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ORDINANCE.

VsEIT ORDAINED, by le Intcndant and War
4 , dcns Of the Town Of Iorkville, in Council
assembled and by the authority of the same, That,
from and after the publication Of this Ordinance
if any person or persons shall fire gun, pistol or
other firearms within three hundred ynrds of the
public streets of Yorkvie, he, she or they shall,
upon conviction pay ine of five dollars for each
offence.
.. BE IL furtier Ordained, by the authority o.
foresai, That if any person or persons, owning or
having in charge any horse or mule, shall permit
such horse or male TO rtin at large In any OF the
streets of Yorkvlc he, she or they shall forfeit
ana pay to the Town Council Of said town the
sum of one dollar for every day such horse or
male shall be permitted to run atlnrgc.
5. Bel further OrGained That, fui the purpose
of preventing encroachments upon sidewalks, the
owner. owncrs or occupant of any let within the
cooperate limits of the town arc hereby prohibit
rl from setting out any tree or trees in front of
such lot, out of the line now fixed anG established;
under penalty Of One dollar for every twenty
four hours such tree or trees may remain so set.
out.
4. Belt furihcr Oriaincd That tax of five
per cent, be imposed on all sales made within !he
corporate limits of thr town by itiuerant auction
eers--the amLdnt Of sales to be returned on
oath, and the tax to be paid, by such Auctioncer
to the Inendant, before ten o'clock in the evening
Of each day upon which snch sales shall be male;
and upon each and every failure to render return
in the manner thus provided for, such Auctoneers
shall forfeit and pay to the Town Council sum
not exceeding Twenty Dollars, to be collected i'll
the mode now provided for by law.
5. Be il further Ordained, That each and every
person, resulting within the corporate limits Of
the town, liable to Patrol duty, may commute for
the performance Of such duty by the payment Of
One Dollar aud fifty cents prorided said commu.
taton he paid on or before the first day of April
next; and all persons refusing or failing to pay
such communication within the time specified, shall
be held liable to Patrol duty, and fOr non perform
ancc thereof, to such fines and penalties as arc
now provided by law.
6. BE ii further Ordained, That al Ordinances
or clauses of Ordinances repugnant to this Ordi-
nance be- and they are hereby repealed.
Done and Ratified under the corporate seal of the
town, on the 9th day Of Mnrch, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-seveD.
F. II. SIMRIh, Mtsndam
JosEpn HERNpoN, CI"rk.
March II 1O st
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LAW BLANKS!

ENTE have on hand and are prepared to supply
w at short notice, at the ENQUIRER Office,
all kinds Of LAWYERS BLANKS in general de,
mand, printed on good paper and neatly pressed.
We offer them at IS cents z quirc. Single halt
Quirc so cents AS we have incurred considera.
bic outlay toenable us to furnish n good article,
We will sell for CASH and CASH ONLY.
Our present stock consists of the following va
rictics, viz: Sam Pro; Fl. Fa.; FL. Fa. on Sum.
Pro-; Copy Writ in Case: Copy Writ in Debt; De-
clnrction on lct0unt; Declaration on Promissory
Note: Decldration on Bond or Sraled Note; Sab
pama Wits; Spbpona Tickets, SC.
BsIy" Orders from distance promptly attended
to, if accompanied by the CASH!
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PROSPECTUS OF
's,THE SOUTH
A DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER, PUBLISHED AT
DIIn1InnnArn II.

A DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER, PUBLISHED AT
RICHMOND, VA.
ID EFORE the close Of the present month, the
I'D subscriber will issue the first number Of n
newspaper which he proposes to publish in Daily
and Semi. weekly editions, and which he intends
to devote to the service of the South the interests
of the State, and to the support Of the principles
of the Democratic Party. But the paper will mot
be SO exclusively political, that its columns will
only interest the politician nor so subseryient tn
party rs to spare the misconduct of bad men, to
betray principle for the sake of power, or to des-
pisc its convictions at the suggestion of cxpediency.
l shall endeavor to commend it to intelligent
persons Of all classes by diligence in the collec
ton Of news, by impatting something OF agricul-
tural, commercial and literary interest to its col
umns, and by rcnturing an outspoken and emphat
c opinion on the topics of the day. no matter what
the hazard of conflict with prejudice or Of offence
to the self-appointed feeders of party. The ergan
of no clique, in the interest OF no faction, and
with no partial purpose to serve, the paper will
address itself to the honest judgment Of the peo-
pie, and for support will rely upon the apprccia-
ton of energy and enterprise, and their love of
plain talk and independent opinion. There may
be particular individuals to whom this sort of dis
cussion will notbe very acceptable, but IL, can
conciliate The favor of the masses, / may survive
the opposition of ignorant or interested critics.
No doubt servile spirits will be shocked at my zeal
in the defence of the South still have the con-
solatory assurance that there are plenty Of brave
and true men in Virginia, upon whose sympathy
and support may rely with absolute security
And so believing, I embark upon the enterprise,
with no misgiving as to the result. -
'.THE SOUTH will be Of equal size with the
leading papers of the city and will be furnished
to subscribers at the following rates: Daily seven
dollars year, Semi-weekly five dollars-payabk
in Advance. D..
Money may be sent by mail to the address Of
ROGER A. PRYOR,
Editor and Proprietor.
Richmond, March 1867. 13 If
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On SIGHT AND ON DEMAND.-Judge g.,
well-kuown, highly respected kickerbock-
er, on the shady side Of fifty, widower with
five chidreu-full of fun and frolic, ever
ready for joke-to give OF to take-was
bantered the other evening by Miss of five
and twenty, for not taking another wife !;
she urged that he was hale and hearty, and
deserved a matrimonial messmate. The
Judge acknowledged the fact; admitted that
he was convinced by the eloquence of his
fair friend that he had been thus far rcniss:
and expressed contrition for the fault con-
fessed ending with Offering himself to the
lady, telling her she could not certainly re-
jcct him after pointing out to him his helm
Gus offence. The lady replied she would be
most happy to take the situation so uniquely
advertised, and become bone of his bone and
flesh but there was one, to her, serious OBJ
stacle.
WELL says the Judge, name it. My
profession is to surmount such impediments.'
sAh! Judge this is beyond your power
I have vowed if 1 ever marry widower, he
must have ten children"
Ten children! Oh that's nothing says
the Judge. III give you five now, and my
notes on demand in instalments for the bal
ancc.'
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POETRY IMpRovED.--The following, from
one of the old British poets, is exquisite
1t is the very essence of fancy. 1t was ad'
dressed to lady, upon whose bosom flake
of snow fell and melted:
The envious snow came down in haste
To prove the breastless fair,
But grieved to see itself surpassed,
And melts into tear
sPshawp says an exchange, 'we can beat
that any time. Look here:
Down her white bosom rolled the tear,
I'VE know it hadn't oughter)
At tlast-at last-oh, dear
Her shirt was wet as water
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THE LAW OF NEWSPAPERS.

/. Subscribers who do not give express notice
to the contrary, arc considered rs wishing to con-
tinucther subscription
9. If subscribers order the discontinuance Of
their papers, the publisher can continue to send
them until all arrearages are paid.
8. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their
papers from the office to which they are directed,
they are held responsible till they settle their bill,
and order the paper discontinued.
4. If any subscriber removes to another place
without informing the publisher and their paper
issent to the former direction, they are held re-
sponsiblc.
S. The Court has decided that refusing to take
n Newspaper from the Office or removing and leav-
ing it uncallcd for, is prima facis evidence of an
intentional fraud.
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'GBoiite 4oetrp*
From "Porter's Spirit of the Times"
THIS STRANGE, MYSTERIOUS woRL,

THIS STRANGE, MYSTERIOUS "ORLD
By FINLEY JOHNSON.
This is a strange, mysterious world
Say, don't you think so, Bill
Where every man his foot does raise
To help you down lfe's hill;
love indeed to SEQ men kind
But then I'm not so fat
As to desire from their souls
Such striking help as that.
This is strange, mysterious world
So all the ladies say;
As with bonnets trimmed with roses fair,
They 20 to church to pray;
And how provoked the dear souls are,
While sitting in their pew,
To be gazed at by nice young men,
Who've nothing else to do.
This is strange, mysterious world,
Where many sorrows grieve us;
And e'en the women that we love
Are oft the first to leave US.
And then they say to calm our grief,
"We lore you as brother,'
And lavish soft, sweet words on US,
But kis,e, on another.
This is strange, mysterious world,
In which we live and thrive,
Where half the folks are starved to death
To keep the rest alive;
Some are in want, and all have ills,
Yet seem to mind them not;
But they grow grave when thoughts intrude
About n graveyard lot.
This is strange, mysterious world,
This rolling world Of ours;
Itis-well really now, say it is
"By the eternal powers"
We cannot meet well-tried friend,
And with him take drink,
But some stiff temperance man will say,
We're ON distinctions brink.
BALTIMORE, MD.
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cfumtr' S 9tpartulent,
A COUNTRY HOME FOR ME.

- ~OOts - ~
do not ask that city spires
May round my mansion rise,
But that my house may be where trees
Arc pointing to the skies;
Where flows the silvery mountain rill
With n sweet and merry sound,
And echoes of the hunters gun
Shall through the woods resound.
cannot love the city's pomp,
It's fashion and its pride,
1 had rather dwell in an humble cot
Upon the mountain side;
Where swee,ly blooms the Acacia tree,
The tulip and the rose,
And where, beside the rivulets,
The early violet grows.
l would not give my quiet house,
Its happiness and health,
For all the city palaces,
Its pleasure and its wealth;
I love to breathe the mountain ar,
And roam where all is free,
Let others choose city life
But q country home for me!
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A s1rcKER,s THEATRE VISIT.

A SUCKERS THEATRE VISIT.
The following good thing we find in the
Reveille:
well, I've been thar Jim,' said Sucker
to his crony.
sWhar down to St. Louis p enquired Tim.
well, no whar else,' was the answer, 'and
I've seed some of the durndest things you've
ever heered on in the hull animal creation
what wur they like p inquired Jim.
oh, all sorts of doins mixed up sorter
every way; but the thing that just tuck me
straight were seeiu' flying ,eoman? Arter
the fiat boat wur hitched, I sot to lookin'
round, and pooty soon l seed on big hoss
bills, stuck agin houses, that fellow named
Dan Soos war going to cut up some of the
tallest kind of shindes. I war naturally
bound to find out what it war like, so | axed
q feller readin' it and he laushed-he said
it war the only Me-a-tcr. Says |, that's a
show, aint it? and said he, it ar, but it alnt
no circus show nuther, but all sorts OF a
handsome show, held in place as big as our
country-seat courthouse, jest made up my
mind I'd 60 ten cents straight. I found out
whar they kept it, and up I goes, but thar
they told me the lowest notch was cool
quarter; that staggered me, but gin it
Root or die when you're in for it, ses l, so
up goes the alfredestlot of stairs. l thought
arter spell I'd come out somewhar reer
the moon but by travelling spell l got up
whar lot of folks war. 1t looked to me
like a meetin' house with three galleries and
lit up like all out doors in daylight. A lot
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ENQUIRER OFFICE.

YHyHE Copartncrship heretofore existing under
Il the style Of MILLER 4 MELTON, has beer
dissolved by mutual consent. The Notes and Ac
counts due the Office arc i'll the hands of JNO. L.
MILLER, who is fully authorized to settle the af
fairs of the firm. As it is desirable rs well as
necessary to close up the Books, those who art
indebted are requested to make settlement imme
diately, either in person or by letter.
Having associated Mr.. JOSEPH II. BLACE
in partnership, al business transactions connect
ed with the paper will be conducted hereafter by
JNO. L. MILLER & co.
MILLER & MELTON.
Yorkville, Feb. 26, 1867.
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THE ElLLUSTRATED EDITION OF
IRVING'S LITE 0F WASHINGTON.

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SCRATCHES AND CoLIC.-Wash the in,
famed parts with warm soapsuds, then with
No. 6, three times day; keep him in dry
stable at night, and in few days he will
be sound and we'll.
For collie in horses, take half pint of No.
6, mix in half pint of water; drench the
horse; if not relieved, repeat the dose every
two hours as long as any symptoms of the
collie remain. When a man thinks his
horse is about to die with bots, let him try
the above remedy, and his horse will soon be
relieved of colic.-SoH Of the South.
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IMPROVEMENT IN SoAP.-The wife of an
American agriculturist has been experimen-
ting in soaps, and finds that the addition of
three-quarters of pound of borax to pound
of soap, melted without boiling, makes sa-
wing of-one half in the cost of soap, and
three-fpurths the labor of washing, and i'm
proves the whiteness of the fabrics besides,
the usual caustic effect is thus removed, and
the hands are left with peculiar soft and
silky feeling, leaving nothing more to be de-
sired by. the most ambitious washerwoman.
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BIRDS AND SNAKES.

These are among the most useful of the
farmers aids, in securing his crops from in
sect depredations and yet manifest as this
is to every observing man, they are frequent
ly pursued and hunted from the premises as
if they were his worst enemies. The mar
tin, the swallow and the wren, which may
almost be considered among the domestics
of the farm; and the sparrow, the robin, the
blue bird, the wood-pecker, bob-a-link, the
thrush, the oriole, and nearly all the song
sters of the field accomplish more for the
destruction of noxious flies, worms and in
sects, which are the real enemies of the far
mer, than all the nostrums ever invented
And hence the folly of that absurd custom
of scare-crows in the growing cornfelds and
orchards, to which I have alluded. The
chickens and ducks do the farmer more ben
eft than injury in the garden and pleasure
grounds, if kept out Of tho way while the
young plants are coming up. A troupe of
young turkeys in the field, will destroy their
weight in grass-hoppers every three days,
during their prevalence in summer or au-
tumn. A pair of sparrows, while feeding
their young, consume over three thousand
caterpillars a week. One hundred crows
deyour ton and half of grubs and insects
in one season. Even the hawk and the owl,
the objects of general aversion, rid the fields
and woods of innumerable squirrels, moles
and field mice. The last are frequently
great depredators upon the crops, after hav-
ing exhausted the stores of worms and in
sects which they invariably devour, and to
this sextent these little quadrupeds themselves
are benefactors. The smaller species Of the
hawk and owl, when pressed by hunger, will
resort to grubs, beetles, crickets and grass
hoppcrs, in the absence of larger game
That loathsome monster, the bat, in its hob
goblin flight, destroys his bulk of flies in a
single night. Slight injury may occasional
ly be done to the grain and fruit by the
smaller birds, and when thus intrusive, some
temporary precaution will suffice to prevent
much loss. But whenever loss may thus
occur, the balance of benefit to the farmer
from their presence, is generally in their ia
vor; and instead of driving them from his
grounds he should encourage their social WIS.,
its by kind and gentle treatment, and by
providing trees and pleasant shrubery for
their accommodation.
The Toad, apparently dull, squat, and of
the soils hue, whatever that may be; he
sits quiet and mcditative, yet watchful in
the thick shade of some overgrown cabbage;
and as the careless insects buzz by, or the
grub or beetle crawl lazily along, unhecdful
of danger, he loads his aldermanic carcass
with the savory rcpast. Sixteen fresh bee
ties, a pile equal to his fasting bulk, have
been found in the stomach of single toad.
The striped snake is harmless object a.
bout the farm premises, aid like the toad,
he is great gormandizcr of worms and in
sccts The sole drawback to his merits
rises from his frequently feastiug on the toad
and frog.-1mcrican Frm Book.
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nsy~ The best way to break and train VI
cious colts is to handle them with the ut
most gcntlcncss. There is nothing that
compares with kindness in subduing the
"mctal" Of refractory colt. He should be
taught to understand and obey the voice Of
his master, rather than stand in fear of the
whip. A horses powers Of memory is very
extraordinary; should he be submitted to
i'll treatment, during colthood, he never for
gets it, and it almost invariably tends to ron
der him vicious and unmanageable in after
life. On the other hand, colts appreciate
kindness, which can be engrafted on their
memories so as to render them docile and
obedient.
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WARLlCk'S
PATENT Pillow.

~ JAMES II. FERGUSON takes
TsssNs this method of informing the
zssRss.sSs Planters of Chester and York
Districts, that he has purchased the right Of T..
W. Woodward, to manufacture and sell Warlck's
Patent Piow in the aforesaid Districts. r. W..
SfCRRfER is my lawfully constituted and trav-
cling Agent, of whom the Plows can be procurel
or apply at my manufactory near Beckhamville,
OH Fishing Creek. JAMES II. FERGUSON.
March 5 Q ly
pas Chester Standard copy till forbid.
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of fellers 6ddled away spell by themselves,
but cuss me if I could see whar. that feller
Dan Soos war, and jest as I wur goin' to ak
a chap whar the show war, up rooled the
hull side of the house, right afore me, and
out slid gal on her tiptoes, whirlin' about
like as if she couldn't keep down on the
yeath. The way she handled her pins jest
sot me rearin'-it beat Mary Sellers all hol-
ler, and she aint slow. asked feller next
to me who she war, and I'll swar ifhe didn't
say it war Dan Soos which, instead Of bein'
mans name war French for dancin' wo-
man. I didn't notice at first, but arter a
spell I seed the reason she couldn't keep from
jumpin'- made my hair kind o'rise-she
wur not only angel-looking creatur, but,
Jim-you kin b'lieve it or not, hoss fly
I'll declare she had wingsp
Here says Jim, you kin jest take my
hat
Il knowed nobody would believe me-, said
the Sucker, Il jest know'd it, [ swar | seed
her take holt on the tip Of her wing, spread
it out and jest fly like bird clean across
the hull side of the house. A fellar was
chasiu hur, but he couldn't shine; she shuck
her toe at him, and slid right out of sight
Thar says Jim, sthat will do; know'd
you could do pooty we'll a lyin', but the last
effert kin take the cakes
Il amt goin, to tell it any more, but I'll
swar I seed it,
Seed thunder p shouted Jim. you seed
what the doctors call oIfactory COLLISION.
A uSTUMp" ANEcDoTE.- Tennesse pa
per- we believe, is culpable in the following !:
A distinguished Old Line Wing of Mem
phis, who never joined the American Or
der, but who canvassed Tennessee for "Fill-
more, Donelson and the Union," used to
account, on the stump, for his relation to
the American party, by telling the "Widow
Neppins Anecdote." Widow Neppins was
ga pillar" of the Methodist Church in the
neighborhood where she lived but, with
many of the qualities so becoming in Chris
tian, she possessed far more of the ".foHtter
IN re" than of the "suariter IN modo'-in
fact, not to put too fine point upon it, she
was as "crabbed" as she we'll could be
Well, once upon time, great revival broke
out amongst the Methodists in the Widows
neighborhood. OF course, the widow atten-
ded; and, though participating after her un-
bending fashion-that is as if fed on ram
rod soup-she never failed to occupy her
place on the "amen" benches. One even
ing, after a most copious outpouring OF grace,
and when the new converts and Jealous
members were running over with enthusl-
asm, one of the preachers struck up jubllant
song and started round to "shake hands"
with the brethren and sisters, as is usual on
such occasions. Finally, he came to the
Widow Neppins, whom, while shaking by
the hand, he accosted with, go, sister Ncp-
pins, don'tyou lore the Lord ?" The Wild
ow withdrew her hand, quickly, and purslDg
up her mouth, replied in her usual curt man
ner-"Ioint got "othiI agi@ Him."