Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1862-03-27

Royal, who was lately captured by some
of our pickets We are indebted to Briga.
dier General N. G. Evans, for this precious
document, and we think commanders Of all
departments and posts would do we'll to
publish all similar documents, showing the
nature and character of the war we are
called toemeet, and the purposes and pro.
peusities of the pluudering invaders who
use athe Union" and all that sort of senti-
mantai cant, as wells for their stealing.
There is just enough of show of courtesy
and civilized warfare kept up in some
places by the Yankees to deceive the IN
thinking and to deluda foreigners. !.
The revelations that have been made at
Port Royal, Hatteras, Roanoke, Newbern,
Nashville, and other places that have fal-
len within their power temporarily, show
Fus the real character of this war. - :. :
These revelations cannot give US any
deeper conviction of the thorough degrade
tion of the large mass of the race that is
urging this war against US. We have long
been convinced that our language had no
terms low enough to measure and record
that degradation.
To those who have doubted or who have
believed, against all indications, that our
enemies were only mistaken, and were hon
estly waging war for supposed necessities
Eof political position, will now see their er-
ror. s''% ..,'.1
| Planters who remain exposed to the vis-
its of the Cotton stealers, will see the ne.
cessity of fprompt measures for removal or
destruction. Planters who are hesitating
about the next crop, will see, also, the i'm
perative necessity of immediate decision,
which We hope and believe will by large
majority, if not by unanimity Of all true
Southerners, be against Cotton planting for
crop, Charleston Courier. a.
PROFITABLE INvEsTMENT.-The IRON
clad steamer Virginia cost $lS5, 900 to- fit
her up, and in one day destroyed over ST.
1000 worth of Yankee property. She
lost her prov in striking the Ericsson a
slanting blow, and not by running against
the Cumberland. This can be replaced in
two days, and then she will be in as good
lif not better condition than ever. We
give an extract from private letter recei7-
ed in this city from Mr.. John L. Porter,
the naval constructor of the Virginia. He
writes 5,,:E. aa "a
received but little encouragement from
any one while Virginia was progressing. =
Hundreds may say thousands-asserted
she would never float. Some said she
would turn bottom side up; others said the
crew would suffocate; but the most ,oise
said the concussion and report Of the guns
would. deafen the men. Some said she
would not steer; and public opinion gen
orally, about here, said she would never
come out of the dock. You have 20 idea
what I have suffered in mind since COM
menced her, but I knew what-I was about
and persevered. Some of her inboard ar.
rangements are of the most intricate char
acter, and have caused me many sleepless
lights in making them but all have turned
out right, and thanks are due to kind
Providence, whose blessings on my efforts
I have many times invoked.
must say was astonished at the sue
cess of the Virginia. She destroyed the
Cumberland in fifteen minutes, and in
thirty more the Congress was captured.
The Minnesota would have shared the
same fate, but she got aground, and the
Virginia could not get to her.
The Virginia steers beautifully, and her
speed is three miles more per hour than it
ever was. She is very comfortable there
is not the least unpleasant sound from the
guns, and all the officers are highly pleased