Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-01-24

or TWO OF patient waiting 1Or MS valuable WAUGH
and gold chain to arrive, he begins to see that he
is a fool He bites his lips in silence. He is like
the victim of the Snowman who advertised to show
an animal like horse but was not horse havine
the head where the tail ought to be, and the tai
where the head ought to be-" On paying hi.
quarter he was admitted to stable in which was
mare with her head at the rear of the stable anc
her tail tied to the trough! The victim departed
kno,oiag himself to be sold, and by his silence al
lowing everybody else to be sold too, lest everybody
should laugh at him.
So it is with our jewelry Dupe He knows he's
a fool, and doesn't like anybody to be able to tel
him so. He bites his lips till they bleed; and is
just as apt as not to bite at the next bait that is
dropped to him from honest Yankeedoodedom
before six months roll over his head
And thus it is that these rascals live. Men are
fools, and these rascas know the fact and live by it.
Does not any body in his senses know that the
above circular is fraud ?-t that those men cannot
honestly do what they offer to do, either one way
or the other? Do us the favor to observe that the
circular mast be Jeretuned so as to deprive the dupe
of every vestige of evidence Of any promise, pro-
vided he should be such lunatic as to seek In
demnity for the fraud by law.
Take a safe rule as your guide w whenever you
cannot see howa thing of this kind can be done hon
esty take it for granted that is done dishonesty
There is very little guessing about it.
All these humbugs and rascalties have been ex-
posed in the public prints scores Of times; and yet
fools won't all die.
There is little book called The Rogues and
Rogueriss of Ne,o York that exposes maybe a
hundred tricks and lodges like this) tomakemoney
dishonesty 1t costs only quarter, and every
body who has anything to do with great cities or
with whom great cities have anything to do would
do themselves favor by reading it. We may re-
turn to this little book at some future time when
we have space to say few words about it
Caldwell's History Of the Gregg MCGOWAN
Brigade.
We promised last week to mention some Of the
errata of this volume which have been pointed out
for us by the author himself We now proceed to
do so.
On page I, near the bottom, Col. Gregg's given
name should be Maxcy, instead of Maxey.
On page 81, line above the bottom, it should
read unfinished R. R. between Alexandria and
Thoroughfare Gap," instead of Manassas Gap
railroad"
On page SIS, the two Greek quotations are out
and-out geographically murdered. They should
be, (using Roman letters), respectively, enteahen
exclaimed and entautha enaeine.
On page lOl, instead of "Austerlitz," read
'Wagrem."
On page 1872, instead Of ''Longstreet was early
on the way" read ''Longstreet was only on the
way"
Onpage 1913, top line, insert dash between ''us'
and those and in the thirteenth line, instead Of
a comma, between ''year' and with, inserta semi
colon.
On page 2lO, about the middle of the page, in
stead of Hunter S, read 'Gracie's''
On 2l3 fill up the table of casualties with, First
regiment, Killed l, Wounded 4, Total 5; -Four
teenth regiment, Killed 2, Wounded 6, Total 8;
and change the Aggregates to Killed II, Wound
ed 60, Total II.
On page ZIG, third line from the top, insert
twas between 'T' and ''sent, making the phrase
read II uas sent"
Besides these, we observe several others of mi
nor importance of which we beg leave to mention
few.
On page %, the seventh line from the bottom,
the date ''lOth," should be ''2Oth," according to
our Notes.
On page 4s, ''Lieut w. L. Leitzsez" should be
Lieut. W. L. Leitzsey."
On page 81, Capt. A. E. HASKELL should be
capt A. c. Haskell.
On page SO, ''Lieut. j. P. Pean'' should be
something else, as there was no officer of that name
in that regiment.
On page lO3, Capt. W. P. Conner" should be
Capt. W. P. Cromer.
On page l4S, Capt j. R. Brockman' should
be Capt j. K Brockman."
On pages l67, ITO, 2OO and 2l9 "Col. j. F.
Hunt" should be ''Col l. F. Hunt"
On page 2l3, Capt +. Trimmer should be
Capt. F. NJ. TRIMMER"
The book is on sale in Columbia at the new book
store of Dufie & Chapman; and the price is dol
lar and half