Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-05-07
8mt1prons geaaing.
From the Rome (Ga.) Southerncr.
dr. Bill Arp to Abe Linkhorn.

Mr.. L1NKHoRN.--SIR These are to
inform you we are all well, and hope these
few lines may find you in statu quo. We
got your proklamashun, and as you have
put us on nifty short notis, few of US boys
has concluded to write you, and ak for
little more time. The fact is, we are most
obleeged to have few more days, for the
way things are hapinin, its utterly onpossi-
bic for us to disperse in 20 days Old Vir.
giny and Tennessee and North Carolina, are
continually aggravatin US into tumults and
karousements, and body cant disperse un-
til you put stop to sich onruly conduct on
their part. I tried my darudest yesterday
to disperse and retire, but it was no 60 and
besides, your Marshal here amt doing dam
thing-he don't read the riot act nor remon-
strate, nor nothiu, and ought to be turned
out. If you conclude to do so, am au-
thorized to rekomend to you Capt. Cooper
or Mr.. McClung, or perhaps myself would
attend to the bisness as well as most any
body. The fact is, the boys around here
want watchin, or they'll take sumthin. A
few days ago beard they surrounded two
of our best citizens because they was named
Fort and Sumter. Most of them are so
hot they fairly siz when you pour water on
EN-, and that's the way they make up their
military companies here now-wheu man
applies to jine the Volunteers, they sprinkle
him, and if be sizzes they take him. and if
he don't they don't.
Mr.. Linkhorn, sir, privately speaking,
I'm afraid I'll gitin tite place here among
these bloods, and have to elope out of it,
and 1 would like much to have your Scotch
cap and clcak, what you travelled in to Wash
ington. l suppose you wouldn't be likely
to use the same disgise agin when you left
and therefore would propose swap. I'm
feet 5, and could get my plow britches
and coat to you in 8 or 10 days if you can
wait that long. I want you to write to me
Immediately about things generally, and let
us know where you intend to do your fig ghtin.
Your proklamashun says sumthing about
takin possessin of the public property at
"AU Hazards" We can't find no sich
place on the map. l thought it must be
about Charleston, or Savannah or Harper's
Ferry, but they say it amt anywhere down
South. One man said it was little tacto-
ry on an island in Lake Champlain, where
they made sand bags. My opinion is that
sand bag business wont pay, aud it is great
waste of money. Our boys here carry their
sand in their gizzards, where it keeps bet
ter, and is always handy. Tm afraid your
government is givin you and your kangaroo
heap of unnecessary trouble, and my hum
BILE advice is if things don't work better
soon, you'd better grease it or trade the
dsrued old thing off. I'd take rails or any
thing for it-if I could see you I'D show
yola slight of hand trick that would change
the whole concern into buttons quick. If
you don't trade, or do something else with
it soon, it will spile or die on your hands
certain.
Give my respects to Bill Suard and the
other members Of the Kangaroo. What's
Hannibal doin? I don't hear anything
from him now adays. Yours with care,
BILL ARP.
p. S.-1f you can possibly extend that
order to 30 days, do 50. We have sentyo