Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1862-07-31
From Europe.

From Europe.
The Royal mail steamship Persia, Capt.
Lott, which sailed from Liverpool at ! p.
m. on the 5th, and from Queenstown on
the 9th instant, arrived at New York We'd
nesday afternoon.
The steamer St. George, from Quebec,
arrived at Greenock on the Sd, with New
York kilograms of the 23d June, picked up
at Cape Race.
The New York correspondent of the
Times says:
The North is looking forward with keen
anticipation to the great battle before Rich
moud The strength of the two armies is
about equal. The Confederate army at
Richmond numbers about 100000 men,
and Jackson's force in the Shenandoah
Valley has been sufficient to keep iu check
three Federal generals. Beauregard re-
mains mystery.
So great is the perplexity he causes that
no one would be much surprised if he were
to be heard of tomorrow in the Valley Of
the Shenandoah, annihilatiug the armies Of
Fremont, Shields aud Banks, threatening
Maryland, and soaring Washington. for the
second time within month. The conquest
of Richmond will, by all accounts, be one
of the most difficult achievements of war
fare; but should it be evacuated without a
fgh., or be captured by Mcclellan, the re,
suit will be the same.
Behind Richmond, to the west, is a
mountainous country, aboundng with for
midabe dcfles, each of which might be de-
Tended against large army by a handful
of men The war would be transferred
fnrther South, and if Federal armies fol,
low, yellow fever or other deleterious agen
cies of the climate would then seal their
ranks, and render active hostilities imprac-
ticable for many months The truth is, an
armistice and then a settlement Of this
deadly quarrel, by a peaceful separation, is
the only solution of the difficulty
The Army and Nary Gazette observes
that though it has ever maintained the pow
. ere of the North to take possession of all the
principal military points of the South, there
has been no time since Bul! Run when
their position and ability to do so looked
more precarious. The battle in front of
Richmond will determine the fate of the
campaign in Virginia, but it will not put
an end to the war, which is assuming q
more hateful and ferocious character as it
goes on. There will be no going into SUM-
mer quarters for either army There will
be no chance for the smallest Intervention
or officious good offices.
The Mornjny Herald says that McClel-
Ian had peremptory instructions to attack
Richmond, and to capture it before the
great anniversary of the Declaration of \
mericau Independence.
The Fourth of July was made the occa-
sion by the London Times for an editorial
contrast of the ordinary American style Of
oration INDUCED in on that day, and the
style which, according to its views, the pre-
sent position of affairs would seem to de-
mand.
The Times puts speech into the mouth
of supposed American orator, the burden
of which is that the North has not been a
bic to accomplish its purposes, that the
complaints, &C., against England have been
unjust and unfounded, and that it would
have been much better at the start to have
let the South 90.
In the Times city article it is stated that
private letters from America by the last
mail, written by persons entirely impartial,
and with the best means of information, as
sert that the actual state of the Federal ar
mics is misrepresented to the public, and
tnat they have suffered deplorably from
sickness in its worst forms. A fever, sim
liar to the Jail fever Of past times, has, 1t
is averrcd, inflicted terrible havoc, and the
recent urgent call fvr new leries, tends to
confirm the impression as to the correctness
of these statements.
1he I'mcS publishes letter from MT
Edmund Potter, the chairman of the Man
chester Chamber of Commerce, on the sub
ject of the cotton supply. The nation he
says wants cotton. Four millions depend
upon its supply for the very necessaries of
life, and millions more will suffer who hlth
erto depended upon the circulation of pro-
badly Gl0,000,000 annually now being ia
ken out of circulation.
The revenue will suffer materially; the
taxation must be increased, where it can
be borne, to meet the expenditure. Mr..
Potter says that to ludia alone must we
look for supply for some years to come
but private capitalists will not ruin them
selves by seeking to invest in India schemes
for cotton producing. If American affairs
are settled, by any chance, soon-and that
chance is an extreme one-1ndia cotton
will fall one-half in price in a few weeks,
and carry ruin with it to importers, and
check for a time-forever, perhaps-any
such prices being paid in India for cotton,
as at the present Mr.. Potter comes to
the conclusion that it is the duty Of her
MajcSty's government to grappe with the
question.
On the following day "An Old Indian"