Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-03-23


Through the enterprise Of the
Southern Express Company, letters
may be sent to Columbia and Augusta,
Tuesdays and Fridays. Letters for
the Greenyille road, 60 BY way of
Shelby; for the spartanburg road, BY
way of Cherryville. COMMUNICATIONS ms
for Edge6eld; sent to Ninety-six on the
GreenviIle road, will be Forwarded three
timesia week ca,0lsniaa. Es4 ! y
Gen. Lee told two clergyman who
had called on him, and were eonversmg
about the best means Of promoting the
spiritual interests of soldiers, that the
,way to benefit soldiers, and make them
willing to receive religious instructions,
is to 20 among them and stay with
them. j. 81, sszr ..sss,Er5 S So :,
--.AnsoAicial report to Congress shows
that the whole number Of rebel prison
ers of war who have enlisted in the u
MON service thus far is about three
thousand nine hundred. - 5sst,zs. :.
Northern news indicates Federal
designs on Mobile, Selma, and Mont
gomery, Alabama. The: Yankees &c e claim
that our total force in that department
is only %, 900 men. Kirby. Smith is
to be wiped out;next Spring
"A company Of forty-three women
recently attempted to fee from the
bonds of Mormonism in Utah, but they
were overtaken and carried back to
their masters. It is said that the fe-
males in Utah are becoming 50 deter
mined to escape from their degrading
bondage that crisis in Mormon affairs
will necessarily come soon.
= Nearly ten thousand prisoners have
been exchanged within the, last twenty
days. .ysaz
= The list of rebel sympathizers and
describes residing in Memphis who
have taken the amnesty oath, numbers
one thousand and forsy-fve names:S A.
Jackson Donelson is among them. (
The mere cost Of gathering an ar
my of three hundred thousand men at
the North, independent Of pay, outfit,
&c., is, from four. to six hundred mil
lions. The bounties are from ten to
fifteen hundred dollars per man. rg ,a.- :
Federalrecruiting agents:have been
busy in Switzerland. The, Swiss Gov
ernment has interferred, and . semi
official request has been made to the
citizens to abstain, from even visiting
the North. -s; s4so<;' go =
--Aman boasting in company Of
ladies that he had q very luxuriant head
of hair, a lady present remarked that
it was doubtless owing to. the meleow-
ness otf The sos;1l. W Gsa ssl''7- .,
"A case is pending inthe New York
Supreme Court in swhicha q child was
left in pawn or.pledge for the payment
of a. debt -. s.:,.. :assf,' .tsdi
"A correspondent Of the Mobile Aa-
vsrtiser 8 Register, says that Alabama
has had 122, 900, men mustered in the
service, of whom $4,000 have been Kill
led and wounded.
The British revenue derived during
the year 1864 was only $500, 900 below
that of,the previous year, notwithstand-
ing the reduction of several millions
in taxation. -
A gentleman in Lynchburg has
made arrangements by which, from his
own private store he will feed ten men
in General Lees army for the next
SIX. months, -. .. s.
"A meeting Was held in Raleigh, North
Carolina, son ThursdaY at which the citi.
zens eontribnteds Eve thousand and fifty
pounds ef bacon; two hundred and ninety
barrels Of corn and fifty barrels Of -four.
~-Asgentlemanr in Columbia writes to a
friendin this place, that when that city
was occupied BY the enemy yankee soldier
robbed lady of ten,thopsapd dollars by pla.
cling pistol to her head and demanding its
delivery - =
They are best situated to be happy,
who are neither too high nor too ow-high
enough to see models Of good manners, and
obscure enough tobe left in Che sweetnesz
of solitude. BE- sa7-'- g, =. - &
Negres for the Army.
RICHMOND, March 16..-Majors J. W.
Pegran and Thomas p. Turner, having