Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-07-11
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model one, and can be loaded quicker than
the old fashioned smooth.bore musket with
the round ball, while it fires much further,
and with greater precision and force
Heretofore it has been made with the May.
uard percussion primer, but now these are
abandoned, and the plain percussion caps
used as safer and more sure. These mus.
kets are now made at the Springfield Armory
at the rate of 80 day, and early in June
the production will reach 100 day.
Springfield Republican.
FEARFUL ToRNADo-L1vEs LOST. -
On the 10Th instant, a terrible tornado
swept over Champaign County, Illinois
A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune
says: - la..
"After the wind had tested the moving
capacity Of everything portable, then came
a shower of hail, which converted our i'm
mense crops Of ripening wheat and waving
corn into barren waste. There are many
farms in the vicinity of Champaign City up.
on which there is not green leaf or a
blade of grass left. Wheat, oats, barley and
rye are entirely ruined. I visited many
fields, to-day, and found the small grain
mown to the ground as with scythe; aud
the stalks were beaten and shivered, look
ing as though they had passed through
threshing machine. Corn which was one
and half feet high, was cut off even with
the ground, and the stalk beaten to jelly an
inch below the surface. Up to this date,
We have heard of five persons who were
killed, and quite number who were more
or less seriously wounded" .-...
AN INc1DENT.-After the Vienna battle
last week, a South Carolina soldier, who
had been out on scout, was arrested by
three of the retreating Yankees, who, after
disarming him, set out for the Federal
camp, "calculatin'" largely, no doubt, on
the welcome plaudits that awaited them for
their heroic exploit. But all things fair
are doomed to fade. After marching some
distance the party came to halt-stacked
arms, which we're topped with the sword
bayonet, and two of them went in pursuit
of water, leaving the Carolina captive in
charge Of the Yankee captor. The former
watched his time, and when the watering
party was out of sight, seized bayonet,
and at single stroke almost severed the
head from the body of his companion, at.
ter which he quietly took possession of the
arms, and marched to the camp of his
friends.-Leesburg I (Ka.) Airror.
WHEAT MEAL.-Have small part Of
your wheat taken to good corn mill and
run through as for corn meal, of course
regulating the stones to suit the wheat
This is not only good for negros but is the
best material for wafles and the like on
any table. We prefer it unbolted. 1t can
be sifted in the kitchen. It is better for
certain purposes than either -four or shorts,
because it has the whole richness and
strength of the wheat, and is at the same
time peculiarly adapted to all kinds Of bat.
ter cakes. 1t is also said to be very
healthful form of the article. Would it
not be we'll to keep some wheat always on
hand, to have freshly ground in this way
every few weeks. The turnoutis Of course
unmistakable-bushel for bushel and lit.
tie over.-Edgefela advertiser.
LIQUID GIUE.-The following recipe,
the discovery of a French chemist, is sel.
ling about the country, for various prices,
from one to five dollars. 1t isa handy and
valuable composition, as it does not gelatin
ize nor undergo putrefaction and fermenta-
tion and become offensive, and is always
ready for use. In a wide.mouthed bottle
dissolve eight ounces of best glue in half a
pint Of water, by setting it in vessel Of
water and heating it till dissolved. Then
add slowly, constantly stirring, two and a
half ounces strong aquafortis (nitric acid).
Keep it we'll corked, and it will be ready
for use.
A Gun FIRED BY THE ENEMY's SHOT.
Capt. Casper W. Hunt, of the Walker
(Tennessee) Legion, present at the attacks
on the batteries at Aqua Creek, few
weeks ago, narrates the following as one Of
the hundred hair-breadth escapes of the
Confederate forces on that occasion: "One
man was lying sick in house near battery
No. / when the firing commenced; he sei-
zed his musket and ran out of doors with
it in his hand at that moment shell ex-
ploded over his head, and fragment Of
the shell striking the hammer of his gun,
fired it off, not injuriug him in the least
Fredericksburg Herald.
THE PEACE MOVEMENT IN NEW YORK
C1TY.-A New York letter, dated June
Goth, says: "The peace movement is
making rapid headway among the solid
mem of the city. The time has not come
yet for speaking with entire freedom in re-
gard to details, but it may be said without
any inpropriety, that it has the sanction Of
many of the leading merchants, capitalists,
bankers and clergymen of New York. 1t
will in due time manifest itself indefinitely;
first as a monster meeting in the open air
up town, and second in memorial to Con.
gress at the very commencement of the ses-
sion."
WILL LEND NO MORE MONEY "A Bal
timore banker, who arrived in this city on
yesterday, states that advices from New
York and other Abolition localities, leads
to the current belief there that the present
war will very shortly terminate, parties con-
trolling the sinews of war having deter.