Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-03-18

lin Vienna, bequeathed fifteen thousand
forms to the Jewish poor in that city, and
the same sum to the Catholic poor, and
ten thousand forms to the Protestant con.
gregation. Miss Egdor was member Of
the Jewish faith.
1t, is stated that the citizens Of Balti
/ more having refused to give employment to
the refugee negroes, they are kept in camp
at Bladensburg, where they are dying al
the rate of twenty or thirty per day.
According to recent article in mag
azine, nearly one third of the women o.
England never marry, and three millions
of males are thrown upon their own exer
tions for support.
AT supper, the other evining, in AL
bany, New York, there were present one
father, three grand daughters, three sisters
in-law, three aunts, four cousins, one wife,
one nephew, one grandson, three nieces,
one husband and three sisters And yet,
strange to say, there were only four persons
present.
The Confederate Senate has resolved
with singular unanimity, that the President
should issue a proclamation to dissuade
the people Of this country from further cul'
tivation of cotton and tobacco, and to eDjoin
upon them the production of grain BY all
means at their command.
- The planter who makes two ears of corn
grow this year where but one grew last
year, is not only benefactor, but truer
patriot than the man who, by extortion,
makes FIVE hundred per cent. on his capital
and pays Thousand dollars for substitute
to fight the Yankees.
1t takes fifty thousand horses and mules
to supply the Army Of the Potomac. A
thousand die every few days. Not less than
five thousand horses are in the horse hospit-
ais of Washington.
Governor Brown, Of Georgia, will con-
vene the Legislature on the 25th Of March,
and recommend a stringent prohibition of
the cultivation of more cotton than is need
ed for seed; also prohibition of the dis
tillation of articles of food.
The Herald says that if Lincoln, with
the vast resources at bis command and his
unlimited powers, fails within six months
to crush the rebellion, be should be i'm
peached.
The law against negroes coming into
the State of Indiana, is being rigidly en-.
forced in some portions Of the State. An
Abolitionist named Osgood, at Plymouth,
Marshall county, was fined $40 for employ
ing contraband. .--
General Foster returned to his com.
mand at Newbern Friday, and everything
was quiet there at that time.
- 1t is said Commander Maury, C.S. NJ,
now in England, designs capturing the
Yankee feet in the Mediterranean, with
gunboats now building in England. !.
A Kingston letter of the 18th ultimo,
published in the Diario de- Ia Marina Of
Havana, says the U. States Vanderbilt ar
rived there two days after the departure of
the Alabama, and was unable to procure
coal or provisions, having no specie, and no
one being willing to-take Treasury Notes.
- About six thousand Yankee prisoners,
from all parts of the South, will arrive at
Richmond during the next two weeks, to
be sent North per flag of truce.
Seventy five negroes were frozen to
death in Memphis during one night in the
last cold spell. Such is Yankee philan-
throphy and the fate of the negroes under
Yankee protection.
A cannon foundry under the immedi.
ate direction Of Major E. G. Humphries, is
nearly completed and ready to commence
work at Columbus Georgia.