Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-05-27
EDITORIAL ]. ITEMS.

IE EDITORIAL ITEMS.
- All absentees from Gen. Evans Brig
I;ade, who may be about these parts, are or
sdered to report to Capt. B. B. McCreery:
lat Columbia, on Saturday next, and a full
pardon will be granted them for their late
EssraidD home: "A good many Of our boys
are already on the way, the balance can be
surely counted on. They all aget of" fal
better than we had any idea of.
Among list Of wounded at the second
battle of Manassas, who died Of thei,
wounds, and were inferred in the public
cemetery in Warrenton, We find the name
Of Corporal D, W. Moore, CO. A, 18th
Regiment s. C. ", who died October let.
u. T. Bacon, Esq, has assumed the
editorial control Of the Edgedeld Adrerti.
ser. He is said to bea gentleman Of talent,
which he will have to exercise fully, to fll
the chair of the gifted Simkins. We vel.
come him.
To give The devil his due, it must be
said that General Sickles is always highly
spokensof BY the prisoners who have fallen
under his supervision.
- Mr.. II. j. Waldron, Telegraph Agent,
is relieved from allduty in this Department
and discharged the service of the Confede-
rate States. e
General u. H.. Morgan, it is said, is
under arrest for refusing to: obey General
Wheeler, who has been placed over him.
The tax bill was approved by the Pres
ident onsthe oath April The aa ualorsn'
tax on merchants date from that day in-
elusive. ~.
-An arsielein the Atlanta, Ga, lA.teli-
gencer, of Tuesday, virtually announces
that Governor Brown, of thatState, will sbe
a candidate for a fourth term. W
The Rontai1aa is advised that Gov.
Milton has succeeded in paying off the
debts due BY the State in Charleston and
Savannah, without the smallest sacrifice,
either of the credit or securities of the
State.
~. D. Pope, Esq, has been re,appoint-
ed Chief Collector of the War Tax for S.
Carolina. ~.
Gen. Halleck is about to take the field
in person, not, it is understood, with the
purpose of relieving Gen. Hooker from his
command, but that he may be in the very
presence of transpiriDg events, and the
better able to Influence their general di-
rection. =
At Wakefield, ten miles from Suffolk,
there was sharp cavalry skirmish last Sun
day, in which we killed twelve Of the enc.
my aud captured twenty.six, with aSloss of
only one killed and two slightly wounded.
"A Dayton dispatch says the men con-
scerned in the attempted rescue Of Vallan-
digham, are to be taxed until the sum Of
$4,000 is raised, to defray the loss con-
hected with the affair, besides term in the
penitentiary.
Adjutans Stuart, of one of the Missis.
sippi regiments, lived long enough to certi.
fly that himself aud a brother officer had
been bayoneted after surrendering their
swords. Hence no prisoners we're taken BY
Mississippi troops when Fredericksburg
was reeaptured.
The New York Tribune says that the
negro troops at Hilton Head, S. c., will
soon start upon an expedition, under the
command of Colonel Montgomery, ''dlffer-
ent, in many respects, from any heretofore
projected"
- Gov. Shorter, of Alabama has deman.
ded the delivery to him of all citizens or
residents of Alabama captured with Yankee
raiders in any Southern State. Let other
Governors follow the example.
- Gen. Burpsides order reeites the pro.
ceedings of the Vallandigham court mar
tial, the finding Of which is sentence to
close confinement during the war, in some
fortress to be selected by the commander Of
the Department. The order named Fort
Warren as the place Of confinement.
Col. John s. Preston, Gommandant Of
Conscripts Of the Post at Columbia, will be
absent on leave until the 1stof July, all
communications concerning his command
should be marked official and addressed to
Major G. ID. Melton, A. A. g., Columbia,
South Carolina.
The Dispatch says that two of the
Yankee officers now in the Libby prison are
shortly to be hung, in retaliation for the