Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-11-09

Industry an6 skill to construct cabins,
fare stilfuncomforta confined to their
earthworks, composed Of poles crossed
transversely over forks, covered with
pine brush, and this with dirt-rather
muddy substitute for lime and mortar.
We hear Of general turning-outsin
York, but, as yet, none have come to
our relief. Most of the boys sent on,
who have become II years old have been
detained as prison-guard near Colum-
bia, so but few can get furloughs to SOW
wheat, as the men cannot be spared
If this state of things continue, the
next crop of wheat throughout York,
Chester, Union and Fairfield, will ne
cessarily be short, and the evil effect
will be felt the more severely by those
| in service who have no one to help their
families at home, or protect them from
the innumerable "details or specula-
torsy who are fattening on their ife's
blood as it were.
The measles, mumps and intermittent
fever is still among us, though seeming
Iy to yield to medical treatment. We
have four of Company D, in the Hos:
pital at Florence, which will rank a
mong the,best kept and regulated in the
State. There are but two from Com
|pany G. =
There are still in the stockade here,
10000 prisoners, over 1000 having
died, from scurvy and their own natural
.flthiness. They are well fed, drawing
the same rations we do, but they crave
vegetables, which, except potatoes, are
not to be had by any ofus. They have
boothes inside, where they sell bacon,
tobacco, potatoes, red pepper, and pea
soup, to one another, carrying on, per-
haps, their old trades, except that their
sWindling operations are confined to one
another. They have yetsome specie
among them, though their currency is
mostly greenbacks, for which the SOL
dier is not allowed to trade. Potatoes
is our currency most available with them
these are bought outside at $5 per
bushel, and exchanged for rings, pipes,
ink stands, watches, oa-cloths, and a
certain style of Yankee hat, which is
becoming very fashionable among us,
and which form part Of the "home re-
mittances. lis said, if you lock two
Yankees up in a room together, they
can make SIS piece swapping jackets
If so, they have an opportunity of
carrying on a thriving business-tun-
nelling, it was found, would not pay.
From the frequent whistling of the
cars near us, we opine that if the Yam
.kee cavalry expect to visit rs by way
tof Georgetown, they will find the way
"a hard one to travel and when an at
tack is made on Wilmington, that the
'snote Of preparation" has been already
sounded. But we do not look for any
fighting now, until after the Presiden-
tirl election, which comes off in Yankee
dom on Tuesday next. Unless a raid
may be gotten up, the enemy will hard
.ly risk a defeat, for fear of injuring the
scause.of Lincoln, though they can out
lie the Jews, when it suits their purpose,
which seems to be all the time. With
us, it matters little who is elected, for
in the success Of neither party can we
look for just expression of the Nor
thern sentiment. The ballot box and
the Jury box are made subservient to
the cartouch-box-might and not right
will control the polls; ifthe "Puritans'
will bow with humility to the new order
of things, well enough; if they have
spirit enough left to cut one another's 8
throats, "bully for them," say we.
The papers seem 'still harpmg on"
the Boyce letter. His sending a copy
of it to Holden, of North Carolina,
shows they are birds of a feather, and
we have often heard it said, that s'its
an ugly bird that dirties its own nest. =
Let the war be carried on with spirit,
our whole force put into the field, MIR,
Boyce, and his co-patriOts among them
arm the negroes, the women and the
children-sacrifce everything that we
have but our cause, which is eternal
separation from the Yankees.
casa Hartz" is trump card in Co.
lumbia, now, we see by the Guardian
! throw him our 9~. 4.
CASA HARTz. The friends of this &c.
NAL and jolly son of Mars, says the Colum-
bia South Carozinian, will Be pleased to
learn that for a while at least, he has let 60