Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-11-11
From the United States.


We have Northern dates of the .26th,
9th, 18th and Goth, all of which contain
the usual amount, Of Yankee gasconade in
regard to the "crushing Of the rebellion"
While the Herald, in one column, speaks
of the "breaking Of the backbone of the
rebellion" in the very next It thus whines
and apologises for the numerous defeats
that have overtsken the Yankee armies:
Every embarrassment of our national ar
mics can be traced directly to Washington
City. Every failure Of our armies to do
what the country expects them to do; every
one of the many sstale, fiat and Improbable
conclusions to which campaigns of the
brightest promise have been brought, can
be traced to the same source.
All of these failures the country may
trace to the War Department, and more
particularly to Gen. Halleck. Foritis but
just to give to the radical character of Mr..
Secretary Stanton full credit FORTS particu.
lar virtue in pugnacity-Mr. Stanton de.
sires that our army should fight, whether
the armies arein the right place or condi-
tion, or whether they are or not, he thinks
they ought to,fght; and for the failure to
annihilate Lee on the Potomac, or to fight
him on the Rapidan, Gen. Halleck and not
Mr.. Stanton is responsible, Through this
Washington strategy six months have been
lost, and we are at the commencement Of
another winter. Arc all of these failures
honestly the result of military blunders, or
are they partly military and partly political? !?
Is it intended to save the war, SO that it
may be very grandly put down nextyear,
just in time to make excellent capital for
the next Presidential election?
THE WAR NEWS.
"A correspondent Of the Herald, writing
from Meade,s army, says ssthe rebels are
strongly fortifying themselves all along the
banks Of the Rsppahannock, and have made
quite a strong position Of fortifcation
thrown up by the Union troops to serve to
project the pontoon bridges formerly thrown
across near that point" The same, paper
says that sit is more than probable that no
battle will be fought by the army Of the
Potomac this fall. One thing is certain
Lee will not attack us !"
WHAT THEY THINK OF CHATTANOOGA.
The following from the Herald willserve
to show our readers atwhat value the Yam
KEGS estimate this point:
Chattanooga is too important point to
be relinqnished, and the Government should
use every effort to hold. it, even if it re-
qnires the reinforcement of. Thomas sufh.
ciently 10 enable him to assume the offen-
siye. Il will be to us in the future cam
paign as important, and in the same sense,
as ever was the gate to the Notifications Of
ancient cities: To US it is an inlet into
the richest valley of the Central South. It
is to US the key to the campaign against
Atlanta, just as prominent point or a lit.
tie hillock is sometimes the key to the bat
tle.feld. It is to US great bastion, far ad.
vanced towards the enemy's line of defence.
1t is not exactly the Malakoff; for its occu.
patton does not end the siege'of war; but it
is chief among those smaller Redans which,
when taken, hasten the siege forward 10
early and successful completion. To the
enemy it is sally-port from which the be-
sieged rebels have once, and can again, If
repossessed Of it, carry on an offensive cam,
paign into Tennessee and Kentucky and
as such the rebels never underrated its
value.
THE LATEST FROM .TENNEssEE-THE
: ,, SITUATION. 80
The Northern papers profess to have in
formation Of an important movement on the
part of Bragg's army. They say there are
indications that Bragg is moving in large
force upon Cleveland, Tennessee, with the
evident purpose of breaking through the
Yankee lines in that direction. It is gene.
rally believed that this movement is GO ope-
rated in by portion of Lees forces from
Virginia, moving down by way of Lynch,
burg and Bristol, Virginia, with the inten.
tion of driving Burnside from East Tennes.
see aud turning the flank of Thomas army,
and thus compelling its retirement from
Chattanooga. Aside from this rumor, ad.
vices from Chattanooga represent the situa.
tion of affairs as one of perfect quiescence.
The latest. dispatch from Chattanooga says
Our position here is perfectly safe, if
strong forti6eations can make it so- Chat
tanooga is encircled by a line of works as
formidable as those around Washington
The same can be said of the enemy. II
they cannot take Chattanooga from the
front, neither can we advance upon them
with any success. They bold the moaptain
encircling the town, with both their tanks
resting upon the Tennessee river. No ad.
vance can be made by either party, save BY
flank movement [This movement. has
since been made by the Yaukees.]
The greatest embarrassment is the ques-
ton ofsupplies. The late rains have made
the roads so bad that the teams have t.,
make circuit of eighty miles, and even
then cannot get through. As yet the
troops do not suffer, though they have been
on half rations. But the animals are great.
ly in want of forage, and the common AMI
mails are dying by scores from hunger
Bodies of troops have, in consequence, been
scattered over o large tract of country to
forage.