Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-06-11

agine. The evidence was plain and dlrect-every
fact was fairly and fully proven against him but
there was flaw in the Indictment and he escaped
hanging by miracle. He is a dangerous man!
"Wel, Harvey Haley" retorted the prisoner
with the utmost eHrontery and cooness- YOU
think me so dangerous you would have been nc
fool to have gone about your business and let my
affairs alone. They didn't concern you. 1 give
you fair warning-I will remind you and that
youngster of this day work before long,"
"Cold blooded wretch" muttered Corpora
Blake, between his teeth. "March on prisonerr'
and with parting nod to Harvey and Victor, the
guard shouldered arms, and with q rapid step,
hastened on to turn the cold-blooded william ovel
to the provost marshal.
"Well there certainly is more of conscience and
humanity in the breast of tiger, than in the heart
of that man, " muttered Harvey Haley, as he stood
like one in dream, gazing after the prisoner, as
he hurried along with a shambng but rapid step,
before the cleaning muskets that were borne close
behind him. Ellis wife, so fair to look upon,
manged so horribly by his hand, and he not to re-
gard it 1t makes even me, who had no hand In
her death, shudder, to this day, when l think oi
how she looked lying upon the hearth, in pool ol
her own blood, and the half cooked breakfast or
the fire! Victor you must be onyour guard after
this mornings work.
"What do you think there is any danger to be
feared from so low wretch as he is2'
"Yes I do" replied his friend, with emphasis.
''He harbors revenge like an Indian, ard he would
scarce think it more of crime to shoot down O
man, than to kill squirrel. There are some men
so utterly destitute of conscience that they scarce
feel the difference between right and wrong. Mike
Welsh is one of these; and warn you to be on
your guard against him, and if you ever find him
skulking about your quarters, give him sure bull
let, if you cannot turn him over to guard. He
will never forget or forgive either of US to his dy.
ing day, for revenge is his virtue and religion"
II am in i'll luck to day, to have made an enemy
before the sun is well over the treetops" rejoined
Victor with a smile "but I scarce think Mike
Welsh will be dangerous one; for he will be sent
on to join his regiment forthwith, if am not mis-.
taken"
''Let us pray he may" responded Harvey, ''and
that some lucky bullet may save the hangman q
deal Of trouble for, to my thinking, Mike will die
like the blacksmith's horse-with his shoes on"
"Mass Harvey, we mos down to de camp now, y
interposed Pompey, San I want youner to tell me
for.true, what you gwine to do wild me. 1fyounel
wants me for stay and wait on youner in de camp,
de ole boss tell me hab for stay. ;"
"Well, what had you rather do, Pomp-stay
with US and help fight the Yankees, or go back
home and help make corn to feed us?' asked Har-
vey.
'Look ere, mass Harvey, dis chile don't know
nothin' bout fghtin' wild guns, said Pompey,
showing the whites of his eyes as very serious tit
came over him. "What gwine dc when dey
shoots shells at me, big as molasses hogshead2 You
tink I stand all dat, you mighty mistake. AS for
make corn for all youner to eat, dat's hard work
on de old boss place, where de jinter grows SO
strong; an what's de use OBJ work to make corn
Enty dey tell me de government got money to buy
-four an bacon to feed all youner wild, widout SO
much work?'
EYES," responded Harvey, 'the government
has some money, I believe, but we can't live on
that Pompey. We must have something to eat. "
''Let de government buy it den. De govern,
men got plenty money, and you tink / work when
I got de money? No, sar dat don't! But, boss,
how does de government get dat money? Yeler
Jake says, when he bin ober to Columbia wid ole
boss, he seed box dat would hold ten bushels
peas, crammed wild money. De top fall off at de
dipper, [depotl and dere was bushels OBJ de bills.
How de government get all dat? Take 'em from
de Yankees?'
"No, Pomp" answered Harvey, who seemed dis,
posed to amuse himself with the ideas of his sable
attendant, "the money, I suspect, is all made at
the printing press. +"
"Aha!" calculated Pompey, receiving the idea
most complacently, ''dat's de way, denl OATS as
easy, Mass Harvey, as fallin' off log De gov
ernmen' might gib US chicken-pie for dinner ebery
day, if dey makes de money so easy. No use fol
Pomp to.work den, dat's sure ! Buy ebery ting,
for true, widout work. :"
"Well, Pomp," asked Harvey, IF you won't
help US to fight, and don't want to work to make
; corn and bacon to feed the army, don't see how
you can be of any use to us, either in camp or al
home" So,
"Yous see, boss, replied Pompey, thoughtfully-
showing that he had studied the subject and made
himself "nlaster of the situation You an
Mass Vic amt at home now. You gwine to BE-
in company, all de time. It's wuss dan de bic
camp meetin', down at de bilin' spring Dere
amt so many wimmen dere, for true; but der
deres de big ofersers, de captins, de majors, and
de leftenants, and you and Mass Vic got to keep
dressed up nifty nice an fine. You want clean
shirt on ebery day and den, hab fur brush Mass
Vic's boots two or tree times ebery day; and den
dere's de washin' an de cookin'. Oh I tell you
youncs gwine for need dis chile, more in de camp
dan in de corn field"
"Yes, Pompey, we shall need you very much, u
said Victor; especially, when we are going al
double quick to get into battle, III need you along
to carry my gun and cartridge box
"Now, look here, Mass Vic" responded Pom,
pey, his face beginning to become quite serious
"spose fall down when you runnin' along and
git lef' benin, and loss my way? What you d.
den? If you amt got any gun to fight wild, some
blue-bely yankee put his gun to your head an
blow your brains to kingdom come! And spose
not min dis lame knee, and keep up wild de army
an bum-shell hit me on de side Of de head, who
gwine wash your shirt, so you dress nice fore de
oherser; and like to know, who gwine to brush
your boots ebery mornin' ?"
Pompey stated the case with the air of an advo
cate who had put forward an unanswerable argu
ment His face grew an inch longer, as Victor
replied
| "Well, that would be bad, Pompey, I admit
but the Government can make money so easily,
would have to beg the Colonel to get me thous
and or two dollars to buy another boy to take YOU