Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-04-22
EpIToRIAL ITEMs.

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TEMPERANCE was to meet in Columbis, to-
day, at 10 o'clock.
: The Georgia Legislature adjourned on
the 18th instant, after passing bill organ
izing State Guard of the military, inclu-
ding all between 1S and go, not subject to
conscription, and abrogating the commits
sions of militia officers.
= Gen. Pryor has been nominated as q
candidate for the House of Delegates, in
Virginia. He accepts, as this will not in-
terfere with his military duties.
The famous Gen. Coreoran was re-
ported killed few days since. 1t seems he
shot the Lieut.. Colonel of Hawkins Zoua-
YES, who had just come up as reinforce.
ments, and who refused to let him pass the
lines without the countersign.
- The Yankees are considerably cut down
by their reverses at Charleston--and say
that an attack on that place has been given
up until "great Union successes in other
quartersp will give them leisure. Our
people will not be thrown off their guard
by any such declarations.
- The cowardly enemy with whom We
have been coutending at such odds, are now
skulking under new General, who they
hope will prove more formidable than any
they have yet had in the feld-GeneraI
Starvation. We feel satisfied he will a.
gain prove mistaken, for there is no scarcity
of breadstuffs in the Confederacy, and if
we Judge from certain actions now mani
tested in this and other quarters, there will
be DO lack of patriotism to make them et-
fective
- The first N. G. Hospital, at Petersburg,
Virginia, was burned down on the 18th
instant, with 2S6 beds and other furniture.
1t was not occupied at the time. A negro
named Morgan, who had been stealing
clothing of deceased soldiers, has been ar.
rested as the incendiary.
The Legislature have restricted the
planters to one acre of cotton to the hand
and ordained that there shall be one
general Distillery in Columbia, and all 9TH
er "stills" must stop tnstanter
The Memphis Bulletin and Argus have
been suppressed for publishing the Cincin-
natl Commercials censure of Gen. Grant.
It said that Grant is entirely unequal to
the vast responsibilities Of his position
TIE thing wanted in the West is concen.
tration of the armies under competent
leader.
On the 18th ultimo, the steamship
Brooklyn threw three shells at Fort Scurry,
but didn't hit it. Galveston is considered
very strong, and unlimited confidence was
felt in it.
- From all sections of the District, says
the Chester Standard, we have the most
cheering reports of the growing wheat crop.
The crop is unusually large and promises
the most abundant yield. .-.
Strong hoarhound tea, we'll boiled and
drank freely, will cure the most obstinate
case of chills on record. 1t is easily obtain
ed, and the remedy should be known.
- Sir Frowell Buxton, son of the orig
giuator of English emancipation, has writ
ten to the London Times, disapproviug, as
barbarous, Lincon's Emancipation Procla,
nation.
"A traveller on a New Hampshire rail-
road speaks of finding 'sison.clad" dough
nuts at one station.
An Augusta (Ga.) contemporary states,
on the authority of a gentleman just return
ed from the upper part of North Carolina,
that ten-penny nails are passing current
there at FIVE cents each. We have no such
metallic basis for our currency here. Ou'
circulating mediums are grains OF corr
representing five cents, and guilds Of tobac
co representing the decimal.
- Sergeant Huger Mlckler, of the Beau
fort District Troop, champion Legion Cav
airy who has been with his brother, Ser
geant William Mickler, and chosen band
on detached service, harassing the enemy
outposts in Virginia for a year past, wal
killed in action on the I'd inst.
The following is list of the rebel trooI