Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-03-10
An Original Starr.
varrrrs FOR THr YonKvIELEESeuIRER.
WRITTEN FOR rHr YonxvIELE ENQUIRER.
Low E;
o1n HEADs AND YOUNG sHEARTs.
BY J. FORREST GOWAN, ESQ.
ruApTER VI
Or
CHAPTER VI.

sWho are you, nay good man-what do
YOU want p said Mr.. Undertook, approach
ING the door, where the. Dutchman and the
porter were engaged in an alteration,
my name ish Frederick snobberhosser !;
and I wants to speak mid Miss Eva-donder
and .blixen!
do not listen to.the impudent negro, Mr..
Underdonk; for he certainly is intoxicated
or mad said Eva, much alarmed
Nat is dose diugs, you say? exclaimed
Snobberhosser. .
you certainly do not expect to pass your
self off upon us as Mr. snobberhosser OF
Abbeville-you impudent fellow! said On-
derdonk. =,
Wat ish all dis !, Miss Eva knows sebet-
ter dan goot dat she ish engage for my wife ?
said Suobberhosser 5,
Eva uttered piercing scream, and he'd
into the house terribly alarmed; while Mr.
JJnderkonk, unable longer to contain him.
self. burst out into a terrible passion.
you miserable black scamp! how dare
YOU insult a young lady with such language
as this Leave these premises Immediately
sir, or will get one of my servants to cow
hide YOU within an inch of your life! Come,
sir! be off at once !
Maddened to frenzy, the euraged Dutch
man deliberately leveled. his pistol and
aimed at Mr.. Uuderdouk, when E0inston
and Marlton rushed upon him, and threw
him to the ground.
The ball from the pistol whizzed past the
ear of Uuderdank and shattered several
panes of glass beside him and had Marlton
and Evinston been moment later upon the
spot. Undertook would have been killed
outright. The report of the pistol, and the
screams of the ladies, was heard by the cit
izens in the neighborhood, who rushed to
the spot, accompanied by several policemen.
Seize the black william 2 exclaimed Un-
derdonk.
:Jist be aisy, ye bloody thafe o the world !:
said one of the policemen, as he lifted the
supposed negro from the ground, aud took
fast hold of his collar.
sMine Gott in hebenp exclaimed the ter
ri6ed Dutchman.
sArrah by st. Patrick the nagur spakes
low dutch-the dirty blackguard! said the
policemen.
away with him ? exclaimed citizen,
who had but just learned the PARTICULARS
Cannot three or four policemen manage one
negro"
Och yere honor shall see how nately
we'll handle the copper face Injin' ezclaim-
ed policeman. :.
sDouder ant blixen! I'm free mans =
vat for you calls me niger and 1njin?
sHe's free nagur, by me soul ! exclalm-
ed the policemen.
Policemen, take the man to the Guard
House at once, and clear the yard of this
crowd said Underdonk.
The first part of this order was obeyed,
and poor Snobberhosser was inglorlously
borne away; after which, the crowd quietly
dispersed.
sCharlie,' whispered Marlton, as they fol.
lowed Underdonk into the house, thls Will
never do! We must manage to get the poor
fellow out Of this scrape some how
1T was absolutely necessary replied hV'
inston. sSnobberhosser came to Charleston
to take Eva back to Abbeville. Ii he once
got her there, his influence over her father
would enable him to marry her; and then
what becomes of you and all our plans"
1T is rather a desperate remedy said
Marlton.
sPshaw man did he not threaten to blow
YOUR brains out, and would he net have done
50 unless some such plan had been adopted
to prevent it! g.. =.
'Well, perhaps it is as we'll as 1t is; Du'
we must not allow him to remain IN tne
Guard-house,' said Marlton.
we'll arrange all that after awhile and
but the ladies are calling US.
When our young friends entered the par
lor of Mr.. Underdonk, that worthy gentle
man was pacing the room to and fro in much
mental and physical excitement.
"a beautiful state of affairs! he exclaim-
ed. "A man of my age and position in life
actually fired upon in his own house by a
rufianly negro'