Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-11-28

number. of vessels were wrecked. One steamer
went down. with $4,000 900 worth of merchandise
and specie on board. The city of Havana also sus'
tanned some injury from this storm. yas.>,s
A later account SAYS: The terrible story of Tor.
tola-its being submerged, although part o1
it rises 1,620 feet above the ocean, and o good
part of it at that and the destruction by drown.
ing, &C., Of 10000 of it's inhabitants-turns out
as We anticipated, story almost entirely made up
Of exaggeration. The island shared with others o1
the West Indies in the destructive effects Of the
great Storm Some damage was done to property
and some few persons were drowned. A great
fire, however, which ragged during the storm, did
considerable damage The story has served to in
form the present generation that there is such Q
place as Tortola-a fact few were aware Of
Disturbance on Wadmalaw Island. . i
- The Charleston Mercuy, ofthe 25th instant
says ..t",' -" z0:'f.'. '@iH"a ''H''
Yesterday morning detachment of United
States troops left this city for Wadmalaw Island
TO- quell disturbance arising out of the recen!
election. 1t is said that the election itself passed
off quietly enough but that after it was over tbf
negroes took it into their heads that one of>Ehe
managers, by the name of Cutter, had persuaded
them to vote the wrong ticket, and they. ordered
him to leave, and then took possession OF the Is
land, and established an armed patrol. Informa
ton having been lodged at headquarters, the
troops were sent down rs above stated" a.,
The Presbyterian General Assembly.
"A correspondent of the Charleston Courier
writing from Nashville; on the 2lst instant, says
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church in. the United States met to-day in tht
First Presbyterian Church, and was opened by Of
able sermon from the last Moderator, Rev. DR.
Kerr, of Memphis. There are already: in atten
dance large number. Our State is represented
BY Rev. Messrs Dow, Mack, Boggs, White, Strat
ton, and Rev. DR.. Buist lministersl with ,severa
ruling elders. Rev DR.. Moore, of Richmond, wa!
elected Moderator, and Rev. Dr.. Doremas, tempo
rary clerk. The session promises to be one, o
great interest. a' .,:. 2 d.. aar.g. "a'.E -
Beecher on Lees Army. .'ss.- - -. =
49, Henry Ward Beecher says, in the concluding
chapter of his novel: '.-1. 80 "'T
s'He 1.-THE hero of the story had part in the last
grand battles stormed Lees lines, earned every
vantage, found Lee still firm, defiant, desperate
No one SO well knows the Incompatible skill ano
bravery of that now waning army Of Northern Vir
gnia as they who had for four years fought it, and
now, in the hour of its supreme disaster, were
grinding it to powder rather than forcing its sur
render !; and when at length cut off from its lines
of retreat by that lion of the field, whose
ramping cavalry lay crouched across his only path
his artillery gone his trains taken or destroyed his
ammunition expended, his chief officers slain OF
wounded, orcaptured hismen redueedto hand
full, overweared by nights without sleep, and days
taxed to the uttermost, Lees army yielded. Gen.
Cathcart and every other brave man, in their admi'
ration felt that the heroism of Lees army was the
only worthy measure of the perseverance and
bravery Of the Army Of the Potomac. In every
generous bosom rose the thought: These are not
of another nation, but our citizens their mistake
their evil cause belonged to the system unde!
which they were reared but their military skill and
heroic bravery belong to the nation, that will never
cease to mourn that such valor had not been ex'
pended in better cause, and that the iron per
must write: The utmost valor misdirected and
wasted" % a-..'e.t fd a saa T..