Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-03-21

mediate secession. CarOllne county mas
purchased $4,000 worth of arms and mum.
tions of war, and distributed them among
the volunteers of that county. The cord.
wainers of Richmond have published a card,
in which they say they will not submit "tc
bottom Northern boot'egs." A large black
flag of mourning for Virginia's delay, was
unfurled over the Main street of Fredrlcks
burg recently. Smythe county, Wythe,
Botetourt, Appomattox, Bedford, Craig and
Shenandoah, have come out in favor of ac'
tion. Mr.. Pryor has recently made an
animated speech in favor Of immediate
secession, aud even a division Of the State
if necessary to effect that end after which
petition to the Convention to act, was
carried round and received 100 sigma.
lures. So thoroughly are the people a.
reused that it is thought they will compel
the passage of secession ordinance.
This powerful reaction is occasioned part.
ly by Lincoln's, inaugural, partly by the
movements of United States war vessels in
dicating apparently coercive policy, and
partly by rumor that it is the intention
of the administration to hold Old Point as
Strategic position to overawe Virginia,
Maryland and North Carolina. The troops
concentrated at Washington on the silly
pretense of protecting that city, are stand
ing menace and threat, and constant cause
of irritation, agitation and renewed excite.
ment. The sympathies Of thousands are
with the South, anyhow; and the humilia
ted condition of Virginia with the arm Of
despotic power brandished over her daily,
kindles these sympathies into the fame Of
revolution. 1t is confidently afdrmed-snd,
doubtless, with truth-that reinforcements,
if Virginia secedes, will be thrown into
Old Point, which can be done any night
from Washington city. This alarming
statement has contributed its share to the
prevailing excitement.
Many citizens, however, still despair Of
Virginia's coming out, and are preparing
to leave the State. The Richmond Dis
patch says:
"At least thirty families, in the single
county of Amelia, and as many asa hundred
in Mecklenburg, are preparing to emigrate
to the South, in the event that Virginia
decides to become the tail of the Abolition
Confederacy. Even in Western Virginia,
we lave heard of several true Southern
families, in one county, who contemplate
removal"
Alabama.
The Alabama State Convention, by q
vote of IS to 5, has ratified the permanent
Constitution of the Confederate States
She is the first, and the only State yet, that
has acted on this Constitution. The Con
vention adjourned on Wednesday, after
passing an ordinance altering the free bank
ing act, substituting stock of the Confeder
ate States for United States stocks, and al
lowing the issue of two dollars in paper fol
one of specie. Neither foreigners nor for
eign corporations are permitted to hole
stock.
The Florence (Ala) Gazette mentions
the significant fact, that drove of 81
mules recently passed through that town
on their way back to Tennessee.
The lights at Mobile Point and Sand Is
land have been extinguished by order o
the commander of Fort Morgan.
Texas.
The United States property surrendered
by Gen. Twiggs into the hands Of tht
Texan authorities, consists of the following
items: 1900 mules, valued at 800, 1000; 95(
horses, worth s142, 500; 500 wagons, $50,
600; 500 harness, $4,000; tools, wagor
materials, iron, nails, &c., $780, 900 corn
$1,000; clothing, s150,0OO; commissary
stores, $4,000; ordnance stores, S400, ,00(
making a total value of one million two
hundred and twenty-nine thousand five
hundred dollars This estimate is exclusive
of public buildings to which the Federal
Government has title.
1t has been reported-but the rumor ap
pears to need con6rmation-that Colone
Waite, who succeeded Gen. Twiggs, was
concentrating his forces at San Antonio tc
retake the Federal property at that point
On the contrary, it is said that the troops
of the United States army, are making
their way to the coast, preparatory to EN-
barkation for the Northern States. In con
frmation of this, it is stated that the active
movements now being made in the Unitec
States Navy, especially at New Y ork, arr
not made for the purpose Of reinforcing
Southern forts, but for transporting these
troops.
The Indians continue to commit depre
dations on the Northern frontier of Texas
Within three months, they have killed 47(
persons-men, women and children. Th'
bodies of twenty men have recently beer
found in the neighborhood of Frederieks
burg. They we're massacred by the In
dians. These prowling savages are doubt
less instigated to these bloody deeds, b!
abolitionists, frcm love Of plunder and TO
the qualification of rers' nal auimosity.
Texas volunteers are concentrating OF
the Northern border, for the purpose o
driving them back into the Indian Terrific
ry. Forts Washita, Arbuckle, Mason
Iuge, Duncan and Davis, and Camps VERDI
and Wood, have been garrisoned by tn
Texan troops. All these places are situated
in the region Of hostilities. Major Ben
Mccullough is engaged in the suppression
of these border raids; and will doubles
ere long, in his own brilliant and daring