Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-10-12

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| on their ability to get home again sa
while some will snap atthe first bait
thrown to them BY substitute brokers:
The prisoners pay little regard to
their personal cleanliness ; as q natural
consequence much mortality prevails,
ten deaths being about the minimum
of those daily occurring. A hospital for y
the sick is outside of the stockade,
where they receive every attention, and
they are remanded when eonKalesespt,
but few having died in it. They are
mostly scantily clothed, and unless pro
vided by their government vi will suffer fe
greatly, when the cold weather n sets IL.
Previous to leaving Hamburg, cleo
tions were held in the York and Ches-
ter Companies. The two t companies
from York voted together, and pollssd
hut 80 votes, the old men, having been
mostly farloughed home to gather their
sugar cane and SOW wheat q day or two
previous. Of these Col. Jones received
the whole number, for the Senate. For
Representatives, Capt. Lowry, received
81, Col. Beatty, 2e, Col. White, 20,
J. G. Chambers, II, IS. Bratton, 10,
Col. Rawlinson, 7. For Tax Colec-
tor, Col. jackson received %, Mitchell,
2, Sanders, /. - -s'' - = IS.
The weather continues quite warm.
Our men have exercised much ingenui-
ty in constructing tents and huts, which
has infringed greatly on their supply Of
bed clothes, which will Inconvenience
them greatly when winter sets in. If
Gen. Chesnut would furnish the cloth
fys could easily be made; or plank
could be, as a saw-miller near by offers
to furnish it, if a requisition is made.
We this morning report two,sick. -
The town of Florence is pretty little
place, Of no business pretensions what
ever, as it has not q single store, Or rum
hole. There are no loafers about town,
and but very few males, though it is the
junction of the North Eastern and Will
mington and Manchester roads. Capt.
Fl. W. Connor, of Charleston, is the
Post G Commissmy, and hisclerk, a young
wounded soldier, they are both clever
gentlemen, and think ''the powers that
be-" are in error as to the quantity and
quality of rations to which citizen SOL
diers are entitled. In coming from
Kingsville to this place, we passed
through several towns, but as the whole
distance, seventy miles, was travelled
by night in box cars, nothing can be said
of them until some lucky chance gives
us day trip towards home.
The water here is scarce, and not
good; our men have commenced digging
wells, but they have no spades, shoyels
or picks, so for the present they have
stopped, at some six feet depth, without
water. The Yankees are more expert
they have dug tunnels and wells after
the fashion of moles, with their noses
or claws, probably, while. they are ably
secondedby the bog-trotters and trout
stands, who act as their beasts of bur
then-a harder looking set Of Williams,
take them as a mass-I hope you may
never see. Some 500 of them are a.
bout to take the oath, which they should
not be allowed to do.
I have received, through the kindness
of Col. Melton, at Richmond, the New
York Herald, of the 10Th ultimo, which
has proved a valuable acquisition in the
newspaper desert, and helped to while
aWay the few hours ofrelaxation We can
gain from the interminable hustle and
dhty of camp. The contents are fully
in character, and prominent is a long
account of ''grand Anniversary Ban
quet at Delmonieo's," by the resident
Mexicans, who seem to have forgotten
the whipping they received from the
boasted United States, and, while they
jabber Justify for their own indepen-
dence of French rule, sit cheek by
jowl with the Yankees in depriving the
South of theirs. But, though it is said
none but Mexicans were present, the
ear marks of Yankee correspondents are
plainly seen, and doubtless the drunken
dons awoke the next morning to find
out that-they had made quite figure
the previous night. The 'sDiario" will
doubtless translate with wonder to their
columns, the rapid progress their runa-
way generals have made in Yankee A.