code of honor.
The challenge was at once accepted.
Pleased with this promptness, the second
said:
- "When can we expect your friend ?"
"Don't want any friend," said the challenged
party. "I waive all such advantages.
He can have a dozen if he wishes."
"This is magnanimous, but it is not according
to the code.' Well Sir?if I am to
confer with you directly?what weapons ?"
"Broad-swords."
"The time ?"
. "Day after to-morrow, at twelve o'clock
at noon, precisely."
"At what place ?"
"At 0 , on the St. Lawrence. Your
principal shall stand on one side of the river,
and I will stand on the other, and we
will fight it out!"
The "second" frowned. "This is no jesting
matter, sir. You are not serious !"
"Why, yes I am, too ! Hasn't the challenged
party a right to the choice of weapons
and place?"
"Well?yes?sir;, but not to unusual
weapons in unusual places."
"Very well; pistol? will not be objected
to, of course."
"Assuredly not; the guut'iemans weapon."
"Very good. then. Wo will meet to-morrow
in the little village 01 1' , and at
twelve o'clock precisely we will tight en the
"Sugar-loaf Hillstamiiug back '0 back,
marching ten paces, ii;- .undug and firing.
Will that arrangement be satisfactory?"
"It will. We shall be there."
And the parties s^parv {. Now "Sugarloaf:
Hill," "at the place atoiesaid" was exactly
what its name imports?a sharp conical
pillar of ground, remarkable all the immediate
country round for its pecuiia; formation.
The time arrived. ;>? ! tiie parties" ap
peared on the ground ; but the state of the
case "leaked out" very quick.
"Sir!" said the second, as he arrived with
his almost breathless principal" at the
apex of the "Sugar-loa! and survey Itlm
ground?"Sir! this i-* n wither subterfuge!
What kind of a place is this for a duel with
pistols, back to back, and a forward march
of ten paces? Why, Sir. both parties would
be out of sight <it eight fmrrs, let alone at
ten; and in turning to tire, you must tiro into
the side-hill!"
"So much the better for both of us!" an.
swered the "party of the second part;" "we
are on terms of perfect equality, then, which
is not alwuys the case in modern duels."
Out spake the challenging "principal"
then, in words too plain to be misunderstood :
"sir-r !" he said to the second "principal"
at the same time looking daggers at
him; "Sir-r! yon <m\ ? rnioird
"Well! s'posin' 1"//' ' V??u kn-K I was,
or you would not have chaiieu^ <! me !"
"They do say" that the two "parties"
that went down the steep sides of Sugar-loaf
Hill on that memorable oec-afcion, wereusdiificult
of reconciliation as when they ascended
its sides; aud, i .<?reover, that they were as
difiereut in tc iper as possible. One party
was laughing, aud the other "breathing out
and threatening slaughter;" but nothing
came of it, after all. This was the iast of
that duel.
And, thoughtfully regarded, it seems to
us that there is something of a lesson in it,
"indifferently well" as we have set the actual
occurrence before our readers.?llarpcr's
Magazine for February.
A TALL BUNCOMBE SPEECH.
During the Congressional canvass last
year in the fourth District, Eli Shorter, the
successful candidate, made the following appeal
:?
"Fellow Citizens:?I am the people's
candidate for Congress,?yea the workingman's
candidate; I am not the candidate of
the politicians. They hud nothing to do with
bringing me out. i lie politicians are against
uie. It was the people, the working men,
who cu ae to me, au 1 ^ tic? I must run for
Coug ess. Fellow-ciMz?:i?s I 'ove the farm,
era?the working-men <> the country. I
am a working man my. I I have been all
this spring working in ->y ; inn, cleaning it
up, and putting it in -! ' r. I have been
plowing fellow citizens, and 1 can plow as
straight a row as any of you. And I am
willing to go out in any of your fields now d
and plow a row with my competitor for Con- e
gress, and if I don't plow a straighter row
than he does, I will go home and give up the t
race, and let him go to Congress. Fellow- t
citizens I have always been the poor man's
friend, and the poor woman's friend. I have f
been attending to the business of a great
many poor widows for ten or fifteen years,
and never charged them a cent for it. I
got their pensions for them, and their landwarrants,
and I will get them for any of you, a
and not charge you a cent for it. Congress c
has given all of the old soldiers a hundred t
and sixty acres, and if I had been in Con- c
gress I would have voted for it too. It was t
right for the old soldiers who had been fighting
the battles of their country, to be well- t
paid for it. One of my neighbors said to
me?'Eel-y, (Eli) says he to me, Eel-y, (for s
all my neighbors call me Eel-y) if you had
been in Congress wouldn't you have gone 1
ooa? Tir.ii t fco0<} i
04VS 1 ?T CU aajro Ay Otiaiguvcuiug MJLkj MVWM V
a little, I believe I would." t
The next day Eel-y spoke at the county
site, and a friend gave him the hint that the t
people were a little more enlightened up
there, and he would do better to leave out
the Pigeon Creek harangue. 1
OUSTED TO THE EKWATUB. 1
BY JACK. 1
Compozed wile sufferin frum the combiued
effex of a northurn and a drizzlin rane.
Grate lengthy line, Wot some folkes calls
Imajinary! Yu never no wot it is
Tu be kold. Yure always hot. I shuddent
Wunder ef yure purspirin now. It allmowst ?
Brakes mi hart tu think of awl little y
Niggers, wots plain mumbel the peg, in
There necked skins around yUj -wile I,
A pour phrezzcd wite pursin) flm shivrin
In this onjinerous latytude. Great sizzers I i
I even phan3y I ken sea the f0kes down thare ^
A drinkin mynt jewlips and I screams, ,
An sodar wortur, to keap themselves cule,
Wile all the hot whyskey puntchys, an all the
Aig nogg I can swollur, wont keap
Me hot. How ide like tu raze a swot!
Thou pondrus bawl of unwound kyte stiwng!
Kud yu nott, sum dark tenipestyus nite, i
t*nrule yourself from round them diggins, (
An coyl yourself around the hsp-ts of
This more sivilyzcd rejun? Efyucud,
| And cf you wood, Iloplejemi saicryd '
1 Wurd, that when the dog-stair raigees overhead,
j He never groul agen.
Ventilation.?Don't let the reader be ^
us insane, because we tell him it is more important
to sleep with a window up in midwinter,
than in summer-time. How few people
have the gift of thinking! how many
have the gift of gab, in the inverse ratio 1?
The less a man thinks, the more he can talk;
that is the very reason why our household
divinities can discourse indefinitely, ad Jinitum,
and the other side of it. Whoever
heard of a man taking cold who slept all
out of doors? Well, if sleeping in all out
doors does not give a man a cold, how can
sleeping in a part of all out doors give him 1
a cold? Is not that conclusive? Surely J
none of the unthinking multitude could ask
for a more convincing argument than this.?
But as only the thinking few take a journal
like like this, we will give a mere hint of an 1
argument, with the carrying out of which 1
they may amuse themselves in a liesure 1
hour. Pure carbonic acid is deadly, it kills \
in five minutes. In sleeping we breathe out
this gas, and a close room confines it; heat 1
makes it rise to the ceiling, cold condenses !
and keeps it near the floor. Verb. sat.
y
Actual" is an extract from an 1
unpublished satire of "A Tilt at Humbug," <
recently pronounced before the Jersey City 1
Association, by Mr. Hosmer:?
The strong and lusty Actual demands 1
Not fantasy, but brawny, working hands; I
Witb words grown stale and obsolete at last, (
The picturesque and true sublime arc classed, .
Talk of Pactolus, with its golden dower,
And tongues will ask, 'How greatthe water-power!' i
Of Fate? and put the question, :f appears ?
A Sheffield stamp upon her clip ping shears.
Some think, embarked in schemes ot gain ortrade '
All things expressly for tlieir use were made? <
The sun, expense of caudle light to save, (
For spindle turning, wild Niagara's wave;
Ocean to them, witli its eternal roar,
Is u highway for commerce, nothing more! 1
The mountain-cavern, marked by deluge still, (
And filled with precious or", their spraeious till!
Wi le earth, for treasure hunted to tis heart,
The sky-roofed workshop of m"chart>c art. <
Cut bono? like " aiiO ra-ens they will croak, i
Worth more to them than tomes that Plato wrote, ^
And would discuss, with Bunker ITill in view,
Stern Marathon, or mournful Waterloo,
Utiawed by memory, and memorial-stones,
The fertilizing property in bones; .
Point out the deeper greenness of the grain
Rooted in mouldering ashes of the slain. ;
We have departed, hungering for gold,
From the pure faith our fathers taught of old ;
Ou Cromwell's doctrine all too much rely?
'Put faith in God?but keep your powder dry!'
'''hose courtesies, observed of old, are scant,
Old fashioned virtue nearly non-extant;
The frank, chivalric bearing of our sires
Ha? perished with their hospiublc fires:
They boldly took, hand interlocked in baud,
On the firm rock of Principle their stand?
That sure breakwater to Corruption's tide,
Loyal to truth, though kings temptation tried:
They duly prized the worth of precious ore,
But valued potless reputation more?
All was not lost, of worldly goods bereft,
It'only honor, without taint, was left.
SSf An itinerant preacher of the Methodist
church was travelling in the back settlement
of Missouri, and stopped at a cabin,
where an old lady received hitnvery kindly.
Ou setting provisions before him, she began
to question him : 'Stranger, where mout you
ho from V 'Madatn, I reside in Shelby county,
Kentucky.' 'Wall, stranger, hope no
offence, but what moughtyoube adoin' way
up here V 'Madam, I am searching for the
lost sheep of the tribe of Israel.' 'John!
John !' shouted the old lady, 'come right
here this minute; here's a stranger all the
| way from Shelby county, Kentucky, a hunting
stock, and I'll just bet my life that tan- 1
gie-nairea oia macs ram, tnac s diq in our
lot all last week's one of his'n.'
An old lady in Alabama objects to
the erection of a telegraph near her house,
for, says she, "supposin' thar should be a
war sending cannons and bombs along the
telegraft, and should burst right here and
tear everything all to pieces, I should like to
I know who's going to pay for it ? Take it ,
way off thar, for I don't like the pesky thing
no how!"
Newspaper Education.?Newspapers
contribute more than most people are aware j
of, to the education of the young members ;
j of a family. The records of occurrences in
j real life serve admirably to instruct youths
in the practical realities of every day transactions
and win them from their own ideal
i fantasies. No well reculated family is ever ,
i
without its favorite newspapers.
_ ? * ]
Ode to a Shanghai.?We clip the fol- '
lowing from an exchange : t
Feathered giraffe! Who lent you wings? ]
Who furnished you those legs 2^. ,
How could such everlasting things
As those come out ofeggs ? '
Would Have the Reason.?On Tuesday
last, Mr. John Roe prosecuted his shopaate,
Robert Lond, for assault and battery.
Virile the complainant was under examinaion,
the following colloquy took place beween
him and the defendent's counsel:
'Did you not call my client here, and deendant,
a fool!"
<1 did.'
'Why did you, sir ?'
?I decline to answer that question.'
'Why do you decline to answer it ? I'll
ippeal to the court to punish you for your
ontumacy. Yoi/ ought to be fined for conempt.
I'll let you know that you can't
iall my client a fool, without giving your reaons
for it.'
iT Ann'* l-nnw fViflf, mv reasons have anv
-J. V --- " ?J *
hing to do with the case."
'I'll let you know they have. Now, anwer
the question/
'Well, if I must, I must. I said I thought
le was a fool, because he didn't know beter
than to hire such a chucklehead as you
o defend him.'
The counsel dropped the witness and let
he question of comtempt pass.
We have to record one of the most
violent manifestations of filial ingratitude
,hat ever came under our notice. Mr. Longfellow,
fresh from the Indian country, says
;hata warrior, having got "very angry,"
"Seized his grandmother and threw her
Up into the sky at midnight,
Right against the moon he threw her;
"Tis her body that you see there!"
Grinjibbewawanasealoola, the deputy
iheriff of the tribe was on the track of the
rillian at the last accounts from Hiawatha.
46?- A gentleman being in company, with
i sprightly damsel about fourteen, was somewhat
annoyed by her trickery. At length
le exclaimed:
"Now, my dear girl, be still."
This was touching a chord of feminine
canity. Assuming an air of importance, and
etiring to a position of defiance, she respond:d:
"Girl! indeed! lam as much of a 100nan
as you are."
Exquisite Sentiment.?"What!" cxilaimed
the accomplished and fashionable
Fittswiggle to the exquisitely lovely Miss
Dc La Sparrowgrass; what would you be
learest, if I should press the stamp of love
lpon those sealing-xoax lips !" "I," responled
the fairy-like creature, "should be?
tationery !"
Jj'flMaL
KANSAS?W. W. BOYCE.
We find the following letter from our immediate
Representative in the Winnsloro'
Register:?
House of Representatives, ")
February 7, 1856. j
My Dear Sir: I received your letter in
which you ask my opinion in reference to
Southern immigration to Kansas. The pressure
of business docs not permit me at this
time to go into the subject very extensively.
tt is impossible to exaggerate the importance
)f Kansas to the South. If we lose Kansas,
we lose Missouri, being freesoil to the
borders of Arkansas and Tennessee, and
trill have to struggle for the Indian country
behind Arkansas. Kansas is emphatically
he key to the future, we must command
Kansas.
From the best information I can get upon
;he subject, I am satisfied the current is setting
against us in Kansas, and that it will
certainly be lost to us, unless the South puts
:orth all her energies. To acquire Kansas
t will not do to rely on. a mere Southern
sentiment, inducing ardent men to go there
through devotion to their section. You must
combine the idea with another, the bettering
)f their condition, in other words, making
uouey The North understands this great
:dca perfectly, hence their emigrant aid societies,
which combine fanaticism and money-making.
It is well to learn from our enemies.
If wc intern! to struggle for Kansas,
tve must likewise combine these ideas, we
aiust form joint stock.companies, for the
purpose of colonizing Kansas from the South.
The money thus raised will be expended in
liding colonists to get to Kansas at the cheapest
rates, and buying land there. The
shares should be put at a small price, so that
the entire South may go into the matter.?
Thus all may Southernizc Kansas and make
money at the same time, for the lands which
can he bought at SI.25 per acre will in a very
few years sell from S5 to S20 per acre.
I have not time to do more than to indicate
the course which should be pursued by
the South.
I ardently hope that the entire South may
be thoroughly aroused upon this great question
of empire.
I shall be very willing to contribute to the
extent of my abilities in promoting this
movement.
I am very glad indeed to sec that the public
mind in our State seems to be arousing
itself to the importance of the issue, one far
more important to my mind, than who may
may be the next President.
Yours, sincerely,
W. W. Boyce.
A PROCLAMATION.
By the President of the United States of
America.
Whereas indications exist that public tranquility
and the supremacy of law in the Territory
of Kansas are endangered by the reprehensible
acts or purposes of persons, both
within and without the same, who propose
to direct and control its political organization
by force. It appearing that combinations
have been formed therein to resist the execution
of the territorial laws, and thus, in
effect, subvert by violence all present constitutional
and legal authority: It also appearing
that persons residing without the
Territory, but near its borders, contemplate
armed intervention in the affairs thereof: It
also appearing that other persons, inhabitants
of remote States, are collecting money, engaging
men, and providing arms for the same
purpose: And it further appearing that
lombinations within the Territory are endeavoring,
by the agency of emissaries and otherwise,
to induce individual States of the
Union to intervene in the affairs thereof in
violation of the Constitution of the United
States.'
And whereas all such plans for the determination
of the future institutions of the
rerritory, if carried into action from within
:he same, will constitute the fact of insurrection,
and, if from without, that of invasive
aggression, and will, in cither case, justify
and require the forcible interposition of
the whole power of the general government,
as well to maintain the laws of the Territory,
as those of the Union:
Now, therefore, I, Franklin Pierce President
of the United States, do issue this my
proclamation to command all persons engaged
in the unlawful combinations against the
constituted authority of the Territory of Kansas
or of the United States to disperse and
retire peaceably to their respective abodes,
and to warn all such persons that any attempted
insurrection in said Territory or aggressive
intrusion into the same will be resisted
not only by the employment of the local
militia, but also by that of aty available forces
of the United States; to the end of assuring
immunity from violence and full protection
to the persons, property, and civil
rirrht.s of nil neaenfiil nnd lnw.nViirliricrinbnbi
o?? r
tants of the Territory.
If, in any part of the Union, the fury of
faction or fanaticism, inflamed into disregard
of the great principles of popular sovereignty
which, under the constitution are fundamental
in the whole structure of our institutions,
is to bring on the country the dire calamity
of an arbitrament of arms in that
Territory, it shall be between lawless violence
on the one side and conservative force on the
other, wielded by legal authority of the general
government.
I call on the citizens, both of adjoining
and distant States, to abstain from unauthorized
intermeddling in the local concerns of
the Territory, admonishing them that its organic
law is to be executed with impartial
justice; that all individual acts of illegal interference
will incur condign punishment;
and that any endeavor to intervene by organized
force will be firmly withstood.
I invoke all good citizens to promote order
by rendering obedience to the law; to seek
remedv for temnorarv evilsbv peaceful means;
y a w w i *
to discountenance and repulse the counsels
and the instigations of agitators and of disorganizes
; and to testify their attachment
to their country, their pride in its greatness,
their appreciation of the blessings they enjoy,
and their determination that republican institutions
shall not fail in their hands, by cooperating
to uphold the majesty of the laws
and to vindicate the sanctity of the Constitution.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set
my hand, and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed to these presents.
Done at the city of Washington, the eleventh
day of February, in the year of
[seal.] our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and fifty-six, and of the independence
of the United States the eightieth.
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
By the President:
W. L. Marcy, Secretary of State.
SLAVERY AT THE NORTH.
The seven several enumerations of the inhabitants
of the United States, reveal some
facts relative to slavery north of Mason &
Dixon's line, which at this day appear curious
:
Maine?This State has had no slaves.
New Ilamshire?In 1760, 158 slaves; in
1800, 17; after that date none.
Vermont?In 1790,17 slaves; afterward,
none.
Massachusetts?None by any census.
Rhode Island?In 1790, 952 slaves ; in
1800, 381; in 1810, 103; in 1820, 48; in
1830, 17; in 1840, 4; in 1850, none.
New York?In 1790, 21,324 slaves; in
1800, 20,353; in 1810, 15,017 ; in 1820,
10,088; in 1830, 75; in 1840, 4; in 1850,
none.
New Jersey?In 1790, 11,423 slaves; in
1800, 12,422; in 1810, 10,851; in 1820,
7,657; in 1830, 2,254; in 1840, 674 ; in
1850, 325.
Pennsylvania?In 1790, 3,737 slaves ; in
1800, 706; in 1810, 705; in 1820, 211 ;
in 1830, 403; in 1840, 64 ; in 1850, none.
In the new States north of the Ohio, slavery
had but a slight foothold.
The census in 1840 mentions 3 in Ohio ;
no other census returns any.
Michigan is represented to have had 24
slaves in 1810 and 32 in 1830.
Indiana had 135 by the census of 1800;
237 in 1810; 190 in 1820;- and 3 in 1840.
Illinois had 168 slaves in 1810; 117 in
1820; 747 in 1830 ; 331 in 1840; and
none in 1850.
Wisconsin had 11 in 1840, and Iowa had
16 in the same year.
jfanner's ?eprtatmt.
FEWER ACRES AND BETTER CULTIVATED.
That the farmer can realize more from
fewer acres more thoroughly cultivated, is a
truth to which every sensible man will readily
consent, and yet, strange to say, not one
n O stii 4 Vl A Y*n fnrmnrQ vrri 1 1 ??i-vsi
in a tuuusauu uuuiuv,ut laiuiuio^ um iuuuuu
the theory to practice.
In urging this fact upon the attention of
our farmers you will seldom, if ever, meet
with one who will not assent to every assertion
of its superior advantages; but you will
also hear the old fogy reply, that unless you
plant largely in the spring, you will have but
little to gather in the fall. It seem to us
that we are so afraid of starvation, that we
can not trust so much to the result of labor
as to the yield of extensive fields not half
cultivated. It is hard to make one who is
accustomed to planting more than he can
tend, believe that one acre with double the
manure and double the cultivation will yield
more than tico acres with half the -manure
and tillage. He may give his assent to the
theory; but his belief is a dead faith, which
will never be shown by his works.
It has been said by an eminent writer upon
this subject, 'that although millions of
Hebrews inhabited the narrow and rocky
land of Judea, and though restricted by the
Agrarian law of Moses, under which, as the
population increased, the inalienable patrimony
of each family became smaller and
smaller, yet they made more and more.'?
Why was this ? Because the cultivation was
of course better and better. But let us
come nearer home. In the populous North,
we are told that fifty acres constitue a very
extensive farm, and that few can boast of so
wide a domain. We are also told that land
is not valued there as in the South. Here,
the older the land, the less valuable it is rated.
There it is the reverse; the longer a
field (or we should say an acre) has been
cultivated, the more it produces; and consequently,
the more valuable it becomes.
But let us come still nearer home. Look
at your vegetable garden. (We here presume
that every <jood farmer has a good vegetable
garden. We wonder if we are correct in
our supposition ?) How much does an oneacre
garden yield when properly cultivated
and manured ? It would surpirse any
one to know how much it can be made to
produce under a system of thorough, scientific
culture. It ordinarily takes a farmer's
family a whole year to gather and consume
what is produced upon the half acre gardens,
which are too often neglected, and more seldom
appreciated by these rampant universal
seed-scatterers.
In view of these facts, let us examine
some of the advantages of planting fewer
acres and bestowing upon them a more
thorough cultivation. No? a few of our farmers
plant ten acres in corn, ten in cotton
and ten in small grain, to the hand. This is
folly. With such a crop he has no time to
repair his fences, attend properly to his cattle
and hogs, make manure, cut ditches, or
do many other things necessary on a plantation,
which in the end would be worth as
much to him as his whole crop. And how
is such a cron cultivated ? Scratched a lit
A
tie in dry weather, plastered in wet weather
mangled and torn, and probably throughout
the whole year the growing crop does not
receive one good working at the proper season.
When gathering time comes, it is a
scanty yield barely sufficient for the support
of the hands and stock employed. Mules
to buy, bacon to buy, negro clothes to buy,
shoes to buy and away go the proceeds of
the cotton crop, and the farmer is left with
his hands in his pockets, without a 'continental
red.'
Now suppose he had only planted eight
acres in corn, four in cotton and ten in
small grain. How easy to prepare for such
a crop in the first place, by thoroughly
breaking the snbsoil and pulverizing nicely
the top by a cross plowing. How easily
cultivated would such a crop be, by giving
it just the work it needed, exactly at the
proper season. He would then have time to
harvest his small grain, to raise his mules
and hogs, to repair fences, to build sheds
for his cattle (which is equal to half feed) and
to make more manure than he could haul
out. We now venture the assertion that the
latter method would realize as great a yield
rvnvlionri oa fnrmnr Wn wnn invn nn
UUUU UJ iiuv iUljUUl. ff V/ IIVU1U A1UT V MV
bacon to boy and need not buy mules. Our
farms would be increased in value. Our
stock would be in finer condition. Our negroes
would be more valuable in consequence
of not being worked so hard.
We need pursue the subject no father; our
farmers have each and all set their pegs for
themselves, and all Russia and the Allies
combined can't pull them up.?Edyefield
Advertiser
is
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one year, for Fifteen Dollars?invariably
in advance. All subscriptions not specially limited
at the time of subscribing will be considered as
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intentional fraud.
MAIL ARRANGJ1MENTS.
Columbia and Cheater Mall.
Leaves daily (Sunday's excepted) at 8 A. M.
Arrives " " " at 3i P. M.
Spartanburg Mall.
Arrives Tuesday and Friday by 12 M.
Departs Tuesday and Friday at 1 P. M.
Earlsvllle Mall.
Arrives every Tuesday by 4 P. M.
Departs every Wednesday at 5 A. M.
Newton Mall.
Arrives every Thursday by 8 P. M.
Departs every Friday at 5 A. M.
Camden Mall.
Arrives every Monday and Thursday by
llnnnrtu otprv Afnndntr and Tlltirsdav at
Lincoln Mall.1
Arrives every Monday and Thursday by 7 P.M.
Departs every Tuesday and Friday at 6 A. M.
Charlotte Mall.
Arrives every Wednesday & Saturday by 5 P. M.
Departs every Tuesday and Friday at 7 P. M.
Unionvllle Mall.
Arrives every Wednesday and Saturday by 6
P. M.
Departs Monday and Thursday at C A. M.
Shelby Mall.
Arrives every Monday, Wednesday and Friday
at G P. M.
Depnrts every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
at 6 A, M.
W. R. ALEXANDER, P. M.
Yorkville, Jan. 17, 1856.
JUST PUBLISHED BY
THE HOWARD ASSOCIATION, Philadelphia.
Report on Spermatorrhoea, or Seminal Weakness,
Impotence, the Vice of Onanism, Masturbation,
or Self-Abuse, and other Diseases of the Sexual
Organs, with an account of the errors and deceptions
of Quacks, and valuable advice to the affflicted,
by Geo. R. Calhoun, M. D., Consulting
Surgeon of the Howard Association, Philadelphia,
Pa., a benevolent Institution established by special
endowment, for the relief of the sick and distressed,
afflictcdwith "Virulent and Epidemic Diseases."
A copy of tho above Report will be sent by
mail (in a sealed envelope) free of charge, on the
receipt of two stamps for postage. Address Dr.
I GEORGE R. CALHOUN, No. 2 South Ninth-St.,
I Philadelphia, Pa.
Dec. 13 49 tf
Removal.
MESSRS. LINDSAY & THOMASSON anounco
to their customers and tho public
that they have removed their establishment temporarily
to the store formerly occupied by them,
nno flrtrvr Knrtli nf W4T.KP.R'S HOTEL, where
they are prepared to servo their friends as usual.
They have now on hand a good assortment of
Drugs, Medicines, Dye-Stuffs, &c.,
and all articles in their line of the best quality,
and at reasonable prices.
J. F. LINDSAY,
D. H. TIIOMASSON.
Yorkville, Mar. 1. . tf ?
THE'PRINCETON PRESS,
THE design of the inventor was to get np a Press
which would answer every requirement of the !
offer made by OEonon Bruce, of New York, in
1851, viz: cheap, light, easily managed, and ca-!
pable of throwing off at least 600 sheets per hour. !
This Press will throw off from 500 to 800 sheets j
per hour, doing the work equal to any Cylinder
Press. The bed stands about 30 inches from the
floor, and is the most convenient of all Presses to
make ready the form on. It is adapted to jobbing,
or book work, as well as newspaper, and will register
as well as any other Cylinder Press. It
requires, to work it, a man to turn the fly wheel
and a boy to feed the sheets.
The Inking Apparatus is very complete, and
differs from the apparatus used in Cylinder Presses
generally, being more like that used in the
Power Platen Presses. Two rollers pass over
the form twice to each impression, taking ink for
each sheet.
A Press of this description for newspaper and
jobbing, bed 44 by 28J inches, with roller mould,
roller stocks, blanket, flying and registering apparatus,
&c., complete, will be furnished for $500.
If intended for book work chiefly, an extra ink
fountain will be furnished for $20. The press,
fly wheel, &c.,will weigh about 2000 pounds. The
sides, &c., are iron. Length of frame, seven feet
?height, to front edge of feed board, three feet
six inches. Any size made to order.
The following is the list of Sizes and Prices as
far as established:
Bed 28 by 20, $400. Bed 48 by 31, $5.80
" 36 24, 450. " 50 82, 600.
" 44 28i, 500. "52 82, 625.
" 46 30 540.
The beds will take chases their full breadth;
and within two inches of the length.
Tebms.?One-half, cash: one half, note, at 4
months, with approved security; or 2J per cent
discount for cash.
Boxing and Cartage, $13.
For more than three years the inventor of the
above Press has been improving it, working it all
the whilo, and ascertaining, with great care and expense,
the Lest mode of carrying out all the details
?and he flatters himself he has succeeded in perfecting
it; und is now manufacturing the Press
himself. No Press will leave his premises without
being thoroughly tested, and without it performs
to the entire satisfaction of the purchaser.
JOHN T. ROBINSON.
Princeton, N. J., Nov. 1855. 46 8m
LIVERY AND SALE STABLE,
YORK.Y1LLE, 8. C.
SW. JACKSON, having bought out the estab
lishments of L. P. SADLER and LOVE and
McCONNELL, respectfully informs the people of
York and the travelling community, that he will
hereafter conduct the business of a LIVERY and
SALE STABLE in Yorkville. He will keep a fine
stock of _
HORSES AND VEHICLES
of every kind for sale or hire, and will be prepared
with good drivers and comfortable conveyances
at all times to carry passengers to hnd from
any point in the surrounding country. Upon the
arrival of the Cars, carriages will be in waiting at
the Depot ^
TO TAKE TRAVELLERS
forthwith to their destination, nis prices will be
reasonable, and the business will be conducted
strictly on the CASH PRINCIPLE without distinction
of persons. A portion of his stock will be
kept at the Stables formerly occupied by Love
& McConnell; and the remainder, at his new Sta
Die, nearly
OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE, !
on Madison-Street. Three large and conveniently
located lots will be kept for the accommodation
of DROVERS, who are invited
TO GIVE HIM A TRIAL.
S. W. JACKSON.
Yorkville, Jan. 17,1856. 3 ly
tin ui nusiii ihiik.
THE undersigned respectfully informs his friends
and the public generally, that he will attend
to the sale of all kinds of PRODUCE, MERCHANDIZE,
NEGROES, STOCK, FURNITURE,
and everything that can be sold, at a reasonble
commission. All business entrusted to him will
be promptly attended to and immediate returns
made.
He returns his sincere thanks to the citizens
of Yorkville and vicinity, for the liberal patronage
heretofore bestowed upon him, and hopes by
strict attention to business, to merit and share a
continuance of the same. Address,
V. E McELHANEY, Auctioneer,
Yorkville, S. C.
references:
Yorkville.?W. I. Clawson, Jno. L. Miller, Dan'l
Williams.
Chester.?A. G. Pagan & Co.
Lancaster.?J. Cureton, J. H. Witherspoon.
North Carolina.?W. L. Irwin, R. Irwin.
Unionville.?W. J. Keenan.
Yorkville, July 26, 1865. 21 tf
tQT The Chester Standard, Fairfield Herald,
Unionville Journal and Lancaster Ledger, will
copy 3 times weekly, and forward accounts.
NOTICE.?The firm of ADAMS & McCORKLE
having been dissolved on the FIRST
day of JANUARY by its .own limitation, the name
of the firm will be used in settling up the old business.
* J. H. ADAMS,
W. H. McCORKLE.
\JEW FIRM.?On the first of January, J.
II. ADAMS, W. II. McCORKLE and J. A.
McLEAN, formed a Copartnership under the stylo
of ADAMS, McCORKLE & CO., for the purpose
of carrying on the Mercantile business in its various
branches, in the roopi formerly occupied by
Adams & McCorkle. They will keep a first rate
Stock of Goods, and hope by close application to
business, to offer such inducements to cash and
prompt paying customers as will entitle them to a
liberal patronage.
J. H. ADAMS,
W. H. McCORKLE,
J. A. McLEAN.
Bgk, The old firm of ADAMS & McCORKLE
feel grateful to their friends and customers for the
liberal patronage heretofore bestowed, and trust
that a continuance of the same will be granted to
the new establishment, with the assurance that
every exertion on their part will be made to render
full satisfaction. ADAMS & McCORKLE.
Jan 10 2 tf
South Caroliua~7ork District.
IN THE COMMON PLEAS.
J. N. McElwee, Jr., vs. Jeremiah Howell.?Attachment.
WHEREAS the plaintiff did on the 3th day of
September, 1855, file his declaration against
the defendant, who (as it is said) is absent from
and without the limits of this State, and has neither
wife nor attorney known within the same, upon
whom a copy of said declaration might be served:
It is therefore Ordered, that the said defendant do
appear and plead to the said declaration, on or before
the 28th day of September, which will be in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and fifty-six, otherwise final and absolute judgment
will then be given and awarded against him.
JOHN G. ENLOE, c. c. c. pis.
Clerk's Office, York District,")
Sept. 27th, 1855. / 39-lyq
South Carolina?York District,
IN THE COMMON PLEAS.
W. K. Hamilton, vs. Green Nelson.?Attachment
WHEREAS the Plaintiff did. on the twentieth i
day of April, 1855, file his declaration a-1
gainst tlie aetenaani, wno (as 11 is saiuj is aoseni
from and without the limits of this State, and has
neither wife nor attorney known within the same,
upon whom a copy of the said declaration might
be served: It is therefore Ordered, that the said
defendant do appear and plead to the said declaration,
on or before the twenty first day of August,
which will bo in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-six, otherwise final and
absolute judgment will then be given and awarded
against him.
JOH\G. ENLOE, c. c. c. pls.
Clerk's Office, York Dist., Aug. 20, 1855. 33
South Carolina?York District,
IN THE COMMON PLEAS.
Wylie & Smith, vs. E. II. Moss.?Attachment.
WHEREAS the Plaintiff did on the 8th day of
September, file his declaration against the
Defendant, who (as it is said) is absent from and
without the limits of this State, and has neither
wife nor attorney kno^fo within the same, upon
whom a copy of said declaration might be served:
It is therefore Ordered, that the said defendant do
appear and plead to the said declaration, on or before
the 28th day of September, which will be in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and fifty-six, otherwise final and absolute judgment
will then be given and awarded against him.
JOHN 0. ENLOE, c. c. c. pls.
Clerk's Office, York District, \
Sept. 27, 1855. J 39 lyq ,
' 'A 4.
GREAT SOUTHERN REMEDY!
JACOB'S CORDIAL,
ron all
Boveel Diseases, Cholera, Dysentery, Diarrha, Cholera
Morbus, Bilious Cholie, Cholera Infantum.
Also, admirably adopted to many diseases of
Females, especially painful menstruation.
The virtues of Jacob's Cordial are too well
Icnoicn to require enconiums.
1st. It cures the worst cases of Diarrhoea.
2d. It cures the worst form of Dysentery. '
3d. It cures California or Mexican Diarrhoea.
4th. It relieves the severest Colic.
5th. It cures Cholera Morbus.
Cth. It cures Cholera Infantum.
7th. It cures Painful Menstruation.
8th. It relieves Pain in Back and Loins.
9th. It counteracts Nervousness and Despondency.
- .
10th. It restores Irregularities.
11th. It dispels gloomy and Hysterical Feelings.
12th. It's an admirable Tonic.
A Few Short Extracts from Letters, Testimonials,?e
"I have used Jacob's Cordial in my family, and
have found it a most efficient, and in my judgment.
a valuable remedy."?Hon. Hibam Wabneb,Judge
of Saprcme Court, Georgia.
"It gives me pleasure in being able to recommend
Jacob's Cordial?my own personal experience,
and the experience of my neighbors and . ,
friends around me, is a sufficient guarantee for
me to believe it to be all that it purports to be,,
viz: a sovereign remedy."?W. H. Understood,
Formerly Judge of Superior Court, Cherokee Circuit.
v *
"I take great pleasure in recommending this invaluable
medicine to all afflicted with bowel diseases,
for which I believe it to be a sovereign
remedy?decidedly superior to anything else ever
tried by me."?A. A. Gavldiko, Deputy G. M. of
the Grand Lodge of Georgia.
"I have used Jacob's Cordial in my family, and
this, with all I hoar about it ae a remedy by those
who have tried it, induces me to believe that it
stands at. the head of entry preparation of the
kind, and I would recommend its uso in the diseases
for which it is compounded."?Muss G.
T* /I LJ? Oil r? <1 _ rtt . i . ft - .
uuuBiMB, ^usnicr 01 uie Dana 01 uic oiaie 01 uour>^
gia, Griffin.
"If there is any credibility in human testimony
Jacob's Cordial, mnst stand pre-eminent above
all other preparations for the care of Bowel-Diseases.
From the mass of testimony in its favor
coming in from all quarters, it mast be very far ..
in advanceas a curative agent, of most if not all
other patent preparations.?A. Flehixg, Cashier
Marine and Fire Insurance Bank, Griffin. ;
"This efficient remedy is travelling into celebrity
as fast as Bonaparte pushed his columns into
Russia, and gaining commendation whereverufced."
?Georgia Jeffertonian. .
B&? For saleby L. P. BARNETT &Co.,Yorkr
ville; Patterson, Moore & Co., Fort Mill; JVr _
Ross, Sandersville; Wylie & Smith, Hickory
Grove; Davidson & White, BullochsCreek; Haviland,
Ilarral & Co., Charleston; Drs. Fisher &
Heinitsh, Columbia, and the principal Merchants
and Druggists throughout the State. ^ ,
Proprietors, 20 Beekman-et, New Yorlt.
W. W. BLISS & CO.,
Sept 20 37 ly .
BROWNING & LEMAN,
IMPORTERS OF
French, British and German
DRY GOODS,.
209 and 211 King, Corner of MarkcUttreet
CHARLESTON, S. C. a,
TT m> /tAnotontlv An Vinnrl anH r\ Fer* 4n fVtAir
Ja. friends and the public [generally, the largest
assortment of Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods
in the SouthernStates. Their Stock is constant*
ly supplied with a full assortment of
RICH DRESS GOODS .
of all the newest varieties of style and Fabric,
in Silks, Tissues, Bareges, Grenadines, Muslins,
&c. Bombazines, Alpacas, and Mourning Goods
of all kinds.
EMBROIDERIES and LACE GOODS, of every
description.
EVENING DRESS GOODS, of every variety.
Gentlemen's and Beys' Wear.
CLOTHS, Caseimers, Testings, Linen Drills and
Coatings, of best French Goods. _
Satinets, -Tweeds, Jeans, Ac.
FOR FAMILY USE.
Rose, Whitney and Bath Blankets.
Red and White FLANNELS. ?
English and American Cotton channels.
French, English and American PRINTS and
Cambrics.
Linens, of Richardson's celebrated make, for
Sheetings, Shirtings, Pillow Cases, Table Damask,
Doylies, Napkins, Towellings, B. E. and Huckaback
Diapers, Fruit Cloths, Apron Linens, Sic.
CARPETING.
Ingrain, 3 Ply, Brussels, Tapestry and VELVET.
British and American Floor Oil Cloths.
Wilton, Velvet and Axminster RUGS. 0
White and colored Mattings of all widths.
Stair Rods, STAIR CARPETINGS of aU kinds.
CURTAIN MATERIALS.
Of every variety in Silks, Satin and Worsted.
Curtain Cambrics and Muslins.
Embroidered Lace and Muslin Curtains.
Gilt Cornices, Curtain Gimps, Holders, Loops,
Tassels, Drapery Cords, Bell Ropes, &c.
PLANTATION GOODS.
Blankets, Plains, Kerseys, Caps, &c.
Cotton OSNABERGS, all of the best Southern
make.
All the above, with every other line of Dry
Goods which can bo demanded, are of oar own
Direct Importation, and are offered at the lowest
Market Prices for cash or City acceptances. The
one price system is strictly adherred to.
All Goods are warranted, and orders filled with
promptness and the most careful attention.
BROWNING & LEMAN.
March29 12 ly ...
M. JOHNSON & CO.
ALLABOARD!
AT the word of command, M. JOHNSON took
passage on the Railroad for the cities of New
York and Philadelphia, and pnrchased especially
for this market a splendid assortment of articl& in
his line of business. The firm are determined to
enlarge their establishment and to keep on hand
hereafter a more extensive, carefally selected and
finer stock than ever before offered in this place.
In the stock now opening, will be found every variety,
and the best quality of
SADDLERY HARDWARE;
Harness Mountings of various styles; Bridle-Bits,
of all kinds; Whips and Collars ; Trunks, Valises,
Carpet-Bags, &c., &c., &c. They invite attention
to this Stock, and arc confident that they are able,
by offering the best qualities at the lowest prices,
to <rive ireneral satisfaction. As herotoforo thev
will continue to fill orders for the
HOME MANUFACTURE
of Saddles, Harness, Bridles &c., and are always
ready to do REPAIRING at the shortest notice and
in the most workmanlike manner. Their thanks
are due to their friends and the public generaDy for
a generous patronage, and they hope by strict attention
to business to merit and receive a continuance
of public favor. Call at the store, formerly
cocupiedby Meek & Moore, opposite the "Adickcs
Building." M. JOHNSON & CO.
Yorkville, Aug. 80,1865. 84 6m
DRUGS AND MEDICINES,
AT WHOLESALE OR RETAIL.
L P. BAMETT & Co.
ARE now receiving a large addition to their
stock, consisting of DRUGS and CHEMICALS,
Paints, and Oils,Window Glass and Putty, Varnishes,
Brushes, Combs, Soaps, Perfumery and Fancy
Articles. To Country Merchants and Physicians,
we will offer liberal inducements, guaranteeing
everything as represented. We make our purchases
with cash of manufacturers and importers,
and feel assured that in most articles we con com
pete with any one in the State. We only ask an
examination of our stock. Prompt attention given
to all orders. Goods carefully packed and forwarded
as directed. Prescriptions accurately dispensed.
L. B. BARNETT & Co.
Yorkville, Oct. 30, 1865. ' 43 tf
OX MARROW, POMADE, Tricopberous,
Kathairon, Carolina Hair Tonic, Chewa
Eau Lustrate Hair Tonic, Macassar and Bears Oil,
with many other articles for beautifying and improving
the hair. For sale by
L. P. BARNETT & Co.
Nov 1 43 tf
117TIAPPIXG PAPER.-?A lot of old
NEWSPAPERS for sale by the hundred.?
Enquire at this Office.