Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-04-25

Oeen removed Ir0m the once OF ourVeyor vi
the port of Boston, by Lincoln. '..'.'".The
Napoleon Planter, speaking of the proba-
bility of Lincoln statiouiug troops in A.
kansas to attack Mississippi from the soil
of that State, says: "Should they attempt
to land in Napoleon, or in Desha county,
our citizens will fatten the catfish from
Memphis to New Orleans with their Abo.
lition carcases. ."....."..It is said that by
actual measurement, there are now piled
up in the Treasury Department at Wash
iugtou one cord and a-half of applications
for Office. This is the beginning of the
Republican "restoration of the Government
to the principles of the fathers. ."'.'':'''.
The New York Day Book estimates that
the agitation of the slavery question has
cost this country, in twenty-five years,
three thousand millions of dollars. And
now, at last, it has cost the Union its exis.
tence. ........'Two notorious bandits of the
John Brown stamp, and the former coufed-
crates of that old cut Throat, have been e.
lected in Kansas to the so-called United
States Senate. Alas, how fallen is that once
august body from its high estate !'....'...
Sir Arthur Cotton, an eminent engineer in
India, says that to produce cotton in that
country successfully will require irrigation
by means of canal communications with
rivers. ''.''''.'The Louisiana papers report
the crops Of corn and cane were never finer,
and the promised yield cheering. Fruit
of all kinds in abundance. .......'.The N.
Y. Tribune, Of the 18th, speaking Of the
dispatches from General Beaursgard to
President Davis, which were received in
New York few hours after they we're
sent to Montgomery, says this is doubtless
the first instance in the history of war where
a despatch from general in the field to
his own Government was read on the same
day it was written, in hostile city nearly
800 miles distant. Lincoln lately re-
ceived letter frou St. Louis, directed to
"Old Abe or any other man." On one side
was the Coufederacy flag, on the other the
sea! and flag of the United States, with the
words "played out" Inside was five.
dollar note on the Union Bank of South
Carolina, "to help pay the expenses of re-
inforcing Fort Sumter ".........The Mer-
chants of New Orleans are quite patriotic.
Many of them hearing of the wishes Of
clerks to enlist in the service of the Con-
federate States, informed them that their SAL
aries would be continued and their places
reserved for them on their return. A
large grocery house furnished four of its
employees for Pensacola on these liberal
conditions. ......"..Gov. Pickens has recei-
we'd from Hon. G. c. Memmingers dispatch
stating that Tennessee has offered fifty thou
sand troops to defend the South, and not
one man for Lincoln. Tennessee is all a.
blaze. Tennessee is arming. ....''"".In res
ponse to telegram from Washington, in
quiring concerning the state of sentiment
at Montgomery, Hooper telegraphed the
answer of President Davis. 1t is rough
and curt: "Sumter is ours, and nobody
hurt With mortar, paixan and petard,
we tender Old Abe our beau.regards."
...."...We learn from the Washington
States and Union, that Col. Huger, sta
toned at Baltimore, (Fcrt McHenry,) for
the defence Of the harbor, and one. Of the
best officers in the United States ordnance
corpse, has resigned. The States, in ma
king the announcement, says: "Colouel
Huger, whose resignation is reported a.
bove, is one of the best officers in the Gov
He belongs to the Huger fami-
ly of South Carolina, and has large estates
there. No one has doubted his fast fdeli-
ty to the Government, and, if not called
upon to bear arms against his native State,
it was not his purpose to resigu:". ".'....."
The city of Springfield, Ill.,, the home Of
President Lincoln, has just spoken. The
Democrats of Springfield elected their whole
ticket for municipal officers, on the 9th
nst. The vote for Mayor stood: Hun
ington, Democrat, 9s7; Sutton, Republi-
IAN, S44. The city, for the last two years,
has been Republican.
Governor Magoain of Kentucky has is.
'ued his proclamation, conveniug the Legis-
ature of that State on Saturday next, 10 ex-
raordiuary Session. ....'....The Courier
'ays that bets were freely offered in Charles
on on Monday last, that the Lincoln Con-
,ress would not meet in Washington on the
Eth of July next, and that before the lst
# July, President Davis would issue orders
rom Washington City. y.''''.'''.Itis rumored
hat President Lincoln has sent private
to Chicago, Illinois, for the pur-
pose Of ascertainiug if suitable arrangements
,an be made for the assembling of Congress
IN that city, on the 4th of July next If
here is "Dobody burt," somebody must be
lwfully scared. .'.''''''."Pink," the N. Y.
of the Charleston Courier,
ays The story about the threats to mob the
Herald Office is all bosh. Bennett has
hifted with the compass and will soon be
houting as Justify for "coerciou" as any
'ody. ......".The Secretary Of War, Gen.
}. F. Jamison, left Charleston on Saturday
or Montgomery, 70 make arrangements for
he transfer of the troops now in the service
f the State to the Government of the Con-
ederate States. ......".It is said that ten
rish regiments in the Abolition States
ave offered their services to President Da-
is. is..........Gen. NJ. L. Bonham has been
ppsiuted by President Davis Brigadisr-
ieneral in the Confederate States army.
.....".Papers are said to be now in course
f preparation at the United States Post
)fice Department, ordering the mails 10
outh Carolina and the other seeded States
ba ,,t of in, m a; 10 totv. .Tho P;ob