Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-02-03
What We Nav Expect.

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We call attention, says the Wilmington
Journal, to the following communication,
and ask our readers to reflect upon what
we may expect should we unfortunately fall
into the hands Of Beast Butler, the Yankee
commander in Eastern North Carolina: q
:. HAMILTON, N. g., Jan. lS, 1864. q
Mr.. Editor Beast Buffers reign in
Eastern North Carolina every day approxi-
mates uearerswhatit was in Louisiana. To-
morrow is the time for all to take the oath
or go to prison. Hundreds Of the most
disloyal have already taken it, and in-many
instances volunteered; hired, no doubt, by
the seven hundred dollars bounty offered by
the Federal Government. :,
The situation of the people in Eastern
Carolina and Virginia is really heartrend-
ing. Men Of all ages and classes may be
seen going from ono to another shedding
tears likeswhipped. children, atathe gloomy
prospect ahead of them. Near the town of
Plymouth they have fixed place for the
people to 60 and take the oath. They have
stretched huge chain across the road,
where all have to go and swear to support
Abe in his niger proolamations, or go to
prison. After they take the oath they are
allowed to go into town and barter produce
for Yankee notions; the young men ana
negroes being offered every indueement to.
volunteer. The regular troops are Fe-en-
listing for three years, and'going home on
forty days furlougb, in consequence of
which the garrison both at this place and
Washington has been considerably reduced.
Butler says that he must extend his lines
forty miles, in order to feed his troops, on
account of scarcity of provisions among
the Yankees and the continually increasing
iprice-bacon having recently gone up to
so cents per pound in New York, within
an incredibly short period. The effect of
the large bounty offered for re.enlistment
will cause everything to go up still higher.
Butler claims to have restored justice to
the citizens of North Carolina and Virginia
who have come under his rule. Here is an
instance of their boasted justice: About
ten days ago Miss Emma Blount, young
lady of Washington county, was found
dead near the picket stand A post NOR
tenn examination showed that she. had been
foully used and then knocked in the head
with an axe. Suspicion pointed to one
Moore, free negro, living near that place.
He was arrested and the premises examin-
ed, and an axe with the eye bloody was
found, covered with some loose fodder
1t was subsequently proven that the negro
was absent the night before, that be brought
home a bloody axe and hid it under the
fodder. The print of an axe was found in
the road exactly corresponding to the bloody
axe. On being examined he prevaricated
exceedingly, and told several different tales.
The one, however, that seemed most proba-
BILE to Buffers Judge (?) was, that he saw
several rebel soldiers armed with axes that
one of them offered him $40 to tell him
where Emma Blount was, for he was going
to kill her. You will naturally ask, what
was done with the negro? He was told
that if he would volunteer he should be
molested no further. He voluteered, and
was invested with the blue badge of tyran"
ny and oppression, and gun placed in his
hands, with which, in all probability, to
murder another woman. How long wilr
Heavens thunders sleep?
ROANOKE.