Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-03-11
EDIToRIAL ITEMS.

EDITORIAL ITEMS. x
- The Charlotte Democrat says that The
Factories in the e7old North State, evade the
eztortion law BY selling their goods only
for corn, wheat, bacon, &C., and re.sellins
at speculator's prices, making more thar
double rs per cent. profit.
A comansoner in the North Carolins
Legislature, has published speech censu.
ring South Carolina, as having been willing
to ask forgiveness Of George III, and re-
turning to her allegiance during the revolu'
tionary war. The honest rebuke Of the
Charlotte Democrat, renders any further
notice by the press ofssthis State unneces.
sary.
The North Carolina papers are urging
the Tobacco planters to refrain, this season,
from the cultivation of the plant, and devote
every acre of arabic land to the production
of something ssestabls by man and beast."
Nails are selling in Yorkville at 81 per
tb, or 2 cents piece !!
The Yankees have recently burnt hos.
pital in Fauquier County, Va, containing
500 negroes with the small pox Smithfeld
remodeled.
A Convention Of the Teachers of the
Confederate States is called to meet at
Columbia, s. c., on the 2sth of April next.
The object is to consider the best means for
supplying text books for schools and colleges.
Capt John c. McClenaghan, A. Q. NJ,
of this Department, died at Charleston on
the 9th instant.
The Federal Congress died out on the
4th instant, but not before creating Ahra.
ham /, 8 Dictator. The new Congress will
prove to him bitter pill, soft will not be
convened before its regular session in De-
cember.
Sixty Confederate prisoners of war died
in the St. Louis hospitals during the week
ending January 81.
= Fort Taylor, or Gordon's Bluff, where
the Queen Of the West was captured, is a.
bout twenty-five miles below Alexandria.
The Federal Congress has organized q
new Territory, contiguous to Oregon, to
be called Montana.
A New York paper says that the uoto-
rious George Saunders was actually in New
York about fortnight previous to his de-
parture for Europe from Halifax also, that
he was the guest of Nell.known citizen on
Murray Hill.
A Court of Inquiry in the case of Ma:
jor.G General Lowell, meets soon at Jackson,
Miss. Generals Hindman, Gardner aud
Drayton, compose the court.
We are glad to learn from the Savan.
yah Republican that Gen. W. H. T. Wal
ker, Confederate States Army, accompanied
by Capts. j. Cumming and D. Lamar, ar.
rived in that city Oh Monday evening.
"A second gunboat was launched at
Selma on Thursday evening without acci.
dent, and proceeded on to Mobile.
- The London Times says it is clear that
the blockade at Charleston was not raised
at the time of the attack on the Federal
fleet, and that there was not even an inter.
mission of it. The Post takes q similar
view Of it.
"A row has occurred between the Fede-
raj soldiers and the negroes at Hilton Head.
The latter were driven off to the other end
of the Island.
"A single case Of small pox has appear
ed in Anderson village in virulent form.
The patient has been removed beyond the
town limits.
A commission merchant in Atlanta,
Ca, sold few days ago, eleven barrels of
whiskey for the enormous sum of $4,000,
being more than $500 per barrel. This
will do for our children to remember.
ID don't like this telling what people
give to this and that object" said peuu-
rious person; "what I give is nothing to
noJody."
The ordnance department Of Virginia,
manufactured arms enoug h last year to e.
quip ll3, ,4S5 men. -
The demand for Confederate Eight
Per Cent. Bonds is largely on the increase
in Chester District. The amount disposed
of in Chester to this date, says the Stand
ard, will reach the sum of $3.50, ,0o0-and
this, no doubt, will be greatly increased be-
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