Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-08-21

-Four INSTRUMENTATION and quar-
ter, and a half-thauk you, sir-now five
Four and a half-three quarters, three quar-
tiers, three quarters-say FIVE? Five, five
FIVE, five cents pound" and here it seem
ed to stick fast The bid was Joe Warmers
and everybody knew it. The knowing ones
said, "Kuock it off,-let him have it,
He was poor looking man, and evidently
didn't want more than five boxes. Let him
have it low, and they would thus get rid Of
him-and down it went
"Name, sirS" said the auctloneer, rough
ly, and at the same time, cycling his custo-
mer, as much as to say, 'you're beauty
to be here buying sugars, to be suren
"Joseph Warner, sir"
90, see, yes. Warner,-Joe Warner.
How much do you take Joe ?"
"I'll take the whole, SIR
"Whole achat ?" exclaimed the auction
eer.
!'Ihe whole cargo, sir"
1T he whole cargo is not selling, sir"
"1our terms were five boxes, or more,
7 think, Mr.. Auctioneer."
eyes, yes, yes" shouted a dozen voices,
at once.
"Yery well, then, if you claim it sir"
"Qf course I claim it. ! take the lot, at
five CENTS"
"Aud who is yourendorser ?"
"James G., Of Market Street," said Joe,
proudly, making his way through the crowd,
who gathered about him.
Mr. G was among the lockers on. The
auctioneer said, "Is this so, sir?" The mil
lionaire nodded assent, and the knight of the
hammer added:
"Mr: Joseph Warner gentlemen, takes
the entire cargo, at five centsp
! A shout rang up from the multitude at
this announcement, and Joe Warner soon
found himself busy.
ado you want this sugar, or any of it ?"
asked Joe of his employer, few minutes
after this. "I am besieged to sell, at an
advance, and have, at the very least, forty
customers, who are pressing me with offers,
sir"
sSell it, Joe,-don't keep it over night.
fou can do better than I care to do for it,
now. So make your hay while the sun is
shining"
Warner disposed of his entire purchase
before he left the dock, to half a dozen diff
ferent merchants, at handsome advance
and turning over their notes to the auction
ecr, he realized the surplus from them in
cash, and went home that night thirty-three
hundred dollars better off than lie was in
the morning. He gave up portering from
that day, and commemorate to grow rich, off
hand. He finally went into business with
ap established frm, as junior partner (when
he had accumulated twenty thousand dol
lars by himself and from that time his for
tune grew rapidly, until he was now (when
we present him to the reader) the master of
superb fortune, and was nearly sixty years
of age.
Warner had one serious failing. He had
come up from poverty to competency, and
thence to great wealth, very suddenly, and
he soon got to be, amid his prosperity, an
emphatic Lor piraaf. His dinners we're su-
perh, his living, generally, costly, and he
knew the qualities of trufled turkey, a
canvass back, or saddle of venison, better
than any other man in town. He drank
good wine, too, and at last became gouty
and obese, from his creature indulgences.-
When he had seen nearly threescore years,
he was inclined to apoplexy, though he did
not pretend to believe it, and he secretly
made his will.
In this document, which was prepared
with great care by his accomplished attor
ney and legal counsellor, he provided gene
rously for his wife and children first, and
then apportioned certain liberal sums to such
institutions of a charitable character as hf
was convinced we're deserving land needy
The will was duly witnessed, signed anc
sealed, and placed upon the proper records
Among the attaches of his household
there was young man of thrce-and-twenty
! who enjoyed Warmers confidence, and whC
entertained secret affection for his young
est daughter, blooming girl then ninetcer
years DID, But Hartwell never told his loY'
to the father, fer he was poor, and depen
dent on the merchants bounty for his sub
sistence. He was an exceedingly worth,
fellow, nevertheless, and Charlotte lOve'
him, though she never dared to say so. He
mother had higher notions for her, altogeth
err To be sure, her husband had once bee1
drayman and porter,-but what mattere'
that ? He was now rich merchant. and nc
, daughters must wed their equals in rank, o
, remain in singe-blesscdness, if she had he
will. The two lover lived quietly on there