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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-17

LIFE IN THE CAMPs.-The following
extract from letter of member of Col.
Kershaw's Regiment, s. G. v, has been
furnished for the Charleston Courier
Munson's Hill, advance Picket,
Army Potomac, Sept %, 1861.
So you are still under the i'm
preston, you folks in Charleston, that we
are starying-we are much better off than
hundreds of families at home. I will give
you an average day how We live, so you can
Judge for yourself. There are nine men in
my mess at present; We have for breakfast
coffee, beef.steak or fried bacon, and
nice raised bread, sometimes potatoes. Our
dinner, yesterday, was roast beef, Irish po,
tatoes, cabbage, bacon and tomatoes and
rice boiled together Our mess bill up to
this date, from the 2Sd July, is only four
dollars and half, which is for extras. We
have men in this company who, if they
were in Heaven, would not be satisfied
I can now make good raised bread.
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except the soldiers ought to use none, if
they can get other meat.
We have large number of cattle, and
they can never probably he of more SER
vice than now. The fine grass of the sum.
ner has kept them in good condition, and
now, as soon as they run through the pea
fields, they ought to be killed, before they
begin to decline. 1t would be good policy
for nearly every farmer aud planter iu this
section to kill one.third of his cattle as soon
as fat, and the weather is such that they
can be saved, picked or dried. Where
the corn crop is abundant it would be ad
visable to feed them corn and fodder and,
oats, after eating out the pea fields, aud
thus increase the quantity of meat to the
fullest extent that grain can be spared for
that purpose. Let hogs follow the cattle to
eat up the waste. And the COWS may con-
tribute very largely to the food of family,
black and white, in the way of milk and
butter, if properly attended to- This has
been sadly neglected heretofore and those
who have never tried it have no idea of
how much value to family few COWS
may be, if properly fed and milked, to say
nothing of milk and butter and cheese for
market. Half an acre of good land, sown
thickly now with wheat in heavily manured
drills three feet apart, will give half a doz-
en- milch COWS great amount of good win
ter food. But if you want the very best
milk md butter that can be made, feed in
addition to the green wheat, good corn,
fodder, cut up with knife and placed in
tight barrel, on which pour boiling water
and cover with blanket, and to this add
four to eight pounds day Of pea meal for
each COW.
Wheat and other small grain should now
be sown as soon as possible, even to some
neglect of the cotton, which usually impedes
the sowing of fall grain. And we would urge
upon all that they SOW largely, and on good
land, and with as thorough preparation
and good manuriug as can reasonably be
given. Food is always in demand, and
likely to be more so in the future than the
past, so that tits no danger of over-stocking
the market, not even if grain were grown
to the entire exclusion of cotton-though
that is not recommended. With the large
sowing of grain last fall and the bountiful
harvest, and with the extra crop Of corn
planted and good returns, we still see food
of all kinds high, and it will probably re-
main so. Then, by all means, put in large
crops of fall and winter grain as soon as
can be conveniently done.
We have gone into this contest to win
each one of US has all he is, or expects
to be, staked on the result. And though
we may not have comprehended fully all
fae evils and hardships which may befall
US before we get through it, yet we must
bear them bravely and nobly, and never
despair nor repiue. Unless we can bar
any and every evil probably in store for
us, We neither deserve our liberty, nor are
we made of the stuff which can long main
tain liberty and free Government And
with all the discomforts around US, and
looming up in the near future, let US nerve
ourselves to bear them, and let US labor too
aud set our invention to work, to turn the
evil into present and future good.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-17

RICHMOND, Oct 14.-Twelve Yankee
prisoners reached here to-day, taken by a
scouting party of Cobb's Legion, near New.
port News.
The indications here point to stirring
events at an early day.
Nothing reliably true or interesting from
the camps.
SEoUEsTRAT1oN.-Under the operation
of the sequestration act of the act of the
last Confederate Congress, it is estimated d
that about thirty millions of dollars will
pass into the hands of the Confederate Re.
ceivers in the State of Virginia.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-17

Resolved, That the planters Of Washing
ton county will not sell one pound of their
cotton at any price to such agency.
Resolved, That we will regard all per.
sons acting as such agents, as the agents Of
Lincoln and his despotic coercion Govern.
ment, and we will do all in our power to
bring such persons to punishment for thus
aiding and abetting the enemy"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-17

THE ARMY IN THE MISSISSIPPI VAL
LEY. Y.--Some idea of the formidable obsta-
cles which Liucoln's fotilla will have to
encounter in its passage down the Missls-
sippi, may be formed from the annexed ex-
tract FROM a letter to the Baton Rouge
Gazette
Our troops are composed Of the flower Of
Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri, Kentucky,
and last, though not least, a brigade Of
Louisiauians, to which I hope will be added
the Doualdsonville Cannoneers now iu Mem.
phis With Johnston, Polk, Pillow,
Thompson, Cheatham and, MCGOWAN at
the lead of operations here, zolicoffer at
Cumberland Gap-Buckner at Bowling
Green, with thousands rallying to his stand.
ard daily-you may prepare to hear soon
of the grand "smash" of the Lincoln pro.
ject to invade the Mississippi valley, as be
would have to walk over the dead bodies Of
no less that 100000 Southerners to accom-.
plish The feat-not, however, without the
sacrifice of few on his part. Strong for
ti6cations are being erected here, which
will make the place in few days pretty
hard to take. Beyond that l cannot go-i'
is all that can be said about our fortifca'
tions.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-17

OUR SOLDIERS IN VIRGINIA The fol.
loving is the conclusion of report to his
Excellency Governor Pickeus, made by a
physician sent on by him to examine into
the sanitary condition of all our regiments
in Virginia
"The sick of all the regiments in Gener-
al Bonham's and General Jones brigade
are now being sent back to the receiving
hospitals. The Surgeon Of this regiment
(Col. William's) is much better supplied
than any Surgeon in the brigade, he having
saved his hospital stores III the retreat from
Fairfax, and since then he has had requi,
sition partly filled. Most of the companies
have received their winter uniforms, and all
of them have made arrangements to have
them soon. There are still on hand three
boxes of shoes, and all have been supplied
that are in want New tents are being dis
tributed slowly among the different regi
ments, and expect they will all be sup
piled by winter"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-17
Confederate Elections.

As a matter of general information the
Richmond Examiner publishes the follow
ing abstract of the law regulating the Con-
federate States elections:
The election for members of Congress,
to be held on the first Wednesday in No.
vensber, 1861, which election shall be con-
Quoted according to the permanent consti-
tuition and the laws of the several States in
force for that purpose. In States which
may not have provided by law for such elec-
ton, the same will be held according to the
laws heretofore existing in such States for
the election of members of the House of
Representatives in the Congress of the Uni
ted States.
The appointment of electors for President
and Vice: Presidents also made on the day
of the Congressional election-the .Jfrs.
Wednesday IN November.
The electors are to meet in their respec.
tive States on the first Wednesday in De.
censber, 1861, and proceed to vote for Presi-
dent and Vice President
Congress is to assemble in regular session,
at the seat of Government, on the eighteenth
day of February, 1862. On the nineteenth
Of February, it is provided that the Presi
dent of the Senate shall, open the certi6'
Gates, aud the votes for President and Vice
President shall be counted.
The President Of the Confederate States
shall be inaugurated on the tventy second
day of February, 1862.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-17

have not got beyond the distribution among
some corps of kind of jacket Of heavy
gray cloth, manufactured in Virginia. The
clothes, whether of regular uniform or fan
cy, are all in very bad condition; the
soldier, nevertheless, preserves beneath his
rags an aspect sufficiently martial, and per-
feet order reigns in the camp and the posts
The SOUTHERN CAVALRY - What
strikes one most is the cavalry, which is
very numerous, admirably mounted, and
composed of superb men. Its plain at the
first glance that those men are the sons of
farmers and land owners, that their horses
are their own, and that they are accustomed,
if not to arms, at least to rough country
life. Besides, nothing is more picturesque
than these Southern cavaliers. They wear
the most impossible costumes, wofull7 d.
lapidated by three months bivouac; hats
without crowns, boots without soles, with
an air and heroic bearing that Don Caesar
de Bazan would have envied; and since
these ragged cavaliers have as fine, ener-
getic Virginia faces as their horses are
magnificent, which they manage with great
daring, one is filled with admiration, just
as we admire the fantastic figures of the
warriors crearted by Salvador Rosa.
The SOUTHERN STAFF OFFloERs.-The
Stats of the generals-in, chief (Beauregard
and Johnston) are remarkable. If the
United States were not republic, l would
say that these stats were composed of the
flower of the Southern nobility. Most OF
them possess enormous fortunes.
Disinterested in this civil war, stranger
to the hatreds, the passions and the inter-
ests which have Influenced it, could not
feel otherwise than touched at the sight of
some of those white-moustaehed men of
military, aristocratic bearing and distin-
guished manners, who have left their faml-
lies, their fire sides and high social positions
to serve as aids, in the rudest Of wars, to
young generals, hitherto unknown.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-17

The exports at the port Of Philadelphia,
for the week ending September 26, were
s2O2 ,536; the imports for the same time,
$3.50.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-17

The HERO OF LExINeToN.-GeDeral
Sterling Price was formerly representa-.
tive of Missouri in the U. S. Congress, and
was subsequently Governor of that State
He is by birth Virgiuian, and by occu-
patton tobacco planter, in Charlton county
Mo. He is about so years of age, over SIX
feet in height, of large build and stately
presence. His manners are extremely
polished, gentle and digni6ed; but his
heroic personal courage, so conspicuous at
the battle near Springfield, and his iron
6rmness, are disclosed by his eyes and
massive chin. He is strikingly temperate
and exemplary in all the relations of life.
His most distinguishing characteristics are
sound, cautious judgment, and energy in
action. Modest, making no pretentions to
brilliancy or superiority, he seeks always
to bring to his aid all the talent or expert
ence of others within his reach; one of his
first acts as major general was to select for
his adjutant an experienced officer who had
resigned from the U. S army, and whom
he had previously known only BY reputa-
ton. Naturally taciturn and secretlve, be
makes it difficult for the enemy to discover
his plans. An excellent judge of men, he
selects his counsellors carefully and spar
Iiugly. In addition, be has the prestige Of
success. Though neither trimmer nor an
intriguer, he has never been candidate
for political station without obtaining it
In Mexico, as more recently in Missouri,
be never commanded in battle that be
did not win. The Missourians are raAyine
to him in mass BY the latest, though per-
haps exaggerated, statements of the Lincoln
presses, he has now 40, 900 men under hi;
command.
This distinguished man is sometimes con
founded with Thomas L. Price, of Mo-.
once a general in the militia, and many
years ago Lieutenant Governor of the State
and now supporter Of the Lincoln Gov
ernmeut They are autipodes in many re
spects, particularly in politics.
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The SITUATION IN KENTUoKY.-It
would seem from present indications, that
Kentucky is to be principal theatre of
the war, so far as inland operations are
concerned. Last advices represent that the
opposing forces are concentrating there, and
the probability is, that in very short time
a decisive engagement will take place in
that State, when every true man within the
border will rally to the standard of the Con-
federate States. In the person of General
Albert Sidney Johnston We have leader
of undoubted military ability. With the
disposable force which he has at his COM
mand, he will be able, not only to fight on
the defensive, but should the occasion
make it necessary, he will carry the war
into the enemy's country, and transfer the
scene of battle from Kentucky to the North
western States. This would be fine coun-
try to quarter large army, provisions be-
ing cheap and plentiful In every respect
the aggressive is the true policy for our
Government to pursue. If we make the
present a defensive war altogether, it is
simply obvious that it is uncertain when it
will terminate. .-Rtchmond Examiner.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-10-17
The Naval Expedition.

There can scarcely be any doubt that
there is another formidable naval expedition
on foot to operate on the Southern coast
The New York Evening Post Of the Sd
inst, has the following:
owe noticed yesterday the charter of the
Vanderbilt steamers, which are to be added
to the fleet of transports already chartered
aud purchased by the Federal Government
A formidable naval expedition is now 6t-
ting out at this port to act in connection
with men of war from Fortress Monroe -
Of the transports the Vanderbilt is provi-
ded with births for two thousand men, the
Ocean Queen for two thousand three hun
dred, Illinois for one thousand five hundred,
the Empire City for one thousand, the
Coatzacoalcos for one thousand five hun
dred, the Daniel Webster for one thousand,
and the Baltic, Mantausas and atlantic
are also coaliug and preparing for the ex'
pedition. These vessels will carry at least
fifteen thousand men.
The Great Republic, the largest Amerl'
can sailing ship aaoat, has just been char
tered by the Government, and is fitting W
with stalls to transport horses"
The Richmond Examiner of Wednesday
says: "The most formidable additions are
being made, rapidly but very quietly, tc
the naval forces of the Lincoln Government
These additions are evidently with view
to coast operations. The fleet of gun'boats
for which appropriations were made by the
Lincoln Congress, will in few weeks bt
ready for active service. Those vessels, o
which twenty three are reported to be build
| ing, are about 500 tons burden, light draft
strongly built, and calculated to carry ont
l50-pound riaed gun and four 32-pounders
Northern accounts of the naval preparation
of the Government state that there will al
so soop be on the stocks number of fas
side.wheel steamers, suitable for running il
shallow water and up narrow rivers. The.
are to be built alike at bow and stern, so a
to avoid the delay or danger of turning a
round under the fire of battery.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1861-01-16
MISCELLANEOUS.
vAgUTX'S REWARD.
BIZ VA. IL. PECK.

a few years ago, in winter, James Stone
burn, rich and miserly lawyer, living in
the upper part of New York city rang the bell
in bis private sitting room, and summoned
bis step-daughter, Ellen Graham, to his pres
ence.
Ellen, fair and lovely girl of eighteen
years. soon appeared before her step father,
with more of dread, than affection in her
manner
Your eyes are red. Miss said Stoneburn
in sharp voice You remind me of nv
late wife, your mother; she did nothing but
whine and weep until she died. Sit down
She had Gauss enough to weep said Ell
len, with much spirit. and indignant that her
mother should be alluded to so scorufuly =
She never made but one mistake IN her life,
and that was when she married you. James
StonebUTn. So great mistake that for ten
years she grieved OYER it and then died.
Enough | have sent for you to know
whether you will marry Simon Cline or not 2
My answer shall be given 20 Simon Cline,
and not to you, SIR replied Ellen.
Your dignity demands that, [ suppose,
said Stoneburn, with a sneer. Mr.. Clinep
As he spoke, large curtain, hiding an al
cove window, was moved aside, and tall ell
derly man. with dark and sinister face, pla-
ced himself before Ellen Graham.
Simon Cline awaits his DOOM said this
man bowling and grlmacing.
Ellen started at bis unexpected presence
but recovering her natural firmness very soon
said to him
Il inform Mr.. Cline that l can never be
bis wife,. Mr.. Cline is old enough to be my
father
The greater your chance of becoming a
Cline.
L have given my final decision said Ell
len haughtily. i will now retire, hoping
never to be again insulted by either of you
Stay said Stoneburn, Il will tell you the
consequences of Jour refusal, that having
heard them, you may be inclined to reconsid-
er your decision, and change it.
Nothing can force me to change it; so let
me retire., said Ellen.
You must listen said Stoneburn. Your
refusa! will make your accepted lover, my
young clerk, Henry Tyler, convict
a convict Henry Tyler convict !, ex-
claimed Ellen, growing pale.
'Hal That touched tender spot. said
Stoneburn sneeringly. You thought had
not discovered my clerks presumption. and
your folly You and Henry Taylor have Sc
cretly plighted vows. 1 intend to make you
break them
Miss Grayham thinks am too DID, said
Simon Cline, but have been handsomer
man than ever Henry Tyler was Here is
my miniature-taken when was of his age
twenty five and 1 think am presentable
now as then.
Simon Cline, vain aud villainous, thrust q
golden-framed miniature into b liens hand a.
he spoke
She did not glance at it, but involuntarily
her trembling fingers closed upon it. and sh'
! felt as if about TO faint with terror, as she ga
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1861-01-16

of her amisble step father. aud when she en-
! tered the sitting room she found Stoneburn
and Simon Cline drinking wine quite costly
together.
We'll, Miss Ellen said StoneburD. fash
ing his eyes at her as she appeared. L hope
you have reversed your decision. L see you
have not been crying to-day
Let Mr.. Cline ask for himself said Miss
Ellen.
Miss Ellen Grayham,' said Cline, rising
and smiling SO as TO reveal magnificent set
of false teeth. my wooing must appear to you
in most disadYantageous light-but circum-
stances you know-ah-may | hope TO call
Miss Ellen Grayham my wife
There is an insurmountabie impeachment.
Mr. Cline said Ellen.
Name it-name it | will crush it! What
is it 2 demanded Cline.
We do not live in Turkey, nor among the
Mormous, SAID Ellen, and Mr.. Cline has a
living wife now
What : Never y cried Cline.
The same curtain that had hidden him the
night before. was now displaced, and Mrs.
Stevens appeared, saying:
4 am that wife, George Grew"
Mr. Cline started as If shot, and stared at
Mrs Stevens in wild dismay.
Ou Gail SOUfSSll- Citl1Ou SllIG, salN cue,
shaking her finger at him, and backing him
to the wall, but you are my husband. George
Grew, of Mobile, Alabama. Thirty years
ago you robbed and deserted ne-your wife
robbed many Others, and fed. leaving me
to bear your infamy l left Mobile, and also
changed my name. that disgrace might not
cling to me, George Crew.
In disDay the detected rascal glanced tow
ards lanes StonebuEu
That gentleman seemed in ecstacies.
'Har cried Cline. in high wrath. 1 must
run again. it seems out you need not think
to escape, James Stoneburn. L go-I am
this woman's husband-but when l shall have
reached security, will forward the proofs OF
your villiany TO the proper quarters. Good
night, all . Miss Graybam, your lover is in
nocent-tremble James StoEeburn You
had best release Henry Tyler before your for
geries are discovered
With these words be hurried away
Leave mel' cried StoneburD, when Cline
had departed; and when alone. he continued
That rascal viii betray me 1 am ruin
ed Shame, disgrace aud infamy-'
Simon Cline kept his parting promise, and
when on the following day, James Stoneburn
heard that the estate was secured to Ellen be-
yond dispute. and that Henry Tyler had been
liberated on bail, aud when he knew that bis
false charges would be exposed. he fed 70 his
sitting-room and shut himself up.
When the officers of the law sought him,
they found his ugly corpse swinging by the
bell cord from the ceiling.
Mr.. Simon Cline finally died in Sing Sing,
bat we never heard Mrs. Ellen Tyler say
that Mrs Stevens ever shed teal at his sad
fate