Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-07-04

six days. Patterson's delay in advan-
cling keeps everything waiting. The
government has decided to take him
out of the way. Itis believed a gener-
al advance would occur on the 18th of
July.
RICHMOND, July 2.-The New York
correspondent of the Baltimore Sun
says the officers and crew of the priva-
teer Savannah are comfortably situated
in their rooms, and appear cheerful and
hopeful of an early release.
Some of the New York morning pa
pers have raised their prices of subscrip-
ton.
SCARCITY OF CoTToN AND THE BLOCK
ADE.-The manufactures at the North are
becoming embarrassed in their operations
by the scarcity of cotton, and We notice that
the New York Post, great advocate of the
war, is out in an argument in favor of raising
the blockade, on the ground that its contin-
uance will greatly ipjure the North and
correspondingly benefit the South. The
Harrisburg (Pa.) Telegraph, another war
journal, announce that work in the cotton
mill at that place is to be temporarily sus,
pended, owing to an advance in the price
Of cotton and difficulty in procuring suffi-
cient supplies Of the article. The Conestoga
Mills, at Lancaster, Pa, have already sus-
pended for similar reasons. These suspen-
sions are, we presume, what Boston clergy
man few days ago exultingly called the
"blessings of war"
FROM MExIco.-From the latest news
from Mexico we learn that Mr.. Corwin has
no immediate prospect of success in the
negotiation of treaty. The following CON-
munication appears in Trait d. Union,
the French paper published in Mexico,
and which may be considered in the Com
onfort interest:
"In treaty Mr.. Lincoln will probably
impose conditions hostile to the Southern
Confederacy, whose friendship is precious
guarantee and necessity to the peace and
prosperity of the Mexican Republic. This
friendship broken, or even cooled, the Rio
Grande could easily be crossed by the fill.
busters and the fre.eaters, and the disas-
trous result of border warfare brought
upon u.s."
THE EPISCOPAL CONVENTION. - We
learn from the Abbeville Press that this
body has adjourned, having appointed the
next annual Convention to be held at Grace
Church, Charleston, the second Wednesday
in February next.
Resolutions we're adopted by the Conven-
tion sustaining the action of the Confeder-
ate Government, expressing "sur2rise and
modification at the course of the churches
North, and recommending measures for ef-
fecting an early separation.
The following gentlemen were elected
Delegates to the Montgomery Convention :
Rev. p. J. Shand, Rev. Paul Trapier, Rev.
&c. G. Pinckncy, Messrs R. F. W. Allston,
Edward McCrady, and Wm. F. Martin
OLD KANAwHA ALL RIGHT-We are
grati6ed to learn that the people of Kama.
whs county have at last awakened to clear
realization of surrounding circumstances
The most exciting meeting ever held
there came off last week, and perfect unani-
ty prevailed DR.. Patrick declared it to
be the duty of every man in Kanawha to
resist to his uttermost this invasion or Vir-
ginia j. H. Brown, Union delegate to
the Legislature, was still more emphatic.-
The second section of a resolution passed
reads:
eve further proclaim to the world that
although we differed in opinion upon the
adoption of that ordinance, we are now uni
ted to man, and firmly resolved to stand
by Virginia one and entire, and to defend
her soil against all invasion of U. S. troops
whatever may be the pretext with which
such invasion may be made. ."-Fredertch
( Ta) Herald.