Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-03-30
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Tho young men Of Newberry District,
between seventeen and eighteen, have, with
commendable zeal, organized a corps Of over
seventy members. The oelerity with which
they volunteered, and the harmony prevail
ing among them, reflect great credit upon
the young gentlemen who compose this fine
company, and indicate the heroisn ghich
we may expect them to display, should the
fate of war take them to the battle field.
Lincoln has ordered another draft for
10000 on the 18th April, to provide an
adequate reserve force for all contingencies.
= Gen. Grant has formally taken COM
maud of the Federal armies. His head.
quarters, for the present, are with the army
of the Potomac. =
There is not at present single spindle
in operation in the, city of Lowell, Massa-
chusetts. The mills, which formerly gave
employment to about thirty thousand fe.
males, are now as silent as the tomb.
Governor Bramlett, of Kentucky, has
demonstrated against the enlistment of
slaves in that State, and has notified Lincoln
that he will execute the laws of Kentucky
agaipst all who attempt to take slaves from
their owners without their consent.
There are three modes of bearing the
ills of life: by Indifference, which is the
most common by philosophy, which is the
most ostentatious; and by religion, which is
the most effectual. -,
"A bill providing for the divorce of
wives of disloyal men in the enemy's lines,
and the confscation of their estates-intro.
duced in the Georgia Legislature few days
ago-has been substituted by bill from the
Judiciary Committee, and passed.
- An excellent substitute for butter at
breakfast, better than marmalade: Marry
the INCEST girl, you know. You will then
have her to preside at your breakfast table,
and unless you are sad dog indeed, you
will not require any "but-her."
"A letter from HagerStown, Maryland,
says that owing to the apprehensions of a
rebel invasion early in the spiing, many of
the farmers in that section of the State are
selling their farms and stock, preparatory to
moving West. 49,.
- Six hundred pairs of shoes and brogans
are daily made in the Government work
shops at Richmond Two hundred work
men are employed. -
- The Herald wants to know if .itstook
So many millions in other days to subdde
one Florida Indian, how much and how
long it will take to subjugate the "Irish-
Seminole, Billy Bowlegs Finnegan, "anow
there. .sa .sssse
The Paris correspondent of the New
York Times, says the French Government
has been notified officially, that it will be
held responsible for any damage the Rap.
nahannoch may inaict on American COM
merce.
- Among the interesting items of inte.!h,-
gence is the introduction of bill in the
Legislature of New Jersey imposing fine of
FIVE hundred dollars and imprisonment for
FIVE years for any one enlisting negroes in
that State.
= The London Times says that General
Banks order regulating negro labor at N.
Orleans is sthe establishment of serfdom,
or retention of slavery without the name"
- The Arch.duke Maximilian arrived at
Paris on the 5th. 1t is reported that he
will embark for Mexico on the 25tb, all
difficulties having been settled.
Yankee emissaries infest every village
and neighborhood of Northern Mexico, stir
ring up hostilities to both the Confederacy
and the French. =
= The Yankee force at Newbern is esti-
mated at about 1000.
- General Hoke is at Knston, and has
determined to break up the illicit traffic in
cotton and tobacco that has been going on
for a long time between some of our people
and the Yankees at Newbern.
= The Southeastern (English) Gazette
states that two steam vessels, the Garland
and the Jupiter, latelybelopging to the
London,. Chatham and Dover Railway
Company, have been purchased for the
Confederate States-of America.
- Cars will be despatched for Lees ar
my, April 6; for Johnston's army, April
19; for Longstreet's army, April Is. They
will start from Columbia.
"A commission has been appointed by
the Federal Secretary Of Warto visit the
camps where all rebel prisoners are confined,
and administer to them the oath of allegi-