Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-05-03
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Written for the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER TO BILL ARP.

LETTER TO BILL ARP.
DARK CORNER, s. c., March 10Th, one
thousand lS hundred and fast asleep.
MISTER BILL ARP Sur : 1t are not in
my liue of bizeness to rite tu public fuuck-
summaries. But sumtimes have spell Of
the furore scribeudy, ss Shakespoke calls it,
aad when I git that way, have to rite to
sumbody. Knowing that you were inte-
rested in the welfare of the world aud the
rest of mankine, ard .supposin that you
mout want to hear how we poor wretches
are gittin Oh in these diggius since we all
kased in, I concluded to drap you few
lines, truly hopin they may find you all
we'll and enjoying the same like blessin.
Mister Arp-Tir.as is nifty bard here
and mouey scace. N'veat bran sellin at three
bits q buShel and Tone to sell at that
Krsps was sorry lasr year and what little We
did make, the lazy free niggers is about to
steal it all. 1 tell you Sur, this freeiu o
niggers amt adzactly the thing it war crack,
ed up to be. And it are my speshul opin-
ion that many of the lazy things will 'starve
yet, if sumthin Amt did to prevent it. The
fact are, they have got their heads so full
of votin, studyin law, gwine to Congress
and sich like, that they don't think about
livin. Many of our farmers are gwine to
plant big kraps of cotton and expect to git
it tended by the free niggers. But if they
git much work out of them in ogineral, sf-
ter hot weather sets in, are no Judge of
nigger karactur.
But are happy to say that We are gin.
ming to git rite agin, since they sorter stop
ped that little rumpus what We kicked up.
Things are gittin back to the old stand,
sorter like they used to was in the good old
days of your, before we got into this little
difikilty about the everlastiu niger and
the ever glorious Union. We have had
Kort at last, and l understand that there
war few salt and battery cases on hand
But 7 hope they dident hurt any of the
fellows much, what offshated on them oc.
casions for I have got to believe that ftin
are sorter like chawin tebacker, or drinkin
ticker; when feller fallers it awhile, it be-
comes q kind of second natur; and our
boys bavin fit so long in the war, cant stop
all on suidint; but will have to sorter
taper orr by degrees. So | don't think the
korrs ort to punish EN- bad for gittin into
little frakus now and then.
The interest in scientifick pursuits are
also revivin. Two interprisin gentlemen
tother day were maxim geological investiga-
tions by irspectin quartz (quarts) No. l,
took quart, put on his specs, turned it up
toward the zenith, and giving it long,
deep, delibrit inspeckshun, sot it down and
sed he didn't see DO bottom. No. 2, then
submitted it to similar test and scttin it
down, declared, he seed the bottom, and
that it war as clare as cristil. No. sed it
warnt so, for his opticks never fooled him
arter that fashion No. 2 sed he'd be darn
ed, and making O. pekulier motion 10 the
immediate direction of No. /, completely
upset his perpendicular and kersplash he
went, head down and heels up rite agin
the kouuter Somebody followed murder
man down street cried fire, and everybody,
niggers, dogs and all, come running up to
see what war the matter. I shot through
the crowd like quarter boss, for | was
nifty fraid somebody would git hurt. Look.
in back to see what l could diskiVer, 1t
really looked to me ike every body in the
crowd was tryin t1 do sumethin. Some
was cussin; some swearin; some holdin
others orf some pulI'r at others coat tails !;
some had pistols OFT some had boom
knives drawed. tell ye, | war skeered
and | jist resolved then and thar, that if
scientifick investigations were of that na-
ture and led to sich results, war no sien-
tifick man from that time on n'erds. At last
the fuss sorter stopped, and / seed the two
leedin karecters comm out with friend
under each arm; and from my pint of OBJ
servashun it looked like one of EN- had a
considerable piece of the rind knocked orf
on one side of his fz and the pokeberry
Juice war oozing out perfusely. AS to the
other, could not tell so we'll ; (not havin
on my specks) but judgin as we'll as 1
could from the distance, l would say that
his Origins of vision were not at all improved,
and that his nazal probosskiss had under
gone a considerable twistifcashun. | un.
derstand that they are gwine to have.em in
kort about it; but don't believe its rgiht
for the government to interfere in private
matters jist atween individuals 30. 60 in