Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-10

already here, and that the president and
other members of the College faculty are
expected at an early day.-Guardiaa.
New York, September 3O.-The steam
er Persia and Saxonia have arrived, with
over s20O,OOO in specie.
The Persia passed the steamer Great Eas.
tern on the 10th (two days out from Liver
pooD in damaged condition, putting back.
The nature of the damage sustained by the
monster steamer seems to have been very
severe: "Both side wheels gone, all her
boats but one carried away, bulwarks stove
in and rudder damaged, and rolling heayi-
ly." ...
p9r The New York Herald, in slap.
dash editorial on the 18th ultimo, says: eff
the English government and English cotton
manufacturers and stock operators will only
keep perfectly quiet, we will undertake, in
two months from the present time, that our
Federal] army, with the military move
ments now in operation, will penetrate to,
the very centre of the cotton States, and
supply them with all the cotton they want,
say 100000 bales, value two hundred
millions of dollars" ...... .Es-
CALL FOR 10000 TENNEssEANs.-The
Government of the Confederate States,
through Gen. Albert Sidney Johnson,shss
called upon the Governor of Tennessee for
the additional force of $4,000 troops for
immediate active service. The Governor
has accordingly issued proclamation, in
which it is stated that "Volunteers for the
war are greatly preferred, but will be ae-
cepted for the term of twelve months"
SNUBBED.-The Northern papers state
that England, France, and even Russia,
have scornfully rejected sewart,'s PROPOSE.
tiou to make privateering piracy, which the
United States Government had refused to
do till it found that the Confederate Gov.
erumeut was about to engage in the bust
ness, and their own OK was about to. be
gored.
ELECTION OF GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA.
The Georgia papers generally concede
that Hon. Joseph E. Brown has been cleo
ted Governor, by handsome majority,
over Judge f. Nisbet. Thus ends the
most sharply contested State canvass that
has taken place since the formation of the
Confederate Government. e.
NORTH CAROLINA ExpEND1TUREs.-
According to the official report of the 'lili.
tary Secretary Of the Governor of North
Carolina, that State has expended for the
purchase of arms, pay of troops, coast de-
fences, &c., from the lst Of January last to
the Goth of September, 1861, the sum of
of 81, ,O44, ,522,96. ..~(
EASILY PLEAsED.-Some grown up peo-
pie are very easily satisfied, "Pleased with
a rattle, tickled with a straw" A western
editor expressed his delight at having near.
ly been called 'honey" by the gal be loves,
because she saluted him as "Old Beeswax,"
at their last meeting.
PATRIOTIC DIsooUNTrNa.-The Edge
field Advertiser says the Bank of Hamburg
will lend money for purchasing hogs from
Kentucky and Tennessee. This will be
great accommodation to all who can get
salt to save their bacon, and to who do not
rear their own hogs, as very many Carroll
mans should and could do.
LYNcHBURa, October 4.-Hon. j. G.
Breckinridge and other KeDtuckians were
at Abingdon, yesterday. 1t is understood
that Mr.. Breckenridge will resign his seat
in the United States Senate, issue an ad-
dress to the people of Kentucky, and ac-
lively engage in the war. 1t is believed
that he will be in Richmond in few days.
VESSELS AT CuBA.-A letter published
in the New Orleans Delta, dated Havana,
September 18, states that at the date Of
the letter, there were in the different ports
of Cuba over twenty-five vessels from the
Confederate ports, which have not seen
blockading vessel of the enemy.
g~ The defensive works at Mobile are
going on rapidly. The people have respon-
ded literally to the call for thousand ne
groes to carry on the works, by either sup
plying the hands or Communication money
for the labor. People in Mississippi have
also sent three hundred hands to assist.
A Coop UsE.-The first trip over the
Macon and Warrenton Railroad, designed
ultimately to connect Macon and Sparta,
Georgia. was made on the 18th September,
over the iron which was used in "Stevens'
Battery" on Morris Island, in the invest
ment of Fort Sumter.
sRSecretary Memminger, of the Treas
ury, in virtue of the Act Of the last Con-
gress, has ordered the establishment of
ports of entry and delivery at Nashville and
Memphis, Tennessee, for goods, wares and
merchandise imported or exported.
BosroN, September 30.-The bark
Mary E. Porter, at Gloucester, from Deme-
rara, on the 4th instant, report that the
privateer Sumter was supplied with coal
at suriuam, by an English planter named
Wright, and she sailed Southwark on the
1st instant.
BIT THE DUST AT LAsT.-Among the
killed by the Little Platte Bridge-disaster
was Barclay Coppie, of John Brown raid
notoriety, together with FIVE or six men