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The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1861-07-10
MORTGAGE SALE-Default having

WV j WATERMAN. Attorney.
Dated Detroit June 20 h. A 1851. 1888
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-17
Patriotic Contributions.

The Richmond papers bring US daily re-
ports of the receipt at that point of the vol
untary contributions of the citizens of the
Confederate States The amount received
Tuesday and Wednesday last amounted to
forty t,co thousand dollars, and our tele,
graphic correspondent, in this mornings is.
sue, informs US that one gentleman from
Alabama arrived in Richmond yesterday
with fifteen thousand dollars worth Of
clothing, &c. We doubt, if in the history
of any country, such generous liberality
has ever been equalled. Is it not monstrous
to suppose that such people can ever be
subjected
Among the contributions published we
note the following from this S&te:
T. R. English, 1925 worth of clothing
for South Carolina troops.
Joseph A. CASTOR, 81, 900 worth of clo-
thing to 9th South Carolina regiment
J. H. Mcknight, STA worth Of clothing
to South Carolina troops.
D. M. Peden, 50 2,2S0 worth of clothing
to the 9th South Carolina regiment.
Capt Richardson, $4,000 worth of clio
thing to Blanding and Kershaw's South
Carolina regiments. s.-Guardian, 18th inst
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-17
The Prospect in Missouri.

The Northern papers are getting despond-
ent of the prospect in Missouri. The Wash
ington Star thus speculates upon the next
news from that quarter:
Undisguised anxiety continues to be
manifested in military circles here relative
to the state of things in Missouri and Ken.
tuccky. The loss of Lexington, we hear,
has greatly increased the force of Price and
other disunion commanders in Missouri
the wavering having accepted it as an omen
of the eventual defeat of the Union cause
there. Previous to it Fremont was in
greater force throughout the State than the
disunionists. Its effect, however, has been
not only to lose him Mulligan's 900 men,
but to deter others (of MissourD from join
ing him, and to induce quite ten thousand
to Join the rebel commanders, who would
have done no such thing had Price been
unable to reduce Lexington.
Under these circumstances, and the gene
raj impression among the military men
that Fremont is not adequate to his COM
mand, the impression is rife here saht the
next advices of battle in that quarter will
continue unfavorable to the Union canse.
We state these facts in order to prevent the
Star's readers from becoming dishearteued
by any approaching result in that quarter.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-17
Speculsting in Provisions.

We hear it stated upon good authority
that we have, in our midst, men who are
strainiug every nerve to buy up, from the
wholesale dealers, even at the present higr
prices, the entire stock of those kinds of
groceries and provisions that happen to be
scarce in the market, in order that hereafter,
taking advantage of their monopoly Of the
necessaries life, they may extort enormous
profits for themselves from the pressing
wants of our people. In N. Orleans, where
a few individuals have acted in similar
spirit, the authorities have laid heavy
hand upon them, and a generous public
sentiment has crushed the heartless move.
ment to the earth. If it should be neces-
sary, we must do likewise here.
Men who would prey upon the public
need, during struggle like this, are foes
far more dangerous to the veal Of the State
than the Yankee rufians, who skulk, with
torch and riAed cannon, along our borders
and our coasts.
We have no "surplus" population. A
bundaut work at fair prices, may be had by
all who care to obtain it. A reasonable ad-
vance OF prices, in times of scarcity, will
not be complained Of, even by those in
straitened circumstances. But let US not
suffer the schemes of greedy and merciless
speculators to place beyond the reach of the
honest and industrious poor, tbs wherewlth-
all to live and be happy.-Nsrcury.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-17

THE SPEcULAToRs.-"We constantly
hear of the operations Of the monopolists
of the articles of Bacon and Leather
They, and their agents, with the scent of
bloodhounds, smell afar of every pound of
bacon and leather which can be obtained,
and on which an extortiouate profit can be
made The State is thus; in its purchases
for the soldiers most grossly imposed upon
by these harpies."'
The above from the Raleigh Register is
as true as preaching not less true
than it is shameful, mean, and treacherous.
We have taken the pains to procure few
names of the above named class of coward
ly extortioners and money leeches, whose
names we mean to give to the public when,
ever favorable opportunity offers-at any
rate, we shall surely do it, when the war
ceases, in order that they may reap the just
indignation of our returning soldiers whose
comforts they have sapped and whose in
terests they have betrayed.-Sahsbury
Banner.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-17
EXtortion.

1t is undeniable that there are men who
have taken advantage of these war times to
enrich themselves at the expense of the peo-
pie. The darling object with these sort of
men is to get rich, thiss is the acme of their
ambition, and the sum total of all their en-
deavors. They have no regard for man or
devil, only so far as they may be made tribu-
tary to these ends. They are the horse
teaches of the ody-politic-the vampires
of soclety-in whose presence widows weep,
and the wall of wretched orphanage is heard
in vain Their iron boxes are gorged with
gold and silver, aud this is the Ark of their
Covenant with He'll, and the depository OF
coinage from tears and blood. The laugh.
ing 6end keeps guard over these boxes and
bags of gold, aud grius horribly at the pres
ence of hollow-eyed penury. The beggar
is dismissed empty, with a grimace of which
hell is made ashamed, while the lean arms
of the 6end caresses the gold-like coiled
snakes in the darkness of his Infamous den.
Such an one is ripe for the flames Of the
pit, and should have the badge of damnabIe
doom nailed upon his forehead by the his
sing populace 1t is with shuddering feel
ing we think of such men our souls revolt
and We sparn them back as the refuse
and of-scourings of ation.-.Selma Ala
Jama RepuIic
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-17
NUMBER ~.
The HOMICIDE OF MRs. W1qHERspooN.

The HOMICIDE OF MRS. WITHERsPooN.s
police officer Hicks returned
to the city Friday morning, from the Vi.
cinity of the late tragic affair at Society
Hill. He succeeded in obtaining a clue
to the perpetrators of this horrid deed, by
the discovery in a negro shanty Of some
cloths saturated with blood, which, upon
Investigation, proved to belong to Rhody,
an old negro woman, the former attendant
Of the deceased. On an examination ofthe
negroes connected with the house, it was
found that William, the carriage driver,
Rhody, the waiter, Romeo, her son, and
Sylvia, her daughter, all servants Of Mrs.
Witherspoon, bad formed and agreed upon
q plan to murder their mistress, for some.
triaing cause, by smothering her while a.
sleep, which they carried into effect in most
shocking manner. They have all confessed
their participation in this affair, and ac-
knowledged that Mrs. Witherspoon was a
most kind and iudulgent mistress, and say
they did it to escape whipping for an of
fence of which they own themselves guilty.
They were turned over by officer Hicks to
the proper authorities. A trial was to take
place Immediately. Some of the citizens
we're so incensed that they wish to hang the
negroes at once. Mr.. Hicks thinks they
will be executed to.day.-Marleston Cou.
rier. ". - -
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-17
Columbia, s. c., October II, 1861.

WHERE ARE THE WIDE AWAKEs -
The Boston Adyertiser is anxious to know
what has become of the $4,000 torch-bear-
ers of November The Syracuse I N. w.
Courier answers the question. We can tell
the Advertiser where the "6fty thousand"
Wide Awakes of last fall may be found
they are filling postofices, customhouses and
other ''peace" positions, or are begging ap'
pointments at the hands of the Admins
tration, or are making themselves rich out
of swindling contracts, or are acting as le-
galized pickpockets under the name of "sut.
ler," and some of them probably are still
wearing the epauletts they were so covetous
to secure, so prompt to disgrace, aud so
ready, on the first practical experience OF
danger, to resign. Some of them may be
found clustering about "treason, insulting
peaceable Democrats when they can do so
with impunity, and couuseling mobs, in the
rear of which they would be the first to con-
ceal themselves, out of tha reach Of danger.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-17
Won't Sell their Cotton.

At meeting of planters, held in Wash
ington county, Texas, on the 23d of Sep
tember, resolutions were passed, compatible
with the following preamble:
Whereas there are being established at
various points in this State agencies to pur-
chase cotton. purporting to be for the pur-
pose of supplying the demand for cotton in
Mexico; and whereas it is an ascertained
fact that already more cotton has been pur,
chased in this State than is sufficient to en-
ploy all the spindles in Mexico for the next
year, whereby we are satisfied that all such
agencies are not Mexican agencies in fact,
but Black Republican agencies in disguise
Now therefore,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-17

EFFECT OF FREMoNT's PROCLAMATION
IN MIssoURI.-The Cincinnati Enquirer,
of the oath ultimo, says that an intelligent
and prominent genteman-a Union man
Just from Leaveuworth, Kansas, reports
that the proclamation of Fremont has had
most disastrous effect on the Union cause
in northwestern Missouri 1t has driven
nearly all the Union men in that region into
the Confederate ranks. In the half dozen
counties in Missouri bordering on Kansas,
sevep.eights of the people were Union men
prior to Fremont's proclamation, and had
formed companies in connection with Kan
sas to protect the frontier; but since the
proclamation of Fremont, all the Missouri
companies have gone to the Southern Con-
federacy. The informant Of the Enquirer
also states that the Confederates have all
southwestern and northwestern Missouri,
with not less than one hundred thousand
troops, we'll armed.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-17
From the South Carollnian, 9th Instant
Fair Grounds Hospital.

There are two hundred and twenty sick
soldiers in the hospital at the Fair Grounds.
Twenty:four have been discharged. Though
the number has increased so greatly and so
rapidly upon the hands of the ladies, yet
there has been no tagging on their part
Their zeal and energy seem to rise with the
demand. Their liberality knows no bounds
short of the comfort of every soldier COM
mitted to their care. 1t is truly wonderful
to see what they have done, and are doing,
for the relief of our suffering soldiers
Their sacrifices and labors, to be apprecia-
ted, must be witnessed. Will not the La
dies Relief Associations aid the ladies Of
Columbia with their contributions
Most Of the cases are doing very we'll,
under the skilful and faithful treatment Of
Drs. Trezevant and Fair, aided, as they
have been, by Drs. johnson and Kilgore,
the kind-hearted and devoted assistant sur
geons of the 18th and 18th regiments
Much praise is also due the young Drs
Harris, Sylvester and Whitesides, for theil
attention to the sick.
Mr.. John A. Crawford has labored, da,
after day, with his own hands,, and mos
efficiently, too, for the comfort of our sicl
soldiers.
Mr.. W. R. Runnels, of Spartanburg
Captain Brockman's company, died on th'
7th instant.
There are two or three very i'll. Thei
friends have been informed of the fact.
J. MONROE ANDERSON.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-17
From Richmond

RICHMOND, Oct. 10.-Col. William E
Starke, of Loring's staff, has arrived here
from Gen. Lees camp. with dispatches an
nouncing the retreat of Rosenorantz, on the
night of the 9th inst, from Big Sewell
Mountain across the Gauley River. 1t is
supposed that be is out of supplies. The
FEASIBILITY of the roads and a lack ofsuf'
6cient transportation prevented Lee from
pursuing him.
RICHMOND, Oct. 1.-THE condition of
Gen. Wise, according to the talk last night,
was regarded as exceedingly critical.
No more passports will be granted TO per-
sons to leave the Confederacy, who leave
their families here.
A petition was filed yesterday to seques,
trate Monticello, the home Of Jefferson,
now owned by captain in Lincon's navy.
Voluntary contributions to the army are
undated. Among those acknowledged at
the Passport Office to-day was one from
George Kellogg, of $4,000 worth clothing,
etc., for the Georgia regiments. Kellogg
was in charge of contributions from several
counties, and kept with his trust until he
reached Richmond.
Several hundred carloads Of voluntary
contributions from different States, for the
army, are at various stations on the rail-
ways leading to Richmond. Great efforts
are making to move them forward. Insult.
cicnt railway power, washing away Of
bridges, and perhaps other causes, have pro-
duced the delay.
RICHMOND, October l2.-Voluntary con-
tributions for the army continue to be re-
ceived in Richmond in large quantities.
The Mississippi contributions received to-
day amounted 10 $4,000 in value, and
contributions from other States to consid-
erabe amount have been received.
RICHMOND, Oct. 13.-It is reported
here, on the authority of gentleman just
from Baltimore, that Lord Lyons and Sec
retary Seward had come to an open rupture
in their relations, and that Lord Lyons had
left Washington.
The total amount contributed to the SOL
diers' fund since the Sd instant, as repor-
ted at the Passport Office, is sl92, 1S5.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-17
Pranara for Hard Times.

We commend the following we'll timed
article, from the Augusta Chronicle d Sen.
tinel, to the attention of all our readers
and more especially to our farmer friends.
The advice offered is worthy of the strictest
observance. Read, and at once resolve to
heed the patriotic admonitions of the wrl'
ter:
The people are just now beginning to
feel the effects, the hardships and trials OF
a state of war. We had hoped that before
winter the war would have been pushed to
a successful and glorious termination, and
there is still time enough and perhaps am
pie means at hand. We have larger
force in the field than the enemy, and his
enlisting has already been brought to a
stand still, while our men are still volun-
teering. The enemy must resort soon to
drafting, toa forced conscrlption, to ill up
ranks to half million, for he has yet not
much more than half that number in arms.
Perhaps he will be able to get the half mil
lion, perhaps not, but we should act as If If
he were certain to get them. And although
we are in superior force, and our men have
proved themselves Individually aud collect
lively the superiors of the Lincoln troops,
on almost every occasion, yet the look OF
things now is not promising for a speedy
close of the war.
If the war does not end, or the block
ade is not raised within three months, We
shall have hard times in real good earnest.
And we ought to prepare for the worst, tits
wise and prudent to do so, for if the best
come we shall still have lost nothing by
preparation for threatened evil. We should
study and practice encouomy in all things,
and make what We have got produce its
greatest benefits. With cotton a drug in
the market, We should eudeavor to supply
ourselves to the fullest extent with coarse
cotton goods. The little wool We have
should be husbauded, applied where it is
most absolutely necessity, for soldiers
clothing and covering; and we ought not to
kill the sheep for food, if we can avoid it,
when they are so valuable for wool bear
ing. We should use as little bacon as we
can we'll get along with, and be sure tc
convert all the spare grain and peas in tc
meat, for after bread that is the next great
need. 1t would be great hardship if the
negroes were deprived of bacon, but II
should be given them as spariugly as the
case will admit, while the white people
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-17
For the Lancaster Ledger.
First Glass on estate of the Country"
Stand up here Bill Smokes and keep

First Class on estate of the Country"
Stand up here Bill Smokes and keep
your coat.tail out of your mouth.
@. What is independence?
A. Do as you please, go where you
please, sell what you please, ask what you
please for it, and cheat all you can.
O. What is love of country?
A To fight, bleed and die, and git no
credit for it.
@. Do all men manifest this desire to do
battles for their country?
A. No. Some had rather stay at home
and make money; grumble at the faults of
others; speculate upon Toms, Bills and
Jim's bravery.
@. What class is this?
A. They are commonly called street
louugers, but some call 'em soap tails for
short.
@. All who stay at home are not 80 dis
posed are they?
A. Oh, no. Some are liberal in their
donations to support the country and re-
ilieve the wants of the poor.
Q. Do they get no credit for it?
A. Nary bit. You see the soap-talls do
all the talking, having more time to de.
vote to the bellows than working men, aud
they say when the liberal give adollar, they
Just add that much more profits on their
saleable articles, which the country is bound
to have.
O. Is it certain that any person does
this?
A. Without doubt, great many do
add on blockade, war tax, and many other
items too numerous to mention.
@. Is it men that have been born and
raised amongst US?
A. Yes sir! Nary other kind.
@. What is this class called!
A. Patriots of the right stamp.
@. What is patriotism nowadays?
A. Talk big, tell what you have done,
what you gwiue to do, make out you've
done everything and nobody else done moth
ing, nay all your taxes and make 'em up on
yer customers, add little more to the price
every time you see the word "blockade,'
Cypress the people, especially the poor,
they amt got no business to be poor.
Q. Who does this?
A. Merchants, farmers and school
teach - a.:
Exit Bill with an inkstand in close prox-
unity with his snout.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-17
SENsILBE.-The Mobile Nercury, con

SENsILBE.-The Mobile Nercury, com.
menting on the scarcity of paper, thus
speaks of the proportions of newspapers:
"Newspapers everywhere have been cur
failing their dimensions, which was wise
policy in these times of no profits and high
prices for paper. We see many journals
who evidently fond of keeping up appear
ances, have not yet followed the policy
Their columns are mostly filled with dead,
paying advertisements, grown very
stale. We even see 'Cephalic Pills still
cumbering their columns. If they would
reduce the size of their sheets down to what
will hold their reading matter and paying
advertisements, they wouldn't look as big,
but would have as much in them. The
reading public will know how to bear with
small sheets in these terrible times if they
are we'll and judiciously filed"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-17
Spanish Expedition against Mexico.

Spanish Expedition against Mexico.
The New York Times special dispatch
from Washington, of the 9th, says that
highly important advices had been recei''
we'd from Cuba, stating that the Spanish!
war steamer Leone was waiting at Cadiz
the result of Cabinet conference on the
European coalition against Mexico, that
advices of the ultimatums of Spain might
Immediately be dispatched to the Captai"
General of Cuba. In the meantime an ex
pedition is being fitted out at Havana for
Mexico, under pretext that it is goingto
St. Domingo. The expedition will consist
of six howitzer batteries and 10000 men.
It will be ready to start not later than next
month. It is given out that Spain is ia.
king these steps against Mexico on her
own responsibility; but advices state def.
nitely that England and France will send
their quotas Of men, and, with their fleets
in the gulf, will cooperate. The whole
country, the Times says, will be startled by
this movement The end in view-the
regulation of Mexico--is the least impor.
tant part of it. The object looks farther
North. -
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-17

CR1TIoAL.-The Raleigh Register of the
9Th instant says that the two British vessels
which landed at Beaufort, North Carolina,
while the Yankee blockading vessels were
somewhere else, took on cargoes for Liver,
pool. When they were ready to sail, the
blockading vessels were back at the posts
assigned them, and refused to allow the
British vessels egress. The Captains re,
monstrated, but without avail. They sent
for the British Consul at Charleston, who
came in person, and urged upon them in
the name of his Government that, as they
found no impeachment in entering the har-
Dor of Beaufort, they had right to depart
unmoested. This was also unavailing.
The Consul then proceeded to Washing,
ton, and has laid the case before Lord Ly-
ons. The Register does not know, but be-
lieves portion Of the British squadron has
been ordered to Beaufort to give the vessels
convoy on their homeward voyage.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-17
Late from Europe.

CAPE RACE, Oct. 2.-The steamship
Niagara has arrived here, with Liverpool
advices to the 22d of September. =
= Prince Albert, Of England, comes pas
senger in the Niagara. .,-,..@ e.
The London Times sneers at Lincoln's
Federal loan, and advises Euglishmen to
have nothing to do with it.
An attempt had been made toassassinate
the Queen of Greece. .s~-...
A prize fight had taken place in Lon,
don between Tom Sayers, the ex. champion
Of England, and Mace, the Champion. It
lasted thirty-miuutes, and resulted in the
complete triumph of Ssyers. as ~
... q. r. COMMERCIAL NEWS. ,s.s. -.-ss
The sales of cotton in Liverpool for the
week preceding the steamers sailing was
1000 bales. Advance of the week 3d,s
aud prices still advancing Some cireu.
lars report the sales of the week at 67 900
bales, but this includes $500 bales of Surat
cotton, to arrive. .. .-..
The stock of cotton in Liverpool, on the
10th inst, was $4,000 bales, Of which
487 ,000rwas American. ~ 2s5s
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-17

GREELEY.-Northern dispatches inform
US that Master Greely has got himself into
a peck of trouble with the Lincoln Admin
istration BY divulgiug the preparation and
destination of the naval expeditions. 1t is
said that some of the cabinet want to sup
press Horace, he is such persistent mar
plot. All the provost marshalls and fede-
raj police in the empire can't keep him
from nosing out and prying into what does
not concern him, and he invariably and in'
coutinently blabs all he knows, regardless
of consequences to his cause.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-17

IMPORTANT NoTIoE.-The following no.
tice is from Richmond paper. We un'
derstand that by the authority Of a late Act
of Congress, the Government pays the
freight on clothing, &c., intended for SOL
diers in the Confederate service:
NorIcE.-I. Persons who are sending
clothing and supplies tc troops in the field,
are requested to mark distinctly on the
package with marking iuk) the name Of
the party for whom intended, the regiment
to which he belongs, and the place of des.
tination, care of Quartermaster at Rich
mond, to whom the usual railroad receipt
should be forwarded by the shipper.
II. Many packages arrive at the depots
of the railroads in Richmond with paper
marks rubbed off; of course their destina-
ton cannot be known by the Quartermas
ter. Others are imperfectly marked, and
cannot be identified
j. MAURY GARNALD,
Captain and Assistant Quartermaster.