Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-12-14

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Major Hapes has opened . school ir
Rockingham County, Virginia, for disabled
soldiers, free of charge. By General Or.
der No. "a, these veterans are entitled, un.
der circumstances like the aboye, to draw
rations ip kind.
The blockade running steamer Hattie,
belonging to the Lamar Company ran into
a Confederate port one night last week, with
a yaa.lupable cargo, discharged her freight,
took an outward bound cargo, and put to
sea sgain the second night after.
"A firm at Bath, South Carolina, has
commenced the manufacture Of binders
boards, fire bricks, tiles, retorts, crueiblss,
&c. Ne :ohropiele this as another little
step toward our ultimate independence.
= The Georgia Legislature (says the sum.
ter Ratchmaa9 was broken up by sher-
mans approach, after first ordering every
thing into the field except Its owp mem:
bers; the South Carolina Legislature seems
determined-to TO carry on the war to the last
man, ercept its own insmbernl ,-st aiaE ?
"A Tory Raid was made on Piedmont
Springs ia ,Burk County, North Carolina
on the night Of the 29th, November. result.
ing in aseHous loss Of property to Mr.. Lind
say, the proprietor 81 the Springs. There
we're about twenty persons in the company.
"A Restaurant has been opened in Lon
don for fatpeople, where nothing will be
served up bnt viands which check obesity:
No doubt they have sawdust soup and ar
Dor Vita ham. No danger of getting stopt
on them. ......t .aeL.
Where. hard work kills ten, idleness
kills hundred men. 80 - D.,
The emmissaries at work in New York
have not confined their attempts solely to
destruction of that city. A torpedo was
found in one of the bsrths Of the sound
steamer City of New London. The fuse
had been lit, but had become extinguished
before the torpedo was iguited. ..
The Yankee navy, as We learn from
New York paper, numbers atspressnt FIVE
hundred and fifty eight steam vessels;
with an aggregate tonnage Of 100000. OF
this number two hundred have been built.
The rest have been reconstructed. This
does not include the sailing vessels.
The amount of interest on United States
bonds falling due in January is $9, 300, 900,
and deducting the interest on the registered
bonds, the coupons now paid by anticipa.
ton win amount it is reported to about ST.
100000.
About 6fty Confederate prisoners at
Camp Morton, Ohio, succeeded in scaling
the fence recently, at night, Of whom forty
escaped. J.
The Western papers say that John G.
Fremont is to be Minister to France, and
Salmon P. Chase Minister to England.
Late Yankee papers say eighteen mil.
lions of new copper cents, and six millions
oftwo cent pieces, have been coined with
in The last two months. And still pennies
are scarce among ths Yankees, as they are
deemed much more valuable than green.
backs. .
Yankee prisoners report that Fitzpatrick
was shot through the head and mortally
wounded, in the fight, on Sunday, at Walk
ePs bridge. .u..
1t is said that the Rothschilds, for
whom August Belmont is agent in America,
have one hundred millions of dollars iu-
vested in the Southern Confederacy.
The ffy.fourth Massachusetts, volun.
teers (negroJ would not take a cent less
than was given to white troops. They stood
firm, and conquered, and the other day
were paid off in full at white mans prices;
- One member Of the Georgia Legisla-
tu-e, Francis L. Cue by name, has report
ed to Gen. Wayne, taken a musket and
gone into the trenches.
-Last May, the Confederate prisoners at
Point Lookout and Fort Delaware were vac
cinated, by general order, and the vaccine
matter turned out to be poisonous. Many
of our men had their arms amputated, and
a number died within.a week after vaccina.
tion.
Confederate Congress.