Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-09-19

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books, and pen and paper, takes off his coat and
sets to work digging, chopping wood, driving posts
or engages in some other purely bucolic employ.
ment he relshes this exceedingly, and no doubt
it has great influence in preserving his health,
which constant labors have never yet impaired
Hardly literary man or writer in New York has
such physical endurance and fine health as Mr..
Greeley. He head is always clear his hand steady,
his digestion perfect There is no time when he
is not in laboring condition. He has no moods Of
Incidence waits for no inspirations; defers no task
from mere want Of leisure. As Clarendon once
said of Sir Walter Raleigh, he can toll dreadfully
and at all times and in all places, though he is
usually regular in his habits, and lays solid bar
Of sleep between his days. SIS @..;s =
Sunday morning, when in this neighborhood, he
always attended DR.. Chapin's Universalist Church,
of which he is member, and, though it has been
charged that he sleeps through the Sermon he can
always give the text and the point Of discourse as
clearly and correctly as if he had been employed to
report it for Mondays Tribune a i7aj eli @!t.aE
IF the editor-in-chief of the great Radical jour
nal of the country has one delight above anotherit
is elections and election returns. He revels in,
and he seems to have asensuous afectionfor them.
They appeal to his heart as well as intellect, and
enter into the very citadel of his most sacred pleas
ures They are to him what the Anatomy of Mel
ancholy was to DR.. Johnson as Delphtne wouldbe
to sentimental girl, not only taking him out, but
keeping him out of bed hours beyond his usual
time. He was never known to he down on cleo
ton nights, 30 long as there was any doubt Of the
result, or any possibility of hearing more. Very
often the early sun has lighted the social philoso-
pher from his Office, on Printing House Square, to
his uptown lodgings; and he has gone home rosy
with hope or palTd with despondency, according to
the character of the returns The interest he feels
in elections and political measures is personal and
absorbing, and he reoices over them if they favor
his views, or resents them if they 60 against him.
as others would the affection of friend or the in
suit of foe. .ts3 fjail - .s 2 %
Nh. Greeley can count his admirers by tens Of
but he has few personal friends, for
the reason that he does not want, and does not
care for them, His attachments are rather to
principles than to persons; and while he is un-
swerving in his loyalty to the former he seems en-
tirey Indifferent to the latter Perhaps, like the
character Goldsmith describes with a trifing
change) ~ 49, 20. 5s-.-s. - r. 81.
"He Gusts of hsfriends rs a huntsman his pack;
For he knows when he will he can whistle them back"
The few men he particularly affects he invites to
ChaHaqua, and likes to dine with when he has o
leisure hour or two. When he has written enough
to satisfy his greedy SOUL he relishes stealing out
of the sanctum with one of his intimates, sitting
down at the Astor table, or at Delmonco's corner
Broad and Chambers,) and having pleasant chat
over bounteousbll of fare. He has an excellent
appetite usually is fond of meats, and especially
partial to tea but he never tastes wine or liquors,
spirtuous or fomented, and never touches tobacco.
He does not take his meals anywhere in particu-
lar, but Bohemianizes around, (he is q thorough
Bohemian in the truest sense, as is most conye-
nient and circumstances prompt. ~. -
l.. Women he does not cultivate he seems to like
those of the gentler sort when thrown into their
society," but rarely visits any of the opposite sex ex
cept Alice and Phoebe Carey, in Twentieth street,
where he always takes tea Sunday evening when
in town, and INDUCES in deal of pleasant talk on
every subject with the clever people he meets
here. t..... ... ....
It is part of H: G.. s religion to believe he
must write at least two columns for the Tribune
every day he is in town. and he does it most faith
fully. fhe does not have subjects he hunts them
up. He enters the Office with half dozen arti'
cles in each eye, calls for the evening papers, GER
tain favorite exchanges that are always at issue
with him, tits up his chair, and begins to make
Virginia worm fences in ink, which, with a dry
humor characteristic of the man, he declares legi,
BILE manuscript For the next four or five, per.
haps seven or eight hours, he is lost to the outer
world, pays no attention to anybody who comes in,
unless some one he knows intimately, but scratch.
es away rapidly and wretehedly, until he has said
everything he desires. Then after writing "must
90 in upon most of his matter, he puts on his
hat, expresses daily repeated wish, that he could
get somebody to do what he wants done, and dis
appears for the night into unknown space. a
HOW UNCLE BEN LOST HIS HIND SITES
We find the following humorous and capita
communication in the Columbus Enquirer. Read
it:
Editor Enquirer :, The Southern Confederacy il
thing of the past. She is dead, but will live ii
the pantheon of nations. Nor was she stricker
down, as Austria was, by the prowess Of her enc
my, but fell as Niagara falls, subEmely by the grav
itation of Providence. To this it becomes us tt
bow our heads reverenty. But to the everlasting
advice from certain politicians to bow our necks tt
the yoke of the conqueror, and keep quiet under
ruff manipulations, the only reply that can in rea
son be made is, that the sheep, though quiet ane
dumb under the hands of the shearer, will struggle
and bleat if the shears nip the skin. ..
We've been made to wade neck deep in the wa
ters of humiliation. With our hands tied, we've
been made to march up and down and beat time
to the tune of Yankee Doodle" with white
bayonet on one side and black one on the other
w. ,-o Jon;od ronraeantotion hnt tayed ffom eel