Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-09-06

1tiod IF tbs PolititaI, Social,
.ROLINA, THURSDAY MOI
who favcr reputation and stay laws are,
as general rule, either popularity seekers,
or these who owe more than they expect to
collect from their debtors? ....
pity the man reduced to poverty by
the late war, and can synpathize with him
in his struggles, even where, in bis extremi.
nifty, he desires to stay the hand Of justice; !;
but great is my contempt for the lawyer, or
we'll Informed man, whowill delude bis fel.
lows and his country-for tits too true that
our honor and our credit are all that are left
MS take them away and we are poor indeed.
Let public opinion alone, and fear not
the bug bear of the poor debtor being f'sold
out of house and home home" ask when
and in how many instances in our State,
from its earliest history, has man and his
family been sold out of house and home and
turned out Of doors by his creditor, unless
the debtor connived at it himself, 10 order
to take the benefit of the Insolvent Debtor 8
Act, or where the debtor was fraudulently
making way with or screening his property
LAISSEZ NOUS FAIRE
There is too much idleness in this country.
1t is breeding vice and immortality. 1t is
filling our jails with criminals. Crime has
been on the gradual increase for six months.
This comes of idleness; and idleness comes
in great measure of that abominable idea
that white man cannot be gentleman and
work He must get money, for that is in
dispensable. But how That's it. Young
men have not the disposition to work, and
by patient economy secure basis for bust.
ness operations. They must have it now.
This suggests expedients. These lead to
temptation and temptation leads to crime.
Hence, we have murders, horse thefts and
breaches of trust
Why should young man consider it de-
grading or even undignifed to work Pres
ident johnson purchased his present resi-
dence in East Tennessee with the proceeds
of his labor as tailor. One of the veal
thiest bankers in New York commenced the
world as gardener, selling to the huckster
the products of his own labor Gen Pat
Cleburn, at one time the head of the Ar
kansas bar, subsequently the ruling spirit in
powerful army, began life as day.laborer
Judge Reagan, Postmaster General of the
late Confederate States, was once wood
chopper on the banks of the Mississippi.
The world is full of such examples But
where can we point to successful! man who
spent his early youth in hunting business
which he considered to be more genteel
than manual labor? Who has ever heard
of man succeeding who spent his early
manhood '"waiting for something to turn
up"
Young man if you would succeed, go to
rorh If you cannot obtain clerkship,
take something else. You had better be
rolling barrels, or plowing, or building
fence, or choppiug cord.wood, or carrying
the hod, than doing nothing. Quit depend
ing upon your friends. Strike out for your:
self Learn at once the greatest of all les.
SONS, that of sekcreliance. Have head, a
will, purpose of your own. Go to work
and watch your opportunity. The soil up.
on which you have been reared never re-
fuses a competence to those who are willing
to dig. Then, if you can do no better, dig.
1t will pay to dig. Nor is there anything
undignifed or vulgar in it. 1t is honor
able, if you choose to make it SO. Then dig
and watch your opportunity. But don't
stand idle and "wait for something to turn
up" -... ~ s. ~...se....
u. s. Spies and Confederate Traitors.
The Richmond correspondent Of the New
York Times, "E. c." in his letter of the
7th, relates the following unique story:
The country will remember that during
the winter our Government obtained assur
ance of the hopelessness of the rebel cause
by coming into possession of the testimony
of Gen. Lee before committee of the rebel
Congress, which was never reported to the
House, except in secret session, if at all -
A full history of the manner in which the
Government obtained that information
would be more interesting than any romance,
but it is too soon yet to do more than out
line it. The evidence of General Lee was
taken late in the winter by this committee,
and long before the committee had deter.
mined what course they should pursue-al.
most before the ink was dry upon their
notes.-the entire statement of their rebel
General, word for word, was in possession
of President Lincoln at Washington. In
the room where the committee met was a
closet, and from that closet Immediately af-
ter their adjournment, came the priceless
information. Outside the house it at once
changed hands, and second party walked
leisurely through the streets of Richmond
with it, until upon the enVirons, be encoun'
tered one of the common country carts of
this section proceeding with the half of a
newly.killed beef toward the rebel lines in