Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-05-14

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ugreat rebellion" Governor Letcher has
also received anonymous letters alluding
to such scheme. ..:.......Gen. Lee says the
Virginians shall not cross the State line I'm.
less attacked. .....'....F Frederick City, Nd,
which is situated only few miles this side
Of Mason and Dixon's line, will soon be
occupied by 5000 Abolition troops. '''''''''
The New York papers are teeming with ac-
counts Of regiments being mustered into
service. Before long they will have a
chance of recording how they were pepper
ed out of service. ......".The demand for
army cloth is so great that the mills Of the
Midd!esex Company at Lowell, Mass, have
been running on Sunday. y.'...'"..Two Com
panies of Baltimore volunteers passed
through Frederick on Friday last, on their
way ojoin the Virginia army. y..''''''''Lieu-
tenant Richard K. Meade, late of the Uni
ted States Army, and on duty at Fort Sum-
ter during its siege by the South Carolina
troops, has resigned his position, and re-
turned to his native State, Virginia.
John G. Breckinridge and jeff. Davis
we're hung in efigy on Monday evening Of
last week, near Bunker Hill Monument.
...s......A newspaper carrier in Lafayette,
Indiana, who had been sorely annoyed by
o dog, purchased an interest in the animal,
and then shot his half. ..........A man in
Virginia has sent Jefferson Davis check
for 100000. ..........Jef. Davis gradua'
ted at West Point in the class of 1S2S.""'
Gen. Scott will be seventy-fve years of age
on the 18th of June. .......'..Colored citi-
zens have applied to Governor Dennison, Of
Ohio, for leave to raise military companies,
but Gov. Dennison has replied to their re-
quest by saying that the State cannot &C.
cept colored troops. ....:...'The Atlanta
Contederacy has learned from the most
reliable authority, that parties are now in
Montgomery from Europe, which have pro-
posed to loan our Government fifty to one
hundred millions of dollars. This is VOL
untary proposition, made by parties sent
here for the purpose, by European capita
lists, who desire to invest their money in
our Confederate Bonds. :'.......The Texas
papers are jubilant over the extraordinary
crop prospects. The ravages Of rust have
been eHectually stayed, and farmers say
that fields which they had offered few
weeks since for the value of the seed, would
now yield twenty bushels Of wheat per
acre. .........R Reliable information received
in official circles at Montgomery, states that
eleven States will be in the Confederacy
early in June. Favorable advices have
been received from Kentucky and Missou-
ri..:.......The vote on the secession of Ar
kansas from the Federal Union was as fol.
lows: For secession, So; against, l. The
memphis appeal says "the traitor who
voted no, is man named Murphy"
Kershaw District, with voting popula-
ton of one thousand, has already in the
field four full companies of Volunteers
Three of these companies are already upon
the soil of the "Old Dominion" And the
fourth (cavalry), are ready to march when
ever duty calls. There is an under
standing in naval circles, that all the avail
able men.of.war on foreign squadrons will
be called home. 1t is said that the gun
boats Of the Mediterranean and African
fleets are already bound to the United States.
.'......'As an evidence of the state of feel
ing in Louisiana, We clip the subjoined res
olution from the proceedings Of the South
ern Congress. 1t was read by Mr.. Perkins,
and is from the section of the State where,
at the outset, the most determined resistance
was made to the secession movement "Rc-
solved, by the Planters Of the Parish Of
Fe1iciana IN general meeting assembled,
That We hereby stand pledged to tender to
the State of Louisiana and the Government
of the Confederate States, should it be
needed, the whole annual proceeds of our
crops, deducting only what may be necessa-
ry for our current expenses, during the
continuance of the present hostilities."
.........At a caucus of the members of the
Maryland Legislature on Tuesday night, it
was almost unanimously determined to a.
bandon the proposition of a Convention.
.'..'.'..The Legislature of Tennessee has
adopted the following resolution: "That in
view of the dearth of the past TWO years,
and the probable extraordinary demand for