Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-07-12
CONTRIBUTORIAL.
Our Exchanged.

CONTRIBUToRIAL.
Our Exchanges.
We, the contributorial, it will be remembered
do not date from the publication Office Of the
ENQUIRER, but from Columbia. Will our half
brethren,-tne fraternity editorial-when they
do US the honor of commenting upon our opinions
or facts, do US also the courtesy of sending to u
their comments We do not receive the ex'
changes, and rarely ever see them at all. VIZ
make the request for reason.
Pct Words.
Almost everybody has some pet word, OF
phrase, which is used on ak occasions, right o,
wrong We were impressed with the power Of
this habit once while sojourning at one Of our
mountain summer-h homes. One of the members
of our summer family-a lady Of accomplish
ments and beauty-a bride, too, had domestica-
ted and petted the word "droU." Everything,
with her, was droU-the place, the weather, the
natives, the mountains, the things to eat and tc
do and to say. It was Sundsy.-How droU moi
to have church there! We dined at one o..
clock.-How droN of these people to dine SC
early! We had chicken cooked in some un.
French way with potatoes.-How droU a mess
We visited spring whose waters were ice-cold
How droU the water! We walked to the sum.
nit of the mountain ; and q root caught in her
in that feminine garment that has edging around
the bottom-and tossed it up considerably
What droN place Our dear Benedict, too
shared the common fate of all. The very los
we heard Of our beautiful young friend was late
on the last evening of the season. We had dont
our adieus, an hour before, and were aloneir
the porch, after we had every thing ready fol
departure early next morning. Every body elst
had retired We were musing in our wcnted
mood upon the solemn beauties Of the night.
softened mountains We were to depart alone
and many things made US meditative. Sudden
ly then our musings were arrested by noise
from an adjacent wing of the building; o noise
something like suppressed or confused laughter
Without attempting to listen we caught words
like these, e,-what droH man
She seemed in need of no other objective
Everything was droH. And so it is, to a greater
or less extent, with everybody. The verba
7ice is epidemic.
The Tryst-
To the more than mother Of Edgar Poe.
Thou standest, Lady, near q tombess grave.
It has loneliness its own, that makes
1t seem itself alone though round it stand
A marble crowd. Within, there slumbers-
No kingly spirit thus subdued, but-dust
The princely soul that lit it once illumes
A more ethereal form.
In yonder star
The rendezvous for his imperial tryst--
He waits, in regal trust, for her and thee;
For her, his darling, life, and bride-his own,
His souls, LENoRE; for thee, whose prayerful
Marked every erring, every better, step
he trod for her. whose spirit met his own
In perfect princely love; for thee, who bore
For him that more than mothers love of loves
For her who shared with him 'the faith that doI
Approve in death the deathless power and life
Divine of love-"
There, Lady, waits he her
And thee. In yonder ruby star, Arcturus,
Waits that princely spirit, trusting still.
These southern summer nights whose early
Point out in zenith height that royal star,
gaze upon its lone, red, regent brow
Upon his northern throne; and yelling up
A spirit gush goes forth-of hope intense,
To him of tenderness and cordial trust,
To her and of reverng sympathy,
To thee.
The Eclipse.
The approaching eclipse Of the sun will be or
Wednesday the 18th of July, commencing about
o'clock and ending awhile after g, in this lati.
tude. 1t will not amount to much, in the way
of show to US. The centre of the moons
shadow will pass near Cape Chidleigh, in La
brador, about 600 north. At that place it viii
be something to see' 1t is thither that thu
government commission under DR.. Bache have
gone to make observations. One of the points
before the scientific world just now is whethe,
there is an atmosphere around the moon; anc
this matter may have soma light thrown on it Al
the approaching eclipse.
The next ten years will give US six other so
lar eclipses, as follows 1851, December 81
9 o'clock, A. NJ; 1868, May II, / o'clock, P
NJ. 1865, October 10, II o'clock, A. NJ. 1856
October 8, IL NJ; 1868, February %, 10 o.
clock, A. NJ; 1870, December q, o'clock
A. NJ.
Common Truths
Not commonly admitted.
4-The mountains summit is reached by bu
two things-the eagle and the reptile. 1t is 81
in life.
5-Whoever voluntarily destroys thing o
beauty is as guilty as he that steals dollar.
6-"The way of transgressors is hard"
beauty is to the body as virtue is to tn
miud-that is to say, Beauty is the virtue of tn
body; and Deity only is competent to say tina
one is inferior to the other, and Deity has no
spoken.
Sardines.
Out west, when they wish to designate al
individual as small or mean-a small potato
horse man-one of little account-they cal
him O "Sardine" To illustrate, at publ
meeting in Alabama lately resolution, among
others, voted Mr.. Yancey to be "no Sardine.
They mean to say Mr.. Yancey is one Of the bi!
fish. }. W. D.
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