Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-01-27
5TH REoIMENT STATE TROOPS.

of the present month, to return to head.
quarters at Branehville, it was not without
the expectation that the remaining compa-
MES of the 9Th Regiment would be assign
ed to other fields of duty, but it seems ours
(B) was the chosen company to relieve one
which has been guarding this post since
the 10th of July last their six, months
term Of service has consequently expired.
They are the. only company which was Or
ganized in the 3rd Regiment, and, strange
to say, have with them Colonel Carew and
a full staff. The Adjutant General, in his
report to the Legislature, at the late session,
stated that the 3rd Regiment had failed to
organize, as a sufficient number of votes
had not been polledto warrantthe commits
sion of Regimental, or even company off,
GERS, and in reply to a resolution of Capt.
Lowry, asking why the Srd Regiment was
not organized, the Governor referred to the
Adjutant Generals report, for all the infor-
nation. How the pay of the Colonel and
staff is to be arranged, is question for
Quartermasters, but Col. Rhett, comman-
dant of the District, seems to have ignored
them, from all accounts, but we find scarce
t,oenty soldiers here, while the staff is COM
plete every day, after business hours in
Charleston, special train running to and
from Charleston at 7 in the morning and
returning at 4 F. m. The men are mostly
substitutes, some of them foreigners, who
do not seem to like to be relieved by s'crack-
ers" from the up.country; who, while vii
ling to do their duty to the State, are prop
erly jealous of their rights, and chagrined
to find the State humbugged as we'll as
Summerville is an important
point, but at present it is a safe one, and
yet the Charlestonians, cannot afford to
waste their precious time in duty there
This Confederate money, so worthless as it
is represented to be, is easily obtained it
would seem in some quarters, or at least
wantonly expended.
We left the companies at Branchyille in
good health, and learn that they are afford
ID a new exercise, which substitutes the
IKE for the frelock--we hope their works
will praise them. The measles, with some
few cases of pneumonia has got among our
friends at. Four Holes, while the other de-
.achments are getting along very we'll. Our.
situation is a beautiful one, on the railroad,
% miles from Charleston, and one and
half from the beautiful village Of Summer
Vile, which reminds US much of Greenyille,
from its spacious lots and forest trees, but
We see no shrlbbery, no flower pots, or gar
len spots-thcse have been ignored, as veg
,tation is supposed to cause malaria but
here are many pretty women around, and
% their credit be it said, they are not en-
numbered with the butterfly -beaux that in
est most villages in the State-we presume
hey have noble. hearted fathers, husbands
md brothers in the field, and that their
houghts and duties are lent toward their
,omfort and welfare, while the hands that
lave been fashioned in tender schools, are
low plying the distaff. God bless all such,
Jay we others, more giddy, who may still
lutter in the tide of pleasure, will soon e.
nough realize the bitterness Of the cup they
have chosen
The cars arc very irregular in their trips
Of late, but no accidents have occurred to
Your, stay.at.home readers
would be astonished to see the travel on the
,ars-up or down, night or day, they are
always crowded, and the "ladies car" has
got to be an " institution" anything being
good enough for the oriuete soldier. Ne
,rocs are no longer Indispensable to railroad
runniDg-the brakes are now put inside the
cars, and "nice young men" are found
plenty as, blackberries to tend them when
The whistle blows. This may be considered
derogatory to broadcloth, but cloak covers
that, and the degrading position covers
more, an exemption from military service.
In fact the Enrolling officer should have
seat in the cars, and if the law will only
him to conscript all between the
ages of IS and 40 who are employed as
conductors, baggage-masters, brakes.men,
fremen, post Office clerks, provost guards,
tithe collectors, commissary sub-agents, &C.,
Congress may open doors, and leave the
conscription and exemption bills on the ia
Bile for another three years. This thing is
and the roads are breaking
dom, under the weight of the evil. Smoke
out the rats B.!