Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-03-25

Snnday. Great apprehension was felt fol
1.-The fruit, but the general impression is,
tnow, that the peaches are but slightly, il
injured at all. We have had q wet but
warm spell since.
Quite raise of whiskey was made out
4 of Yankee coaoh-shop, in Columbia, last
week, held at s2l per gallon. The papers
are still on the subject.
His Excellency, Gov. Bonham, urges
meetings of the citizens at the different
Court Houses, to promote concert of action
in raising provisions, on the first Monday
of April next.
"A bill for the condemnation to public
use of all cotton within the Confederate
States, providing for the payment thereof
and for other purposes, is on the calendar
of the Confederate Senate.
One hundred shares in the Magnetic
Iron Company of South Carolina-(pai
value $780, brought sl05 at a recent stock
sale 10 Charleston. The Company was
chartered at the last session of the Legisla.
ture, and is carried on at the old Cherokee
Iron Works, on Broad River.
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Col. SAanks, of the 9th Kentucky
Cavalry, W. S. A., 1--WE forget how to write
the ., but the printer can fix that has re.
signed his commission. Prehaps he will
"ride Shank's mare," after this; we borrow.
ed it once in old Link.horn; and if our
friend, the Captain, in Lancaster, gets home
shortly, We hope he wont abuse the poor
hannimal.
- He was great fellow, among the Re.
serves, at Columbia, the "wagoner" was
he would like to, know, if the stappointed
officers and their stavcs" would be received
by Capt. Thomas, as company for short
crack at Charleston, and "aOiN they go %
So the "wagoner" would.
Lander, of the Salisbury District, in N.
Carolina, stands boldly forth, with Gov.
Vance, as evidence how sibrethren should
dwell together in unity" in a common cause.
It is pleasant to see this, but the partizan.
ism of the press is not to our taste, nor do
we presume it wg intended to be. Theirs
/ is no Standard for our Journal Forbear,
friends, forbear!
We learn that Caleb Bridges, of Cleye.
land County, N. c., was drowned about a
week since near Burnsville. He and his
horse and buggy were all found in the river
at the same time.
The original manuscript of Gray's Ele-
~, consisting of two small half sheets, writ.
ten over closely and much mutilated, sold
at auction id London recently for one hun.
dred pounds sterling.
According to our latest advices from
New York, Confederate Notes were within
ten per cent. of Greenbacks, and Green.
backs we're exhibiting ia wonderful alacri'
ty in sinking"
1t ia proposed in Massachusetts to pass
statute of limitation against the early mar.
riages of army widows Several who have
gone off in new bonds of wedlock are per.
picked By hearing that their patriot hus.
bands "still live"
The Tammany Hall Democracy lave
invited the members of the Frankfort Con-
| yentiou to meet in New York, and hold
their Convention there, pledging protection
to the Convention during its deliberations.
- Our national independence rests with
the farmer and soldier. A few more bul.
lets scattered in the face of the enemy, and
o little more corn scattered over the face oi
the country, and we are safe.
The Mississippian of the 18th inst,
publishes the fact that only one gun was in
jured on board the boat, and that the lndl'
auola would soon be, if she is not now,
ready for action. Such is the fact.
"A Charleston letter in the London
Times says: "To assert that Charleston, in
its present attitude, is impregnable, would
obviously be luiicrous fal;acy but it il
nevertheless true that it could not be taken
without an enormous force, attacking sim.
ultaneously by sea and. land; that the at
tack, even in that case, would have to be
connected with desperate valor before il
could be successful"
A relic of the past has come to light ii
Boston, illustrative Of the depreciation o.
continental currency. 1t is receipt taker
by Gov. John Hancock, in 1893, showing
that he paid sixty dollars for two packs o.
playing cards, to be used at party.
w. W. billiard has arrived at Rich
mond, by railroad, with machinery for ma