Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-10-19

| Dill hrp Ii out WILL anosneI AonS ou" q
musing letter in the Augusta Register, from
which we.make the following extract ~
We arrived in, Atlanta about. tho time
the. first big shells commenced SCATTERING
their unfelin contents, among the suburbs Of
that devoted sitty. Then come the big
paniks. Then shriked the map-eater.-
Then howled the wild hyena. among the
hills of Babylon. Allsorts Of people seem.
ed moyin in all'sorts of ways with an ,aksel-
lerated motion. They. gained on their shad-
| doWs as they leaned; forward onthe run, and
their legs grew longer at every step. With
me it was. the sekond ringing of the first
bell. I had sorter got used to the. thing,
and sot myself down to take. observations.
elbow many miles TO MlybrigbtF' said l.
But nary response came, for their legs was
as long as, light, and every Dustin shell was
an old witch on the road. Cars was the all
in all. Depots were the centre of space
Converging lines from every pint Of the
| compass made traks to the Offices Of railroad
superintendents. These functionaries very
prudently vamoused the ranchto avoid their
too numerous friends, leavin positive in
struotions to their subordinRtes.' The pas.
senger depot was thronged with anxious
seekers eftransporAtion. ''Won't:you let
these bozes go as baggage ssNo, mad
am, its impossible" Just thensomebody's
family trunk as big as inter buro. was
showed in, and the poor woman got despe-
rate. "All I've got amt as hevy as that"
said she ), "I'm a poor widow, and my hus.
band was killed in the army, I've got FIVE
children, and three of EN- cuttip teeth, and
my things have got to co.. 49,, 81
We took up her,,boxes and showed them
in. Another good woman asked very anx-
iousIy for the Macon train. Js'There it is
madam; said +. She shook her head
mournfully, and remarked, ssYou are mis-
taken, sur, don't you see the engine is
headed right up. the State, road, towards
the Yankees?"' / shant take any train with
the. engine at that end of it. No, sur,
that amt the Macon train" - .,
Everywhere was hurryin to and fro at a
lively tune. s"What's to day. niger 2"
said a. female darkey, with hoop skirt up:
on her arm. "Taint no day, honey, that
ever seed. Yistidy was Sunday, and I
reckon to day is Runday, from de way de
white folks is movin about. Yah! yah
amt feerd of Yankee myself; but dem slzzin
bum shell kill niger quicker den you can
lick yer tung out. Gwine to git away from
here-I is. ra.f ..... .-:..tsa....' a.. -, :.
Went into doctor shop, and found my
friend packing up his walls and pisens and
copaivy and sich like. Various existed in
dividuals come in and looked at q big map
on the wall, and pointed out the roads to
McQonough and Eatonton, and Jasper,
and soon their proposed lines of traVil was
easily and greasibly visible from the i'm:
preston of their perspiring fingers. An
old skeleton with but one leg was swiagin
from the ceilin, lookin like a,mournful en-
blem of the fate ofthe trubbled sitty. "Yer
gwine to leave him to stand guard, DOCTOR"
said I. "Spose T will, ,"vsaid he, sgot no
transportation for him." ssTake that screw
out of his SKULL" said. I, 'and give him q
crutch. May be he'd travel-all flesh is
movin, and 1 think the bones will catch the
contagion soon." A few doors further and
venerable auctioneer was surVeyin the
rushin. runnin crowd, and every now and
then he would raise his arm with seesaw
motion and exclaim goin--goiu-goin
gone! Who's the bidder2" "Old
daddy time," said I-'the'll git EN- all be-
fore longA =
The door of an old friends residence
swung open to my gaze, and walked in.
Various gentlemen of my akuaintance were
discussin the evidences of propriety over a
jug of departing spirits. ri believe I'll un.
pack" said one; stdingd if I'm afeerd of a
blue.tailed fly, Im'going to sit down and
be easy" "In-a horn," said 1. Just then
sizzin, singin, crazy she'll sung a short
meter hymn right over the house. "Jake,
has the dray come? ?" said he, bouncin to
his feet. ~Confound that dray-blame my
skin if I'll ever get .dray to move these
things-boys let's take another drink
After which another friend remarked,
"Boys, let's,all stay-durnd if it don't look
cowardly to run; boys, here's to-who shall
We drink to-? "Here's to'-"Casibianka.
Let me speak it for you, boys" said our
host. We spoke it a thousand times. He
mounted the seat of broken sofy, and
spreadin himself, deklamed:
s,rhc boy stood burning on the deck, : o.
| Whence all had fcdbut him."
sEThat's me-" said one. "It's me ex-
actly," said another. "I'm. Cabysianka
myself dog my cat, if don't be tho last
oao to leave this ship" Another shell
sized and busted a few yards of. "Boys,
let's take another drink and leave the town
dad rot the Yankees" Here's to
here's to-the-th s.last of he'Mokikans, y
said I. "Prezakly-them's 'em. Pm him
myself. "I'n the mast of the Lohikans;
burned if I'll leave these diggins as long
as" GAS: the State Road" said I, (Which
is now about four inches and half."-
"That's it," "that's SO, said my friends.
"Here's to the State Road and DR.. Brown
and Joe Philips, as long as four inches and
a half" ........ 4.
BY and by the shells fell as thick as Gov.