Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-11-15
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- Tie Corfederates burnt two steamers
in Big Sandy river, Kentucky, on the 7th
instant. . .........a -, =. ..- r..
"A Confederate force attacked the Yam.
KEGS at Mount Pleasant, Mo-, and captured
300 prisoners with four pieces Of artillery.
General Forrest, on the 4th inst, cap
tused on the Tennessee river, just below
Jacksonville, three gunboats and eight
transports, with their crews, and q large
amount Of artillery and supplies. ~. ~, 49, -
About 600 Confederate prisoners, said
to have been captured from Price, arrived
ct St Louis, ON the 9Th inst; s7ogfas 't:ss,'
"A movement is on foot in New York, To
send $4,000 turkeys and $4,000 barrels Of
apples to Grants army for q Thanksgiving
dinner Can't Gen. Hampton borrow a pors
ton Of them for the ussaof General, Lees
boys? , .'..., ,:,.-%, =. .,,l''. -,. y,
The Ohio Statesman says that three
thousand farms in Ohio are left without a
man to tend them-thousands Of fields are
left to wither for the want Of hands to cul-
tivate them this too, a. the very season
when every working man, in the State is
required at home?'' o"oa5o:' "a ssf'"lE 20
Federal authorities have forwarded to
the Confederates complete, list Of all the
rebel prisoners now in their hands, and
Blanks books have been forwarded to the
South to receive the names of all the Union
Prisoners. - 1T ,.1.g ~,
The Augusta !Constitutionalist learns that
Major L. @: BrideTele O. NJ, has, sent
the soldiers in the West no less than 81, 600
blankets. 80, ...,... 49,.
Letters from Grants army say that
the Dutch Gap canal will be finished about
Christmas. s-. .r.'... III
- Six hundred and seventy.eight sx-
changed Yankee prisoners arrived at New
Orleans on the 26th ult. There were {, 900
more Yankee prisoners at Tyfer in Texas.
- The Confederate steamers Tallahassee,
Chickamauga, and Olustee, are making q
smash among the Yankee shipping, We
see reports Of ten or twelve vessels having
been captured and sunk. Quite feet Of
Yankee gupgoata are, ont looking for them
The Richmond Rhg says it is conf
IDENTIFY predicted, and with good reason,
that Hoods force will be greatly increased
by the loyal Tennesseeans, who will flock @
to his standard as soon as opportunity is
offered them. - = '5,'.-'' Z, -. .'%..
A German in Poughkeepsie, in writing
his name in the gas company's book, put
down his occupation as the "Drieguts Bis.
nes." 50. = --.- G1I5ca- T.'&t 80:
- Dogs have been sold in Augusta, at
auction as high as s210. Rather high fol
sausage meat. ae...rcar .g,.e,a ss.,s,7
"A bill has been introduced into, the
Georgia Legislature to tax distilleries one
hundred thousand dollars, and one hundred
dollars on every gallon, distilled, 4, -. 9.
The State Military Works located at
Greenville, S. Co., will be sold at auction
the 10Th instant, by order Of Governor
Bonham. ..--''..-- ..
- Mr.. Augustus Belmont, Of New York
offers to bet $4,000 that if Mr.. Lincoln
be elected the North will be in state oi
war during the term Of his administration,
or will be forced into disgraceful peace.
General Price did his work we'll in Mis-
souri,, He destroyed the Iron Mountain
and Pacific railroads. He burned 1887
feet of railroad bridges, besides cars, en-
gines, water-tanks, depots, machine shops,
stationary engines, &C., &c. a .,'",f ...
1t is stated in Richmond that the value
of the "Tax in Kind" of 1868, collected ir
the States east of the Mississippi amounted
to tsoo hundred and ten millions Of dollars
= The steam saw and -four mills of Geo
Sinclair, six miles east of Lancaster Cour
House, S. c., were destroyed by FIRE on the
31st ult. 1t is supposed to have been tht
work of an incendiary. - Pc.
Mr.. Lincoln was, not worth five thou
sand dollars on the day he was inaugurated
He now coDfesSes that he is worth five mil
lions of dollars !! ...
- Hon. Thomas F. Marshal died on the
22d ult., at his residence, near Versailles
Weodferd' county, Ky, aged about sixt,
four years: ....-l.. .. -.
= The Newfoundland papers report tina
the cod fishery has proved failure thi'
season.
na. An ingenious Pennsylvania has in
vented a machine for coal mining, which
weiphs two hundred hounds, costs fhte,