Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1862-11-19

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Mr.. W. M. Mittag, who was tried a
Charlotte, N. G. last week, for the mur
der of Crumpston, some time since, ha'
been acquitted, the jury rendering {
verdict of s'not guilty
The Presidents Of the Railroads ii
our State have generously consented tt
give free transportation to all supplies
from District Associations and individ
uals to Columbia. ~. -
The Hon. H. S. Foot and, family are
domiciled in Chesterville, S. G.
Col. Robert Beatty, Senator from
Union District, has sold a large quaint:
ty of -four to needy soldiers families al
the low price Of $3.50, and he now pro-
proposes to give them FIVE hundred
bushels of corn.
The traitor or deserter who leaves us
and joins the enemy does no injury in
comparison with the false friend al
home who depreciates our currency.
The Yankees propose to put the cap
tured or stolen negroes Of the Confeder'
acy toJwork in the coal mines, as labor
is scarceS' The poor negroes who fall
into: the hands of the Yankees will be
certain to see hard times. -
The Supreme Court Of Georgia, unani'
mousIy decided the Conscription Law
of the Confederate States to be constl.
tutional. jenkins, J. delivered the opin.
lion of the Court. The case was one
brought up from the Ocmulgee Circuit,
General Howell Cobb has been: as.
signed to the command of the new de-
partment bounded by the Suwanee and
Chattahoochee rivers, in Florida, and
embracing Southwestern Georgia.
Eighteen negroes, employed as butch
ers in the Savannah market, have sub.
scribed the sum of ninety dollars for the
relief of the soldiers in Virginia.
Gen. Mike Corcoran's Legion sailed
from New York for Fortress Monroe
on Thursday last.
Within year past the Principal Bank
of Cape Fear, at Wilmington, has lost
by death it's President, Cashier, and
five of it's ten Directors. Two of the
latter died of yellow fever.
The Mobile Register says it is re.
ported that Gen. Ledbetter has resign.
ed his position in the army.
Communication by electric telegraph
has taken place between London and
Turin, in Siberia, a distance of. 4,03e
miles. 1t is anticipated that an exten.
sion of the wires will be made to Nokol'
aievski, on the Pacific, by the end oi
this year, and that the telegraphic com.
munication with New York, by way Of
Siberia and California, will be estab'
lished by the end of the next year.
All Confederate Officers and Mer
who have been captured and paroled il
Virginia Or Maryland, at any time from
the beginning of hostilitles to the lst O.
November, 1862, have been duly ex
changed.
A patriotic citizen was recently ar
rested in the town of Holly Springs
; Mississippi, for selling whiskey to {
soldier at forty dollars gallon whic]
had cost him ninety cents. He hat
sold to the amount of seventeen hun
dred and fifty dollars, when the rest 0
the liquor-some two or three barrels
was seized and turned over to the Medi
cal Department.
1t is stated that the Yankees hav
= determined to break up the insane asy
t lum at Williamsburg, send the poore
patients North, and quarter those VIII
: are able to pay their board upon tn
:, surrounding inhabitants.
= The Orange and Alexandria IVA
e Railroad received $527,000 over il
expenditures the past year.
: Brigadier Gideon j. Pillow is no
It in Middle Tennessee raising comman
: for himself.
j. Three new cases of yellow fever o.
l. Cured in Wilmington on Tuesday, al;
v three deaths. The Journal is not wit
'e out apprehension of fresh outbreak
the disease, with severe mortality, col
: sequent upon the sudden return of
a many persons to town.
,r The communication of the Frent
Minister to the Yankee Government