Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-10-08

ed quite series of similar digniied labors
every morning but when boys of my own
age we're round, sometimes thought, while
lookingat their good and respectable clothing,
that it would not have been a very bad plan
for me to have accepted aunt Deborah's offer
of sending me to the college.
An opportunity offeringto go to sea, I pre-
pared to go, despite the entreaties, and even
tears of the fat land lady. When she found
me determined, she provided me with every
thing needful for the voyage, hugged me to
her capacious heart, and bade me God-speed.
Jones, who was so angry because | stayed
there, was still more so when went away;
and in his wife's absence, taunted me with
my new clothes, which he more than half
suspected came from her, flthough they pas
sed as the stage drivers gift.
The servants all assembled to see me go
away, and their hearty, Goodbye, Sam a
S fe return to you, old fellow was probably
more sincere than nine-tenths of the good
wishes that have been spoken to me since
that time.
I shall say but very little about my sea-liie.
It did not answer my expectations at all. l
never passed day without intolerable sea-
sickness, and being slight, delicate boy,
the captain advised me as friend to stay in
future upon the land. Going on shore, the
mate stepped forward and shook my hand,
saying:
We'll, Sam, you have killed sailor after
ALL
I did not then know the meaning of this
phrase; but when got back to the old
house in Howard street, my friend, the dri
yer, repeated it, and from him | got the ex-
planation of the term.
I could not 60 back to my kitchen work
again after my voyage, so 1 looked out dill
gently for some employment An advertise
meut in the paper for printers boy caught
my eye, and l applied and was received
Here l was quite happy. I made myself a
favorite in the office, and fortunately sue
ceeded in learning the business so that my
services would always command fair re-
Enumeration.
At twenty-one l married Susan Russell,
the daughter of my employer. am thus
brief in recording this, because by no alche'
nv whatever could | convert old-fashioned
and mattcr-of-facts liking for each other. and
subsequent union, into anything like romance,
The whole might be compressed into single
sentence. l liked her. and married her
when found that she also liked me.
Nv description of our new home would he
quite as brief We took two rooms, furnish
ed them comfortable, and Susan kept them
shiuir.- like silver the Whole year round
If e, n I enjpved true, rca' unmeritcd hap
pine<S without care or anxiety, or fear for
the future, it WIS in those days. What peace
we enioyed Our two eldest children were
barn here. and then onr limits seemed too
small but 1t ras real pain to both of us to
m,ve from the snng abode which had been
the scene of so many calm and peaceful
hours.
of Boston; not those miniature cities which
now rise up beside the venerable Tri-moun-
tain, but small and obscure village, since
risen to the size and importance it deserves.
About the time that we removed, and
were quietly settled, very important law
case was on the docket, and when it came
on, we were very busy printing the reports
of the trial as it progressed. I became in
} tenscly absorbed in it; not so much from
sympathy with the parties concerned, as from
feeling that, were I acquainted with the
technicalitics of the law. I could seize upon
very many points of importance which be-
lieved the prisoners counsel had overlooked
: altogether This idea grew stronger and
5 stronger upon my mind. had access tc
t law books which were in my employer ssanc
: tum, and I porcd over them sometimes al
night long.
Mr. Russell had been bred to the law, bu
had relinquished his profession for that O
an editor some years before the birth of my
wife. l frankly stated to him my wishes il
0 regard to fitting myself for the bar.
He at first laughed, then seriously tried t.
: dissuade me from attempting it. Opposition
; only strengthened my purpose, and enter
ed the Office of an eminent lawyer, who over
> looked my deficiencies in some respects, il
) consideration, as he was pleased to term it
; of the talent and acumen which my replic
II to his questions displayed.
| now wrote for the journal which haC
Il been accustomed to print, and with such Sc
c crecy that Mr. Russell did not find out VIII
c his new contributor was. lie would Otter
+ wonder in my presence, who it could be, ant
T. ascribed to him a degree Of talent bril-
e liaucy of expression such as | had hardl.
n hoped to deserve. He often. too imputed nj,
u articles to - and - then the two lead
&c ing writers of the day, and expressed hi
opinion that they would not remain incog,
great while. This hattery pleased ME, but
= did not allow my vanity 10 lead me into be
traying myself. Through = third party.
received larger compensation for my labor
Y. certainly, than should have done had m
wise fathcrin-law mistrustcd who was hi
!; correspondent.
], | studied hard, and at length had the in
', expressible satisfaction Of being admitted t
% the Suffolk bar took an Office with an
E. ether young lawyer in order to reduce ou