Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-05-02

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and act of the war itself; though other
contracts existing pryor to the war are not
extinguished, but the remedy is only sus
pended, and this from the inability of an
alien enemy to sue, or to sustain, in the
language of the civilians, persona standi
IN judicio The whole of this doctrine
respecting the illegality of any commercial
intercourse between the inhabitants of two
nations at war was extensively reviewed,
and the principal authorities, ancient and
modern, foreign and domestic, we're accu.
rately examined, and the positions which
have been laid down and established in the
case of Griswold as. Waddiugtou, decided
in the Supreme Court of this State, and
afterwards affirmed on error"
Burning of the Gosport Navy Yard.
The Petersburg Express has the follow
ing favorable account of the condition of
things at the Gosport Navy Yard, after the
fire:
Itgives us much pleasure to say that the
damage to the Navy Yard is much less than
was at first anticipated. The large brick
building which occupies the front of the
yard, and is used as sail loft, riggers and
gunner's shop, was fred, and all the wood
work destroyed, but the walls are standing
and still good. Both of the ship houses in
the yard are burned. In one of them was
the seventy-four New York, which has been
on stocks forty years. The ship house at
the dry dock was not touched.
All the ships in the harbor, excepting the
old frigate United States, were set fire to
and scut,led. They we're the Pennsylvania,
seventy-fours, Columbus and Delaware,
steam frigate Merrimac, sloops Germantown
and Plymouth, frigates Raritan and Colum.
bia, and brig Dolphin. The Germantown
was lying at the wharf under large pair
of sheer, which were thrown across her
decks by cutting loose the guys. The ship
was nearly cut in two, and sunk at the wharf.
Many of the cannon, besides being spiked,
had their truncheons knocked off, thus rem.
dering them useless. But there are yet
more than five hundred heavy ordnance
still in shooting order. The brass guns
taken in the Mexican war are uniDjured.
The dry dock has suffered no damage,
except to the gates, which can be repaired
at very little cost. This is most impor-
tant acquisition, as its construction cost 81,
100000.
All of the timber sheds, eight in number,
and filled with the best timber, are yet stand
ing. These houses are about six hundred
feet long, and the material containedin in them
is not worth less than 100000.
1t is peculiarly gratifying to US to have it
in our power to say that the several stores
filled with pork, beef, bread, beans, whis.
key, tobacco, cordage, canvass, spades, SHOW
els, and every other conceivable article,
which is most needed by US at this time, es.
capped the incendiary's torch, and is now in
our possession. The value of the stores at
this crisis cannot be estimated.
The machine shops. smithiug, steam saw
mill, officers quarters, and all other build
ings, are left untouched At St. Helena,
opposite the yard, where the coal and can
non were kept, number of houses and
sheds cf little value were destroyed.
The damage done to Gosport amounts to
the burning of eight houses. All those sit
uated on Lincoln street, between Water and
Second, and on Water to Henry, were con.
sumed. These were not of very great val
ue, and $4,000 will probably pay the
damage.
Tive yop1g men, Degraud and Richard.
son, who wcre in boat, rowing about the
harbor, were taken prisoners. One of the
officers, in attempting to shoot at them,
killed a seaman attached to his own ship
These two young men we're taken to the
yard, and kept in front of the guard at the
gate, so that in case of an attack from the
citizens, they might be the first to fall
They were kept in this position for four
hours on Sunday morning, while the work
of destruction was going Oh, and then sent
aboard the ship and taken to Old Point,
where they were discharged.
The best spirit prevails in Portsmouth,
Everybody has gone to work to do what can
be done for our country. 1t matters not
how, they have been divided before, they
are now all united in the glorious cause Of
Southern emancipation from Black Repub-
ican misrule
THE PAST AND PRESENT The past