Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-08-24
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paid of course, by the grossest misrepresen'
tation of his treatment, while prisoner; /;
yet, the same course is being got up for
Stoneman, who makes denial of certain
charges against him. ,..s.c,
- The Yankee papers are increasing their
terms, ,,and it is announced as probable that
halfsheets will soon be as prevalent at the
North as they have been South the past
year.
General Wade Hampton, Of South Car
olina, has been appointed Commander-in-
chief of the cavalry connected with the
army of Northern Virginia.. :
- A very considerable number Of Charles
sonisns are, we learn, returning home. Con-
6dence in the safety Of the noble old city is
evidently again at It's food. s T.
"A rich Loyal Lacquer, who offered a
stout negro 500 to go to. the war as his
substitute, received for an answer, "Lor-
bress you, sar, Psgot $500 at home to buy
white man to 60 for meif Is drafted
The latest Northern papers report that
the Tallahassee had destroyed sixteen ves-
sells in thirty hours. New York city, and
all the Down East folks were in quite fe-
yer about her. .s
R. D. Ogden, managerofthe Richmond
theatre, who sued out writ of ha6eas cor
pas, to avoid the conscript law, alleging
that he was q subject of Great Britain,
has been finally remanded to the custody
of Major Peyton, at Camp Lee.
"A schoolmistress in England has in.
vented new punishment for refractory pu.
pills. She stands them on their heads and
pours cold water into their trowser's legs
Queen Victoria has nine children, aged
20, %, 20, 10, II, Is, II, 10
and 6. Five girls and four boys. Three
are married. e. - 81. ...s.
Grants bibulous propensities have long
been notorious, and they are said to have
increased amazingly during the present
campaign. 1t is an every day occurrence
for him and Butler to empty dozen bottles.
The Baltimore correspondent ofthe New
York Pest says that Henry Winter Davis
has written call for q National Convention,
to be held at Buffalo 10 September, to uomi-
nate candidates for President and Vice
President
= The Washington correspondent of the
Now York Herald, says: Gen. Halleck's
views of the present crisis are most de-
spending. He expresses himself as CRATE
full that the responsibility is on other and
higher shoulders than his own.
"A special telegram to the Register, da-
ted Oxford, l4th, says Chambers dashed
into AbbevilIe, whipped the enemy, cap.
turing rs prisoners, and fell back some
four miles, when the enemy attacked, but
were repulsed.
The people of Buffalo, New York, are
in fever about rebel raid, which is said
to have been organized in Canada, for the
purpose Of burning that city.
- Burnside has been relieved Of his COM
mand, the 18th corps, and arrived at Bal.
timore. Wilcoxis temporarily in command
of that corps.
Abingdon Firyinaan learns from per
sons just in from Kentucky, that nine out
of the ten members Of the Yankee Congress
from that State, are out.and-out peace men.
- Professor Smell, Amherst College,
who has kept meteorological register for
twenty-eight years, says that Monday, the
1st of August, was the hottest day during
twenty.eight years.
The Norfolk Old Donsnion, says !:
"We understand seminary for boarding
negro pupils, educating them'in all the u
sual common branches of education, will
soon be established near Norfolk"
- The smallest ponyin the world is owned
by John S. Rarey of Ohio. 1t is only
twenty inches high, and weighs only twenty.
one pounds. Its mother, which was brought
from the Shetland Isles by Rsrey, weighs
only seventy.three pounds.
The Portland Advertiser of August
9th says A number of the new monitors
have proved to be unseaworthy, owing to
the lack of depth, sinking so low in the wa.
ter as to render them unfit for navigation.
- Gen Hood is said to have remarked to
an officer the other day that Sherman had
only about fourteen thousand. more men
than he had.
- The crops in the Trans Mississippi Dis.
trict are overwhelming. The like has never
been seep before. Texas alone could feed
the entire army for year.
- TIE Duke of Marlborough being recent
ly very sick and not expecting to recover,
Oueen Victoria called on him and eravely