Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-10-14
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

The Charlotte and South Carolina Rail
Road has refused to carry to Columbia wood
for any person who sells for more than $40
per cord loaded on the cars.
- There are now 100000 names on the
muster and pay rolls Of the Confederate
army, and the President has declared that
if all the absentees without leave would re-
turn to their regiments the Federal army
would be outnumbered by our men.
- The Yankees fear that the sea will take
Morris Island from them. Fifty yards of
Ebeach have gone since the 18th of August.
Gen. Gilmore has. changed his headquar-
Eters tent to Folly Island on this account.
- Lookout, Point is seventeen hundred
feet above the level of Chattanooga, and a.
bout two miles and quarter distant from
it in straight line. This position com.
mands the enemy's works.
- Punch is growing severe on whisker
nuisance. 1t says "Four legged asses are
known by the length of their ears-two
legged asses by the length of their whisk-
ers. Whiskers over an inch long ought to
be taxed-in some countries tax on hair
looms is levied"
"A meeting was lately held in San An
tonia which passed resolutions that any per-
son depreciating the Confederate currency
should receive warning, and for the second
offence should be dealt with summarily.-
The example will be followed by every town
in Texas.
- Lieut.. Col. W. K. Beard, of General
Bragg's staff, arrived in Richmond one
day last week, with twenty-five United
States regimental colors, taken at the late
battle of Chickamauga. They were deposit
cd in the Adjutant Generals Office.
1t is stated in private letter that the
amount of the first claim (1,OO0, ,OO0f,) a.
gainst the Florida, now at Brest, has been
arranged by Mr.. slidell, and that other
claims would be satisfactorily adjusted.
- Hon Robert ToombsS has published
letter declining to be candidate for Con-
gress. He is now in the, field at the head
Of a regiment of State troops.
We regret to learn taays the Charleston
Courier that in consequence Of the occu-
patton of Knoxville by the enemy, cutting
off its paper supply, the Field and fsres'ae
is forced to suspend again. sac,
Charles Halleck, son of former pro-
prietor of the New York Journal of Com
merce, who came to Augusta, Ga., about a
year ago, and was employed for some. months
as assistant editor of the Chronicle & Sen
tinel, has gone back to the North.
Sugar, vinegar, beer, and brandy may
be made from persimmons. "a.
"A destructive fire occurred in HILLSIDE
ro', N. c., on Saturday, 26th ultimo, des'
troying some fourteen buildings. &c..
"A Mrs. Wannamaker died at New
Prospect, Bergen county, N. j., lately,
weighing, previous 10 her death, seven hun
dred pounds. At her last dinner twenty
four. ears of green corn, made up a slight,
portion of her repast. .ezas 80: ~.-,,..::,
The estimates of the value of the hus-
bands killed during the recent riots in New
York, vary from ten thousand to as low as
two thousand dollars.
The Yankees say we only played good
game of "Bragg" and "Polk-er at Chica.
magua, but Cheatham out Of Wills Valley
into the bargain.
- In New Orleans white man is con-
sidered nearly as respectable as negro, if
he behaves himelf unusually quiet, orderly
and submissively.
The celebrated French painter, Ferdi-
nand Victor Eugene Delacroix, died recent.
ly in Paris, in his Goth year. His career
was brilliant one, and at his death he
ranked as the chief of the 'sromanticist" or
dramatic school of French art. .--..
ID. B. Maroney, who is SO years Of age
is member of the lst Georgia cavalry. He
has two brothers older than himself and
seven sons in the army. He also has Sis
ter who has nine sons in the army. His
father, VINO is still living, besides these three
sons, has ffty.three grandsons in the SER
vice. Is there family in the Confederate
service that can beat this
- The Paragon Touring mills in Augusta,
Ca, were totally destroyed by fire on the
night of the 2eth ultimo. Loss about $780,
900; insurance $4,000. Itwas the work
of an incendiary.
The MONSTER GUN AT CHARLESTON
We understnd that the second monster gun