Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-01-06

Tenuesseeans have lately come out for arms.
Thirteen regiments are. said to have report
ed to Gen. Forrest. The Yankee policy OF
impressment into their service is driving re-
cruits to our own.
An official Letter received at Oxford,
Mississippi, from Gen. Forrest, says he has
already raised $500 troops, and they are
rapidly coming in.
The War Department has decided a.
gainst those persons taken as conscripts
from the Orange Factory, on the ground
that the Company have exacted more than
seventy FIVE per cent. profit, in violation OF
the act of Congress:
Suits have been entered in the United
States Court ct Nashville, for the conhsca-
ton of all the newspaper property in that
city, and also the Southern. Methodist Book
Concern.
- The Yankee ships Fingal, Raven, and
Marque, for New York, and the Amanda,
for Falmouth, were captured and burned BY
the Confederate steamer Alabama, on the
18th November, of Java.
- Greely, in a recent speech at the Coop
er Institute, said that he was not sure that
another President would be elected.
"A Yankee steamer of IL guns, was re-
Gently destroyed by fire near Old Point
Comfort.
Elizabeth Butler, negro woman, car
ried from Alabama by tee Yankees, has
been tried in st. Louis for vagrancy, and
sentenced to FIVE years in the penitentiary.
Ben, Woods organ, (the New York
Neus,) says that gentleman will not, while
he holds seat in Congress, vote one dollar
or one man to carry on tho present war.
- The President has approved bill to
authorize Commissaries to take salted pork
instead of bacon for the tax in kind upon
slaughtered hogs.
"A letter dated Madras, October 26th,
states the Confederate steamer Alabama
came into that harbor few days before,
took look around the place and immedi-
atcly put to sea-, without communicating
with the shore.
-Wm. E. Cofman, Rockingham, N. c.,
charged with the offence Of plotting and as
sisting deserters to escape to the lines of the
enemy, has been tried by Court Martial in
command of Gen. Imboden, found guilty
and sentenced to be hung.
On the 1st ultimo, one Yankee gun
boat was blown up in the neighborhood Of
West Point, Va, on the York river, and an,
other seriously injured. All the crew of
the first boat are said to have perished.
- The Boston Herald, says that Dahlgren
is prepared for a great movement. The
Iron clads will not leave the,'department un-
til the old flag waves over Charleston or its
ruins.
Richard S. McCulloch, we'll known as
Professor of Mechanics and Physics in Co.
lumbia College, N. Y, has been expelled
from his Professorship, for having connect
ed himself with the Southern Confederacy.
"A writer in the Charleston Courier
says General Stephen D. Lee and his cho-
sen associates have notion that cavalry is
very expensive arm to keep idle, and that
when it is not convenient to bring forage to
the horses it will answer very we'll to let
the horses 60 after their forage, under good
and true men, who will not object to taking
rations from Yankee train or forage team.
There is nothing in all the art of war bet
ter than the maxim "let the enemy fur
nish supplies" when you can find general
who can apply it in its full sweep of sig
nifcance.
Lord Carlingford is resolved to dispute
the honors of NJ. Nadar, the French aero
naut. He claims for himself the credit of
discovering the principle of arial naViga-
tion, and promises that, in short time, he
will make the chariot, upon which he has
been experimenting so many years, "fy. in
any desired direction"
- Fontenelle lived to be nearly one hun.
dred years old. A lady of nearly equal age
said to him one day in large company,
"Monsieur, you and stay here so long that
I have a notion that Death has forgotten
u.s." "Speak as low as you can, Madame, Z"
replied Fantenelle, "lest you should remind
him of u.s."
- The steamer Chatham, Capt. Martin
borough (now the Ocean Queeu), was cap
tured by the Yankees the 18th ult., l3
miles from Sapello Light, in seven fathoms
water, on her passage from Green Turtle
Key, bound to Nassau. She had cargo