Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-05-20


KY, men brought fraction over $500, and
women about hundred dollars less.
-Linooln's CONSUMPTION act does not ex-
empt preachers. The parsons are running
around the faithful to get them to subscribe
three hundred dollars to buy them off.
The tax bill was approved by the
President on the 24th April. The ad ga
loren, tax on merchants dates from that day
inclusive. The commissioner Of taxes has
not yet been appointed by the President.
Judge Kinney has been removed from
Utah, upon suspicion Of being in partner
ship with Brigham Young.
The trial by court martial Of Vallan-
digham has been suppressed. NSearticu'
lars.
The Democrats or "copper.heads" up
North, call the Abolitionists "black snakes"
- The Washington Chronicle learns that
Vallandigham has been sentenced to Tor.
tugas, off the coast of Florida, for two years.
The minority of the court favor sentencing
him South until the end of the war. The
Herald says the report is premature, that if
the proposed sentence is carried out VaIlan-
digham will be sure to be elected Governor
of Ohio. .,..
"A call for mass State Convention for
a peace movement is published. The meet
ing to be held in New York city on the
Sd of June. The address says: s'We are
now for vigorous prosecution of peace,
and whilst We will submit to no terms not
justified BY every principle Of honor, we will
60 far'in support of conciliation in order
to restore the Union" ..
The reported defeat of Banks BY Kirby
Smith last week, as also the report OF
Hooker's recrossing the Rappahannock,
turns out to be untrue. Banks has been
much harassed, and Hooker is quietly en-
trenching, SO far.
- General Forrest, the Atlanta papers
suy, is again in the saddle in another chase
after the Yankees. 1t is said that be has
mounted the 5th Georgia and other rein.
forcemeuts on the captured horses, and
gone towards Talladega in pursuit of anoth'
er raid. ...-.. ~. ..,.
A special despatch to the New York
Hearh1, Of the Goth ult, says the English
Government had ordered the steam reserve
feet, consisting Of three hundred vessels,
to be made ready for sea, in view of COM
plications with England.
- The great struggle near fredericksburg
consisted Of three heavy battles; the first
at Wilderness Church, on Saturday, May
2; the second at Charlottesville, on Sun
day, May Sd, and the third near Fredericks-
burg, on Monday, May 4th. The first two
were under Hooker in person ; the third
under Sedwick, who, with heavy column,
was operating for the relief of his chief.
The Federals have been engaged and.
driven from Tupelo, by the State and Con-
federate forces under Gen. Gholson and
Colonel Barteau, and the place is held BY
our troops. We hope the punishment In
aicted upon the enemy has been severe e.
nough to entirely check the advance ofthe
forces reported to be moving South from
Coriuth. ..
Mrs. Thomas Gibson, of Warren coun.
ty, Georgia, has made and is making good
sewing silk. She has 10000 worms, and
expects to produce 500 skeins Of silk.
The military court to investigate the
matters relating to the fall Of New Orleans,
met in Charleston, on the 18th, to secure
the testimony of officers Of this department
who could not leave their posts of duty
AS soon as this is obtained the court will
adjourn to Richmond. The court consists
of General Hindman, President; Generals
Drayton and Gardner, and Major Page,
Judge Advocate.
A correspondent of the Boston AdVer-
tiser, in an article upon the urgency of de.
fences for Boston harbor, says he has rea'
son to know that sea attack on Boston is
deemed probable event by officers who
have served in the South and the West.
The Federal Government has agents in
Great Britain endeavoring to purchase the
vessels which are being constructed for "the
Emperor Of China"
"A man named J. T. Johnson has been
lodged in Castle Thunder, Richmond, for
plotting the Yankees in their recent raid
around that city.
Gen. Beauregard has published an or
der requiring that no letters snail be car
ried out or brought into Charleston without