Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-09-02
From Virginia.

RICHMOND. Aug. rs Fifty. prlso-
ners captured on, the Yankee gunboats Sat.
olite and Reliance arrived here to-day
The guard that accompanied them, and
the steamer Carrituck, laden with supplies
for the Yankee guuboats, was also captured
by Lieut.. Wood.
Ten deserters from the Army of Northern
Virginia, captured Oh Monday night last in
Fluvanpa county, we're brought to the city
this morning. They will be properly dealt
with, according to military law.
Judge Ould, Com mmissioner of Exchange,
has returned from City Point. He submit
ted proposition to the Yankee Commis-
sioper relative to the exchange of prisoners,
which the Commissioner declined to accede
to until he had consulted with the authori-
ties at Washington. -.
Northern dates to the 25th instant, have
been reeeiged
-. A telegram from Leavensworth, Kansas,
dated August 22d, gives on account of the
destruction of Leavensworth, Kansas, by
Quantrell's guerrillas. 1t says about one
hundred aud eighty citizens were killed
and wounded. The majority of them were
killed, in their own houses. Others we're
shot down as they ran through the streets
in their night clothes. Among the promi.
nent citizens killed were General Culners,
Mayor of the city, Doctor Griswold, Judge
Carpenter and the Rev. Wm. Tuger. Gen.
Jim Lane escaped. Two banks were robbed
of every dollar. The loss at Lawrence is
estimated at two millions. Quantroll is now
retreating towards Missouri, burning and
laying waste everything in his way.
The Baltimore Americans summary Of
its correspondence from Charleston, August
18th, gives the Yankee version of the bonn.
bardmeut of Fort Sumter to that date.
Capt. Rogers and Paymaster Woodbury., OF
the Monitor CatskM. were killed instantly
by ball from Battery Wagner, which drove
in piece interlining the Monitor.
A telegram from Memphis announces
that the forces ent,to Grenada destroyed
ifty-seven engines and four hundred cars.
Gen. Boyle has issued an order for the
impressment of six thousand negro laborers
from the frontier Counties of Kentucky, for
the purpose of building q military road
through the State to East Tennessee.
The draft proceeds in New York without
disorder. The city is filled with troops.
Gold has declined to 1881 ..
R1cuMoND, August 27.-The stock of
ammunition iu the Confederate States is
represented to be abundant, and in any con.
tingency now deemed possible, the supplies
will be ample. "A more cheerful view of
the situation Of affairs is taken by persons
here, who know the condition of affairs,
enabling them to form correct opinions. -
TIE efforts of the Yankees to increase their
armies and extend their occupation of the
Confederate States, we regard as evidouces
of desperation, foreshadoWing the eventual
abandonmeat ofthe attempt to subjugate
the South if the people of the Confederate
States stand firm and meet the aggressions
of the enemy with the spirit of resistance
heretofore exhibited.
The premium on gold is lower, and the
various articles of subsistence have recently
fallen In consequence Of the increase of
receipts, milIers refuse to pay more than
the Government price for wheat, which is
FIVE dollars per bushel.
RICHMOND, August 2S.-Iufornation
was received at Gen. Elzey's headquarters
last night, of an advance Of Yankees up the
Peninsula. Citizens and scouts give con-
aicting reports of the force of the enemy,
but the most reliable statements Indicate
that there are eight regiments of infantry
and two of cavalry, with artillery Our
pickets at Bottoms bridge, over the Chick
ahomiuy, we're driven in at about dusk by
tte Yankee skirmishers, but the further ad-
vance of the enemy was prevented by the
removal of the flooring of the bridge. 1t
reported that sharp fight took place at the
bridge between the guard, one hundred
strong, and the Yankees, but no official in-