Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-04-29

The sixth paragraph provinces snaS "he's
two years regiments do not re:enlist, al
above provided for, those men belonging
thereto who had been enlisted for three
years shall be transferred to the three
years regiments, or formed into separate
battalions, at, the discretion of the corps
commanders.
The New York Posi-, on the authority O
an officer of the Army of the Potomac
states that General Stonemau had reached
Culpeper, G. H., where 5000 rebels sur
prised and captured a number of the :Har
ris',. light cavalry, at a place where some
cavalry were killed in a previous skirmish.'
Over seven hundred sick reached Wash
iugton from the Army of the Potomac OF
Monday.
The Confederate Fleet in England.
The London correspondent of the New
York Times, under date of March 2Sth
1868, writes as follows
A whole feet is preparing as rapidly a.
possible, osteusibly for the Emperor of Chi
ma. Everybody knows they are intended
to open the Confederate PORTS. Eyerybod,
knows that the Confederate loan was raised
to purchase their outfit. This was the rea
son why eighteen millions-nearly slO0,
OO0, 0,000-was subscribed, when only SIS,
100000 was wanted. This was the reason
why the stock went up to par aud to five
per cent. premium, though taken at eighty
and put on the market at ninety.
The simple truth of the matter is, thai
with the active sympathy of the upper
classes, aud the ssneutrality" of the Govern
ment, strong party Of English capitalists
cotton spectators, shipbuilders and mer'
chants, have taken up the cause of the
Southin earnest, and mean to putt through
They have embarked their millions, and de
not mean to lose them. The Government
cannot interfere to prevent it, and has nc
disposition to do so. AS Lord Palmerstor
said last night, if they attempted to amend
the law, they might make it worse. The
Government will be neutral. 1t may even
pass over the seizure of the Peterhoff BY
Captain Wilkes. They will let the North
buy all the "hardware" in Birmingham.
But they neither can nor will prevent the
departure of single one of the fourteen
steamers which Mr.. Bright says are fitting
out for the Confederate Government. Eng.
land, as; Government, is: not at war with
you, but English capitalists and manufactu.
rers are, and Z do not see how it, is to be
helped.
The interest, you must grant, is a very
strong one Look at the millions of capital
rusting away in Lancashire; look at the
great cotton manufacturing interest which
has encircled the world; at the closed cot.
ton ports, the dragging war which shows nc
sign of termination, the starving popula.
tions, already beginning to break out into
riot and disorder a
You talk of war. They..ask nothing bet.
ter. The more you threaten, the less like.
ly the Government will be to interfere with
their projects A war, they think, would
soon settle the matter. You will take
Canada. Well, it was but the other day
that Mr. Gladstone was for getting rid Of
that troublesome province on any terms
You will send out priVateers. If you do,
your ports will be blockaded and all others
closed against them, so that privateering
will not be profitable. Ships will 60 arm.
ed with Armstrong guns, or be guarded by
men. .of.war steamers. That is the way
Englishmen feel. They are growing SO ir.
ritated and disgusted with the war, that
they are ready for anything that will put
an end to it.
The efforts of the emancipationists have
not changed the feelings of the upper class.
es at ALL Ifabolition was ever a favorite
idea of the aristocracy, it is SO no longer.
1t is consigned to the oblivion Of the lower
millions. The Times openly defends slavery.
The other higher class papers apologize fol
it. Mr.. Bright is still the brave and clio.
quent champion Of the North, but he finds
very little sympathy in or out of Parlia'
ment, excepting among the workingmep,
who are in earnest in the cause of free Ia
bor-all the more earnest because they are
oppressed and degraded as freemen are no.
where else in the world Mr.. Bright made
most eloquent speech, in favor of the
National Government, few nights ago, to a
Trades Union meeting, at St. James Hall.
1t was we'll meant, but very useless. The
Times is not far from right when it asserts
that the whole public of Eugland-meaniug
the voting and income-tax paying public
all but few disappointed Republicans,
hope for the success of the South.
Lord Harrington, in an election speech
this week, stated the whole case. He had
just come from America, where he had
travelled in both sections, and he was out
and out Southern, and declared that no u
nion could be restored, nor could the South
be conquered. This opinion was never SO
firm as at this moment Is it strange that
strong efforts should be made to hasten a
result in which faith is so general?
If the statements publicly made, and
apparently based on good authority, are
to be believed, the Confederates, within a
month, will have at sea one of the most
formidable fleets that ever steamed out up.
on the Atlantic. The steamers now prepar.
ing will be as fleet, as strong and as power
full as British machinists can make them.
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