Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-07-29
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

- line hlnS mountain ttall h0aQ ras'
senger train, as well as those on the Green,
vile, Union and Spartanburg roads will
run on Sundays "until further notice"
- Major Thonas' battalion, which ten
dered its services 'sfor the fight of Charles
ton" being no longer requisite, has been
disbauded, aud returned to Columbia Fri.
day last.
: Col. John S. Preston having been re-
leased from duty as Commandant of Con.
scripts for South Carolina, and Command.
ant at the Post at Columbia, oil matter in.
tended for those Offices should be addressed
to Major C. n. Melton, Acting command.
ant Is: -.
General Wade; Hampton, reached his
home Ein Columbia, on Friday last-his
wounds have proven severe and painful,
but it is trusted the danger of them has
passed of.
The Carolinian says that the Yankee
officers admit q loss at james and Morris
islands, since their recent arrival, Of 8 800
in killed and wounded.
= Messrs. Feaster and Chisolm are ma
king arrangements to establish broom fac
tory on an, extensive scale, at Shelton De.
pot, on the Spartanburg aud Union Rail-
road. We learn that the establishment is
to be carried on exclusively by the blind,
(the proprietors themselves being blind
men
- The New York Herald reports the cas-
ualties in the "Raging Riot" as follows =
$50 negroes killed and wounded the names
of thirty two policemen are given as killed
and wounded. The names of thirty six
men, women and children, killed or wound
ed, are also published, and the list is not
complete, nor was the riot ended at the
time the list was made out.
- The Nassau Guardian, of the 18th,
states that Capt. Semmea, of the Alabama,
arrived at St. Thomas, on the 25th ult.,
landed at the back of the island, crossed
with three of his officers, and went direct
on board of sixteen.guu ship-tbe Geor-
gia-and put out to sea before day light,
while Admiral Wilkes and two other Fed.
eral cruisers we're watching bis movements.
- We learn that in an hour and half af-
ter the books of the subscription to the Co.
lumbia and Hamburg Railroad were open
ed in Augusta, over sS0,000 was subscri-
bed, chiefly in small amounts: The sum
allotted toAugusta is 100000, and 7e
have Rasppbt twill be raised without diff.
Guilty. ,..
A Richmond correspondent of the
Chester Standard, says: aIt is rumored
here that Gen. Jenkins will shortly be COM
missioned q Major General by JEFF: Davis.
The soldiers regret this, not that they con-
slider him undeserviug of promotion, but
they dislike to part with him as their com.
mander. He is fine officer, and what is
better he is polite aud courteous gentle
man. He looks ont for the interest Of his
men, and the soldiers love him dearly"
- Is the man who lodges enrolment
much better than he who eurolls his name,
takes certificate of the fact, and never ap-
pears at the quarters or roll call for duty ?
Let such be looked up and after.
- The Courier very pertinently inquiries
whether any steps have been taken under
the orders for placing invalid or wounded
soldiers and officers in places of bureau
duty or clerkships, where they can be at
efficient as those who are NOW exempted
from the field by such Offices? Cannot the
duties of enrolment, taxation, Office copy
ing, courts martial. police guard, hospit
tails, &C., be as we'll discharged BY man,
persons not Gt for the field as by Others! ,'
A riot occurred between the Irish ane
negroes at Buffalo, N. Y, on the 7th, il
which twelve negroes were badly beateI
and two drowned.
- Joseph Daniel Pope, Esq, was on th'
18th instant, elected State Senator from st
Helena Parish, to fill the unexpired tern
of Hon. Edmund Rhett. -
- The Florida has recently captured ant
burned the clipper ships Red Gauntlet
Southern Cross, and Benjamin Hoxle, sh'
the latter with half million of gold ant
silver aboard. The crews we're: sent 10 t
Bermuda.