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lewis m. grist, [proprietor. . %w f itkpraknf Jfamilji ftrfospprr: Jfor tjjt fjroinolrtm of ffje foIititafr Serial, Agricultural anir Commercial Interests of t|e Soit% |?3pebteab,iwadvahce. VOLUME 9. 7 YORKVILLE, SOUTlfCAROLIM, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 12, 1863. NUMBER 32 ' " i" OFFICE CHIEF COMMISSARY, CHARLESTON, S. C., Jrtv 24,18G3. HAVING been appointed CHIEF COMMISSARY for the State of South Carolina, with approval of the Secretary of War, with Instructions to divide the State into Divisions, for the proper collection and distribution of supplies, I have divided the State Into five Divisions, for each of which Divisions, a Division ('ommissnry has heen appointed hy the Commissary Gcnsia|> Division No. 1?Copt. K. L. SIMONS, Division Commissary, embraces the Districts of Pickens, Anderson, GreenvlUe, Abbeville, and part of Edge field adjoining. Division No. 2?Cap!. S. C. MEANS, Division Commissary, embrace* the Districts of Spartanburg, Laurens, Union, Newberry, a"d part of Edgefield. Division No. :i?Capt. I. D. WITHERSPOON, Division ('onimissary, enilirnces the Districts of York, Chester, Fairfield, Lancaster, Kershaw, nud Klchlaud. Division No. 4?Cnpt. JOHN F. RILEY, Division Commissary. embraces the Districts of Lexiugton, Orangeburg, ilaniwetl, Colleton, and part, of Edgefield. Division No. 5?Capt. WM. NETTLES, Acting Division Commissary, embraces the Districts of Chesterfield, Marlboro', Darlington, Marion, Sumter, Williuinsburg and Clarendon. The Division Commissaries-will publish a list of theib sub-Commissaries and Agents as soon as they are appointed. Each Division Commissary is furnished witli tin: power of impressment, and will, when necessary for the subsistence of the army. Impress subsistence stores within their Divisions bought forsalc, paying according to the rates fix- ( 'U l>y UW i$CIIC<IUIC Oi UIC lUipwiurui V?|U|>||~.<<I|>T.? Speculaton are n-oruetl unt to oiler for subsistence price* beyond those tixed try this schedule. No Commissary or Governaictit Agent from any quarter i* authorized, under any pretext, to make purchases of subsistence stores in this Statu, except under the orders of the Division Commissaries above named. It being the de.-fgn of the Secretary of War to prevent competition between the Commissaries of the different States, the Division Commissaries are instructed, therefore, to prohibit interference within their Divisions, to prevent the shipment of fttpplies / purchased!}' Commissaries or Commissary Agents, under other than their authoriiv, and to impress iite stores if necessary. . " C. GUERIN, Major and C. S. July 29 _ 30 3t Commissioner's Sale. In Equity?York District. ' William P. Berry, el al. 1 Bill for Partir?. > lionaiid Division Susan Ann Berry and Thomas I,. Berry,} of Land. IN obedience to the Order of the Court of Equity, made in the above cose, at June Term, l8S!i, I will expose to public sale at YORK COURT HOUSE, on the FIRST MONDAY in SEPTEMBER, next, the real estate of WILLIAM BERRY, late of York District, d<*ceascd, as follows: One tract of land containing 188 ACHES, lying on the waters of Clark's Fork, and bounded by lands of D. T. Hyers, Theodore A. Moore and others. Also one other tract containing ONE IiUNDRlfi) AND THIRTYPIVE ACRES, and bounded**))' lands of \V. P. Berry, Jere Moss, John Hemphill and others. Those lands are in a high state of cultivation, having every necessary and proper fixture, and arc well worthy the attention of buyers. I will sell above lands on a credit of one and two years, payable in two equal annual instalments, with interest from day of sale, except so much money as will pay the costs of tliese proceedings, which must be paid in on day of sale. Purchasers will be required to give bond with two good sureties to secure the purchase money. Possession of so much of said lands as are now in cultivation not to be taken by purchasers until the first of November next. ($!.-.) WALTER B. MEETS, c. K. v. n. August 5 31 at Commissioner's' Sale. In Equity?York District. John H. Adams, i Bill for sale of r*. ? J. A. McLean, Admr., & Arabella Crops, ) House m?l Lot. TN obedience to the Order of the Court of Equity, maj)e in above cause at June Term, 1863, 1 will expose to public sale at YORK COURT HOUSE on tbe FIRST MONDAY in SEPTEMBER next, the IIOUSE & LOT described in the pleadings in this case, situate on the west end of Madison Street, adjoining lots of Jos. A. McLean and Dr. Crenshaw, containing a fraction over ONE ACRE, and formerly owned and occupied by WESLEY CREPS. Said HOUSE AND LOT will be sold on a credit of twelve months, with interest from day of sale, except so much CASH as will pay the costs of these proceedings, which must be paid in on day of sale.* Purchaser will be required to give bond and two good sureties and a mortgage of the premises to secure the purchase tnonev. * ($11) WALTER B. METrS, c. n. Y. v. August .31 5t Commissioner's Sale. In Equity?York District. J J. Boiicii and Wife, > Petition for salt ? <1 Steele &. wife & W. it. Sled*. ) of Negrom. IN obedience to the Order of the Court of E<iuitv, in nl>?ve petition, I will expose to public at YORK COURT HOUSE on the FIRST MONDAY in SEPTEMBER next, two young and LIKELY NEGROES. EMILY, about 23 years old, and lior child MACK, five or six years old. Tkrms or Salk.?Cash enough to pay the costs of these proceeding??the balance of the purehase money to be on a eredit of twelve months with interest from dnv of sole? purchaser"giving bond and two good sureties to secure the purchase money?or he will have the option of paving the whole bid to CASH. WALTER It. METTS, c. c. v. d. July 8 ($18,) 27_ 9t DREGS. MEDICINES. &C. THAYE just received a choice assort of DRUGS and MEDICINES, which I offer for sale at thf lowest CASH PRICKS, viz: English Chloroform, Aloes, Rhubarb, English Calomel, Blue Mass, Sulphur, Asaftrtlda, Castor Oil, Pearl Ash, Valerian, Extract Logwood, Chalk, Opium,Black Drop, Epsom Salts, Muguesla, Nitre, Camphor, Rotten Stone, Yellow Ochre, Spanish Whiting, mwl manv other artlrleii. 1 anr Manufacturing a splendid BLACK INK, SHOE BLACK and SOAP. Blacking BRUSHES and .MATCHES for sale liy A. CRAVEN. May 37 31 if W TUE CQ1JRT OF OKDI.VARV, YORK DISTRICT, f!. L. McNeel, Administrator of Margaret Doivdle, deceased, r*. James Plaxicoand Wife, et ol. WHEREAS G. L. McNEEL, Ad? f inlnlstnuor of MARGARET DO WDLE, deceased, bath filed t petition in my office, praying to Ik- permitted to make a final settlement and distribution of said estate, and wher.as.it appears tojnv sr.ti. fsetjoti, that two of said itMrlhuiees, via: Allen Doivdle and James Ptnxlco and Rebecca bis wile, reside beyond tile limits of this State.? It Is, therefore, ordered that said J. Plaxico ami wife and Allen Doivdle, do appear at the Court of Ordinary to lie held at York Court House on Monday, the 14thday*of September next, to shew cause, if any tliey can, why"the prayer of said pctitiou should not lie grafttcd. June 1H63. (?2S 40) JOHN A. BROWN, O. Y. D. Juen 10 33 3m STATE OF SOl'TH CAR6LI.\A. YORK DISTRICT. In the Court of Ordinary. To Jame* Etlers, Henry EUers, Sajnuel Etlert, Jotetib Etlers, Dtraiel Etters, John Francis >V wife, Li/din, and Jack son Gibbon* & wife, Rebecca. Heirs-at-law of Phillip El. trrs, deceased. YOU are hereby required to appear at the Court of Ordinary, to lx: hnlden nr York Court House, for York District, on tin; second day of November, 1*^63, to shew cause, if any you "can, why the proceeds of the sale of the real estate of I'liilip Ktters, deceased, sold for partition and division, should not |?e paid over to A11drew Ktters and M. Hnmhright, Administrators of tlte said l'ililip Ktters, to lie applied by them to the payment of the debts of the said i'hiiip Ktters. Given under my hand and seal, this Sdtlrday of Jnlv, I36.'l. JOHN A.'BKOVVN, (?28) Ordinary for York District. July 29 30 an _ YORK MARBLE YARD. RICHARD HARK, respectfully inlornts the citizens of York and Chester Districts, nod the adjoining counties of North Carolina, that he is fully prepared to supply every article in the MARBLE LINE, of the highest style of finish and at reasonable prices. He keeps constantly on hand,a large supply of FOREIGN and DOMESTIC MAKBLK, and specimens of his work may be always seen at the Yard, ucnrlv opposite the "EN UlflRER" PRINTING OFFICE, and'a few doors North of ".StoweV" Hotel. ()&* All work will be delivered at any point on the King's Mountain Railroad, FRE# of charetv He b alsoyire pared to furnish to order, IRON RAILING of any desired pattern, for Felices, Balconies, See. January* 10 - If WOW is THiE TIME ! I WILL. PAY THE HIGHEST CASH PRICES FOR AI.L CLASSES OF NEGROES. C. J. PRIDE, Rock Hill, S. C. April I 13 tf OFFICE A. Q. M., CHARLESTON, S. C., October 1st, 1"C2. MR. J. c. MILLER is appointed Agent of this Department, for the purchase of FODDER and CORN forth'- District* ofYork and Chester. Planters desiring to sell will communicate with hint, through the POST OFFICE, at Yorkville, S. Carolina.-? Partieular attention must be paid to the PACKING. No WATER must be used, as great loss to the Government was experienced last year, by Fodder being improperly packed, all such will be rejected. MOTTE A- PRINGLE, Capt. and A. Q. M. October 15 >ti tl* Dent ai7notice^-d1jr x no my absence from Yorkville, I have made arrangements with Dr. LESLIE O'WKN, formerly of Charleston, to take charge of my * ?FF(CE, adjoining the EN'tjrmi-/ building, whore be will be pleased to wait on my customeis, ns usual. IJ'- is a gentleman of much experience in my line of business, anl will, doubtless, give general satisfaction. W. M. VVALKEC, Dcuii-'.. February 25 P tf Th6 Mexican News. \ If the intelligeuce published in our last ! is true, Mexico has, since shaking off the Spanish authority, become'for the second I time an Empire. It will be recollected i that some forty years ago, Iturbide assumed i the Imperial robes, under the title of Augustin 1st, and reigned a few months, when 1 he was overthrown by Santa Anna, banish- ; ed from the country, nod a Republic de- 1 clared. 1 This second change to a monarchy, how- < ever, has been effected in a very different ' way and nnder very different circumstances from the first. In the present instanoe, a i powerful foreign State has, by means of an armed invasion, obtained possession of the Government and country, and tha people, . demoralized by the-tierce and corrupt factions which have been ceaselessly warring j against each other ami successfully installing themselves in the Executive mansion, have, it seems, determined to plaoe themselves and their political destinies under the protection and guidance of their oonqueror. Worn down with, the intestine dissections and strife by which they have been for more than forty years distracted, they prefer a Government that promises to be stable and efficient, to the irregular, disorderly rule to whioh they have been sub jected by the various military chieftains who from time to time have figured as ephemeral President. This is Dot to be wondered at, nor can we condemn the preference, when we consider to what a condition the people and their affairs had been reduced by the wretched misrulo under which they had so long and so tamely suffered.? Despairing of all reform in the abases of authority, which had become chronic and incurable, they have conolnded to try the virtue of a Government stroDg enough to ensure domestic tranquility, protect popular rights, and correct pt all events some of the evils arising from the civil convulsions by wbich they had been torn. s We do not understand how it was that an * Austrian Arohduke came to be declared by the Mexicans their Emperor. Wo question very much the truth of this part of the story, coming, as it does, to us through Yankee channels. We can readily comprehend the vast advantages whioh Louis Napoleon would reap from the acquisition of so immense and rioh a territory. There is no calculating their value. But to realize . th?se advantages he would have to retain his conquest, or have it so held as to experience the benefit of those ameliorating changes expected by the people at bis bands. We can hardly suppose that after incurring the trouble and cost of invading, subduing and occupying the country, he yrould, as it fell into his possession, allow it to pass into the hands of another. We take it for granted, therefore, that he is to be the ruler of Mexico, and that .in the change of Government that it has'just undergone, care has been taken that French influence is to predominate. In this view we consider the change a decidedly good ODe for the Mexicans, for they will not only be rid of the turbulent and coustant strife of factions which has rendered Constitutions and laws alike worthless as securities of their peace aud property, but they will he permitted to enjoy, under the protection of the most eulightened and polished sovereign in Europe, all the rights uud privileges which they arc qualified to appreciate aud exercise?all, in fact, that arc proper and necessary for the promotion of their individual and national welfare. What will the Lincoln-Seward Government say to this singular and unexpected turn of events in Mexico? We believe that Tom Corwin is still in that country? , but the declaration by the Oouocil,of No-; = tables of an Empire extinguished the Re-1 publio to which he was accredited, and alcDg ' with it bis mission. If the old Government has been subverted, and the reported , new one established in its place, then will Lincoln be reduced to a choice between two alternatives. Either be will be compelled to recognize the Imperial successor of President Juarez, whoever bo may be, and thus endorse a monarchy upon this continent?a monarchy, too, erected upon the ruins of that favorite Yankee, anti-Europe-1 an platform?the Monroe Doctrine. Or by refusing to recognize it, incur the displeasure of France and lay the foundation of an immediate quarrel with that power, which would quickly result in the recognition of the Soathern Confederacy, and what would be still worse for the Yankees, the loss of California, Oregon and the whole Pacific coa6t?for, in the event of a rupture between the United States and France, come* when it will, after the change which Mexico has undergone, one of the inevitable! | consequences will be the re-annexation of j ^ California to Mexico, and as England will < pretty certaiuly be an ally of Louis Napoleon, she will help herself to the ''whole of ( Oregon." ' ? This is the picture of their future which < the Yankees now have to contemplate.? ' Such is the way that they are likely to be : i affected by the French conquest of Mexico. < Will Lincoln recognize the Imperial Gov- < ernnient of Maximilian, or whoever may be i elevated to the Mexican throne, aud there- j i by keep up amicable relations, or rather: avoid hostile ones, with France?or will hp j refuse recognition, and thus embroil himself with a power that oould aod would ioflict; | upon him a punishment little if any short! of his total and irretrievable destruction ? j 1 We shall await developments in this' i Mexican matter with a very lively luteresr. i We are delighted to sp? how the Yankees i are involved in perplexities anil vexations J i about it. It is indeed a bitter pill that 1 they have to swallow any way, whether re- j 1 cognition or non-recognition. What has' 1 become of Tom Corwin ? The Empire has J wound him up and iiis credentials have; i gone into a state of collapse.?tersburn ' i JUxpre.**. i SS^The follov^ng <<goke" is told of an ; ( army surgeon, who got on a little ?bender" j t rhile bis command was passing through Mobile : Surgeon was dressing a wound at the battle of Murfreesboro'. Soldier came by on i Yankee's back, actually riding him to the rear. * "Doctor," cried the Iuoky Confederate, from his novel perch, "If I had them spurs pou went to bed in, at Mobile, I'd give this fellow Hail Columby?get up here you whey-faced Yankee son of a gun," and he drove his heels into the sides of his jaded animal,' and pushed on, amid the roars of laughter from the surgeon and his corps of issistants. Our True Cause of Alarm?The Remedy. Mr. Editor: I am aware that in the jresent state of journalism in this country, monymoas writings are generally of but ittle worth in moulding public opinion, or )f giving directioVi to public movements.? [ am also aware that the opinions and views )f men not in high official position comnand but little respect with 'the masses.? But as I write over a nom de jilumc, I may )c pardoned for claiming to have been the irst to suggest a number of expedients, not n favor at the time, but which have been it later periods adopted. Hence, I am emboldened to make, from my humble position in life, another grave suggestion, and beg, for the first time, a space in your columns for that purpose. It is needless to disguise the fact, or to jonceal it from the people, 4hat our armies, is at present organized aud constituted, are lopelessly inadequate to cope with the iwarming legions of the enemy, aud that mless something is done to strengthen them, md that speedily, we are to be overrun, the icart of the Confederacy reached, and the jeople disarmed and rendered powerless, ,'itber to send supplies to our troops or to irganize new recruits. In a word, the itrong chain of despotism will be upon us. iod grant that the Government and people vill consider and . look the danger full in he face. How has tMs state of things )een brought about ? We have lost many men in battle and by vouuds, disease, and death. But we still iave the necessary number-of arms bearing nen in the country, but they are not in the irmy. How did those who have been in ind not in, and who are not disabled, get jut? And how are those who are able to ierve, and have not been in, manage to stay >ut ? This is the rub, that will grate hardy upon those who arc bound by every duty ,o serve their country, but are not willing ,o do 'so. The immense number of easy )laces that have been made out of reach of gunshot, is one ipodo; the immense num>er of men who have either a Government iontraot, or a finger in one, is another mode. Another still is said to be the favoritism of ionscript officers. Another still is eaid to tlio lnfJHoliM? (\f nrmtr enmrnnna in r?run. /V* VMW .1MUUVIIVJ V* Ml III J ?U MU ing false certificates of disability. But the ;reat fruitful source of this fatal mischief s the substitute law, by which, I am in'orraed, upon authority that I am not certain s correct, but,which I have no reasoo to loubt, the army has "discharged 150,000 ucu. Generally, laborers have been taken u, or old uien wuuld from choice or necesity be engaged in producing something; >r of idle -vagabonds, who desert the araiy' he first opportunity they get. Those who emaiu and who do not desert, are generally, roui age aud other causes, not of much rulue as soldiers. The army thus swaps off i sot of sound, active men, for a set of >roken-down, worthless fellows, who do not nuch good. The field is-deprived of many aborers whose services are and will be in jreat demand at home, while the men who ire discharged from the army*thus, having he control of meaus, seldom turn to work, jut often to'trading, to make back the noney their substitute cost them. Thus he country is cursed with a speculator, the ield deprived of a laborer, antl the army of i soldier; all resulting from a-most woful blunder in Congress, allowing men of meansX) bnv their exemntinns frnm the dntv of defending the country against invasion. Now iny proposition?startling as it may seem?is, that the Government ?is entitled ;o the services of these men now, upon the ;ame principle that it was at the beginning, :o wit: Ex necessitate rei. .The salvation from utter rain of the whole country depends apon' it. The Government wiH perish sopelessly and speedily, if these men are jot put back into the army. The Government ought to keep the good faith implied u the contract of discharge and substitution as loog only as it can be done consistently with its self preservation and the preservation of the whole country from dorastution and ruin. This it has already ione. If it is necessary for Congress tp act in >rder to put back the exempts and gofernnent contractors, and persons improperly lischarged, and those holding easy places, ind those who have put in substitutes: and f nothing is done uutil the regular time for Congress to meet, the funeral kpell of the ;ountry will have been sounded to the renotest parts of the earth?"lllium Fuitt" ts inglorious epitaph. Memphis {Atlanta) Appeal. ????? t&f The Lynchburg Republican records he following affecting incident: , In the fight with the Yankee raiders at VVytbevilie, was a Metnodist preacher who Bade himself quite conspicuous for gallant y. During the melee he singled out his j nan and fired? and at the crack of his gun .he Yankee fell. Horrified at shedding :iuman blood, the preacher rushed to his | fallen foe, uud grasping him by the hand, j with tours in ids eyes, implored his pardon or having shot him, and finding the man | was mortally-wounded, fell upon his knees : md offered up a solemn and ferveut praver, | luring which the spirit of' the wfiunded i'aukee winged its final flight to the bar of Tod. The incident was affecting in the exreme, and it is worthy of record. i " Croakers. A frog or a raven are said to croak, and those who murmur or complain are called croakers. Editors and other? who wore the chief instruments in bringing on this ornel and bloody war, complain or croaTt against those who mnrmur at the way matters are managed, or who oomplain that there iB no effort made on either side to end the war, except by the sacrifice of life apd the nttor ruin of the country. AH things considered there has been very little complaining or croaking in the South. The creaking in the South is bat a gentle whisper compared with the thnnder tones in the North uttered by the mobs in New York and elsewhere. In the North it is jhe "rich man's war and the poor man's fight," and hence the poor are-beginning to croak vooiferociously. It is the poor man's fight in the Sooth too, to a cooei datable extent, and yet the poor have oomplained very little. Before the war commenced they were living comfortably at home, en joying the fruits of honest toil, but when the wealthy leaders brought ou the conflict these poor men went into it, and have breasted the storm?the storm of iron bail, snow, rain?have waded through rivers, aud regions of mud, have been poorly clad, and pooily fed, and poorly paid, and yet they have scarcely complained unless it was against the merciless extortioners at home who are grinding their poor families to the dust. And these poor families at home have given up their fathers, sons and husbands to flght the battles of their country, and they have received them home again dead it may be, or without an arm, or a leg, or a foot, or a hand, ruined for life, and yet they have murmured very little. Who, then, are the croakers I Nodoubt the most of them are the men who were rampant for the war, and who expected their property and families to be made more secure by it, but when they find everything in jeopardy they begin to croak, they begin to And fault that things are not well managed. Another class of croakers are the speculators, blockade runners, who, while drinking their _ 1 K J AL.? - L? *1 !_ aauueraica umo wnisaey, sraoaing cigarH and counting their money, find fault with Davis, Lee and Beauregard, about the management of the war. To this class may be | added some slick-haired, heavy bearded Editor, or the able bodied patricians who have managed to shirk the war by getting in for overseers of negroes, .or salt-works, or who have a mill or a tanyard, and like the frogs around their ponds they croak.? Well, just let them croak, who cares ? If they murmur at the way things are managied let them shoulder their guns and face the music of the shells, and march day and night without bread, sleep, or rest, through mod and rain, as iu the retreat from Pennsylvania, and they will have cause, to croak as some bleeding hearts have in this vicinity. H.?Du.e West Telescope. A Strong Appeal to the Irish ? The New York Metropolitan Journal has a long artiole addressed to the Irish, the occasion fo^ which is the disappearance of the Irish brigade as an organization : Citizen soldiers of Irish birth, you have been massacred that the negro may be emancipated?you have been slaughtered for the enslavement ot the whites While you have been sheddiug your blood, the tyranny at Washington has been engaged in a war against the freedom of the press, against the liberty of speech, and against citizen rights. It has been their aim to convert the South into another Ireland, and to render the Union of the North and the South a9 accursed as that by which your native land?the land of our birth as well as yonrs ?is bound to the British Crown. Surely, you have no sympathy with such a despotism as prevails at Washington; surely, you < can have no feeling in common with an Administration that silently sanctions the hel- 1 lish outrages committed by a Puritanical i soldiefy in the sanctuaries of our most holy roligion. No, fellow citizens of Irish birth, i you ut least have no cause for hatred to the South, whose son9 tire fighting for the sov- I ereignty of the States, and to save 'their property from plunder by a set of men who ) are acting in defiance of all law, and every < right that is saored to freemen. Remember that the sucking of the Catholio ohurch- < es at Winchester, at Jacksonville, and the < desecration of your saored edifices in other i places, have not been even rebuked by the authorities at Washington. Remember, : while your wives and children have been I suffering destitution for want of that pay 1 which was withheld from you for months, ' the negroes have been taken under the pa- i terual care and patronage of our abolition 1 rulers .(und put in the forefront of battle with bayonets behind them.) Why should you allow yourselves to be made the tools of the men in power? What quarrel have 1 you with the men of the South ? Have you I not been taught a lesson under British rule I I that you should never forget ? Is it not |< I time that you should refuse to be made the I ! instruments for the enslavement of a gal- ] I lant, a noble, end a chivalrous people ?? t I Let there be no more Irish brigades form- t ! ed to aid the subjugation of the South.? t ! But if you are to fight, devote your brave i hearts and your strong arms, under the i guidance and direction of our regularly "ton- i stituted State authorities, to the preserva- i nf nnnr richts in t.hflSP Nnrf.hpm E ?,vu J""* o V States when those authorities shall call for i your services. 1 -? -.. ?* j An Important Capture.?It seems i | that the Capt. Paioe who, with his boat's t crew was captured on Tuesday night, is a } | scout of some noto and dash among the t enemy. The New York Herald's oorres- t pondent thus notices his services: "It is t not improper now to mention the distin- j guished services of one of the most skillful c scouts our army affords?Capt. L. S. Paine t of the 100th New York. Ife scouted all i around Morris Island before we took it, and c landed in several places. Ho seems to have f a faculty of knowing just where all piokets 1 and troops are, and his life is evidently j charmed, for he has been fired oq many times at very short range. He has com-mand of all oar picket lines."?Mercury, 7th instant. Prom Morris Island?Capture of a Yankee Boat and Crew. The lull wbioh has of late taken place in the progress of hostilities around as, continued with but slight "interruption daring yesterday. The enemy's land batteries wtre firing with their smaller mortars in the direction of Battery Wagner for a short time; but, as their shells generally fell short, it is supposed that their fire was intended mninly for our sharpshooters, who are posted a considerable distance in advance of our works, and who are believed to have caused great aunoyance to the Yankee working parties. We heard of no casualties at J3attery Wagner. At intervals yesterday and last night our mortars at Shell Point were playing upon the enemy's position. There were hut three ot tne Monitors in sight yesterday, and they were apparently,receiving ammunition from small sailing vessels which lay alongside. Oq Tuesday night, before the moon had risen, a spirited little affair took place in Sobooner Creek, between James and Marrip Islands, resulting in the capture of a Yankee barge with its crew. For several nigbts it was known that the enemy bad been posting some picket boats in the marsh near the hulk of the old steamer illanigault, for the purpose of observing our movements at Cumming's Point, and giving notice by rockets to tbeir'Morris Island batteries when to open fire on our transports. The military authorities having-determined to capture or drive off these water pickets of the enemy, an expedition was formed with that view.. About 8i o'clock on Monday night Captain Sellers, with a detachment of thirty men.from the 25th S. C. V. (Eutaw) Regiment, left Fort Johnson in two boats aud rowed into Schooner Creek. About the same time Captain Warley, of the Navy, with two boats, manned by mariners from the Confederate States steamers Chicora and Palmetto State, also approached the position in wnicu itnaa Deen correcuy supposed that the Yankee boats would be found. Captain Sellers' men having left their boats, deployed as skirmishers, wading knee deep in the marsh. They soon encountered tho enemy, who took to their boats (two in number) with all speed, and rowed rapidly off under a sharp fire from our men. Oae of the Yankee boats managed to escape, with the loss, it is believed, of several men ; the other, a fine barge, was intercepted by Capt. Warley's oommand, and surrendered. It oontained Capt. Payne, of the 100th New York Regiment, with a Sergeant and ten men. Two of the crew had been killed; the Yankee Captain and four others of the prisoners were wounded. Our only casualty was one man, B. Furwick, of Orangeburg, a member of Captain Sellers' Company, killed. The prisoners were brought to the pity last evening. Among the spoils of the capture was a fine field glass belonging to General Gilmore.?Mercury. ' Capture of a Yankee Launch.?On Wednesday night between 12 and 1 o'clock, Captain Tucker, of the steamer Chicorl, with the steamer Juno, Lieutenant Phillip Porchcr commanding, set out on a reconnoiteriug expedition around the harbor.? The Juno, whose crew consisted only of ten men armed with rides, ran down near the fleet with orders to run into any barge she might encounter on her way. Upon approaching the fleet she chanced upon the first launch of the U. S. steamer Wabash, with a crew of twenty-three mem, and a twelve pound howitzer on board. The Juno was immediately turned upon the Yankee launoh, and as she drove upon it twelve of the Yankee crew threw themselves into the sea. Ten of these are supposed to be drowned. The remaincter, including the Acting master, surrendered. Lieut. Porcber took possession of the launch, and brought the prisoners up to the city. While withdrawing with his prize, he was pursued and fired upon without effect by one of the enemy's gunboats. Of the prisoners captured, there were one officer, one petty officer, six seamen, two ordinary seamen, and one landsman. Their names are as follows: * ' ** ? f* T TT TT fl. Acting iuaster a. ii names, u. otate3 iteamer Powhatan, Hobert Armstrong, Charles Felix, Alec Waring, John Katchibal, John Haumon, Henry Ilacklan, Edward It. Clarke, Nathan A. llailey, Cbarioa Salsbury, James Daniel, U. S. steamer Wabash.?Mercury, 7th. How tho Yankee Ranks are Filled. The Lynchburg Republican has some information on the subject of the game prac:ioed by the United States Government in i ailing up the ranks of its army, which it | lays is entitled to credit. The agents of ;he Government are scattered throughout [reland, stating, as inducements to.emigrate ;hat there are numbers of vacant farms in ,be- United States needing laborers, and hat none but young, hale and hearty men will be received. In each oounty a number s made up, and a leader or captain is deaiglated from among them to whom they are nsiruoted to pay implicit obedience. Pasiage is seoured for them, and on their arrival in New York harbor, they arc visited >y a recruiting officer, with a bounty of U50 in each hand. They are then speed ly transferred to the barracks for drill, reaining as their officers those designated in j [reland as leadors. We are informed, adds: he Republican, that not less than two hun-: Ired thousand men have been recruited on ! his plan in Ireland, and in other parts of;: Europe the same game is being playecj to j in equal extent. We kavo here a key to' hat provision of the draft which allows imnunlty to those who pay 8300 to the Fed-! iral Treasury for exemption. And the i acts suggest the queries?is not the Engish Government aware of wh^t is going on ? \nd is it nqt a psirt of h$r poiioy to get rid B ( of the surplus patfpera of Ireland, and it will enable her to give more attention to the paupers of the British Islands. Prom Virginia. Richmond, August 9.?Gen. Lawton i was assigned by the Persidenfc to the position of Qaartermaster General, under act | of Congress, passed at the last session, giv' ing the provisional rank of Brigadier Gen| eral to the Qaartermaster General. He j was authorized constructively to appoint a Brigadier Gefaeral to that office or assign one already commissioned in the Provisional Army; but it is understood the intention of Congress was to confer the benefit of the act on Col. Myers, who was appointed Colonel in the regular army at Montgomery, and assigned to duty as Qaartermaster General. He has been superceded, not removed, and may continue at his post as Assistant Quartermaster unless assigned to other duty. Governor Vance, of North Carolina, has been here for several days. r\ rr t__ . T J iL!. wmcers oy me r reaericKBDurg rouu iuib evening report all quiet in Stafford county. Richmond, August 9?Fredericksburg dates to the 8th. says that citizens of Stafford report the enemy in considerable force about five miles from the river, but no signs pf them from town. Richmond, August 9.?Gordonsville dates of the 8th, say a gentleman just from Brandy Station reports the enemy in force four miles beyond Brandy Station, from the direction of the Rappahannock bridge, destroying everything. This force is supposed to consist of three regiments of cavalry ^nd eight of infantry. The men are all fleeing from home, leaving women and children behind them. The Democratic Convention of Maine met at Portland on the 6tb. Nine hundred delegates were present, and adopted resolutions in favor of a termination of the calamities that are denressin? this unhanDV land : ? ?I o ? rr/ * declaring that the Union cannot be preserved without a concession and a Democratic Administration, &c. Bion Bradbury was nominated for Governor. The arrival of the Hecla brings Liverpool dates to the 29th. Political news unimportant; exchange continues depressed, and speculation in securities shows a continued panic. The British Parliament has been prorogued. The Qaecn's speech savs civil war continues in America. It infliots much evil not ouly on the contending parties but other nations. We see no reason, however, to depart from strict neutrality. Confederate loan thirteen per oent. discount. Cotton advanced id. From the Southern Enterprise. Proceedings of Confederate Jurors. At the assembling of the Jurors, summoned for the August term "of the Confederate Court, in the Court Room, at Greenville, S. C., on Monday, the 3d of August, 18C3, a communication was read from his Honor Judge Magrath, adjourning the Court, and assigning as his reason for so doing, that, undeo the call of the General commanding his military department, on citi2ens to volunteer in defenoe of the metropolis of the State, ho had felt it his duty, as also bad the other officers o? the Court, to re main in the city, and render ail the aid in their power, as soldiers, in its defeuoe.? After the reading of thit) communication, the Jurors, desirous of expressing their oordlal approbation of the action of his Honor, organized, by calling the Rev. Alexander Acker to the Chair, and appointing Wm. Thompson Secretary. . The Chairman in a few brief and patriotic remarks, oxpluined the object of the meeting; when on motion of Major T. C. Boiling, a committee of five was appointed to draft suitable resolutions for the occasion. The Chairman appointed the following Committee : Major T. C. Boiling, C. R. Twitty, Wm. Thompson, A. M. Hamilton and J. K. Dickson. Tho Committee reported i the following resolutions, which were untin-1 imously adopted : Resolved]That we oannot separate with- j out pnblioly expressing our high apprecia-1 tion of the motives that have prompted his Honor, Judge Magrath"to suspend, for a ! time, the discharge of his high official du- j ties, and to take upon himself those of the , soldier, and place himself in the ranks of j hie country's defenders. Resolved, That tye tender to the subordinate officers of the Court,- who are with his Honor, battling for all that we hold most dear, ao assurance of onr highest admiration. Resolved, That we recommend the exam-1 ^ ft' rr t * ir *1 ^ t!_ ? pie or nis uonor duage luagraia, ana nis officers, to the consideration of any offioe holders in the State, who seek to screen themselves from the discharge of those da- j tics in the field that patriotism should im-1 pose, in this hour of our country's peril. > Resolved, That the journals of the State be requested to publish these proceedings. There being no further business the meet- j ing adjourned. ALEX. ACKER, Chairman. W.u. Thompson, Secretary. if i> ? ???? Treated as a Convict?The N. York World, of Monday, has an editorial on the conduot of Gen. Burnside, from which we j learn that Morgan and his officers, now in j the Ohio penitentiary, are treated like con- j victs, and their heads shaved. The follow- j ing is a paragraph : After several months of junketing, his i army finally moved out to the Kentucky! River, but nevercame near the enemy. The ouly enemy in Kentucky was allowed to pass directly through the State. In the face of Burnside and of all his troops, Mor* gan was permitted to ride by him almost' unmolested, and to cross into Indiana and | Ohio, and not until the citizcus of those States had rallied-in sufficient numbers wag. the bold marauder captured. But if Bornside had nothing to do with catching the hare, he insists upon his right to oook it when caught. The commander of the Department of the Ohio first appears in the field as a bar"bar and jailor. He orders the. captured officers first to the city prison of Cincinnati, and afterwards to the Ohio penitentiary, where they are subjected to the indignity of having their beads shaved -! Such a proceeding is as unworthy of a great nation or | its representatives as it is unwarrantable by.. ' all the laws of war. It is perfectly right, of I course, that these officers should be detain| ed as hostages for Col. Straight's party, captured in Georgia, but Col Straight is in the Libby prison, treated as all other officers are treated. The cases are so nearly alike that they are natnrally suggest}**, effects of each other. And if we mistake not greatly, this cruelty towards Morgan will but inaugurate a fresh and painful retaliation upon oar prisoners in Richmond.. From Gen. Lee's Army. Advices from Gen. Lee's army, brought by the Central train last evening, rendered it certain that the bnlk of the army has been withdrawn from the vicinity of Calpeper Court Hoase, back in the direction ot tne liaptdan river. It was also understood tbat Gen. Lee's movements were necessarily governed in a measure, by the movements of bis opponent, Gcd. Meade, and tbat eventually?certainly within a few days?the Eapidan or Rappahannock would become the line taken up by Gen. Lee. Further than this, it is neither necessary nor expedient to particularize. - Tn the neighborhood of Frederioksbnrg the situation was not materially ohanged, though the enemy were nigher, and our pickets had taken a few prisoners. . The whereabouts of the main body of Meade's army was a subject for conjecture. The scouts located it in Fauquier, on the north bank of the Rappahinnook, along towards Warrenton Springs. Aqnia Creek is again a depot of supplies. No further fiehtiue had occurred since the cavalry fight of Saturday afternoon, notified yesterday, and few further facts concerning that engagement had transpired. The enemy, it is said, repulsed our cavalry for several miles on that occasion, but were whipped back by the cavalry and infantry supports which came up. The-Yankee loss is put down at 200 killed, wounded and prisoners, of which about twenty are prisoners. Tbey retreated in good order, carrying off their dead and wounded, and only some six bodies were left on the field. Lieut. Col. Baker, of Hampton's brigade, Col. Black, Lieut. Col. Lipscomb, and several others, wounded in that fight, are at officers' general hospital, (Baptist Institute,) corner of Tenth and .Marshall streets. About a dozen Yankees, captured at Dumfries Statioo, came down on the Fredericksburg train yesterday afternoon.?Richmond Examiner \th. . ^ VST" In the Mercury we find the following sensible editorial remarks, under the caption of "Injurious Rumors "While the officers and soldiers of the Confederate States are exerting their energies aod risking their lives toseenfe the independence of their country, there arc persons, not in the ranks, -who employ themselves in either getting up or industriously oiroulating injurious rumors, which have no reality, except in the perverted imaginations of those who start them, and in the weak credulity of those who hear, be- ' lieve and retail all evil reported or suggested. This disposition to spread injarious stories has beefi signally manifested in this oity and State within the last three weeks. Its tendency is disheartening, demoralizing. v It can only produce barm. It is unjust to the soldiers, and damaging to the cause.? We, therefore, earnostly call upon every citizen who has a soul in his ribs to discountenance these false, foolish and often malicious reports. They may serve personal purposes and prejudices. They may gratify the morbid proclivities of some people' for excitement and sensation. They may furnish matter for the pleasant occupation of foregone fault finding. But they undoubtedly damage the oause. In this crisis,, therefore, we beg that for a little while the superior olaims of the country should override the inferior pleasures of idle tattle and injurious assertions withoat any foundation iu truth. Let the 6onoootors and oirculators of all such tales be subjected to cross examination, and frowned down as mischief makers of a grave charaoter. it is high time to put a stop to this evil in our midst." Interesting from the West. Morton, August 3.?A large number of Chiefs aod Braves of the Chootaw tribe passed through here yesterday, ontbeirvsy to visit the Great Father in Richmond. Grant has established a garrison of about 3,000 at Natchez. Wirt Adams' scouts bring intelligence that Banks attacked Dick Taylor at Donaldsonville, on the 22nd ult., but was defeated, with a loss of 6,000, including 4,000 prisoners. Taylor's and Magruder's forces have since united on the Teche Ilivcrwhioh, if true, will enable Taylor to place in position the siego gnns captured at Tbibodeaux, and blockade the river below. The latest intelligence from the Miens* sippi river represents the river ahoveVtekeburg as swarming with gun-boats. Ten transports were counted below Yicksburg and Natchez, last Friday. This does not i prevent communication with the TrasaMississippi Department Accounts from that side are cheering bat oontraband The enemy have plaoed a garrison of 2,600 men at Carthage, whioh is a prominent point on the river. Logan is watching the movements of the enemy, and we will hear from him soon. No troops have gone up the river save McPherson's corps, a pact of Buroside's command. S&" Gen. Hood, of Texas, has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of all the Cavalry in the army of Northern Yirgnda?siid Generals Stewart and Wade Hampton will rank asJJjwao^eQeials, under him. ir ' JjgF V-r