Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-09-13

nlgn lot Dis pieasaut Foice. IL IL astOniSn-
ing how so small bird, no larger than
q wren, can have so loud a voice as
this pretty little bird has. There are a
number of others that I have not time to
name.
Game is also abundant, such as deer,
raccoons, foxes, wild cats, squirrels, and
rabbits. The latter are so plenty as to be
perfect nuisance. There are other quad
rupeds too numerous to mention, and of too
little importance. The feathered game
consists of wild turkeys, quails, marsh-bens,
wild geese and ducks in their season.
Pheasants, there are none along what is
called the sea coast country.
In everything that makes life agreeable,
Nature has been lavish here. Watermel-
ons, cantelopes and sweet potatoes grow to
great perfection here. The former ripen
in June, and every other month between
that and November. Strawberries ripen in
April, and last twice as long as they do in
Schuylkill and sell for twice or thrice the
price. Peaches do we'll and ripeu from
the latter part of June till late in the fall.
Figs are found in almost every yard, both
in town and country, and bear enormous
crops. Oranges and lemons..also grow here,
but the wood is 30 tender that the trees
suffer from the frost in winter. Potatoes
and peas can be planted in safety in the
fall or early winter for early crops, and corn
the latter part of February. There arc
however. some draw. backs to ell these en-.
|joyments. Flies and mosquitoes, have a
longer season to be troublesome than they
have with my friends in Pennsylvania; but
there are remedies against them. The
heat also seems to be more severe than in
my own home in the same temperature.
The hottest day We had this season was SO
degrees above zero, and that was in April.
Since, it has been 81 and go on several
occasions, while you had it hotter at Potts.
vile, as learn from the columns of your
valuable paper. make daily observations
at about l o'clock p. m., and note them in
my diary.
Allow me to say few words to you res
pecting the ''immortal" negroes, or "benny
bannan" and his bloodhound associates
will hardly recognize that 1 did write; it
is unction to their troubled souls to hear
something of the looming man."
The negroes, in their new and altered
condition, are about cutting their eye.teeth
of freedom. Their friends, the Abolition
lists, have given them the freedom to wan.
der about and perish for want, by turning
them loose from the care and restraints of
their former owners, who have been so i'm
poverished by the ravages of war that they
cannot employ them, for want of means, to
work their plantations
The negroes, as everybody knows, are not
competent to take care of themselves. They
do not look ahead and provide for the fu.
ture. Only seeing that their immediate
wants are supplied, they wander from place
to place to scrape up scanty and miserable
living, many of them half naked. When
they cannot make living otherwise, they
will work some; their tasks, however, must
be marked ont for them, and require close
watching that their work is not done badly.
In gangs they will not do half work, not
having honesty or sense enough to know
what constitutes days work, unless meas.
ured off for them. There are some excep-
tions, but they are few From the large
number that have crowded on US I have
been able to select some that are tolerable,
but all must be closely watched, or they
will impose upon their employers. If the
negro. worshipers about Pottsville we're to
see the real condition of the darkies, and
had spark of honesty in their possession,
they would change their ideas. 1 could
name you persons who live in this neighbor
hood who came here Abolitionists, but are
quite different now
Negro freedom, equality and suffrage are
great humbugs, and are only used as sub
terfuges for perpetuating Black Republican
ascendency. 1t must be mean, low, grow.
cling disposition of party that thus proves
to the world that they have not sufficient
confidence in the intelligence of the
white population of our country to keep
them in power, but must resort to the
contemplate dirty business of negro
suffrage to accomplish their reasonable
ends.
The detestable negro bureau is an institu-
ton engrafted, or rather imposed, on our
system of government by the radicals, as
kind of sinecure for abolition pets to creep
into hole, draw pay, and do little or moth
ing beneficial to the darkies except the EN-.
ployment of Yankee "marms" to teach ne.
gro babies, at an expense of national ap-
preparation of s12,OOO,OOO, while poor
white children are denied the privileges
thus conferred upon the negroes. Instead
of its being a permanent benefit, it only
makes the dark;es more lazy, and as long as
they can draw support from the government
they will not work.
The darkies Cat least many of them) who
have employment, look upon it as an insti-
tuition to perpetuate their stay upon the
place they have taken to work upon. I had
fair illustration of this several weeks ago
I discharged five for neglect of duty and
insolence while ordering them to perform
the duties of their tasks. The next thing