Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-09-07

AgrttntfMrM and. W0matetflal
ING, SEPTEMBER 4. 1885,
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|cstion,e the faulty Of their attempt to en-.
slave us. Onlo account, should we per.
NIT any promise Of peace to draw our at
teution away from the chain of practical
reasoning which, we are engaged in con-
structing every blow that We inaictsis q
step in the demonstration of the theory he
would establish and that theory, it should
be remembered, so far as our debate with
the Yankees is concerned, is not so much
our right independence, whicia Yankee
might acknowledge and laugh at, but the
utter impossibility Of our being subdued,
(which, when once completely proved, 9
Yankee could not laugh at by any means
If, at the end of the next two months, no
Ilink shall be found wanting IN thef chain,
as would be,the case should Richmond or
Atlanta be lost at the last moment, and II
to the repulse of the. armies before. those
cities, we should add the impressive argn-
ment of another Eruption into the ensmy,s
countrysand the burning Of a.few Pennsyl-
vapia towns, our life nnon it, that the. peace
party will then be as large, and its accep-
.tance of our proposition as complete and
lasting, as we could possibly desireit to- be.
f. Gen., Forrest w Western Affairs.
We begin to understand theslate cam
paign in North Mississippi and West Ten
nessee, and now propose to give a short re-
yieH ofsit.,
Four or FIVE weeks ago, the Federal COM
mander at Memphis collected all his availa-
|bIe strength, andsmoyed out Of the city
with 10000 men: Taking the Memphis
andsC Charleston Railroad anddirt roads par
alleIgwith il, he marched to Lagrange, Ten
nessee, and due east Of Memphis, and from
thence south to Holly Springs, where he
massed his army. Gen. Forrest With {, 900
cavalry was at 0kalona, but when the enc
my reached Holly SPRINGS she moved tothe
Tallahatchie river, 65 miles northwest and
there. commenced disputing the advance, of
Che enemy. What the designs of the enc.
my,were we know not now, but it was Ger.
taiply something more than going to Holly
Springs. We heard that he intended going
to Aberdeen and Columbus and from thence
to Mobile. But We rather hold To- the opin-
ion that his sole object was to- destroy Gen.
Forrest. = rS:ls S;isf y -, sst8
Forrest fought them with his skirmish
line for several days on the Tallahatchie
Without any material advantage to either
/ side. . Becoming disgusted-with this mode
Of fighting, and finding the Yankees slowly
advancing and digging-makipg Gibraltar
works every one hundred yards-hs- deter
mined to end the campaign by, mastery
movement. Leaving o brigade.nnder Chal-
mera in front of the enemy, he took his
main force and madesne Of the most extra
ordinary and brilliant movements. of the
war. From his headquarters at Oxford to
Memphis is distance of 63. miles on the
most direct road, and in northwest direc-
tion-the enemy beingthen little east of
north. Forrest therefore seized the interi
or line, and ran right into the city-the
headquarters, tho starting point, the rally
ing place, the depot ofsupplies, the rendez-
vous of all the vile scum and ofal of the
Yankee people and their military leader.
a. w Washburne, the. General. commanding.
was asleep at the Gayoso Hotel when For.
rests men charged through the city. Nota
man there supposed That there was q rebel
soldier in one hundred miles of the city
1t vas at night when this extraordinary sur
prise was made, and there does not appear
to have been any great resistance. General
Forrest did not attackth Notifications, but
dashing in on ;otherstreets helanded in the
heart.of the city before Washburne awoke
from his slumber at.the Gayoso. So 4.
The enemy's garrison was three times. his
strength, and with 20, 900 more men in
North Mississippi who could cut off his re.
treat there was no use in thinking of hold
ing the city. He therefore cut his way opt
bringing off a large number of prisoners and
immense booty. But why he did notllay
the city in ashes, is a mystery. 1t was
nothing but o Yankee bonded watchhouse,
and it would have been impossible to burn
a single house in it, without destroying
something either belonging to Lincoln or
Yankee interlopers. sa"
As soon as the Yankee army, which had
then crossed the Tallahatchie and advanced
to Oxford heard ofqthe capture of Men,
:phis, they set fire to, that little town and
commenced disorderly fight. Completely
outgeneraled, bafaed and defeated by a cav.
airy officer with handful Of men, they a.
bandoned the campaign and went towards
Memphis as fast as their legs could carry
them. g..- -.
Forrest is now reposiDg in camp, having
won the campaign by the boldest movement
ever heard Of In this or any other war. We
never read of anything like this.
The PEACE MISSION TO R1oHMoND.--
Jacques and Gilmore, the late peace mis-.
sionaries to Richmond, were as silly as