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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-09-10
HUMAN NATURE.

Yesterday afternoon I stood by the coffin
of little girl, spirit as pure as ever taber-
nacled in flesh, so sweet and lovely, so full of
winning ways and unfolding graces, that she
had won the love of village, which bent in
fearful sorrow around her cold and silent
corpse. Did that weeping father and moth
er suspect that the little immortal they had
nursed, and watched, and trained in such
anxious care, and seen unfold in such sweet
ness and beauty, was the blasted bud Of a
blighted stock? Oh, no! They could nev-
er have watched through her painful illness,
and have anticipated her every want, and
stood calm and trustful there in that farewell
hour but for the faith, so full of beauty and
consOling power, that she was Gods own
daughter, rejecting his image in her inno-
cencc, beauty and simplicity, in the divine
capabilities of her soul. And though bro
ken off, like an opening bud, from their con-
jugal vine, she was taken up to the sweet
bowers and more congenial cline of hea-
venly spring-time, where angel hands will
train her faculties, and tone her affections,
and tune her hearts Tyre to the music of the
skies, and from those celestial circles she will
ever beckon their spirits onward and upward,
and draw them by all the attractions of her
love, until the parents mourning here for q
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-09-10

ANNECDoTE CT A RAILROAD CoNDUo-
ToR.-A writer in the Post tells the follow
ing story of one who for 90 years was a con-
ductor upon the Lowell Railroad, and is
now depot master. "Aslady who had
boy with her considerably above the nom
paying age, attempted the rather difficult
exploit Gin the anti-crinoline period) of hi
ding her precious son under her skirts
Uncle John, who saw more hulk than he
could account for by an ordinary theory Of
personal enlargement, carefully reconuoiter-
ed the pile, and guessing the secret Of the
lady's extraordinary expansion, proceeded,
without saying word, to collect fare for
one passenger and half, and gave the lady
her change, which, without lookiugit ever,
she put it in her pocket. Bye-andIby, Oh,
serving that the boy was still kept in d.
rance vile, Uncle John humanely whisper
ed in her ear, " You may as well let him
out, you've paid for both !" The tradition
is that there was some fun on the road when
that child was delivered" ..,,...i,. H., .lt.raf
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A SNAKE STORY.

A correspondent of the Abingdon Demo-
crat, writing from Walnut Hill, Lee county,
Virginia, who is, as the Democrat assures its
readers, ia gentlemanin whom implicit con.
idence may be placed" gives the following
account of the killing of monster reptile in
that county. He says:
"About three weeks ago FIVE men went to
gather whortleberries in the mountainous
parts of Harlan County, Kentucky, and in
their travels came to a small branch at the
foot Of a steep ridge, where they discovered
smooth beaten path, or rather slide, that
led from the branch up the ridge. Curiosi-
ty tempted them to know its meaning, and
they followed the trail to the top of the ridge,
where, to their astonishment, they found a.
bout an acre of ground perfectly smooth and
destitute of vegetation, near the centre of
which they discovered small sink or cave,
large enough to admit barrel. They con-
cluded to drop in few stones, and present
y their ears were saluted with loud rum
bling sound, accompanied with rattling
noise; and an enormous serpent made his
appearance, blowing and spreading his head,
and his forked tongue protruded. The men
were struck with wonder and alright, and
suddenly the atmosphere was filled with
smell so nauseating that three out of the FIVE
were taken very sick; the othor two discov-
ering the condition of their companions, drag
ged them away from that abode of DEATH
About ten feet of the snake had, to their
judgment, made its appearance, when they
hurried home and related what they had seen
to their neighbors
"The next day were mounted some ten of
the hardy mountaineers, armed with rifles,
determined to destroy the monster. On ap-
preaching within one hundred yards Of the
dwelling of his snakeship, their horses sud-
denly became restive, and neither kindness
nor force could make them 60 any nearer
The men dismounted, and hitching their
horses, proceeded on foot, with rifles cooked,
to the foot Of the cave. They hurled in
three or four large stones, and fell back some
fifteen steps, when the same noise was heard
as before, and out came the dreaded reptile,
ready as his looks indicated to crush the in
truders. About the same length of the snake
had appeared from the hole, when eight or
ten bullets, went through his head, and as
the monster died, he kept crawling out until
twenty feet of that huge boa lay motionless
on the ground. 1t was rattlesnake, with
twenty.eight rattles-the first was four inches
in diameter, the rest decreasing in size to
the last. With difficulty the men dragged
him home, and his skin can now be seen by
the curious, in Harlan county"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-09-10
SHALL WE GIVE UP THE Hoop THE

SHALL WE GIVE UP THE Hoop ?-The
Express appears to think that hoops must now
go out of fashion, because they are becom-
ing so common, in their use, to the whole
sex. We beg to put in doubt on that sub.
ject. The same reason would drive stays
out of the feminine market altogether. Wo-
men wear them, instead, universally, and
console themselves by limiting the distinction
to form and costliness. And thus it will be
with the hoop. 1t is one of the most grace
full, as it must be, in summer, one of the
most comfortable, of all inventions, recently
applied to female costume. 1t is too useful,
too valuable an article, therefore, to be slight
ly abandoned. 1t is so seldom the sex are
favored with discovery in garmenting that
is really sensible and judicious, that they
cannot afford to relinquish one when possess
ed of it. Fashion may Danish, as she should
Danish, the infnitesimal bonnet, the fragile
boot, the thin covering for the breast and
arms, for all these are unwhoesome-all ben
eft the physician and apothecary more than
they do those who indulge in them, and de-
sire to transmit healthy physique to pos
terity. But the modern hoop has nothing
in common with such eccentricities When
not exaggerated in its dimensions by bad
taste, it is beautiful innovation upon the
old habit of wearing an entire wardrobe per-
du, in order to give sufficiently voluminous
flow to the drapery outside. Such an aux
iliary to nature should never be permitted to
die out. The round and the plump, to be
sure, might do without with impunity, but the
meagre and Aeshless, those whose fulness is
confined entirely to the face, what spectres
they would now become if deprived of the
friendly assistance of the steel or whalebone,
rattan or gutta percha 1t will not do to
think of it.-,Sunday Times.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-09-10

The SIAMEsE TWINS OUTDoNE.-One
of those remarkable malformations OCCASION
ally met with both auoug the higher and
lower orders of the animal creation, present
ed itself a few days since in the practice Of
one of the physicians of this village. 1t
was child having two perfectly distinct
heads, developed equally as regards size and
shape, which are united to a single body,
each by its own neck. The shoulders are
broader than natural, but in other respects
the body is not unlike that of other children
at birth; it has but two arms and two legs.
An internal examination was made Gas it
was dead born,) which exhibited most
singular arrangement of the organs con-
tained in the chest and abdomen. Two
perfect and entire spinal columns were
formed each had the usual number of ribs,
viz, twenty-four making forty-eight in all.
The middle or internal set of ribs were unit.
ed together, so that the entire chest consti-
tuted about single cavity, containing four
lungs, the middle pairs being united. Two
wind-pipes led to the lungs. One heart
circulated all the blood to this strange body.
Two food pipes led to single stomach, and,
except that it had butone kidney, the right,
the abdominal viscera were single and Datu-
raj. Cases of this kind are very seldom
met with; and although We admit that
medical journals are the proper media in
which to publish accounts of these malfor-
nations, yet as these channels are strictly
professional, and as the people do take an
interest in such freaks of nature, as in the
notorious, though far less wonderful case Of
the Siamese twins, exhibited in every part
of the world, we have though proper to pub
lish the above ACCOMPLISHING Sing Repub.
Hran, Aug. 20.
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Is TOBACCO UNwHoIEsoME?- beyond
a doubt it is, when used excessively-when
smoked and chewed in such prodigiously
unchristian quantities as are used by some
men who would appear to think that the
whole business of an individuals life is to
fll the air with as much smoke as he can,
and to spit at, into, over, upon, under and
around, every object that comes in his way,
But is it injurious to health when used
moderately ?-thatis the question.
The Cincinnati Academy Of Medicine
had the subject under consideration few
days ago, when an interesting essay was read
by Dr. J. P. White. The essayist took the
ground that the deep and deadly hostility to
the use of tobacco by certain stony-souled
philanthropists and reformers of the present
day, is partially grouudless. 1t assumed
that the smoking of good tobacco in judici-
Gus quantities, not only might be harmless,
but might even be actually beneficial. In
the course of the discussion that ensued on
the subject among the members Of the A
cademy, the evils of excessive chewing were
acknowledged by all; but no one attempted
to refute the assertion that moderate use of
the weed might be attended bya decided
benefit Tobacco is nsrcotic-the fact
that those who smoke it derive considerable
comfort from the practice. cannot be denied.
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"SAM" SUED IN KENTUCKY, AND
PLEADS THAT He IS DEAD.-On Friday,
a suit was tried in the Circuit Court of
Campbell county, Kentuckey, Judge Moore
presiding, which was brought by Shipley &
Brothers, engravers, for seals engraved for
the Know-Nothing Grand Council of Ken.
lucky, and other Councils of that State,
against A. D. smalley and Major Caldwell,
who were the agents of the Council in or
dering the seals. Ira Root and R. M.
Webster appeared for the plaintiffs, and
John W. Stephenson (recently elected Demo.
cratic Member of Congress) for the Know
Kothings.
A large amount of correspondence be.
tween the litigants was read. all very affec.
tionate, commencing " Dear Brother" and
ending "Yours fraternally."
Mr.. Stevenson, counsel for the Know
Nothings, contended that, as Sam was dead,
the suit should be brought against the ad-
ministrator of Sans estate, and not against
the agents. The Court, however, overrnled
this: and gave judgment against the defen-
dauts for 1892 so. The original bill was
for S350-the balance was interest. Gin.
csnnati Gazette, august Is.
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MEN M1LL1NERs.-They have men mill

MEN M1IL1NERs.-They have men MILL.
ners in Germany. A correspondent of the
New York Times, in writing from Frankfort,
says: "In America we have never seen
men mantau.makers and milliners, but in
Germany they are as common as men tailors,
and if a man.tailor is the ninth part of
man, we have wondered what part must be
a man milliner. One day, where we were
sitting, a man came in with dress, 6asted,
ready to try on. Well, we confess, welook-
ed with all our eyes, to see what would be
done; but there was no hesitation-the lady
took the robe to her room, and put 1t On, re-
turning in full dress, sans sleeves. The man
examined it, to see where it needed altering
took it in on the shoulders, pinched up
the biasses, and laid the plaits, evidently
used to his business, and evidently, as the
lady said he was, an excellent dress.maker,
and also that dresses made by men, kept
their place better, and lasted longer than
those made by women. ''>
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NEWSPAPER IMPERsoNALITY.-The New
York Mirror hasa judicious article upon the
proper method of conducting newspaper.
We extract the following paragraph as en-
bodying just estimate Of public opinion
respecting the matter: ...,'.- "
"The paper, which is the mere mouthpieee
of an individual, the reflex of the peculiar
tiles and idiosyrcracies of single man, is
always liable to make itself unpopular or lu.
dicrous, and can never be power in the
community. So long as the names of the
publishers are known, the public has every
necessary guarantee of the responsibility Of
their prints. Who writes this or that article
is matter which does not concern the pub
lie, and for which they care nothing. Nor
do they trouble themselves much about edi-
torial quarrels and chickering's, except to
laugh indiscriminately, as crowd does over
street fight. A newspaper of influence
and ability is an institution, not personsli-
ty, and its expressed opinions are the aggre.
gate opinions of number of men acting
with unauimity, with common motive, and
with fixed purpose Louis Napoleon Grip
Piled the French press effectively, when he
compelled every newspaper article to be sign
ed by the name of its writer; and the Lon
don Times would lose half its yigor and in
Huence, were the same rule to be adoptedin
England"
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4olittal.
From the Unionville Journal.
X A N s A S.

The interest felt in Kansas matters, and
our emigrants there, will excuse, think, the
statement Of few facts TO the public
through the Journal, connected Herewith.
On my arrival at Leavenworth, my first
business and aim was to find out the where a.
bouts of Capt. McKissick and his associates.
A few days spent in fruitless enquiries as to
their precise locality, determined me to pro-
cure an outfit for "prairie life," and 60 in
search of them. On the third day of my
stay in Leavenworth, and few minutes Of
the time was to leave, to my agreeable
surprise and qualification, Capt. McKissick
and Mr.. Mills arrived in the city, on busi-
ness connected with their land claims
From them I learned that the others of their
party we're pretty much scattered on claims
of their own, and guarding claims for others
at $50 per month, and expenses paid. By
this means, and the sale of their own claims,
they have each acquired quite handsome
little sum of money. Their lands were sold
at the Osawkee Land sales, between the 25th
of July and 10th of August, after which
time they would again be out of employ
ment. The most of them contemplated
making pre.emptions, off of which, if judi
cious selections were made, they may real
ize from $500 to $1,000 more during the
summer. At Osawkee was with the boys
in camp for several days, and learned many
interesting incidents connected with their
trials and privations in the ful6llment of
their missions, many of which were truly
distressing compared to which their pay
is far from being adequate compensation
indeed, the Committee would do them but
sheer justice if they were to double their
pay. However, none of them complain,
and all are well, happy and contented,
and look forward to no distant day,
when they are again to visit their
"homes and friends and happy land" But
they are resolved to remain at their posts
until the final battle for Southern Rights
and Southern institutions is fought and ron.
The day before I left Kansas, 1 succeeded
in getting situation for Capt. McKissick,
as assistant Wagon master to train of wag-
ons for Santa Fe and Salt Lake City, at
salary of sl25 per month. He was highly
delighted with the situation, and ere this, is
many miles over the plains towards the
"celestial city of the latter-day saints -
But before leaving Leavenworth, Capt. Nc
Kissick was assured BY Mr.. Russell, his
employer, that he could return to Kansas in
time to vote on the Constitution, should that
instrument be referred to the people for their
ratification, which is supposed will be in
December Or January next; after which he
will return to South Carolina.
The FIVE of the fifteen emigrants sent to
Kansas by the Committee of this District,
who have remained there, are, Capt. E. J.
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deep drawn breath of the brother and the
broken gasps of the murderer, alone disturb
the stiffness. The widow and dark eyed boy
are breathless. The little girl, unconscious
as she was, caught feeling of awe from the
countenances around her, and stood breath
less, her face turned aside, and her tiny fu-
gers resting on that line of life or death.
At last, gathering courage, the widow bent
her eyes to the page, and read. Itwas line
from the New Testament
"Loue your enemies"
Ah, that moment was sublime. Oh, aw-
full book of God, in whose dread pages we
see Moses talking face to face to Jehovah, or
Jesus waiting by Samaria's well, or wander
ing by the waves of dark Galiiee. Oh, aw-
full Book, shining tonight as I speak, the
light of that widows home, the glory of the
mechanic shop--shining Where the world
comes not, to look on the last night of the
convict in bis cell, lightning the way to God,
even over that dread gibbet Oh, book of
terrible majesty and child-like love-of sub
Unity that crushes the soul into awe-of
beauty that melts the heart with rapture, you
never shone more strangely beautiful than
there in the lonely cot of the Wissahikon,
when you saved the murderer's life.
For need I tell you! that murdcrer's life
was saved--the widow recognized the finger
of God, and even the stern brother was awed
into silence.
The murderer went his way
Now look you, how wonderful are the ways
of Heaven !! That very night as the widow
sat by her lonely hearth, her orphans by her
side-sat there with a crushed heart and hot
eyeballs, thinking of her husband, who now
lay mouldering en- the blood drenched soil Of
Paoli--there was tap at the door. She
opened it, and that husband, living, though
covered with wounds, was in her arms. :.
He had fallen in Paol, but not in death.
He was alive, and his wife lay painting on
his bosom.
That nightthere was prayer in that wood
embowered cot of the Wissahikon.
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WHAT PRAYER Is.-It is not, as we learn
from the success Of Jacobs prayer, the place
that gives efficacy to the prayer, but the pray.
er that makes the place holy. 1t is not the
oratory, as it'has been alleged by some, that
makes prayer, but prayer that makes the
oratory--in coalpit, or with the Alpine
herdsmen, orupon the deck of the ship toss
ed by the gale, or on the eve of battle. The
heart alone makes holy any place, and builds
the oratory, and consecrates everywhere a
church, true church of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Bowed knees and beautiful words
caunotmake prayer; but tearuest desires from
heart bowed ylove, inspiredby Gods Holy
Spirit, and thirstingfor God-the living God
will do it anywhere, or many place at any
time.-Last Of the Patriarchs. -" ..I
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ggested by the recent and sudden death Of pic
friend.
The Sabbath Bell, its music floats
So sweetly on the stilly air,
The Christian loves the solemn notes,
And gladly seeks the house of prayer,
Life's chequered scenes are changing oft,
And on his brow those changes tell;
But still his hopes are fixed aloft,
And still he loves the Sabbath Bell.
For human passions rise within
This quick, impetuous, ardent heart,
And prayer he finds shield from sin,
A strength to act the christians part,
There was his consolation too,
When troubles on his life-path fell,
This star of hope but brighter grew
And sweeter seemed the Sabbath Bell.
Ye. favored ones whose gentle souls
Meier knew or dreaded passions sway
Whose life's untroubled current rolls
In calm monotony away
Ye who were made by Natures hand,
In peaceful, quiet shades to dwell
With no temptations to withstand
And born to love the Sabbath Bell
Ye cannot know what struggles wild
Such strong, impulsive bosoms rend,
Or how ambitions tempted child
Must war with nature to the end
How hard to bid the busy brain
No more on worldly hopes to dwell,
To turn from thrilling music's strain,
And better love the Sabbath Bell.
1t may be such bosom wins
A brighter crown-a keener bliss,
Than he who only never sins
Not knowing, feeling more than this,
That one nobler triumph claims
Who thus has struggled long and we'll
Let earthly pleasures-earthly aims,
Ne'er drown the sound Of Sabbath Bell
The Sabbath Bell, its music floats
Now sadly on the Silly air,
A widowed mourner hears its notes
And seeks alone the house of prayer,
What deep'ning anguish clouds her brow,
No words can even family tell,
For oh, her life's companion now
Sleeps meath the sound of Sabbath Bell.
No more they'll seek the house Of God
No more they'll kneel together there,
But she can kiss the chast'ning rod,
And find the lost ones comfort-prayer,
Yet must she see his empty seat,
And miss his voice in music's swell,
Still in all things token meet,
Fen in the sound of Sabbath Bell.
Columbia, Aug 29th, 1857.
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nsa- Nothing ever grows old in memory !;
the little boy that died, so long ago is an
eternal child, and even as he crept over the
threshold of Gods gate ajar, at the beckon-
ing Of the Lord, so ever in the heart his
parting look with heaven shining full upon
his brow the beauty that the heart grew
warm beholding, in life's forenoon, when
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NO.. SO.

It is disiufectant, and often affectually
counteracts the deleterious influence Of con.
tagious disease. 1t is gentle stimulant,
and may preserve the tissues from that wear
and tear which the fierce pursuits of men
at the present day cause. Let the argu-
ments against the use of tobacco be directed
against its abuse, and they may be more ef-
fectual.-S. Louis Neus.
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dews were on the world, and played the
truant with some angel, remains untouched
by time, even as the unrent sky that let the
wanderer in.-Chicago Journal.
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"a DR.: Cousinchaving heard the famous
T. Fuller repeat verses on scolding wife,
was 50 delighted with theu as to request q
cupy14 but Fuller told him tta copy wal need.
less, as be had the originate ~: Il .''s.-'
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Original 4oetrp.
For the Yorkvillc Enquirer.
THE BBATH BELL.

BIZ MRS. ". W. STRATTON.