Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-03-04
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

OF which to give. Plant corn.
EDITORIAL ITEMS.
Tomorrow Thursday has been set a.
part by Governor Bonham, as q day Of
Thanksgiving, Humiliation and Prayer" /"
! the which, we trust will be fully observed
by our citizens, as both becoming and
proper at this time, when tsthe evil eye" is
upon US, and the vandaIs threatening at
our very doors. X
y Brig. Gen. NJ. jenkins, was at home
with us, on visit to his family, this week,
but has returned to his Brigade.
- Tie Charleston papers are urging, it
would seem with little success, the volunta-
~ removal of non.combatants, with their
families, though an attack is becoming daily
more imminent.
Brig. Gen. N. G.. Evans was in Co.
lumbia last week.
= The next is the regular week for the
Spring Term of our Court of Pleas and
Sessions. The Judge will be here, a Jury
dismissed and one drawn; and probably
little else transpire.
Our friend Yeadon, Of the Courier,
lost his military hat not long since, but a
lady of Pendleton has supplied him with
an ssingepiously knit or hooklca hat" of
her own manufacture, and another with a
fue pair of WOODEN gloves. We know he
always deserves the aoaru,est regards of the
ladies of our State, and feel proud he re-.
,ceives them.
-"All quiet along the Potomac" is pres
umed, as. we have had the pleasure of meet
ing many of our Virginia friends at home,
the past few days, on short furloughs.
Gen. Wade Hampton and Staff, and
General Mansfield Lowell, OF New Orleans
fame, were in Columbia last week-the
first on short visit to friends, the latter
s'waiting for orders" which we hope will be
to leave this department.
- Four shares of the GraniteYille Manu-
featuring Company, the par value Of which
is $500, sold at auction 10 Charleston, on
Thursday last, at $3.50 each:
Gov, Brown, of Georgia, has ordered
the militia into service.
There has been beginning, but no end,
to the squaring of circle, that has been
going the rounds of the Charleston papers.
= March has apparently wound up the
wet spell that was upon US. We may now
look out for prosperous gales, which may
enable our horse. marines to "steal la march"
on the Yankee guuboats
1T is really astonishing the number of
shoemakers, "skilled in tbe art" that the
Conscription has brought "to the fore" in
York District. Lynn, Mass, is hardly a
circumstance.
The Charleston Aercasy is unable to
increase its dimensions, as it cannot OBJ.
tain paper at the present time, though ma
king every effort.
President Davis has appointed the 9th
instant, as day of Fasting, Humiliation
and Prayer throughout the Confederacy,
inviting all 'to repair on that day to their
usual places of public worship and Join in
prayer to Almighty God that He will con-
tinue His merciful protection over our
cause, scatter our enemies, and set at naught
their evil designs, and that He will gra-
ciously restore to our beloved country the
blessings of peace and security"
- Cotton goods are coming from China.
The N. Y. Times thinks if prices Of do
mestics keep up, all New York will wear
Nankin next summer.
Our readers should put no faith in the
many peace propositions going the rounds,
until after the attack on Charleston, or
there is fight in Virginia. If the Yam.
KEGS should even partially succeed, they will
soon see "which way the cat jumps
- The latest advices from Port Royal
state that tho Yankee feet now there num-
bers one hundred and twenty three vessels,
including three frigates, twenty gunboats,
and the rest chiefly transports.
- The London Times says it is reported
that certain parties in Paris had offered a
loan to the Confederate Government Of five
million sterling, on basis of cotton at FIVE
pence per pound, with the option Of ex-
changing for Confederate bonds at seventy,
bearing eight per cent. interest, and that
the offer had been accepted.
e. NJ. Trip, of Milledgeville, Ca,
writes to the Courier stating that he has a
card.making machine which will be ready
for service in two weeks from the 9th of