Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-10-07
EpIToRIAL ITEMS.

of that plenipotentiary.
EDITORIAL ITEMS.
= Gen. Bragg hasbeen largely reinforced
since tie battle, and has more men than he
had Saturday. =
- Liddelps Arkansas Brigade entered
the latefgh at Chicamauga with thirteen
hundred and seventy men and came out
FIVE hundred and seventy remaining.
There we're fred by our forces during
the two days battle at Chieamauga, one
and half million rounds of small arms am.
tmunition, and nine thousand of cannon ans
munition.
- The Lincoln Government.ha caloula-
ted upon securing as one ofthe results of
the Texas expedition and of the advance of
Rosencraz into Georgia, some two or three
thousand bales of cotton, which were to be
shipped to England and sold for specie.
During the recent fights in Georgia,
Rosencraz had his headquarters four miles
from the battle field, and in the rear of his
centre.
The N. Y. Herald says: The Regu-
lars (the Yankee reserves) went in the late
battle sixteen hundred strong, and came
out with only four hundred and fifteen.
The Federals lost in the late battle, 8
Bigadier Generals, and 272 other officers
killed and wounded.
= Gold advanced in New York on the
29th ult. to 144.
= The steamer Elizabeth, belonging to
John Frazer & Co., lately went ashore near
Wilmington, and was burned by her crew
to keep her from falling into the hands of
the Federals. -.
The Mississippi river is commercially
unuavigable on account of the banks being
lined with Confederate sharpshooters.
- The Yankees, during recent plunder'
ing expedition to EdentOn, N. c., robbed
the negro church in that town of its com
munion service.
DR.. Isaac Branch, of Abbeville, writes
on the oath ult., that within twelve day
preceding that date, he had amputated tw'
arms and one hand, and assisted in>the am
putation of another arm, occasioned by feed
ing Molasses mills, and being caught b.
the rollers. ..
"A public dinner was given to Admira
Frragut in New York on the oath ultimo
therefore he is not in command at Charles
ton.
A correspondent of the N. Y. Post, say
there will be new draft for 100000 men
from which the government expects to ge
100000.
The powder mills at Arkadelphia, Al
kansas, containing lO0,O 900 pounds Of pow
der, were blown up short time ago.
, Reports from San Francisco state tha
the English feet had been defeated Will
r attempting to take one of the Japanese fort:
: In the fight at the Sabine Pass, Ma
3 gruder captured two gunboats and 400 pri'
, oners. In this Federal expedition ther
| were 40 transports, crowded with soldiers
: These were thoroughly beaten and drive
{ back. The object of this Yankee exped
tion was to intercept large quantity
cotton, which by order of Gen. Kirby Smith
!. was being moved across the Sabine to
Texan port.
: "A private letter of the 18th ult., fror
: New Orleans, received in Boston, says
q The coast is as full of Confederate troops &
9 ever. The stores Of Baton Rouge al
r closed up for fear Of force of rebels dasf
s ing in, as they did at Port. Hudson latel!
: where they spiked guns, carried off foot
three hundred negroes, and other plunde
Lately, by.a flag Of truce boat fourtee
!. large boxes of prayer books were receive
D from the Episcopal Bible and Tract soci
D ty of New York, consigned to distinl
g uished Episcopal divine Of the South.
- General Henry r. Jackson, Of Saya1
4 nah, has been appointed Brigadier Gener
in the Provisional Army.