Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-09-13

sltlon and power. Ihe time 10 coming Wnen
you Northern men will be called upon to pay
for all the slaves whose liberty you fought for,
and you will be asked to pay all the construc-
tive damages by the war, to commerce and to
industry. If you refuse you will be treated
as rebels. In closing, he expressed the wish
that Northern men might have their eyes open
to the danger that impends, to the end that
the old flag which he had fought for, which
he loved and which he wanted to be wrapped
in when he died, might ever remain the sym
Dol of freedom and liberty. .............
Military Prizes. .@:
We learn from the Columbia Register
that the committee appointed to make ar
rangementsfor military prizes, to be coutended
for at the State fair in November, have decided
to restrict the list of contestants to South Car
olina companies. The committee have agreed
upon the following points:
1st. To offer prize of 5000 for the best
drilled infantry company in the State, and q
prize of 500 for the second best company !;
provided, that not less than three companies
contest for them.
I'd. A prize of 500 for cavalry, and one Of
the same amount for artillery; provided that
not less than two companies of each of those
arms of the service contend for them.
Sd. The minimum number of men allowed
to infantry and cavalry to be thirty-two, ex-
elusive of commissioned officers and sergeants /;
for artillery twenty-eight men, exclusive of
commissioned officers and sergeants, for
battery of four pieces.
4th. The drill of infantry and cavalry to
include the "school of the soldier" and. the
school of the company" in single rank; for
artillery to include the school of the Soldier
dismounted," excluding manual Of the So
bre" and manual of the pistol" The drill
in all arms of the service to be according to
.Upton's tactics. a.saa, ,.s B. .r.
5th. Each company to be drilled by its own
officers in such movements aud such portion
of the manual as the judges may direct.
9Th. The judges to be selected from persons
familiar with Upton's tactics. a>j
7th. The artillery drill to be restricted to
such movements as can be performed without
horses. All companies of this arm desiring
to do 20 can use the battery of four pieces be-
longing to the Columbia Flying Artillery,
thus saving expense of transporting their own
guns. 1e..g L.. "r
9th. All prizes to be in money.
A Lynching in Kentucky. na II2a hn
"A Cincinnati dispatch of the 4th instant
gives the following account Of the lynching
of four men in Henry county, Kentucky:
Henry county, Kentucky, is in state of
great excitement over the lynching Of four
men who were confined in the jail at New
Castle. For seven years the counties Of Owen
and Henry, situated in the southeastern part
of the State, have been terrorized by a gang
of banditti who have shot, burned and stolen
almost without fear of law. The roads in
much of the region are narrow, rocky bride
paths that run along the sides of the noun.
tain streams. Travel is almost entirely on
horseback or on foot, and the familiarity Of
the outlaws with every turn of the roads and
dark corners in the thickets enabled them
to put travellers out of the way with very lit
tie inconvenience, and without fear of detec.
ton. During the war many of their murders
were charged to rebel soldiers, and at one
time General Burbridge caused a number to
be shot in retaliation. A few weeks ago one
of the band, named Shuck, vas hung at Ow-
enton. He protested to the last to his in.
nocence, and made statement duplicating
several of his comrades. Soon after another Of
the gang named Carter, made full confession,
and on the strength of this four men were
arrested and lodged in New Castle Jail.
Three of them we're brothers named Good.
rich the other was James Simmons. At
half mast ono n,nln4.l.- in aarains -nanh.
numbering fifty men, surrounded the Jail. took
the four men out of their cells, hurried them a
short distance from the building and hung
them in ghastly row. The victims, before
the hanging, confessed to the murders and 9th.
er depredatons with which they were charged.
Nobody seemed to know whence the lynchers
came or whittier they went. The officers
we're powerless to offer resistance, and the
people, if they know anything, are afraid to
give information. The bodies were taken
down and an inquest held, but no further
facts were developed.