Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-02-25

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receiving pay. More than half his time he
accepted the pay Of the United States for
doing nothing else than seeking the best
means to ruin and betray her Yanhee
Paper.
Particulars of the Surrender Of the
Post Of Arkansas.
The public has never been satisfied with
the vague and meagre reports which have
reached us of the surrender Of the Post Of
Arkansas. Afriend In this city, with whom
Major E. c. .Boudinot, member Of Congress
from the Indian Territory, stoppeda day or
two since, gives us the following points re-
garding affairs in Arkansas, furnished him
by that gentleman. Major Boudinot is.di-
rect from Fort Smith uia Little Rock Cam.
den and the Red River, and brings with
him Little Rock papers Of the 18th and 2lst
inst. He gave, our informant much oral
information of great interest.
The Post on the Arkansas river, distant
from its mouth some fifty miles by water,
and twenty by land, and from, Little Rock
by land 110 miles, was under the immediate
command of Gen. Churchill. During the
last summer and fall some defences we're
thrown up there, consisting of an embank.
smsnt surrounded by ditch, and mounted
with such guns as could be procured-one
nine inch dahlgren and two eight inch CO.
slumbiads, with a battery of small pieces
arranged to resist an attack by land. This
armament, with corps Of about 1000 men
constituted Gen. Churchilps entire resour-
ces for meeting an attack of seven Yankee
sgunboats and the land forces of sixty:eight
transportation thirty to forty thousand
men, who, having been just whipped out at
Vicksburg, had come uptheriver in search
of force small enough to insure them a
victory. On Friday, Gen. Churchill, ap.
prised Of the advance of the enemy in large
force, senta dispatch for re.inforcements.
The nearest point from which such aid
could be received was fifty miles distant. =
During that night the enemy landed their
forces, and early on Saturday morning COM
menced most furious attack from both
land and water. @
Our men fought not only gallantly, but
desperately, through all Saturday and Sun:
day, sometimes breaating back the assail-
ants from their earthworks with their bay
onets, and at other times encountering their
dense masses 10 the open fields. Norein.
forcements reached them from first to last.
McCulloch's division, and two regiments Of
cavalry under command Of Col. George W.
Carter, were on their way, but arrived only
in season to lock the stable after the horse
had been stolen. 1t is gratifying to learn
that Gen. Churchill, though carried off a
prisoner, was not wounded in the fight
tits reported and believed that the ene'
my intended to proceed Immediately to an
attack on Little Rock. But the reduction
of the Post was glory enough for one ex.
pedision, and they departed the next day
as they came, leaving the guns unharmed
as they found them, and the horses, mules
and wagons to shift for themselves in the
adjoining fields Tho capital, if taken,
would afford them no advantages, as the
archives ara already removed therefrom,
and the country is SO far exhausted that
the enemy could not subsist for any length
of time without importing supplies.
Major Boudinot represents that the tone
of feeling in the trans. Missippi region as
still hopeful and buoyaut. The people are
as resolute and as confident as ever in their
own troops, and in the final issue Of the
contest, though they have an intense long.
ing for the return Of their old leader, Gen.
Sterling Price, and would make no objec-
tions if their present commander were called
to higher position.
A detachment Of the Yankee army, NUN.
bering about 1000 infantry and artillery,
made very unlocked for entree into Van
Ruren during Christmas week. Driving in
aud dispensing our pickets, they rushed
through the town to the river whore they
seized and scattered some Commissary
stores. They soon found occasion to leave,
however, for while in n,eaias res, an undis-
covered battery on the opposite side of the
river, poured upon them deadly fire, which
induced them to doubt whether the place
was altogether as safe as they had thought
it. Those who escaped, slept elsewhere,
and have forgotten to return since.
Arkansas possesses vast mineral wealth.
as we'll as an Incompatible soil and climate
for agricultural products, and immense re-
sources for the purposes Of war. It is but
recently that much attention has been given
to the development of the latter; yet we
are informed that already great progress has
been made in the martial arts, and that
nearly all the ammunition used by our army
there, is supplied by the Confederate Ord
nance Works at -, which are under the
direction and encouragement Of citizen of
Petersburg. These works are doing more
for the war than all the other works of the
kind beyond the Mississippi.
Petersburg Enpress.
THE S1MoN1DEs PAPYRI.-During the
past year book, entitled ssfac.similies of
certain portions of the Gospel. of St. Mat.
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