Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1862-02-06

are entirely familiar With the situation,
that the city cannot be taken, if its inhabi-
tants will but stand firmly to their posts
and do their duty. All depends upon this,
and we should make up our minds to look
the danger sternly in the face and prepare
to meet it with all the means that God has
placed in our power. 1t is no time fol
idlers, cavillers or croakers-the sooner
such people get out of the city the better ii
will be for us.-Savannah Republican,
29th ult.
The Nesos thinks that the Burnside feet
| is intended for Savannah
Norah McCartey--A "Reminiscences OF
the Missouri Campaign.
During the stay Of Col. Jones in Nash.
vile, we had the pleasure of many 6reside
talks with him upon affairs in the West,
which he discusses with ready frauknesS,
interspersed with many anecdotes and illus
trations. Ttese stories have led US to be:
lieve that, thus far, Missouri has the better
of other seats of hostility for the real ro'
nance of war. Most assuredly the fight
there has been waged with fercer earnest
than almost anywhere else The remote
geography of the country. the rough, un'
hewn character of the people, the intensity
and ferocity of the passions excited, and
the general nature of the completely re-
duced to warfare essentially partisan and
frontier, gave to its progress wild aspect,
peculiarly susceptible Of deeds, and sugges'
tive of thoughts, of romantic interest
None Of these struck us more forcibly than
the story of Norah McCartey, the Jeauie
Deans of the West.
She lived in the interior of Missouri
little, pretty, black.eyed girl, with soul
as huge as mountain, and a form as frail
as a fairy's and the courage and pluck of. a
buccaneer into the bargain. Her father
was an old mana Secessionist. She had
but single brother, just growing FROM
boyhood to youthhood, but sickly and lame.
The family had lived in Kansas during the
troubles of 81. when Norah was mere
girl of Ia, or tbereabouts. But even then
her beauty, wit, and devii-may.care spirit
were known far and wide: and many were
the stories told along the border, Of her
sayings and doiugs. Among other charges
laid to her door, it is said that she broke all
the hearts Of the young bloods far and
wide, and tradition does even go so far as
to assert that, like Bob Acres, she killed a
man once week, keepinga private church
yard for the purpose of decently burying
her dead. Be this as it may, she was then,
and is now, dashiug, fine looking, lively
girl, and prettier heroine than will be
found in novel, as will be seen if the good
natured reader has mind to follow US down
to the bottom of this column.
Not long after the Federals came into
her neighborhood, and after they had forced
her father to take the oath, which he did
partly because he was very old man, un-
able to take the field, and hoped thereby to
save the security of his household, and part
ly because he could not help himself; not
long after these two important events in the
history of our heroine, body of men
marched up one evening, whilst she was on
a visit to a neighbor's, and arrested her
sickly, weak brother, bearing him off to
Lesvenworth City, where he was lodged in
the military guard house.
1t was nearly night before Norah reached
home When she did so, and discovered
the outrage which had been perpetrated
and the grief of her old father her rage
knew no bounds. Although the mists we're
falling, and the night was closing in dark
and dreary, she ordered her horse TO be re.
saddled,> put on thick surtout, belted a
sash round her waist, and sticking pair of
ivory handled pistols in her bosom, started
off after the soldiers The post Was many
miles distant But that she did not regard
Over hill, through marsh, under cover of
the darkness, she galloped on to the head
quarters of the enemy At last the call of
sentry brought her to stand, with a
hoarse-
"Who goes there p
"No matter" she replied, ~ wish to see
Col. Prince, your commanding officer, and
Instantly, too"
Somewhat awed by the presence of a
young female on horseback at thatlate hour,
and perhaps struck by her imperious tone
of command, the Yankee guard, without
hesitation, conducted her into the fortifca-
tions, and thence to the quarters of the
Colonel commanding, with whom she was
left alone.
swell, madam" quoth the Yankee Off:
Ger, with bland politepess, "to what have |
the honor of this visit?"
"Is this Colonel Prince?" replied the
brave girl quietly.
"It is, and yourself?"
"No matter. I have come here to en-
quire whether you have lad by the name
Of McCartey prisoner
"There is such prisoner"
"May I ask, for why"
"Certaiuly; for being suspected of trea.
sonable connection with the enemy
Unreasonable connection with the enc.
my! Why, the boy sick and lame' He
is, besides, my brother; and I have come
to ask his immediate release"
The Yenkee officer opened his eyes, was