Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-10-26
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sWASHiNdy0Ny'O ICE. It,.----AIo ocoohsou
is made positively in Intelligent quarters
that there is now before the Government
something in the nature of q proposal from
the British authorities to pay damages
arising from the depredations of Confeder.
ate priyateers fitted out at British ports, and
also toarriye atsome agreement which shall
prevent q recurrence of like transactions
hereafter, as between two nations, whether
the hostile condition exists in Great Britain
orin the United States.
Is The. Wirz trial is nesr its close. Il is
stated BY the reporters, Messrs. Kinks,
Hayes and Browne, that the amount Of tes-
timony is equal to that given in the great
conspiracy trial ras.r
&. WASHINGTON, Oct 15.-As the time
for the assembling of next Congress ap-
proaches, discussion. and speculation in-
GREASE in all quarters concerning the stand
the President viii take in his message on
the practicsl question Of admitting repre-
.seutatives from the Southern States. He
may possible say little that is new. on the
subject. All his words and deeds attest
that he believes the American people are
for the union, ofsali the States; that indi-
yidnals who stand in the way of that result
will have to stand aside or be trodden down
in lis progress that we made war for the
Union, denying the right of any State to.
secsde, proclaiming all 50. called acts of se-
cession utterly null and void; that the men
who ssrove to break up the Union have
mainly given up the'attempt in good faith
and offer to come back, and that We Of the
North cannot stultify our past action by
now asserting that they not only we're ont
Of the Union during the rebellion, but
shall remaiD- out of 1t after making proper
submission. These assertions have been
expressed or implied in almost every public
address of his since his installation, and
may be taken as the uperring indices of his
future action. - -,
Among the emore important reports con.
.cerning the late war that will be brought to
the noticesof the next Congress is enc now
in rapid process Of compilation at the head
quarters Of the Commissary of Prisoners.
The above report win be ready in about six
weeks, and will present most accurate and
remarkable resume of the captivity Of Fed
sral and rebel soldiers and all essential mat
ters pertaining to their imprisonment In
anticipation Of this important document we
may state the following: The principal de-
pots for the Governments prisoners during
ateRar we're located at Point Lookout,
Jotnson's Island, Alton, Elmira, Chicago,
Nashville, st. Louis and Fort Delaware
These prisons during the summer Of 1854,
contained more prisoners than at any other
period Of the rebellion, the captives nnm.
bering between "a, 600 and $4,000 men.
The report in question viii show that the
number Of prisoners taken on both sides
was in the aggregate fully up to 500, 600,
and swill give in accurate numbers the
strengthen the Southern armies at the time
of their parchment and disbanding last
spring. It viii also indicate the number
exchanged, enlisted on the side of the enc.
my, dicd, escaped and took the oath Of al.
legiance, with list of men dying in South
ern prisons. The business now being
transacted by this bureau is almost iucredi.
bic. Besides the vast amount Of clerical
labor required to perfect the records before
thereportof its operations can be entirely
completed, itJhas also to render certificates
of the Goyernment's' Indebtedness to each
Union soldier upon its:rolls, the War De:
partment having allowed all such commuta.
ton of rations at the rate Of twenty. Eve
cents per, day during the period of<their
confinement, and also three months extra
payto slf gho. o.were notrsleased previous to
S0th of May last. These certificates
are collectable of any eommissary of sub
sistence in the country. We are authorized
to state, inzthis connection, that discharged
soldisn who entrust their claims of this ma.
ture to the agents Of the Sanitary Commis-
sion and State agents viii be paid in checks
uponG Government repositories: Those ma.
king applioationssfor combinations of IA
tions person should apply directly to the
0ommissary General of Prisoners -
Some days ago the Government received
information of the seizure, by the Canadian
authorities Of Niagara, of six hundred
Spencer rifles, which wore being smuggled
into Canada for the use of Feniaus or other
agitators in the British Provinces. It has
since been ascer.ained that these arms were
the purchases Of one Moses, in Toronto, a
little Jew, formerly of Atlanta, Georgia,
and one. of the heaviest hardware merchants
of the South, who, since his retirement
into Canada, has been turning dishonest
pennies by blockade running and other
transactions, in connection with yellow fe-
yer Blaekburne, Steele, Sanders, and others
of that class. The last notable transaction
in which Moses was concerned, and which
came to the knowledge of the War'Depart.
uent, was.the stealing and smuggling into
Canada of patterns of Burdens horseshoe
machinery, with . view to the ultimate es.
tablshment ora horseshoe factory at AT.
lanta for the benefit Of the rebel Govern
ment; but .Sherman's operations spoiled
that game. Next, Moses went into the;
Fenian pike business, and furnished large
ingoiessof that formidable weapon to Irish
republican agents. Latterly, through agents
in the principal cities of the North and
West, he has been purchasing serviceable
fre-arms for sthe same purpose. The bust.
ness has really grown to be one of consid-