Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1862-10-01
From Huntsville.

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t.. Il. a8 From Huntsville. ,5.as-s:!. 5a z.
r. The Huntsville Ala J Advocdte, has
4 tbeed resumed, and:inthe. first numberthe
editor says: =, q >, :.5.si
The Federals under Gen. @. NJ. mitch.
ell, occnpied Huntsville; ON the Hth Of. a:
1 pril; they, held. continnous: possession Off.
| until ther3 lstt Of August, when2they eyae.
uateds and aeft Us, forever, We hope The
Federals ip5the Valley left Athens and De.
catur last week for Nashville; and there is
now none.of the enemy ID, North Alabama.
four people are once more free to look, talk
and act, and can see, how much. they have
suffered in personand property BY this Fed,
eral occupation. -. & They have learned q great
deal,of war, of its usages, Of troops, com:
1mands, &c.--of4what restoring the Union
means, Of subjugation, Of sheireign OF; ter.
TOT, They know nov what the policy. the
intention of the enemy: is4-that We are TO
be treated as suIfs and aliens, and knowing
lthis, it is their duty to keep them cut, Of
our midst >, X 81. }ss,l.,. - - - =
Such was. our. condition under General
Mitchell He was but one degree better
than Butler, Of New Orleans. When Gen.
Buell. took command. an improvement was
manifest. ,Agentleman sandsa soldier, he
did not war upon citizens, women aud chill:
drsn, and he relaxed to some extent, the
despotism of Mitchell, but thelatters troops
were kept here, and ditswas, hard to change
their habits. The army took corn, forage,
bacon, &c, from our citizens, paying 80
cents for corn, S for bacon, SIS per barrel
for -four, &C. ,2ebut the measuring was aws1,
fully against our people. After the orders
from the War Office to subsist on the, peo-
pie, the army ceased to pay for anything
they took, demanding proof of loyalty
These orders the soldiers constr9ed to give
them free leense TO- take vhateysrthey
pleased, which they did X x!
The Federals captured fourteen locomo-
tives, aud q large number of cars here,
which enabled themesto. use the railroad
from Stevenson to Tuseumbia. : = :. =
We were under absolute, military rule
subject to the order of~ProvostF Marshals,
having to obtain passeh to go outside Of
town, and at times to pass from place to
place in town /; pledges an oatha were ex-
acted under dire ;compulsion; marketing
was prohibited, provisions not allowed to
come in; citizens ordered to be of the;
streets, arrested, kept in prison for days
and weeks, not tried, and then discharged
on pledges; negro evidence threatened a.
.gainst them and arrests made on such
evidence citizens sent off to Camp Chase
without trial or notice; houses searched,
property taken without compensation or1
even receipted for, houses robbed, horses
stolen, negroes decoyed of, wanton injury
inflicted upon many of our people, and no
redress given. They got frightened and
burnt the bridge at Decatur, cutting the
road, In two. /
When they left they carried off alt the
engines, cars, &c., and destroyed to great
degree the fine machinery in the railroad
workshops here; and they burnt a large
number of arms, bacon, -four, salt, &C.,
which could not be carried off. The bacon
-four and salt had been seized here but a
few days previously, They are gone and
we are free again Their presence, so far
from developing Union sentiments and feel.
iugs, had contrary effect. 1t intensified
the devotion of our people to the cause Of
the Coufederaoy and it has shown to the
most incredulous the utter impossibility of
the restoration of the Union.
A TRIBUTE TO LEA young Virgini-
an, who is in Jackson's corps, writes to his
mother on the 9Th inst, and after giving
detailed report Of Jackson's movements, un-
der Lee, preparing for crossing the Poto-
mac, adds:
am proud to have borne my humble
part in these great operations-to have
helped, even so little to consumate the