Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1862-10-29

II lue5 duhetS Huu GHoy WILL mdAo pu'
little BY selling their Christmas trick
sleries in the South this year-peaee, OF
war. They have ''lost their mule =.
\ 4 EDITORIAL ITEMS. "a; !
We are grstlfed to learn that Sergt,
~. R. Mcknight, of Company B, 18th
, tRegiment, s. G. Y. has been promoted
to Second sLieutenancy in said Com.
tlpany, for gallant and merritorious cen
, duct in the late battle Of Manassas. x
! From two to three thousand gallons
Of liquor, principally apple and peach
brandy, have been shipped from York
tvile for Charleston, the last few days:
4 Is-it fer=such stores as these ourfriends
Of the Mercury are elamoring for ? The
prices here we're from 81 so to'$e per
gallon. ;::,ss7 ~, =. g..
i How is it thatso many stout, able
bodied men, principally foreigners, can
Ibe found specializing throughout our
District, while there are often officers
in their wake, hunting down our natiue
Conscripts : -rv,, =, ge;s g~.~. .,.s...-
| The Governor of North Carolina
having anticipated the regular term for
| the session Of his. Legislature, to look
after, che, :extortioners,; would it not
have been as well for ours to have done
fso, if not too late, to make provision for
. supply Of sate *. = - -. =
At . meeting of the Vestry Of the
Episcopal Church, at Grahamville, in
this. State, it was resolved, thatall the
carpets of this church be Immediately
taken up, made into blankets, and be
sent to our soldiers in Virginia. "%@T The
citizens, also, subscribed several hun
> o. -
Edred pounds of wool. A.. -. -
The yellow fever is still raging at
Wilmington, N c.. Notwithstanding
the change Of. weather which, il was
thought, would have had q better ef-, f,
feet. ~. ~, i
: : The ssClarendon Banner" boasts Of
the sobriety of bis village; the ''Dar- { !:
lington Souther11er" suggests that 'fhe
grapes are sour; J" and the former re-
torts on him as asshard SHE'LL Go it,
boys-we'l be "bottle holder" - while
there's drop in it. -. ,,,.:.. .'.
: At late accounts, Gen. Bragg had
gone to Richmond, and Gen. Polk was
in command during his absence.
! A British steamer bound for Charles
ton, ran aground lately, and was cap
tured by the :b1ockaders: The captain
and crew escaped with the mail bags,
papers, &c., but the cargo, an assorted
one, was much needed in the Confeder-
acy. We hope it was another cyan
kee-N Nassau" one. 50 80. -. :. -.
Adviees from Winchester to Tuesday,
the 21st, represent the armies Of the
North and South in statu quo that is,
watching each other anxiously from op-
posite banks of the Potomac - !
We learn that an order from General
Beauregard was read to the troops of
his department at dress parade, settingl
forth the. late proclamation of Lincoln,
and enjoining that in all future refer
ences to the troops ofthe United States,
they be styled the Abolition forces, and
not the Federal forces. = .
jeff. G.. Davis has received an order
from the War Department, releasing
him from the arrest under which he has
been confined since killing Nelson.
A few days ago Governor Morton, of
Indiana, made speech in Washington
city, in which he declared that if the
South succeeded in this rebellion, it
would be impossible to hold the remain
ing States together. The inference is
that in theevent supposed, thesouthwest
will exercise the right secession, and
separate herself from the remaining
fragments of the old Union, -,,>
Northern papers inform'us that Mas
sachusetts, according to the official re-
port just issued, is still nineteen thous-
and short of the quota of troops under a
late call of Lincoln, although fully half
of those recruited were for only nine
months. The cowardly scamps are
waiting to see if the negroes will not do
their fighting for them.
Maj. A. H. Cole, Quartermaster, is
announced as Inspector General of Field
Transportation for the Confederate s:
Army, headquarters at Richmond, Va.
A letter from our army in Kentucky
says, that some time ago, the enemy at
Nashville, had planned an attack in