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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-03-28
THE CRY OF"PEACE, FCACE."

We are not disposed to sound false a.
larm; but we wish to say to our readers
again, that we regard the permanent settle.
ment of our difficulties as yet to be ACHE
we'd either through blood itself, or such
argus.eyed watchfulness and thorough pre-
paration and readiness to defend ourselves,
as will render the abandonment of all
schemes of coercion "military necessity" "
Fort Sumter is to be given up; but what
does that signify? 1t is no concession to
South Carolina, or the seeding States
The design is to lull the border States, un-
til the folds of the anaconda of Union can
be wrapt about them. A Richmond paper
makes the startling announcement, that the
North Carolina forts art to be garrisoned
and provisioued to stand siege for one
year, and that plan has been concocted
for the subjugation of the South. Norfolk,
Va, is to be the point d'appui, or centre
of a circle of operations, to overawe the
border States, and, ~ ct arnais, to master
the cotton States. We may despise these
plans fer their weakness. They show,
however, that hatred and treachery rankle
in the breast of our adversary. Greece
had her Philip of Macedon, Rome her
Goths and Vandals, who rested not till the
pride and beauty of the ancient world. were
defaced beneath their vandalistic tread
The South has her would-be Philip and
Attila in Scott and Lincoln. These "veu'
omous reptiles" would slime over their vic.
tim before they gorge it. We have little
confidence in their ability to judge discreet.
ly in "the present anomalous situation of
public affairs" we have less in their hon.
esty of purpose and action. They act like
enemies at war. "Gentlemen may cry
Peace, peace but there is no peace. -
Every condition of war, except blood-shed
--and VIZ know not how soon that may
come-is now upon the country.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-03-28
JUDGE LONGSTREET.

Judge Lougstreet, owing to the i'll health
of his wife, has left Columbia for the west,
and it is doubtful whether he will return
to the post of president of the S. G. Colle.;e.
lie has endeared himself to the people of
this State; and all will regret his depar-
ture. His name is the synonym of public
spirit, and whatever is beautiful, tender,
generous and manly in sentiment. May a
kind Providence speedily restore him to
the College which he has governed we'll
and wisely, and to the State which loves
to honor his name.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-03-28

Conference. Mr.. Barbour, Of Prince Ed
wards, leader in getting up this Confer.
ence, and heretofore leading Union men,
Der of the Virginia Convention, has come
out warmly in favor of immediate scces-
sion. Prince Edwards County, which elect
ed him to the Convention overwhelmingly
as the Union candidate, has recently sus.
tanned him unanimously at a large mass
meeting, in his present position.
1t is stated that the troops will not leave
Washington, until some action is had by
the Virginia Convention.
Texas.
The Texas Convention have passed an
ordinance deposing Gov. Houston from the
gubernatorial chair, and placing Lieut.. Gov.
Clark in his position. "Old San Jacinto"
would not take the new oath of Office, and
so goes to the wall What he will do is
not yet known.
Col. Ben. Mccullough has gone to Rich
mond, Va, to purchase arms for Texas
He also visit Montgomery with view to
induce President Davis to order regiment
of mounted riAemen to the uothern from.
tier of that State. The Indians are still
hostile.
Florida.
President, Judge McGehee, has issued
call for the Florida Convention to assemble
at Tallahassee on the 18th April.
Gen. Bragg has prohibited supplies of
wood aud water to all United States war
vessels outside the harbor, by the citizens
of Pensacola and vicinity. It is positively
affirmed that no attempt will be made to
reinforce Fort Pickeus. This and the
promised evacuation of Sumter begin to
look little like peace. Our government at
Montgomery, place no reliance on these
peace indications; and will, it is said, throw
5000 troops into the Pensacola Navy Yard
at the earliest practicable day. Four yes.
sells left New York last week for Texas to
convey the United States troops from that
State. 1t is vaguely hinted that these
troops will be distributed to Key West,
Tortugas and Fort Pickens. Before they
enter the latter place, Southern blood will
redden the waters of Pensacola bay.
Missouri.
The Legislature of Missouri, it is said
has elected United States Senator, public
printer and commissioner, all from the
ranks of the secession party. This would
indicate that the State is prepared to move
with the border States, if war comes, or if
compromises fail. The convention, however
by 81 to 81, has voted down the following
Amendment, which puts the State on the
fence: "And further believing that the
fate Of Missouri depends upon the peaceable
adjustment of our present difficulties, she
will never counteDance or aid seeding
State in making war upon the General Gov
ernment, nor will she provide men and
mone7 for the purpose Of aiding the Gener-
al Government in any attempt to coerce
seeding State"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-03-28

OB1TUARY.-WILLTAM MAXWELL
MARTIN, son of William and Margaret
Martin, heads of the Columbia Female Col
lege, died on the 2lst February last, in the
city of Columbia, s. g., ia the 24th year
of his age.
He was young man of rare endowments.
His immediate ancestry, in the paternal
line, were from Mecklenburg county, North
Carolina; his great.grandfather, besides
other revolutionary services, commanded d
company at "King's Mountain;" in the
maternal line, thsy we're from Dumfrieshire,
Scotland. The Bard who has immortali
zed the Shire was not his superior as q
poet, at his age. In some respects they
we're alike in others they differed wide
ly. They were both tender in sentiment
sparkling in wit, and glowing in fancy
both appreciative of nature in all her as
poets both sportivs and grave by turns
and both convival, sometimes to fault
But the errors of the one were lifelong, o|
the other, brief. The one was often lea
der in forbidden paths the other, only a
follower. The faults of the one were Sc.
rious; of the other, venial. The first gave
charm to vice and pang to virtue, by
the witchery of his verse the last, never
At the psecipts of the grave we drop the
comparison. During the faneral obsequies
of the deceased, his remains reposed Oh tie
SPOT where he received the ordinance Of
baptism in his infancy, and gave his hand
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-03-28

such a frank, straight forward, practical
course of conduct. The English people
will rely upon Mr.. Russells statements
and we believe from his history, which is
marked with all the evidences Of honest
and bold mauliness, thathe will "speak the
truth in his heart" in regard to both the
cis-Atlantic Considerations. But evident
ly, like thousands of liberalists in ireland,
Germany, Hungary, Poland and Italy, he
has looked upon the United States as the
sinecure frepublics-whose downfall would
crush the kindling aspirations after liberty
all over the world; and he will, doubtless
write of US with the sentiment of England's
greatest poet in his pen:
s'To paInness llonor's bound
When majesty stoop7 to folly"
The very object of this mission is just
occasion to condemn vice which is growing
upon the whole American people. Why
does Mr.. Russell come? Because the A.
mericau papers which reach England car
not be relied on. And why not !? Because
they are false to the truth, in order to be
true to party. In the hurry to get the news
and the eagerness to bolster up favorite
ideas and pander to prejudice, the demoral
izing stigma of unreliability has fastened
not only upon notoriously vicious papers
but upon the press at large. The Leading
journals are constantly accusing each oth'l
of manufacturing the news and letters 0!
correspondence A cry of bitter and burn,
ing ridicule against this state of things,
should come up from the whole people,
The press is the great medium of popular
education Shall it be made cheat and
delusion ? Instead, however, of public
opinion and custom checking the evil, it
increases it. The endless cry is "news,
news" and the papers to appear enterpri'
sing, make news if they can get it no other
way. When the demand shall be rather
for truth and information, the press will be.
come more reliable. Though Mr.. Russell's
mission, then, may serve peaceful end,
now when falsehood rules the hour, the low,
ers of solid prosperity and permanent peace,
may pray for the time when purified and
elevated press will Danish the need of any
such mission.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-03-28

grapic dispatches from the South announce
the departure, via Havana, of the Hon
Mr.. Mann, the Hon. Mr. Rost, and the
Hon. Mr.. Yancey, Commissioners to the
European Powers from the Southern Con-
fedcracy We do not doubt that they will
be received both by England and France.
As to the success of their mission, beyond
the procuring Of the recognition of their ma
tional independence, an opinion can hardly
be formed with more positive information
concerning their detailed instructions. In
general way, however, it may be presum-
ed that England and France will be 10th
to shut their doors in the face of the pecu'
liar credentials which these gentleman bear.
We are not so much an idol, or so great an
enemy, of liking Cotton" as to be blind
to one or two facts, which make him very
potent monarch, and nowhere more so than
in the realm Of the British crown. Close
up the Southern ports, shut out the South
ern trade, and cut off thereby the supply of
cotton, aud we would very soon see how
susceptible his majesty is Of the ridicule
beaped upon his old, white, tough head by
certain Abolition newspapers. We would
rather bear tuft of cotton in our hand than
the credentials Of any administration. We
do not doubt that the triple commission
understand this thoroughly. They are all
men Of ability, gentlemen of accomplished
address, and are led by one of the most
finished diplomats America has ever pro-
duced-the Hon. A. Dudley Mann.
The annexed paragraph from the
Carolnian is twice suggestive: first in
view of the increasing tendency to home
patronage; and secondly, in view Of the
forth coming self.expatriation of many noble
Virginians. No State can boast of a higher
spirited people than portions Of the Old
Dominion. Ten thousand welcomes to those
who will exile themselves rather than stay
to see "tbe fair and besmiug forehead''
of their State brought to the dust beneath
the heel of tyranny. But it is really sad
to see abandoned to iguomiuy and remedi-
less vassalage, this land of "ancient re.
nowne," whose sons once fought on every
field from Quebec to Eutaw for iudepen.
dence
"To THE LADIES OF COLUMBIA We
have seen a statement in the papers "that
you positively refuse to purchase any goods
brought, this Spring, from any Northern
city, and that the merchants be advised to
bring from Charleston, or from any Confed.
crate city, imported goods, or to import d.
rectly themselves" All hail to the ladies
of Columbia. Weglory in your determina-
ton to become independent of your worst
and most deadly enemies. If it had been
lawful to elect ladies to our Convention, in.
stead of the cowardly men We have there,
we would now be member Of the Southern
Confederacy. We hope your determination
will be carried into effect and adopted by
all the ladies in your Confederacy, from the
Atlantic coast on the East to the Mexican
border on the West.
VIRGINIA LADIES,
Whose husbands will take them South as
soon as they can close up their business and
leave"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-03-28

feed purpose Of the Administrations to
maintain the authority Of the Government
over the vhole United States-not its au'
thority over this or that section merely
They would try peaceful means, if peaceful
means will suffice. He would admonish
Senators that if another revolution is to be
thrust upon US we shall take special care
that future historians may not be compelled
to record that, with the friends of Union
were found only the semblance of the "Cow-
boys" of the Revolution.
The Senate then went into Executive
session.
The two indictments against ex-Secretary
of War, Floyd, in the court here, have been
dismissed as untenable. The first was for
conspiring to defraud the Government
The District Attorney stated in open court,
that there was no evidence to sustain the
charge, and with the leave of the Court, he
entered nolle prosequi. The second was
for malfeasance in Office, in issuing accept
auces The Indictment was ordered to be
quashed, as it could not have been main
tanned
1t is believed universally here, rumors
to the contrary Notwithstanding, that Fort
Sumter will certainly be evacuated speedily.
1t is considered equally certain that Fort
Pickens will not be reinforced.
1t is now known that the four vessels
chartered by the government at New York
sailed with sealed orders. The reports con-
cerning their destination, therefore, were
mere speculation. 1t is said that they took
no troops but abundant supplies of arms
and provisions.
There was some excitement in the neigh
borhood of Alexandra and Washington TO.
day, in consequence of discovering a large
number of boarding pixies, covered with
leaves, on the farm of Louis Bailey, of Fair
fax county Mr.. Bailey took them to Wash
ington for sale. Subsequently they were
purchased by Virginians, and are to be sent
to Richmond, it is stated, to move the scales
from the eyes of submissionists An inves-
tigation shows that they were the property
of gentleman deceased, who had con-
tract to supply the navy, and they we're re-
jected. The mystery is, how they came to
the place where found
WASHINGTON, March 24.-The South
ern Commissioners yesterday paid their first
visit to the State Department. The particu-
lars of the interview have not transpired,
but the Commissioners appear to be we'll
satisfied with the manner in which affairs
are progressing Mr.. Forsyth left by this
afternoons train for New York. He will
be absent several days.
Gen. Ben. Mccullough, of Texas, is now
in Alexandria, Virginia. The Abolitionists
are boasting that they will have him arrest
ed if he should come to Washington.
Fox, the special envoy of Lincoln to Fort
Sumter, reached here on his return yester-
day. The Administration keeps its secrets
carefully, and no one knows what account
Fox has given of the state of affairs in
Charleston harbor 1t is presumed, howev-
ever, that bis story was not particularly en-
couragiDg.
The doings in the Senate yesterday were
not of any special interest.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-03-28
CHESTER A PORT OF ENTRY

We learn from q private source, that
Chester has been made a port of entry for
goods coming from the United States into
the Confederate States. Mr.. William T.
Robinson, the very efficient and energetic
agent of the Charlotte and S. G. Railroad,
has been appointed Collector of Customs ;
and will, we presume, enter upon the du.
ties of the post Immediately.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-03-28
LOCAL A IF Al r S

Divine Service.
We have been requested to announce
that Rev. Thomas L. Allen, will preach al
the Poor House, on the first Sabbath il
April, at 3 o'clock, p. m.
Spring.
The martins-those infallible signs O.
rigid winters fight-have made their ap
pearance in our vicinity. Their exuberant
notes, after the SHOWS and "black frosts
of the last fortnight, have most cheerful
and gladdening effect.
'Everett's Varieties.''
This old and favorite company of the
p]easure-loviDg public will appear in York
vile, on next Monday, as may be seen by
advertisement in another column. Those
who are fond of comicalities, music and
magic, will be gratiied by attendance. The
company has been here frequently, and is
too we'll known to our people to need a nore
extended notice from u.s.
Fire.
On Wednesday night Of last week, ne.
gro cabin on the premises of Mr.. Moses
Lindsay near Olivet Church, was consumed
by fire, destroying three negro children, re-
spectively 13, 7, and 5 years of age. A
negro boy Of neighbor, on visit to bis
wife at Mr.. Lindsay's, saved woman by
catching her as she leaped from window,
and extinguishing her garments which were
on fire. The cause of the FIRE is attributed
entirely to accident.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-03-28

few days ago four wealthy planters from
Maryland, one owning a hundred slaves,
passed through Rome, Ca, on their way to
Alabama, to purchase plantations with the
intention of settling in the Confederate
States. ......."Over one hundred recruits
for the regular army of the Confederated
Stetes have left Baltimore for Charleston.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-03-28
The Mprkpille Gnq11irer.
YORKVILLE, S. c.
THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH %, 1851.

3-Mr. JOHN R. ALLEN, Post Master at Chester, is ON
authorized AGENT and fully empowered to receive money
for this office, and give receipts for the same.
~ In where subscribers do not take the ENQUIRER
from the posoce PostMastcrs requested to notify us
Immediately.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-03-28
NEWS FROM THE STATES.
NortI Horo1ino

North Carolina.
The Southern Rights party of this State
held their proposed mass Convention a
Goldsboro', on last Friday and Saturday
Fifty counties were represented on the frs
day; about thousand delegates we're pres
ent; and all we're for immediate secession
Our State Commissioner to North Carolina
Hon. F. J. Moses, was present, and spoke
together with two or three other gentlemen
But action was the ory; no compromise
absolute action without delay. Men of al
parties we're present-men "who have me
each other in many hard.fought politica
conflict, but are now hand in hand, side by
side, and shoulder to shoulder, in their eff
forts to save North Carolina from Black
Republican tyranny"
1t is stated that Gov. Ellis, who has beer
ill for some time, is sinking under rapic
consumption.
Arkansas.
The Arkansas Convention has adjourned
till the third Monday in August, after de-
featipg the Secession Ordinance by foul
majority. This does not, however, mean
"absolute submission and passive obedi'
ence" The people are to vote again on the
first Monday of August, and their voice
then, adopted by the Convention, is to be
law of the State. Meanwhile delegates are
to be sent to Border State Convention.
Virginia.
Ex,Secretary Floyd has been acquitted
of the charge of completely in the embez
element of the Indian Trust funds. As
much as his enemies disliked him, and as
heartily as they wished to disgrace his name,
it stands out beamingly like that of the
chevalier Bayard, "Sans puer ct sans re-
proache."
The revolution among the people Of Vir-
ginia, in favor of secession, still progresses
and is compared by the leading papers to a
whirlwind sweeping over the country. The
most moderate statements assure us that the
"Valey" is wild with enthusiasm, while
the "Mountains" are taking fire. This
revolution Is occasioued by Lincoln's iuau,
gural and the utter failure of the Peace
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-03-28

SETTLE UP !-ALL PERSONS
indebted to the undersigned by open account, previous
to the FIRST of JANUARY 1861 are hereby requested to
close the same by NOTE an early day. l.. NJ GRIST
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-03-28
The Prospect in the North.

find that it is the general belief of all
who will venture to look the matter in the
face that the country generally is to be sup.
piled with imports from foreign countries
through ports of seeded States, and which
pay duties in those ports, and enrich the
exchequer of the Confederate States at the
expense of the Treasury of the Federal
Government The true question to be met
is not whether the Federal Government can
collect revenue in the ports of the Southern
Confederation, but whether it can collect
revenue anywhere. 1t cannot be denied that
public anxiety concerning the condition of
the country has been greatly increased the
past week that the apprehension OF a ter
rife war has quickened; that the Union
men of the Southern border States have be-
come discouraged, and will have soon to
yield to the pressure of sympathy with the
seeded States that commerce is about to
be seriously disturbed or destroyed that the
business interests of the North are to be
more than ever depressed !; and that the
Government of the Confederate States is re-
solved and determined and fully prepared to
attack this city (WashiDgtou) with an over
whelming force upon the first indication of
the intention of Lincoln to carry out the
policy of force which they believe his Inau.
gural to foreshadow. Every Southern State is
prepared to unite with the Government Of the
Confederate States in war against the Lin
coin Government, if the latter really attempt
coercion or seni.coercion. Military men say
that for the purpose of carrying out a coercive
policy and to retain this city, the Lincoln
Government must have an army of 100000
men, the cost of the support of which will
be three hundred millions of dollars. The
Republican leaders in the Senate, and the
Republican press generally, all deny that
Liucoln's policy is peace. They deny..that
the evacuation of Fort Sumter is intended
as a measure of peace, but merely of militia.
ry necessity. They demand the call of Con.
gress to confer on Lincoln the power and
means to initiate civil war, though they
know they will be run out of this city in
sixty days after they shall have attempted
to carry out policy of force Washington
Correspondent Of ~ Y jour. Of Com.