Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-05-18

- ~'tho pioonNo Hs1ss.. Ae'S =
Wilmingtonsin since the iron.clad Raleigh scat
tered the blockading squadron, . few days
ago. Five Of them are entirely new yes.
sells, on their first trips. They saw nosigns
of the blockaders.
The New York Herald, of the 4th,
says the Paris journals attach much impor.
tance to the declaration of the House of
Representatives in Washington against the
establishment of a monarchy in Mexico
The Independence Beige intinates that the
new Emperor has reflected on every even
tuality and thathe probably "oonsiders him.
self prepared to brave the hostility of the
United States" ~.a
The damage done to the telegraph wires
during the raid of the Federals on Resaca
was repaired Immediately after they left,
by Mrs. Buchmap, patriotic and emerge
tic lady of Whitfield County, and daughter
of COL Henry L. Sims, of Casoosa. b..
The Card Factory at Selma, Ala, is
running four machines, which turn off from
twenty to fifty pair per day. The proprie-
tor will soon commence manufacturing wire
from common bar iron. The cards will sell
at sS per pair.
: Gen. W. n. F. Lee, SO long in captivi-
ty, and recently exchanged, has been nom.
mated to the rank of major general, and
takes command of division of cavalry.
- Gen. Robert Toombs was in Columbus,
Ca, few days ago. In conversation be
stated that 'the present is the brightest day
which has ever dawned upon our Confede-
racy." Mr.. Stephens and Gov. Brown
would have us believe that it is about the
darkest -... .....'.,
The court martials of the Generals of
Longstreet's corps have terminated. Gen.
Robertson, of the Texas brigade, is sen.
fenced to be reprimanded; Gen. Law, of
Alabama, is returned to duty, and Genera,
McLaws' sentence has not yet been pub.
lished, though the inference is that he has
been acquitted. "
= aCousin. Sallie ,Aun,' we learn, is for.
tunate in securing the services of patriotic
friends who are willing to work for nothing
for her on condition of her finding others to
| fight for them. Contracts for carrying the
mails and other jobs involving exemption
from military service can be given out on
good terms. We. should know and keep
the names of all who thus serve their country
for nothing.
- Lieut.. Flusser, of the Yankee gunboat
Mian'i at Plymouth, N. c., was killed by;
the rebound of shell fired by himself
against the side of our ram Al5ermarle.-
The two vessels were but half length a.
part, and che fragments of the shell pierced
bis chest, face and skull, horribly mutila-
ting him. His fate is not deplored by the
people of that section, upon whom be was
accustomed to practice every species of op-
preston and insult.
- Lincoln has offered the command of
the Yankee troops in California to Fremont.
He will refuse to take it. Lincoln wants
to get him away from political influence.
Since the beginning of the present
campaign, fifty thousand Federal troops, ae.
cordipg to the estimates of the Federals
themselves, have been placed hors de CON-
bat. - -
- A Parliamentary return shows that the
number of rifles and muske.s exported from
Liverpool to Federal ports in 1861, was
fifteen thousand one hundred and forty
eight, while in 1862, it amounted to one
hundred and ninetysix thousand and fifty
three. g..
- The waters of Albermarle Sound are
in our quiet possession. The fisheries are
worked with great results by the people.
Mr., Alexander Ridings, of Forsythe
county, N. c., committed suicide on the
18th instant by hanging himself. Heleaves
a wife and eight children. Cause, fear Of
being made to enter the service. He was
one Of those who had furnished substitutes.
Federal dispatches from Cairo the 18th,
says that Gen Forrest crossed the river
Cold Water, going South, with 5000 cap
tured horses and nineteen hundred wagons
of plunder..
A rascally bachelor says: "The friend
ship of two women is always plot against
third"
An official telegram from Wilmington
to the Secretary of the Navy, gives us au-
thentic intelligence from Nassau that the
Confederate steamer Florida sunk the
Huntsville and another gun.boat in the
West Indies. .
President Lincoln holds frequent in