Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-08-19
are fast returning to Demopolis, b. every
train. The Yaskees are being considerably

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papers of the North as the military will
be called to enforce it, we, may look for
something in that quarter, though subn''s-
sion will be the result. =.
The Legislature of Alabama was called
to meet in extra session, at Montgomery,
on Monday last. 49,. .
| The Baltimore Gazette thinks ifthe
capture of Charleston is dependent on the
success of land operations, it is at least
matter of doubt, unless Gilmore is largely
reinforced. tt thinks siege slow and
ephausting process. So do we. '..
YIN. johnson, has been elected Presi.
dent, Jas G. Gibbes, Chief Engineer, and
Henry Moore, Secretary and Treasurer of
the Columbia and Hamburg Rail Road
Company, at the late meeting of Directors
in Columbia.
The Light House on Smiths Island,
in the Chesapeake Bay, was nearly destroy
ed by-a party of Confederates. They
brought off all the lamps and about three
hundred gallons of OIL The feat was ac-
complished by only ten men, armed with
revolvers.
Two blockade runners from Richmond
were murdered by two others near the Mary
land line few days since. An exchange
halls this as an indication of better times;
when the smugglers 90 to killing each 9TH
er, we may hope the craft will become ex
tibct.
- Col. Thornton, of Missouri, has just
arrived from Arkansas. He;pronounces the
story of Gen. Prices resignation untrue
Gen. Price was on White River, in COM
mand of his division. Prospects in the
Trans. Mississippi department are very en-
encouraging, and no doubts are felt of his
ability to whip the Yankees at any time
Provisions are in abundance, and at low
prices.
- The extensive and elegant Methodist
Female College, at Greensboro, N. c., was
destroyed by fire on Saturday night last -
One hundred and seventy FIVE girls we're in
the bulldog, but all escaped uuiujured.
- Gen. Scott, General Mcdowell, Gener-
al Mcclellan, General Pope, General Nc.
Clellan, (again) General Burusides, Gen.
Hooker, General Meade, and who next,
have all been commanders of the "greatest
army under the, planet" since theswar COM
menced, that was to be ended in 6smontbss
.-:Major ,opdyke, ofNew York, having
vetoed an ordinance to pay the commuta-
ton of conscripts at $500 per head by the
City Council presume, he has no idea of
the eDntch. taking Holland, without 9th.
er assistance r "@ ~ . -
One of the returned Vicksburg prison
ers says that the negroes. die in Vicksburg
aud lie unburied for several days, unless the
citizens bury them. At Youpg's Point they
are kept in pens, and die from three to five
hundred per day.
The lighting of Paris by electricity, it
is stated, is to be entrusted to NJ. j. Van
Malderau, who has invented an electric
light, one jet of which is equal to 2.240
jets of gas. ....... |
- Parsou Brownlow, on testimony of a
surgeon recently returned from Richmond,
states that Gov. Aiken, of South Carolina,
is prisoner in the Libby prison, his crime
being persistent fidelity to the Union. The
surgeon states that he was confined in the
same room with Governor Aiken, and had
many conversations with him..
The New York Herald publishes a list
of the members of Congress elected, show
iug majority of six adverse to the Admin
istration, and says the consequence is the
opposition win select the Speaker, and the
committees appointed by him will invcsti-
gate the conduct of the Administration
since its accession to o.ofice on all questions
relative to the war. The Herald says
majority favor its vigorous prosecution for
the suppression Of the rebellion. D..
- A large accession was made to the ne
gro regiment in process of organization in
Washington on the Goth ultimo. The ne.
gro soldiers bad invited their male acquain-
tances to a sort Of picnic at their camp, at
Auacostia Island. When the time for
breaking up came, the females were sent
home, but the males were positively detain-
ed as recruits.
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