Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-04-04
NEWS FROM THE STATES.

died since the previous meeting, namely
Fl. W. Connor, of Charleston and Julius
A. Dargau, of Darlington Fitting trib.
utes have been paid to their memories, by
their colleagues, before the Convention
Mr.. JAS Connor has been elected to fill
the vacant seat of the former, and Thos. j
Smith that of the latter. -
Business has never been more active in
Charleston than during the present Spring
season. Instead of depression, as is the
case in Baltimore, New York, and in fac'
all the large cities of the North, there is an
actual increase of business, especially in ar
ticles of necessary consumption. This
shows that Southern vassalage has hereto
fore been 'artifcial," and that, redeemed
as we are in our commerce as we'll as rights
the South is destined to become the leading
power on this continent.
The Blue.Ridge railroad, in obedience
Mo the inevitable mountain-ward tendency
Of internal improvements, is progressing ii
spite of the hard times, the general excite
ment and the scarceness of money. 1t ii
soon to be completed to Walhalla-a Ger
man, town six miles, we believe, below the
celebrated tunnel .. ..-...as.
The Butler Guards, an amateur Mounted
Company of Greenvlle, drill, under present
orders, six times a week. We know how
this company was organized, as we'll az
some Of the men personally; and can say
that they are most energetic and spirited
body of men. Their actions evince it,
The Greenville papers caim-and we doub
not rightfully-that they are one of the
best drilled and most efficient companies in
the State.
California.
The Senate of California has adopted a
series of anti.coercion and Crittenden.co
promise resolutions The leader of the
Breckinridge Democrats has called a meet
ing of that body, which was to assemble al
Sacramento on the Goth utimo. He says
"Let US have union if we can, peaceable
dissolution if we must, but conflict never
If a peaceable dissolution comes, why
should California remain with the free
States; if bloody separation, why should
she not establish Pacific nationality? Is
she willing to be dragged into war with a
Southern Confederacy Of her sisters? 3
Should such Confederacy be irrevocably
established, ought she not demand of the
other free States to consent to peaceful
separation, if any must come, as an unyield.
ing condition of her remaining with them ?
Does not Lincoln's foreshadowed policy of
executing the laws in the Federal States
imply force, coercion and war? Are our
people ready to plunge into anarchy, and
suffer the ravages of such war? These
are the momentous questions to be consid-
ered."
Virginia. ,
Union resolutions, secession and recon.
struction resolutions, and thorough. going
secession resolutions, have been presented
to the Virginia Convention from various
places in the State, and laid on the table.
Mr.. Goggin has offered an amendment to
the report on Federal affairs proposing the
withdrawal of the State from the Union
without determining its future position, and
recommending Convention of the border
States to be held at Lexington, Kentucky,
in May next, to prepare plan for construct
ing government with the Confederate
States Mr.. Goggin declares that the Un-
ion can be resuscitated only by amendments
to the Constitution proceeding from the
nou-slaveholding States. ;
The Raleigh IN. CO. Standard says that
on Wednesday of last week, Mr.. .Wetzel
offered as substitute to the report referred
to above, the Constitution of the Confeder-
ate States, which was rejected by yeas none,
nays 7S-Mr. Wise leaving the Conveu-
ton. Hall in fit Of disgust at the Union
majority. The Standard adds: "sWhile
the Coliseum stands Rome will stand ; and
so it is with Virginia and the Union. -
We would remind the Standard that the
Coliseum is in ruins.
Florida.
The troops called for by President Davis
for Pensacola, are rapidly concentrating at
that point Gen. Bragg is mapeuvring ad-
mirably. He has now 1900 or 5000
troops under his command and "still they
come" 1t is said that Lincoln has deter.
mined to reinforce Fort Pickens; but he
will probably soon find its evacuation to be
ga military necessity"
Kentucky. ..
A Convention of the State Rights party
of Kentucky assembled, in obedience to a
previous call, on March Goth at Frankfort.
The call says:
"All who love the South and are deter.
mined to maintain her rights; who advo.
cate resistance to the coercion of the seeded
States by the Federal Government; who
prefer an alliance with slaveholding States
to submission to Northern aggression; and
who desire a reconstructed Confederacy of
the slaveholding and the loyal free States
rather than the rule of an Abolitionized and
centralized despotism, are invited to meet
in council at the State Capital on that day."
The Legislature which was in session ad-