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YORKVILLE, S. C. . WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 11,1863. UNION PBAYBR MEETING. We have been requested' to state that a Union Prayer Meeting is held in this town, each day, at half past four o'clock, in the new Presbyterian Church. Ministers and members of any denomination who should happen to be in town at this hour, are cor; dially invited to attend. If "the effectual, fervent prayer of the righteous availeth much," there is oertainly a loud call to prayer in the present threatened and endangered condition of our beloved State and country. LYRICS AND {SKETCHES. We have still on hand a few copies of this ' pretty little volume, by the lamented poet? # soldier, Wm. M. Martin, which we offer at the old price. As a souvenir to or from oar young soldiers, it is appropriately calculated for the present time. Who has forgptten our "Hub? ?" ANOTHER SOLDIER GONE. We learn with regret the death of Mr. Alexander Eidd, formerly of this District, "who volunteered in May last, and was taken down with typhoid fever in camp, near Austin, in Prairie county, Arkansas, about the 1st of September last, and died on the ,28th, in the 84th year of his age. He was much esteemed by his companions in arms, hat the sympathy of friends are best due to a weakly wife and seven children, who survive him; and each is war! THE WAR. The news of Van Horn's success in the West has been confirmed. From Savannah we bad nothing yesterday, farther than the suspension of the attack on Fort MoAUister, without effect. Charleston is 3lso quiet?but if wo judge from Yankee letters from Hilton Head to Northern presses, will not remain so a week longer. From the papers of the city we gather nothing more than the nsnal business progression, and blockade sales. Each mail may be now looked for with anxiety. SOUTHERN FIELD & FIRESIDE. Now that onr country is cleared of the mass of Yankee trash that had led our people to disregard their home literature, it is pleasing to refer to the ju-t claims of the excellent weekly whose name heads thisarticle. Ad experiment at first, it is now, even (iD these times of) high priced material, in the full tide of success, and holding forth great inducements, we hope to see it a welcome visitor at every Southern fireside. It is a large sheet, neatly printed and contains apart from its literary merit, much valuable information connected with the agricultural interests. The Price, $4, is really as low as tlie Clcrfc, and the juries dismissed, tnere being no Judge present and no necessity for one. The attendance was large, for the times. t Lunatic Asylum. I)r. M. Laborde was elected President of the Board, and Mr. A. Crawford, Re' gent, to fill tbe vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Andrew Wallace. WSS* It is said that not less than fourteen of the largest boarding houses in Richmond have closed their doors the present week to table boarders, on account of the scarcity and unprecedented high prices of all the necessaries of life, and more will follow their example soon. so mucn reading coaia De expeocea lor? See the advertisement. ' A PBOWGAL. Lieut. 6. Pemble, one of the captured officers of the 7?aac P. Smith, off Stooo, and who bad been confined with his Yankee confreres ia the Jail at Columbia, has renounced the old Uniou, and taken the oath of allegiance to his proper mother, the Southern Confederacy, and is discharged. Quite a "scene" occurred on the occasion, and various "phrases" were exchanged, we learn, rather more of the marine than 'the moral school. We take pleasure in quoting Mr Cox, of Ohio, "When bb heart ached, and his feet had grown sore, He remembered the pathway that led to our door." We presume Abraham I, will give up his favorite air of "Jim along, Josey," and substitute that of "Stop dat Knocking." THE PAST WEEK. Tuesday abd Wednesday of last week, was the time appointed for the examination of Conscripts, and brought a large num her of the males left to town. Many had volunteered in companies, and few were left to conscript, making, perhaps a total of some seventy five, showing, we think, conclusively, that York bad already contributed most of ber arms-bearing population of the ages specified- If this is taken as an average throngkoQt the South, it may not be necessary to increase the call to forty five, in order to fill np the decimated ranks of companies in Virginia, &c. which was obviously the original intention. At any rate, onr ranks should be filled in every quarter, the stragglers should return voluntarily, or be gathered up at once, and we rest assured, that "a long pall, and a strong poll, and a pull alltogether," will do more to bring abont s speedy and lasting peace, than all the recognition and disaffectionswith which the press are now so preg' int. On Monday last the Court was called by EDITOBIAL ITEMS. ? The Oh&rlotte Democrat says that tb Faotories in the old North State, evade tb extortion la* by selling their goods onl for corn, wheat, bacon, &c., and re-sellin at specolator's prices, making more tha double 75 per oent. profit. ? A commoner in the North Carolin Legislature, has published a speech censu ring South Carolina, as having been willin to ask forgiveness of George III, and n turning to her allegiance during the revolt tionary war. The honest rebuke of th Charlotte Democrat, renders any farthe notice by the press of this State unnecef sary. ? The North Carolina papers are urgip the Tobacco planters to refrain, this season from the cultivation of the plant, and devot j every acre of arable land to the productioi or something "eatable by man ana beast. ? Nails are selling in Yorkville at 81 pe lb, or 2 cents a piece ! ?The Yankees have recently burnt a hot pital in Fauquier County, Va., containin 500 negroes with the small pox ! Smithfieli remodeled. ? A Convention of the Teachers of th Confederate States is cal?ed to meet a Columbia, S. C., on the 28th of April next The objeot is to oonsider the best means fo supplying text books forschools and colleges ? Capt. John C. McClenaghan, A. Q. M. of this Department, died at Charleston oi the 6th instant. ? The Federal Congress died out on th 4th instant, but not before creating Abra ham I, a Diotator. The new Congress wil prove to him a bitter pill, so it will not bi convened before its regular session in De cember. ? Sixty Confederate prisoners of war diec in the St. Louis hospitals during the weel ending January 31. ? Fort Taylor, or Gordon's Bluff, when tVio Onoon nf the Wont: wnn nnnftiroii. in a ?..w x*v.wUw w. ?. ..? ?r -i bout twenty-five miles below Alczaodria. The Federal Congress has organized i new Territory, contiguous ta Oregon, ti be called Montana. ? A New York paper says that the noto rious George Saunders was actually in Nev York about a fortnight previous to his de parture for Europe from Halifax; also, tha he was the guest of a well-known citizen or Murray Hill. ? A Court of Inquiry iu the case of Ma jor-General Lovell, meets soon at Jaokson Miss. Generals Hindman, Gardner ant Drayton, compose the court. ? We are glad to learn from the Savan vah Republican that Gen. W. H. T. Wal ker, Confederate States Army, accompaniec by Capts. J. Cumming and D. Lamar, ar rived in that city on Monday evening. ? A second gunboat was launched ai Selina on Thursday evening without acci dent, and proceeded on to Mobile. ? The London Times says it is clear thai the blockade at Charleston was not raisec at the time of the attack on the Federa fleet, and that there was not even an inter mission of it. The Post takes a similai view of it. ? A row has occurred between the Fede ral soldiers and the negroes at Hilton Head The latter were driven off to the other cnc of the Island. ? A single case of small pox has appear ed in Anderson village in a virulent form The patient has been removed beyond ths town limits. ? A commission merchant in Atlanta. Ga., sold a few days ago, eleven barrels o whiskey for the enormous sura of $3,000, being more than $700 per barrel. This will do for our children to remember. ? "I don't like this telling what peoph give to this and that object," said a penu rious Derson: "what I give is nothing h t w ? noloJy." ? The ordnance department of Virginia manufactured arms enough last year to e quip 113,485 men. ? The demand for Confederate Eigb Per Cent. Bonds is largely on the increasi in Chester District. The amount disposec of in Chester to this date, says the Stand aril, will reach the sum of ?250,000?anc this, no doubt, will be greatly increased be fore the 22d of April, when the issue o such Bonds will cease. ? The Vicksburg Whig learns that oni thousand and six deserters from the Fede ral army have reached Monroe, La. ? We learn, on undoubted authority, tha Geneial Toombs, of Georgia, has tendere* the resignation of his commission to Ibi | President. | Resignation op Gf.n. Toombs.?W< I learn, on undoubted authority that Genera Toombs, of Georgia, whose rank, we believe l flrtfiannl kne f/irwlrw/w mat ui niiguuici utuciai, uao ttuutici the Vesignation of his commission to thi President. It is not positively known wha motives induced this step, but it is said i is owing to a disappointment of his militar aspirations?General Toombs claiming tha if he was not worthy of promotion, hewouh resign in favor of some one who was.? Others say that his resignation has a politi ; cal bearing, and that he will be brough | forward as a candidate for the next Govern : or of Georgia. General Toombs is wel ; known from his long pnblic career. Atthi I time of the secession of his State he wa 1 one of the United States Senators *ron i Georgia, and was one of the most activ< and able leaders of the State Rights part; I in that body, identifying himself with th ! secession movement from its inoeption. i ' For the YorkvlUe Enquirer. e LIEUT. COL. WM. H. MoCOBKLE. e Editor Enquirer :?We have read with y pleasure jour handsome tribute to this geng tleman, published some weeks ago. Your d terms are highly complimentarj; we hazard nothing, however, in saying that, in a the judgment of the officers and men of t. his regiment, they are deemed neither ang merited nor extravagant. Few have suo). oeeded better in winning the esteem of their l. associates than Col. MoCorkle. Prudent, e sagacious and truthful, possessed of super rior business talent, and of tried valor, his i. retirement is a serious loss to his command. We know it is not willingly, but by oon? straint, he leaves the service of his oountry, , in which he has shed his blood. Appreciae ting, therefore, fully the motives which inj duoed him to resign, his regimeut will long remember him as a high-toned gentleman, r a brave soldier, and n most kind hearted and efficient officer. And we but express ^ the earnest hope of all, when we say we ^ sincerely trust that relief from the exposure ^ and hardships of the camp, may remove the symptoms of a most dangerous disease, e with which, in the judgment of his sur" * .1 . i i .1 ? geon, ne is seriously tnreatenea, ana mac his days may be .prolonged,, and crowned r with great' usefalness in the more private walks of life. An Officer of the 12th Reqt., S. C. V. i 3 From Savannah. The Savannah papers of Thursday fare nisb us with the following intelligence from .. Genesis Point: j The gun which was dismounted in the commencement on Tuesday was mounted at e 4 o'olock yesterday morning, and was ready - for action. During the night of Tuesday the enemy's mortar boats kept shelling at I intervals to prevent the engineers and assistants from getting the gun in position L and repairing the damage to the fort, which waa slight. The enemy's mortar boats oeas3 ed firing at six o'clock a. m., all of the ves. sels comprising the Yankee fleet had left the Ogeechee River, except three iron clads and the two mortar boats, wbioh remained 1 at the anchorage, some three miles below > Genesis Point. There could not have been less than from 50 mGO tons of iron hail directed against iWFfort during the bombardment, which J lasted some twenty hours, without cessation, - and, most wonderful to state, the only casut allies were two men slightly wounded. All damages to the Fort have been repaired. The men are in the best of spirits. They were as we learn, cracking jokes at the Yankees' ill success in shelling, shout, ing to them, "too far to the right," and j "too far to the left," as each shell failed to strike the Fort. The Savannah Republican of yesterday, ' has the following: All quiet on the Georgia coast yesterday, | so far as we could learn. The enemy seem slow, or disinclined altogether, to renew the contest with Fort McAllister. It has been definitely ascertained that the fleet t have gone down to the Sound, and apparently out to sea; and furthermore, that one of the iron clads, supposed to be the Mod tauk, had her pilot house down and turret ^ ^nrcrcd with canvas, as if undergoing re I pairs. I ? ' ' Van Dorn's Late Victory. Chattanooga, March 6.?The follow1 ing official despatch has been received of Van Dorn's late engagement. The fight took place at Thompson's Station, and not at Franklin, the enemy making the attack : I TCLLAIIOMA, March 6.? To Colonel B. S. Ewcll: The enemy attacked Van Dorn, yesterday, at Thompson's Station, between Columbia and Franklin. lie . drove them handsomely, and captured five , regiments of infantry?twenty-two hundred officers and men. Our loss not yet reported. [Signed,] BRAXTON BRAGG: | Capture of the Jacob Bell. 3 Richmond, March 5.?The New York Herald of the 3d says the C. S. Steamer Florida captured and burnt the ship Jacob 3 Bell from China for New York, with six. teen hundred tons of Merchandize. The cargo was valued at one million eight hundred thousand dollars. Richmond, March 6.?The Jacob Bell , had a cargo of twenty-two thousand pack. ages of tea, twenty-five hundred rolls of matting, five thousand boxes fire crackers, four hundred boxes fans, eight thousand t mats cassia, two hundred and ten boxes of 3 camphor, the whole valued at one million j dollars. The Florida burned the vessel and transferred the passengers and crew to a Danish vessel which conveyed them to * St. Thomas. f Richmond Items. Hermes, in his letter of the 3d, communicates to the Charleston Mercury the fol3 lowing Richmond items : Gold advanced 40 per cent, yesterday. Many causes conduce to the rise. Num^ bers of foreigners are leaving, taking gold with them. Full one hundred of them * were at General Winder's office this morns ing. Some of them are scared j others desire to return with stocks of goods at the earliest opening of our ports. Again, the e capitalists of our city are engaged exten] sively in the blockade running business, ) and they require gold for their operations. J Thirdly, the discussion in seoret session of ? the question of finance has occasioned vague t apprehensions, which no one defines, yet t everyone acts upon. Lastly, the risera j New York affects the gold market here, t A eon of Halleck, the editor of the 1 Journal of Commerce, has just reached . this city, bringing with him oheering iutel. ligcnce of the depression and alarm in the t monetary and political circles of the North. . He comes to cast his lot with us. Says he 1 has seen more gaity and confidence in Riche mond since his arrival than for six months s beforo. i Gen. Longstreet is said to be only Leme porarily assigned to the command of this y department, vacated by the resignation of e Gen. G. W. Smith. Gen. Toombs' resignation is announced. Reported that the President is anxious to pnt General Harry j Heth in 1). H. Hill's plaoe. Col. Alexan-' der Taliaferro, it is said, will shortly be promoted to a Brigadiership. Late from the United States. The Richmond Examiner has dates from the United States up to the 3d. The following are some of tho items of interest: The United States conscription bill did ! not finally pass both Houses of Congress until Sunday morning. The Senate concurred in the House amendments, and it passed by a vote of 34 to 6. The Washington Chronicle, is an article on the final passage of the bill, says:? "When the people realize that this bill was demanded to prevent the Republic from utter annihilatiou, and that it reaches all olases, and exempts but few speuial cases, they will reproaoh themselves for having listened to the men who induced them to question its expedience and justice." From an editorial in the Chronicle, we incidentally learn that Gen. Wool had ordered a patrol force to ascertain the number and description of fire-arms in the city of New York, and also the quantity of ammunition now in the stores of that city.? v . t XT 'mis was onargea ny we jwew xors &x press to be a precautionary movement of the' Lincoln Government against a popular oatbreak. The Chronicle does not deny this, but Bays "it is well known that there is a large number of disloykl people there, and the Express is one of the organs of the nefarious crew." One Lieutenant Colonel, two Majors, eighteen Captains, and forty-three Lieutenants are dismissed, for absenoe without leave, from the army of the Potomac, by a a single order published in the Chronicle of to-day, and four hundred privates, who had deserted, are reported as having been sent back to duty in the past two weeks. Reconstruction.?Oar respeoted co-_ temporary of the Charleston Mercury seems to be very uneasy abont reconstruction, either political or commercial. Its fears are unfounded. There is no such luck in store, either good or bad The secret sessions of Congress have had nothing to do with the subject, so far as we are advised. The whole matter is in the bands of the President, and we never heard that he had any thought of such a thing. In fact, we never heard that anybody deBired it. All that has been suggested in any quarter was to omit nothing that would encourage the disaffection in the Northwest, aqd to do everything possible to detach that important section from the Eastern Yankees. Any com mercial relations made witn tnose estates would be based^ipon entire separation from and antagonism to the Yankees, without involving reconstruction with us. Richmond Whig, 5th. Worthy of Imitation. Ma. Editor : The Hon. E. Q-. Palmer has sold to one of the Commissioners of the Board of Relief for Soldiers' Families corn sufficient to supply all ia his division for two months, at ?1.00 per bushel; but large as the heart and means of Dr. Palmer are, he cannot -supply all who are now on the eve of suffering. Among those families whose fathers and husbands are in the service of their country, is it possible that, in this moment when our glorious cause is shining brighter and brighter every day, the wail of distress shall be hoard in the lonely bouses of women End children. Forbid kind Heaven, forbid. Ye corn holders throughout the country, follow the example of Mr. P., and the blessings of her that is ready to perish, will prove a richer boon on your dying bed, than all the goldofOphir. Mrs. Col. J. L. Black also deserves honorable mention for selling corn to soldier's families at $1 00. ,WM. CARLISLE. Ridgeway, March 9,1863. Kentucky. The Knoxviile Register learns that the people of Kentucky*are in the greatest excitement and confusion A gentleman who was at Louisville at the time of the departure of some ten or fifteen thousand Yankee troops for Yicksburg, states that they had picked up in Kentucky, and intended to take along with them. That the people rose up apprehended nearly all the negroes, and so doing came in collision with the Yankee soldiers. Several heads and ribs were broken with sticks and rockB, but no fire-arms were used. Many of the strongest Union men bavs become violent secession ists, aDd it is believed mat a union party will soon cease to exist in that State. S&~ Col. David Urquhart, Aid-de camp of Gen. Bragg, arrived here a few days since from Tullahoma, having brought a battery of four guns to bo presented to S. Carolina by the Army of Tennessee. They are beautiful steel pieces, two being "Parrott" gun 3, and two "Wiard" guns. They were captured by the South Carolina troops at Murfreesboro, and each piece bears the name of its captor on a brass plate, as follows : "Captain J. R. Nettles, Tenth S. C. Regiment; Captain J. S. Palmer, Tenth S. C. Regiment; Lieutenant J. P. Norris, Nineteenth S. C. Regiment; Captain A. J. Lythgoe, Nineteenth S. C. Regiment." Charleston Courier. tSF The Mobile Tribune publishes the list of persons between the ages of eighteen and forty years, who have taken the oath as aliens before the enrolling officer at Mobile. Ucf to a fnrmMfthlfl nne. nnmberincr JL MSs iitJV AO Ifl AV* ?>?* ? ? , / o between nine handred and one thousand persons, and we suppose that, should persons between forty and forty-five be called out, it would be largely increased. This publication, remarks the Columbus Enquirer, is a timely and proper one. Cannot similar lists be published in all the other cities and towns ? It is right that our people should know, after the war is over and trade is re-established, who repudiated the duties of a citizen during the trying hour of the country in which they enjoyed protection and made their money. Those who evade such duties now should he avoided .hereafter in the dispensation of patronage and favor.?Savannah News. A Paying "Dash."?The horses, mules, harness and arms captured by McNeill's Ranger's, in their recent dash upon a Yankee train, near Romney, were sold in Harrisonburg, Ya., and brought the handsome amount of 836,000; the share of each member being 8900. What Shall we Call Them P Yankee! People h&ve been puzzled for a name appropriate to the base race East of Mason's and Dixon's line. Unionists and Federals are the terms they employ themselves; bat everybody feels that tbey fall far short of desoribing the thing as it is. Gen. Beauregard has suggested Abolitionists?bat this is technical and limited in its signification, and does not begin to defioe the universal depravity of the race. Yankee is the only one word that meets the case ; and is the synonym of everything mean that the imagination of man can conceive. We have constantly used it in that sense for two years; and we are gratified to find that the reverend author of "The Campaign from Texas to Maryland," who knows the animal well, and thoroughly appreciates all the detestable traits of its character, concurs with us. We subjoin his paragraph on the subject, with hearty approbation of the designation and the reasons for it: "The next and last, is the only one that will nnnlv. Yankee: The nnnular name rrv rr for the oitizeDs of Now England. This is what Webster says it means?and this is what we want?a name for the people of New England. And, as their history is known to the civilized world, the whole world will understand as, and we will understand ourselves when we oall them Yankees. It is the only name or word in the English, or any other language, living or dead, that can be applied with full scope and force. It extends to all their ten thousand schemes of deception and fraud, and comprehends their every aot of lying and stealing, from the days of Washington till the present hour, in all their political, legislative, exeootive, commercial, civil, moral, literary, sacred, profane, theological and diabolical history. "The word has ever been used in contemptuous ridicule of their con duot towards each other, and their dealings with the rest of the world. And there is no other word in all the range of human learning, wbioh will convey to tho mind every man, both in Earope and America, in Africa and the Islands of the sea, so many, and correct traits of character, as the word Yankee, when applied to the Yankee. And thus applied, it means meddlesome, impudent, insolent, pompons, boastful, unkind, ungratefal, unjast, knavish, false, deceitfal, cowardly, swindling, thieving, robbing, brutal and murderous. ((With this name, we involuntarily associate the story of the clook pedler, who stole the land-lady's counterpane off cf her own bed, and then sold it to her?shoe-soles made of birch bark, wooden hums, patent medicines, chalk milk and wooden nutmegs. It carries us back to days of yore, and ena bles as to look at tbo different puases or society, from the time they burnt old women for witches to the days of the inauguration of the 'woman's rights conventions.' Exhibiting the style of dress worn by Pur ritans in beaatifnl contrast with the fast age that pats their women in breeches. "This Yankee country has given birth to Socialism, Mormonism, Millerism, Spiritualism and Abolitionism, with every other Devilism which has oursed the nation of Unionism. And, as there is one word that yvill express all these and a hundred more itiiis, I prefer to use that word and thereby say all that can be said on this snbjeot? the term is Yankeeism. And we will call them Yankees; General Beauregard and the newspapers to the contrary, notwithstanding."?Richmond Whig. * Middle Tennessee.?Our information is that the forces under General Johnston are now strongly entrenched in the vicinity of Tullahoma, having withdrawn from the neighborhood of Shelbyville. This position was, we have seen Btated, long ago selected as the most easily defended one between Nashville and Chattanooga, by. President Davis himself, and, it has been approved by General" Johnston, we may indulge every hope that the wiley Federal commander will be forced, if he advances, to give battle upon ground that will at least afford our troop3 an equal ohance. The blunder at Stone river, whioh was followed by such wholesale slaughter, will not be repeated.?Jackson Appeal, 28//t. The Reaction at the North.?We have on authority from the. North, whioh we consider entirely reliable, some very comfortable information relative to the popular reaction through the Northwest. An "irrepressible" confliot seems to have risen between the Democrats and Republicans in the Illinois Legislature, on a proposition to adjourn to the first of June, by whioh time it is hoped by the Democrats the peace conoanfinn nrnnnqnit tn bft hnldrin at Louisville. ,uu"u" r*wr?? . / would be enabled to make a report of its proceedings. This caused the Republican members to desert the Senate, thereby leaving it without a quorum for business, and thus the matter stands. The Chicago Times urges the Democrats to stand firm, and make no terms with the Republicans, while it is thought they will do. This squints very strongly of anarchy and confusion.?Richmond Examiner. ? * ? ?-- - ? A Statement prom the Officers of the Blockading Fleet.?The officers of the blockading squadron off Charleston, in their published card, say: "We deem it our duty to say that the results as published in the Charleston papers are talse in every particular. No vessels were sunk and noue set on fire. Two vessels alone were injured ?the Mercedita and Keystone State. Af ter the firing ended the blockade continued as before. Nj vessel ran in or out of the port that day, nor was any attempt made to run the blockade that day. These are the faots, and we do not hesitate to state that no vessel did como out beyond the bar after the return of the rams, between 7 and 8 o'clock, a. m., to the cover of the forts/' Acquitted.?The examination of Capt. James W. Henley, of Amherst, who shot and killed Bobert A. Staples, at Farmville on the 27th of January, commenced before the Court of Prince Edward, on Monday week, and was conoluded on Wednesday last. The accused plead, in defence ot the killing, the seduction of his wife by the deceased while he was absent in the service of his country. The evidence fully sustained the plea, and the Court unanimously decided that the homicide was justifiable, and discharged the accused. Petersburg Express. A Capital Joke.?The following excellent joke is well worth the place it oboupies. We olip it from an Indiana paper : , A few days since an extra train loaded with jackasses was transported over the Louisville and New Albany railroad. The telegraph operator at Salem, a boy, getting wind of it, sent a rumor that Gov. Morton, of Indiana, and Gov. Yates, of Illinois, accompanied by a large delegation of Repnblioans, with bands of masio, etc., woald pas? through at a certain hour. Immense crowds of enthusiastic Republicans repaired to the depot, bats in hand, ready for the expected cheers. When the train thundered in, an aged and venerable owner of a pair of fabulous ears stuok bis head out of a stock oar and gave vent to a long, agonizing hee-haw, that fairly shook the hills around; consternation seized the crowd, and in two minutes not a Republican was to be seen within a mile of the depot. Complaint has been made to the Superintendent agairifct the operator, and he is in momentary expectation of a notice to quit. wahtvts t tka anfiaana* tin/1, lej from Havana, arrived bere last night with an assorted cargo. Reliable information received here state that the Yankees has gone np the Tennessee river to Florenoe with a fleet of gunboats. About 400 cavalry were landed and are destroying everything in their route throngh Franklin and Lawrence counties. Latest accounts say they are marching from Monlton in Lawrence county, South-west through Marion county in a direot line towards Aberdeen, Mississippi. Help Me, Cuffy, or I Sink.?The Abolition presses of the North declare that their only hope now is in the dash and valor of the negro regiments, who they assert are superior soldiers to their own. The time was (says the Savannah IVews,) when the "Americans of African descent" were forced to acknowledge that a white man at the North was as good as the nigger, if he behaved himself. But Yankee doodle will hardly claim even that conditional equality now. Ok, Boodle, Doodle, how art thou fallen ! Artillery Experiments.?The big gun of tho steamer "Richmond" has been tried with ample success. A target, plated with eight iuches of iron, was' penetrated by tho powerful projectile fired from the gun, at a distance of eight hundred yards! It was first charged with fifteen pounds of powder, then with twenty, and finally with twenty five; bnt the twenty pound charge was found to be the most effective.?Richmond Whig 5th. VST An admirer of a prima dona, at Berlin, sent her lately two magnifiaent robes with a billet-doux, in which he informed her that he would call upon her in the evening, to know which of the two she bad se* lected. Shortly before the appoioted honr, he received the following answer: "I find the robes eqnally elegant, so that a selection is quite impossible. I shall, therefore, keep both, and you will have no occasion to call upon me." aarln the Mercury of the 9th we find the following local items: The British steamship Thistle, whioh got ashore a few weeks since on the beaoh of Sullivan's Island, and which was sold in that situation to Capt. John Fergnson and others for the sum of eighty thousand dollars, was got off yesterday morning, and towed to the city. She appears to be perfectly sound, and will no doubt be ready to take in cargo in a few days. The Only Remedy.?There is but one thing, says the Louisville Journal, that can cheok the d%reoiation of. Treasury notes, -and that is victory. The financiers that should be most looked to in this case are not the President and his Cabinet, but Hooker, Rosencrans, Grant, Banks, Dupont, Farragut and Porter. 4QP* Japopicadom in New York, it is stated, has resolved itself into clubs of belles, married and unmarried, of twenty each; and once a week they met to sip egg-nogg and chocolate, nibble frosted cake, gossip, and ostensibly make shirts, for the soldiers The "clubs" are especially exclusive, and are the rage, but the shirts are cot numerous. Another Cartel.?TheRichmond En quirer affirms that another cartel lor toe exchange of prisoners held by the respective belligerents has been entered into. Tbo Enquirer thinks this is due to the President's ^proclamation, issued December 23d. Gov. Morgan, the reoently elected Senator to the Yankee Congress from New York is the same rascal, who, when Governor, sent a box containing small pox rags as a present to Governor Pickens, of South Carolina. A Noble Present.?The ladies of Nassau have sent to the Virginia Bible Society, as a present to the soldiers in Virginia, over twelve hundred Bibles and Testaments. All honor to the ladies of Nassan ! QCOTCH SNUFF.?A LOT OF .O GOOD SCOTCH SNUFF for sale by ADAMS, McCORKLE k CO. March 11 10 4t EllROliMG OFFICE, Yokkvit.le, March lOili, 1863. A LL persons under the Conscript jL\- age In York District, who have not already reported to mc, will do *o by TUESDAY, the 17th of March Instant,, or be published and trentcd as deserters. I. No one Is exempt, within the Conscript age, unless be has the Certificate of the Enrolling Officer. I. N. WITHERS, Enrolllhg Officer, York District. March 11 10 It COUTH CAROLINA?YORK DISQ TR1CT.?Whereas, MILDRED HARD WICK has applied to mc for Letters of Administration, on all and singular, the goods and chattels, rights and credits of WM. H. HARD WICK, late of tlie District aforesaid, deceased. These are therefore to cite and admonish oil and singular, the Mildred and creditors of the said decease* to be and appear before me at our next Ordinary's Coun for tlie said District, to be holdcn at York Court House on tbe 97th day of March inst., to shew cause, if any, why tlie said Ad n>i>,la?wi?lAn -hAliU r\f\t l?l? BMnfOil. Given under my hand and deal, this 4tli day of Mafeb. In tho year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in the elsbty-seventh year of the Independence of South Carolina. JOHN A. BBOWN, 0. Y. D. March 11 10 2t QOUTH CAROLINA?YORK DISkj TIUCT.?Whereas, GEO. L. KIDDLE has applied to me for Letters of Administration on all and singular, the goods and chattels, rights and credits of G. M. KIDDLE, late of the District aforesaid, deceased. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular, the kindred and creditors of the said deceased, to be and appear before me, at onr next Ordinary's Court for the said District, to be holden at York Court House, on the 23rd day of March Instant, to shew cause, If-any, why the raid Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand and Seal, this6th day'of March In the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and lit the eighty-seventh year of the Independent of South Carolina. JOHN A. BROWN, O. Y. D March II 10 Ot I A DMINISTUATOR'S-NOTIPE. XA. Ail persons having claims against the estate of J. 9. ROSS, deceased, are hereby notified to present them, duly attested, within the time prescribed by taw; and tfxxw Indebted to the said estate will make immediate payment to the undersigned. O. N. McCARTEU, Administrator. March U 10 . - . SHERIFF'S SALE. James Wallis, Applicant,) ??. > For Partition of Real Rotate. . James A. Wallis, ctal.) - - ' BY virtue of an Order from John k. Drown, Ordinary of York District, I will offernfpub He sale at York Court House, on the FIRST MONDAY in * APRIL nczt. the tract of land described In the summons, in tills case. lying on the waters of Allison Creek, bounded by lands or James Wallis, P. McCallum, and others, containing 50 ACRES, * more or less. Sold to make partition among the helnt-at law of IL II. WALLIS, deceased. w? Trans or Sale?12 month's credit, with Interest from day of sale; purchaser to give note and approved surety, and a mortgage of the premises If deemed necessary, to-lite Ordinary?Costs to be paid In CASH. (*5) JAMES MASON,?. t. it. March 11 10 ' 4t > i SHERIFF'S SALE. Hamilton Wilson, Applicant,) ' ??. > Summons in Partition. Nancy Wilson, et al. ) Jlcirs-at-lair of John JFtiiOfl, deceased. -wvtr . a. >a y*v t n !?i virtue 01 an uruer irom jonn a. _l J Biown, Ordinary for York District, I will offer nt Slic sale at York Court House, on the FIRST MONDAY IPRIL next, the lands described in tlie summons in tills case, lying on the waters of Kings Creek, boundeffby lands of Nancy Wilson, W. 8. Bird, Dr. L. A. Hili.Wm. H. Green, and Henry P. White, containing 131 ACRES, more or less. Sold to make partition among the hclrs-a?- - law of JOHN WILSON, deceased. Terms or Sai.e.?One hundred and fiffv dollar* In cash ?ballancc on a credit of one and two years, with interest from day of sale. The purchaser to give bond with good security and a mortgage of the premises, If deemed necessary, to tire Ordinary. JAMES MASON, S. Y/,D^ March II ($3) ' ,10 4f;. SHERIFF'S SALE. J. E. McCarter, Applicant,) ?. > For Partition of Real Es(aU. ' Minor. McCarter, el of. ) Heirs-at law of Harcty JVeCartcr, deceased. T>Y Virtue of an Order from John A. JL) Brown, Ordinaiy of York District, I will offer atnnbHc sale at York Court Houston the FIRST MONDAY m APRIL next, the tract of land described in the summon* In this case, bounded by lands of Margaret Floyd, J. B. HeCarter and Thomas McCarter, containing '" , 55 ACRES, more or less. Sold to make partition tunaus the helrs-atlaw of HARVEYMcCAHTEB, deceased. Terms or 8alk.?Credit of twelve months, with interest from day of sale. Tho purchaser, to give bond, with good security, and a mortgage of the premises, if deemed necessary, to the Ordinary?Costa to be paid in CASH. (85) JAMBS MASON, a; *. ?. March 11 - 1(J 4t ' SHERIFF'S SACK. Harvey M.Ferrcil, Applicant, l William liublson & tcife, et al. ^ Hciri-ai-law of lli,i, Crewt, dcctaied. "D Y virtue of an Order from John A. * -IJ Brown, Ordinary of Yprk District, Iwfll offer af julll lie sale at York Court House, on the FIRST MONDAY in APRIL next, the tract of land described In the-inmooris in this case, adjoining lands of Junes McCully, W.-8. Howeon, William Ager and others, containing 53 ACRES* Sold to make partition among the helrs-ai-Iaw of WM. ' CREWS, deceased. . Terms or Ssuc.?Twelve month's credit, with Interna from day of vale. Purchaser to give bond with good surety and a mortgage of the premises to the Ordinary, if deemed necessary?Costs to be paid In CA8D, . ($5) JAMES MASON, s. T. ?. March 11 10 4t 80UTHEM FIELD & FIRE8HHL -? SUBSCBIPTIONS ADVANCED TO $4 PEB YEAB. OWING to a further advance in the price of paper and the limit put upon our supply, the Proprietor rcepeetAxlly announces that from anA afterlife 1st of MARCH, the price oF the FIELD AND FIRESIDE will be as follows : Forone year ...,.<14 1 Forsix months S No deductions made to clubs, and no subscription*deceived for less than six months. Postmasters will lid allowed 20 per cent, as hcretoiore. Increased exertions will be used to make the paper astractive. Ttie charming story? 'THE RANDOLPHS 0FBA2TD0LPE HALL," will be completed in the lOtli number.: Back nn?nbfcfMV>otajning this interesting romance, can be supplied, in the same number will be commenced the thrilling Prhte'Nbveietteof . JBHBw INDIA MORGAN 0? . * I" ; ' THE LOST WILL. Tills will run through several numbers nf the paper, and Will be accompanied by oflglnnl Tales, Essays and Porni* by the best writers in tile country. As only a fixed supply of paper can be had, the edition is limited, and those wishlngto secure this fitvofito family paper would do w?Jt ta subscribe early. . . ? ?. In making reraittnnces be particular to state The Few Office, County and State, and to send no local ahinhlrwtcw. Address, JAMES UAHDS1KR, Augusta, Oa. March 11 10 ' Jp ENGLISH GOODS. JV^T RECEIVED AND FOR SALE, . ONE DOOR NORTH OF THE "ENQUIRER" OFFICE. A LARGE LOT OF.CALICOES, 1\. SHIRTING, SWISS MUSLIN, Cootes' SPOOL THRBAD, Clarices' BLACK COTTON, White and Stack FLAX THREAD, Cotton TAPE, NEEDLES and PINS, ; HOOKS and EYES, FRENCH CALF SKOS, | . SOLE LEATHER, Men'* SHOES, SCOTCH SNUFF, i 8 HOT, NAILS, Grope and SherryWrNE, SIioc THREAD, COTTON CARDS,XIASTOE OIL, COPPERAS, &c?fc<fc - B. P. BOYtJ. February 25 8 3t> 4 Rental notice.?durinig . JL-J ray absence from YorkvllJe, I have made wrung*, menu with Dr. LESLIE O'WEN, formerly of Charleston, to take charge of my OFFICE, adjoining the Exqpireh building, where he will be pleased to waiton my customer*, as usual. He fa n gentleman of inbeh experience in nty 11 ne of business, ana will, doubtless, give general satisfaction. W. M. WALKER, Dentist.) February 25 8 J-./ ~ ^ tf CARRIAGE SHOP. ! njjK3tLZs THE Suoscrilier still continues the CARRIAGE rtnd BUGGY BUSINESS at the old STAND. All kinds of conn _ try produce taken In exchange foe work.. ALSO, HORSE SHOEING and general country WORK done by W. T: McPADDEN. January23 . - it''" "VfOTICE.?ALL PERSONS HAV1.y ING demands against EDWARD LEECH, decease?, . are hereby notified to present-tho same legally attested, within the time required, to.the undersigned ; ond all tbpw Indebted to said estate will pay forthwith to us. J.' w! LH8H' i I March 4 9 WRITING PAPER. TUST received, a lot of WKITING tj PAPER, consisting of Letter, ruled and. unrated ; Conunercio] Note, ruled and unruled; Cap, ruled; Folio Post, Ac., See., ail of which Is offsred n* low as can be bought In the up-country. "ENQUIRER" OFFICE. October 29 44 v tf F)R TAX COLL EC T 0 B?WE are authorized to announce SMITH SANDERS as a Candidate for the office of TAX COLLECTOR of York District, at the cusutmr election. . November lh, 18k *7 ly* F)R SALE.?TWO VERY FINE full bred Cobbett and Esse* BOAR PIGS, 10 months old. For further particulars apply at the "ENQUIRER" OFFICE. December 24, 52 tf . RAGS ! RAGS! ! RAGS! !! KAAA LBS Rags "Wanted at tHa C JUW PBINTING OFFICE immediately, for wWeb 9 cents per pound will be paid. September 10 37 tf HHALLOW.?WANTED 5, 10, 15, JL or SO pounds of TALLOW Ibr family use. Inouire at the 'TGNQUIEER" OFFICE. December 3 49 tf J~~ ACOB'S CORDIAL.?A SURE Remedy for DIA11RHCEA, DYSENTERY, and FLUX. Sold for CASH at THE ENQUIRER OFFICE. July 11 28 tf JACOB'S CORDIAL.?A SURE tf Remedy for DIARRHCEA, DYSENTERY. AND FLUX. Sold for CASH at f . \ - * THE ENQUIRER OFFICE. Jnly 11 118 if JACOB'S CORDIAL.?A SURE el Remedy for DIARRHOEA, DYSENTERY, AND FLUX. Sold for CASH at ' THE ENQUIRER OFFICE July 11 -28 > ?/ tf JACOB'S CORDIAL.-^ SURE Romedy for DIARRHCEA, DYSENTERY, AND FX.UX. JACOB'S CORDIAL.?A SURE O Remedy for DIARRHffiA, DYSENTERY, and FLUX. Sold for CASH nt^ ENQmRER 0FFJCR. jacofs cordial.?A sure tf Remedy tat DIARRUCEA, DYSENTERY, AND FLUX. Sold for CASH at THE ENQUIRER OFFICE. July 11 28 tf JACOB'S CORDIAL-?A: SURE Remedy for DIARRHOEA, .DXfflSNTERY, ANO FLUX. Sold for CASH at . . THE ENQUIRER OFFICE. July 11 ' ' tf JACOB'S CORDIAL.?A SURE el Remedy for DIARRHCEA, DYSENTERY, and FLUX. Sold for CASH at THE ENQUIRER OFFICE, juiv u,: ?? tf