05 Jun 1861
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Newspaper
Yorkville Enquirer
Location
York, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1861
Page
1
The Yorkville Enquirer features a Romantic sonnet titled To a Lady on a Fading Rose, paired with a lengthy wartime meditation urging volunteers from York District to honor duty, piety, and courage. It extols biblical heroes, Civil War leaders, and Christian soldier virtues, and closes with a long recounting of patriotic exhortations and a tale of Old Charley arriving at camp.
Charley Benja, the first and last fifer for the Macon Volunteers, was introduced to visiting ladies with emotion in his voice and mind. His fife burst into stirring strains as a detachment across the river heard the call and joined the jubilee, promising the volunteers fight with renewed spirit.
A Second North Carolina Regiment halted at the Exchange Hotel to pay honors to Hon. Franklin J. Moses. Cantwell announced the salute to South Carolina and Moses, who spoke of shared Southern aims. Moses praised SC, its leaders, and Jeffersonian legacy, then urged unity with Maryland and Virginians, while denouncing Northern fictions. The scene featured cheers from troops and spectators.
Definitions from Bouvier's Law Dictionary explain contraband of war as commerce against state law, especially during war, including arms, ammunition, and naval stores. It discusses when provisions become contraband, noting state of manufacture and enemy inducement, and defines contraband as neutral vessels introducing or attempting to introduce goods for belligerents.
A Northern newspaper letter rebuts claims of universal Civil War blood ties across states from Massachusetts to Florida. It asserts no Massachusetts soldiers fought in the Carolinas, challenges Daniel Webster’s senate remark as fiction, and calls for historical proof from records while defending regional sacrifice.
The Charleston Mercury reports General Beauregard and staff leaving Charleston by the Northeastern Railroad, likely bound for Virginia, amid publication of a letter urging fierce resistance. It also outlines War Department dress rules for Confederate Army officers, detailing tunics, pantaloons, and staff insignia with badges and button designs.
A description contrasts two scenes of struggle. In one, violence is accepted as inevitable and lamentable. In the other, the situation is treated as a holiday, with a calm, festive tone overriding the conflict. The passage casts a wary, reflective mood on ongoing tensions.
The New Orleans Bee reports seven prizes captured or fitting out at port by privateering vessels Calhoun Music and W H Ivy, valuing around 170000 dollars. Prizes include the Milan from Liverpool with salt, Ocean Eagle from Rockland with lime, Ela from Tampico with bananas and oranges, Marathon from Marseilles with ballast, Abaline from Boston with ice, and Marshall from Havre with ballast. Confederate court cases seek condemnation and distribution of proceeds, with high seas defined to low water mark. Several local investors are said to profit, boosting privateering as a booming venture amid dwindling Union naval protection.
A Quebec Chronicle sketch describes a Saturday evening scene in Parliament with uproarious antics including whistling humming desk slams paper pellets and disruptively loud remarks about speakers appearance. It notes wigs pulled off jokes about language and doglike or kittenish sounds, all seen as undignified in the galleries.
A New York Sun correspondent recounts a Brooklyn clergyman raising funds for Col. Wilson's regiment of pickpockets on Staten Island. The reverend’s pocket vanishes during a church visit, prompting laughter as the colonel’s men are blamed for the loss. Also notes Lincoln's alleged alcohol use and slumbering amid opium and brandy treatment.
A Florida boy, son of John T. Davis, captured a large four and a half foot rattlesnake while gathering wood. He tamed the venomous serpent in about two hours, holding it by head and tail, and displaying its coil and rattles to startled locals at Marianna. The feat drew numerous witnesses.
A Richmond area note extols Major Tillman Watson of this district for volunteering to equip a large Captain M. W. Gray company, the Wat son Guards, with 90 to 100 men costing around 82500. The piece lauds Watson and his lineage, predicts hard service in the Confederate Army, and praises pay scales for officers and enlisted men. It also mentions lime for preserving shingles and cautions about accidental firearm discharges.
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