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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-09-11
NO. 81.

ers to rendezvous by the 24th:s A. Level
len, of Richmond, was made lst Iieutenant,
and NJ. NJ. Green, of Sussex, End, The
companies in this rendezvous we're Capt.
Cooks, Col. Treadwelrs, Capt. Moons Col.
Rosser's and several others from Missouri,
amounting in all to about 1000 men. Gener-
al Atchison was said to be in command of
the Missourians, with COL Doniphan as Sc
cond and Captain Reid as adjutant. Itwas
their intention to march on the 25th, and
just sweep everything before them, commen-
cling at Wassolouski, through LawreEce. and
finally Topeka, the head quarters Of Lane
They intend to "show no quarter" there.
by paying the enemy back in their own coin.
Ere this srherer has been some bloody fight.
ing. A large army of Wyandotte Indians,
numbering about 600, who have beenseri
ously maltreated by the freesoilers, intended
setting out for revenge, and co.working with
the Southerners. It is the sworn intent of
all to burn, kill and plunder, as theEfreesol
party have been and are still doing, without
the least quarter. Reports about the United
States troops being whipped, with various
other big tales, are false Petersburg sE:r-s
press ~
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-09-11
COUNTRY GIRLS.

Meta Victoria Fuller, in the Ohio Guilt
vator, in sisterly way, thus talks to the
country girls
The farmers daughters are soon to be the
life as well as the pride of the country-a
glorious race ofwomen, which no other land
can show. I seek not to Aatter them; for
before they can become this, they will have
to make earnest efforts Of one or two kinds.
There are some who deprecate their condi-
ton, and some who have false pride in it,
because they demand more consideration than
they merit. A want of intelligence upon all
subjects of the day, and of refined educa-
ton, is no more in country than town.
bred girl, in this age of many books and
newspapers. Many girls are discouraged be-
cause they cannot be sent away from home
to boarding schools; but men of superior
minds and knowledge of the world, would
rather have for wives women we'll and pro-
perly educated at home. And this educa-
tion can be had wherever the desire is not
wanting. A taste for reading does wonders,
and an earnest thirst after knowledge is al
most certain to attend sweet draught of the
"Pierian spring" There is farmers daugh-
ter in this very room in which am writing,
beautiful, refined, and intellectual women,
whose girlhood books were not as plentiful
as now, and who gained her fine education
under difficulties which have discouraged
any one but one who had as true love for
study.
l will state why l think the country girls
are yet to prove the hope of this country
The women in towns and cities are becoming
so universally unhealthy, and so almost uni
versally extravagant, foolish and fashionable,
that men are almost in despair of obtaining
wives who are not invalids, and of providing
them with what they demand after they have
married them. Unless the young man has
the fortune (good or bad) to be the inheritor
of wealth, he must spend the best bloom of
his youth in acquiring enough to "start up
OH" as people are expected to begin nova
days. Men, even in high places, would go
to the country for their choice if they met
there equal refinement and intelligence. VTo-
men are preparing to take noble sta,d II
history, and they cannot do it in ignorance.
Town girls have the advantages of more high
ly polished manners and greater accomplish
ments; but country girls have infinitely more
to recommend them as rivals of their fair
city sisters. They have more truth, house
hold knowledge and economy, health, (and
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-09-11
A VIEW OF LABOR.

Manual labor or work is dreaded by some,
and despised by others, and very few have a
natural love for it. The love of labor is ac-
quired by habit and perseverance, in great
measure. The Almighty made man depen-
dent upon his own efforts to feed and clothe
himself; he has made hands, and intellect
to direct his hands, and heaven has shown
no partiality in the formation Of any class of
individuals as an exemption from labor, or
promised prosperity to spring from habits of
idlenesss. Farmers and mechanics have fire.
quentiy failed for want of self-rcspect. In
stead of herding together, as the manner of
some is, in low drinking houses, to degrade
themselves, if they would spend their leisure
hours in using means to inform, enlarge and
elevate their minds BY reading the produc-
tions of good; well-informed authors, meet
ing together to lecture each other on the SUBJ
ject Of their respective callings, they would
soon find that instead Of being degraded by
labor, that degradation had sprung from an
other cause Ignorance and vicious habits
will dcpreciate mans self.respect, and Of
ten lessen his self-esteem
1t is the man that makes his calling re-
spectacle, and not the calling the man-an
infamous character will disgrace any profess
sion Labor has moral influence connect
ed with it : there is less dissimulation and
temptation to dishonesty among farmers and
other laboring classes than exist among poll
ticians and the learned professions. The
man that labors ought to consider himself a
man, and use the means to be respectable
man, and that will elevate his business to
respectability; let him qualify himself to fill
his station, be it what it may, by gaining
the requisite knowledge required to make
him master of his art, whether farmer or
mechanic; then he will have confidence
enoughin himself to have mind of his own
and not feel degraded at seeing the displays
of oficious coxcombs that make pretensions
to superiority.
After all the arguments and examples to
the contrary, good moral character is an es-
sential ingredient in the formation of a man.
A rogue, himself being judge, esteems an
honest man more than one of his own fea-
ther. What man whose character for knave-
ry is established can abide long in place ?
He is like the troubled sea, and has to live
by changing his place and name; once a
rogue, always suspected. No man under the
sun, who knows right from wrong, or has
any regard for his own good, who will not
enjoy himself better, and wear a more COM
Portable conscience by working either by
hands or head than spending his time in
idle dissipation. An idle man, whether
rich or poof, is an excrescence deriving its
nutriment from the industry of the working
classes of the community, and merits the
curse for his laziness and breaking the fourth
commandment as Adam did for his disobe-
dience.-N. E. Farmer.
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of domain from which We have shown that
the South has been already excluded, 526,-
078 square miles more, and the portion of
the North will be thus swollen to 1,7G4,
OPS. TO sum up the whole, the United
States, since they declared independence,
have acquired 2,37S,OO0 square miles of
territory, from which the North will have
excluded the South, if it should succeed in
monopolizing the newly acquired territories
as we have indicated, about three -fourths of
the whole, leaving the South an equal chance
with the North to secure but about one
fourth.
We have spoken Of the North as the ag-
e, essor in all these schemes of encroachment
upon the South. We have used the term
for brevity sake. 1t was not the whole
North, but only the evil and malicious spir-
its Of the North. These made the unjust
demands these proposed the measures of
encroachment; these excited the agitation !;
then, leading and faithlcss Southern men
proposed bargains and compromises with
them and then, of course, the better class
of Northern men, those who were actuated
with sentiments of fairness, justice and ma.
tionality, were obliged per force to accept
the compromises offered by Southern men.
Southern men made haste to support and
made boast of securing the success of those
compromises and concessions, Missouri COM
promises and American systems of South
ern robbery and Northern enrichment, and
tie South has now to realize the bitter con-
yiction that the blows which destroyed her
were in part the infiction of her own sons !:
So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain
No moro through rolling clouds to soar again,
Viewed his own father on the fatal dart,
Which winged the shaft that quivercd in his heart;
Keen were his pangs, but kccncr far to feel
He nursed the pinion which impclled the stee'
While the same plumage that had warmed his st
Drank the last life drop of his bleeding breast
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-09-11
BRIDAL THOUGHTS.

I have speculated great deal upon mat
rimony. I have seen young and beautiful
women, the pride of gay circles, married as
the world says-well. Some have moved
into costly houses, and their friends have all
come and looked at their furniture and their
splendid arrangements for happiness, and
they have gone away and committed them To-,
their sunny hopes cheerfully and without
fear. 1t is natural to be sapguine for the
young at such times I am carried away by
similar feelings. I love to get unobserved
into corner, and watch the bride in her
white attire, and with her smiling face and
her soft eyes blessing me in their pride Of
life, weave waking dream ofsfutpre hap:
piness, and persuade myself that it will be
true. I think how they will sit upon the.
luxurious sofa as the twilight falls, and build
gay hopes and murmur in low tones the now
not forbidden tenderness; and how thrilling
the allowed kiss, and the. beautiful endear.
ments of welded life, will make even their
parting joyous, and how gladly they will
come back from the crowd and the empty
r,irth of the gay, to each others quiet CONS
pany. I picture to myself that young crea-
ture who bushes even new at his hesitating
caress, listening eagerly for his footsteps as
the nightsteels on, and wishing that ke.would
come; ard when he enters at last, and with.
an affection as undying as his pulse, folds
her to his bosom, I can feel the tide thatgoes
flowing through the heart, and gazewith him
on the graceful form as she moves aboutfor
the kind Offices of affection, soothing. all his
unquiet cares, and making him forget even
himself in her young and shadowed beauty.
I go forward for years, zand see herluxu-
RANT hair put soberly away from her: throw,
and her girlish graces resigncdinto dignity
aud her loyeliness chastened with the gem.
tie meekness of maternal affection. Her
husband looks on her with aproudG dGeye,tand
shows her the same ferventlove and delicate
attentions which first won her; and her fair
children are grown about them, andthey 60
on full of honor and untroubled years, and
are remembered when they die.- Washiag-
ton Irutn1.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-09-11
WHAT WOULD I BE!

What would I be? Not rich in gold,
And with narrow heart,
Or misanthropic, stern and cold,
Dwell from my kind apart;
would not be q man Of war,
Who looks on death unmoved;
Give me title dearer far,
"The well-beloved :"
1 would not wear laurel crown,
Its leaves conceal the thorn,
Too oft the children Of renown
Are friendless and forlorn.
O. let me lead blameless life,
By young and old approved;
Called, in q world of sin and strife,
"The well-beloved" !"
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Selett 4oetrg,
uHE DOES WELL WHO DOES HIS BEST"


BY DAVID r. ARNELL.
Let US not too much demand
OF n fellow-creature's life,
Let us rather bear hand
To assist him in the strife!
We may have had the power to win
Just what God forbiddeth him.
Let us not too harshly speak
OF a fellow-creatures fall,
Let us rather help the weak
To escape pollution's thrall;
: Some Temptation we despise
, May have won his heart and eyes.
= Let US not too rashly judge
AZ OF fellow-creature's Faith,
Let US rather waive the grudge
And attend him what he saith;
He may have some doubt to tell
That with US did never dwell.
2 Let US always bear in mind
.sr What from man to man is due,
How we need that human kind
Should forgive and love US too;
And afford helping hand,
When we've fallen where they stand.
We are not of equal mould,
We have different lots to bear;
& Some have heritage Of gold,
Some have toll, and want, and care;
We should not our brother blame,
Till our lives are made the same.
tits harshness to require
I Of our fellow-creature man
That he do what We desire,
If he do the best he can
Though he gather little store,
We ourselves can do no more.
Let this, then, our judgment be
Of our brothers here below,
7 While so much we cannot see,
q While so much we cannot know
ys.He does reN ,sho does his best,"
Let us leave with God the rest.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-09-11
THE PARISH SYSTEM. !

In our last editorial upon this subject, we
instituted comparison between the District
of Beaufort, having four Senator'S, sand the
District of Barnwell, Edgefeld, Abbeville
and Anderson, having also four.
The next calculation we. intend bringing
to the notice of the people, is founded upoa
comparison between the Parishes and Dis
tricts at large.
The five Districts of Beaufort, Colleton,
Charleston, Georgetown and Orangeburg,
are divided into nineteen Parishes and send
nineteen Senators. so e 90.
The t'oenty,tour Districts of Abbey;lle,
Anderson, Barnwell, Chester, Chesterfield,
Darlington, Edgefeld, Fairfield Greenyille,
Holly, Kershaw, Lancaster, Laurens, Lex
ington, Marion, Marlboro, Newberry, Pick
ems, Rchland, Spartanburg, Sumter, Union,
Williamsburg, York, collectively tacenty-
four Senators. ,s 80
In this estimate we have left out the city
of Charleston, including the Parishes Of
St. Philips and St. MichaePs, as they strict
ly belong to neither division. :,
Here, then, is the calculation - -,
WHITE POPULATION.
White population Of the Districts 6,22O
&c &C &c" Parishes 28,131
Balance in favor of the Districts 1913, ,189
.-- SLAVES. -
Number of slaves in the Districts 242,921
g {" {" Parishes 122, 2,53l
Balance in favor of the Districts l20, 800
TAXES FOR 1856. = -
Taxes of the Districts S202,884 IS
6" =" Parishes l04,739 SO
Balance in favor of the Districts 9S, IA SO
Nineteen Senators from the Parishes, re-
present while population of only 28, 1911!
while T,veatytour Senators represent a
white population of 226,320!!! One SEN
ator from the Parishes represents q white
population of only l, ,4S0 !!while a Senator
from the Districts represents 9,43O.
One Senator from the Parishes represents
6 ,975 slaves, aud tax of 5,5l2S63, while
one Senator from the District represents 10,-
l21 slaves, and a tax of S., ,45Ss SO.
Is this right? We leayet with the peo-
pie to determine GreenpiNe Patriot.
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aS Pat, you have dated your letter week
ahead. It is;not 50 late in the month by
one week, yea spslpsen,
Troth, boy indada Sap it's jist meself
what is wanting sNase Kathleen to getit in
adyaneesof the mail Sure 1'Hsnot care if
she gets i three days sfore it IS written, me
darlin. :s...T >..a,z5 #a ri.,,.--
Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1856-06-17
NEW FIRM & NEW GOODS

4 NSI.EY & TRAAEL are now receiving and oner;,.,
"a at the old stand Whitney smith on UiTL Straaf
Mineral Point large and well selected Stock OF
STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GO0DS
Groceries, Hardware Crockerv Boots and Shoes Hot, and
tapS' together with every article usually called for
htr stock OF GROCERIES is large and they intend 10
eP nsahtiS on hand general assortment of fresh
aiy groceries, OF all kinds which they viii sell on
Terms as 10 make II object consumers to call
upon them before purchasing elsey here as they are de-
termined not be undersni,i - 49, ~ "
ta IN anu examine the quality and prices for YOUR
selves, ana see II these things are not so.
me hgnest market price paid for Wheat, Oats Corn
Potatoes, Barley, Mineral nd Rags
Mineral Point, May a. 1855. o5tf
Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1856-06-17


HX@ The editor of the Horticulturist
furnishes the following on the Apple
Borer:"
81 have suffered from the effects of the
Apple Borer,' having lost some twenty
beautiful trees during the space of three
years. / made use of all the preventa-
tives suggested by others that could be cot
hold of, but all to no purpose. came to
the conclusion four years since that the
tree must be protected by covering in
order TO prevent the little animals from
making deposit. My process was this,
and so far successful to the extent of the
covering. Early in May, which is the
proper time for this rejion, examined
very tree, and if nits or grubs were there,
| followed them with a knife and remov-
Cd them. / lifted the earth from the col
lar or base Of the tree to the depth of two
or three inches, and made use of worn
wool bags, of little value, for wrappers,
which, when cut into str ps, are very con-
venient. | commenced ten inches below
t1e surface, and wound to the extent of
two feet, giving the tree two thickness of
sacAling, and securing the same with slen-
der Irvine. | then replaced the earth, and
the work WAS done for the season.
1T is necessary to loosen the sackinr
or covering early in May every succeed
ing year, and wrap the tree again AS A.
bove stated IL the animal is preven,ed
from piercing between ''wind and water
lis tavorlte haunt, 1t examines for some
available point, but with his depredatons
with Inc, have been exceedingly rare. and
when committed, easily detected. Should
Ii be necessary 1t Is an easy matter Ia
wrap the tree to and around the forks. rs
there Is nothing efiectual short of a COM
ptete protection.
''Slnce pursuing the above course. |
have not lost one tree that was not too far
gone to recover, and no new deposits m
der the covering have come 10 my notice
Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1856-06-17
HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE. COMPANY.

CAPITAL 100000.
FTHlS Company incorporated in $780, and is of
i the oldest and best of the Stock Insurance Com
panies. The statement made to the Stockholders, June
7th 1885, shows the assets of the Company be $751;
SOL 80. H. HUNTINGTON, President.
c. b. BOWERS, Secretary.
The agent will take risks upon as good terms
other Company, and will issue policies thereon.
37-tf j. IL. CLARY, Agent, Mineral Point.
Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1856-06-17

NrAILS.-125 casks Nails assorted sizes Just received
Y and for sale by JOHN AliloN w.
Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1856-06-17
Aarltnltural Department.
The Crops.

Advices from all parts of the country
III relation to growing crops are unusual
Iy satisfactory The papers in various
parts of the country are giving good ac-
counts.
In the State of New York the wheat is
In good condition, though backward
Barley and oats are likely to do better
than corn this season. The growth does
not require SO much heat, and they are
not SO easily injured by late frosts. All
English grains and grasses promise well
on good land, which is properly managed.
i is too early in the season to say what
will be the yield of corn, for it depends
mainly on the weather In July, August,
and September. Should il be favorable
III June, and III the months named, this
country will have Unprecedented quanti-
ties of breadsuffs on hand next autumn.
Fruit In the State Of New York will be
abundant.
In New Jersey, in low lands, the wheat
has suffered severely in some counties;
but in the highlands it promises to be
fine crop.
In Pennsylvania the general accounts
are that there is present prospect of a
large crop Of wheat. The very high phi
ces of wheat last year caused the farmers
from Maine to California to SOW largely
of this cereal.
The Virginia Tenth Legion, says:-
In some instances, In that locality, the
fly, chinch, and other insects, have at
attacked the grain; but the effects of their
depradatlons are scarcely perceptible, ow-
ing to the rapid growth of the grain du-
ring the past few days. We have never
seen more encouraging prospect for an
abundant harvest for twenty years, than
now greets cur farmers
The Boonyille (ky.) Observer, of the
Sd inst, says:
The bud of the peach is killed, but
the trees are less injured than was at first
supposed. The grape is injured in low
situations. Apple, cherry, plum, and the
various kinds of berries will be plentiful,
from present appearances"
Accounts from all parts of New Jer-
sey agree IN stating that the prospect of a
large yield of peaches was never better
than at present.
The Ohio Cultivator remarks that there
never was finer stand of wheat in the
West, than at this present writing.
We are informed that the Spring has
opened very mildly and favorably through
out Ohio and Indiana vegetation is very
forward, and the growing crops never gave
better or firmer promise for full harvest
than at the present time. The surplus
products of the West cannot fail TO be very
largely increased.
Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1856-06-17

REMEDY FOR THE PoTAroE DISEASE.
An Edinburg correspondent of the New
York Herald gives the following expert
ence of a Scotch farmer on this subject:
A gentleman farmer by the name of
Craig, residing In the west of Scotland,
had just published pamphlet on the s'po-
tatoe disease" the substance of which il
may be interesting to your country read
ers to know, now that they are about
planting their crops. This gentleman
thinks that he has discovered the fact that
by planting three kinds of potatoes to-
gether, he has succeeded in procuring
most favorable results. He persued this
course last year, and although two out of
three varieties planted had been on pre-
vlous occasions affected by the disease,
all were found to be perfectly healthy
and sound when dug, and experience has
shown that they kept well during the VIM
ter. Mr.. Craig believes that the potatoe
disease may be safely attributed to the
violation of one of the laws of nature,
and that the generation of the maladv is
occasloned by the plants being too closely
bred or, in other words, by sub-breed-
ING. Ii he is correct, and the difficulty
IS caused by breeding in and in. his pro-
posed cure must be etfectual; and if the
potatoe is planted promiscuously, as used
to be done in old times, the farmer will
be rewarded with abundant and healthy
crops.
Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1856-06-17

FLowERS.--In every age of the world
hoWeTs have been revered; but the more
enlightened and refined a people are, the
more attention they will pay to the cult
vation of them. They are welcome ev-
erywhere; they are beneftinc to every
time and place; they send forth their
perfume to cheer the pleasant cottare.
and they add charm to the palace
They adorn the brow of the Joyous bride:
they are twined in the hair of the dead
they are planted upon the grave of the
loved, and speak of mdying Affection
The lover chooses them to convey the
deep and refined feelings of his soul to
the mind he loves. The maiden culls the
sweetest flowers, which breathe her love
III every petal, as an offering TO her idol.
Sweet, lovely, beautiful flowers. Ye
are the guardians of innocence, the foot
steps of angels, the language of love =
t ond mother, send not thy young and
sensitive one from thy bosom to the UNI
congenlal atmosphere of the school-room.
to study unmeaning words which brine no
ideas of beauty to the soul. But take il
out among the flowers, and let it study
them-pature' first lessons. Then will
It's eyes sparkle with joy; It's cheeks with
the glow of health; its steps be light and
Tree; lis merry laugh ring upon the air
and gentle breezes watt it as a soma of
praise up to the ear of It's Creator. And
when It's heart is filled with admiration
tell 1t God made the flowers. Never fear
though 1t may not be able to discern the
form OF one letter from another, or call
one OF their names, yet it viii read the
love OF God on every petal, and will feel
that he who careth for the flowers will
also care for II. Evil thoughts will find
but little space IN that heart whose conn
ramons are the gentle flowers. Happy
Time tor our earth would it be. if man
would but seek happiness in those pure
delights which God so bountifully pro-
TIdes. Then indeed might the world re-
olce IN foretaste of the bliss of Par
ldlse Regained. '-IVestchester Herald