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ib* ftaMl* #?quiw. YORKVtLLE. 8. C~ WKDTODATgVDrnTe, yOVEMBKB II, 1868. NOTICE. In consequence of the greatly Increased prices of all materials connected with the publishing business, the tbfiowing are our rates of subscription and advertising: iMsaarnox. , For one year, in advance,.. 00 For six months, in advance, 2 00 Clubs of 5 or 10 for one year, in advance, each.... 2 50 isvnnsim. $3 per square of ten lines, for the first, and $1 for each subsequent insertion, in this size type. No advertisement counted ton than a square. Announcements of candidates $12 per year, invariably In advance. Obituaries and Tributes of Respect rated as advertisements, and charged accordingly. April 22,1963. ~ COL. ALSTON'S LETTER. To tbe exclusion of onr nsnai variety, we - publish in full to day tbe above veiy interesting letter. We have no donbt as to tbe trnth of the Colonel's statements, and a pe rtml of the letter will give an insight into the foelings entertained for as by Yankee Boodle. Bo not let the length of the artiole deter yon from reading it. SLAVE LABOB. ^ y By advertisement it will be seen that Col Shannon, the State Agent, oalls upon York to famish her quota of slave labor for the defenoes in the vicinity of Charleston. Let the requisition be met promptly, for the events of the last few months have demonstrated, that if T7e but do our duty, Charleston is saved from the possession of the enemy, and onr State from invasion If we do not our duty, we have no right to complain at misfortunes?those receive help v;- who help themselves. / S 5TH REGIMENT STATE TBOOPS. Camp Bonham, 1 ( Greenville, S. C., Nov. 15/63. / The Enquires reached this Camp promptly, on Friday evening last, and its contents, in* mercantile phase, "duly noted." Saturday morning was foggy, with a alight drissle, that made our tents comfortable, and something to read, was quite a luxury. Reading matter has been quite scarce witn us, since we left Charleston, and the consequence is that some has become as querreious as old maids, and the main subjeot their home correspondence. The good deeds of the few generous and noblehearted, are not forgotten, but the burthen of the song is wrong and imposition.? Though York is not far behind hand, Charleston was the head and front of coldblooded speculation; the residents there, I will not call them citizens, seem to have forgotten, that the man who "makes an independence" by this war is a villian, for he entails a. curse on his offspring which will cling to them even to the fourth generation; yet, still, there are those who follow it up with a determination that reminds me strongly of the scene in Byron's Siege of Corinth," where Alp, the renegade "Saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold, o'er the dead, their carnival, Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb; They were too busy to look at him." 1 quote from memory, bnt the applioa tion will not lose its force, if those who are dealing in breadstuffs and other neoessaries of life, will reflect for a moment whether the answer of Nathan to David will apply to them?"Thou art the man." Bat, it is pleasant to torn from this picture to the other aide. From a soldier of a Chester company, round our camp fire last night, we learn that Maj. J. G. Lowry, of Chester District (north) bad set aside 2,000 bushels of corn to be sold to the poor and the families of soldiers,-at $1 per bushel?that Baxter Springs, of York (east) had . been dispersing unostentatious charity with an open hand, and yet no newspaper has heralded it forth to the world, for these men did not let the right hand know the actions of the left. Bat, this is not "news from the 5th Regiment of State Troops," say your readers?may they never have worse, say we. Our camp presents quite a martial appearance, tho' wc are veterans, many of us, in years, we are not in service, for our white tents show that the smoke of battle have never dimmed their lustre; they ftok as though they had come fresh from tho hands of the oo-workers of our friend Miles Johnson, and it is thought by many, from the fabric of whioh they are composed, they could be cut up by our cara sposas to suit admirably for domestic purposes at borne. Oar location is a beautiful one, surrounded by a thick copse of forest, which, by the way, is rapidly disappearing, and though the owner may rail at our "wonton" destruction, we will be much mistaken if he has a rail left, shonld we femain "lords proprietors of the soil" until the 1st of February next, when our term of (so far bloodless) serrice will expire. The ladies of Greenville do not often honor us with their presence?they are very shy, and brobably are engrossed in time by the laced refugees who walk the streets of Greenville; but, God bless them, we know they have done their duty to the soldiers, and their feelings are with ns, if their flotations are confined to "'the weaker part of human natur." We are on the road to "Bunkum," and daily "intercept" wagons on their way to market (Oreenville) from that detectable quarter. They also have an "itching palm," from the charges they make for apples and cabbage, and in conversation, we have come to the conclusion, that there is no wonder oi a tory ascendaooy in the Old North State, when the Southern Rights Patriots are enengaged in "mercantile pursuits" down Sooth. When provisions are scarce (we have ] beef) meal) floor and salt) in plenty) Company B. sends out its "Robinson Crusoe," who seems to be an exoellent Soout; the squirrels chirp merrily from limb to limb, ohattering "shoot if yoo dare," while the 'possum masticates his 'simmons at leisure; bat woe betide them if a neighbor's dog can be whistled off. I have written yoo all the news from Camp, and trost nothing "contraband," for if the Yankees could learn of "Love's Look Out," they would FrankAy give up their demonstrations on the'Warm Springs; if they could see our stately "Hospital," (?a it ia nailed from itssize and form,). where the birds Carol forth their morning j notes, they would surrender at onoe, and our glorious Regiment be sent to Richmond, j to turn them oyer to "Unole Jeff" in per- ' son. E. ' P. 13.?As it is raining like a , plaee where those who refuse to take Confederate money ought to be, it would be as well to remind your readers when the ^ creek is up'* with us, they may look for yt wet time; I send this letter, however, ' doubtful which will get there first. The inooming wet season is attributed in dry quarters to the incoming Legislative term . ?if the members are as dry as Company 6, , when they do assemble, may a wet blanket < be thrown over them. The Artillery are 1 practising to day, and it may be according to Prof. Espy, their thunder has brought \ the water down. E. < / For the Yorkville Enquirer. j /Skcessionville, S. C., No 7. 12, 1863. Bear Enquirer:?In this our day of tribulation, it is natural to look around us for support and enoouragement. It has been our great error to confide too much in the hope that foreign nations would interpose in our behalf That hope, I trust and believe, has been* pretty well "played out" by the intelligent and thinking df our country. _ It now becomes our duty to lay aside all the uncertain reliance upon Kings and Emperors of the earth, and to bring into the field of aotual conflict, all the muscle and strength of our land, unimpaired by disease or age?devoutly asking the blessings of Heaven upon onr cause, go forth with the resolution calmly taken, to die or be free from the threatened dangers that surround us. Our heroic mothers and sisters, with our aged fathers, maimed and disabled- { brothers, will keep the agricultural and do- 1 mestic machinery iu motion, whilst we strike jj with terror and destruction, our ruthless ? invader. .Let no man of Conscript age be ? rftliftvflfi frnhi his dntv to his COUntrv and t himself by the votes of oar people at home, < while meo with hoary hairs can be found, f fit and competent to preside in the connoils ^ of our State. Let the old Roman maxim s of "young men for war, and old men for ? council," be felt and aoted upon, by all the 1 true, patriotic citizens of onr District, who s love the country and desire to see its inde- s pendenoe established. 2 There is one man in onr District, whose c name I have repeatedly heard mentioned by 1 the soldiers, with the highest admiration, 1 around their camp fires. We remember e seeing him, at the head of a noble regiment t from our State; the morning we orosaed the 1 "Rapidan river in Virginia, in pursuit of the * braggarts Pope. His snowy beard, and sunburnt visage, to'i of the hardships he had ( encountered. The smoke of battle had scarcely disappeared from Cedar Mountain. when we saw him, yet with the re-kindled fires of youth, glowing in his countenance; 1 he was pushing ahead with Stonewall Jack- ] son, to strike the finishing blow to Pope's retreating vandals. ] We parted at the Rapidan (as Longstreet's corps brought up the rear). The next we ' heard of him, was on the bloody field of the 'j 2nd Manassas. After passing through a large number of our most important battles, ! with honor to himself and to his country, he has returned to his home for the rest his ' age demands. His sons are in the army. We know he can appreciate the soldiers denial and suffering, and in the opinion of i many of them, expressed spontaneously, he is the man to represent them in their Dis ^tricts highest uffice. **--/ i SiSVJ^TJtiiSiYm KKUliUJiJWl. Union with the Independent Presby- . '"^ferians. At the late meeting of the Synod of South Carolina, the following paper was unanimously adopted. The communication from the Independent Presbyterian Church, which had been referred to the committee of the Synod, was tbe'aotion of the Conven- i tion of that body, whioh has been published in our columns! "The committee appointed to consider the paper from the Independent Presbyterian Church, on the subject of a union with onr Church, have given it a oarefal and deliberate examination, and cannot but express the satisfaction it gives them to find each a willingness as that body expresses to unite with us by the adoption of our Confession of Faith. The committee feel that a cordial and hearty adoption of our Confession is the only true ground on whioh we can receive any ecclesiastical body, and ' '1 1 to trkof fVtof KaiIu i toey are assureu tuau umo a nua>vui? is ready to do. 1 To heal schism and division is not only f a delightful, bnt a holy and a heavenly i work, and we feel that the smile of onr Master is upon ns when we can thus build up ' His kingdom: and thus we meet our Independent Presbyterian brethren with open arms and hearty welcome. After a long < separation, we, one great Presbyterian family, thus come to walk in the old wiys of oar fathers and rejoice in the glorious system if doctrines and church order whioh our iommon ancestors sustained with ,their tesdmony even to the death therefore, 1. Resolved, That the Synod praise and iless God with thankfal hearts for the prossect of a union tfith our brethren of the Iniependent Church, and express their oonidenoe in them as tree and genuine Presbyterians. 2. Resolved, That the Bethel Presbytery i>e directed to meet on Friday after the first Sabbath of Deoember, at 11 o'clock, a. m., it Yorkville, and to reoeive those ministers and churohes to their body as soon as. they shall receive and adopt the Confession of Faith of the Presbyterian Churoh in the StafAO OO AAntftl'llinD fcHfl flVSt6[Q L/UUlOUOmw k/wavuu MU y )f doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures. 3. Resolved, That the stated clerk be directed to forward a copy of this report to the convention of the Independent Presbyterian Churoh." A true oopy from the minutes of the Synod of South Carolina. Abnee A. Pqeter, Stated CleTk. "Pereonne," correspondent of the Charleston Courier, writing from the Army >f Tennessee, under date of November 2nd, jays: It is a fact worthy of perpetuation that ihe troops from South Carolina now in this irmy, are among the finest drilled and best liBAiniinad nnldiprfl ra^the field. Whether 4i9vi^umvv -? --- t camp, on the march, or amid the smoke )f battle, their honoroble demeanor or, iteady bearing, prompt obedience and unbroken lines, all testify the masterly art of >fficcrs who have imparted to these once raw, insystematic crowds of volunteers a decree of solidity and strength that is the adniration of every true disciplinarian. It s this which has given to them that firm ielf-relian<ft and conscienceness of power vhioh has shown itself so often on the field >f carnage?whioh has preserved an unbroten front, a dauntless attitude before the tnemy, and borne our men to viotory forenost in the ploody surge. If the reason is enquired, look at home ind be proud of your Citadel Academy, the ilma Mater of the leaven whioh hath leav>ned the whole lump. Turn to its list of graduates, aud you will find theft footsteps raced in blood on every field. To the army md you will discover them scattered among he troops of every State?some on your OlUJIIj UJttuy xu v ligiuiaj u^ivj ??? ithers far from home in the distant West. \nd wherever the name of a Citadel graduite occurs there you will also hod clustered .he association, the memories, the high mord tone, the influences of discipline which tmanate from this noble institution of our State. if the military training of West Point las been effeotiv'e in moulding the organi;ation of the army at large, that of the nodest Citidel, and its sister institutions in Virginia and elsewhere, has had its direct ind equally important influence upon the irmy in detail, and the men who have been ruder command of its graduates* Whethtr Lieutenants, Captains, Colonels or Centrals?their immediate subordinates have nvariably caught the spirit of discipline vhich the officers have sought to instil, md the resnlt is the foot stated at the'be;ioning of this letter?a degree of perfeoion among our South Carolina brigades unurpassed by any other troops in the army. To show yon how extensively ramified ire these valuable influences of the Citadel Academy, I append the following list of nhinli kin> VtaAn Trin/Uj? fnmiahfid PiUUDiD} ITU1VU uoo VVOU A?UVI*J ? ne by Lieut. R. H. Griffin, of the Bngilecrs, and I need not observe that tbey lonstitute a class of gentlemen sans peur t sans reprochc, adapted by their training 0 adorn aoy position in the service to vhich they may bo assigned. The Acadimy may well be proud that, unlike West Point, not one of her graduates has yet left 1 taint upon her fair escutcheon : Graduates of the South Carolina Mititari/ Academy, in Hood's Division, Longstreet's Corps, Bragg's Army. M. Jenkins, Brigadier-General Com* uanding Division. ?. M. Law, Brigadier-General CornHanding Brigade. * A. Coward, Colonel 5th South Carolina Regiment, Jenkins' Brigade. J. M. Steedman, Lieutenant Colonel 6th South Carolina Regiment, Jenkins' Brigade. John D. Wylie, Lieutenant-Colonel 5th South Carolina Regiment, Jenkins' Brigade. J. W Daniels, Captain Palmetto Sharp 3booters, Jenkins' Brigade. D. R Jamison, 1st Lieutenant Artillery md Ordnance Officer, Jenkins' Brigade. F. L. Parker, Surgeon Hampton Legion, Jenkins' Brigade. R. C. Carlisle, Snrgeon, JenkinB' Brigide. R. M. Simons, Captain and Assistant Adjutant General, Jenkins' Brigade. J. M. Adams, 1st Lieutenant 2d Soutb Carolina Rifles, Jenkins' Brigade. H. A. Gaillard, 1st Lieutenant and Adjutant 6th Soutb Carolina Regiment, Jenkins' Brigade. F. L. Garvin, Captain Palmetto Sharpshooters, Jenkins' Brigade. J. D. Lee, 1st Lieutenant Palmetto Sharp-Shooters, killed near Richmond. T. M. Wylie, 1st Lieutenant 6th South Carolina Regiment, and Acting Aid-deCamp to Col. Bratton, Commanding Jenkins' Brigade. ***** * One of the most affecting incidents oi the battle ooourred in the Regiment of Col. Coward?Private James W. Smith, ol Yorkville, belonging to Company E, while rising to discharge his gun, was shot in the breast. He fell forward, but rolling over, his eye oaught that of his Colonel, who was standing near. Extending his haDd, the Door fellow murmered, "Colonel, 1* am kill ed, but I have tried to do my duty, and when you write to my poor mother, tell her that I died like a man." A moment more, Btill grasping the hand of his commander, and he had breathed his last. I could not omit to add that daring the action Col. Coward had his clothing shot through five times, one of the balls stopping on the hammer of his pistol. tGp* Only thirteen revolutionary soldiers are living in the United States. : U A Visit to (Jen. Lee's Army. A correspondent of the Raleigh (N. 0.,) Progress, on a visit to General Lee's, army, writes: I rode over yesterday to Gen. Lee's headquarters, whieh consisted of a cluster of oloth tents, pitched in a grove of oaks, surrounding an old meeting house. I fonnd Gen. Lee sitting by a log fire at the mouth L:- ??? a# hi. oiMa anintjincr a VI LI IS LGUU) nitu uuc VI IUO I~?W) ?Jv Io sooial conversation over a late Yankee newspaper. Upon my approach, the old hero, withogt any formality, rose and gare mo a cordial welcome to bis headquarters. (I had his acquaintance before this.) General Lee is in blooming health and spoke hope* fully of our cause and confidently of our final triumph in this bloody straggle, foi Southern independence. He remarked, "it is with us, independence or nothing." I have traveled over many tniles of this (Cuipeper) and the adjoining counties, once blooming as a garden, but now, as fax as the eye can reach, is one wide waste and desolation. The Yankees have destroyed nearly everything. The palace and the negro quarters are torn from their foundations to furnish material for their winter quarters ; the fences are all burned; the luxuriant fields no longer wave with cultivated crops; not a cow, or a horse or a four-footed beast of any kind, is left to disturb the melancholy silence. Even the birds seem to have taken their flight to climes further South. Now and then an old dilapidated house, from which some old man or woman will issue as you pass to tell their doleful story of Yankee barbarity and cruelty or some amusing inoident which occurred in Meade's rapid flight before our forces. The town of Cuipeper is gloomy indeed in its appearance now, so completely is it despoiled of its original beauty and wealth. I here formed the acquaintance of the Rev. Mr. Stone, whose wife the Yankees fired , upon standing in her own door with several other ladies, one shot striking Mrs. Stone and pissing through a limb, and several other balls striking around the door facing where the ladies stood. The people who are left here, the ladies particularly, are brave and patriotio to a fault, and harassed the enemy no little while .encamped among them. Meade had bis headquarters at the residence of W D. Wallaoh, editor of that miserable sheet, the Washington Star, whose family remained here while he stajed in Washington city, and no doubt obtained valuable information for the enemy Meade was often seen by. the inhabitants, and is generally desoribed as being a little old man with a peaked fade. Confederate Prisoners.?The following communication from the Confederate Agent of Exchange, at Richmond, conveys important information to the Confederate paroled prisoners. It .releases from their parole and restores to duty a large number of gallant men whose servioes - are needed by their country Confederate States of America, War Department. Kiohmond, Va., Oct. 10, 1863. Lieut. Col. N. G. Watts, Mobile, Ala.: Sib : All the prisoners taken at Port Hudson and those paroled by Gen. Banks are free to go to duty. Neither our Govvernment nor the Federal reoognizc the parole. A general order to this effeot will issue in a few days. All Confederate prisoners who bavej)cen delivered at an/other point than Yicksborg or City Point can immediately return to their commands, where such delivery was made 23d May last. You need not recognize any parole given since 23d May last, wnieh was not in pursuance of a distant agreement made between the oommandersof the two opposing armies. Prisoners most be redflced into possession and delivered either at Vioksburg or City Point, unless there is some distinct agreement to the contrary made by the "oommaadcrs of two opposing armies." The deliveries made at Mobile or Port Hudson will not be recognized. All suok can immediately return to* duty. The Federals have forced us to assume-this position. . There is no danger to onr people in returning to daty, because the Federals recognize the full force of the role and aoquiesoe in it. They have done the same thing with the oaptures made by as. - Respectfully, yoar obedient servant, ROBT. OULD, Agent Exchange. Impressment of Supplies for the Army. We call the attention of car readers, and partioalarly of all officers who are impressing supplies, to General Orders No. 31, ol Adjutant and Inspector General, whioh wt publish below. By this order it will be seen that officers have no right to imprest supplies Which are on their way to market for sale on arrival, unless, by order of s commanding General, and officers are notified that, "any one acting without or beyond the authority given in these orders will be held strictly responsible." We invite also the especial attention ol farmers and planters, who are represented on all bands as abounding in everything necessary to the subsistence of man. Thej nil! see that protection against seizure ol I * * . i supplies on their way to market is full and complete: C. S. OP AMERICA. War Department, > Adjut't. & Insp'e Oen'ls Omtce, Richmond, Va., Nov. 6, 1863. i General Orders No. 144. To relieve prevalent misconceptions in regard to the policy and practice of this Department on the subject of impressment, the following being extracts of General Or? der of March 29th, is reprinted : Adjutant and Inspector Generals Ojjice, ' Richmond, Va., March 19, 1863. i General Orders No. 31. i In consequence of numerous applications 1 made by various persons in iho WarDeparti j moot, it is obvious that some misconception * I in regard to the instructions of the Secretary of War in relation to the impressment ! j of supplies, must exist on the part of the I neonle or that the agents of the Govern i r?r-' ~ meat have violated their instructions. Now, therefore, for the purpose of removing such misconception, and to prevent any violation i of those instructions, it is hereby ordered: i I. That no officer of the Government shall, under any circumstances whatever, impress the supplies which a party has for his own consumption or that of his family, r employees or slaves. II. That no officer shall at any tuna, an< # N less specially Ordered so to do by a General commanding, in a caae of exigency, impress supplies which are on their way to market for sale on their arrival. III. These were inoluded in the instructions originally issued in relation to impressment of the Seoretary of War; and the officers exercising such authority are again notified that "any one aoting without or be* > yond" the authority given in those instructions, will be held strictly responsible. In oonformity with the foregoing, to pre' vent any inoonsiderate action on the part of offioers or agents oharged with the duty of ' impressment, they are' enjoined, until further orders, (whioh will not be given unless under imperative exigencies for tie supply of the army,) not to impress any necessaries of subsistence to man, owned by producers,* ia transitu to market, unless retained an 1 unreasonable time from consumers. By order. [Signed,] g. COORER. Adj't and Insp. Gen. Columbia, S. C., Nov. 10,1863. At a convention of representatives of the . several banks in this State, in wbiob the following banks were represented, viz: Bank of the State of South Carolina, Bank of Charleston, Planter's and Meohanio's Bank of South Carolina, Bank of South Carolina, State Bank of South Carolina, Union Bank of South Carolina, South Western Railroad Bank, People's Bank, Farmer's and Exchange Bank, Commeroial Bank of Columbia, Merobant's Bank of South Carolina at Cheraw, Bank of Georgetown, Bank of Chester and Planter's Bank of Fairfield, the following was adopted : Whereas experienoe has demonstrated that the does to be oolleoted by the Government, and for which Treasury notes are made receivable, are inadequate to absorb a sufficient amount of the notes, to prevent the evils of an excessive paper currency; and it is deemed essential to the interests of the people and of the Government that the right to pay all Government dues in their issues should be waived by the people to a certain extent, and measures be adop. ted by the Government to redeem or fond the entire amount of the said issues, or so mnnh an ahull radnoA the nnm of fchft flilP renoy to two hundred millions (?200,000,000) or lew.- For the accomplishment of this object, the following measures aro reoommended to the country aud the Goternment by this meeting : 1. That a new issue of coupon bonds be made to the amount of one thousand millions of dollars, the bonds bearing six per oent. interest?the coupons payably annually in coin. * ? 2. That an Act be passed levying a tax of sixty millions of dollars, to be oolleoted annually during the whole period of the said loan, for the payment of the interest on the above bonds. . That tho said tax shall be paid in coin, and that the coupons of the above bonds be received in the payment of this tax in lien of oorn. 3. That before the said bonds shall be offered for sale in any other nftnner, they > shall first be apportioned among the States i of the Confederacy, and tbat a commissioner ' be appointed for eaob State to make, known i to the tax-payers in eaob Collection District the necessity of providing themselves with a sufficient amount of bonds to pay ' thisspeoifio tax, and who shall sell at par, in each District, the amount of bonds rei quired; aud that Treasury notes of all is sues be received in payment for the bonds. 4. Tbat all existing distinctions between Treasury notes ot aitterent issues ana aaies be abolished. 5. tfhat the interest on the stock of the f fifteen millions loan be paid by cbeoks. on the Treaanry, and that the said checks be received in payment of the export duty on ' cotton in the same manner as tho coupons , on the bonds of the same loan. 6. That a five per cent, call loan be es1 tablished similar to the first or original call loan, and that aW Treasury notes be received at the Treasury therefor ; and that the present five per cent, and four per cent, oall loans be abolished. 7. That the tight of the holders of Trea' snry notes wbioh upon their face are fundable in eight per cent, stock, ought to be recognised, and an eight pe% cent stock, at a short period, be provided for that purpose; and also that all the privileges attached to the original six per oent. call loan be reinstated. 8. That an inoreased doty be levied on ' all imports and exports daring the continuance of the war, and that the same be col 1 leoted in coin or approved bills on England 1 or Franco. ^ ? ? TMMMA T\ Kft flVOO fn/1 k 17* lUttll iXU 100UC l/CpaillU4UUV UC Viwavwv* t by the Government and kept seperate from the Treasury Departroept, whose doty it I shall be to sopply a new issue of Treasury notes in exohange for the amount that may remain in circulation of the present issues, r and that the new issues shall express on I the face of tho bills that the same are re? eeivable in payment of all public dues ex| cept such as are specifically required to be : paid in coin. 10. That there should bean issue of bills of a large denomination, say 81,000, 85,000 and 810,000, sufficient to facilitate the transmission of funds and the settlement of balances. The following gentlemen were appointed a committee to present the foregoing to the t convention of bank representatives, to be , held at Augusta, Ga., on the 16th instant: Messrs. Geo. A. Trenholm, Charles M. Fur. man, M. C. Mordecai, Geo. Cameron, Allan Maofarlan. Extract from the minutes. ^r* a m?Anr% /it.* : J. A C/'itAWJJAJivi^, imairmau. Allan Macfablan, Seoretary. Latest Dodge of the Gamblers.?A gentleman gives the following as the latest shrewd dodge praoti^d by some of the , fancy in Richmond- With great caution find secrasy ho wasadmit'ted to an apparently deserted honse, -and after climbing vari- j ous flights of stairs, was nshered into a room filled with persons betting against the 'tiger:' . The dealer sat behind a table with a wire mask over his face "that completely prevent- j ed recognition l>y his most intimate friends. Af hia hor.tr tmjqq a flight, of SteDS which would enable him to make his escape by the baok way should the police force ao entrance in front. A fine sapper was spread; and liquors were in abundauoe. 1 LATEST NEWS, Prom* Charleston. Charleston, November 16.?11 a. m.?Last nighty the enemy's shelling continued heavy." Between 5 and 6 this morning, four monitors moved up to within six hundred yards of Fort Sumter and opened fire. Our batteries on Sullivan's Island and Moultrie are now engaged, keeping up a steady fire; Two of the monitors fctove moved back some distance. They were struck several times, and it is thought have been injured. The firing was still heavy at 10 this morning. 9 P. M.?The monitors ceased firing about 11 A. M. One monitor got aground during the engagement and was well peppered by both Sullivan's and Jaipe's Island batteries. She got afloat again, after which 4he whole four drew off and returned to their old position. The' demonstration of the monitors is believed to have been caused by the heavy shelling of Gregg and Cumming's Point by our batteries on Sullivan's Island on Sunday night. A flag of truce from the enemy was sent up at three o'clock this afternoon, and was refused. A heavy fire from Gregg, Cumming's Point and two monitors alternately has been kept up on Sumter to day. No report has been received from the fort this evening. No casualties are reported on Sullivan's Island. The number of shells fired by the enemy to-day was 704. Two negroes belonging to the 54th Massachusetts regiment werexaptured on North Edisto and were brought in to-day. Tbey give a horribly account of Yankee treatment and the vjretched condition of the negroes on Morris' Island. Since their arrival their regiment has lost over four hundred by sickness and death. / . ; Prom Virginia. Richmond, November 16.?A report brought from Gordohsville that Meade has crossed the Rapidan, was'bulletined this morning and relieved the dullness which has prevailed here for some time; but on the arrival gf. the Central train to-night, it was ascertained that only a squadron of cavalry had crossed and were driven back. Gem Hood arrived Mere to day, in good health and spirits. -* ... A flag of truce boat, with released surgeons, is expeoted to morrow. * The trips of the boat will be now more frequent hereafter, as permission has then granted to bring stores for Yankee prisoners. Subscriptions to purchase Supplies for this purpose are becoming general in the United States. Affairs in Kentucky. A DTWnnrtv 'WftvamHoT If? PanwYna from Kentucky report the execution of Lieutetiant Harry Connor, of Oldam Johnson's Regiment, by the Yankees, at Mount Sterling, ftn the 25th nit. Ten Kentucky cavalry regiments have been mustered out of service and a draft made on each-county-for* a-?ompany by Gov. "Bfamlctt. * ' v * I & ??t, ' ?t?I?. - l?l - Latest from Europe. Richmond, Nqv. 1(5.?Northern papers state that the steamer Asia, with Liverpool dates of the 1st, lhas arrived at Halifax. Henry Ward Bcecher was among the passengers. The rebel steamer Georgia has arrived at Cherbourg to obtain provisions' and coal. Furious gales have raged around the English coast. The rams still remain in possession of the armed force. In cdhsequence of rumors of an at. % '/N r? 1 , ?tempt to get toe uonreaerate rams out of the Mersey, several war vessels had been sent to guard against it. A London paper confirms' the statement that the French Government had withdrawn its permission to prosecute work on the rron-clads for the Confederacy. Furnishing cannon and munitions of war is also prohibited. Goldman Bryson.?A letter received in this place yesterday states that th|B notorious assassin and bushwhaoker waakilled, together with some of his comrades, by the friendly Cherokee Indians, a few days ago in the pmonntaiD8 near Morphy, N. C Bryson received from the Lincoln government the commission of Colonel, and was at the head of a force, supposed to number 800 men from the States of North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee? Guardian, 10th. JK^DariDg the heat of the battle of Chickamaoga, an owl, alarmed at the unusual tempest of sonnds, was frightened frem his usual haunts. Two or three crows spied him at once and made pursuit and a battle ensued. The contest was observed by an Irishman of tho 10th Tennessee, which was at the time hotly engaged. Pat ceased firing, dropped'the breaoh of hisgnn to the * 1 ?- - L i ground and cxciaimea id astoaisaujeuL ; "Jusus, what a country ! The very birds in the air are fighting!" '? ? ? > . iK^In Yreka, the county town of Siskayou county, (one of the northern counties of California, and on the Oregon line,) the following sign hangs with glaring letters in front of a baker's establishment, viz : S< GilliDg's Yreka Bakery." At first sight this presents nothing remarkable, bat Upon examination it will be seen that the letters if read backwards, are exactly the same sign. Such a coincidence is extremely rare. Mitt : figy Someby wants to know the name cf the tune which was "played upon jthe feel- j ings," and also if the oup of sorrow" has a saucer 1 The samo inquisitor would like to know if "the light of other days" was gas or elictricity ? Also, if the girl who "clung to hope" had not a slippery hold, and if people do not get fatigued by "the exercise of forbearance ?" #brfnarg. ?^- _ Died?After on Illness of seven weeksof Hydrocephaliu. on the 3rd instant, MYRON BR ATT ON, only son of Rev. Joint S. and Agnes B. Harris, aged about J yen*. One more sou) delivered from a sinfol world, released from suffering and toll; one more glorified spirit before the throne of God; one more gem transferred from an earthly crown of rejoicing to the Mediatorial crown of Jesus ; one more link binding earth to Heaven; two more hearts to prove that a Saviour's presence la letter even than a child's to realise in bereavement the constancy of His love and the faithfulness of His promise. "Bven so Father." "Bless the L'>rd, 0 my Mult'1 w< Of dlptberta. in thin District, on the morning of the 4th instant, HATTIE SPRINGS, daughter of Win. 8. and Margaret A. Moore, in the'tenth year of her. age. While her disease was progressing she spoke of death, and Miiri to one of the family : "If itle the will of God for me to die, I tun willing-to go." "When Christian parents have, for days and nights, bang with prayerful anxiety,.and yearn lugs of soul, over the deathbed of a beloved ch^ld, and tlie ft trying hour at last comes On, when the tender sujfercr is 1 called to struggle in the last conflict, there then remains J nothing but the vigorous ptenrisc of faith-io flle gnvlor C and in the word of His grace, which is able to school the S soul into a calm and Itoiy submftaion to the will of God.? I And when in Obedience to die mandate from on high, the 9 spirit has gone, and the late suffering body lice still in death. S how vastly more soothing tlipn the condotcnec ofsympatht- 5 zing friends, to realize the force of the Savior's words, JM "She is not dead but sleegpththat Uowijo said "Suffer SB little children to come to me,'' hxi taken the lamb from the fierce blasts of winter here, to the green fields and gentle 4HE waters of tho Paradise of cod, BIVOUAC OS THB ttAVf AHtXNOCtt, ) jjraA About 10mile* North oCCnlpepcr C. H., [ 49 Near the K. R., October ath.ti, 1663. ) Mr, John C. MUtkrU t?Esteemed Friend : In writing VH you this letter, I discharge the saddestand most melancholy 9 duty that I have been called on to perform siticc the begin. tB ning of the war. Yes, the saddest of my life. Your son JKB i.ujui/uu, ujt kuuuiiiiaii, warm inena ana icilow mi- fifw dler, fell to rise no more oa tlie Hth instant, about 4 p.m.,. E?| in the battle at Bristow Station, about.4 mil<a from 5lana*- M as, while.nobfy battling for the dearest right of mall. The . *9 anny left Rapidan Station on the 8th instant. Drove the IB enemy from there to Bristow Station, where a considerable iSj force on both aides were engaged on the 14th,-commencing X about 3 and ending about 7 p. m. Previous to this, Btuooi'w jjfl Cavalry had engaged tlac enemy every day for several days. ? Until we reached Bristotv about 3.p. m.. on the 14th, having K marched all day at quick and double quick, we .were broken ?3 down. Oar Brigade Was carried on the field at a double B quick, to support a battery. We were placed In'position en JEM the crest of & bill, about 500 yards from the enemy's linn, Sfl which extended along behind a Railroad emhc.ikmenl The IS firing had become general along the itnc on both sides of u % artillery very ljesvy. The enemy planted.* battery behind SB the 'Railroad about 400 yards frcm'us, and commenced B burling ihrapnell shell of us, with the greatest accuracy.? Every shell seeming to explode bi, over-or very hear our ?2 ranks, killing or wounding one or more every fire. We H were subjected to this fire about half an hour, during vghlcli ES time Blllie was struck .In the head by a fragment of shell, S or a musket ball that the shell contained, probably the Utter. Eg Our brigade waa lying down at Hie time. Wc wens order- _ ' /? ?d to fall back about 200 yards. After this wa&,dqKe, 1- on- fig quired for Bllllc, seeing that be was not prtsent. Bam B Walker and Holt Maddux told mfrthat be was killed while h lying between them. The shot was so'dendly that he did ' not move or speak afterward*. I was at the left oflho i company and he was the Aral man on the right, is the way I , I did not see him at the time. Our brigade was soon ordered forward again. We passed our fim line and advanced into a dense cedar thicket, expecting tp find the enemy. -Jfl Having gone about lw yards we halted- It wos tlicn about dark. We lay In line or bottle all night without fire. Kext ^B| morning I asked permission to go and bury BUUo. But the General said he could not grant It, and that there wasn dotall for that purpose. We were expecting to moyr. un tbc Wji enemy or somewhere every minute. I had tjo spades or ?9$ anything to dig a grave with, at 1 would lave scam to tH burial anyhow. I sent Mr. Campbell weft'<wlia; rnlghi !<< M in his pockets. Qa fouudTtoothing. vkluaSc a poo stair, *g steel pens, and some small articles.. I found soma hair - flg which T supposed to be bis Jlftlc bopk 1 have prewired Be thatf Intending to send it brills wife, to whom I will write *33 %* soon as I have an opportunity or sending a letter?will HE telegraph also to-morrow, ^B The enemy disappeared on Ihc nlgiit of the 14th. As ACB soon as I could I went to when-Bllllc fell, but .did not get JEf to wee him as he had been burled. Though worn out alma-1 31 with fatigue and loss or sleep, I managed to erect a bond wl and fooi board at his last resting plsoe?could not get the Jjgft proper tools to do that. On a piece of timber about three M fi/?.aikl. 1- t ll.. i*--j tl ? n uiuuco VTIUC, vt * mvA; 4 iijBL-nnru IIUP ?uu?c, uuaipany Ami Regiment, and drove it down for a headboard. -The *aE board has a square hole near lu top,- below this, his name TOS &c., Is cut and blacked with ink. At'the Coot I stock a BB bayonet deep in the ground. On It is a piece of leather on M which I wrote bis name. Company, &e. He was mtrled with two others pf his Regiment, on the right, facing the Ml Railroad. I am very sorry that I could not have the privi- 9EH lege of burying him myself. One of qnr Rpgiment who Ha saw him buried, said thata blanket was under njm and hne jmC over him. I carried Fayih, hfs boy, to the spot, that he ffl| might be awe toftnd it, or direct you, should you live t<< HU visit It. Two cedars are growing about 00 paces ofl". Be- * SfB yond them between there aod the Railroad, which U .about ' ! 400 yards distant, Is a cedar anu plnethlckK. 1 * xr B . Mr. Mitchell, you hare great reason to beheyc that BltthC ~ SBjS Is sweetly resting whoa the "wicked cease from trapMing Eut and the weary are at rest" He had changed considerably. 9 His course of conduct was very exemplary in ootnp, Cbria aG3i tlan like more thin otherwise; He.gpad bis testament JHH closely and wgs an earnest seeker of religion. A? a revival in our Regiment,in August, be went to ttte altar.regularly, HWM I talked with him there and in camp on the subject Of re- WMi llglon, and found him very determined on the subject, and encouraged him alt I knew how. I onn't betp but feel thnt KMJ his sins were pardoned. Yet he never told me his feeling* iH on the subject t We actions teerngg to Indicate a changed Hn heart. 2 miss him more than any of Co. 0. that has iallen mE or may foil in this bloody struggle.' Be was among tlie ilret of my acquaintances when I went to Mississippi. Since BBS then we have been mutual frloadm School-boys together, soldiers together. He was a gallant soldier, obedient ana ' I faldifhl Iu the (IUcbarge of his duty. He had c.ideared RH himself to oar Company in many.ways, by his gentlemanly ijafl and friendly, deportment. The Company I know would JjHH frjely endorse the contents of this letter, therefore, as the 'mfi representative qf Co, 0,1 can truly say that we tee) as if Ml one of our family bad been taken from us. And to you, his mBjj devoted and loved wife, and the remainder of hli bereaved . I relatives, we tender the assurance of' obr-slnwe sympathy. ?f3| ? -?our jnena, wnnu, ilUi 1st Licat^Comnnndlng-Co. Bt42a Ming. RcgUntpt. TOST OF LETE^&^EBMAlNJLi ING in the Poit Office at YotlB?Hc,S.C., November ? 15i 1863:-. 86 John Ardrey, 8. H. Anthony .Thomas Aldmnrier, Mr*. % hHHH Helen Blgscrs, Mrs. Nathan Bighorn, Mi*s E. A- Blaak. jNBi Lieut. O.H. Betta, 9) Jowcph Coleman, 2; Miss M. C. IJM6 Clarke, 2 ; R. F. Currcnce, John H. Caton, Mrs. Duklna jflfij H. Dover, Mrs, Dolclna Dixon, Mrs. J. D. Edwards, Lleot. -tni J. J. FOX, Junes Fitch ett, K. V. Gist, Mist Lotty H6W- B9 brooks. H.?. House r,T.l). Harris, MissMildred. Jfmw, . ffgi Mrs. F. L. Johnston, Mrs. Wm. Johnston, J. T. Jones, BE Mrs. Harriet Jones, J. D. Kelt, J. A. KJncnid, William HR1 Keenan, 9 ; Mnj. J, 8. Miller, J. It Moore, J. A. McCar- {US ter, Miss Elizabeth Matthews, D. 8. Neeiy, Miss Mattio aBm Poag, J. C. Pride, John Reeves, 3 ; M. L. "Banders, A. 1), sW Springs, Mrs. Camella Trucsdel,Mrs. Mary A. Thomaseou, jjWBB Mrs. Mary Vlnccut^Mlss Maria Weston. James S. Write, (wjej MM JUchei Wood, 91 Miss Cathnrinc Warren, R. tVood, KM Mrs. Catharine Wallace, Mrs. Sarah Wiles, Elizabeth Wood?56. JORM U- ALEXANDER, P, M. ^ E9 November 18 . . 48 . .It jffilBl E1CHM6E NOTICE, tfO. 7. B Richmond, Nx., Oct. 18,1883. ijH rPHE following Confederate Officers Bj JL and men are hereby declared duly exchanged: t. All officers and men captured and paroled stan'/URio {gUl previous to the first of September, 1863, This section, faflfie however, is not Intended Include any officers or men captured at Vlcksburg, July .4, 1863, except such as Were . ^KjO declared exchanged by Exchange Notice No. 6, September Hh 19,1863, or are speoifically named in this notice. Bnt it tgflKH does embrace all deliveries made at City l'oint or otlicr myg places before September tj-18?, add. with the limitation above named, all .captures at Tort Hudson or apjttother WM place, where ttfe parties were released on pbrole. 'C If. The titaffs of General* PembcrtOBjSieverisoii, Ho won, IhUI Moo re, Carton, 8. D.Lee, Cuinmlngs, Harris and Baldwin, MS, and of Colonels Reynolds, Cockerel! and Dockery, lift off! jjHfl een and men belonging to the Engineer Corps and Sappers ImW and Miners, and the 4th and 46thMbflMippi Regiments, nil !K? captured at Vlctaburc, July 4, 1863. IB3B til. The General Officers captured at Vlcksbora, July 4, IWM 1863, were declared exchanged Jtriy 13, 1863. -6 '-*? * aBH .VoveoiMj8,. BOBERT ?Uli> AgeDt^|fef- fl S LATE LABOR FOR THE COAST, |H DIVISION NO: 1. ' B i THE Commissioners of the Roads ' X? andtlie Town authorities of the judicial Districts of HKS Pickens, Grecnv^, 8nartauburg. Anderson, Union, Yo.-lc, Kb Chester, Laurcr.1', Abbeville and Wewberrv ore j^jagaiirt,! MH forthwith to surapiofj all persona in possession of slaves II- fl|S able to Road duty *illUn Oio Umits of the^r aufcority, M deliver one fourth of their naves liable to *t?eh duly at the ltall Rood Depots nearest the owners' residence, on Wed- SHBH nesday, the 16th December, proximo; In time for the down HH morning trains, for thirty days'labor on the fortification . \ HH II. The Commissioners of Roads'and the Towu anthnri- IHR ties aforesaid will also impress and deliver, at the Dcjki^ Ufl at the same time, oue fourth of all the male free negroes be- n^KSJ tween the ages of thirteen and fifty, within the limits of their authority, to be fbrwarded for the same term of labor j^SB rrr. The agpvgate of the calls made on this Division, in- aBw] eluding the present coll, is four month's labor of one fourth HflScH the Rood hands. In pursuance, then, ofthe terras of tile MBH Acts of the Legislature, the Commisloncrs of the Rends (BEtfl and tbe Town authorities will only require of the several CHlH slaveholders such an amount of labor as will, when added M to that already ftirnished, make up such owners' quota, B)W the one fourth oftheir Road-hands for four months. DjflB IV. The Inconsistency of calliiijt for hands for thirty days Hmdo whieh'are detained tixty days, Is n matter beyond my con- jfn trol. The Act requires me to call for a term of service of mBjfik thirty days, while the negroes can only be discharged by SRRfi ordeirs ofthe General Conunr^dhig. jjwm V. Person* to wnom it win r? in .uii convenient to cog- m?iii tribute in bos in advance undw thb call ore earnestly re- aBlK quested to do so; tbe law assures them, of all credit for it MM on future calls, wrjilch will eosw probably at a less oppor- M3H tune season. VI. Owners arc ad viced to furnish their slaves with g9gfl| rations to last to Charleston. mH VII. Tbo Agents sent out to receive the negroes, are pro- HKlBi hiblted from famishing substitutes. BMSK WM. M. SHANNON, SnBf Agent State South Carolina. 'V| Camden, 8. C., November 13, 1883. 1UH Nov 18 46 4w H Grapes, Grapes. jff| O.ATHEE all you can and bring HQ VjT them to me, and I will DISTILL them for one third of the spirfa. Ihsvo been told by a distiller?who has .Sfljfcjp made a run?that they will make a* much as peaches or apples to the barret. 1 will give one dollar per bushel for ^b9^E . Persimmons?for Ave -hundred btuhcls, to be delivered at 90B my distillery. Persons wishing to have any of either dls- fflfQ tilled will please bring them between this and the eighth of WtCW January next. JONATHAN Is. SUTTON. SKI November 4 i- 44 v 3t BWpW OR. ALFRED CRAVEN l^siknt Snrgtim .|)ratisf, ??? YORK YTL/LB, S. O. . SjS CtT- On the Bast side of Main treet, South of the "Pa!- fiaflI nietto Hotel, BKM J*****/*, r if WE B* SAMUEL G, BROW.W H fVN Monday the 7th day of December till next, I will 08)1 at the Court House, In Yorkvlllc, :i mMB A PRIME NEGRO GIRL 22 yeawoM, apdher twachildren, aged two anil four year*. wHD November 4 , 44 ta . > SfaU "WAR ^AX! WAR TAX!?PER- I tT-,'S(5N8 knowing themselves Indebted to me official- ? Iy by BOND, are requested to call at my Office and pay the Rfl CONFEDERATE TAX due on the some. . Bn WALTER B. METT8, c. E. v. w. ^Sl November 11 45 r' 9t* |?sH VfOTE LOST OR MISLAID.? flf ' X 1 All persona are forewarned against trading for ;i ?2B| NOTE or DUB BILL for' A441 and some cents, by jgffijj I J. P. MOORE and payable to A. U. PARR?dated about flfflg > the laat of September, 1?& A. H. FAlli:. ^ Sfl | November H. ,, 43 2t" ^HSH A ftfinWPT.V CAA-n TUTTPli fcl ? ! M U?e ^ENftOfllSR OFFICE.' .Sgjgd *?????? * . B