Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-08-12


affairs other Offices or appointments have
been made, which swell up the list, and
each enrolment is exhausted almost of its
material, before the law is effected. Thus,
we repeat, all the Offices of honor and profit
are filled by the young and inexperienced,
while the country suffers, and the cause OF
Southern independence languishes. Or.
ders have been issued, that this state Of
things, better late than never, should no
longer exist, yet Gen. Lee has to call for
assistance, and the Presidence is reduced to
beggared invocation. A list of those ex.
empt by virtue of their positions, with their
ages attached, would indeed be startling,
aud we do not think "the public interest"
wculd be promoted by giving it publicity,
but if Congress, in secret session, would
take the matter into consideration, we think
they would find ready means of enlarging
the ranks of the Army, without calling out
the militia, and give the "noble sons of
noble sires," an opportunity of emulating
the deeds of their boasted ancestry. The
burthens of the war should be borne alike
IN the camps, by rich and poor, for in the
end all have a common interest, and defeat
will level all distinctions, while success can
only be secured by common brotherhood.
The Department at Richmond has much
to do with the present embarrassing state
of affairs-the appointment of Pembertou
to Vicksburg over the we'll known wishes of
the whole country, who felt no confidence
in his military ability, at.least, was blow
which has fallen with great severity, as the
fall of Vicksburg led to the fall of other
points on the MISSISSIPPI as natural conse-
quence and that at a time when New Or
leans was almost in our reach-this tended
to dispirit our people, and no wonder our
gallant men who had fought so long and
nobly on "mule meat and pea.bread" felt
dependency when they we're turned over
bound ham. and foot, without fighting a
blow, but succumbing to want of ProVls-
ions that the poorest military foresight in
the world might have so easily provided a.
gainst. A military investigation is now or
dered, but this is shutting the stable door
after the horse is out, and will likely prove
the counterpart of Mansfield Lowell, Of N.
Orleans fame, be adjourned from pillar to
post, and remain in obsurity. The over.
slaughing of General Price BY Holmes, III
Missouri, is another evidence of Executive
stubbornness that has led to dissatisfaction,
not only that the appointment was objec-
tonable to the Missourians themselves, but
that it has lost to the service one of its best
and most tried Southern officers. These
matters are most glaringly before the public
mind, and it does not become the warmest
friends of the President to endeavor to
smother them longer. The march of Gen,
Lee into the enemy's country was il.tiued,
and we cannot see that anything has been
accomplished but loss of many valuable
lives, and much territory that his presence
might have protected. The old Dutch far
mers have got over their scare, and easily
make up the losses which our magnanimity
caused to be nominal, only, as we paid
them in Mr.. Memminger's promises, as
valuable to them as US but our own friends
in Vicksburg, Jackson, Memphis and New
Orleans, have, instead, to "chew the cud
of bitter disappointment"
But We do not despair. The cloud that
overShadowed US, is passing away, and we
begin TO breathe freer, and new life is
being inspirited into our cause. Our ar
mics are being again massed on our own
soil, and, with the enforcement of the laws
against deserters and skulkers, and a strict
attention of Enrolling officers and Surgeons
to their duties, We may yet hope to see in
the field magnificent army-an army of a
people determined to be free from Yankee
control, or to perish among their household
gods. The Address. Of the President is in
good spirit backed by the call Of General
Lee; hoping he will himself be instructed
by the experience of the past, let us rally
to the call, and trusting in God, and our
o,ea strong arms, "Ruchel weeping for her
children" may yet be comforted with the
reflection they hare not died in vain.
EDITORIAL ITEMS.
- The weather has been intensely
warm the past week, and the corn crop il
suffering in consequence. Unless We have
rain before long, of which there is now nj
prospect, we fear the corn will be cut quite
short in this ueigbborhood.
We had the pleasure of taking by thu