Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-02-21
Affairs at Pensacola.

The Mobile Aavertiser gives daily letters
from Pensacola, from which We make the
following interesting extracts:
Gen. Chase has returned from Montgom'
cry. We hal a short interview with him
day before yesterday, during which Gen.
Hornsby asked him very blunt, categori.
cal question, to which he returned very
diplomatic reply. Question-"Gen. Chase,
do you intend to give us anything to do
soon ?" Answer-"Well, I declare I do
not know; that is very difficult question.
We are surrounded by circumstances which
none of US can control"
By the bye, General Chase "happened to
an accident" day before yesterday. His
horse turned over his carriage and gave him
some unpleasant bruises. 1 confess to a
great deal of respect for General Chase
He is an elegant gentleman and true man,
but perhaps better fitted for diplomatist
than soldier. The opinion gains strength
here that though an accomplished officer
and fine beIles.lettre scholar, he "cauuot
keep hotel, or manage ardent volunteers.
Very few regular army officers can. Hire
ling soldiers prefer eating their rations to
fighting battles-volunteers vice versa.-
Hirelings never think or criticise-volun-
teers are capable of both, and do.
There is among the troops an impatient
and hardly manageable discomfort Two
weeks ago the Conecuh company packed up
and left On last Saturday the Hayneville
Guards did ditto. Half of Captain Rea's
Mississippians, and one sergeant, broke
ranks and started on foot for home, via Mo-
bile. They, no doubt, regretted it before
they traversed, bootless and shelterless, the
pine barren between here and Hollywood
A large part Of Capt. Duche's company fol-
lowed suit yesterday All but dozen Of
Captain O'Hara' company from Mobile left
yesterday on furlough. They went regular
ly by permission, and with becoming subor-
The officers remain. They expect
to recruit the company with those who will
stay for long campaign. So you see the
is becoming contagious and uni
versal. I have it badly myself, but will
wait little longer Every day, almost, it
breaks out in some company, and our most
eloquent orators have to subdue it by ap.
peals to their pride and patriotism, and
soothe them with hopes and promises of
something decisive, in a few days. We
started with rations for sixteen days. Day
after tomorrow will be the sixteenth day
of the campaign, and rations will be ex-
hausted
And it is no wonder that our impatienoe
should be uncomfortable. We left home
upon few hours notice; were hurried off
by telegraphic dispatches the emergency
not allowing the tardiness of the nails
What could we infer from this extraordinary
haste, but that We were to fight on the first
day of our arrival, before breakfast. Under
this impression We left home, expecting to
return in less than a week, or to return no
more. With most of US it is great sacri-
fee of our interests. We lose hundreds,
some of US thousands of dollars, pay our own
expenses, and charge nothing for our s:r-
vices. Nota dollar will be asked or received
for almost months service, by 1900 men.
Many left behind them the mcst important
interests, which will greatly suffer. Others
have hurried off, leaving beautiful brides,
in the first week Of the honeymoon. When
such men find that they are brought here
to look at hostile flag Haunting in their
faces, less than two miles off, and sit down
and look at it for weeks, and sit and look,
"and nothing more," their patience and po-
liteness are exhausted.
The Alabama troops will remain here
until relieved. They and the Pensacola
companies will make garrison of 400 men.
They will remain merely to take care of the
public property until the question of war
or peace shall be settled.
Very amiable and courteous relations
have all the time subsisted between our
garrison and that of Fort Pickens. Lieut..
Slemmer sends his boat over every day to
get his supply of fresh beef and his mail
The Wyandotte comes in almost daily to
get supplies Of coal, wood and water. Lieut.,
Slemmer spent most Of last Thursday at the
Navy Yard. He dined at the quarters Of
Capt. Bright, Of Pensacola, and also visited
Col Lomax. He is a nice little man, and
wears specs Courtesy and politeness are
cheap and useful things, and of great ad,
vantage in war. They are, of course, mu.
tual, and there lies the advantage. We
might stop Slemmer's beef and the Wyan.
dotte's coal and water, but then they could
stop our rations from coming in on ships,
and we should be greatly the loser.
am glad that the object of the expedi.
ton is solved at last. Since I saw that nc
fight was intended, I have labored earnestly
to have the troops withdrawn. 1t is useless
aud ridiculous to keep 1900 gentlemen
lying here, when 800 are amply sufficient
They can go home, arrange their affairs
and come back by the lst Of March. When
Lincoln comes in, then there will be nc
more triaing and dilly-dally.
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GEN. ScoTT AND HIS WIDOWED SISTER
"A sister of Gen. Winfield Scott, now q