He retires to a
saloon, finds the morning paper, commences glancing over its legal
columns. The waiter is surprised to see him at that hour, is
ignorant of the war of trouble that is waging within him, knows him
only as a great man, a rice planter of wealth in negroes, treats him
with becoming civility, and enquires, with a polite bow, what he
will be served with. He wants nothing that will supply the physical
man. He has supped on trouble,--the following, painful as it is, will
serve him for breakfast; it meets his eye as he traces down the
column:--"SHERIFF'S SALE.
"According to former notice, will be sold on the first Tuesday in
September next, between the usual hours of sale, before the Court
House door, in this city, the following property-to wit!
"Three yoke of prime oxen, and four carts.
"Seven horses; two of celebrated breed.
"Twenty-two mules, together with sundry other effects as per
previous schedule, which will be produced at the sale, when the
property will be pointed out. The said being levied on as the
property of Hugh Marston, of--District, and sold to satisfy a fi
fa issued from the Superior Court, W. W. C--.
"Also the following gang of negroes, many of whom have been
accustomed to the cultivation of cotton and rice. Said negroes are
very prime and orderly, having been well trained and fed, in
addition to enjoying the benefit of Christian teaching through a
Sunday-school worship on the plantation.
"Dandy, and Enock (yellow), prime house servants.
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