Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-04-20

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aoard" denying having participated in the
inauguration of the. Federal Governor
Hahn. Upon arriving at Pasoasoula on a
flag of truce boat, the Confederates refused
to let him land and sent him back to the
Crescent city. .ss,.:
Cincinnati is very much in favor of the
Administration taking our slaves. If the
Administration were to propose to take Gin
qinnati's hogs, she would, perhaps, squeal
as if all her big and little porkers were
holding concert.
En- the city court of Mobile, on Mon
day of last week, Jacob Richond was con-
victed of the crime of extortion. He was
fined $500 and sentenced to three months
Imprisonment in the county Jail.
- Mr.. ~McCrea, s Yankee Missionary al
Beaufort, s. c., for converting the negroes,
has been put in Jail for selling them whis
key.
-Farragut coufesses Mobile cannot be
taken by the feet without a simultaneous
move of the army.
= Mrs. Senator Douglas is filling q twelve
hundred dollar clerkshipin the Treasury
Department at Washington. This is stated
positively by Washington correspondent.
The Northern papers say the Spring
campaign will be opened simultaneously on
all sides, and that they have 100000 more
r,en than they had year ago.
"A soldier Of the 9Th Georgia Regiment,
now in service in Florida, in letter ex-
presses the opinion that elf the Admins.
tration would keep allin the sfmy who be-
longed in the ranks, there would be no need
of taking away more men from their occu'
pations at home" 81 n
; Says the Southern churcAmsam: "We
understand, from a source entitled to re.
spect, that Gen. Lee has been eating meat
only twice week. We think it very like
ly the General could get meat in abundance
but he will not fare better than his men,.
Should not we who are at bome be willing
to fare as hardly as they, for the sake of the
cause 2 -. - ... ~ %.
The gun which burst at Cummings
Point was the famous 800 FOUNDER Parrott.
FIt had been fred 4,6l5 times. a.
-Thurlow Weed thinks the Yankee
Congress has closed with regard to Mexico,
and will throw Napoleon and Maximilian
to the arms of the rebels. s
Paul Morphy, the chess player; has re-
turned to New Orleans. The Yankee pa
pers say he is persistent rebel.
Aboard of officers is soon to assemble
at Richmond to examine and report upon the
Justice and amount of claims of parties who
have lost their negroes impressed for labor
on public defences-to include those who
have escaped to the enemy as we'll as those
who have died from injuries or diseases con-
tracted while in the service. 81.
A mammoth still, with appropriate ma.
chinery, the whole occupying several cars,
was sent off by the Administration from
Richmond to be established at Macon,
Georgia, or vicinity, for the manufacture Of
alcohol. ,<s:ss- ...- . - j.
- The Mobile Tribune learns, on excel
lent authority, that the recent cold weather
has not much damaged the wheat in Ala
bama and Mississippi. tits also estimated
that FIVE times the quantity of land have
been sown with it, as compared with last
year. Three months from now, if not soon-
er, -four will, therefore, begin to be loose
in the knees, and probably let, down to a
living price.
That was hard lick at our profession
made yesterday morning by "gentleman
of African descent" whom we keep as a
"roller." Some gentleman asked kim why
he preferred to work in printing Office
"Ah! massa," said ALI, "anything to be
exempt" -.
The New York Times cries out loudly
against miscegenation, and says that if it
had "conceived it possible that hostility to
slavery would ever have led to Wholesale in
termarriage with negroes, the Republican
party would never have received any count
enance or support from US"
A private letter from Oxford, Missis-
sippi, says: 1t is impossible to give an ade-
quate description Of the damage inflicted by
Forrest upon the command of Smith and
Grierson. Forsixty miles the line of their
retreat was marked by dead Yankees and
horses.
Two of the principal bands Of music in
N. York city being applied to, to play at the
parade of the 26th regiment colored troops,
refused on account of their color.
CHARLES Sumner suggests Butler for
President of the Yankee States. and Ere.