Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-07-11
Law to rent an improved knot hole.

day to rent an improved knot hole
My landlord says that if more than
three chaps set up housekeeping on one
post, he'll be obliged to raise the rent
"The greatest confidence in General
Scott is felt by all, andi would doyou
good to see the gay old hero take the
oath. He takes it after every meal:
and the first thing when he gets up in
the morning.
''Those Fire Zouaves are fellows Of
awful suction, I tell you. Just fol-
greens, I asked one of them yesterday
what he came here for? Hah!" says he.
shutting one eye, eve came here tc
strike for your affairs and your fires
especially your fires" General Scott
says that if he wanted these chaps to
break through the army of the foe, he'd
have a fre-bell rung for some district
on the other side of the rebels. He
says that half a million of traitors
could not keep the Fire Zouaves out Of
that district FIVE minutes. | believe
him, my boy"
CLAY ON SCoTT.-Some years age
Henry Clay, who was a pretty good
| Judge of mems characters, won consid'
cradle sum of money of Scott in a game
at cards, or at least gave him a bad
beating. When the game ended, Scott
proposed to renew the game at another
time. Clay consented, and the appoint
mcnt was made. Punctual, in military
style, Scott was there; and Clay, Civ.
ing way to some current of sociability
that invited his gallantry, was tardy'
Getting in late, he laid his hand quite
heavily on SCOTS shoulder, saying:
"It is true, l am behind the time, but it
| is not because was afraid to meet you,
general Scott, starting and looking
displeased with Clay, said: "Why Sc
rude? You hurt me, sir "Ah, gen
eral," said Clay, 81 confess I have al
ways thought there was rotten place
about you; but l had not supposed
it was so nigh the surface Scott got
mad. So true it was there wasa rotten
place about him; and now the rot
ten place is so enlarged that men Of less
sagacity than Clay can see it.-Neac-
bern (N. c. Progress.
AN EPISODE IN THE LATE BATTLE AT
BETHEL CHURcH.-After the enemy
had rctreated, a Lieutenant in the North
Carolina Regiment was walking over
the ground among the dead and dying,
and came up to two of the "Hessians'
lying badly wounded. One of them
turned up his face and remarked, 81
suppose that You show no quarter here!'
"Oh yes" said the Lieutenant, eve
were enemies awhile ago, but now we
are friends. We know how to treat a
wounded soldier. You shall be cared
for. But should like to know con-
tinued the Lieutenant, "why you have
all come here to fight and kill us! What
harm have we done your 'Ah''
said the dying man, "this is war of
the politicians. | have been sick Of
the business good while. And such,
We have no doubt, is the conclusion of
many rejecting Yankee who has any
conscience left.-Raleigh Register.
SCRAP OF HIsToRY.-During the
Revolutionary war, Gen. Lafayette be-
ing in Baltimore, was invited to ball.
He vent, as requested ; but instead of
joining in the amusement, as might
have been expected ola young French
man of p, he addressed the ladies thus {:
Ladies, you are very handsome; you
dance very prettily; your ball is very
fne-but my men have no shirts. -
This was irresistible. The ball ceased !;
the ladies went home and went to work,
and the next day large number of
shirts were preparedby the fairest hands
of Baltimore for the gallant defenders
Of their country.
@g~ 1t is mentioned as a somewhat
interesting fact that the Dinwiddie cav
airy in Virginia, arc supplied with bull
lets and shot made chiefly from forty
pounds of leaden weights found in an
old building in Dinwiddie County, in
which Winfield Scott, Lieutenant-Gen-
eral of all the earth, as Sut Lovengood
would say, was born, and for long time
occupied. These weights were found in
the window frames of the old building.
The house is now in very dilapidated
condition, and minus many other i'm
portant, adjuncts besides the window
weights.
ARKANSAS STATIsTIcs.-The white
population of Arkansas, at the time OF
taking the census last year, was 324,
1913, being an incrase of l6l, ,526 in the
last ten years. In the same time the
value Of taxable property Of the State
has increased from s34, ,935,SS6 tc
S142, 475, ,336- more than quadrupled.
Arkansas gains lagcly by the Ordi.
nance of Secession, which gives her a
legal right to more than 100000
acres of land, which at an advance of fiji:
ty cents per acre, would pay all the in
| debtedncss of the State three times O.
yer.
ANOTHER BEAUTY OF THE BLCCK
ADE.-All telegraphic materials and ap
paratus are considered 'contraband
| bv our GOOD friends of the North, ant