Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-05-07

passes an Ordinance of Secession be will
arrest the entire body !'..'.'."'It is now
believed the first movement by Lincoln will
be in the direction of Harpcr's Ferry
There are about FIVE thousand Virginia
troops there .'.''...A gentleman who has
just arrived at Richmond from Washington,
saw Gen. Scott on Thursday last. General
Scott says most emphatically that he would
not invade the seeded States, but that be
would retake Harper's Ferry and the forts
at every cost. Lincoln is hard pushed for
provisions for the large body Of troops now
in Washington, which is estimated at twen-
ty to twenty-five thousand. ......'...The gov
erment of Boston are Offering twenty dol
lars per month, besides the regular govern
ment pay to volunteers to invade the South.
So, after all the vaporing about the thous.
ands who were rising everywhere in the
North to "sustain the government" itseems
that it is the pay that brings out those VOL
unteers. But the money will not last, and
when it is exhausted volunteering in the
North will be slow business. ...'.....The
cotton and sugar plantations in Louisiana
promise fine crop, and the wheat crop Of
Georgia is likely to be very large one
Wheat in some parts of Georgiais now fully
headed out, and corn is up and growing we'll.
...."".On last Friday, the stock Of Cot
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five thousand bales.
The James River is blockaded, and COM
munication with Norfolk cut of. f..........
General Houston is out for Texas and the
South. He calls upon his fellow. citizens
of Texas to respond to Lincolu's order clay
down their arms and disperse," just as
they responded at San Janciuto to Santa
Annals order to surrender their arms and
their lives into his hands .........L .Lincoln's
men at Cairo captured steamboat with
S175,000 worth of arms and ammunition on
board for Tennessee. The people of Ten
uessee are retaliating by seizing every Gin
cinnati boat that passes up the river. ''''''
A dispatch to the Atlanta Intellgencer,
dated Chattanooga, April 9th, says "An.
drew johnson spoke at Cleveland yester.
day, and at Knoxville to day. He said he
was in favor of the maintenance Of the Fed
eral Union, be would support the Admins.
tration at Washington, and all his powers
would be exerted to bring back the seeded
States. "........There are three women in
the Rhode Island regiment. Two are DRESS
ed as bloomers, the other is habited in
blanket Their hair is cut close to their
scalps. ..........G General Beauregard has left
Charleston for Montgomery, 10 obedience to
summons to that effect from President d.
Wis. The nature of his mission has not trans
pired. ......The President of the Southern
Rights Executive Committee Of North Ca
rolina, has withdrawn the call for the meet
ing at Charlotte, on the Goth inst, saying:
"The noble attitude of North Carolina
the union of sentiment and feeling among
her people, apd the spirit and alacrity with
which they meet the crisis, bespeak a spir
it that looks to action only, and not t. pub.
lie discussion. .".........Rev. B. NJ. Palmer,
formerly of this State, is private in the
"Confederate Guards" of New Orleans
In Georgia, two companies are forming,
both commanded by clergymen- one Meth
odist, and the other Baptist. '".'....Gov-
ernor Brown, of Georgia has issued proc
lamation, prohibiting the payment Of all
debts to Northern creditors till the end of
hostilities, and directing the payment of the
money into the State Treasury, to be refun-
ded with interest, at the end of the war,
to depositors.
A private letter from Richmond, Va,
states that 10000 Virginians had volun.
teered to bear arms. So far the authorities
Yhad only been able to enroll 62,O00.'""'
On Sunday, the 2lst Of April, the services
at two of the churches in Cincinnati were
concluded with theair of the Star Spangled
Banner. .........Two free men of color resi-
ding in Vicksburg, named Henry Lee and
William Newman, have each given $3.50 in
specie to the Confederate State Loan, and
Lee has also contributed S25 towards equip.
ping the Sharpshooters. ..''"An exchange
says there are sufficient arms in the South
ern States to furnish one million of soldiers.
Besides this there are thought to be two
millions of private arms, which will answer
all practical purposes in case of invasion by
the enemy.
The New York Seventh Regiment las