Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1862-10-22

do. 1 have tried it. You have yet
several days before frost to gather them
see to it! Tea is $12a pound-save
your money!
Our Richland friends may find them
selves much mistaken, if they get nc
other bees=wax, but ''per Simmons.
In Chicago, the packers and slaugh
terers have struck against the employ
ment of negroes in their trade. Ths
poor devils are coaxed away or stoler
for the freedom Of starving to death.
. John Van Buren says he has beer
dieting himself in expectancy of visit
to Fort Lafayette; he said in q late
speech, where be was backed by Capt
Rynders, and others :-s'They shoule
not lose their time in talking, and i
people did call them traitors, they must
not stop to talk, but just knock then
down and go to the polls. They hae
been told that the Southern people
would not live, and, in his Judgment
they ought not to live, under Abolition
sway, and he would not live with then
if they would" -.->
1t is said on the authority Of a lady
refugee, in Mississippi, that the Fede
rails in making their raids upon th'
plantations and carrying off the~entir'
force ofnegroes, often butcher the lit
tile children of the gangs, when quick
movement is deemed necessary, ant
these poor little victims are found to b
an encumbrance.l "
. Rev. Abraham Pryne, who made him
self notorious by public discussion
with blackguard Brownlow, on the sla
very question, in Philadelphia, few
years ago, committed suicide by cutting
his throat recently. ~
There are indications that the Yam
kees-who have never complied fully
and strictly with the cartel for exchange
will renounce 1t entirely as soon az
they get the prisoners now or lately il
our hands. ..
General Pemberton has superseded
Van Dorm in command, in the West.
until such time as the condition of Gen
Jos. Johnson's wound will permit hin
to take the position, at the request Of
prominent citizens of Holly Springs,
.sThe 290 has destroyed ten Ameri'
can whalers off the Western Islands.
It had better be whalsa,a the Yankees
nearer home. ...... 80. -... . 2
Congress has passed a bill to detail
1900 shoemakers from the army and
put them to work making shoes. Sol
diers detailed to receive pay for extra
duty, and thirty-tive cents per pair for
shoes, in addition to their regular pay
and rations: :. .-...s., ...
The Deep River region Of North Car,
olina is now furnishing large numbers
of grind stones, an Indispensable arti'
Gle. Some of them measure more than
six feet in diameter. The Fayetteville
Arsenal is supplied from that quarter,
when probably it could get them from
no other place. .-..
A great deal Of feeling has been eau
scd in the North by the dismissal Of
Major Key "a brother Of Col. Key, Of
Gen. McClellan's stsff,) from his posi-
ton on General Halleck's staff. The
reasons are said to be purely political,
and for expressions inadvertently made
by Major Key, in regard to slavery and
the war. .., .-....-... .-..-...-..
The Charleston Courier learns from
a letter received from Georgetown, un-
der date of the 18th instant, that the
Yankee gunboats have destroyed the
battery that was in process of construc-
ton at Migrants plantation, about six
miles from the town, and had also DIES.
troyed Mr.. Migrants residence.
The Northern papers say that Gen.
Lee has caused the horse and accoutre-
mems belonging to Gen. Kearney to
be sent safely within the Federal lines.
THIS is in striking contrast with the
conduct of the Yankees, and very I'M
proper.
Por the Yorkvile Enquirer.
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