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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-03-04

mint either has been or will be captured soon.
About f1rty Mo"sond dollays of counterfeit
money has been secured. Over Mrcehune7red
names of the band, not yet arrested, are in
the hands of the officers, and arrests will be
made as fast as possible. One of the arrests
was made in church, of man who was &C.
tualy preaching at the moment the officers
nabbed him. He confessed, We understand,
and lamented the effects Of his crime, less
on his own account, than those of his "Aock," Z"
who, he feared, would lose their zeal when
such wrctched example was set them by
their preacher.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-03-04
Mlistellaneous Aea0ln9
TOO MANY TRADERS.

We make the following extract from a re-
cent editorial of the Portland (Me.) Adver-
tiser:
ga Mercantile Agencyin New York, with
excellent facilities for making a correct CAL
culation, estimates that there are in the Uni
ted States, or were when the late crisis came
upon the country, more than two hundred
and four thousand stores in the retail trade
Taking his estimate as correct, if we dis
tribute the twenty-five millions of our popu-
lation among them in families, each will have
TWENTY-FIVE as the total number of their Gus.
toners. There is a store to every l23 OF
our inhabitants, men, women and children
bond and frec-rich and poor; and allowing
five persons to the household, the average
number of accounts out of which mercantile
profit and loss is to be figured in this coun-
try, is as we have just stated, twenty-five.
1t certainly requires no argument to show
that this proportion of retail traders to the
gross population must be highly injurious to
both, and absolutely destructive to large
fraction of the former. 1t is injurious to
the population in general, because with so
many competitors in the field as sellers, the
facilities to buyers are rendered too easy,
and with the full exercise of an expanded
system of credit, debts are contracted and
promises are put forth, which at the day of
maturity cannot be liquidated and fulfilled
The effect of this upon the retail trader is
first to embarrass, then contract and then
bankrupt him. During the various throes
and convulsions which attend his rapid pro-
gross to insolvency, he seeks relief by bor-
rowing money at fabulous rates Of interest,
only in the end to fail in the payment even
of the principal With collapses of this
kind in the retail trade growing daily more
frequent, the great centres of trade begin to
feel the effect, and down goes the wholesale
dealer, the importer, and every other person
engaged in this over-blown, ovcr.done, un-
naturally expanded system of trade, and the
end Of the whole is one general panic and
widespread bankruptcy.
"Such, in brief, is the history of the causes
which produced the crisis of 1857, and eve
ry other crisis which in' former years has Wis
tied this nation with, what for the time must
be regarded, as the absolute destruction OF
trade. The Europeans dcrisively say that
we are "a nation of shopkeepers, and We
submit if there be not some ground for the
accusation, when We ponder upon the figures
which we have given above. Going into
business in this country, to the minds OF
large majority of our people, means nothing
else than opening store and it is, there
fore, in that particular direction, that three
fourths of the energy and enterprise among
our young men seeks field for its exercise,
to the great detriment, as we have seen, to
that branch of trade itself, and with almost
inevitable disappointment to their own san
suine calculations and spirited cxertions."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-03-04
Gkoi1e 4oetrg.
THE DRUNKARD's CHILD.

THE DRUNKARD'S CHILD.
In the crowded street met her,
Just as twilight yelled the sky,
Never never to forget her,
And the tear-drops in her eye.
Fair as summers fairest blossom,
Played the curls upon her brow.
While beneath them heaved bosom,
Whose deep anguish thrills me now.
"Father father" spake she mildly,
"Mother prayed you would not stay
"Father, father" cried she wildly,
"Come, oh, come with me away
"Hush thy tongue !" the father uttered
For the dram-shop door was nigh
And her heart with terror futtered,
As he bade her homeward fly.
Sad, and faint, and broken-hearted,
Turned that little child away
To her home from whence she started,
Where her starving mother lay.
All that night, with grief and sorrow
Watched they, prayed they-hoped in vain
Till the day-dawn of the morrow
Brought the druula-d home again.
Sore and cross, the wretch beheld them
Wanting cen a crust to eat;
Like two beasts the fiend expelled them
From the hoyel to the street!
Bitter, bitter days, they bore it
Grief the world may never know
Till the bier, with sable Ger it,
Eased their burden here below.
Side by side the two are sleeping
Faded stalk and withered rose!
Meath the silent willow-weeping
Ger the grave of many woes.
0, my God is this story
Or sight for every day?
This apart of human glory
Let the tongues Of sages say.
What of courts and what of battles,
What of deeds beyond the wave,
When around our hearth-sides rattles
All this pageant of the grave?
Dim the eyes and cold the embers,
Pale the cheek and dark the sky,
And what joy the soul remembers
Gives to grief darker dye.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-03-04

m~ A lawyer in one of the western courts
lately threw a cane at auother's head. The
court required him to apologize for it. he
did so, and added: "While | am about 1t,
I may as we'll apologize beforehand for
throwing another cane at him the hrst
chance get"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-03-04

LIFE OF NO CITIZEN SAFE.-A Cincln-
natl "local," the other day, sadly in want
of an item, announced that three policemen
had killed Muskrat on the levee, where
upon German contemporary translates:
nHerr Amos Krat was yesterday fendlsh'
ly murdered by three scoundrelly policemen
on the levee. The life of no citizen is safe"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-03-04

m- A little boy, at his fathers funeral,
observed child of one Of the neighbors
crying bitterly, doubtless in sympathy with
his little friend. This reused the orphan
boy, who exclaimed, you needn't cry-thls
amt none of your funerals"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-03-04

PROGRESS OF TIE AGE.-A school boy
about six years of age approaches the master
with bold front, and self-confdent air, and
the following dialogue cnsucs Boy-'May
I be dismissed, sir?' Mr.. Birch, (scowllng)
-sWhat reason have you for making the
request, Thomas?' Boy-I want to take
my woman out sleighirg, sir' Mr.. Birch
flake your seat
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-03-04

pae Some of the domestic events OF drun-
kenness are houses without windows, gardens
without fences, and fields without tliiage'
barns without roofs, children without clo'
thing, principals, morals or manners
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-03-04

ng" "I can easier teach twenty what were
good to be done, than be one of the twenty to
follow mine own teachings with which
very apt quotation we insert the following
from the National Flag, Bloomington, llli-
nois:
"Thc people of New York are disposiug
of their surplus female population by send
ing young girls out West, where they obtain
places with farmers and others. A Mr..
Tracy recently arrived at jamestown, Wis
consin, with a party Of these INDECENT fe-
mules, and local paper, called the "Inde-
pedent," thus describes the manuerin which
they were disposed of: A charge of ten
dollars was made for each person, the money
to be paid by the employer and to be deduct
ed from the future earnings of the young
women. The Free Church was thrown
open, the young women occupying two seats
in rows, some Of them crying. Customers
then walk along the range with perfect cool
ness, examining their condition one by one,
and, as they found one suitable, they plank.
ed down the cash and carried off the prize.
\ company of some seventy or eighty of
that description of female population arrived
at the Western Depot, in this city, on Satur-
day of last week--a portion of whom were
taken by those in want of help here, and
the residue were taken on to Springfield
We did not witness the arrival nor the dis
position made of them, though we learn
that every purchaser had to fork over ten
dolors as the first installment upon the pur-
chase money. 1t is strange what sympathy
"white folks" have for the negro, and how
little they care for the condition of their own
color.
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melody; the feet are rendered equally happy
in the same way
\ nice afternoon school received the lit
tie girl, who grew in health and harmony
every month as she followed the hygienic
rules prescribed for her. Dancing is a
healthful, beautiful, graceful recreation, aud
is not responsible for the abuses that luxury
has thrown around it. The vulgarism and
the excitements of the ball room have no
more to do with the simple enjoyment ofthe
dance than the rich wines and sumptuous
banquets of the gourmand, in whom they
induce disease, have to do with the tempe
rate repasts that satisfy the natural wants of
the boGy.-Dr. Harriet X. HINT.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-03-04

sg Moving for a new trial :-Courtingasec
ond wife,
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-12-23
"EIwavs Forward >

In the terrible battle of Molino del
Rey, which Immediately preceded the
fall of Mexico, Colonel Graham was
Iordered up from the reserve 70 carry a
battery, from which q column Of Amer
lean troops had already been repuIsed.
The gallant eleventh, at their leaders
cry Of forward, = raised hurrah, it is
said, and dashed ahead. As they dash.
ed along over the bodies of their fallen
comrades, the batteries opened, tearing
their ranks frightf1lly and obscuring the
Iprospept with smoke. ''Forward! For
ward u cried Colonel Graham. Again
the grape and canister came crashing
from the Mexican parapetS. Six bullets
struck the Colonel. Yet still he shouted
"Forw ard p At last seventh shot
proved fatal But as he reeled before
he fell, he waved his sword, and cried
again, Forward my word is always
torward!' His men swept onward like
q torrent, the story goes, carried the en-,
envy guns, planted The stars and stripes
on the disputed walls. 1t is possible
that those gallant words, " Forward
Forward always forward" alone saved
the day.
No man knows what danger he can
safely pass, what difficulties he can
overcome, what apparent impossibilities
he can achieve, until he has thrown
himself, heart and soul, into his task
determined to succeed. Would Wash,
ington have conquered at Trenton if he
had shrunk back at the wildly running
ice that threatened to impede his pas
sage Of the Delaware? Would Napoleon
have been victorious at Arcola if he had
}stopped, despairing, on the hither side
ofthat awful bridge? Would yelling.
ton have won at Waterloo if he had no.
said, when the French cuirassiers swept
around him like whirlwind, so that he
had to throw himself into square fol-
protection, "hard pounding, this, gentle
men, but we will see who can pound
thelongest! y a strong will, believe us
is often betterthan intellectitself. There
is talsman in 1Forward always for
ward -
Often in life there occur crisises
when everything conspires to dishearter
us. The nervous system itself becomes
worn out by the severe tensions to which
it has been subjected morbid state OF
feeling ensues the poor, halfdrownod
swimmer is about to give up in despair.
That is just the time to say to oneself
forward, always forward" TO triumph
under smooth skies and when the wind
is fair, is no honor. It is the tempest
that proves who is strong hearted. Had
Colonel Graham, in that terrific rush at
Molino del Rey, thought only of the de-
feat which had preceded his attack, he
would have failed in the assault; Mexico,
perhaps, not would have fallen. 1t was
| the forward, fol ward, always forward"
ringing in thesoldiers' ears, that carried
them on its hurricane Of high-hearted
courage upto the muzzles ofthe enemy's
guns, over the parapet, triumphant into
Che fort. Never despair, Forward. =
Ay always forward,
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-12-23
IIE7NGG g.
The world is full of heroic takers,
but it has few heroic doors. .--.

The world is full of heroic takers,
but it has few heroic doors.
"A wag says he mont care a fig wheth-
er they get any currents through the
Atlantic cable or not, but he would like
a few fresh dates.
Mr.. Singlestiek mystifed tea party
the other day by remarking that women
are facts. When pressed to explain his
meaning, he said, "Facts are stubborn
things 4-5 ID sss .a
Fiddlesticks "a word strongly ex-
pressive of contempt. 1t brushes al
reply. When a lady once says "fddle7
STICKS" he is bold man who dares ut
ter another word.
The Abingdon Vrginion states that
molasses may be regarded as specific
against typhoid fever, and that in those
districts of Tennessee where the dis.
ease has recently been peculiarly fatal,
those families which used molasses free
" were rarely attacked.
a Chinanan stepped into a iewelry
store at San Francisco, and inquired #
they had any "consistencies." On be-
ing asked to explain himself, he didn't
know what consistency was, but had
been told it was a jewel.
ga Bible and a newspaper in every
house, and good school in every dis
trict, all studied and appreciated as
they merit, are the principal support OF
virtue, morality and civil liberty
Franklin.
ADVICE TO YoUNG MES.-Are you
stepping on the Threshold of life? Sc
cure good moral character. Without
virtue yea cannot be respected with.
out integrity and sobriety, you can
never rise to any point of distinction
and honor.
BIBLE CLASSES. - There is a Bible
class in Brooklyn, n. Y, from which,
under the same teacher, ninety persons
have been added to the church within
few years. Similar results are con.
tinually transpiring with many other
Lible classes In the country.
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-12-23
A Lion Roasted.


Mrs. Col. Somerset, in an account OF
her adventures in CafFrarla, relates the
following incident:
A few minutes yet ofintense suspense,
and then the silence was broken by a
terrific roar exactly in the direction
they had expected; this was answered
by still more terrible growl opposite,
and, following the direction Indicated by
one Of the Caffirs' spears, Helen saw,
through thin part Of the hedge, an inn
mense lion, actually within few yards.
The fire glowed brighter, as if to show
the dreadful animal to her view more
distinctly. lie stood firm, with name
erect, blinking his eyes in the unusual
light, and flashing his tail preparatory to
Helen's fascinated gaze wasstill
upon him, when spear glanced III the
light, then sank Quiyerlng in his neck.
With q roar like thunder he crouched,
and concentrating his whole force, sprang
over the hedge, and right into the mid
die of the fire, scattering its cmbers in
every direction. Even as he came down
in his bound, half dozen spears were
plunged into his side. Inturiated by
pain and fright the lion bounded on,
then, reused to madness, turned at bay
But a strange scene was now about to
be enacted, new and irresistible enc
my had attacked him. The fire, having
caught his dry shaggy name, was rap
idly encircIing him in glowing flame
With q shout of triumph the Cafiirs wei
coined their new ally, charging. the foe
again, as he snapped, half frantic, at the
flames, and again leaving their spears
imbedded in his carcass. This time he
did not attempt to charge, but casting
himself down, rolled about in agony,
breaking the spears, and thus increasing
his pain. At last he rose, and uttering
yells rather than roars, sprang away into
the jungle, leaving trail Of fire and
sparks behind these the breeze soor
famed into flames, and finding too ready
food in the long dry grass, they were
shooting their forked tongues up, ant
extending rapidly on either side, Th'
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-12-23
For the Tribune & Telegraph.
State Assumption.

MEssR s-ED1ToRs -
have looked for some express
sion, either pro or con, III your columns
on the great question which seems to
be looming Up in the political horizon,
viz. the State Assumption Scheme
But as yet, I find nothing indicative of
the stand to be taken in your columns
on this important question. And with
but few exceptions, this non committal-
ism, seems to weigh like the nightmare,
on most Of the papers in this State
This state of things cannot continue
long and soon we shall know whether
the press is to take the lead in this mat
ter, or whether it will struggle along be-
hind public sentiment This silence is
ommous. Your columns being open to
communications, propose to throw out
q few suggestions on the subject, which
may draw forth some criticisms, at
least. A self constituted Committee of
Railroad SPECTATORS, to use charitable
term, it appears have dubbed together
to dictate to the State of Wisconsin a
measure by which they propose to re-
lieye themselves and others in similar
condition of serious embarrassments: a
feat worthy the Jacobins of France
Though Paris may be France, Milwau-
kee is not Wisconsin-not by considera-
bic. And has it come to this; that a
few individuals can get together and
concoct q scheme OF such vast public inn
portance, that the press do not, or will
not sufficiently comprehendit as to speak
out, either in favor or against the mea-
sure; and yet the proposition stripped
of all superfluities, appears to be this,
that rs these men, and those whom they
represent, have played and lost, wish to
have a law passed, and even the Con-
stltution altered, so that those who have
not played and lost shall be made to
pay up their losses this is the naked
4 proposition.
| take it that this Committee is in q
similar fix which the boy was with his
load of hay, turned over with his Dad
under it. The committee state that the
necessity Of some relief in the premises,
Is found in the fact that the interest on
these securities, Cities, Counties, Towns
and Farm mortgages are lying over
unpaid. Avast many Individual debts
are in similar fix. Ought the State
to assume them also This Committee
argue that because the Constitution
limits the State debt, that the Legisla-
ture ought to have limited the powers
Of the municipal governments, under the
Constitution to borrow money. Moth
Z ing truer. But these municipal govern
ments moved Heaven, Earth, H fol
the blessed privilege of making these
Investments, and now because a great
share of these investments turn out tc
be worthless, shall they be allowed tC
: come INTO Court and plead the baby
act! And ask the State to assume
Their responsibilities, and lay tax on
innocent parties (who are already
leglumately taxed more than they car
r well pay. J to pay these Railroad iiabili
5 tiles: "They have sown to the wind. >
who is to reap the wirlwind - Il
, seems that Eastern people haye parted
= with their money! on these reckless
! schemes until they will part with nc
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-12-23
An Attempted Assassination of Gen
jackson. s.f b. ..H

Most readers are well acquainted with
the circumstance of the attempt Of q
Ecrazy man named Lawrence, q resident
Of Georgetown, d. O., to assassinate
General jackson while he was Presi.
dent and at the Capitol to attend the
funeral services of Hon. Warren B.
Davis, distinguished member OF Con
gross from South Caroline. The editor
Of the Savannah No1cs revives the his
tory Of the interesting event, which we
copy for the benefit of the younger por-
ton of our readers, who, at that tine,
were not on the field Of political &C.
ton.
The funeral procession in which were
the President and heads of departments,
foreign ministers, senators and repre-
tsent;stiyes moved to the portico. Gen.
Jackson leaning on the arm of Hon.
Levi w Woodbury., then Secretary Of State,
was near the end of the procession, i'm
Immediately IN the rear Of the mourners,
among whom were several ladies OF
Mr.. Davis family When the mourners
had reached the portico, and just as the
President passed out Of the green door
leading to it, Lawrence stepped from
behind one Of the columns ofthe portico,
where he had concealed himself, and
instantly, without a word, presented a
large horse pistol within three feet Of
the Presidents breast, and exploded the
leap. Quick as thought, Gen. Jackson
raised his hickory cane and aimed a
iblow at the assassin's head, but MISSING
him, Lawrence snapped the second PTS
/ toll before he was seized and borne down
te the ground by those near him. Gen
jackson, without retreating an inch, had
lraised his cane for second blow, wher
lit was seized by those Immediately
around him, who, protecting him tron
further assaults with their persons
urged aim to retire into the rotunda
which he vehemently refused to do. Oh
being informed that it was probably
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4O&trp.
ADVICE TO JOHN.
BY UNCLE BEN.


If you should e'er get married, John.
III tell you what TO do
Go gel little tenement
just big enough for two,
Aud one spare room for company
And one spare bed within it;
1t you'd begin Loves life Alright.
You'd better thus begin If.
IL furniture be moderate, John.
And let the stuffed chairs wait
One iooking-g glass will do for both
Yourself and loving mate.
AND Brussels, too, and other things
Which make fine appearance,
II you can well afford it, taey
"lH better look year hence.
Some think they must have pictures. John,
superb and costly too
Your wife win be picture, John.
Let that suffice for you.
remember how the wise man said
i lent, with love within it,
Is better than a splendid house
With chickering's every minute.
ana one word as to cooking John,
Your wife can do that best;
For love, to make the biscuit raise.
10 better far than yeast
NO matter, if each day you don't
Bring turkey to your table,
1wIIi better relish by and by,
When you are better able.
for all you buy, pay money, John,
Money that very day
Ityou would have your life run smooth
Ting Is the better way.
! note to pay is an ugly thing.
III thing you please to call it,
"heh II hangs over man who has
Nomoney in his wallet.
Aud ono thing more remember. John
To keep aloof from strife,
And never, NEVER, NEVER speak
a cross word to your wife.
But if you cannot keep it back,
And burnings still require it,
Io Whisper it into your gun.
And thon--go out and fire it,
ana now when you are msfried. john.
Don't try to ape the rich,
IL took them many toi!aoms year
10 gain their enyied niche;
And you'd gain the summit. John.
Lock well to your beginning,
AND then will ali you win repay
Tho care and toll of winning
And last of all but not the least.
Dear John, is my advice,
This admonition to neglect
Would be a vicious vice:
lie sure and take the papera, John
For one dollar and half
ls not much money when yoH get
The Trib. and Telegraph