Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-05-06

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[ Washington correspondence of the Her
AID says intelligence from England leads to
the belief that the departure Of privateera
from British ports will be- arrested by the
British Government.
Capt A. s. Baker, Confederate off.
Ger sent to bring ont an iron.clad from
England, has been sent to Fort Lafayette.
This is not the Capt. Tom Baker, Of the
Savannah.
Over Sc, 900, 900 have been paid at the
Bank of the State at Columbia for Confede.
rate Bonds.
An order received at Nashville says
the entire population, ladies included, shall
take the oath within ten days, or be sent
South.
-Wartrace is station on the Nashville
and Chattanooga Rail Road, and the juno
tion of the branch to Shelbyville. 1t is
distant from Chattanooga ninety-six miles,
and from Murfreesboro' twenty.three miles.
= The editor of a Georgia paper acknow-
lodges the receipt of "a bottle of we'll tas-
ted rumof Coufedarate manufacture. It is
rarely thai liquor Of any kind fails to be
well tasted in a printing Office.
-Messrs. Keatinge & Ball, Of Columbia,
have purchased the City Hotel property,
and design to remove into it their Bank
Note, Engraving and Printing Establish.
ment.
The Captain of General Rosecrans'
body guard has deserted and gone home.
The Legislature of New York has ap-
propriated one million of dollars for the
harbor defences in New York city.
Ben Wood is about to start his paper
the Daily News-again. 1t was suspended
last year in consequence Of its exclusion
from the mails. =,
+ The New York Herald says that Lord
Lyons will leave Washington and take up
his abode at the Brevoort House. "Rats
will leave falling house,.
Captain RI. Crawford, Of Lancaster,
s. c., was killed on Monday, the 20th ul-
timo, near Suffolk, Virginia, by shell
from the.enemy's guns, while in the act of
relieving picket guard.
= One thousand four hundred and ninety
six bales of Cotton arrived from Liverpool(O
at Boston on Friday night last, and on the
same day 1920 bales arrived from the same
port at New York,
- Contracts for twelve more iron clads
have been awarded at prices ranging from
s3s0,OOo to 100000 each. They are to
be finished in six months. The Yankees
will.need them by that time.
- The druggists and apothecaries of the
Confederate States, the pillars Of practical
medicine, as they have been called-will
meet in Convention in Augusta, Georgia,
on the 9Th Of May.
The Committee of Safety in Mobile
have resolved to publish the names Of all
persons who refuse to accept Confederate
money in payment of debts or obligations.
A beautiful and ingeniously made pair
of spurs has recently been presented to his
Excellency the President, by DR.. b. Il.
Richardson, of Ca, through the Hon. Au.
gustus R. Wright.
- The London Times was very bitter on
the letter Of Adams to Admiral Dupont,
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exempting certain ships for Mexico from
England carrying supplies of arms for Mexi-
cans.
- The Daily NeDs says there can be no
doubt that irritation between England and
the United States is gradually increasing.
- Edward VII, will be the name, title,
and style Of the Prince of Wales, when he
ascends the British throne.
We learn that duel was fought in
Charleston, on Saturday last, between Lieut..
Bellinger and Lieut. Rice, both of Lamar's
Regiment