Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-02-03
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tits estimated that the Tax returns of
this State for 1868, will amount to SILL.
600, 900.
I Mr.. l. D. Mordecai, one Of the old
merchants of Columbia, died in that city,
on the 25th ult.
A correspondent of the Caroliniaai,
says: Rev. W. T.. Walters, Chaplain of
the I'd Regiment of Rifles, s. g. v, is
supposed to have been killed by bush.
whacker, while going home by way Of Ash
vile, N. G..
= The Southern Presbyterian has been
revived and hopes to continue throughout
the year. Price IS per annum.
We are pleased tolearn that the South
ern CuItivator is still published in Augusta,
at SO per annum, payable in advance. All
subscriptions are to date from January, '64.
= Trubner & Co., Of London, have pub.
lisbed "The Life and Times Of Bertrand
du Guesclin-a History Of the Fourteenth
Century-by D. r. Jamison, of South
Carolina" 49, ss..ss "a.
= The steamer Gibraltar formerly the
Sumter) has arrived at Queenstown from
Wilmington.
- The sum of s107,590 has been appro-
priated by the county court of Mecklenburg,
North Carolina, for the support Of soldiers
families, with authority to borrow s25, 900
more, if necessary.
- The aggregate amount of duties on im-
ports collected in the Confederate States
during the past year was about $1,000, 900
the cost TO the Government being about
$4,000.
The liabilities of the Confederate Gov.
ernment, of every kind, amount to about
9o0,0oO,Ooo.
The total amount of profits from manu-.
features and trade in Virginia, during 1863,
was s12, ,294, ,75O.
= The Mobile and Ohio R. R. Company
paid to the Treasurer of Mississippi, few
days ago, s2aO,OOO, the amount due the
State by the Company.
The Eagle Manufacturing Company Of
Columbus, Ga., have given $4,000 to Gen.
Morgan's command.
- Three shad, the first of the season,
were sold in Savannah, on the 10th ult., at
sl4 to SIS each.
- The London Army and Navy Gazette
says that the Messrs. Laird have refused
several offers for the Mersey rams, declaring
that they are not for SALE rt
The Confederate Congress has passed
an act prohibiting the sale and circulation
of Yrnkee greenbacks, under heavy penal.
ties
Major Cummings, Chief of the Subsis-
tence Bureau, in Atlanta, has received in.
structions to enter the market, as purcha.
ser, under the prevailing prices current.
- It behooves US all now so to use our
talents and our means, that in our future,
neither we nor our children shall have to
blush for The past.
From January, 1868, to the 29d Of Oc-
tober in the same year-ten months-nine-
ty vessels ran into Wilmington. At Char
lesion, during the six months ending in
July, 1865, forty.three steamers ran in safe
ly.
- 1t is said that General Lee, in CONVEX
sation with bevy Of friends, recently,
made the remark that, with 10000 addi.
tional men in his army, and 10000 addi-
tional troops in the army of Gen. Johnston,
we could whip all the Yankee tribes that
may be brought against US.
Gen. Writ Adams, on the 23d, near
silverton, Mississippi, captured thirty-fve
prisoners, sixty wagons and teams with cot
ton going to Natchez, and about eighty ne
groes.
- They have a drinking saloon in Rich
mond called " Chickamsuga." The name
is appropriate. The true "river of death"
is there.
- The number of National banks author.
lied by the Yankee Secretary Of the Treas
ury is 1877, with capital of s3l, ,Sl7, 900. |
Captain Decie, an Englishman' fesiding
near Montgomery White Sulphur Springs,
Va, has sold bogus bills of sterling ex-
change, to the amount of sl,2OO,00O, and,
with the proceeds, has run the blockade
and left the country.