Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-04-26

Yumorrus Neaolng.
SOME HoSs.-Once on a time, a Van.
kee, who was travelling through Kentucky,
had fine horse, and no money. He had
taught the animal to lie down or sit on his
launches when the bride was pulled pref
ty hard Our traveller saw no way Of re.
plenishiDg his purse but by selling his
horse, and this he resolved to do at the
first opportunity. As he was going slowly
along he saw hunter at some distance from
the road, whom he rode up to and accosted.
In the course of the conversation he told
the latter that he had an invaluable horse
to sell-a horse that would act precisely
like setter, when he was in the vicinity of
game. Casting his eyes around, at the
same time discovering some fresh rabbit
tracks, he gave the bride a jerk. The
docile quadruped Immediately laid down
There are some rabbits here, said the RI
der; Il know by his ears The Kentuck
ian, curious to test the reputed sagacity of
the ehorse, searched around, and sure enough
started three or four rabbits. He was great
ly surprised, but the Yankee took the at
fair as matter of course. To make long
story short, the wonderful horse changed
hands on the spot, three hundred dollarr
being the consideration. His new ownes
mounted him, and, with characteristic hos
pitality, the Yankee agreed to accompany
him home. They soon came to a stream
which they had to cross, and which was
rather deep for horsemen. Judge Of the
Kentuckian's dismay, when, on pulling the
bride in the middle of the river, his steed
subsided in the running waters as if ne was
a hippopotamus. How is this p he roared
out, nothing but his head visible. The
Yankee was not Disconnected in the least,
but replied cody. 'Oh, | forgot to tell you,
he is as good for fish as he is for rabbits: .:
Tennessee HroM
To HEAVEN riu New ORLEANS.-The
Philadelphia correspondent of the New
York Dispatch gives the following:
We have Methodist preacher here who
is jolly wag. \ few days since, a young
man who had long been attached to his
church, and who was about to leave for
New Orleans, came to bid his pastor fare
well.
'And you are going to that degenerate
place, New Orleans, are you"
Yes sir; bat | don't expect to be infu-
enced BY an extraneOus pressure OF any
kind responded the young man with con-
siderable earnestneSS.
We'll, lam glad to see you so confident.
l hope the Lord will guide You. But do
you know the temptations that exist thereT
no, not particularly
We'll. l do; you'll find wanton women
in guise of Paris, tempting the very elect !;
and rare wines and ardent drinks; and
you'll find gay company, aud nj ght braw-
ing, and gambling and dissipation, and run
ming after the lusts Of the old man Adam
'Still, sir, hope to combat with them
all successfully.
i hope you will m5 dear Christian broth
err was the reply, i hope you will. And
let me give you this much for your con-
ISOLATION, in case you should fail from grace.
The tempter is worse than the sin, and the
greater the temptation the more merit there
is in resisting it.
The man who goes to heaven by tie muy
Of Ncw Oricun< is sure to have twice as
high a place in eternal glory as he who
reaches Paradise through the quiet portals
of Pennsylvania or Connecticut
Bar Old Squire W. is an honest, .jovial
soul, with few religious scrupleS, fond Of a
hearty laugh or good joke at any time
He relates the following on himself as an
actual occurrence: 'One night, boys, had
very strange dream. thought | wa,
about to get to heaven. \ long ladder,
like Jacobs, reached from the ground TO-
wards the good place, and it was on this
ladder that | went up. When reached
the top | found space of seven or eight
feet intervening between the last round and
the celestial gate could see within, and
catch glimpses Of the fine things inside
Peter stood at the cntrancc-hc leaned O.
ver-reached out his hand and told me tt
make big iump. Idid J"mP, JoYS, """
got onc othc confonmjoi'a t1H< ~" cr.,
heard of'.' for found myself SprawIine or
the floor, having jumped mt Of bed while
was trying to Jump W'o heaven
E9- 'Chanticleer, the inimitable Wash
ington correspondent Of the Ohio St"t"$
man, thus alludes to the strike among thu
shoemakcrs up at Lynn, in Abolition Mas
sachusetts:
Il rather guess, after that, the shoema
kers have seen the last of AbolitioniSm.
hope they will stick like r"r to the De
mocracy. 1t is .dt they should. If they
have any SoIcS lcft,--or right and left, -
they will make an end of the Lopti"SS busi
ness of supporting such politicians as Wil
son, Summer and the rest Of the hit-meu
who would destroy the last Peg on which