Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-07-08

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25sh and landed near Portland on the night
Sof the Goth. They seized the cutter CateG
Gushing and went to sea. Two steamers
were sent in pursuit, overlook the cutter and
after short engagement Reed and his par
ty put off in boats and blew up the vessel.
They were finally captured.
EDrTWRIAL ITEMS.
ALL persons in this State, who have for
eign papers on which they claim exemption
from military service, are required to report
in person to Col. Preston, at Columbia, or
the Provost Marshal in Charleston, that
their papers may be examined, and their
names and description recorded.
- Maj, Gen. A. P. Hills command was
recently reviewed at Petersburg, and drilled
by Brig. Gen. NJ. Jenkins. The Enpress
writes In high terms of the proficiency Of
the men, who it seems all appeared in new
and pretty uniforms-grey jackets and light
blue pants.
= Our old afriends," Wm. B. King and
Jesse M. Lawson, the Confederate note
stealers, under sentence Of death in Colum.
bia, and who escaped last week, have been
recaptured, with another named G. W..
Malconet, alias Roundtree. Moss and Car
peuter are still at large.
- Messrs. E. Willis q Co., of Charles
ton, have purchased the Atlanta (6a.)
Rolling Mills, at 100000.
The lamented Stonewall Jackson was
not millionaire, as one might judge from
his known liberality towards all laudable
undertakings; butt is folly, if not unkind
to mis- family, and his country, to insinuate
that the former are in anywise dependent on
the sale of .shis life, by Dabney," or any
one else. The works, when issued, must
depend on their merits, and the most faith
full record will prove the best.
- The Charleston Courier thinks that the
assumption of command by Gen. Gilmore,
relieving Hunter in the Department of the
South, is sure pledge of action and efforts
against Charleston, or Savannah, or both
-"Frauk Leslie's Illustrated" for the
10th utimo, represents Jefferson Davis and
Abraham Enloe Lincoln Hanks playing
'battlcdore, Vallandigham being the "Bird. "
At late meeting of glorlfcation to
Thomas Francis Meas CHER in New York, one
of the speakers elected tornado Of Kisses
by mentioning the name of Gen. Butler.
They could be seduced into taking Meaghel
for great man and hero, but they could
not endure Butler. ....
Henry Clay Dean, the great orator Of
Iowa, who was talked of as candidate fol
Governor, was seized on the 18th ultimo, @
la HaNandigham, and sent to Missouri te
be tried by drum head court martial.
The Grand Jury of the Confederate
Court, at Richmond, refused to find q bill
of indictment against the Reverend Z. J
Graves, who had been arrested under {
charge of treason, and accused OF holding
traitorous communication with the enemy.
Thirty seven Yankee wagons captured
at Clinton, Louisiana, came up to jackson
Miss, on the 9th ult. Among them is i
drug store on wheels-quite curiosity.
The State Penitentiary at Richmond i
so full that the directors have passed
resolution declining to receive any NOR
prisoners convicted by the Confederat
courts.
= Gen. Gusts Lee has been appointed t
the command of toe citizen soldiery Of Rich
moud. The Whig says his appointmen
gives general satisfaction. He is son
Gen. Robert E. Lee, was educated at Yves
Point, and stood very high in the old army
Maj. Gilmer, c. s. A., was seen o
Boonsboro, riding Milroy's black horse.
Our cavalry, says dispatch, hav
several times come upon large masses
PENNSYLVANIA militia, mounted upon cone
stogas, who, upon all occasions, take to thei
heels, before our men can get shoot 6
them.
The family of Albert Sydney Johnsto
are said to be in q very destitute conditio
| in California. Gen. Pillow is out in CON
| muuication to the Huntsville Confedera'
, urging the people of the Confederacy to
} something in behalf of the wife and chi
: dren of the great soldier who died in OF
defence,