Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-09-12

guard. These fellows, Mr.. Byrd said, are
very expert in this practice, and throw
rocks as straight as good marksman would
fire bullet They make it their daily
study to perfect themselves in all kinds and
forms of deviltry.
The most important facts with regard to
their defeat at Manassas are concealed
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Position of the Hostile Armies.
The New York Herald has the following
dispatch from Washington, dated Saturday
last
The relative positions of the two armies
remained up to tonight the same as yester'
day. The rebels are throwing up immense
earthworks on both sides Of Munson's Hill,
on the Leesburg turnpike, one mile from
Bailey's Cross Roads. The hill referred to
is of cleared land, and the enemy make no
secret of their movements. Their cavalry,
of which they have several hundred near
that locality, maueuvre over the hills, and
sometimes venture in small detachments
within half mile or so of the Union pick,
ets For this presumption several of them
were SHOT to day. The temporary rebel
rifle cannon battery alluded to iu my dis
patch of yesterday-located at the south
side of Munson's Hill, and used to cover
their working parties-was kept in play at
intervals to day. At one time, when one
of the Union pickets killed one of the reb-
els who had the temerity to expose himself
on the turnpike, the rebels got terribly
wroth, and opened their battery with great
vigor upon the empty buildings at Bailey's
Cross Roads, in which they supposed our
troops were sheltered.
The rebels are throwing up works at a
place about three miles from Bulls Cross
ing. The extent of these works am not
able to state, but it is said that the rebel
soldicrly are in considerable force at that
point.
The Herald maps out the following as
the plan and design Of the Coufederates :
Under the whip and spur of necessity to
do something, the rebels are pushing for
ward, erecting defensive works Immediate
ly in our front, banging away with their
artillery at all the houses within our lines
that are in reach of their missiles, merely
for the purpose of distracting attention
from the movement of a heavy column to.
wards the upper Potomac, with view of
crossing over into Maryland at some point
Just below the Point of Rocks. They ex.
pect to find fewer of our troops in that di,
rection than at any other location, and to
be enabled to throw into Maryland sufi-
cient force to form nucleus for its seces-
siouists, and inaugurate a civil war there.
1t is estimated, by men entitled to know,
that there are seventy-6ve thousand of the
rebel army between Harper's Ferry and
Edwards Ferry, awaiting an opportunity to
force crossing into Maryland, and willing
to take the chances there of an insurrection
of the malcontents, that will enable them
to transfer the conflict to that State, and to
place Washington between two rebel ar
mics
In the meantime hundreds of Maryland
secessionists are gathering upon the Eas-
tern Shore, for the purpose Of carrying out
the psogramme indicacated several days
ago, of cutting off direct communication
between Philadelphia and Baltimore, sim.
ultaueously with the passage of the rebels
across the Potomac. Under various ex-
cuses, numbers of men have procured trans
portation across the Bay in small boats, for
the purpose of joining this expedition. AT
the little town of Easton, in Talbot county,
these arrivals have amounted to as many as
fifty per day.
The rebels are in such condition that
they are compelled either to attempt to ad'
vance or to retire from the Potomac. The
resources of this region are exhausted, and
they cannot much longer subsist their i'm
mense force on the Virginia side of the
Potomac. They must either avail them
selves of the riches of the splendid aglicul-
tural district of Western Maryland, or fall
back at least upon the Rappahannock.-
Their desperation will make lively times
along the Potomac in a few days, and per-
haps in few hours.
Invasion of Western North Carolina.
There are apprehcnsions that there is a
matured design to invade East Tennessee
and Western North Carolina. From East
Tennessee it is stated that columns will be
organized to invade North Carolina, this
State and the Gulf States, and by this
strategy cut off our communications, getting
in the rear Of the troops now in Virginia.
The Asheville Ne,cs and other journals de.
mand that the Governor of North Carolina