Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-05-06
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

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all to be attributed to the "dry Council y
= When the blockade is raised, we will
take pleasure in calling the attention of the
public to the stocks of goods now ON hand
= Though large quantities of corn and
bacon have been shipped at this point, the
past week, We learn that large quantity
has been sent from Rock Hill Depot.
= The "tumble in prices," We read Of
has not yet reached butter, our country
folks holding on to dollar, or more. Il
is slippery article, and must rae doaon in
warm weather.
- Who knew before this, that there is a
.tnavy yard" at Charlotte, N c., with
Catesby Ap. R. Jones, Commandant. Here
is chance for fresh water sailors to ship
themselves. Old aOakum" will shift bis
quid when he learns this.
- Old Abe says Charleston must be again
tried by Dupont and Hunter, Simultaneous
ly; cit will never do to give it up so, Mr.
Brown p 1t is already half taken, if Mr.
Lincoln s reasoning is like that of the Irish.
mans engagement to the widow Muldroon,
"he has his own consint to it,"
Dupont, the commander Of the Van kee
vessel Ironsides, is the son Of French ref
ugee, who, during the French revolution,
sought refuge in Charleston. There he was
kindly supported, and his two sons, the
present renegade and another, were born.
The family remained several years in
Charleston and then removed to Delaware.
So says recent number Of the South Caro-
linian. .......s
- Forged Confederate notes are still be.
ing made and sold by the Yankees $500
for SIS. They should be made receivable
for ablockade goods"
The prospects of the wheat crop are
most aourishiug in every quarter, according
to our exchanges. A dry season with us
for month or so, and -four doin's will NO
longer be q luxury.
- Though Longstreet losta battery at
Keeling's farm, he sunk one guuboat and
disabled two others; besides he has taken
thousands of pounds of bacon and forage.
The army is on full rations from one in.
dividual he took 10000 pounds of bacon
which had been collected for the Yankee
Commissaries.
Our exchanges all represent q consider.
able decline in provisions, especially -four.
A quantity was brought here last week
from Cleveland, N. G., but was stored for
higher prices.
-"Absenteeism" will not be complained
of much longer in Charleston, if we judge
from our locality. "The swallows are fly
ing homeward," and in short time we
will have only pleasant "reminiscences of
the time our city friends have sojourned in
nour mountain homes"
The Confederate Senate passed the
House bill placing in military service, af-
ter the 1st July next, all citizens of the
United States, including Marylanders, re-
siding or sojourning in the Confederate
States. ....~
The Florida captured on March 30,
the schooners Icolcond, 375 tons burthen,
and the Lapwing, both owned in Boston.
Their cargoes we're flour, provisions, furni'
ture and lumber. The vessels and cargoes
were valued at 5000.
The Columbia Carolinian acknowl-
edges green peas and strawberries last Wed
nesday.
- France, formerly dependent on the
Southern States for the article of turpentine,
has commenced its manufacture in the
poor sandy region of Bordeaux, with mark
cd success, "during the war"
At Fredericksburg, recently a Yankee
pickcthalloocd across to one of ours, "Good
bye, old fellow. This is my last night on
picket. Our times are up m nine days, and
then wo are going home" Our boy respon-
.ded by asking him if the conscript act did
not get him ? His reply was, "damn the
conscript act-that's played out over here" !"
- The Senate has amended the seal, as
adopted by the House, in the motto, sub
stituting Dec N;naice "Uhder God, the
asserter of our rights, the defender Of oul
liberties, our PROTECTOR" &c., as rendered
by Mr.. Semmes, Of Louisiana.