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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-06-07
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THE UNKNOWN DEAD.
BY HENRY TIMROD.

The rain Is plashing on my sill,
But all the winds Of Heaven are still;
And so IL falls with that dull sound
Which thrills US in the church yard ground.
When the first spadeful drops like lead
Upon the coffin Of the dead.
Beyond my streaming wlndow-pane
I cannot see the neighboring vane,
Yet from Its old familiar tower
The bell comes, muffled, through the shower.
What strange and unsuspected link
OF feeling touched, has made me think
While with vacant soul and eye
watch that gray and stony sky
OF nameIess graves on battle plains
Washed by single winters rains,
Where, some beneath Virginian hills
And some by green Atlantic rills,
Some by the waters OF the West,
A myriad unknown heroes rest.
All not the chiefs who, dying, see
Their flags In front Of victory,
Or at their life e-blood's noble cost
Pay for battle nobly lost,
Claim from their monumental beds
The bItterest tears nation sheds.
Beneath yon lonely mound-the spot
By all save some fond few forgot
Lie the true martyrs Of the fight
Which strikes for freedom and for right.
OF them, their patriot zeal and pride,
The lofty faith that with them died.
No grateful page shall farther tell
Than that so many bravely fell;
And we can only dimly guess
What worlds of all this worlds distress,
What utter woe, despair and dearth
Their fate has brought 10 many hearth.
Just such sky as this should weep
Above them always where they sleep;
Yet haply, at this very hour,
Their graves are like a lovers bower,
And Natures self, with eyes unwet,
Oblivious OF the crimson debt
To which she owes her April grace,
Laughs gaily oer their burial place.
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Selettea Misrellau1.

THE END OF A AMBLER.-Among the
innumerable anecdotes related of the ruin
of persons at play, there is one worth rela-
ting, which refers to Mr.. Porter, gen.
tleman who, in the reign of Queen Anne,
possessed one of the best estates in North
cumberland, the whole of which he lost at
hazard, in twelve months. According to
the story told of this madman-for we can
call him nothing else-when be had just
completed the loss of bis last acre, at a
gambling house in London, and was pro.
ceeding down stairs to throw himself into a
carriage to convey him home to his house in
town, be resolved upon having one more
throw to try to retrieve bis losses, and im'
mediately returned to the room where the
play was going on. Nerved for the worst
that might happen, he insisted that the per-
son he had been playing with should give
him chance of recovery or fight with MIN
His proposition was this: That his car
riage and horses, the trinkets and loose
money in his pockets, his town house, plate
and furpiture-in short all he had left 10
the world, should be valued in lump at a
certain sum, and be thrown at single cast
No persuasion should prevail on him to de-.
part from his purpose, He threw, and lost;
then, conducting the winuerto to the door, be
told the coacbmaD there was his master,
and marched forth into the dark and dismal
streets, without house or home, or any one
creditabe means of support Thus beggar-
ed, he retired to an obscure lodging in a
cheap part of the town, subsisting partly on
charity, sometimes acting as the marker at
a billiard table, and occasionally as helper
in livery stable.
In this miserable condition, with naked.
ness and famine staring him in the face, ex.
posed to the taunts and insults of those
whom he had once supported, be was recos-
nized by an old friend, who gave him ten
guineas to purchase neccssaries. He ex'
pended FIVE in procuring decent apparel /;
with the remaining five he repaired to a
common gaming house and increased them
to fifty he then adjourned to one of the
higher order of houses, sat down with for
mer associates, and won 100000. Re.
turning the next night, he lost it all, was
once more penniless, and after subsistiug
many years in abject poverty, died beggar
in ST. Giles
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METROPOLITAN ENTERPRISE.
GREAT GIFT S ALE
OF THE
New York and Providence
JEWELERS. ASSOCIATION,
100000.

.0lJOOO,OOOs
DEPOT, 1917 BROADWAY.
AN immense stock Of Pianos, Watches, Jewery, and
Fancy Goods all to be sold for ONE DOLLAR cach with
regard value and not 10 be paid for till you see what
you will receive.
CERTIFICATES naming each article and its value,
placed In sealed envelopes and well mixed One Of these
envelopes will be sent by mail any address receipt Of
25 cents; five for 81 eleven for S thirty for S5 sixty
five for $40; and one hundred for S5.
On receipt Of the Certificate you will what you are
going have, and then is at your option 10 pay the dollar
and take the article Purchasers may thus obtain
Gold Watch, Diamond Ring, Piano, Sewing Machine, or
any Of Jewey list for 81 and In no case can
they get less than One Dollars worth, as there are no
blanks.
Agents wanted In every town In the country; every
person make so day, selling Certificates In the
greatest sale of Jewelry ever known.
send 25c. for n Certificate which will inform you what
tainlng full list and pacuars also, Terms TO 9gents
Address, JAMES HUTCHINSON Il CO.,
1877 Broadway, N. Y.
March % i9 i'm
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PSALMS OF DAvID.-"Great has been
their power in the world They resounded
amid the court of the tabernacle; they
floated through the lofty and solemn space
of the temple; they were sung with glory
on the hills of Zion; they were sung with
sorrow on the streams of Babel. And
when Islael had passed away, the harp of
David was still awakened in the Church of
Christ In all the eras and ages of that
church, from the hymn that was first whis-
pered in the upper chamber and its anthems
filed the earth, the inspirations of the royal
prophet has enraptured its deVotioDs and
ennobled its rituals. Chorused by the winds
of heaven, they have rolled over the deserts
'of Asia, in the mathis and vespers of ten
thousand hermits. They have rung through
the deep valleys of the Alps in the sobbing
voices of the forlorn Waldenses; through
the dens and caves of the Scottish High
lands, in the rude chanting of the Scottish
Covenanters through, the woods and wilds
of primitive America, in the heroic halle
lujahs of princely pilgrims"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-06-07

CLERICAL MoUNTEBANKs.- The follow
ing is photograph made by the concentra-
ted rays of truth. There are those whose
cheeks should scorch with shame as they
read and recognize the likeness. The San
Francisco Commercial Bulletin is credited
for it:
"There does not exist more repulsive
spectacle than a debsucbed parson. He
can dive deeper into the mire of politics
and come up dirtier than any other creature
we know of. He adds to the unscrupulous.
ness of the common partisan and the ve-
nality of the vulgar broker in legislation,
an undefnable spirit of meanness and an
JUNCTION of depravity that render him alto
gether unique He seems to run to evil
from pure love of it. He hungers and
thirsts after righteousness with an avidity
that astonishes and disgusts even the most
hardened political stagers. If he gets into
Congress he is conspicuous for his venality;
or if into the Legislature he is certain to be
a ringleader in every thieVing enterprise ;
or if he gets an Office of trust, he is sure to
turn speculator in short, whatever he is,
you may count on finding hard man, with
out any of those amiable traits that palliate
vilIaiuy. We have all known such men,
and suffered from them. They have made
our politics more corrupt, they have made
legislation more venal, for their connection
with them. The church bushes for them,
the State is de6led by them, and society
Justly regards them as among its worst enc
nies.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-06-07

THE MILLENNIUM. literary curiosity
has just appeared in London, under the ii
tie of "Louis Napoleon the Destined Mon
arch of the World" &C., by the Rev. NJ.
Baxter, author Of "The Coming Battle I"
1t is said that $4,000 copies have been
sold-the book finding readers, notwith-
standing its apparent absurdity, Oh account
of the noteworthy names used by the auth
or as authorities We are indebted to Mr..
Baxter for the cheerful news that the world
is to end in 1S73-so that people may set
about their preparations for that event as
soon as they like but during the brief III
terval of six or seven years, the Emperor
of the French is to become sole monarch of
the world, personally representing the An
tichrist of the latter day. He is to become
supreme over England and most of Ameri.
ca, the rest of Christendom submitting to
his sway He is to make covenant with
the Jews, who by his aid are to return to
Palestine, resume their rank as nation
and rebuild Jerusalem. Napoleon is then
to begin and carry on the persecution of
Christians, which answers to the pouring
out of the vials. "Two years and six
weeks" after the date of the covenant with
the Jews, "the ascension of the la, 900
wise virgins" is expected to occur. The
Jews are to be favored cnly for seven years
and two and half months, and then the
great battle of Armageddou is to take place,
in which Louis Napoleon (the "great
beast'') is to be defeated and slain. This
is revelation more startling than any of DR..
Cummings inventions.
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THE STATE OF 8. CAROLINA,
YORK DISTRICT,
I'M THE COMMON PLEAS.

TUFTS, Bur,es & Co., rs Burrows, Blair Co., attach
Cochran Co., do.
Samr Blagge Co., do.
Tracy, Irwin & Co., rs. do. mem.
WHEREAS the Plaintiffs did, on the 18th day Of March,
1866 file their Declaration against the Defendants who (as
is sad Is absent from and without the limits Of this State,
and have neither wife nor attorney known Within the same
II is therefore, orJersd that the said Defendants do appear
and plead to the Declaration fled In each OF the above
stated cases. before the 18th day Of March, which
will be the year Of Lord thousand eight hundred
aud yseven, otherwise final and absolute judgment
will then be given and awarded agaist them.
J. F. WALLACE, c. c. C. p. q u. ..
March Is n 1yq
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-06-07

81 KNOW HE'S THERE. ."-"How do you
like Stewards Auburn speech ?" said a Dem
ocrat to Gardner yesterday. "Oh, very
WE'LL" says Gardner. "But," says the
Democrat "don't you see that he commen.
ces by an assault on our party ?" eyes,"
said Gardner, "but l am like the boy who
had nearly tired himself out digging for a
woodchuck, when he put his hand in to find
the direction of the hole, and the wood,
chuck bit it badly. 'Are you hurt? said
the boys companion to him. Yes said
he, sbut I'm id glad he bit me, for know
he's there r":-Syracuse, N. y, Courier.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-06-07

THE BANKRUPT BILL The new bank
rupt bill, has passed the House OF Repre-
sentatives, and which it is believed will be
sanctioned by the Senate, provides that the
district and circuit court have jurisdiction !;
that any person owing debts over three
hundred dollars filing petition of inability
to pay and willingness to surrender his es-
tate, shall be adjudged a bankrupt, and a
warrant issued for the sheriff to possess till
an assignee is appointed; J.; the duties of as
signees, are defined 1t provides for exam
ination before court of the distribution of
the estate, creditors to share pro rata
without preference, except wages to clerks
and operatives under fifty dollars month
The order in dividend is first, the costs Of
the courts; second debts to the State and
State assessments ; third, wages; fourth,
debts having priority by law. 1t provides
also for discharge from all debts after com.
pliauce, and provides punishment for fraud.
Seven days confession of judgment and
fourteen for commercial paper, shall be an
act of bankruptcy. The act takes effect for
officers after prouulgation. No petition is
to be filed before the first of November next
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THE PRINTERS LovE.-A poetical typo
thus expatiates "We love to see the bloom
ing rose, in all its beauty drest; we love
to hear our friends disclose the emotions of
the breast. We love to see the cars arrive,
we'll laden at our door; We love to see our
neighbors thrive, and love to bless the poor.
We love to see domestic life with uninter.
rupted joys, we love to see happy wife
with lots of girls and boys. We love all
these-yet far above all that we have ever
said, we love what every printer loves, to
have subscriptions paid.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-06-07

aE Urcle Sam had neighbor who was
in the habit of working Oh Sunday, but after
a while he joined the church. One day he
met minister to whose church he belonged.
"Well, Uncle Sam," said be "do you see
any difference in Mr.. P. since he joined the
church 2" ooh, yes," said Uncle Sam, "a
great difference. Before, when be went out
to mend bis fence on Sunday, he carried his
axe on his shoulder but now he carries it
under his oVercoat."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-06-07

TAKE this method
of informing the citi-
zens Yorkville, and
surrounding country,
they have located,
permanently, In York
vile, and will keep
constantly on hand u
full supply Of the
BEST ARTICLES
OF M ATERlAL l.,
md arn nYnnorpd tn
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-06-07

sS- The japanese are cleanly people,
In Nagaski, toward evening, large portion
of the male and female population might be
seen inuocently clubbing at the corner of
the streets In Jeddo they frequent large
bathing establishments, the door of which
is open to the passer by, and presents Gu
rous spectacle, more especially if the in
mates of both sexes ingenously rush to it
to gaze at him as he rides blushingly past.
Cutaneous diseases are almost unknown
No deformed objects meet the eye.
No single women are allowed in Japan.
Every man is allowed one legal wife, and
as many second wives as be can support
The second wives are selected by law from
the poorer classes Of society, whose relatives
are unable to maintain them, and the chill.
dren are all adopted by the legal wife, who
is the only acknowledged wife. The old
rule is therefore reversed in Japan, where,
instead of boy not knowing his own faith
er, hundreds do not know their own moth
er. In order to prevent the woman from
knowing anything of her husbands bust.
ness, men and women write entirely differ.
ent letters or characters, and hence cannot
read each others letters.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-06-07

A SIMPLE METHOD OF TANNING LIONS
A Paris letter writer for one of the English
papers is facetious. He says:
Somebody has discovered the way in
which Batty tames the king of the forest.
He gets a lion, you see, and keeps him in
state of starvation for four days, and
when the beast is in the extremity of hun.
ger he throws him Hungarian jacket-a
regular full.dress Magyar costume, with
lots of frogs, embroidery and buttons.
The starving lion rushes at it, tears it and
worries it, and finally bolts it. Then comes
Nemesis in the shape of indigestion; and
then, when the king of the forest has head.
ache, heartburn, and is generally shaky and
seedy, Batty appears in another Hungarian
costume, just like the indigesta maoles-and
the brute creation not, presume, liking
the chair of the dog that bit you" system,
Leo shakes his head and turns tail. From
that moment he is "gone coon"-a con-
quered lion-and learns to lick the hand
which beats him.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-06-07

ALEXANDER n. STEPHENS ON THE SIT
UAr1oN.-A letter,,from A. Il. Stephens,
dated Charlottesville, Georgia, 18th instant,
says:
~ found all things in Washington, upon
the whole, in as good condition, if not bet
ter, than expected. 1 have not, from the
beginning, looked for anything from this
Congress. My orly hope for the country
is in the next fall elections at the North.
Should the Presidents policy be sustained
in these, all may yet be well. If not, to
me, the prospect of the future for this
country, North and South, is gloomy indeed.
But from what I saw and heard at Wash
ington, my hopes for change next fall were
greatly stimulated. I am still hopeful in
this view, but far from being sauguine.
Constitutional liberty will, in my opinion,
in great measure depend upon the result" !"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-06-07

A@- The section of country lying east
and South of Jackson, West Tennessee,
produced a large crop of what they
call "Uuion men" during the war. The
Vets Tennessee Whig published at Jackson,
says of them
We learn that Col. Hurst and some of the
members of his late regiment have had
falling out. Hurst made speech at Purdy
and called on the citizens, generally, to sus-
tain him in putting down the lawless in that
country. If none of the Southern men were
to suffer in collision by the Colonel and
bis men, we wouldn't care if they were to
make Kilkenny cat fight out of it, 1t is
remarkable fact, that in every locality in
the State, where there we're Union men du-
ring the war, there the good of society is
still disturbed by the lawless wretches who
cast their lot with the invading army who
laid waste our country.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-06-07

FEEDING BOXES BETTER THAN RACKS
Horses do not naturally gather food from
trees, why then should they be compelled
in winter to take it from rack over head !?
Every mouthful requires the animal to as
sumo an unnatural position, which with
young horses particularly, must interfere
with the proper development of the muscles
of the neck, aud with the graceful carriage
of the head. May not the awkward man
ner in which many horses thrust their heads
forward and upward, be attributed to the
force of habit acquired in feeding from a
rack? Another serious objection to racks
is the danger from seeds, dust, ect falling
into the eyes of the animal; further, all
the efluvia of the stable, the vapors from
liquid and solid excrements, the exhala-
tions from the skin and lungs pass upward,
and are to some extent, absorbed by the
hay-an addition neither savory nor health.
full The feed box may be equally conve.
nient with the rack, and it is open to none
of the above objections. 1t need not be
large, and if the bottom be made of slate
all rejected fodder can be easily removed
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-06-07

RATHER STRINGENT.-At the Corfer
ence of the new Episcopal Methodist Church,
in Cincinnati, on Tuesday, the following ies.
olution was offered:
Resolued, That we forbid, by disciplinary
enactment, the manufacture, purchase, sale,
giving, the receiving or use, in any way, of
fermented or distilled liquors, except for
mechanical, chemical or medicinal purposes,
nor shall any member grow or dispose of any
hops, rye, barley or other crops for the pur-
pose of supplying the manufacturers of fer
mented or distilled liquors.
On motion, it was referred to the COM
mittee on basis of union.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-06-07

TRUTH-Adhere always rigidly and un-
deviatiugly to truth; but while you express
what is true, express it in pleasing man.
ner. Truth is the picture-the manner is
the frame that displays it to advantage.
If a man blends his angry passions with his
search after truth, you become his superior
by suppressing yours, and attend only to
the justness and force of his reasoning
Truth, conveyed in austere and Acrimonious
language, seldom has salutary effect, since
We reject the truth, because We are preju-
diced against the mode of communication.
The heart must be won before the intellect
can be informed. A man may betray the
cause of truth by his unreasonable zeal, as
be destroys its salutary effects by the acri-
mony of his manner. Whoever would be
successful instructor must first become a
mild and affectionate friend.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-06-07

s@ A Western paper says the best way
to kill bed bugs is to chain their hind legs
to tree, then 60 round in front and make
mouths at them.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-06-07

DEBT AND POPULATION IN EUROPE
According to Mr. Gladstone, Prussia owes
2l5 millions Of dollars; Holland, 1926 mil
lions Russia, 1885 millions; Austria, l.
$50 millions; France, 1000 millions; Its.
ly, $50 millions; Portugual, l65 millions /;
and Turkey, 255 millions. According to
the latest census reports, Prussia has lS}
millions Of people ; Holland, 81 millions; ;
Russia, 599 millions; Austria, 35 millions !;
France, 373 millions; Italy, 2l3 millions; !;
Portugal, 80 millions and Turkey, 2a mil
lions. That is to say, the Prussians owe
nearly sl2 per head, the Hollanders sl2l
per head, the Russians over S23, the Aus
trians over S45, the French over S53, the
Italians about S34, the Portuguese nearly
$40, and the Turks s115 per head of the
entire population. The English owe sl25
per head, and the United States owe about
800.
DESTROYING CATERPILLARs -Iu the
Boston Cuhivator, q correspondent gives
the plan by which he has kept his orchard
free from caterpillars. He uses q swab,
made of fne rags saturated with thin tar.
Early in the morning when the caterpilars
are all in their nests, be rubs out the nests
with the swab, giving the upper side Of the
branches, on which the nests arc, light
touch with the swab Any caterpillars
that are not at once destroyed, will be stuck
in the tar and die. Going through an
orchard in this way two or three times, is
sufficient to rid it of these troublesome
pests This correspondent does not find
the tar injurious to the trees, as very slight
coating is al! that is necessary.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-06-07

B~ A close watch is kept on all the fish
markets by the Irish loyal police, for fear
pike might be offered for sale.