Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-11-02
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"A foreign legion consisting or hearty
Itworegiments, mainly Irish Catholics, sworr
.iinto our service BY q Catholic priest, has
been formed in Richmond and is nearly
.rsady for the field. Mr.. Davis is said mol
to. favor their seperate organizations bu,
wants to intsfsperce them among our Skele'
ton regiments. ,f.. ID .3s-.,s.
| The New York, Herald states that ssthe
total number ofsolunteers called for BY the
/ lUuited States Government since the begin
ming Of the war sshas been 3,o40,83e fol-
volunteer army; irregular army, December,
1868, 43,3a2;,in navy, July !, 1854, sb'
900; total, 3,1ls, $780,"
--"Hernes," army correspondent ofthe
Charleston Mercury, says that late Cabinet
meeting decided to. keep the departmental
clerks permanently in the field, and employ
1 ladies in their Stead.
+ The Richmond papers announcs ths'
arrangements have been been made 10 e1'
change Immediately 10000 Yankee prison
ers in Georgis. Ssvannah is1to be the point
of exchange. ,-4
= Col. Palmer, With 1900 mounted men
left Ashville, n. Co.. and went over into
East Tennessee, gathered large supplies
Of beef cattle, hogs and wheat, and returned
! in safety without fight.
A FIRE in Richmond last week, destroy.
ed property valued at s35ooO0.
/ = There are now more than one hundred
| officers in our army in active service with
but one leg apiece.
Chief Justice Taneyis dead, and AS
Hartz has retured from his visit to q North
ern prison. sz.s..s
| An attack on Wilmington is threaten.
ed. b. -,
- Price continues victorious in Missouri,
fand Magruder is master Of the field in Ar.
kansas.
| - The attack on Mobile has been aban.
doned. .... a........ ....
- The bat manafactory in Montgomery
Ala, is getting on finely. 1t is now turn.
ling ont weekly some thousand good substan.
| Itial hats for the Government, and will increase
its facilities, SO as to double the number
shortly. -. & 80
x M. Cfonley, the we'll known auetioneer
at Wilmington, a few days ago forwarded
to the Mayor Of Augusta, Ga, one thou,
sand dollars for the relief of the soldiers in
the hospitals of that place. =
= The Republican procession in Washing
ton on Saturday night burnt the Mcclellan
flag hanging from the Democrat Club House.
The Yankees in Fauquier are extend
ding their violence against Mosby to the
wives Of his men.
| - The prisoners lately confined in the
"Pen," on Morris Island, have been sent
to fort Pulaski -
Henry Ward Beecher hasgiven notice,
from his pulpit, that until the November
election his Sunday evening sermons would
be what some people might cali political,
| Those that did not wish to hesr them he
| requested to stay away, That their sests
might DO occupied by those who did.
| - General Price is in the most produc.
tive portion of Missouri, and the region 10y.
al to the South. ..'
-Athousand people asestarved to death
in the Cape de Verdes, aud the famine still
continues. ~ .>
The number Of bloekade-runners cap.
tured or destroyed of Wilmington since Au'
gust !, 1858, is fifty. ..
The North claims to have freed ] 1878.
66O slaves: Georgia is put down for 154
O6e. - 49,, ~
- Nashville papers say that the guerillal
prevent recruiting in Tennessee BY threat
and violence. ~.. s.... T..
Lieut.. Col. Skinner, Commissary o.
Prisoners at Camp Douglas, has received or
ders from Washington to enroll the names
of all convalescent rebel prisoners in hi
charge, prepatory to their being sent Souti
for exchange. This, when effected, will re
liese the surgeons at Camp Doughs af near
/ y FIVE hundred patients. =.
/. "A man took off his coat to show ter
rible wound he had received some year,
past. 'obR said he, on not being able t.
find it, Il remember now, It was On m!
brother Bills arm .r.2.
a =. European News.
4 RICHMOND, Oct. 27.-European advice
of the 14th are at hand. 80 - .
'4The frigate Niagara, had seized . vesBe