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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-11-14

.4IyOGN = X,
A correspondent writing to the indianapolis
Journal says: -. - .ir,,., tr,ft gst,a,ss.
At Pennsylvaniaburg, Ripley county, Indiana, l.
met most remarkable case of ones armed ingenui-l
~. RObet Lewis, ay0ung man without home or
kindred, who had to earn his bread by hard daily
labor early in the war, and at the minimum age,
entered the service as private in General Spoon
er's regiment, the Eghty.thi Indiana, AT the
battle Of Chickasaw Bluff, Robert lost his arm at
the shoulder. After much suffering he returned
to his former home. The lossof an arm only SEEM
ed to impress him with the ideathat greater energy
would be required, If he would make an nhonorable
living W. 1''' - '.-''5' A'''' 81, .si,
He began to study at night and every leisure
moment. Soon he qualified himself for teaching.
About this time he did what would usually be, un-
der similar circumstances q very foolish thiDg-he
got married But his wife accepted the situation,
and was willing to laugh at poverty and help her
husband to earn their bread He taught school In
the winter, and in the spring began to build ahouse
I was through his house day or two ago.. It has
six rooms, is of the Gothic style of architecture,
and is neat and substantial throughout From
foundation to roof, all the work was done by this
one-armed man, except that his wife and her moth
er assisted in raising it Not being able to pro
cure joists to suit him, he sawed them out Of awde
two-inch plank. ~ -,
He laid the foundation, built the chimneys, made
the doors and sash, in short, no sound Of hammer
or any tool was heard about the building Of that
house, except those that were welded by his arm.
Let any one try to start ten penny nail with only
one hand, and he Will doubt this story but strange
as it may appear, it is in every respect true.
It would pay one for trip to Ripley county, to
see the ingenious devices of Robert Lewis to make
the difficult work of two-armed man easy Of &C.
compIshment by q one-armed soldier. At the
time was thereihe was completing baby wagon,
which would compare with the neatest Of those
sold in the market Besides earning living and
building house, Mr.. Lewis is reading law. He
has remarkable head, and, unless am much
mistaken, he viii yet become eminent. he is not
vet tWenty-0ne years of age. Gs$14 .afEytr 9-.'
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-11-14
sTONEWALL JACKSON.

A CHARACTERISTIC MCIDNT-1n the Rehg-
ious Herald for this week we find the following IN
teresting incident in the Life of jackson, which
gives us an insight into some of the thoughts that
occupied his mind the day after the great battle In
which he won his immortal soubriquet Of Stone
WALL" -s.-,az. b l. - #s & 9! sFa@.
A few days after the first battle Of Manassas an
eager, anxious crowd was assembled at the Post
Office in Lexington, Virginia, on thearrivd Of the
mail. The greatest excitement prevailed, and t.
dings 'sfrom the 'front.' were eagerly sought after.
The venerable Dr.. White (pastor of the Presbyte-
rian church) took letter from the post Office and,
recognizing it as in the handwriting of Brgadier
General afterwards "StonewaIl') jackson, he
said to the crowd, 'tHere is letter from General
Jackson-now we will have full and authentic par
ticulars of the battle" The crowd eagerly asked;
him to read aloud, and pressed round to hear the
expected stirring news from the field of conflict.
he broke the seal, and, to the disappointment of
all, found only these few lines: 81 '-r rf''a''y
MANASSAS JUNCTION, July %, 1861.
my Dear Pastor: II remember that my sub
scipton to Domestic Missions is about due. Please
find enclosed $50. Yours very truly, ts@%i
T. J. JACKSON"
No word about the great battle in which he had
played so conspicuous part-no time or mciinar
ton to tell of those heroic deeds which rendered
famous, forever, "Stonewal jackson and the
Stonewan Brigade he could afford the time
to send to his pastor money which he had prom
ised to the treasury Of the Lord. zi.-q r. z,
The example Of this great and good man teach
les q lesson which many would do well to heed.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-11-14
THE DECLINE nj COTTON.

Tho o,o,t 6. Z .o,to,,
prospects in the soutb The nlanters Iii Mt
male their expenses and those Who have rented ted
land will;lose money a. large amount of North.
ern canit.l ;nv.stej IN cotton nlsn,;n, ;Ilba l..
Cotton ~ +be rev cro, Yo,g oon,;ro ;n,o 1910 h
selling in the nr;nc;nsI cotton aenots ftha sautb
at fourteen ~ fifseen cents tar ,;nclndsd Tine
buyer generally pays the tax 80 the PLANTER obtains
about twelve and q half eants. IN cn,rrannSlv,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-11-14

NJ The London papers are complaining Of the
high price Of food in that city: Corn has risen
twenty per cent. in month, and the prospect for,
winter appears decidedly bad Whist the poor
viii do. with the rising prices Of the necesares Of
life, is subject they hesitate 70 contemplate -
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-11-14

sThe book which Blelock publishes will be a
plain narrative of Forests deeds. I have read
many pages of the manuscript and am led to be-
ieye that Northern soldiers who encountered For
rest, will say that it is modest and truthful, even
as it is well written and its facts carefully colated
The book is certainly free from prejudice, which
distinguished the productions Of Pollard, the Rich
mond book-maker.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-08-23
No. no.
Table Talk.

The Heart. None know how much
villany lodges in THE little retired
room South.
Truth. When n man has no design
but to speak the plain truth, he may
say q great deal in a very narrow COM
pass. Steele.
Afectdtion Of Grandeur = Senecio
was man of turbid ard confused wit,
who could not endure to speak any
but mighty words aud sentences, till
this humor grew at last into so noto-
rious q habit, or rather disease, as be-
came the sport of the whole town; he
would have no servants but huge,
MASSEY fellows; no plate or household
stuff but thrice as big as the fashion;
you may belle O, (for / mako it with
ont raillery,) his extravagancy came
ut last into madness, that be would
not put on pair of shoes, each OF
which was not big enough for both his
feet; he would eat nothing but what
was great. nor touch any fruit but
horse-plums aud poundpears. Sen
eca.
There should be, methinks, as little
merit in loving woman for her beau
ty as'in loving a man for his prosperi-
ty; both being equally subject TO
change. [Swift.
Quarrelling would not last long, if
the fault was only on one side. Ro-
chefocauld.
Natve.-All things are artificial, for
nature is the art of God. Sir Thorn
MS Brown. A
A man Of sense should never lee
ashamed to own that he has been in
the wrong, which is but saying that he
is wiser to-day thun he was yesterday.
Swift. asAi
In estimating mans conditcD,
we should got only consider wknt pos
sessions he has, but what desires. -
Fuller.
Ingratitude is the abridgement OF
all baseness, fault never found unat-
tended with other viciousness. Rcbe-
ert Boyle
True IFiSdom True wisdom, not
withstanding all Hogarth's poor poet
may have written against riches, and
in spite of all which any rich, well-fed
divine may have preached against
pleasure, consists not in the contempt
of either of these. A man may have
as much wisdom in the possession Of
an affiuent fortune as any beggar in
the streets; or may enjoy handsome
wife, or a hearty friend, and still re-
main MS wise as any popish recluse,,
who buries all his social faculties, and
starving his belly, while he well lashes
his back. Fielding.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-08-23
4 Story About Judge Ambrose
Spencer.

At a period when Judge Ambrose
Spencer was on the bench of the Su-
preme Court of New York-this was
upwards of forty-five years ago there
was, on Staten Island, lawless set of
men engaged in villainous wrecking
and kindred pursuits to such an ex-
tent as to lower the morality and
standing of the Island in universal
estimation. Judge Spencer presided
at circuit held there, was trying n
man who had committed some gross
and high crime. The evidence was
clear in proof Of his guilt and his hon
or charged strongly against him. The
jury, however, brought in n verdict of
not guilty The large and command
ing figure of the Judge rose and tow
cred itself to its full height: Prison
Ell said his honor in the seyerest and
loudest tones, 81 have to address you
in two directions; firstly, you have
had n most extraordinary escape from
condign punishment which You de-
served; and secondly, You may be as
sured that the time will come when
you will be tried at another bar,
where, it is some satisfaction even
now to know, there will be no Staten
Island jury to acquit you
1t is possible that Judge Spencer,
when he uttered the last sentence, had
met with and there was floating in his
mind what fell from the Right Rev.
Bishop Coppoch, who was in the Eng
lish rising Of AS and sentenced TO
death The bishop made long SER
mon or speech at the place of execu-
ton, prayed for King James and his
son Charles, and all the rest of the
Stuart family, called King George a
usurper, and then gave sermon to
the sheriff He behaved very boldly
on the trial. When he was going
from the bar, after having been found
guilty, he said openly to the other
gentlemen prisoners: "Neyer mind it.
my boys, for if our Saviour were here,
these fellows would condemn Him. -
And seeing one drop tears when he
received sentence, he said-"What are
you afraid of? We shan't be tried by
a Cumberland jury in the Other
world"
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HEALTH INSURANCE thin, cadav-
erous looking German, about fifty
years of age, entered the Office Of q
health insurance company and in
quired:
''Ish te man in vat insures to peo-
pies helts 2"
The agent answered, II attend to
that business" f hsfit3.
"Vell, / wants mine helts insured.
Vot you sharge p
Different prices" answered the
agent; 'from three to ten dollars
year, and you get ten dollars q week
in case of sickness" a M
"Vell," said Mynheer, II wants ten
dollars vert. 81.
The agent inquired his state of
health
well, ish sick all the time. rs
shust out of bed two or three hours q,
tay, and te doctor say he can't do moth.
ing more good for me"
IF that is the state of your health"
returned the agent, 1--WE can't insure il.
We only insure persons who are in
good health"
AT this Mynheer bristled up in great
anger. "You must tink rs fool
Vot you tink, / come pay you ten dol
lars for inshure my helt ven 1 vas
well ?"
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-08-23
Clninn ArcncX.


X recent onactments of Congress, all Sol
- , ueis who have served three years and have
M !. but 500 bounty from the United States,
S,, I' having enlisted for three years, were dis
ss a III consequence of wounds, and the Wild
5.s5Is,iuleh, or parents of any soldier who en-
mn, loi three years, under promise of only
tg1 ".'uAly, and who died in the service, are en-
DeaD DOLLARS
bs NV qua pensioners who have lost hand or
ne y" nave Incurred disability equivalent to
~Ii, Ase Of pension.
mea 9a'oned widows of soldiers or sailors are
kr@''.p an increased pension of two dollars
ise 1'''n ior each child under sixteen years of
n, "e OK the above nature, and for arrears Of
,o.-'''s extra pay for horses lost in the L..
dw,, Communication of rations OF prisoners
euie5 ana prize money, will be promptly prose-
ds,s, application by letter, enclosing dis
lessnom service, will be attended to and the
''ufes &e. ''D' ''u " aPPnnUSamN1t t lSI sis
81 A. ohee over the First National Bank
GUMS Aug. 7th, 1866. l25-tf
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turned her face away, and the little
hands which were in Paul's no longer
struggled to be free, but lay quiet and
passive; and the young man felt that
his case was not so hopeless after all.
Fanny, Fanny Randall, you do not
hate me, and you do not love me!
Will you be my wife, Fanny ?" he
asked.
She turned her face toward him
now, and light was in her beautiful
eyes which Paul understood full well,
for he clasped her to his heart in first
and long embrace.
An hour later Richard and Alice
came in, and their countenances also
told story similar to that which was
written on the happy faces of Paul
Vincent and Fanny Randall.
"Now, Dick, I've an action against
you, said Paul, as his friend returned
You've been filling this young lady's
head with information concerning your
humble servant, to wit: that he is a
perfect woman hater that he despises
all that appertsins to the country, ct
cetera, ct cetera. ii be even with
you, yet, friend Dick y
80, no something has come to
pass, / reckon p said Dick, laughing
Turned out just as | thought it
would All right Thank me, Paul,
You lucky fellow; for, 10y the very
means l took you have won your case.
II ,,o,-e =, o,n,o 6.l;,,,, ,,,, n, Norp,,pf
don't it But you, Fan, turning to
her, what sort of bait have you been
using, to catch the best fish in the
husband market | know of-my old
friend here. "Well, Alice and l can
tell you that we've not been idle all
this time, either; can't we Alice ?" But
the girls had vanished, and the young
men were alone.
The next morning, there were long
consultations with the farmer and his
wife; and when the two young men
left them, their smiling faces told the
story of their success And, though
they left the farmhouse that day, yet,
before the earth was mantled with
winters SHOWS, they came again; and
when they once more returned to their
city homes, they went not there alone,
for the two blushing brides who ac-
companied them bore evidence 10 the
success of their summers visit.
But with the weddings did not ter,
inmate Dick Warmers raillery to his
friend concerning their summers fish
ing in Vermont and "Fanny's bait"
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-08-23
There's Work Enough To Do

The blackbird early leaves its nest
To meet the smiling morn,
And gathering fragments for It's nest
From upland wood and land.
The busy bee that wings its way
Mid sweets of varied hue,
AT every bower would seem to say
There's work enough to- do
The cowslip and the spreading vine,
The daisy in the grass,
The snowdrop and the eglantinc,
Preach sermons as we pass.
The ant, within its cavern deep,
Would bid rs labor too,
And writes upon its tiny heap
There's work enough TO do"
To have heart for those who weep,
Tho scottish druukard win:
To rescue all the children, deep
In ignorance and sin;
To help the poor, the hungry feed;
To give a coat or shoe,
To see that all can write and read
There's work enough to do
Tho time is sbort-the world is wide,
And much has to be done:
This wondrous earth and all its pride
VIII vanish with the sun
The moments fly on lightning wings,
And LIES uncertain. too;
We've none to waste on foolish things
There's work enough 10 do"
The planets, at their Makers will,
Move onward 10 their cars.
For natures wheel Is never still
Progressive as the stars
The leaves that iluttcI in the air,
And summer brcezcs WOO,
One solemn truth to man declare
There's work enough 10 do"
Who then can sleep when all around
II active, ~ sh, and free
Shall man-creation' iurd--bo found
Less busy than the bee?
Our courts and alleys are the field,
II men would search them through,
Tho best the sweets " labor yield,
Aud "work enough to do
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-08-23

TACT AND TALENT. Talent is some
thing, but tact is everything. Talent
is serious, grave, and respectable; tact
is all of that, and more, too. II is not
a seventh sense, but it is the life of all
the five. 1t is the open eye. the quick
ear, the judging taste, the keen smell
and the lively touch; it is the inter-
prefer of all riddles--tho surmounter
of all difficulties the remover Of all
obstacles. 1t is useful in all places
and at all times; it is useful in soli-
tude, for it shows o man the way
through this world Talent is power
Tact is skill; talent is weight-tact
is momentum; talent knows what to
do--tact knows how to do it; talent
makes a man respectable-tact will
make him respected; talent is wealth;
tact is ready money. For all practi-
cal purposes of life; tact carries it
aSBinst talent to one.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-08-23
Dry Goods Rivalry in New York

A correspondent says: "Such is
the rivalry between Stewart and Olaf
lin, that when one discovers that the
other has large stock of particu-
lar article on hand, he instantly reduc-
es the price below cost, in order to
impose heavy loss on his COMPETE
tor They can lose hundred thous-
and dollars for the qualification of
their spleen, and not miss it; but the
effect is to depreciate the value of the
stock of hundreds of smaller establish
ments, producing loss which they
which they can i'll afford. This makes
their business so uncertain, and puts
them entirely at the mercy of this gil
ant capital, that muItitudes fail or be-
come discouraged, while many others
are deferred from entering into the
business. 1t is thus that these enor-
nous fortunes work an injury to the
community. We observe similar re-
suits in speculation and finance The
possessor of three or four millions u.s.
es his power with tremendous effect.
He becomes director or officer of some
corporation whose stock is on the mar
-manipulates it-crushes hundreds
of little operators, and rakes their
thousands into his pile of millions; the
millions grow, the thousands disap-
pear. One man prospers-a host
are impoverished. Do not understand
me as tinctured with agrarian senti
ments, or as disposed to restrain the
millionair in the free use of his own.
My only purpose is to note, as phi
lanthropio observer, the manifest ten
dency of things in this great whirl-
pool.
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Scraps.

Signal for bark--pulling dogs
tail
The favorite air nowadays is a mil
lion aire.
The best capital to begin life with is
capital wife.
Moving for New Trial--courting
second wife.
Motto for an Arab Trbe--Up and
Bedouin.
Wise-acres Land reclined from
the sea.
The Prince of Wales does bet. His
father did better.
There are four thousand female
Office holders in Italy.
Summer complaints weather
and dull business.
Somebody says the ladies' pet ami
mails are West Pointers.
pride goeth before fall" 1t of
ten goeth before waterfall.
Why is mouse like load of hay
because the cat'll eat it.
Dolly Davenport says she has no in
tention of going to Europe.
Six bushels of wheat to each inhabi-
tant is the average this year.
The richer man makes his food,
the poorer he makes his appetite.
Eighty thousand dozen bottles OF
Congress water were sold last year.
Quadri Chloride of carbon is new
annsthetlc coming into fashion.
If You would look "spruce" in your
old age, do not "pine" in your youth.
ExGov. Gilpin, of Colorado, lately
sold gardenp patch for 81, 100000.
The first bale of new cotton Las
made its appearance North from Sa-
vanrah.
The Pope beautifed more than two
hundred japanese the other Sunday.
Why is love like the letter r? Be
cause it makes many Mary marry.
Don't go to church with a cough
and disturb the rest of the congre
cation.
The coquette pursues her lover and
makes him think he is pursuing her.
Lancaster, Pa, has natural bridge
which it matches against that in Vir-
ginia.
Two hundred shoemakers are on a
strike in Chicago; but they don't start
a peg.
How do we know Pharaoh was a
carpenter Why, he made Joseph a
ruler.
I'll be round this way in minute,
as the second hand remarked to the
pendulum.
Shenandoah Waddell has set foot
again on his native heath, we are sor-
ny to say.
Paris eats two hundred horses a
month. Frenchmen never say neigh
to horsemeat.
Why is thief in the garnet like an
honest man? Because he is above do
ing wrong action.
Lord Lyons is now British Minister
Mt Paris, with the pleasant little plum
of $4,000 year.
Who is the LATEST man +? The furni-
ture dealer he keeps chairs and
lounges about all the time.
Wait for others to advance your in
terests and you will wait until they
are not worth advancing
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-08-23

IMPORTANT FAcT-Ffll kerosene
lamp about one-third full of common
salt, and then fill the lamp with kero-
sene oil, and you have at once an oil
that will burn nearly twice as long as
it would without the salt and give n
light even better than without it. This
addition Of salt keeps the blaze of the
oil from smoking, and although the
discovery of this simple fact will pro-
duce great saving of expense to all
who will try it. H &
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-08-23

4 CURIOUS CALcUIATIoN..-An ex-
change says; "What noisy creature
would a man be were his voice, in pro-
portion to his weight, as loud as that
of locust A locust can be heard at
the distance of e-sixteenth of n mile.
The golden wren is said to weigh blu t
half an ounce SO that a middling sized
man would weigh down not short of
four thousand of them; and it must be
strange if golden wren would not
outweigh four of our locusts. Suppos-
ing, therefore, that conn on man
weighs as much as sixteen thousand of
our locusts, and that the note of a To-
Gust can be heard ne-sixteenth of n
mile, man of common dimensions,
pretty sound in wind and limb, ought
to be able to make himself heard at
the distance of one thousand six hun
bred miles; and when he sneezed his
house ought to fall about his ears !
Surprising a flea TO weigh one grain,
which is more than its actual weight,
and to jump one and a half yards, a
common man of one hundred and fifty
pounds, with jumping powers in pro-
portion, could jump twelve thousand
eight hundred miles, or about the dis
lance from New York to Cochin Chi
na"
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"TRE DEVIL TO Pax" This phrase.
doubtless, originated in printing
Office, on some Saturday nights settle
ment of wages. "John," says the pub
Usher to the book Keeper, show stands
the cash account ?" "Small balance
on hand, sir" Lets see," rejoined
the publisher, show far that will go
towards satisfying the hands!" John
begins 10 figure arithmetically; so
much due to Potkins, SO much to Ty-
pus, SO much TO Grubble, and so ON,
through dozen dittos. The publish
er stands aghast. Here is not mon
ey enough, by jugful." "No, sir;
and, besides, there is The dera 10 pay. .
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-08-23

Bas- To remove strawberry or coffee
stains from linen, place the article
stained over a pail or tub, and pour a
small stream Of boiling water on the
spot, and the stain will disappear.
Pour the water from as great dis
tance as possible. aea
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-08-23

SEAsoSABLE QUOTATION Nov is tho
winter of our discomfort made glorious
summer"
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RioHARDsoN's PICTURE GALLERY

X VHARDSoN's PICTURE GALLERY
IL Man, opposite Bank Street, st. Adams.
w lVp stairs) Open all hours Of the day,
Nulli!s excepted All the latest styles of pic
.l's made at this Gallery. Albums and Pie
ve Frames, Stereoscopic and card Pictures OF
,Iusnt Scenery, all at low prices. Cali early
~l0llen' +. G.. RICHARDSON,
"'-u' Proprietor.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-08-23

ssg- Some slanderer says that wo-
men chiefly reside in the utter-most
parts of the earth.