Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-07-01
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For years I believed that my ocular teeth
had been incised. while L was yet a~lovely,
near sighted infant. FL ever had doubts
onthis point, I certainly was convinced that
my experience in Tammany Hall, when the
political enthusiasm of youth secured for me
sundry bloody noses, swelled lips, barked
knuckles, and unjointed digits, made me ON
niscient in the sinister devices of the obdu-
rate race of*bipeds, which inhabit the earth,
But T am now satisfied, that this necessary
Grain my physical development, was not
reached Observation-Disclosures placed
me in the law courts as a litigant striVingEte
obtain my rights. =.
Afew months since, a friend who was hard
up.(I know he was q friend from that fact,)
wanted to elevate tho zephyrs, and he I'M
to meSto assist him in that atmospheric ex-
pertinent. He had a deed of some lands in
the West, which he said had cost him two
hundred dollars, but as.urgent business re.
CURED his presence in the country, he would
let me have it for. se~venty-6ve dollars. At
that moment, I hadn'tany superfuous cash,
and what money I did have, I wanted to do
nate to the ."society for Ameliorating the
Sanitary Condition of Mermaids," which had
for its special object the providing Of mer-
maids each with a pair of India rubber boots
as a means Of preventing them from taking
cold in their heads. My soul was wrapped
up in this scheme of expansive benevolence,
and hence my indisposition to'dabble in real
estate,
Thinking to bluff b efellow, Iofered him
twenty-five dollars for the deed, which to my
utter astonishment, he accepted at once, As
never back out, I paid the money and took
the deed, leaving the mermaids to take the
chances Of keeping healthy under water cure
treatment. The next week I occupied with
ont success, instrying to sell out my purchase
with the view, Of making a speculation. l
had Just made up my mind thatI had been
soldas we'll as the land, when I ehapced to
meet q man who was wanting. to negotiate.
Afiertwoshours eloquent expatiation on the
fertility Of the soil; the excellence of its To-
cation, and grandeur Of the surrounding
scenery, I affected a sale, and received from
the individual his note for two hundred and
fifty dollars, endorsed bya party represented
to me in Wall street, to.be as good as the
wheat.
As the day of the notes maturity ap-
preached, Mrs. Ockside made out a pro-
gramme of what she was going to do9with
the 0 n One item vas q 'staving party,
in anticipation of which, she had already got
the card plateDengraved; had ordered music,
and had made otherarrsngements, that the
Ocksidian soires might be characterized BY
all the fashionable absurdities that our means
would admit of. When the day Of maturity
arnykd,I went to the bank and asked the
tsllsr for the money, principal and interest.
He eyiucsd no establishment in discovering
that the note was not paid, whereas, l
couldn't have been more surprised If an an
gel had hit me with a brickbat. But l con.
fdently expected that the three days, grace
would not expire, without seeing oakslde
flush of fundssI uas disappointed. line
note notpaid.
Nv fifth in the integrity Of humanity sus-
tanned an earthquakes shock. The endorser
discovered had gone to Utah, and further
more, that all the property he had ever own,
ed was situated "oyer the left" which To-
cality Twas unable to find in the books Of
ths Register of Real Estate. Ibegan to en-
entertain a vague suspicion that I was a be.
trayed individual. After much labor /
found the drawer fthe note, and the fact
that I discovered him playing domlnoes at a
s~ixpenoes a game ina whiskey shop, didn't
inspire ne with increased confidence as to
the character of his paper. represented to
him that he had had failed to pay the note.
Strange as it may seem, he wasn't astonished
at the announcement Of, his own derelictions,
though he. acknowledged the depth of his
sorrow over his own pecuniary short comings
and, he protested a Willingness to cqmrro-
mise. 1 Aattered- myself that I was nowto
be afforded an opportunity to show my mag.
nanimity as a creditor, and to prove myself
an example of christian self.denial worthy
O emulation by hard-fsted and e~xacting cap
italists. I patiently awaited his proposition,
which came out at last. He promised by
stating that. after purchasing the deed from
me, he had taken it to a loan Office and used
it as collateral in negotiating a loan of ten
dollars forsix months atsixpercenta month;
and he proposed that I give him up bis note
for two hundred and fifty, and five dollars in
cash, in consideration of which he would
transfer to me his loan Office transaction, BY
which I could obtain the deed by paying the
amount due on it! ! am aware that wick
ed, passionate and sinful. men, after receiv-
ing such a proposition, would have mauled
that fellow in such a way, that he would
have been of no possible use to anybody but
the sexton and undertaken. The highmlnd'
ed liberality which I manifested towards him
on that occasion, exalts itself to a positively
chivalrous sublimity. I only allowed myself
to knock his nose fat with his face, and his
two ewes into one, and to choke him till his
face looked like a red cabbage--that was all
positively all I did. As I rushed from the
scene of justice, overcome by generosity, l
mot q LAWYER. IA friend also, as subsequent