Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-03-23


that the horrid disclosure had been made
that the Libby prison was mined with 200
kegs Of powder placed under it at the time
of the late raid.
The Central Association, upon mature,
consideration, decline the Agency recently
rendered by the Express Company for the
transportation Of Supplies to the South Ca
rolina Soldiers. They will continue to for,
ward to all points as usual.
The quintessence of sEshrewdness"-
paying poor clergyman, who lives from
hand to mouth, his quarterly salary in ad.
vance to save the discount of S5a per cent
Gen. Lee has declined to receive the
present of a residence for his family profer-
ed by the city of Richmond. He trusts
"that whatever means the City Council
may have to spare for this purpose may be
devoted to the relief of the families four
soldiers in the field, who are more in want
Of assistance and more deserving off than
myself"
The elegant country seat Of Hon. james
Lyons, near Richmond, has been destroyed
by fire. Plate, furniture, paintings and
other works of art, the collection of.years;
wines and liquors Of superior vintage, the
pride and boast of the hospitable owner,
were swept away in an hour on the wings
of fame. Losssl00,O00.
The Bath Paper Mills, near Augusta
Ca, are to be completed and in operation
by the LIST of May. This is good news to
editors and publishers who are all more or
less oramped for supply Of paper.
"A Yankee paper says a number of
Western capitalists are making arrangements
to go extensively and legitimatelY into the
cotton business, both by oultivating aban-
doped plantations in Louisiana and Missis-
sippi, dby purchasing Of the old planters.
They mean to demonstrate on large scale
the advantages of free labor.
Salmon P. Chase, the Yankee secre-
tary of the Treasury, who has been promin-
emily mentioned as a candidate for the
Presidency against Lincoln, has Withdrawn
his name from the canvass.
The dispatches from Washington to the
Abolition journals of New York and Phila-
delphia, indicate that the rumored recogni-
of the Confederate States by France is not
entirely groundless.
-Gentlemen who gt lettersfrom the az
my say there is conviction, among both
officers and men that the soil of Pennsyi-,
vania is again to be trodden by the rebel
invader.
The London Court. Journal says: GA
gentleman, fresh from brief journey in the
United States, gives it as his opinion
that the Americans will soon repudiate
their war indebtedness, basing it on the
factthat the people place no sort of reliance
on the greenbaeks which have been so pro-
fusely issued"
The German Republican papers have
hoisted Fremont's name for President. A
convention is called to meet at Cleveland,
Ohio, on the 10th of May, to nominate him
formally.
A considerable number of Austrian
naval officers have asked to follow Maxi
lniliiau I. to Mexico, and have been ac-
cepted. 80 ,..''
II is estimated that out of the vast a.
mount of Confederate money now in circu-
lation, not over one half will be converted
into bonds within the time specified by, law.
There are. millions of notes in the enemy's
lines, beyond the ocean, and elsewhere,
which will have no opportunity to take ad-
vantage of the law, because it cannot be
brought to any depository in the Confede-
racy. Upon this the goverpmentwill real
ize the handsome profit of about one hun
dred millions.
During the past year the Virginia lead
mines produced lead enough for ten mil
lions of ounce balls, and this year the quan-
tity will be doubled.
The appropriation for the arming and
support of the militia Of New York has been
stricken from the appropriation bill before
the Legislature, on the plea that at least one
brigade General John A. Green's twenty
fourth) is disloyal. y
"A young lady who fell on slippery
sidewalk, passionately exclaimed, "Before
this winter is over, Til have man to hang
on to, see if I don't" r...
The boy on foot cannot bear to see the
boy who is riding. And so it is with envy
of larger growth, We are always crying
out, "Whip behind p in the miserable hope
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